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Theses/dissertations from 2023 2023.

Karl Marx on Human Flourishing and Proletarian Ethics , Sam Badger

The Ontological Grounds of Reason: Psychologism, Logicism, and Hermeneutic Phenomenology , Stanford L. Howdyshell

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Interdisciplinary Communication by Plausible Analogies: the Case of Buddhism and Artificial Intelligence , Michael Cooper

Heidegger and the Origin of Authenticity , John J. Preston

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Hegel and Schelling: The Emptiness of Emptiness and the Love of the Divine , Sean B. Gleason

Nietzsche on Criminality , Laura N. McAllister

Learning to be Human: Ren 仁, Modernity, and the Philosophers of China's Hundred Days' Reform , Lucien Mathot Monson

Nietzsche and Eternal Recurrence: Methods, Archives, History, and Genesis , William A. B. Parkhurst

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Orders of Normativity: Nietzsche, Science and Agency , Shane C. Callahan

Humanistic Climate Philosophy: Erich Fromm Revisited , Nicholas Dovellos

This, or Something like It: Socrates and the Problem of Authority , Simon Dutton

Climate Change and Liberation in Latin America , Ernesto O. Hernández

Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa as Expressions of Shame in a Post-Feminist , Emily Kearns

Nostalgia and (In)authentic Community: A Bataillean Answer to the Heidegger Controversy , Patrick Miller

Cultivating Virtue: A Thomistic Perspective on the Relationship Between Moral Motivation and Skill , Ashley Potts

Identity, Breakdown, and the Production of Knowledge: Intersectionality, Phenomenology, and the Project of Post-Marxist Standpoint Theory , Zachary James Purdue

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

The Efficacy of Comedy , Mark Anthony Castricone

William of Ockham's Divine Command Theory , Matthew Dee

Heidegger's Will to Power and the Problem of Nietzsche's Nihilism , Megan Flocken

Abelard's Affective Intentionalism , Lillian M. King

Anton Wilhelm Amo's Philosophy and Reception: from the Origins through the Encyclopédie , Dwight Kenneth Lewis Jr.

"The Thought that we Hate": Regulating Race-Related Speech on College Campuses , Michael McGowan

A Historical Approach to Understanding Explanatory Proofs Based on Mathematical Practices , Erika Oshiro

From Meaningful Work to Good Work: Reexamining the Moral Foundation of the Calling Orientation , Garrett W. Potts

Reasoning of the Highest Leibniz and the Moral Quality of Reason , Ryan Quandt

Fear, Death, and Being-a-problem: Understanding and Critiquing Racial Discourse with Heidegger’s Being and Time , Jesús H. Ramírez

The Role of Skepticism in Early Modern Philosophy: A Critique of Popkin's "Sceptical Crisis" and a Study of Descartes and Hume , Raman Sachdev

How the Heart Became Muscle: From René Descartes to Nicholas Steno , Alex Benjamin Shillito

Autonomy, Suffering, and the Practice of Medicine: A Relational Approach , Michael A. Stanfield

The Case for the Green Kant: A Defense and Application of a Kantian Approach to Environmental Ethics , Zachary T. Vereb

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Augustine's Confessiones : The Battle between Two Conversions , Robert Hunter Craig

The Strategic Naturalism of Sandra Harding's Feminist Standpoint Epistemology: A Path Toward Epistemic Progress , Dahlia Guzman

Hume on the Doctrine of Infinite Divisibility: A Matter of Clarity and Absurdity , Wilson H. Underkuffler

Climate Change: Aristotelian Virtue Theory, the Aidōs Response and Proper Primility , John W. Voelpel

The Fate of Kantian Freedom: the Kant-Reinhold Controversy , John Walsh

Time, Tense, and Ontology: Prolegomena to the Metaphysics of Tense, the Phenomenology of Temporality, and the Ontology of Time , Justin Brandt Wisniewski

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

A Phenomenological Approach to Clinical Empathy: Rethinking Empathy Within its Intersubjective and Affective Contexts , Carter Hardy

From Object to Other: Models of Sociality after Idealism in Gadamer, Levinas, Rosenzweig, and Bonhoeffer , Christopher J. King

Humanitarian Military Intervention: A Failed Paradigm , Faruk Rahmanovic

Active Suffering: An Examination of Spinoza's Approach to Tristita , Kathleen Ketring Schenk

Cartesian Method and Experiment , Aaron Spink

An Examination of John Burton’s Method of Conflict Resolution and Its Applicability to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict , John Kenneth Steinmeyer

Speaking of the Self: Theorizing the Dialogical Dimensions of Ethical Agency , Bradley S. Warfield

Changing Changelessness: On the Genesis and Development of the Doctrine of Divine Immutability in the Ancient and Hellenic Period , Milton Wilcox

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

The Statue that Houses the Temple: A Phenomenological Investigation of Western Embodiment Towards the Making of Heidegger's Missing Connection with the Greeks , Michael Arvanitopoulos

An Exploratory Analysis of Media Reporting of Police Involved Shootings in Florida , John L. Brown

Divine Temporality: Bonhoeffer's Theological Appropriation of Heidegger's Existential Analytic of Dasein , Nicholas Byle

Stoicism in Descartes, Pascal, and Spinoza: Examining Neostoicism’s Influence in the Seventeenth Century , Daniel Collette

Phenomenology and the Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry: Contingency, Naturalism, and Classification , Anthony Vincent Fernandez

A Critique of Charitable Consciousness , Chioke Ianson

writing/trauma , Natasha Noel Liebig

Leibniz's More Fundamental Ontology: from Overshadowed Individuals to Metaphysical Atoms , Marin Lucio Mare

Violence and Disagreement: From the Commonsense View to Political Kinds of Violence and Violent Nonviolence , Gregory Richard Mccreery

Kant's Just War Theory , Steven Charles Starke

A Feminist Contestation of Ableist Assumptions: Implications for Biomedical Ethics, Disability Theory, and Phenomenology , Christine Marie Wieseler

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Heidegger and the Problem of Modern Moral Philosophy , Megan Emily Altman

The Encultured Mind: From Cognitive Science to Social Epistemology , David Alexander Eck

Weakness of Will: An Inquiry on Value , Michael Funke

Cogs in a Cosmic Machine: A Defense of Free Will Skepticism and its Ethical Implications , Sacha Greer

Thinking Nature, "Pierre Maupertuis and the Charge of Error Against Fermat and Leibniz" , Richard Samuel Lamborn

John Duns Scotus’s Metaphysics of Goodness: Adventures in 13th-Century Metaethics , Jeffrey W. Steele

A Gadamerian Analysis of Roman Catholic Hermeneutics: A Diachronic Analysis of Interpretations of Romans 1:17-2:17 , Steven Floyd Surrency

A Natural Case for Realism: Processes, Structures, and Laws , Andrew Michael Winters

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Leibniz's Theodicies , Joseph Michael Anderson

Aeschynē in Aristotle's Conception of Human Nature , Melissa Marie Coakley

Ressentiment, Violence, and Colonialism , Jose A. Haro

It's About Time: Dynamics of Inflationary Cosmology as the Source of the Asymmetry of Time , Emre Keskin

Time Wounds All Heels: Human Nature and the Rationality of Just Behavior , Timothy Glenn Slattery

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Nietzsche and Heidegger on the Cartesian Atomism of Thought , Steven Burgess

Embodying Social Practice: Dynamically Co-Constituting Social Agency , Brian W. Dunst

Subject of Conscience: On the Relation between Freedom and Discrimination in the Thought of Heidegger, Foucault, and Butler , Aret Karademir

Climate, Neo-Spinozism, and the Ecological Worldview , Nancy M. Kettle

Eschatology in a Secular Age: An Examination of the Use of Eschatology in the Philosophies of Heidegger, Berdyaev and Blumenberg , John R. Lup, Jr.

Navigation and Immersion of the American Identity in a Foreign Culture to Emergence as a Culturally Relative Ambassador , Lee H. Rosen

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

A Philosophical Analysis of Intellectual Property: In Defense of Instrumentalism , Michael A. Kanning

A Commentary On Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's Discourse on Metaphysics #19 , Richard Lamborn Samuel Lamborn

Sellars in Context: An Analysis of Wilfrid Sellars's Early Works , Peter Jackson Olen

The New Materialism: Althusser, Badiou, and Zizek , Geoffrey Dennis Pfeifer

Structure and Agency: An Analysis of the Impact of Structure on Group Agents , Elizabeth Kaye Victor

Moral Friction, Moral Phenomenology, and the Improviser , Benjamin Scott Young

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

The Virtuoso Human: A Virtue Ethics Model Based on Care , Frederick Joseph Bennett

The Existential Compromise in the History of the Philosophy of Death , Adam Buben

Philosophical Precursors to the Radical Enlightenment: Vignettes on the Struggle Between Philosophy and Theology From the Greeks to Leibniz With Special Emphasis on Spinoza , Anthony John Desantis

The Problem of Evil in Augustine's Confessions , Edward Matusek

The Persistence of Casuistry: a Neo-premodernist Approach to Moral Reasoning , Richard Arthur Mercadante

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

Dewey's Pragmatism and the Great Community , Philip Schuyler Bishop

Unamuno's Concept of the Tragic , Ernesto O. Hernandez

Rethinking Ethical Naturalism: The Implications of Developmental Systems Theory , Jared J.. Kinggard

From Husserl and the Neo-Kantians to Art: Heidegger's Realist Historicist Answer to the Problem of the Origin of Meaning , William H. Koch

Queering Cognition: Extended Minds and Sociotechnologically Hybridized Gender , Michele Merritt

Hydric Life: A Nietzschean Reading of Postcolonial Communication , Elena F. Ruiz-Aho

Descartes' Bête Machine, the Leibnizian Correction and Religious Influence , John Voelpel

Aretē and Physics: The Lesson of Plato's Timaeus , John R. Wolfe

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

Praxis and Theōria : Heidegger’s “Violent” Interpretation , Megan E. Altman

On the Concept of Evil: An Analysis of Genocide and State Sovereignty , Jason J. Campbell

The Role of Trust in Judgment , Christophe Sage Hudspeth

Truth And Judgment , Jeremy J. Kelly

The concept of action and responsibility in Heidegger's early thought , Christian Hans Pedersen

Roots and Role of the Imagination in Kant: Imagination at the Core , Michael Thompson

Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008

Peirce on the Passions: The Role of Instinct, Emotion, and Sentiment in Inquiry and Action , Robert J. Beeson

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The Department of Philosophy Dissertations and Theses Series is comprised of dissertations and theses authored by Marquette University's Department of Philosophy doctoral and master's students.

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Place, Attachment, and Feeling: Indigenous Dispossession and Settler Belonging , Sarah Kizuk

Nepantla and Mestizaje: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Mestizx Historical Consciousness , Jorge Alfredo Montiel

The Categories Argument for the Real Distinction Between Being and Essence: Avicenna, Aquinas, and Their Greek Sources , Nathaniel Taylor

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Modeling, Describing, and Explaining Subjective Consciousness- A Guide to (and for) the Perplexed , Peter Burgess

Looking Through Whiteness: Objectivity, Racism, Method, and Responsibility , Philip Mack

Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Maritain on the Student-Teacher Relationship in Catholic Higher Education , Timothy Rothhaar

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

The Empathetic Autistic: A Phenomenological Look at the Feminine Experience , Dana Fritz

Concerning Aristotelian Animal Essences , Damon Andrew Watson

When to Trust Authoritative Testimony: Generation and Transmission of Knowledge in Saadya Gaon, Al-Ghazālī and Thomas Aquinas , Brett A. Yardley

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

The Status of Irrationality: Karl Jaspers' Response to Davidson and Searle , Daniel Adsett

Cosmic City - Cosmic Teleology: A Reading of Metaphysics Λ 10 and Politics I 2 , Brandon Henrigillis

Phenomenal Consciousness: An Husserlian Approach , John Jered Janes

Al-Fārābī Metaphysics, and the Construction of Social Knowledge: Is Deception Warranted if it Leads to Happiness? , Nicholas Andrew Oschman

The Epistemology of Disagreement: Hume, Kant, and the Current Debate , Robert Kyle Whitaker

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

'Our Feet are Mired In the Same Soil': Deepening Democracy with the Political Virtue of Sympathetic Inquiry , Jennifer Lynn Kiefer Fenton

Towards a Philosophy of the Musical Experience: Phenomenology, Culture, and Ethnomusicology in Conversation , J. Tyler Friedman

Humor, Power and Culture: A New Theory on the Experience and Ethics of Humor , Jennifer Marra

Care of the Sexual Self: Askesis As a Route to Sex Education , Shaun Douglas Miller

Re-Evaluating Augustinian Fatalism through the Eastern and Western Distinction between God's Essence and Energies , Stephen John Plecnik

The Fantastic Structure of Freedom: Sartre, Freud, and Lacan , Gregory A. Trotter

The Province of Conceptual Reason: Hegel's Post-Kantian Rationalism , William Clark Wolf

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Hume on Thick and Thin Causation , Alexander Bozzo

Evolution, Naturalism, and Theism: An Inconsistent Triad? , David H. Gordon

The Parable As Mirror: An Examination of the Use of Parables in the Works of Kierkegaard , Russell Hamer

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Contextualizing Aquinas's Ontology of Soul: An Analysis of His Arabic and Neoplatonic Sources , Nathan McLain Blackerby

The Social and Historical Subject in Sartre and Foucault and Its Implications for Healthcare Ethics , Kimberly Siobhan Engels

Investigations of Worth: Towards a Phenomenology of Values , Dale Hobbs Jr.

Developing Capabilities: A Feminist Discourse Ethics Approach , Chad Kleist

Hegel and the Problem of the Multiplicity of Conflicting Philosophies , Matthew M. Peters

Aquinas, Averroes, and the Human Will , Traci Ann Phillipson

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Nature, Feminism, and Flourishing: Human Nature and the Feminist Ethics of Flourishing , Celeste D. Harvey

Kierkegaard in Light of the East: A Critical Comparison of the Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard with Orthodox Christian Philosophy and Thought , Agust Magnusson

The Secular Transformation of Pride and Humility in the Moral Philosophy of David Hume , Kirstin April Carlson McPherson

Living within the Sacred Tension: Paradox and Its Significance for Christian Existence in the Thought of Søren Kierkegaard , Matthew Thomas Nowachek

Moral Imagination and Adorno: Before and After Auschwitz , Catlyn Origitano

Essence and Necessity, and the Aristotelian Modal Syllogistic: A Historical and Analytical Study , Daniel James Vecchio

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Subversive Humor , Chris A. Kramer

Virtue, Oppression, and Resistance Struggles , Trevor William Smith

Health As Embodied Authenticity , Margaret Steele

Recognition and Political Ontology: Fichte, Hegel, and Honneth , Velimir Stojkovski

The Conceptual Priority of the Perfect , Matthew Peter Zdon

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Dangerous Knowledge? Morality And Moral Progress After Naturalism , Daniel Diederich Farmer

Nietzsche's Revaluation of All Values , Joseph Anthony Kranak

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Re-Enchanting The World: An Examination Of Ethics, Religion, And Their Relationship In The Work Of Charles Taylor , David McPherson

Thomas Aquinas on the Apprehension of Being: The Role of Judgement in Light of Thirteenth-Century Semantics , Rosa Vargas Della Casa

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Naturalized Panpsychism: An Alternative to Fundamentalist Physicalism and Supernaturalism , Earl R. Cookson

The Concept of Personhood in the Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl , Colin J. Hahn

The Humanistic, Fideistic Philosophy of Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) , Charles William Peterson

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Knowledge and Thought in Heidegger and Foucault: Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures , Arun Anantheeswaran Iyer

William James's Undivided Self and the Possibility of Immortality , Anthony Karlin

The Poetics of Remembrance: Communal Memory and Identity in Heidegger and Ricoeur , David Leichter

The Ontological Foundations for Natural Law Theory and Contemporary Ethical Naturalism , Bernard Mauser

Sexualized Violence, Moral Disintegration and Ethical Advocacy , Melissa Mosko

Spinoza on Individuals and Individuation: Metaphysics, Morals, and Politics , Matthew David Wion

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

The Paradox of Nature: Merleau-Ponty's Semi-Naturalistic Critique of Husserlian Phenomenology , Shazad Akhtar

Hume's Conception of Time and its Implications for his Theories of Causation and Induction , Daniel Esposito

Arabic Influences in Aquinas's Doctrine of Intelligible Species , Max Herrera

The Attestation of the Self as a Bridge Between Hermeneutics and Ontology in the Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur , Sebastian Kaufmann

Love's Lack: The Relationship between Poverty and Eros in Plato's Symposium , Lorelle D. Lamascus

Friendship and Fidelity: An Historical and Critical Examination , Joshua Walter Schulz

Natural Law Theory and the "Is"--"Ought" Problem: A Critique of Four Solutions , Shalina Stilley

Attending to Presence: A Study of John Duns Scotus' Account of Sense Cognition , Amy F. Whitworth

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

Friendship and Self-Identity in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur , Cristina Bucur

The Finality of Religion in Aquinas' Theory of Human Acts , Francisco José Romero Carrasquillo

The finality of religion in Aquinas' theory of human acts , Francisco J Romero

Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008

Self-Identity in Comparative Theology: The Functional lmportance of Charles Taylor's Concept of the Self for a Theology of Religions , Richard Joseph Hanson

Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007

Husserl's Noema: A Critical Assessment of the Gestalt and Analytic Interpretations , Peter M. Chukwu

A Social Contract Analysis of Rawls and Rousseau: Supplanting the Original Position As Philosophically Most Favored , Paul Neiman

To Validate a Feeling: the Role of the Mood of Angst in Human Being , Gregory P. Schulz

The Conception and Attributes of God: A Comparison of Charles Sanders Peirce and Alfred North Whitehead , Scott W. Sinclair

John Rawls, Public Reason, and Natural Law: A Study of the Principles of Public Justification , Christopher Ward

Submissions from 2006 2006

Hans Jonas's ethic of responsibility applied to anti-aging technologies and the indefinite extension of the human life span , Jeffrey P Goins

David Hume and the Principle of Sufficient Reason , Ginger Lee

Virtue Theory in Plato's Republic , Griffin T. Nelson

The Principle of Alternate Possibilities: Finding Freedom after Frankfurt , Matthew F. Pierlott

Theses/Dissertations from 2005 2005

Is There a Future for Marxist Humanism? , Jacob M. Held

Self-Love and Morality: Beyond Egoism and Altruism , Li Jing

Eikos Logos and Eikos Muthos: A Study of the Nature of the Likely Story in Plato's Timaeus , Ryan Kenneth McBride

