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Distinction
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High Distinction
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Highest Distinction
4
Honors
5
High Honors
6
Highest Honors
7
Distinguished Majors Program
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Juan Martínez Millán
Spanish
Dissertation: Aproximación a las
auto poéticas de cuatro poetas
latinoamericanos: Diana Bellessi,
Antonio Cisneros, Eduardo Espina,
and José Emilio Pacheco
Jill Mackenzie Martiniuk
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Dissertation: Paved With Good
Intentions: Venichkas Journey of
Redemption in “Moskva-Petushki”
and its Relationship with Radish-
chev’s “Journey from St. Petersburg
to Moscow,” Milton’s “Paradise
Lost,” and Dante’s “Divine Comedy”
Kristen Grace McCabe Lashua
History
Dissertation: Children at the Birth
of Empire, c. 1600-1760
Monica Lynn McEntee
Chemistry
Dissertation: Reactivity and Prop-
erties of Au/TiO2 Nanocatalysts
Brice Sharshon McKeever
Sociology
Dissertation: Technology and War: A
Study of Violence in the Modern Era
E. Luanne McKinnon
History of Art and Architecture
Dissertation: Picasso’s Guernica in
the Shadow of Incandescence
Jiajun Mei
Physics
Dissertation: C-O Bond Formation
using Transition Metal Alkyl or Aryl
Complexes
Erich Merkel
Classics
Dissertation: The Role of Eloquence
in Tacitus
Elizabeth Mays Merrill
History of Art and Architecture
Dissertation: Francesco di Giorgio
and the Formation of the Renais-
sance Architect
Aidyn Lorraine Mills
Anthropology
Dissertation: The Politics of Pos-
sibility: Migrant Feminist Ethics
in Madrid Spain
Brian Thomas Moriarty
Religious Studies
Dissertation: Dante`s Theory of
Signs and the Warping of Language
Garrett Riley Mullins
Biochemistry and Molecular
Genetics
Dissertation: Catecholamine-
Induced Lipolysis Inhibits Glucose
Uptake and Causes mTOR Complex
Dissociation in Adipocytes
Daniel Koichi Nagashima
Foreign Affairs
Dissertation:Overcoming Electoral
Uncertainty: Strategic Incentives
for Pre-Electoral Coalition Entry
Caitlin Gayle Cooper Naylor
Microbiology
Dissertation: Malnutrition and the
Immune Response: Understanding
the Biology of Nutrition-Related
Immune Dysfunction
Michael Duc Nguyen
Chemistry
Dissertation:
The Characterization
of Rapid Spontaneous Adenosine
with Fast-scan Cyclic Voltammetry
Eunhee Park
Nursing
Dissertation: Pilot Study for Youth
Participatory Video Production
Program for Smoking Prevention
Christopher Peck
Music
Dissertation:
Composition in an
Expanded Field of Performance:
Experimental Music in Collabora-
tion with Contemporary Dance
Cody S. Perkins
History
Dissertation: Coloured Men, Mof-
fies, and Meanings of Masculinity
in South Africa, 1910-1960
Radu Constantin Puslenghea
Economics
Dissertation: Essays in Macro-
economics
William McLeod Rhodes, Jr.