Hume's Conclusions on the Existence and Nature of God , Timothy S. Yoder

Submissions from 2004 2004

The foundations of the politics of difference , Peter Nathaniel Bwanali

The Foundations of the Politics of Difference , Peter Nathaniel Bwanali

The Place of Justice in the Thinking of Emmanuel Levinas , Michael H. Gillick

New Waves in Metaethics: Naturalist Realism, Naturalist Antirealism and Divine Commands , Daniel R. Kern

Reason in Hume's Moral System , John Muenzberg

Conceiving Mind: A Critique of Descartes' Dualism and Contemporary Immaterialist Views of Consciousness , Kristin P. Schaupp

Respecting Plurality in Times of Change: Hannah Arendt's Conceptions of Political, Personal, and Ethical Responsibility , Stephen Schulman

Francis Suárez on the Ontological Status of Individual Unity vis-à-vis the Aristotelian Doctrine of Primary Substance , John W. Simmons

Through a Glass Darkly: Bernard Lonergan and Richard Rorty on the Possibility of Knowing Without a God's-Eye-View , Russell Snell

Theses/Dissertations from 2003 2003

Building a Heideggerian Ethic , Kelly A. Burns

St. Thomas Aquinas and the Self-Evident Proposition: A Study of the Manifold Senses of a Medieval Concept , Michael V. Dougherty

Ricoeur's Narrative Development of Gadamer's Hermeneutics: Continuity and Discontinuity , Keith D'Souza

Beauty's Resting Place: Unity in St. Augustine's Sensible Aesthetic , Matthew J. Hayes

Empathy and Knowledge: Husserl's Introductions to Phenomenology , Kevin Hermberg

The Transactional Model: A Critical Examination of John Dewey's Philosophy of Freedom , Mark N. Lenker III

Reflection on the "good" As a Source of Freedom in Virtue Theory , John D. Morse

Theses/Dissertations from 2002 2002

An Evaluation of Alvin Plantinga's Religious Epistemology Does It Function Properly? , James Beilby

Merleau-Ponty: Embodied Subjectivity and the Foundation of Ethics , Sarah A. Fischer

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Dissertations from 2023 2023

The Dialectical Virtue of Ideological Reduction , Keehyuk Nahm, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2022 2022

A Metaphysics of Artifacts: Essence and Mind-Dependence , Tim Juvshik, Philosophy

Higher-Order Evidence and Human Evolution , Justis Koon, Philosophy

All Sortals are Phase Sortals , Justin Mooney, Philosophy

Naturalized Human Epistemology is Social Epistemology , Molly O'Rourke-Friel, Philosophy

Quantitative Character and the Composite Account of Phenomenal Content , Kimberly Soland, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2021 2021

Defending Philosophical Knowledge , Jonathan Dixon, Philosophy

Worlds without End: A Platonist Theory of Fiction , Patrick Grafton-Cardwell, Philosophy

MOVING FORWARD ON THE PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS? , Haoying Liu, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2020 2020

Continua , Lu Chen, Philosophy

Socratic Piety, Reciprocity, and the Last Elenchos of Plato's Euthyphro , Donovan Cox, Philosophy

Autonomy, Oppression, and Respect , Andrea Wilson, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2019 2019

A Defense of Hume's Dictum , Cameron Gibbs, Philosophy

The Epistemic Dimensions of Moral Responsibility and Respect , John Robison, Philosophy

Self-Knowledge, Choice Blindness, and Confabulation , Hayley F. Webster, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2018 2018

Quantification and Paradox , Edward Ferrier, Philosophy

Meaning and Modality , Jesse Fitts, Philosophy

The Mismatch Problem for Act Consequentialism , Robert Gruber, Philosophy

EXPLORING THE EASY ROAD TO NOMINALISM , Jordan Kroll, Philosophy

THE FIRST PERSON PERSPECTIVE: LANGUAGE, THOUGHT, AND ACTION , Pengbo Liu, Philosophy

The Philosophical Value of Reflective Endorsement , Rachel Robison, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2017 2017

Norms for Bayesians , Lisa Cassell, Philosophy

Applications and Extensions of Counterpart Theory , Bridgette Peterson, Philosophy

Me, Myself and I: Reflections on Self-Consciousness and Authority , jonathan rosen, Philosophy

The Concept of Intrinsic Goodness: Essays in Moorean Moral Philosophy , Miles Tucker, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2016 2016

Physical Geometry , James P. Binkoski, Philosophy

Fallibility and Normativity , Joshua DiPaolo, Philosophy

Structuring Thought: Concepts, Computational Syntax, and Cognitive Explanation , Matthew B. Gifford, Philosophy

The Path To Supersubstantivalism , Joshua D. Moulton, Philosophy

Agency and Reasons in Epistemology , Luis R.G. Oliveira, Philosophy

Understanding and Its Role in Inquiry , Benjamin T. Rancourt, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2015 2015

Variations on Some Rossian Themes , Kristian Olsen, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2014 2014

Taste Disagreements and Predicates of Personal Taste , Heidi Teres Buetow, Philosophy

Synthetic Reductionism in Moral Philosophy , Scott Hill, Philosophy

A Defense of Russellian Descriptivism , Brandt H. van der Gaast, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2013 2013

The Structure of Consciousness , Lowell Keith Friesen, Philosophy

The Plausibility of Moral Error Theories , Casey Alton Knight, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2012 2012

Self-Knowledge in a Natural World , Jeremy Cushing, Philosophy

Counterpossibles , Barak Krakauer, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2011 2011

Pyrrhonian and Naturalistic Themes in the Final Writings of Wittgenstein , Indrani Bhattacharjee, Philosophy

Identity and the Limits of Possibility , Sam Cowling, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2010 2010

On Epistemic Agency , Kristoffer Hans Ahlstrom, Philosophy

Bayesian Epistemology and Having Evidence , Jeffrey Dunn, Philosophy

Sleeping Beauty and De Nunc Updating , Namjoong Kim, Philosophy

Human Freedom in a World Full of Providence: An Ockhamist-Molinist Account of the Compatibility of Divine Foreknowledge and Creaturely Free Will , Christopher J. Kosciuk, Philosophy

The rise of Cartesian occasionalism , Andrew Russell Platt

The Rise Of Cartesian Occasionalism , Andrew Russell Platt, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2009 2009

Composition as Identity: a Study in Ontology and Philosophical Logic , Einar Bohn, Philosophy

Being good, doing right, faring well. , Daniel, Doviak, Philosophy

On the Measurability of Pleasure and Pain , Justin Allen Klocksiem, Philosophy

Knowledge, questions and answers , Meghan B Masto

Knowledge, questions and answers. , Meghan B. Masto, Philosophy

On memory and testimony , Kirk Michaelian, Philosophy

Synthetic Ethical Naturalism , Michael Rubin, Philosophy

On the Objectivity of Welfare , Alexander F. Sarch, Philosophy

Phenomenal Acquaintance , Kelly Trogdon, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2008 2008

'Can' and consequentialism : an account of options. , Edward Lee Abrams, Philosophy

A defense of a particularist research program. , Uri D. Leibowitz, Philosophy

A tenseless account of tensed sentences and tensed belief. , Stephan V. Torre, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2007 2007

Emotional rationality and the fear of death. , Kristen A. Hine, Philosophy

Achievement, enjoyment, and the things we care about : a theory of personal well-being. , Jason R. Raibley, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2006 2006

Vagueness , Thomas J. Bell

Leibniz and Locke on the ultimate origination of things. , Marcy P. Lascano, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2005 2005

Desire-satisfaction theories of welfare. , Christopher C. Heathwood, Philosophy

Well-being and actual desires. , Mark E. Lukas, Philosophy

Brains and barns : the role of context in epistemic attribution. , Julie M. Petty, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2004 2004

Simples and gunk. , Kris, McDaniel, Philosophy

Brains and barns: The role of *context in epistemic attribution , Julie M Petty

The reconciliation of faith and reason in Thomas Aquinas. , Creighton J. Rosental, Philosophy

Forms of goodness : the nature and value of virtue in Socratic ethics. , Scott J. Senn, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2003 2003

Advancing the counterfactual analysis of causation. , Ethan R. Colton, Philosophy

Freedom and responsibility : an agent-causal view. , Meghan E. Griffith, Philosophy

Adopted knowing : claiming self-knowledge in the age of identity. , Kimberly J. Leighton, Philosophy

A priori arguments for reductionism. , Jennifer Rea Susse, Philosophy

Open questions and consequentialist conditionals : central puzzles in Moorean moral philosophy. , Jean-Paul, Vessel, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2002 2002

Autonomous machine agency. , Don, Berkich, Philosophy

The ontology of film. , Julie N. Books, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2001 2001

Ethical theory and population problems. , Kevin E. Moon, Philosophy

Dissertations from 2000 2000

The creation of the eternal truths and the nature of God in Descartes. , Daniel P. Kaufman, Philosophy

Art and psychoanalysis : a topographical, structural, and object-relational analysis illustrated by a study of Shakespeare's Hamlet. , Patricia E. Scarbrough, Philosophy

The nature of moral virtue. , Erik J. Wielenberg, Philosophy

Dissertations from 1999 1999

Transcendental arguments and Kant's Refutation of Idealism. , Adrian, Bardon, Philosophy

Species of goodness. , William Benjamin Bradley, Philosophy

Nothing personal : a defense on non-libertarian incompatibilism. , Bruce C. Galbreath, Philosophy

The speculum and the scalpel : the politics of impotent representation and non-representational terrorism. , David, Mertz, Philosophy

Pleasure, falsity, and the good in Plato's Philebus. , Ciriaco M. Sayson, Philosophy

Criteria in crisis : modernist, postmodernist, and feminist critical practices. , Mary Ann Sushinsky, Philosophy

The nation and nationalism. , Henry C. Theriault, Philosophy

Dissertations from 1998 1998

A defense of materialism against attacks based on qualia. , J. C. Beall, Philosophy

Natural-kind term reference and the discovery of essence. , Joseph F. LaPorte, Philosophy

Desert, virtue, and justice. , Eric F. Moore, Philosophy

The incompatibility of determinism and moral obligation. , Neil Schaefer, Philosophy

Hume's skepticism. , Dennis F. Thompson, Philosophy

The ethnicities of philosophy and the limits of culture. , Joseph S. Yeh, Philosophy

Dissertations from 1997 1997

Metaphysical theories of modality : properties, relations and possibilities. , David A. Denby, Philosophy

Religious belief, social establishment and autonomy. , Christopher J. Eberle, Philosophy

The state of nature and the genesis of commonwealths in Hobbes's political philosophy. , Thomas J. Fryc, Philosophy

The logic of contingent existence. , Daniel M. Kervick, Philosophy

A critique of academic nationalism. , Amie A. Macdonald, Philosophy

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• The Problem of Freedom and Universality: Marxian Philosophical Anthropology  Ralda, Oscar ( University of Oregon , 2024-03-25 ) This dissertation has two principal aims. First, it provides a critical reconsideration of Marx’s philosophical anthropology as it bears on the essential continuity of his emancipatory critique of political economy. Second, ...
• Living Legality: Law and Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation  Ospina Martinez, Juan Sebastián ( University of Oregon , 2024-01-10 ) In this dissertation I examine the theoretical underpinnings necessary for a philosophy of liberationaccount of law and suggest an alternative conceptualization of the function of law and political institutions, following ...
• Making Sense of the Practical Lesbian Past: Towards a Rethinking of Untimely Uses of History through the Temporality of Cultural Techniques  Simon, Valérie ( University of Oregon , 2024-01-10 ) This dissertation focuses on the practice of untimely uses of lesbian history, and in particular the diverse practices of engagement with lesbian activist history, all of which aim to mobilize this activist history for the ...
• An Argument for a Cartographic Approach to Technology  McLevey, Mare ( University of Oregon , 2024-01-09 ) This dissertation develops a way to study technology and politics that is an alternative to dominant approaches particular to contemporary philosophy of technology’s empirical and ethical turns. Dominant models fix ...
• Nietzsche, Reification, and Open Comportment  Currie, Luke ( University of Oregon , 2024-01-09 ) This work primarily discusses the “fallacy of reification” from the perspective of Nietzsche’s late philosophy (particularly in the chapter on ‘Reason’ in philosophy in his Twilight of the Idols). While reification is ...
• Time, Capitalism, and Political Ecology: Toward and Ecosocialist Metabolic Temporality  Gamble, Cameron ( University of Oregon , 2022-10-26 ) The ecological crises that have already marked the 21st century, and which will continue to do so on an increasingly intense and destructive scale, present theory in every discipline and field of study with a number of ...
• Demystifying Racial Monopoly  Haller, Reese ( University of Oregon , 2022-10-04 ) Through analysis of private, public, and state reactions to the Great Depression and northward black migration, this thesis demystifies four key functions of race constitutive of capitalist racial monopoly: historical ...
• Pragmatism, Genealogy, and Moral Status  Showler, Paul ( University of Oregon , 2022-10-04 ) This dissertation draws from recent work in pragmatism and philosophical genealogy to develop and defend a new approach for thinking about the concept of moral status. My project has two main aims. First, I argue that Huw ...
• Ethics for the Depressed: A Value Ethics of Engagement  Fitzpatrick, Devin ( University of Oregon , 2022-10-04 ) I argue that depressed persons suffer from “existential guilt,” which amounts to a two-part compulsion: 1) the compulsive assertion or sense of a vague and all-encompassing or absolute threat that disrupts action and ...
• Soul and Polis: On Arete in Plato's Meno  Smith III, Ansel ( University of Oregon , 2022-10-04 ) In “Soul and Polis: On Arete in Plato’s Meno,” I interpret Meno as a dialogue in which the pursuit of individual arete appears intertwined with political arete. While the differentiation of these two arete is itself ...
• Place-in-Being: A Decolonial Phenomenology of Place in Conversation with Philosophies of the Americas  Newton, Margaret ( University of Oregon , 2022-05-10 ) Our experiences of place and emplacement are so fundamental to our everyday existence that most of us rarely dedicate much time to thinking about how place and emplacement impact the various aspects of our daily lives. In ...
• Species Trouble: From Settled Species Discourse to Ethical Species Pluralism  Sinclair, Rebekah ( University of Oregon , 2021-11-23 ) In this dissertation, I develop and defend the importance of species pluralism (the recognition and use of multiple species definitions) for both environmental and humanist ethics. I begin from the concern that, since the ...
• The Hybris of Plants: Reinterpreting Philosophy through Vegetal Life  Kerr, Joshua ( University of Oregon , 2021-11-23 ) This dissertation reexamines the place of plants in the history of Western philosophy, drawing on the diverse philosophical approaches of Plato, Aristotle, Goethe, Hegel, and Nietzsche, among others. I suggest that a close ...
• Decolonizing Silences: Toward a Critical Phenomenology of Deep Silences with Gloria E. Anzaldúa and Maurice Merleau-Ponty  Ferrari, Martina ( University of Oregon , 2021-11-23 ) Motivating this dissertation is a concern for how Western philosophical, cultural, and political practices tend to privilege speech and voice as emancipatory tools and reduce silence to silencing. To locate power in silence ...
• Mere Appearance: Redressing the History of Philosophy  Zimmer, Amie ( University of Oregon , 2021-09-13 ) The principal aim of this dissertation is to seriously consider what accounts of fashion and dress can offer—have indeed already offered—to philosophy. In recounting these histories, I have two primary goals. The first is ...
• Universal History as Global Critique: From German Critical Theory to the Anti-Colonial Tradition  Portella , Elizabeth ( University of Oregon , 2021-09-13 ) This dissertation argues for a critical reconstruction of the concept of universal history. In doing so, it draws on theoretical resources offered by a materialist philosophy of history, as it is expressed in both German ...
• Synoptic Fusion and Dialectical Dissociation: The Entwinement of Linguistic and Experiential Pragmatisms à la Wilfrid Sellars  Naeb, Cheyenne ( University of Oregon , 2021-09-13 ) This work will attempt to examine the relationship between experiential and linguistic pragmatism through the lens of the twentieth-century Analytic philosopher, Wilfrid Sellars. I maintain that Sellars meta-linguistic ...
• Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Questionability of Truth  Emery, James ( University of Oregon , 2020-12-08 ) Does Nietzsche’s inquiry into the question of truth take him beyond the sense of truth as correctness found in Platonism toward a more Greek understanding of truth that brings concealment into an unsettling prominence ...
• Feminism, Secularism, and the (Im)Possibilities of an Islamic Feminism  Akbar Akhgari, Paria ( University of Oregon , 2020-02-27 ) This project considers attempts by scholars from within as well as outside Muslim countries to analyze gender and sex equality with a new approach that brings Islam and feminism into one discourse, often called “Islamic ...
• To Write the Body: Lost Time and the Work of Melancholy  Hayes, Shannon ( University of Oregon , 2019-09-18 ) In this dissertation I develop a philosophical account of melancholy as a productive, creative, and politically significant affect. Despite the longstanding association of melancholy with the creativity and productivity ...

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"Not the Boss of Me": Reviving the Relationship Between Political and Parental Authority

Addiction and Responsibility

Agent Causation and Reduction

An Incomplete Guide to Dealing with Experts

Anomaly and Coincidence

Apriority for Empiricists: Making Sense of Truth by Convention

Aristotle's Pure Forms: A Study of Some Chapters in Metaphysics Z-H

Authoring Sex: Agency, Equality, and Respect within Sexual Interaction

Can Machines Have Desires?

Concepts in Bounded Rationality: Perspectives from Reinforcement Learning

Defanging the v-Curry Paradox

Defending a Desire-­‐Centered Compatibilist Theory of Free Will

Emotion and Imagination in Action

Essays on Justice and Social Structure

ESSE PERCIPI EST CONCEPTUM?: ON CONCEPTUAL AND NONCONCEPTUAL FORMS OF PERCEPTION

Everyday Life and the Demands of Justice

Evidence and the Rationality of Belief

EXPLANATION: DISTANCE, GAPS, REGRESS, AND CIRCULARITY

Forms and Physics in Plato's Timaeus

From Reference to Content: Semantic Intuitions and the Theoretical Basis for Externalism

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Belief and ameliorative epistemology , the commonwealth as agent: group action, the common good, and the general will , conceptualism and objectivity in locke's account of natural kinds , counsel and command: an address-dependent account of authority , dependence on persons and dependence on things in rousseau's social, psychological, and aesthetic theory , duties of rescue: a moderate account , essays on biological individuality , formal analyticity , global institutions and relations among non-co-citizens , intellectual property rights and institutions: a pluralist account , into question: an account of inquiry , kant's science of the moral world and moral objectivity , knowledge in action , loving, valuing, regretting, and being oneself , 'making people happy, not making happy people': a defense of the asymmetry intuition in population ethics , no metaphysics within physics , the normativity of structural rationality , objectivity and intersubjectivity in moral philosophy , on perception's role in aristotle’s epistemology .

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Thomistic Approaches to Welfare Theory 

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How Can Human Intelligence Collection Be Morally Justified? 

Constructivism and the Liberal Dilemma 

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LIFE AND DEATH ISSUES IN BIOETHICS: ABORTION, PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE, AND THE DEFINITION OF DEATH 

The Harmony Thesis and the Problem of Continence in Contemporary Virtue Ethics 

Does a consistent soul-theory exclude the animals? 

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The Bodleian Libraries’ thesis collection holds every DPhil thesis deposited at the University of Oxford since the degree began in its present form in 1917. Our oldest theses date from the early 1920s. We also have substantial holdings of MLitt theses, for which deposit became compulsory in 1953, and MPhil theses.

Since 2007 it has been a mandatory requirement for students to deposit an electronic copy of their DPhil thesis in the Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) , in addition to the deposit of a paper copy – the copy of record. Since the COVID pandemic, the requirement of a paper copy has been removed and the ORA copy has become the copy of record. Hardcopy theses are now only deposited under exceptional circumstances. 

ORA provides full-text PDF copies of most recent DPhil theses, and some earlier BLitt/MLitt theses. Find out more about Oxford Digital Theses, and depositing with ORA .

Finding Oxford theses

The following theses are catalogued on SOLO (the University libraries’ resource discovery tool) :

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How to search for Oxford theses on SOLO

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Also try an “Any field” search for “Thesis Oxford” along with the author’s name under “creator” and any further “Any field” keywords such as department or subject. 

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ORA was established in 2007 as a permanent and secure online archive of research produced by members of the University of Oxford. It is now mandatory for students completing a research degree at the University to deposit an electronic copy of their thesis in this archive. 

Authors can select immediate release on ORA, or apply a 1-year or 3-year embargo period. The embargo period would enable them to publish all or part of their research elsewhere if they wish. 

Theses held in ORA are searchable via  SOLO , as well as external services such as EThOS and Google Scholar. For more information, visit the Oxford digital theses guide , and see below for guidance on searching in ORA.

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Type your keywords (title, name) into the main search box, and use quotes (“) to search for an exact phrase.

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You can also increase the number of search results shown per page, and sort by relevance, date and file availability. You can select and export records to csv or email. 

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The Rare Books department of the Weston Library keeps an author card index of Oxford theses. This includes all non-scientific theses deposited between 1922 and 2016. Please ask Weston Library staff for assistance.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

You can use ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global  to find bibliographic details of Oxford theses not listed on SOLO. Ask staff in the Weston Library’s Charles Wendall David Reading Room for help finding these theses. 

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The Bodleian Libraries hold all doctoral theses and most postgraduate (non-doctoral) theses for which a deposit requirement is stipulated by the University:

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• BPhil and MPhil theses (Michaelmas Term 1977 – 2021)

Most Oxford theses are held in Bodleian Offsite Storage. Some theses are available in the libraries; these are listed below.

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Theses submitted to the Faculty of Law are held at the Bodleian Law Library .

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Theses on the United States are held at the Vere Harmsworth Library .

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The Social Science Library holds dissertations and theses selected by the departments it supports. 

The list of departments and further information are available in the Dissertations and Theses section of the SSL webpages. 

Locations for Anthropology and Archaeology theses

The Balfour Library holds theses for the MPhil in Material and Visual Anthropology and some older theses in Prehistoric Archaeology.

The Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library holds theses for MPhil in Classical Archaeology and MPhil in European Archaeology.

Ordering Oxford theses

Theses held in Bodleian Offsite Storage are consulted in the Weston Library. The preferred location is the Charles Wendell David Reading Room ; they can also be ordered to the Sir Charles Mackerras Reading Room .

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Here, to the best of our ability to reconstruct it, is a list of all Ph.D. dissertations and master's theses ever written in our department. (For a shorter list of only more recent Ph.D. dissertations, see our page of placement information .) Note that, until 1929, the Department of Philosophy was not distinct from the Department of Psychology at Indiana University. This helps to explain some of the titles below that nowadays might be thought odd to find in a Department of Philosophy. Nevertheless, even Dr. Tugman's 1912 dissertation on the English sparrow — which is as pure a piece of empirical psychology as one could require (it even contains a discussion of how to handle the sparrows) — says it is submitted for the Ph.D. in Philosophy, not Psychology. The same goes for the pre-1929 M.A. theses listed below.

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Daniel Buckley, Evidence and Epistemic Normativity

Uri Eran,  Kant's Theory of Emotion: Toward a Systematic Reconstruction

Daniel Lindquist,  Hegel's Critique of Kant's Philosophy of Biology  

Elisabeth Lloyd, 2021 Advanced Study Program Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado

Monica Morrison,  A Socio-Epistemic Theory of Climate Model Development  

Levi Tenen, From Heirlooms to Nature: An Account of Extrinsic Final Value James Andrew Smith, Jr., Science as the Pursuit of Truth: On Quine’s Naturalism

Kevin Mills, Empirical Knowledge in Normative Reasoning

Wade Munroe,  Rationality and Higher-Order Evidence

Hao Hong, Truth and Reality

Dylan Black, A Philosophical Framework for the Science of Consciousness

Emmalon Davis, Testifying Across Difference: Responsibility for Interpersonal and Structural Epistemic Injustice

Noam Hoffer, Kant’s Theoretical Conception of God

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Kirchner, Daniel, Sittlichkeit and the Ancient View of the Self in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit .

Lee, Jaeho, Explanation and Its Place In Metaphysical and Scientific Inquiries .

Bassett, Gregory, Searching for Normativity .

Burkhart, Brian, Respect for Kinship: Toward an Indigenous Environmental Ethics .

Aumann, Antony, Kierkegaard on the Need for Indirect Communication .

Jacobs, Jonathan, Causal Powers, A Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysic .

Im, Seungpil, A Study of Kant’s Dreams of a Spirit Seer: Kant’s Ambiguous Relation to Swedenborg.

Alexander, Joshua, Philosophical Intuitions and Experimental Philosophy .

Keele, Lisa, Theories of Continuity and Infinitesimals: Four Philosophers of the Nineteenth Century .

Theiner, Georg, From Extended Minds to Group Minds: Rethinking the Boundaries of the Mental.

Ceballes, John. Hearing the Call of Reason: Kant and Publicity.

Kimble, Kevin. The Intentional Structure of Phenomenal Awareness.

Klein, Alexander M. The Rise of Empiricism: William James, Thomas Hill Green, and the Struggle over Psychology.

McDonald, Brian E. Constraint Variational Semantics.

Seymour, Melissa. Duties of Love and Kant's Doctrine of Obligatory Ends.

Abramson, Darren. Computability and Mind.

Demir, Hilmi. Error Comes with Imagination: A Probabilistic Theory of Mental Content.

Stephen James Crowley. A Complex Story About Simple Inquiries: Micro-epistemology and Animal Cognition.

Tropman, Beth. Moral Realism and the New Intuitionism.

Murakami, Yuko. Modal Logic of Partitions.

Werner, Daniel. Myth and Philosophy in Plato's Phaedrus.

Wolsing, Jennifer. Free at Last: A Libertarian Defense of Free Will.

Conolly, Brian Francis. Studies in the Metaphysics of Dietrich von Freiberg.

Jain, Pragati. Validity and Its Epistemic Roles.

Lindland, Erik. Kierkegaard on Self-Deception.

Shaw, Joshua. Putting Ethics First: Reconsidering Emmanuel Levinas's Ethical Metaphysics.

Brown, Karen Leigh. Epistemic Possibilities and the Sources of Belief.

Dalton, Eric. Analyticity, Holism and Conceptual Role Semantics.

Farin, Ingo. Studies in Early Heidegger (1919–1923).

Gottlieb, Michah. The Ambiguity of Reason: Mendelssohn's Writings on Spinoza.

Morton, Brian P. R. Ineffability and Self-Refutation: Non-Monotonic Logic in the Thought of Pseudo-Dionysius, Sextus Empiricus, and the Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita.

Pamental, Matthew P. Naturalized Human Agency and the Emergence of Norms: Placing Dewey's Ethics on the Map.

Corry, Richard Lachlan. A Causal-Structural Theory of Empirical Knowledge.

Guldmann, Rony. Two Orientations towards Human Nature.

Kaniike, Yoichi. Carnap's Conception of Wissenshaftslogik.

Keele, Rondo Patten. Formal Ontology in the Fourteenth Century: The Chatton Principle and Ockham's Razor.

Janiak, Andrew. Kant's Newtonianism.

Kim, Hans Eung. The Problem of Indexicality.

Liang, Caleb. Toward an Understanding of Objectivity: A Study of the Realism/Antirealistm Debate and the Nature of Empirical Content.

Barceló Aspeita, Axel Arturo. Mathematics as Grammar: 'Grammar' in Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics during the Middle Period.

DiLeo, Jeffrey R. Is There a Text in Philosophy: Writing, Style, Rhetoric and Culture.

Musselman, Jack Green. Judicial Craftmanship at the Supreme Court: A Critical Legal Studies Examination of Court Crafts Informing the Hate Speech Debate (2 vols).

Pook, David Olson. Objectivity, Skepticism, and the Realistic Spirit in Ethics.

Bolyard, Charles. Knowledge, Certainty, and Propositions Per se notae: A Study of Peter Auriol.

Chemero, Anthony P. How To Be an Anti-Representationalist.

Grueso, Delfin Ig. Justice and Monirities: An Evaluation of John Rawls' Political Liberalism.

DeLancy, Craig. Emotion, Action, and Intentionality.

Edwards, James G. Justification as Intra-Personal Argumentation.

Kennedy, Thomas V. Impartiality and the Moral Domain.

Zheng, Yiwei. Bad Faith, Authenticity, and Pure Reflection in Jean-Paul Sartre's Early Philosophy.

Hardy, James Hintze. Instantial Reasoning, Arbitrary Objects, and Holey Propositions.

Kovach, Adam. A Species of Good: An Essay on Truth as a Kind of Value.

Lee, Byeong Deok. The Paradox of Belief Instability and a Revision Theory of Belief.

Ray, Carolyn. Identity and Universals: A Conceptualist Approach to Logical, Metaphysical, and Epistemological Problems of Contemporary Identity Theory.

Hogg, Charles R., Jr. Ethics secundum stoicos: An Edition, Translation, and Critical Essay.

Mattox, John Mark. Saint Augustine and the Theory of the Just War.

Miller, Pamela. The Implications of John Dewey's Ideas for Environmental Ethics.

Rosenberg, Gregg Howard. A Place for Consciousness: Probing the Deep Structure of the Natural World.

Fry, Jeffrey P. Self-Esteem, Moral Luck, and the Meaning of Grace.

Shimojima, Atsushi. On the Efficacy of Representation.

Eberle, Ruth. Diagrams and Natural Deduction: Theory and Pedagogy of Hyperproof.

Hammer, Eric. M. Diagrams, Logic and Representation.

Luengo, Isabel. Diagrams in Geometry.

Marquez, Ivan. Rorty, Reason, and Modernity's Quest for Freedom and Equality.

Schönfield, Martin. Kant's Early Philosophy of Nature: Science and Metaphysics.

Steeves, H. Peter. Toward a Phenomenological Ethic of Community.

Morado, Raymundo. Fault-Tolerant Reasoning.

Parker, Surekha Gillian. An Aesthetic Theory for Metaphor: How to Avoid Beating a Good Metaphor to Death.

Santory Jorge, Anayra O. The Moral Force of Philosophy.

Yoon, Bosuk. The Problem of Naturalizing Intentionality.

Chalmers, David John. Toward a Theory of Consciousness.

Curtis, Gary Nelson. The Concept of Logical Form.

Chapuis, André. Circularity, Truth, and the Liar Paradox.

Syverson, Paul F. Logic, Convention, and Common Knowledge.

Vaughan, Christopher. Pure Reflection: Self-Knowledge and Moral Understanding in the Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre.

Hicks, Stephen Ronald Craig. Foundationalism and the Genesis of Justification.

Ning, Yin-Bin. A Post-Philosophical Essay on Knowledge/Power: Richard Rorty, Anti-Foundationalism, and the Possibility of an Alternative Epistemology. </p

Beavers, M. Gordon. Topics in Lukasiwicz Logics.

Houng, Yu-Houng. Classicism, Connectionism, and the Concept of Level.

Lee, In Tak. A Critique of the Universalist Theory of Ethical Justification: Habermas vs. the Contextualist Point of View.

Soraj, Hongladarom. Imagination in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

Dixon, Bobby R. The Master-Slave Dialectic in the Writings of Ralph Ellison: Toward a Neo-Hegelian Synthesis.

Favila, José Manuel. Intersubjectivity of Indexical Thoughts.

Foulks, Frank. A Phenomenal Semantic Frame for the Semiotics of Contrapuntal Theory.

Holland, Monica. Beliefs Based on Emotional Reception: Their Formation, Justification and Truth.

Mares, Edwin David. The Logic of Fictional Discourse.

Armijos, Gonzalo. Marxism, Pragmatism, and Historical Realism: An Epistemological Appraisal.

Freund, Max A. Formal Investigations of Holistic Realist Ramified Conceptualism.

Kalumba, Kibuggo M. The Common Good as a Mandate for the Official Catholic Church's Support for, And Participation in, the Various Revolutionary Movements in Latin America.

Maróstica de Gomez, Ana. Peirce's Conceptions of Truth: A Tychist Approach.

Palma, Adriano. Indexicality.

Jetli, Priyedarshi. The Origins of a Realist Conception of Relations in Plato's Phaedo.

Katz, Sheri. Ontology and Epistemology in John Scottus Eriugena.

Day, Timothy Joseph. Infinite Regress Arguments: Some Metaphysical and Epistemological Problems.

Kill, Kathleen. A Theory of Events.

Herrera, Alejandro Ibanez. Leibniz on Existence.

Landini, Gregory. Meinong Reconstructed versus Early Russell Reconstructed: A Study in the Formal Ontology of Fiction.

Morris, Robert Allan. A Complementarity Thesis for Doxastic Truth.

Orilia, Francesco. Natural Language Semantics and Guise Theory.

Bahlul, Raja. Sameness and Similarity and the Identity of Indiscernibles.

Cohen, Daniel H. The Logic of Conditional Assertions.

Etuk, Udo A. Ethical Postulates for African Development.

Gomez, Ricardo J. Kant's Pre-Transcendental Conception of Science.

Kim, Hyo-Myung. Constant Conjunction and Necessity: A Study in Hume's Theory of Causation.

Kincaid, Harold. Hegel and Holistic Explanation.

Wahl, Russell. Propositions and Facts in the Early Philosophy of Bertrand Russell.

Laycock, Steven William. Intersubjectivity and the Divine Envisionment.

Schoenig, Richard Keith. Primary and Secondary Qualities.

Lesses, Glenn. Desire and Motivation in Plato: Issues in the Psychology of the Early Dialogues and the Republic.

Macdonald, J. Ellis. On Truth and Falsehood in the Extra-Moral Sense: A Translation and Critical Study.

Pendlebury, Michael John. Believing.

Weber, Gregory Dean. Theory of Purposive Behavior, Desire, and Belief, with Applications to the Issues of Materialism and the Objectivity of Value Judgments.

Wilt, Lawrence J. M. Franz Brentano's Epistemology for Ethics.

Fleming, Roger A. A Relativist Theory of Truth and the Problem of Skepticism.

Momoh, Campbell Shittu. An African Conception of Being and the Traditional Problem of Freedom and Determinism.

Dipert, Randall R. Development and Crisis in Late Boolean Logic: The Deductive Logics of Peirce, Jevons and Schröder.

Maloney, J. Christopher. A Philosophical Theory of Perception.

Seiferth, David M. The Grounds of Moral Rightness.

Kapitan, Tomis. Foundations for a Theory of Propositional Form, Implication, Alethic Modality and Generalization.

McKinsey, Thomas Michael. The Reference of Proper Names: A Critical Essay in the Philosophy of Language.

Rapaport, William Joseph. Intentionality and the Structure of Existence.

MacCarthy, Mark Michael. On Methodological Individualism.

Geels, Donald Eugene. False Beliefs and Possible States of Affairs.

Fletcher, James John. Generalization in Art Criticism and the Role Therin of Paradigmatic Aesthetic Objects.

Freeman, James B. Algebraic Semantics for Modal and Relevant Predicate Logics.

Hunt, Walter Murray. An Examination of Some Problems about the Nature of "Moral" Situations and Their Role in Ethics.

Nute, Donald. Identification and Demonstrative Reference.

Beversluis, John. The Connection between Duty and Happiness in Kant's Moral Philosophy.

Cadwallader, Eva Hauel. Nicolai Hartmann's Twentieth-Century Value Platonism.

Williams, Clifford. 'Now', Interchangeability without a Change of Truth Value, and Time.

Williams, Thomas Raymong. The Ideal Observer Theory in Ethics.

Dreher, John Hugo. A Study of Human Action.

Heizer, Ruth Bradfute. A Critique of Karl Popper's Solution to the Problem of Induction.

Hull, Richard T. The Role of the Principle of Acquaintance in Contemporary Disputes over the Relation of Mental, Perceptual, and Physical.

Nassar, Alan George. The Ontological Argument and the Problem of God.

Barford, Robert. The Criticisms of the Theory of Forms in the First Part of Plato's Parmenides.

Marquis, Donald Bagley. Scientific Realism and the Antinomy of External Objects.

Roberts, Lawrence D. John Duns Scotus and the Concept of Human Freedom.

Samuelson, Norbert. The Problem of God's Knowledge in Gersonides: A Translation of and Commentary to Book Three of the Milhamot Adonai.

Scott, Stephen Hamilton. Universals and Ontological Analysis.

Park, Désirée. Berkeley's Theory of Notions.

Bayles, Michael D. Rule Utilitarianism and an Enlightened Moral Consciousness.

Hanke, John W. The Ontological Status of the Work of Art in the Aesthetics of Maritain.

Perreiah, Alan R. Is There a Doctrine of Supposition in the Logica Magna?

Vollrath, John. Actions and Events.

Allen, Allan J. Moral Judgment and the Concept of a Universal Imperative with Special Reference to Kant.

Clatterbaugh, Kenneth C. The Problem of Individuation.

Cooper, William F. Francesco Romero's Theory of Value.

Gram, Moltke S. Two Theories of the A Priori.

Robinsin, William S. Perception and Reference.

Galligan, Edward Michael. Plato and the Philosophy of Language.

Howard, Vernon Alfred. The Academic Compromise on Free Will in Nineteenth Century American Philosophy: A Study of Thomas C. Upham's A Philosophical and Practical Treatise on the Will (1834).