English
Dissertation:The Ecology of Reform:
Land and Labor from ‘Piers Plow-
man’ to Edmund Spenser
Tamika Y
olanda Richeson
History
Dissertation: Crimes of Discontent:
The Contours of Black Women’s
Law Breaking in Civil War Era
Washington, D.C., 1830-1865
Heidi Rose Schramm
Economics
Dissertation: Essays on Taxation,
Formal Sector Work, and Social
Insurance in Mexico
Nathan Andrew Seifert
Chemistry
Dissertation: Broadband Rotational
Spectroscopy with Applications to
Molecular Structure and Intermo-
lecular Interactions
Ilya Smirnov
Mathematics
Dissertation:Uniform Convergence
Methods in Hilbert-Kunz Theory
Alexander Apt Smith
Economics
Dissertation: Three Essays on the
Economics of Education
Erik Nathaniel Stanley
Anthropology
Dissertation: The Protestant Ethic
and Development Ethos: Cacao and
Changing Cultural Values among
the Mopan Maya of Belize
Adriana Ciarallo Streifer
English
Dissertation: Blood and Manners:
Rethinking Jewish Difference on the
English Renaissance Stage
Dominic D. Z. Sur
Religious Studies
Dissertation: A Study of Rongzom’s
‘Disclosing the Great Vehicle
Approach’ in the History of Tibet’s
Great Perfection Tradition
Emily Elizabeth Sydnor
Government
Dissertation: Fighting Words and
Fiery Tone: The Interaction of Politi-
cal Incivility and Psychological
Conflict Orientation
Victor Louis Franco Szabo
Music
Dissertation: Ambient Music as
Popular Genre: Historiography,
Interpretation, Critique
Thomas A Talhelm
Psychology
Dissertation: The Rice Theory of
Culture
William Gregory Thompson
Religious Studies
Dissertation: An Experiment in
Love: Martin Luther King Jr. and
the Re-imagining of American
Democracy
Claire Victoria Timperley
Government
Dissertation: Indigeneity: The Poli-
tics and Ethics of a Concept
Siny Tsang
Psychology
Dissertation:Modeling theChanges
in Delinquent Behavior of Ado-
lescents Transitioning into Adult-
hood: Methods Comparison with
Simulated Data and Pathways to
Desistance Data
Katarina Sylvia Turpeinen
Religious Studies
Dissertation: Vision of Samantab-
hadra - The Dzokchen Anthology
of Rindzin Gödem
Christine Marie Van Hover
Neuroscience
Dissertation: Phenotypic Char-
acterization of Urocortin 3 in the
Paraventricular Nucleus of the
Hypothalamus
Patrick Britten Ventura
Microbiology
Dissertation: A Tumor-derived
Niche Cell Promotes Tumor Growth
in Medulloblastoma
Jane Rita von Gaudecker
Nursing
Dissertation: Lives of Women with
Seizures in Malabar, South India
Elizabeth Erickson Voss
French
Dissertation: Displaced Subjects:
Narrative Structures and Material
Contexts of Late Medieval Travel
Histories
Beatrice Waegner
German
Dissertation: Dinge des Exils - Ein
Panoptikum der Krise
Todd C. Warner
Psychology
Dissertation: Police Interrogation
Training and Practices with Adult
and Juvenile Suspects: A National
Survey of Police Officers and
Detectives
Casey Lynn Warwood
French
Dissertation: Romans Américains:
Representations of the United States
in Post-9/11 French Fiction
Grace Marie Wilkinson
Environmental Sciences
Dissertation: Patterns of Alloch-
thonous Resource Availability and
Use by Aquatic Consumers inLakes
Anne Louise Williams
History of Art and Architecture
Dissertation:SatirizingtheSacred:
St. Joseph and Humor in Northern
European Art, ca. 1300-1530
Ashley Lauren Wilson
Microbiology
Dissertation: The Role of Breast
Cancer Antiestrogen Resistance
3 (BCAR3) in Breast Tumor Cell
Adhesion and Motility
Jennifer Noel Wingard
Biophysics
Dissertation: Adenosine Receptor
Oligomerization and G-protein
Complex Stoichiometry Revealed
by Electron Microscopy
Corlett Wolfe Wood
Biology
Dissertation: The Consequences of
Environmental Heterogeneity for
Fitness, Selection andInheritance
John G Wood
Physics
Dissertation: The Search for Higgs
Boson Pr
oduction in Association
with a Top-Quark Pair in pp Colli-
sions at sqrt{s} = 8 TeV in the Lepton
Plus Jets Final State
Amanda Sue Wriston
Chemistry
Dissertation: Characterization of
the MHC Peptidome and Identifica-