Perkins, Robert L. Kierkegaard and Hegel: The Dialectical Structure of Kierkegaard's Ethical Thought.

Peterson, John. Logical Atomism and the Realism-Nominalism Issue: A Critique of Contemporary Atomism from the Viewpoint of Classical Realism.

Dietl, Paul Joseph. Explanation and Action: An Examination of the Controversy between Hume and Some of His Contemporary Critics.

Tovo, Jerome. The Experience of Causal Efficacy in Whitehead and Hume.

Young, Theodore A. Change in Aristotle, Descartes, Human, and Whitehead: An Essay in Philosophy of Nature.

Lineback, Richard H. The Place of the Imaginatiion in Hume's Epistemology.

Wisadavet, Wit. Sartre's and the Buddhist's Concept of Man.

Davis, Clarence George. Obligation and Aspiration in Ethics.

Anton, Peter Achilles. Empiriciam and Analysis.

Kleis, Sander J. Brightman's Idea of God.

Smyth, Richard A. Kant's Theory of Reference.

Owsley, Richard Mills. The Moral Philosophy of Karl Jaspers.

Churchill, James Spencer. Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics.

Lord, Catherine. The Cognitive Import of Art, with Reference to Kant's Theory of Aesthetic Judgment.

Rukavina, Thomas. Heidegger as Critic of Western Thinking.

Faruki, Mohamed Zuhdi Taji. The Universal Categories of Charles Sanders Peirce.

Hayes, Frank Ambrose. Platonic Elements in Spinoza's Theory of Method.

Frye, Robert Edward. Pragmatism in Recent Non-Pragmatic Systems: Santayana, Bergson, Whitehead.

Carmichael, Douglas. Order and Human Value.

Kramer, Richard Neil. The Ontological Foundations of Negatives.

Mayfield, William Hollingsworth. Platonism and Christianity in the Work of Paul Elmer More.

Al-Faruqi, Isma'il R. On Justifying the Good.

Reeves, George Cooper.  The Philosophy of Tommaso Campanella with Special Reference to His Doctrine of the Sense of Things and of Magic, with a Translation of Books 1 and 2 and a Bibliography.

Baker, Arthur Mulford.  The River of God: The Source-Stream for Morals and Religion.

Tugman, Eupha May Foley.  Light Discrimination in the English Sparrow.

Master's Theses

Gottschling, David.  Moral Philosophy's Double Vision: Toward a More Coherent Moral Philosophy.

Taliano, Lisa Toni.  The Tragic Affirmation of Life: A Critical Analysis of Nietzsche and Van Gogh.

Vári, Peter.  Wittgenstein and the Problem of Relations.

DiLeo, Jeffrey R.  Charles S. Peirce on Proper Names and Haecceitism.

Tilton, Louis.  Sartre's Theory of the Group.

Dreher, John Hugo.  A Theory of Knowledge for Empiricism.

Evans, Fred J.  Whitehead's Philosophy of Mind.

Johnson, Anita Louise.  Activity, Labor, and Human Nature in Karl Marx.

Johnston, Thomas Michael.  The Process of Transition in Whitehead's Metaphysics.

Larrabee, Mary Jeanne.  Intentionality in Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger: A Comparative Study of Ideen I and Sein und Zeit.

Hamrick, William B.  Time in the Philosophies of Whitehead and Merleau-Ponty.

Hunt, Walter Murray.  The Situationism of Joseph Fletcher: An Examination of Some of Its Philosophical Bases.

Learned, Stephen Paul.  The Austin-Strawson Debate on Truth.

Moon, Donald Le Rue.  Max Scheler's Phenomenology of Religion: The Self-Givenness of the Divine and Human Consciousness.

Gale, Kenneth E.  Descartes: The Cogito, Substance, and Individuation.

Goldenbaum, Donald M.  Ambiguities in Certain Arguments for the Existence of External Objects.

Hammond, John Elwyn.  Collingwood's Theory of Presuppositions: The Road to a New Metaphysics.

Krausz, Michael.  On Method in Metaphysics: A Modular Analysis for Criticism of Philosophical Theories.

Pil'l, Anne Kimino Uemura.  Cogito, ergo sum: A Critical Analysis of Jaakko Hintikka's Interpretation.

Mueller, Robert W. An Examination of the Meaning of the Socratic Paradoxes.

Kuo, David Dah-Chuen. Kant's Method and His Deduction of the Categories.

Williams, Thomas Raymong. A Critique of the Rationalistic Ethical Theory Presented in Marcus Singer's Generalization in Ethics.

Lineback, Richard H. An Introduction to Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments.

Leonard, Marilyn Rosenthein. Propositions and Atomic Propositions.

Stamatakos, Bess Makris. On Being Both Red and Blue All Over at the Same Time.

Galligan, Edward Michael. Towards the Understanding of Parmenides' Way of Truth.

Gavrilis, Nicholas. Non-Cognitive Ethics: An Examination of Five Contemporary Ethical Writers.

D'Abbracci, Anthony Robert. Order vs. the Arbitrary: St. Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus.

Perkins, Robert L. Aesthetics and Existence: Some Kierkegaardian Themes.

Smyth, Richard A. Intuition and Concept: A Study in Kantian Logic.

Jager, Ronald. Language, Truth and Intentional Logic.

Burkhardt, Phillip Edward. Monad and Universe: Some IMplication of Leibniz' Concept.

Davis, Clarence George. Religious Experiences.

Rukavina, Thomas. Fundamental Ontology in the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger.

Ogden, Joan Barbara. The Square of Opposition: An Evaluation of the Current Controversy.

Pietersma, Henry. Freedom and Man: An Essay on Jean-Paul Sartre's View of Existential Freedom as Found in His L'Etre et le néant.

Wasserman, Irving. Realism and Historicism: A Study of the Philosophy of R. G. Collingwood.

Crimmel, Henry H. The Copernican Revolution in Philosophy.

Young, Theodore A. Being and Analogy: The Role of Metaphysical Analogy in Classical Realism, Josiah Royce and R. G. Collingwood.

Anton, Peter. Empiricism and Solipsism.

Conger, Mary Janeway. The Erotic Bird: Platonism and Wallace Stevens.

Frye, Robert Wedard. John Locke as Rationalist.

Allen, Jerome Lawson. Justice and Necessity in Plato.

Sikma, Barney. God and Man: A Comparative Study of Epictetus the Stoic and St. Paul the Apostle.

Achamma, John. An Interpretation of Gandhi's Religious Philosophy in the Light of Bergson's Two Sources of Morality and Religion.

Kramer, Richard Neil. The Nature of Causation.

Owsley, Richard Mills. The Concept of Evolutionary Progress and the Philosophies of Two Biologists.

Bullock, Robert Lee. Latent Pragmatism in the Philosophy of Schopenhauer.

Burkhart, Reginald Keith. The Aristotelian Syllogism and Causation.

Kellermann, Frederick D. Socrates and Christianity.

Al-Faruqi, Isma'il R. The Ethics of Reason and the Ethics of Life (Kantian and Nietzschean Ethics).

Barber, Richard Leslie. A Reinterpretation of the Significance of the Calculus of Classes for Aristotelian Logic.

Parker, Francis Howard. A critical examination of Professor Kantor's interbehavioral description of thinking.

Jeanes, Charlotte Ann. The Ontological Status of Ought, Based on a Study of the Ought Concepts of Hartmann and Urban.

Pitz, Sally A. The Intentional Fallacy Issue.

Van Liere, Donald Wilbur. The Relation of Virtue to Knowledge with Special Reference to Plato's Protagoras.

Harshman, Hardwick W. Immortality in Plato.

Reagan, Gordon Lober. An Analysis and Redefinition of the Concept of Organic Unisty as an Essential Property of Aesthetic Objects.

Muedeking, George Herbert. The Basis for Ethics: The Contribution of Christianity to a Theory of Ethics.

Mason, Robert E. A Semantic Alphabet for Philosophy.

Meloy, John Wilson. The Nature and Function of Religious Experience: A Study in the Philosophy of Religion.

Keller, Samuel E. Business ethics and the N.R.A. codes; an ethical analysis of business with special references to the codes prepared to comply with the requirements of the National industrial recovery act of 1933.

Horth, Dudley Shirley. An Examination of Nicolai Hartmann's Ethical Theory.

Knight, Everett Estes. The Constructive Value of Doubt with a Bibliography Appended.

Knight, Homer Guy. Psychology of Initiative.

Llewelyn, Edgar Julius. The Forms of Stimulus which Favor the Radical and Permanent Expansion of Human Energy.

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Philosophy dissertations

undergraduate Y4

I supervise at least one undergraduate a year. Many of the same questions come up each year. I have prepared below a set of guidelines to help when starting out on a dissertation.

Please note that this is personal advice and not to be taken as a substitute for the undergraduate handbook and marking scheme.

Do’s and Don’t’s for a dissertation

• Have a claim. You should be able to state your claim clearly in 1–2 sentences.
• Have claim of the right size – viz. a size you can defend (be careful not to be too ambitious here)
• Have a rigorous argument for your claim. Your argument should be able to convince a rational person who does not already believe your claim
• Make your dissertation clearly understandable to a philosopher who is not an expert in this area
• Explain why your claim is important
• Be honest if you do not conclusively establish your claim – e.g. clarify that your claim follows conditional on certain stated assumptions, list unresolved objections
• Make clear your original contribution
• Make use of your supervisor for feedback on drafts

Don’t:

• Aim for this to be your magnum opus or last word on the topic
• Try to solve a major problem (e.g. the mind-body problem, external world scepticism)
• Cover every possible view in the field
• Include extra material unless it advances your argument
• Have one massive 6,000 word chapter
• Leave it until Semester 2 to start work

How to write a dissertation

The points above give you an idea of what to aim for but they don’t provide a method for how to get there. There are many ways to write a dissertation. It may be reassuring to know that there are simple methods that can reliably produce an excellent dissertation. The algorithm below is one method:

• Find the general area you like (e.g. phenomenal consciousness)
• Select one article/book chapter in that area that you find fascinating (e.g. Smith (2009))
• Summarise Smith (2009) carefully in your own words, paying attention to whether each step in the argument follows from the previous
• Look for weaknesses in Smith (2009)’s argument
• Which new resources do you need to draw on?
• Which alternative conclusions follow?
• Which objections can be raised to your proposal?
• Draw on relevant bits of surrounding literature to support (5)

You have a first class dissertation!

Filling the dissertation with enough words

A common worry among students is whether they are able to write enough words. The longest piece of philosophical writing they may have done so far is 3,000 words. How can you write a sustained argument that lasts for 8,000 words? This turns out to be easier than you might think. Indeed, the difficulty often turns out to be not going over the word limit.

For the sake of argument, let us see how following the algorithm above might work out in terms of word count.

• Introduction (500 words): What is your claim, the outline of your argument?
• Chapter 1 (1,000 words): Why is your claim important? What are the pay-offs?
• Chapter 2 (2,000 words): Careful and charitable summary of X in your own words
• Chapter 3 (2,000 words): Your rigorous criticism of X
• Chapter 4 (2,000 words): How X should be corrected, associated costs, consequences for views that use X, possible objections
• Conclusion (500 words): Summary and next steps for future work

And we are done!

Milestones to aim for

Milestones depend on the specific project and you should talk to your supervisor about your workload and what would be a reasonable plan for finishing the dissertation in the year. Below is a rough plan that one might aim for.

• End Y3: meet supervisor & agree on general topic
• Summer vacation: background reading on topic
• Start Y4: find 1 article/chapter to focus

Year 4, Semester 1:

• Start: meet with supervisor & agree plan for year
• Middle: first draft of 2 chapters
• End: polished draft of 2 chapters

Year 4, Semester 2:

• Start: first draft of entire dissertation
• Middle: polished draft of entire dissertation
• End: revisit, revise, and submit dissertation

Background reading

A dissertation in philosophy is a story … like all good stories, it only includes what is essential to the story — Robert Paul Wolff’s astute advice that applies just as well to UG dissertations as well as PhD theses

Be concise, but explain yourself fully — Jim Pryor with an excellent 3-stage plan for writing philosophy

Style is the feather in the arrow, not the feather in the cap — Peter Lipton has some wonderful and concise writing advice

Read your work aloud. … Be firm: take your prose to the gym, and keep working at it until the bones and sinews show through! — Peter Smith, previously editor of Analysis , with some fantastic advice

What is an argument? — Jim Pryor’s guide is essential reading for anyone writing philosophy; it contains a lexicon of philosophical terms and a taxonomy of good and bad arguments, which is useful for classifying the arguments you consider

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Introduction

The choice of dissertation topic is crucial for research as it will facilitate the process and makes it an exciting and manageable process. Several dissertation ideas exist in philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, logic, aesthetics, deontology, absurdum, and existentialism. Philosophy dissertations can be based on either primary research or secondary research.

Primary data dissertations incorporate the collection and analysis of data obtained through questionnaires and surveys. On the other hand, secondary data dissertations make use of existing literature to test the research hypothesis . To help you get started with philosophy topic selection for your dissertation, a list is developed by our experts.

These philosophy dissertation topics have been developed by PhD qualified writers of our team , so you can trust to use these topics for drafting your dissertation.

You may also want to start your dissertation by requesting  a brief research proposal  from our writers on any of these topics, which includes an  introduction  to the topic,  research question ,  aim and objectives ,  literature review  along with the proposed  methodology  of research to be conducted.  Let us know  if you need any help in getting started.

Check our  dissertation examples  to get an idea of  how to structure your dissertation .

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Philosophy Dissertation Topics of Research

Topic 1: an examination of women's perspective on feminist philosophy..

Research Aim: This study aims to look into the importance of feminism in a philosophical context. It will also identify the factors that lead to postmodernism and liberal feminism from women’s perspectives and will also focus on the impact of feminist philosophy on the development of modern society.

Topic 2: Sociological Functionalism- Investigating the Development and Beliefs

Research Aim: This research study will focus on new types of functionalism and get a deeper understanding of inner and outer circumstances in which different approaches take place. This study will also investigate how the researchers use social theory to acquire a better understanding of the environment in which these concepts are used. It will also promote sociology through informing and inspiring practices and research.

Topic 3: Assessing the History and Development of Philosophical Work from the 15th to 21st Century.

Research Aim: This study aims to find the history and development of philosophical work from the 15th and 21st Centuries. It will examine the theoretical foundations of the practice, applications, and social consequences. This study will also focus on different factors of how philosophy has evolved in these centuries and what changes have occurred.

Topic 4: A Comprehensive View of Social Development of Loneliness.

Research Aim: This study will comprehend how various theoretical points of view are connected or linked r to loneliness. This study will also present an argument for an interpretative social point of view by dissembling the sense of loneliness into key components. It will also focus on the problems and different behaviours of people.

Topic 5: What does it mean to live in an Ideal Society- Discuss using Plato's Philosophies.

Research Aim: Plato is well known for his monologue known as the Republic; he was also the classical political philosopher whose views influenced future political thoughts. Plato’s ideal society was created during a time when Plato was exceedingly optimistic about human nature and its ability to absorb knowledge. This study will conduct a deep analysis of Plato’s ideologies and his views and their impact on the western political world.

More Philosophy Dissertation Research Topics

Topic 1: why we should stop capital punishment and adopt permanent solutions to help solve crimes..

Research Aim: This research aims to analyse the importance of rehabilitation and counseling of criminals to bring them back to their usual walks of life. The whole idea is to eliminate crime, and capital punishment does not provide solutions where a clean society can be developed.

Topic 2: Should people always obey the rules? A closer look at the line between breaking rules and rebellion.

Research Aim: Rules are developed to maintain a balance in society and ensure discipline, which helps an individual in every sphere of their lives. But specific rules are created only for serving a group and not for the whole society’s best interest. This research aims at finding pieces of evidence where rule-breaking is a rebellion and for the upliftment of humanity and not in personal interest.

Topic 3: Loneliness: Reconstructing its meaning

Research Aim: This research aims at finding the meaning of loneliness, what it is to feel lonely, why some people are reclusive, isolate themselves. Loneliness is not always related to sadness, and some people feel better in isolation due to their bitter experiences of life.

Topic 4: Understanding why religion is paramount above anything else for many people around the globe.

Research Aim: Religion forms the basis of life and way of living for many people around the globe. People often get confused with religion and spiritualism, and the grandeur associated with religion becomes more important. The lack of knowledge and education forces blind faith. This research aims to find the reason for dependency on religion and how it negatively affects human lives.

Topic 5: What is the best way to boost a person’s creativity?

Research Aim: This research aims at finding the best possible way to boost a person’s creativity. The most important way is to motivate, inspire, and support them in their process of exploring innovative ideas. Recognition of talent can be the most effective method, which the research will investigate.

Topic 6: Morality and religion: Why are they different, yet they talk about the same thing?

Research Aim: The fundamental essence of religion is compassion and empathy for humans and ensures morality and ethics as a way of life. This research emphasises the primary aim of a religion and how people are getting disoriented and making rituals of religion the prime concern.

Topic 7: Wealth: Is it possible to be rich without having a lot of money?

Research Aim: Wealth and money are co-related as lots of money gives the power to buy anything. But a wealth of human life lies in their moral values, love, affection, proper health and wellbeing, and money cannot accept them. This research topic will speak about becoming wealthy, even with limited monetary wealth.

Topic 8: How can the custom of dowry be eliminated from people’s minds?

Research Aim: Dowry is a social parasite, and it is now a punishable offence by the law. But rules alone cannot change society. The research aims at eradicating the practice of dowry from people’s minds in the light of education.

Topic 9: To love or to be loved: Which is more important?

Research Aim: Love is the feeling of intense desire or deep affection. The most beautiful feeling gives a sense of satisfaction and grows through exchange between two individuals. To love and be loved are two co-related aspects as human expects love in return. The research focuses on the more critical dilemma, being on the giving or receiving side of love.

Topic 10: Why social behaviour and ethics cannot be separated?

Research Aim: The research aims to evaluate the importance of ethics in social behaviour and why they cannot be separated. An ethical society is a proper place to thrive for every individual.

Topic 11: A more in-depth look at things that make human life meaningful.

Research Aim: Money, power does not always buy happiness. The research lays the foundation for the importance of care, compassion, empathy. Love and affection as the more essential aspects that make human life meaningful.

Topic 12: Is it possible to create an ideal society?

Research Aim: An ideal society is free from any crime and economic disparities where everyone is treated equally. This research will discuss whether a perfect community is attainable; it is practically possible or not.

Topic 13: A closer look at modern life values.

Research Aim: The research aims to focus on the change in values in modern times. The research’s primary purpose is to provide a comparative study of how modern people’s mindset has changed over time.

Topic 14: Euthanasia: Is it ethical?

Research Aim: A long time debate exists regarding the ethical side of euthanasia. Ending someone’s life can be considered unlawful as we do not have the right to end something we did not create. This research aims at providing evidence in favour of euthanasia and also the negative aspects.

Topic 15: What is the value of truth? Are there instances when lying is good?

Research Aim: The research aims to provide evidence where lying is not unethical. The study will give an example from Bhagwat Gita, where Lord Krishna lied to safeguard humanity.

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Introduction

The methodology introduction is a paragraph that describes both the design of the study and the organization of the chapter. This prepares the reader for what is to follow and provides a framework within which to incorporate the materials. 

This paragraph says to the reader, “This is the methodology chapter, this is how it is organized, and this is the type of design I used.” 

In this introduction, you can also state:  

The objectives of your research and/or 

The research question or hypothesis to be tested 

Research Philosophy

Carrying out your own research for your dissertation means that you are engaging in the creation of knowledge. Research philosophy is an aspect of this. It is belief about the way studies should be conducted, how data should be collected and how it is then analysed and used.  At its deepest level, it includes considerations of what is (ontology), like, is there an objective truth or is it everything subjective, and how to know (epistemology), like, can we know the truth, and how can we get to know it.

Writing about your research philosophy, therefore, involves reflecting on your assumptions and beliefs about data collection to develop, analyse, challenge and evaluate them.  

If you need to have a research philosophy section in your dissertation, the handout attached below provides some guidance.  

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Dissertations Completed for Doctor of Philosophy, 2023–2024

Below you will find the dissertation titles, departments, and advisers for 2023–2024 Ph.D. graduates, separated by graduation date. If you notice information that needs to be updated, please email Scott Behm at [email protected] . 

Mohammed Syed Ali “Knowledge and Conversion in the Making of Western History, a Philosophical Investigation.” History Prasenjit Duara, Advisor(s).

Jacqueline Mercier Allain ““Make Me Live Long Enough to See Such Things”: Citizenship, Labor, and Population Politics in the Nineteenth-Century French Caribbean.” History Laurent Dubois and Barry Gaspar, Advisor(s).

Chunjing Bao “The Mast Cell-Neuronal Axis in Anaphylaxis.” Pathology Soman Abraham, Advisor(s).

Alina Jade Barnett “Interpretable Machine Learning with Medical Applications.” Computer Science Cynthia Rudin, Advisor(s).

Lysle Thomas Boller “Essays on International Tax and Firm Behavior.” Economics Allan Collard-Wexler, Advisor(s).

Isabel Louise Bradley “Mapping Manioc: Grounded Relations in the Caribbean.” Romance Studies Laurent Dubois and Deborah Jenson, Advisor(s).

Samuel Mark Brotkin “Describing Working Alliance Longitudinally in a Peer Support Intervention for Adolescents and Young Adults with Chronic Illness.” Psychology and Neuroscience Melanie J. Bonner, Advisor(s).

David Anthony Buch “Bayesian Nonparametric Methods for Epidemiology and Clustering.” Statistical Science David Dunson, Advisor(s).

Gregory Patrick Burke “Information Intermediation in Opaque Markets: Evidence from Equity Crowdfunding Analyst Reports.” Business Administration William Mayew, Advisor(s).

Sasha Burwell “Synaptic Control of Dopamine as a Driver of Reward Learning.” Neurobiology Michael Tadross and Rich Mooney, Advisor(s).

Erin E. Campbell “The Influence of Early Sensory and Linguistic Experience on Lexical Development.” Psychology and Neuroscience Elika Bergelson, Advisor(s).

Shounak Chattopadhyay “Incorporating Scalability and Structural Constraints in Bayesian Modeling.” Statistical Science David Dunson, Advisor(s).

Ruoyu Chen “A Combined Experimental and Modeling Approach Unraveling the Mechanics Behind Drying-induced Fractures in Soils.” Civil and Environmental Engineering Manolis Veveakis, Advisor(s).

Jie Cheng “Structural Investigation of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Host Immune Response.” Biochemistry Pei Zhou, Advisor(s).

Brandie Quarles Chidyagwai “Demographic Consequences of Dispersal Through Space and Time.” Biology Kathleen Donohue, Advisor(s).

Colleen Skyler Cochrane “Structure-Activity Relationship (SAR) of Novel Antibiotics Targeting LpxH and LpxC in Lipid A Biosynthesis.” Chemistry Pei Zhou, Advisor(s).

Jessica Nicole Coleman “Development and Piloting of a Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Gynecologic Cancer Survivors Undergoing Pelvic Exams.” Psychology and Neuroscience Rebecca Shelby and Eve Puffer, Advisor(s).

James Avery Coppock “Development of Imaging-Based Models for Analyzing the Spatiotemporal Function of Intervertebral Discs.” Biomedical Engineering Louis DeFrate, Advisor(s).

Riley Joseph Deutsch “A Multiplexed, Multi-scale Optical Imaging Platform to Quantify Tumor Metabolic Heterogeneity.” Biomedical Engineering Nimmi Ramanujam, Advisor(s).

Pritam Dey “Some Advances in Statistical Modeling of Brain Structural Connectomes.” Statistical Science David Dunson, Advisor(s).

Gianluca Di Muro “Innovations in Decompression Sickness Prediction and Adaptive Ascent Algorithms.” Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Laurens Howle, Advisor(s).

Enmao Diao “Efficient and Collaborative Methods for Distributed Machine Learning.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Vahid Tarokh, Advisor(s).

Stephen Lee Downing “Abstract Music for an Imaginary Film: Nos. 1-9 for Two Pianos and Two Percussion, and Composing Memory: Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Unremembered.” Music John Supko, Advisor(s).

Rebecca Ellen Dudley “The Use of U.S. Diplomatic Foreign Policy for Conflict Resolution.” Political Science Kyle Beardsley, Advisor(s).

Aaron Christopher Ebert “The Second Sin: A Study of the Vice of Envy in the Thought of St. Augustine.” Religion J. Warren Smith, Advisor(s).

Amanda Fusa Ennis “I. Development of Sulfonyl Piperazine LpxH Inhibitors Against Multi-Drug Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria II. Exploration Towards New TRPM8 Agonists for Dry Eye Disease.” Chemistry Jiyong Hong, Advisor(s).

Savannah Ruth Erwin “Developing a Sustainable Model of Text-Delivered Peer Support for Undergraduate Mental Health.” Psychology and Neuroscience Nancy L. Zucker, Advisor(s).

Yu  Feng “Robust Information Storage and Consolidation in Attractor Neural Networks.” Physics Nicolas Brunel, Advisor(s).

August Hope Frechette “Pore-Scale Flow Mechanisms and the Hydrodynamic Porosity of Porous Media in Surface Water Treatment and Groundwater Remediation.” Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Nico Hotz and Zbigniew Kabala, Advisor(s).

Anna Louise Gilpin “Self-Healing Hyaluronic Acid as a Viscosupplement and Biomolecule Carrier to Mitigate Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis.” Biomedical Engineering Shyni Varghese, Advisor(s).

Nikos Gkiokas “The Afterlives of Archaic Greek Kouroi: An Archaeology of a Greek Sculptural Type.” Art, Art History, and Visual Studies Sheila Dillon, Advisor(s).

Daniela Goya Tocchetto “Racial Hierarchy-based Discrimination in a Multiracial Power Structure.” Business Administration Aaron Kay, Advisor(s).

Jesse Nelson Granger “Behavioral and Geophysical Factors Influencing Success in Long Distance Navigation.” Biology Sonke Johnsen, Advisor(s).

Catherine Aspden Grodensky “A Study of Plea Bargaining, Political Power, and Case Outcomes in Local Criminal Courts.” Public Policy Kristin Goss, Advisor(s).

Xiaoshu Gui “Compliance Under Pressure: Strategic Bureaucratic Control and Policy Implementation in China.” Political Science Melanie Manion, Advisor(s).

Kristen Elizabeth Hagan “Advancing Compact, Multiplexed, and Wavefront-Controlled Designs for Coherent Optical Systems.” Biomedical Engineering Joseph Izatt, Advisor(s).

Xu Han “Electrical and Optical Control of Bacterial Membrane Potential and Growth.” Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Christine Payne, Advisor(s).

Aili Hao “Structural Studies of Bacterial Cell Wall Synthesis and Remodeling.” Biochemistry Seok-Yong Lee, Advisor(s).

Kendrick Dewayne Hardison “Essays on the Application of Game Theory in International Relations and Law.” Political Science Bahar Leventoglu, Advisor(s).

Daniel Clark Hlavaty “Exploring the Canonical and Non-Canonical Functions of Desmosomes.” Cell Biology Terry Lechler, Advisor(s).

Karn Imwattana “Introgression, Population Structure, and Systematics of the Sphagnum capillifolium Complex.” Biology A. Jonathan Shaw, Advisor(s).

Lindsay Taylor Ives “Understanding Psychosocial Treatment Non-Response in Children with Functional Abdominal Pain.” Psychology and Neuroscience Nancy L. Zucker, Advisor(s).

Jayanth Jawahar “Genetic Analysis of Fitness Determinants in Phocaeicola vulgatus.” Molecular Genetics and Microbiology John Rawls, Advisor(s).

Nicholas David Jones “Revolution and the City: Marxist Anthropologies in the Interwar Realist Novel.” Carolina Duke Program in German Studies Richard Langston, Advisor(s).

Alexander Edward Karsten “The Theognidea in Reperformance: A Rhetorical Rereading.” Classical Studies José González, Advisor(s).

Cecelia Kelly “Interactions Between the Microbiota and Host Transcription Factor HNF4A in the Intestinal Epithelium Regulate Intestinal Inflammation Throughout the Lifespan.” Molecular Genetics and Microbiology John Rawls, Advisor(s).

Christopher Lewis Kilner “The Impacts of Disruptive Environmental Change on Vital Microbial Ecosystems.” Ecology Jean Gibert, Advisor(s).

Dillon Elizabeth King “Sex Differences in Mitochondrial Function and Susceptibility: Mechanisms of Establishment and Evolutionary Origins.” Environment Joel Meyer and Susan Murphy, Advisor(s).

Sinja Küppers “Marginalized Voices and Nontraditional Pathways in Higher Education in the Late Roman Empire.” Classical Studies William Johnson, Advisor(s).

Oluwadamilola Oluwatoyin Lawal “Uncovering the Role of Astrocyte-Secreted Thrombospondins and Their Neuronal Receptor α2δ-1 in Goal-Directed Actions.” Neurobiology Cagla Eroglu, Advisor(s).

Gabriella Anne Levy “Variation in Individuals' Responses to Violence Against Civilians.” Political Science Kyle Beardsley and Livia Schubiger, Advisor(s).

Undraa Lhamsuren “The Colors of My Skin. The Making of Black German Identity.” Carolina Duke Program in German Studies Priscilla Layne, Advisor(s).

Jennifer Ying Li “Synaptic Mechanisms Underlying Sensory Processing in Visual Cortex.” Neurobiology Lindsey Glickfeld, Advisor(s).

Mochi Liao “Toward Optimal Rainfall – Hydrologic Correction of Precipitation to Close the Water Budget in Headwater Basins.” Civil and Environmental Engineering Ana Barros, Advisor(s).

Chen-An Lin “Wait-Time Based Pricing for Queueing Systems: Optimality, Mechanism Design, and Strategic Delay.” Business Administration Kevin Shang and Peng Sun, Advisor(s).

Zoe Nathania Loh “Nuclear PTEN Regulates Thymidylate Biosynthesis and Cellular Sensitivity to Antifolate Treatment.” Pathology Ming Chen, Advisor(s).

Amanda Caroline Lohmann “Ecosystem Impacts of Variable Recruitment in Antarctic Krill Investigated with Long-term Monitoring and Archived ADCP Backscatter Data.” Ecology Douglas Nowacek, Advisor(s).

Vladimir Lukin “Soviet Computers, Communist Robots: Cultural Epistemologies of Digital Media.” Literature Mark Hansen, Advisor(s).

Yu Ma “Essays on Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations.” Environmental Policy Christopher Timmins, Advisor(s).

Marayna Elisabeth Banea Martinez “Three Papers on Public Schools and Political Participation Among Americans of Color.” Public Policy Nicholas Carnes and D. Sunshine Hillygus, Advisor(s).

Kaitlin Kiernan McConnell “Metabolic Mechanisms of Nutritionally Regulated Hormone Signaling on T Helper Cell Function.” Immunology Nancie J. MacIver, Advisor(s).

Ariana Mihai “E Protein Regulation of the T Cell Receptor Alpha – T Cell Receptor Delta Locus.” Immunology Michael Krangel, Advisor(s).

Charles Eli Nathan “The Good Old Days: The Concept of the Golden Age in Greek Political Thought.” Political Science Michael Gillespie, Advisor(s).

Mark William Nemecek “Transfer Learning in Value-based Methods with Successor Features.” Computer Science Ronald Parr, Advisor(s).

Hunter Newman “Adenosine Delivery to Mitigate Bone Disorders.” Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Shyni Varghese, Advisor(s).

Thai Son Nguyen “Effective Field Theory Studies of Few-nucleon Systems: Fundamental Symmetry Violation, Electromagnetic Interactions, and Direct Detection of Dark Matter.” Physics Roxanne Springer, Advisor(s).

Songkhun Nillasithanukroh “The Demand for Businessperson Politicians: How Do Businesspeople Win Electoral Nominations and Votes?.” Political Science Edmund Malesky, Advisor(s).

Claire Elaine Otero “The Role of Maternal Antibodies in Prevention of Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection.” Pathology Sallie Permar and Herman Staats, Advisor(s).

Caitlin Elizabeth Gorse Paisley “Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Retinal Astrocyte Death During Development.” Neurobiology Jeremy Kay, Advisor(s).

Kay Palopoli-Trojani “Quantifying Biomarkers for Brain Disease State Monitoring and Intervention.” Biomedical Engineering Warren Grill, Advisor(s).

Divya Pande “Advanced Metamaterials for Beamforming and Physical Layer Processing.” Electrical and Computer Engineering David Smith, Advisor(s).

Ekta Jayantilal Patel “Managing (Unconventional) Water: Essays on Expert Knowledge, Media Framings, and Stakeholder Debates.” Environmental Policy Erika Weinthal, Advisor(s).

Shweta Jayant Patwa “Synthesizing Linked Data and Detecting Per-Query Gaps Under Differential Privacy.” Computer Science Ashwin Machanavajjhala, Advisor(s).

Angela Marie Pisoni “Evaluating State-Based Network Dynamics in Anhedonia.” Psychology and Neuroscience Moira J. Smoski, Advisor(s).

Karsten Mikhail Poulsen “Characterizing and Predicting the Interaction of Proteins with Nanoparticles.” Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Christine Payne, Advisor(s).

Vijyendra Ramesh “Postmitotic Dynamics in Chromatin Modification and Regulatory Topology Underlie Cerebellar Granule Maturation.” Molecular Cancer Biology Anne West, Advisor(s).

Yinhao Ren “Read Like a Radiologist: Cancer Detection Using Multi-view Correspondence in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis.” Biomedical Engineering Joseph Lo, Advisor(s).

Griffin Steven Riddler “Rulers and Producers: How State Interventions Shape the Political Economy of Production.” Political Science Melanie Manion and Edmund Malesky, Advisor(s).

Daniel L. Rodriguez “A Multilevel High-throughput Sequencing Approach for Identifying Microbial Community Interactions and Informing Precision Microbiome Engineering.” Biomedical Engineering Claudia Gunsch, Advisor(s).

Amanda Noelle Rossillo “A 3D Geometric Morphometric Investigation of Relatedness in the Modern Human, Chimpanzee, and Homo naledi Postcranial Skeleton.” Evolutionary Anthropology Steven Churchill, Advisor(s).

Viola Luolan Rothschild “Refocusing on Repression: Institutions of Everyday Social Control in China.” Political Science Melanie Manion, Advisor(s).

Sayan  Roychowdhury “Investigating the Influence of Red Blood Cell Interactions on Large-Scale Cancer Cell Transport: Bridging the Gap through Advances in Computational Techniques.” Biomedical Engineering Amanda Randles, Advisor(s).

Catherine Lane Scher “The Effects of Global Change on Avian Biodiversity.” Ecology James Clark, Advisor(s).

Elizabeth Brooke Schrader Polczer ““Those Who Love Me Will Keep My Word”: Narrative Variants in New Testament Gospel Stories.” Religion Jennifer Knust, Advisor(s).

Stephanie Alexandra Pahl Schuette “Identifying Modifiable Factors Associated with Psychological Health in Women Experiencing Infertility.” Psychology and Neuroscience Moira J. Smoski, Advisor(s).

Kavinayan Pillaiar Sivakumar “Adaptive Planning in Changing Policies and Environments.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Michael Zavlanos, Advisor(s).

Nathan L. Smith “The Structure of Aesthetic Experience.” Literature Fredric Jameson, Advisor(s).

Nicholas Mark Smolenski “Sounding Reconstruction at St Paul's Cathedral, 1660–1714.” Music Roseen Giles, Advisor(s).

Xirui Song “RNA Aptamers that Internalize into Cancer Cells for Drug Delivery.” Pharmacology and Cancer Biology Bruce Sullenger, Advisor(s).

Brian Daniel Spisiak “Isaiah Berlin's Liberal Humanism.” Political Science Michael Gillespie, Advisor(s).

Lyla June Stanland “EBV-Associated Gastric Cancer: From Initial Infection to Unique Therapeutic Approaches.” Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Micah Luftig, Advisor(s).

Alexander John Steiger “Algorithms for Rectangular Robot Motion Planning.” Computer Science Pankaj Agarwal, Advisor(s).

Tao Tang “Three Essays of Bayesian Inference on Dynamical System, Continuous Time Markov Chain, and Low Dimensional Structure.” Mathematics David Dunson, Advisor(s).

Yuqi Tang “Multi-spectral Deep Tissue Quantitative Photoacoustic Imaging.” Biomedical Engineering Junjie Yao, Advisor(s).

Erin C. Taylor “Algorithms for Clustering, Partitioning, and Planning.” Computer Science Pankaj Agarwal, Advisor(s).

Audrey Nicole Thellman “Seasons in the Stream: River Ecosystem Phenology in a Changing Climate.” Ecology Emily Bernhardt, Advisor(s).

Priscilla Teresa Torres “Community Dispute Resolution and International Peacebuilding: Competitors or Complementary Actors? Evidence from Liberia.” Political Science Kyle Beardsley, Advisor(s).

Austin Jacob Wadle “Microbe-Mineral Interactions: Mercury Homogenization, Bacterial Colloid Surface Acidity, and Protocol Transfeminism..” Civil and Environmental Engineering Heileen Hsu-Kim, Advisor(s).

Chenghong Wang “Encrypted Data Management Systems with Tunable Privacy.” Computer Science Ashwin Machanavajjhala and Kartik Nayak, Advisor(s).

Rui Wang “Efficient Low-Resource Training with Pre-Trained Deep Neural Networks.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Ricardo Henao, Advisor(s).

Tianlin Wang “Structure and Electronic Properties of Quaternary Chalcogenide Semiconductors from First Principles.” Materials Science and Engineering Volker Blum, Advisor(s).

Pei-Yu Wei “Strategic Third-Party Actors in Economic Sanctions.” Political Science David Siegel, Advisor(s).

Janai R. Williams-Doria “The Neuroprotective Effects of Exercise Against Menopause Induced Alterations in Alzheimer’s Disease Neuropathogenesis.” Psychology and Neuroscience Christina Williams and Staci Bilbo, Advisor(s).

Nathaniel Curran Wilson “Plasmonics for On-Chip Photodetectors and Light Sources.” Physics Maiken Mikkelsen, Advisor(s).

Dana Louise Wright “Insights Into the Migratory Patterns and Seasonal Distribution of One of the World’s Rarest Whales, the North Pacific Right Whale.” Marine Science and Conservation Andrew Read, Advisor(s).

Shiqi Xu “Computational Bio-Optical Imaging with Novel Sensor Arrays.” Biomedical Engineering Roarke Horstmeyer, Advisor(s).

Tian Yang “Reprogramming Enzyme Specificity through Multi-substrate Co-evolution.” Biomedical Engineering Michael Lynch, Advisor(s).

Xiaoxuan Yang “Improving the Efficiency and Robustness of In-Memory Computing in Emerging Technologies.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Hai Li and Yiran Chen, Advisor(s).

Yunqi Yang “Programmable Synthesis and Supramolecular Self-assembly of Stable DNA Nanoparticles.” Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Stefan Zauscher, Advisor(s).

Boyang Zhang “Control through Constraint.” Civil and Environmental Engineering Henri Gavin, Advisor(s).

Chen Zhang “Improved Localization Precision in 3D Single-Particle Localization Microscopy via Off-Center Sampling and Its Applications in Living Systems.” Chemistry Kevin Welsher, Advisor(s).

Haoran Zhang “Development of Novel Optical Instrumentations and Algorithms for Early Cancer Detection.” Biomedical Engineering Adam Wax, Advisor(s).

Qiru Zhang “Municipal Bond Credit Rating Access and Retail Investors’ Transaction Costs.” Business Administration Bill Mayew and Kathrine Schipper, Advisor(s).

Xiao Zhang “Proactive and Passive Performance Optimization of IP Anycast.” Computer Science Bruce Maggs and Xiaowei Yang, Advisor(s).

Xiaolong Zhang “Understanding and Predicting the Dynamics of Scalar Turbulence Using Multiscale Analysis, Computational Simulations, and Stochastic Models.” Civil and Environmental Engineering Andrew Bragg, Advisor(s).

Zhendian Zhang “Charge Transfer and Chiral Imprinting on Nanoparticles.” Chemistry David Beratan, Advisor(s).

Mingyuan Zheng “Self-assembly of Frustrated and Disordered Systems --  Equilibrium Microphases and Out-of-Equilibrium Active Matter.” Chemistry Patrick Charbonneau, Advisor(s).

Alessandro Zito “Ecological Modeling via Bayesian Nonparametric Species Sampling Priors.” Statistical Science David Dunson, Advisor(s).

Taylor Jane Abele “Apoptotic Signaling Clears Engineered Salmonella in an Organ-Specific Manner.” Immunology Edward Miao, Advisor(s).

Daniel Roberto Adrianzen Alvarez “Mathematical Modeling of Topical Drug Delivery in Women’s Health.” Biomedical Engineering David Katz, Advisor(s).

Tanouir Aloui “Mass Spectrometry Technologies for Spaceflight Applications.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Jeffrey T. Glass and Jason J. Amsden, Advisor(s).

Alexa Rae Anderson “Engineering the Microstructure and Spatial Bioactivity of Granular Biomaterials to Guide Vascular Patterning.” Biomedical Engineering Tatiana Segura, Advisor(s).

Dimitra Apostolidou “Mechanical and Thermal Stability of Tandem Repeats of Highly-Bioluminescent Protein NanoLuc.” Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Piotr Marszalek, Advisor(s).

Casey Michelle Baker “Neural Network Approaches for Cortical Circuit Dissection and Calcium Imaging Data Analysis.” Biomedical Engineering Yiyang Gong, Advisor(s).

Clayton James Becker “JNK Signaling Mediates Glial Proliferation in the Regenerating Zebrafish Spinal Cord.” Cell Biology Kenneth Poss, Advisor(s).

Julia Anastasia Bingham “Knowledge and Power through Pluralisms and Relationality in the Governance of Salmon on the West Coast of Vancouver Island.” Marine Science and Conservation Grant Murray, Advisor(s).

Baran Bodur “Measurement of Atmospheric Flux-Weighted Charged-Current νₑ - ¹⁶O Cross Section with the Super-Kamiokande Experiment.” Physics Kate Scholberg, Advisor(s).

Mary Rose Branch “Defining MAP4K3-mediated Signaling Pathways that Regulate mTORC1 Activation and Beyond.” Neurobiology Albert La Spada, Advisor(s).

Zhengguo Cai “Discovery of RNA-Targeted Small Molecules by Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) Study and Machine Learning.” Chemistry Amanda Hargrove, Advisor(s).

Danwei Cai “Speaker Representation Learning under Self-supervised and Knowledge Transfer Setting.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Ming Li and Xin Li, Advisor(s).

Zexin Cai “Advancing Deep-Generated Speech and Defending against Its Misuse.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Ming Li and Xin Li, Advisor(s).

Shiwei Cao “Design and Inference Methods for Randomized Clinical Trials.” Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Sin-Ho Jung, Advisor(s).

Boning Chen “Molecular Mechanisms of Replication-Coupled Chromatin Assembly and Maturation.” Molecular Cancer Biology David MacAlpine, Advisor(s).

Ouyang Chen “Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of miRNA-induced Pain and Itch.” Cell Biology Ru-Rong Ji, Advisor(s).

Lucy  Chikwetu “Toward Real-time, High-performance, and Generalizable Eating Episode Detection and Postprandial Carbohydrate Content Classification Using Non-invasive Wearables.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Rabih Younes, Advisor(s).

Danielle Nicole Clark “The Role of IFN-γ and STAT1 Signaling in Neuronal Excitability and Behavior.” Immunology Anthony Filiano and Mari Shinohara, Advisor(s).

Kip D. Coonley “Dynamics of Electrostatic Systems for Energy Conversion Applications.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Brian Mann, Advisor(s).

Joshua Alexander Crittenden “Joint Bacterial-Fungal Consortia for the In-Situ Bioremediation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Estuarine Sediments.” Civil and Environmental Engineering Claudia Gunsch, Advisor(s).

Elizabeth Jean Curvino “Engaging Natural Antibody Responses with Nanomaterials for the Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease.” Biomedical Engineering Joel Collier, Advisor(s).

Kaitlyn Camilla Daly “Refining Messaging Strategies to Increase Efficacy of Healthy Eating Interventions Among U.S. Black Christians.” Nursing Isaac Lipkus and Tolu Oyesanya, Advisor(s).

Marcello Thomas DeLuca “Modeling DNA Origami Self Assembly and Organization at Long Length and Time Scales.” Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Gaurav Arya, Advisor(s).

Erin Elizabeth Denison “Essays on the Economics of Education.” Economics Peter Arcidiacono, Advisor(s).

Europe Bailey DiCillo “Patterns of Autoantibody Expression in Multiple Sclerosis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Revealed Through the Development of an Autoantigen Discovery Technology.” Immunology David Pisetsky, Advisor(s).

Bernardo Alessandro Dionisi “Essays on the Direction of Technical Change.” Business Administration Ashish Arora, Advisor(s).

Emma Leigh Dolan “Breast Cancer Cells Exhibit a Non-Linear Proliferative Dose Response to Progestins.” Pharmacology and Cancer Biology Donald McDonnell and Susan Murphy, Advisor(s).

Maya Nicole Evanitsky “Spatiotemporal Dynamics in Zebrafish Skin Development.” Genetics and Genomics Stefano Di Talia, Advisor(s).

Brooks Jeffrey Frederickson “Quilt for Yarn/Wire and Instrumental Objects, a Three-Episode Podcast Series About the Creative Practice of Matmos.” Music John Supko, Advisor(s).

Qi Gao “Develop Novel Statistical and Computational Methods for Omics Data Analysis.” Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Jichun Xie, Advisor(s).

Jiannan Gao “Nonlinear Light-Matter Interactions Enabled by Subwavelength Nanostructures.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Natalia Litchinitser, Advisor(s).

Nina Marie Geronimo Garcia “Understanding the Molecular Mechanisms that Lead to Tumor Recurrence and Acquired Therapy Resistance in Cancer.” Pharmacology and Cancer Biology James Alvarez and David MacAlpine, Advisor(s).

Behzad Golshaei “Finite Element Modeling of Biological Systems.” Biomedical Engineering Christoph Schmidt and Daniel Kiehart, Advisor(s).

Cait Elizabeth Hamele Greene “Single-Cell Technologies and Single-Cycle Viruses as Tools to Understand and Prevent Severe Influenza Disease.” Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Nicholas Heaton, Advisor(s).

Nathan Guerin “New Computational Methods to Predict Cancer Resistance Mutations and Design D-Peptide Therapeutics.” Computer Science Bruce Donald, Advisor(s).

Rylee Kathryn Hackley “Comparative Analysis of Transcriptional Response to Stress and Carbohydrate Availability in Haloarchaea.” Genetics and Genomics Amy Schmid and Gregory Wray, Advisor(s).

Richard Arlen Hall “Feasibility and Stability Results for Systems with Externally Triggered Switching.” Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Leila J. Bridgeman, Advisor(s).

Edward Thor Hanson “Dynamic Deep Learning Acceleration with Co-Designed Hardware Architecture.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Yiran Chen, Advisor(s).

Ali Hasan “Representation Learning for High Dimensional Stochastic Processes and Rare Events.” Biomedical Engineering Sina Farsiu and Vahid Tarokh, Advisor(s).

Amanda Taylor Heimbrook “Optimizing Surface Topographies for 3D Printed Metallic Orthopedic Implants.” Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Kenneth Gall, Advisor(s).

Bonnie Marie Jones Hepler “Exploring Birthing Parent Needs During the Early Postpartum Period with Emphasis on Sleep and Interactions between Healthcare Team Members, Infants and Birthing Parents.” Nursing Sharron Docherty, Advisor(s).

Minghao Hu “Sampling Strategies and Neural Processing for Array Cameras.” Electrical and Computer Engineering David Brady and Michael Gehm, Advisor(s).

Qinwen Huang “Deep Learning Algorithms for Automating and Accelerating the Cryo-EM Data Processing Pipeline.” Computer Science Alberto Bartesaghi, Advisor(s).

Ouwen Huang “Deep Learning Image Enhancement for Point of Care Ultrasound.” Biomedical Engineering Mark Palmeri, Advisor(s).

Anjing Huang “Unraveling In-Cloud Lightning Development Through Ground-Based and Space-Borne Observations.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Steven Cummer, Advisor(s).

Ellery Jensen Jones “Atherosclerotic Risk of Branched Chain Amino Acids in a Tissue Engineered Blood Vessel Model.” Biomedical Engineering George Truskey, Advisor(s).

Kamillah Jena Kassam “Investigating the Structure:Dynamics:Function Relationship of the MALAT1 Triple Helix.” Chemistry Amanda Hargrove, Advisor(s).

Aaron Michael Keeler “Biochemical Characterization of an Atypical Polyketide Synthase (PKS) from the Apicomplexan Parasite Toxoplasma gondii.” Chemistry Emily Derbyshire, Advisor(s).

David Stanley Kinnamon “A Vertically Oriented Passive Microfluidic Device for Automated Point-Of-Care Testing Directly from Complex Samples.” Biomedical Engineering Ashutosh Chilkoti, Advisor(s).

JohnCarlo Louis Kristofich “Redefining Criteria for RNA-Binding Activity Through Signal-to-Noise (S:N)-Based Analysis of RNA-Bound Proteomes.” Cell Biology Christopher Nicchitta, Advisor(s).

Evan Michael Kurt “Hydrogel-Mediated Gene Delivery from Granular Scaffolds for Applications in Biologics Manufacturing and Regenerative Medicine.” Biomedical Engineering Tatiana Segura, Advisor(s).

Brandon Minh Lê “The Omic Modifiers of Morbidity and Mortality in Sickle Cell Disease.” Genetics and Genomics Allison Ashley-Koch, Advisor(s).

Yaosi Liang “Identification the Role of BCAT1 and SLC6A14/15 in Cellular Senescence and Aging.” Pharmacology and Cancer Biology Xiao-Fan Wang, Advisor(s).

Anqi Lin “Data-Driven Study of Polymer-Based Nanocomposites (PNC) – FAIR Online Data Resource Development and ML-Facilitated Material Design.” Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science L. Catherine Brinson, Advisor(s).

Ian Charles Lock “Identifying Novel Mechanisms of Tp53-Mediated Tumor Suppression.” Molecular Cancer Biology David G. Kirsch and Chang-Lung Lee, Advisor(s).

Helena Rochelle Ma “Quantitative Analysis of the Population Dynamics of Antibiotic Responses.” Biomedical Engineering Lingchong You, Advisor(s).

Guangshen Ma “3D Tissue Modelling: Laser-based Multi-modal Surface Reconstruction, Crater Shape Prediction and Pathological Mapping in Robotic Surgery.” Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Patrick Codd, Advisor(s).

André Macieira Braga Costa “Towards Accurate and Robust Modeling of Fluid-Driven Fracture.” Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science John Dolbow, Advisor(s).

Juilee Nitin Malavade “Elucidation of the Role of the Vinculin-Actin Catch Bond in Fibroblast-Mechanical Microenvironment Feedback.” Biomedical Engineering Brenton Hoffman, Advisor(s).

Emily Kathleen Maloney “Three Papers on the Relationship Between Identity and Status Processes: Occupational Status, Occupational Identity and Emotion, and the Transgender Identity.” Sociology Lynn Smith-Lovin, Advisor(s).

Riley Joseph Mangan “Divergence, Mutation, Function, Selection: The Evolution of the Human Genome.” Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Craig B. Lowe, Advisor(s).

Katherine Jane McAuliffe “Investigations of Tetrathiomolybdate for Antifungal Applications.” Chemistry Katherine Franz, Advisor(s).

Keeran Robert Murphy “Labor, Idleness, and Colonial Modern Fiction: Reading Claude McKay, Yi Sang, and Samuel Beckett in Relation.” English Aarthi Vadde and Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Advisor(s).

Muhammad Abdullah Naeem “From Spectral Theorem to Spectral Statistics of Large Random Matrices with Spatio-Temporal Dependencies.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Miroslav Pajic, Advisor(s).

Everette Snyder Newton “Harnessing Multi-Domain and Multi-Disciplinary Robotics Methods to Strengthen Scientific Research and Inform Policy and Management.” Marine Science and Conservation David Johnston, Advisor(s).

Yuting Ng “Modeling Archimedean, Extreme-Value and Archimax Copulas with Neural Networks.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Vahid Tarokh, Advisor(s).

Phuc Hong Nguyen “Advances in Bayesian Hierarchical Models for Complex Health Data.” Statistical Science Amy Herring, Advisor(s).

Pablo  Ortiz Escovar “Robotically Aligned and Automatically Controlled Systems for Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging.” Biomedical Engineering Joseph Izatt, Advisor(s).

Utsav Mukesh Patel “Search for Light Fermiophobic Charged Higgs Bosons From Proton-Proton Collisions at √s = 13 TeV Using the ATLAS Detector.” Physics Mark Kruse, Advisor(s).

Xixi Qin “Impact of Dynamics and Disorder on Structure and Electronic Levels of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites.” Materials Science and Engineering Volker Blum, Advisor(s).

Swarna Kamlam Ravindran “Leveraging Data Augmentation in Limited-Label Scenarios for Improved Generalization.” Computer Science Carlo Tomasi, Advisor(s).

Martin Daniel Requena “Aptamers as Reversible Sorting Ligands in Dual FACS and MACS: Antisense and Nuclease-Mediated Approaches.” Genetics and Genomics Bruce Sullenger, Advisor(s).

Angela Marie Rivera “Developing Novel Antifungal Compounds for Use as Single-Agent and in Multi-Drug Combination Therapies for Treating Invasive Fungal Infections.” Pharmacology and Cancer Biology Joseph Heitman, Advisor(s).

Corrina Ghe Lou Lanore Robertson “Mating and Marital Fidelity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.” Pharmacology and Cancer Biology Daniel Lew, Advisor(s).

Amy Elizabeth Stewart “Investigating Mechanisms of Mitochondrial Complex II Dependence in Cancer.” Molecular Cancer Biology Kris Wood, Advisor(s).

Nicholas Alexander Strash “Roles of MAPK Signaling Pathway in Cardiomyocyte Proliferation and Function in Engineered Cardiac Tissues.” Cell Biology Nenad Bursac, Advisor(s).

Joshua R. Strayhorn “Somewhere to Lay My Head: Black Mobility, Migration, and Landownership in Eastern North Carolina, 1861-1900.” History Adriane Lentz-Smith, Advisor(s).

Michael A Sun “Developing Strategies to Target Glioblastoma Stemness and Immunosuppression.” Pathology Yiping He, Advisor(s).

Cole D. Swanson “Material Ends: Hauntology, Anachrony, and Traces of the Analog in Digital Cinema.” Music Jacqueline Waeber, Advisor(s).

Margaret Elizabeth Swift “The Impacts of Climate Change and Veterinary Fencing on Savanna Ungulate Populations, Communities, and Behaviors.” Environment James S. Clark and Susan C. Alberts, Advisor(s).

Christabel Xin Tan “Adhesion-Mediated Mechanisms Underlying Cortical Astrocyte Development.” Cell Biology Çağla Eroğlu, Advisor(s).

Khanh My Vien “Conserved Atypical Cadherin, Fat2, Regulates Axon Terminal Organization in the Developing Drosophila Olfactory Sensory Neurons.” Biology Pelin Volkan, Advisor(s).

Chunxi Wang “Control and Optimization of Immune Responses Induced by Nucleic Acid Vaccines.” Biomedical Engineering Fan Yuan, Advisor(s).

Weiqing Wang “Speaker Diarization with Deep Learning: Refinement, Online Extension and ASR Integration.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Ming Li and Xin Li, Advisor(s).

Tara Jean Weese “Conceptions of Victimhood: Legal, Political, and Psychological Dimensions.” Philosophy Gopal Sreenivasan and Wayne Norman, Advisor(s).

Sebastian Allen Wellford “Immune Barriers in the Olfactory Mucosa.” Immunology Ashley Moseman, Advisor(s).

Samantha Jo Wilkison “Defining the Local Landscape of Retinal Ganglion Cell Axons.” Pharmacology and Cancer Biology Vadim Arshavsky, Advisor(s).

Katherine Arceneaux Willard “Viral and Host Factors Drive Spontaneous Reactivation of Type 1 Epstein Barr Virus.” Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Micah Luftig, Advisor(s).

Keru Wu “Advances in Log-concave Sampling and Domain Adaptation.” Statistical Science Yuansi Chen, Advisor(s).

Soohyun Yoon “Chinese Women Artists and New Manifestations of Guanyin, 1550–1750.” Art, Art History, and Visual Studies Stanley Abe, Advisor(s).

Shuai Yuan “Assisting Unsupervised Optical Flow Estimation with External Information.” Computer Science Carlo Tomasi, Advisor(s).

Mojtaba Zarei “Task-Targeted Pre and Post-acquisition Methodologies for Optimal Conditioning and Interpretation of Medical Images Using Virtual Imaging Trial.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Ehsan Samei and Joseph Lo, Advisor(s).

Buang Zhang “Resonant Infrared Matrix-Assisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation: Advancing Methodology and Elucidating Mechanisms for Precise Control of Film Morphology and Composition.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Adrienne Stiff-Roberts, Advisor(s).

Hao Zhang “Stochastic Modeling of Parametric and Model-Form Uncertainties in Computational Mechanics: Applications to Multiscale and Multimodel Predictive Frameworks.” Civil and Environmental Engineering Johann Guilleminot, Advisor(s).

Yue Zhou “Understanding Photo-physical Properties of Inorganic Pigments Using Pump-probe Microscopy.” Chemistry Warren Warren, Advisor(s).

Hanjing Zhu “Gradient Descent Methods in Modern Machine Learning Problems: Provable Guarantees.” Business Administration Jiaming Xu, Advisor(s).

Haodong Zhu “Acoustic-Based Automated Manipulation of Particles for Biological Applications.” Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Tony Jun Huang, Advisor(s).

Anthony James Alers “Neural Basis of Visuomotor Learning in the Frontal Eye Field: An Integrated Computational and Neurophysiological Approach.” Biomedical Engineering Marc Sommer, Advisor(s).

Saketh Aleti “Essays on High-Frequency Factors.” Economics Tim Bollerslev, Advisor(s).

Jeffrey Richard Allen “NLP7 PB1 Domain Interactions and Condensation Regulate the Plant Nitrogen Response.” Biology Lucia Strader, Advisor(s).

Ayoub Amil “Algorithms for Online Marketplaces: New Approaches to Order Fulfillment and Recommendation Systems.” Business Administration Ali Makhdoumi and Yehua Wei, Advisor(s).

Dilara Neslihan Anbarci “Rediscovering the Rete Ovarii: the Development, Role, and Function of a Secreting Auxiliary Structure to the Ovary.” Cell Biology Blanche Capel, Advisor(s).

Shreya Arya “Geometry of Stratified Spaces for the Analysis of Complex Data.” Mathematics Sayan Mukherjee and Ezra Miller, Advisor(s).

Morgan Alexander Bailey “Comparative Analysis of Stability-Based Profiling Techniques and Their Application to the Characterization of Drug Targets and Disease Phenotypes.” Chemistry Michael Fitzgerald, Advisor(s).

Melissa Rachael Baroff “Rereading Octavia and Poppaea: Unraveling the Literary Afterlives of Nero’s Wives.” Classical Studies Lauren Ginsberg, Advisor(s).

John William Barry “Essays in Corporate Finance and Governance.” Business Administration John Graham, Advisor(s).

Mason Daniel Barto “Negotiating Subjectivity: Gender, Communication, and Narrative telos in the Odyssey.” Classical Studies Micaela Janan, Advisor(s).

Christopher Fouad Bassil “Mechanistic Dissection of a Collateral Sensitivity to Drug Resistance in EGFR-Mutant Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.” Molecular Cancer Biology Kris C. Wood, Advisor(s).

Xinyue Bei “Essays on Inference in Non-standard Situations.” Economics Adam Rosen, Advisor(s).

Elizabeth Louise Bersson “Methodological Advances for Multi-group Data.” Statistical Science Peter Hoff, Advisor(s).

Rohan Bhattacharya “Engineering Pluripotent Stem Cells to Uncover the Mechanisms of Human Kidney Diseases.” Biomedical Engineering Musah Samira, Advisor(s).

Joel Henry Bierman “Improving the Qubit-Efficiency of Quantum Algorithms for the Electronic Structure Problem Using Orbital Optimization.” Physics Jianfeng Lu, Advisor(s).

Lexi Rose Bounds “Development of CRISPR-Based Screening Methods to Identify Cis-Regulatory Elements that Control Complex Cellular Phenotypes.” Biomedical Engineering Charles Gersbach, Advisor(s).

Alper Kamil Bozkurt “Toward Assured Autonomy with Model-Free Reinforcement Learning.” Computer Science Miroslav Pajic, Advisor(s).

Sophia Ann Campione “Understanding Systems-Level Oscillations: Comparative and Network Analysis of Dynamic Phenotypes.” Genetics and Genomics Steven Haase and Amy Schmid, Advisor(s).

Nicole Renee' Caviness-Ashe “Exploring Racial Disparities in Cancer Care Among Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia: The Double-Edged Sword.” Nursing Nancy Crego, Advisor(s).

Christian Gonzalo Cerda-Smith “Integrative PTEN Enhancer Discovery Reveals a New Model of Enhancer Organization.” Molecular Cancer Biology Kris C. Wood, Advisor(s).

Maya Parvathi Chandrasekaran “Energy Access, Time Use, and Women’s Empowerment in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.” Environmental Policy Marc Jeuland and Subhrendu Pattanayak, Advisor(s).

Yang Chen “Exploring Non-Visual Cues-Driven Spatial Learning in Drosophila.” Biology Chung-Hui Yang and Pelin Volkan, Advisor(s).

Peiyi Chen “On the Construction of Admissible Representations for Scientific Machine Learning and Uncertainty Quantification, with Various Applications in Computational Mechanics.” Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Johann Guilleminot, Advisor(s).

Tong Chen “Therapeutic Approaches and Tools for Metabolic Liver Disorders.” Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Karl-Dimiter Bissig and Matthew Scaglione, Advisor(s).

Xinlin Chen “Harnessing Recent Online Data to Enhance Brain-Computer Interface Operation.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Leslie Collins, Advisor(s).

Ying Chen “Resource-efficient and Context-aware Edge Computing-supported Extended Reality Systems.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Maria Gorlatova, Advisor(s).

Danyang Chen “Elasticity and Fracture of Polymer Networks with Entanglements and Weak Crosslinkers.” Materials Science and Engineering Michael Rubinstein, Advisor(s).

Tung Yan Gloria Cheung “Trajectories of Authoritarian Consolidation.” Political Science David Siegel and Edmund Malesky, Advisor(s).

Dongrak Choi “An Integrative Modeling Framework for Multivariate Longitudinal Clinical Data.” Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Sheng Luo, Advisor(s).

Bernard Albert Coles IV “Reconsidering Adolescent Society: Racial Differences in Stress Processing, Violence, and Health.” Sociology James Moody, Advisor(s).

Aidan Helen Combs “The Measurement and Implications of Meaning Uncertainty for Social Interaction.” Sociology Lynn Smith-Lovin, Advisor(s).

Rebecca Williams Cook “The Functional Significance of Early Homo Pelvis Morphology.” Evolutionary Anthropology Steven Churchill, Advisor(s).

Yuqing Dai “An Unbalanced Optimal Transport Problem with a Growth Constraint.” Mathematics James Nolen, Advisor(s).

Rodrigo da Silva Dias “Financial Resources and Consumer Decision Making.” Business Administration Gavan Fitzsimons and Eesha Sharma, Advisor(s).

Carolyn Victoria Diaz “Salience Encoding in the Mouse Olfactory System.” Neurobiology Kevin M. Franks, Advisor(s).

James Edward Draney “Computable Worlds: The Novel in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism.” English Aarthi Vadde, Advisor(s).

Nathan Louis Drapela “Untimely Steps: The Modern Landscapes and Timescapes of Perambulatory Self-Narration.” Carolina-Duke Program in German Studies Eric Downing, Advisor(s).

Yuncheng Duan “Prioritizing Genomic Sequences Using Evolutionary Signatures in Humans and Near-Human Primates.” Biology Greg Wray and Andrew Allen, Advisor(s).

Qichen Duan “Genetic Analysis of the Olfactory Circuit Organization in Drosophila.” Biology Pelin Volkan, Advisor(s).

Susannah Hall Duerr “The Zen of Mindfulness: Uncovering the Meaning of Mindfulness in Japan.” Religion Richard Jaffe, Advisor(s).

Shannon Leigh Eriksson “Optimizing Coherent Dynamics of Polarization Transfer in SABRE SHEATH.” Chemistry Warren S. Warren, Advisor(s).

Sarah Marie Ermatinger “Staphylococcus aureus Protein A, a Newly Identified Lectin, Promotes Aerobic Biofilm Formation.” Biochemistry Terrence Oas, Advisor(s).

Martha Liliana Espinosa Tavares “The Science of Family Planning: Mexico’s “Demographic Explosion,” Contraceptive Technologies, and the Power of Expert Knowledge.” History Jocelyn Olcott, Advisor(s).

James Paul Falese “Structural Characterization of the Long Noncoding RNA SChLAP1 Reveals Therapeutically Tractable Interfaces of RNA: Protein Recognition.” Biochemistry Amanda Hargrove, Advisor(s).

Isabella Pauline Fallon “Striatal Pathways for Action Counting and Steering.” Neurobiology Henry Yin, Advisor(s).

David Nicholas Fiflis “Repurposing Type-VI CRISPR Systems for Programmable mRNA Trans-Splicing.” Biomedical Engineering Aravind Asokan, Advisor(s).

Isabel Winefred Ganzert “The Role of Protein Translation and Mitochondrial Specialization in Anchor Cell Invasion Through Basement Membranes in C. elegans.” Genetics and Genomics David Sherwood, Advisor(s).

Qitong Gao “Learning for Control and Decision Making toward Medical Autonomy.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Miroslav Pajic, Advisor(s).

Leo Chan Gaskins “Megafauna Utilization of and Impact on Salt Marshes.” Marine Science and Conservation Brian Silliman, Advisor(s).

Natalie Gasparowicz “Contests over Contraception in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico.” History Jocelyn Olcott, Advisor(s).

Raphael Markus Geddert “Behavioral and Computational Mechanisms of Independent Cognitive Stability and Flexibility Adaptation.” Psychology and Neuroscience Tobias Egner, Advisor(s).

Rebecca Anne Gibson “Liver-directed AAV Gene Therapy for PHKG2-Glycogen Storage Disease Type IX (GSD IX γ2).” Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Priya S. Kishnani, Advisor(s).

Gavin Paul Gonzales “Design of Biomaterial and Device for Studying Cartilage Injury in vitro.” Biomedical Engineering Shyni Varghese and Stefan Zauscher, Advisor(s).

Kimberlee J. Grier “Mental Health Among Foster Youth: A Socioecological Approach to Understanding Healthcare Access and Psychotropic Medication Use.” Nursing Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, Advisor(s).

Stephanie Gu “Contributions of A•G DNA Dynamics to Misincorporation During DNA Replication.” Biochemistry Hashim Al-Hashimi and Maria Schumacher, Advisor(s).

Shichen Guo “Control of Material Microstructure of Materials for Electrochemistry and Obscurants.” Chemistry Benjamin Wiley, Advisor(s).

Pranjal Gupta “Neural Manifolds, Just in Time: Real-time Dimensionality Reduction for Neural Populations.” Psychology and Neuroscience John Pearson, Advisor(s).

Marissa Arielle Guttenberg “Macrophage-Derived Mechanisms of Resolution of Environmental Lung Injury.” Environment Robert Tighe and Joel Meyer, Advisor(s).

Victoria Lynn Hall “Mechanisms of Striatal Fast-Spiking Interneuron Plasticity in Habit Learning.” Neurobiology Nicole Calakos, Advisor(s).

Melissa J. Harnois “Evaluating Humoral Immune Responses Against HLA and Cytomegalovirus in Human Lung Transplantation.” Immunology Annette M. Jackson and Sallie Permar, Advisor(s).

Hadiya Amira Jones Harrigan “Cardiovascular Health Classification Using Arterial Dispersion Ultrasound Vibrometry (ADUV).” Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Wilkins Aquino, Advisor(s).

Ryan Michael Harrison “Les Cenelles: for Voices and Chamber Orchestra, and No Turn Unstoned: Development, Deviation, and Dissolution in the Electronic Dance Music of Luke Vibert.” Music Stephen Jaffe, Advisor(s).

Emily Grace Swanson Hay “Interrogating and Elucidating Drivers of Selective RNA-Ligand Interactions.” Chemistry Amanda Hargrove, Advisor(s).

Belinda Judith Hernandez “The Role of Exosomes in Polarized Retinal Pigment Epithelium.” Genetics and Genomics Catherine Bowes Rickman, Advisor(s).

Nicole D'Ann Higgins “That'll Teach!: Black Women's Poetic Transgressions and the Pedagogical Possible.” English Tsitsi Jaji, Advisor(s).

Jonathon Eric Himes “Developing Strategies to Evaluate Autochthonous Tumor-Specific Immune Responses.” Molecular Cancer Biology David G. Kirsch and Zhao Zhang, Advisor(s).

Reed Michael Hodges “Studies of     Decays and Transverse-Momentum-Dependent J/ѱ Production Using Effective Field Theory.” Physics Thomas Mehen, Advisor(s).

Dana Victoria Hogan “Expanding Worlds: Italian Women Artists and Cross-Cultural Encounters in Early Modernity.” Art, Art History, and Visual Studies Sara Galletti, Advisor(s).

Lauren Marie Holt “Exploring Multilevel Factors Associated with Dual-Method Contraceptive Use Among Adolescent and Young Adult Women.” Nursing Michael Relf, Advisor(s).

Joanna Homrighausen “Writing Esther, Then and Now: The Materiality of the Megillah in Ritual, Memory, and Biblical Interpretation.” Religion Laura Lieber and Ellen Davis, Advisor(s).

Grace Margaret Hooks “Structure-Function Studies on the Neisseria gonorrhoeae Multi-Drug Resistance Regulator, MtrR.” Biochemistry Richard Brennan, Advisor(s).

Alexandra Marina Hoyt-Miggelbrink “TNFR2 Is a Novel Marker of Exhaustion and TNFR2 Blockade Improves Subcutaneous Tumor Control.” Pathology Peter Fecci, Advisor(s).

Chun-Hsien Hsu “Poisson Summation Conjecture on Braverman-Kazhdan Spaces.” Mathematics Jayce Getz, Advisor(s).

Yixin Hu “Mechanistic Insights into Mechanochemically Triggered Polymer Degradation.” Chemistry Stephen Craig, Advisor(s).

Kaiyuan Hua “Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials with Restricted Mean Survival Time.” Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Xiaofei Wang and Hwanhee Hong, Advisor(s).

Brittani Lauren Huegen “Customized Electrodes for Printed Biosensors and Wearable Electronics.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Aaron Franklin, Advisor(s).

Erika Joy Hughes “Interrogation of Mycobacterial Granulomas with Single-Cell Resolution.” Genetics and Genomics David Tobin and Meta Kuehn, Advisor(s).

Shao-Chun Hung “Testing and Fault Diagnosis Solutions for Monolithic 3D ICs.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Krishnendu Chakrabarty and Yiran Chen, Advisor(s).

Duc Tan Huynh “Regulation of Human Neurofilaments and WNK Kinases by O-linked-β-N-acetylglucosamine.” Biochemistry Michael Boyce, Advisor(s).

Ciro Incoronato “The Biopower of the Oldest Mafia: Economics, Biopolitics, and Ecology in Mediterranean Society.” Romance Studies Michael Hardt and Roberto Dainotto, Advisor(s).

Yi Ji “Recent Advances on the Design, Analysis and Decision-making with Expensive Virtual Experiments.” Statistical Science Simon Mak, Advisor(s).

Zhuoran Jiang “Deep Learning-based Onboard Image Guidance and Dose Verification for Radiation Therapy.” Medical Physics Lei Ren and Q. Jackie Wu, Advisor(s).

Danting Jiang “Computationally Mining the Microbiome for Biologically Meaningful Results.” Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Neil Surana, Advisor(s).

Justin Frederic Jorge “Latch-Mediated Spring Actuation and the Diversity of Ultrafast Trap-Jaw Ant Impacts, Witch Hazel Fruit Sizes, and Spring-Launched Seed Aerodynamics.” Biology Sheila Patek, Advisor(s).

Andrew Bradley Kane “Essays in Asset Pricing.” Business Administration Nuno Clara, Advisor(s).

Kyeri Kim “Quantifying Antibiotic Response: Understanding Variability from Individual Cells to Community Dynamics.” Biomedical Engineering Lingchong You, Advisor(s).

Stephen Joseph Kirchner “Aging Clocks: Circadian Factors Control Antiviral Immunity of the Skin.” Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Jennifer Zhang, Advisor(s).

Fanjie Kong “Advancing Vision Intelligence Through the Development of Efficiency, Interpretability and Fairness in Deep Learning Models.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Ricardo Henao and Hai Li, Advisor(s).

Hannah Brooke Krall “The Creole of Color Clarinet Tradition and its Influence on Duke Ellington’s Creative Legacy.” Music Thomas Brothers, Advisor(s).

Jessica Nicole LaLonde “Advancing Polyhydroxyalkanoate Biopolymer Material Design: Integrating Machine Learning and Experimental Validation.” Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Stefan Zauscher, Advisor(s).

Rachael Ellen Lau “Remote Landslide Risk Assessment Fusing Data-Driven and Physics-Based Approaches.” Civil and Environmental Engineering Manolis Veveakis, Advisor(s).

Elise Maria Le Boulicaut Ennis “Search for Top-philic Heavy Resonances Using the Single-lepton Decay Channel in pp Collisions at √s=13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector.” Physics Mark Kruse, Advisor(s).

Eun-Seok Lee “Essays in Macroeconomics and Information Theory.” Economics Cosmin Ilut, Advisor(s).

Min Jin Lee “The Role of UBE2N in Skin Homeostasis and Inflammation.” Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Jennifer Zhang and Stacy Horner, Advisor(s).

Jessica Lesa Levasseur “Exploring the Utility of Silicone Wristbands for Monitoring Exposure to Chemicals Present in Personal Care Products with a Focus on Parabens.” Environment Heather Stapleton and Jennifer Hoffman, Advisor(s).

Ziru Li “Power-efficient Spiking Neuromorphic Designs Using CMOS and Emerging Devices.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Hai Li, Advisor(s).

Jianwei David Li “Development of Intraoperative Optical Coherence Tomography and Imaging Systems.” Biomedical Engineering Joseph Izatt, Advisor(s).

Shiyu Li “Joint Optimization of Algorithms, Hardware, and Systems for Efficient Deep Neural Networks.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Yiran Chen, Advisor(s).

Michael Lin “Symmetrizing Black Hole Horizons and a Positive Mass Theorem for Spin Creased Initial Data.” Mathematics Hubert Bray, Advisor(s).

Winston Frederik Lindqwister “Homogenization of Chemo-Mechanically Active Porous Media Microstructures.” Civil and Environmental Engineering Manolis Veveakis, Advisor(s).

Huijuan Lennard Ling “The Poetics for Ten Instrumentalists; Rainy Days Vol. 1 for Harpsichord and Electronics; and An Exploration of Musical Meaning in Tan Dun’s Water Concerto: Expectations, Assumptions, and the Problem of “Chineseness”.” Music Stephen Jaffe, Advisor(s).

Hsuan-Fu Liu “Computational Methods for High-resolution Structure Determination of Macromolecular Complexes Imaged in situ Using Cryo-electron Tomography.” Biochemistry Alberto Bartesaghi,, Advisor(s).

Winston W. Liu “A Neural Circuit for Gut Microbial Patterns to Regulate Satiety.” Neurobiology Diego V. Bohórquez, Advisor(s).

Ethan Jeffrey LoCicero “Robust, Distributed, and Optimal Control via Dissipativity-Augmentation.” Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Leila Bridgeman, Advisor(s).

Ofelia del Carmen Lopez Madrigal “Representations of Black Womanhood in Cuban Literature (1882-1976).” Romance Studies Lamonte Aidoo, Advisor(s).

Antonio Robert LoPiano “Inventing Public and Private: The Development of Spatial Dynamics and State Organization within Archaic Central Italic Cities.” Classical Studies Maurizio Forte, Advisor(s).

Boyang Ma “Infrastructure Under Negotiation: Contract Making and African Agency in China-Africa Infrastructural Collaboration.” Cultural Anthropology Charles Piot and Ralph Litzinger, Advisor(s).

Adryanna Cheyenne Major “Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering in Large-scale Scintillators.” Physics Kate Scholberg, Advisor(s).

Sayan Mandal “Deep Learning to Predict Glaucoma Progression Using Structural Changes in the Eye.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Felipe Medeiros and Vahid Tarokh, Advisor(s).

Jarrett Patrick Mansergh “Underpinning Biological Energy Transduction via Naphthalene Diimide Molecular and de novo Protein Constructs.” Chemistry Michael Therien, Advisor(s).

Christopher Rocky Mansfield “Investigation of Heat Shock Protein 90 in Plasmodium Parasites.” Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Emily Derbyshire, Advisor(s).

Justin Garner Martyr “Small Molecule Modulation of RNA Tertiary Structures and RNA-Protein Interactions.” Biochemistry Amanda Hargrove, Advisor(s).

Sean R. McCutcheon “Orthogonal Screens to Decode Human T Cell State and Function.” Biomedical Engineering Charles Gersbach, Advisor(s).

Rachel Katherine Meade “Host-Pathogen Genetic Factors Mediate Tuberculosis Disease Outcomes.” Genetics and Genomics Clare Smith, Advisor(s).

Ian Daniel Medeiros “Systematics, Genomics, and Biogeography of Fungus–Photoautotroph Interactions in Lecanoromycetes and Eurotiomycetes.” Biology François Lutzoni, Advisor(s).

Wilderson Alfonso Medina Baron “Biodiversity Conservation in the Northern Andes: Distribution Patterns, Priorities, and Exploration Needs.” Environment Stuart Pimm, Advisor(s).

Andrew William Miller “Advancing Wound Healing: from Surgical Technology to New and Improved Hydrogel Therapies.” Biomedical Engineering Tatiana Segura, Advisor(s).

Concetta Morino “Lumbar Spine Behavior and Injury Due to Cyclic Loading.” Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Cameron Bass and Brian Mann, Advisor(s).

Zekun Mu “Design and Immunogenicity of Stabilized HIV-1 Modified Messenger RNA Vaccines.” Immunology Barton Haynes and Garnett Kelsoe, Advisor(s).

Katherine Dianne Mueller “The Role of Akkermansia Species and Subspecies in Human Health.” Genetics and Genomics Raphael Valdivia, Advisor(s).

Josue Daniel Nataren Moran “Classifying Human Atrial Electrograms and Generating Patient-specific Models of the Left Atrial Posterior Wall Using Point Cloud Data to Simulate Electrograms Arising from Different Tissue Substrates.” Biomedical Engineering Roger Barr, Advisor(s).

Anastasia Jean Niver “Expanding Applications of Active-Feedback Single-Molecule Tracking Microscopy in Complex Background Environments Such as Cells.” Chemistry Kevin Welsher, Advisor(s).

Kevin Guy O'Neill “The Modal and Metacognitive Nature of Causal Judgment.” Psychology and Neuroscience Felipe De Brigard and John Pearson, Advisor(s).

Joost Op 't Eynde “Injury Risks in Behind Armor Blunt Trauma.” Biomedical Engineering Cameron Bass and Jason Luck, Advisor(s).

Jameson Patrick O'Reilly “New Techniques for Fast and High-Fidelity Trapped Ion Photonic Interconnects.” Physics Christopher Monroe, Advisor(s).

Jessica Jee Won Paek “Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: How Progress Steadiness Affects Motivation.” Business Administration Gráinne Fitzsimons, Advisor(s).

Hao Pang “Essays on Macro-finance and Asset Pricing.” Business Administration Anna Cieslak, Advisor(s).

Jaehong Park “Brainstem Control of Vocalization and its Coordination with Respiration.” Biomedical Engineering Fan Wang and Marc Sommer, Advisor(s).

JoonYup Park “Essays on the Economics of Residential Segregation and Affordable Housing.” Economics Patrick Bayer, Advisor(s).

SaeHim Park “Imaging "Comfort Women": Girl Statue of Peace (2011) in the Expanded Field.” Art, Art History, and Visual Studies Stanley Abe, Advisor(s).

Evan Andrew Pebesma “Regeneration Through Laughter: The American Comedic National Fantasy After 9/11.” Literature Michael Hardt, Advisor(s).

Xinyue Pei “Essays on Labor Market Dynamics and Innovation.” Public Policy Matthew Johnson and Daniel Yi Xu, Advisor(s).

Rixi Peng “Deep Learning Assisted Large Scale Metamaterial Simulation.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Willie Padilla, Advisor(s).

Luis Enrique Perez Abreu Velazquez “Consumers Anticipating and Managing Goal Failure: How Past Conflicts Shape Expectations and Language Influences Recovery.” Business Administration Jordan Etkin, Advisor(s).

Brianna Leigh Petrone “Molecular Signatures of Food Intake in Human Stool.” Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Lawrence A. David, Advisor(s).

Melissa Ann Powell “Understanding the Experiences and Support Needs of Nurses During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Nursing AnnMarie Walton, Advisor(s).

Jordan John Powers “Next-Generation Mapping of the Salicylic Acid Signaling Hub and Transcriptional Cascade.” Genetics and Genomics Xinnian Dong and Lucia Strader, Advisor(s).

Jiaxuan Qi “Dopamine Dynamics Drive Birdsong Learning.” Neurobiology Richard Mooney, Advisor(s).

Juan Ramirez “Astrocyte-Microglia Signaling Controls Developmental Thalamocortical Synapse Refinement.” Neurobiology Cagla Eroglu, Advisor(s).

Patrick M. Ramjug “Procedure, Power, and Policy in the Post-Reconstruction United States House of Representatives.” Political Science John Aldrich, Advisor(s).

Tania Rispoli “The Politics of Care: Feminist Infrastructures of Love and Labor.” Romance Studies Michael Hardt, Advisor(s).

Celine Shana Robinson “Unveiling the Risks: Remote Sensing and Machine Learning for Data-Driven Aboveground Storage Tank Vulnerability Assessment.” Civil and Environmental Engineering Mark Borsuk, Advisor(s).

Ignacio Rodriguez Hurtado “Essays on Organized Crime and Political Capture in Development Economics.” Economics Erica Field, Advisor(s).

Natalie Ann Rozman “Electromagnetic Metamaterials for Wave Manipulation.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Willie Padilla, Advisor(s).

James Alexander Runge “Pair Transfer Reactions and Nuclear Matrix Elements for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay.” Physics Phillip Barbeau, Advisor(s).

Harshit Sahay “Somatic Mutagenesis at Transcription Factor Binding Sites.” Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Raluca Gordân, Advisor(s).

Minato Sakamoto “Studies of Algorithmic Music Generation; Folksong Enthusiasm in Post-Cultural Revolution China.” Music Scott Lindroth, Advisor(s).

Laavanya Sankaranarayanan “Dissecting the Functional Effects of Non-coding Gene Regulatory Elements.” Genetics and Genomics Timothy Reddy, Advisor(s).

Timothy James Scargill “Environment Analysis and Design Systems for Markerless Mobile Augmented Reality.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Maria Gorlatova, Advisor(s).

Meredith Nicole Schmehl “Visual Cues Modulate Auditory Responses in the Macaque Inferior Colliculus.” Neurobiology Jennifer Groh, Advisor(s).

Lesia Semenova “In Pursuit of Simplicity: The Role of the Rashomon Effect for Informed Decision Making.” Computer Science Cynthia Rudin and Ronald Parr, Advisor(s).

Jeremy W. Sexton “Samuel Barber as Synthesizer: An Analytical and Critical Reappraisal.” Music Philip Rupprecht, Advisor(s).

Helen Johanne Shears “The Treaties of Utrecht and the Making of the British Empire, 1713-1783.” History Philip Stern, Advisor(s).

Timothy Curtis Shoyer “Experimental and Modeling Approaches to Investigate Molecular-Scale Mechanosensitive Processes in Collective Cell Migration.” Biomedical Engineering Brenton Hoffman, Advisor(s).

Akash Singh “Melting and Glass Formation in Halide Perovskites.” Materials Science and Engineering David Mitzi, Advisor(s).

Timothy Joseph Smith “Overcoming Barriers to AAV Gene Transfer.” Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Aravind Asokan, Advisor(s).

Andrew Preston Smith “A Measurement of the Eta Meson Radiative Decay Width via the Primakoff Effect.” Physics Haiyan Gao, Advisor(s).

Hye-In Son “Programming Microbial Communities via Control of Plasmid Dynamics.” Biomedical Engineering Lingchong You, Advisor(s).

Hunter Scott Stephens “Automated Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) Using Fast Dose and Fluence Calculations and Reinforcement Learning.” Medical Physics Q. Jackie Wu and Qiuwen Wu, Advisor(s).

Rebeccah Keaton Stewart “Cell Type Specific Responses to Codon Usage Bias in Two Stem Cell Lineages.” Molecular Cancer Biology Donald Fox, Advisor(s).

Yudong Sun “Modulation of Cell Differentiation and Epigenetic Landscape by Methionine Metabolism.” Biochemistry Meta Kuehn, Advisor(s).

David Taichi Takamura “Egoism in the Age of Romanticism.” Carolina-Duke Program in German Studies Gabriel Trop and Stefani Engelstein, Advisor(s).

Emily Elizabeth Tallman “Bayesian Predictive Decision Synthesis: Methodology and Applications.” Statistical Science Mike West, Advisor(s).

Yixin Tan “Analysis of Score-based Generative Models.” Mathematics Jianfeng Lu, Advisor(s).

Vivien Tejada “Unfree Soil: Empire, Labor, and Coercion in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, 1812-1861.” History Gunther Peck, Advisor(s).

Devang Thakkar “Profiling the Molecular Determinants of Origin and Response in Blood Cancers.” Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Sandeep Dave, Advisor(s).

Brandon Joon-Sun Thio “Computational Tools to Improve Stereo-EEG Implantation and Resection Surgery for Patients with Epilepsy.” Biomedical Engineering Warren M. Grill, Advisor(s).

Yuqi Tian “Merging Magnetic Resonance Histology with Light Sheet Microscopy.” Biomedical Engineering G. Allan Johnson, Advisor(s).

Laura Patricia Torres Rojas “Advancing the Representation of Land Surface Heterogeneity in Land Surface Models.” Civil and Environmental Engineering Nathaniel Chaney, Advisor(s).

Joseph Daniel Trimarco “Identifying Host Genetic Targets for Limiting Susceptibility to Respiratory Viral Infections.” Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Nicholas Heaton, Advisor(s).

Rebecca Uliasz “Epistemologies of the Unknown: Cybernetic Cultures and Ecological Aesthetics after the Cold War.” Computational Media, Arts & Cultures Mark Hansen and Luciana Parisi, Advisor(s).

Laura Vargas “Toxic Narratives: the Role of Poisoning in Contemporary Caribbean Novels.” Romance Studies Annette Joseph-Gabriel and Richard Rosa, Advisor(s).

Jared T. Vasil “Effects of “We”-Framing and Prior Discourse on Young Children’s Referential Informativeness.” Psychology and Neuroscience Michael Tomasello, Advisor(s).

Tri Quang Vu “On the Development of Full-view Photoacoustic Computed Tomography System for Biomedical Applications.” Biomedical Engineering Junjie Yao, Advisor(s).

Jessica Waibl Polania “Investigating the Dynamics of T Cell Exhaustion in Glioblastoma and Other Solid Tumors.” Pathology Peter Fecci, Advisor(s).

Zhenxuan Wang “The Economics of Energy Infrastructure and Climate Change.” Environmental Policy Robyn Meeks, Advisor(s).

Chenyu Wang “Essays in FinTech and Macro-Finance.” Business Administration S. Viswanathan, Advisor(s).

Hsuan-Yuan (Sherry) Wang “Evaluate Glycoprotein Complexes-Elicited Antibody Responses to Inform Congenital Cytomegalovirus Vaccine Design.” Immunology Sallie Permar, Advisor(s).

Yuxi Wang “Internal States Influence Learning Behavior and Structure Event Memory.” Psychology and Neuroscience Tobias Egner and R. Alison Adcock, Advisor(s).

Tyler Steven Waterman “Representing the Heterogeneity of Land-Atmosphere Interactions in Earth System Modeling.” Civil and Environmental Engineering Nathaniel Chaney, Advisor(s).

Rachael Nadine Wright “Shaping Affect Regulation: From Trait Influences to Learning Experiences.” Psychology and Neuroscience R. Alison Adcock and Kevin LaBar, Advisor(s).

Tianyu Wu “Optimization and Evaluation of Engineered Prokaryotic Sodium Channel Gene Therapy for Heart Failure and Cardiac Arrhythmias.” Biomedical Engineering Nenad Bursac, Advisor(s).

Sung-Ju Wu “Essays on Trade Policies and Foreign Direct Investments.” Economics Yi Xu and Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Advisor(s).

Yi Xie “Structure-Property Control for Enhanced Spin-Related, Optical, and Thermal Properties of Layered Halide-Based Hybrid Perovskites.” Materials Science and Engineering David Mitzi, Advisor(s).

Boya Xu “Essays on Innovation Adoption and Distribution in Digital Era.” Business Administration Carl Mela and Tong Guo, Advisor(s).

Kaili Yang “Essays on the Economics of Technology Adoption and Quality Upgrading.” Economics Daniel Yi Xu and James Roberts, Advisor(s).

HyunBin You “Transitional Care for Intensive Care Unit Patients and Their Families.” Nursing Tolu Oyesanya, Advisor(s).

Donggeng Yu “Imaging and Kinetic Study of Single Polymer Particle Growth.” Chemistry Kevin Welsher, Advisor(s).

Pamela Zabala Ortiz “Black, but “Not Black”: Dominican Racial Contestations and the Pursuit of Authentic Blackness.” Sociology Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Advisor(s).

Yikang Zhang “Driven-dissipative Phase Transitions for Markovian Open Quantum Systems.” Physics Thomas Barthel, Advisor(s).

Tunhou Zhang “Practical Solutions to Neural Architecture Search on Applied Machine Learning.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Yiran Chen, Advisor(s).

Yiquan Zhao “Synthesis of Daucane-Type Sesquiterpenoids.” Chemistry Jiyong Hong, Advisor(s).

Qilin Zheng “Hybrid Digital/Analog In-Memory Computing.” Electrical and Computer Engineering Hai Li, Advisor(s).

Chudi Zhong “Interpretability and Multiplicity: a Path to Trustworthy Machine Learning.” Computer Science Cynthia Rudin and, Advisor(s).

Ruoyu Zhong “Cellular Droplet Sorting and Manipulation for Immunity Analysis via Acoustofluidics.” Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science Tony Huang, Advisor(s).

Levin Liewen Zhu “Essays on Sustainable Product Consumption.” Business Administration Carl Mela and Bryan Bollinger, Advisor(s).

Wei Zhu “Transcription Factors Increase Mutagenesis by Interfering with DNA Mismatch Repair.” Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Raluca Gordân, Advisor(s).

Anna Laura Ziff “Essays in the Economics of Place-Based Policies.” Economics Patrick Bayer and Vincent Joseph Hotz, Advisor(s).

Xue Zou “Integrative Modeling of Genetic and Transcriptomic Data for the Identification of Allele-Specific Expression.” Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Andrew Allen and William Majoros, Advisor(s).

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Grapple with the insights of great thinkers from across the world and throughout history while developing skills in critical thinking, argument analysis and cultural literacy.

We prepare graduates to meet a rapidly changing world. Students will study ancient and contemporary philosophers as they engage in rigorous debate, ask the big questions and sharpen their critical thinking skills.  Students will study problems arising in contemporary movements such as analytic philosophy, existentialism and American philosophy; students will be introduced to the major subdivisions of philosophy, including logic, ethics, aesthetics, philosophy and law, philosophy of science and philosophy of religion.

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The major is part of the Department of Philosophy and Religion , an academic unit within the College of Arts and Letters .

The major in philosophy empowers students to analyze diverse worldviews and value systems. In a world that is increasingly pluralistic, ideologically driven and globally connected, skills in critical thinking and cross-cultural understanding are more important than ever. Our students apply this degree to a wide variety of career fields.

Students choose from two concentrations: general philosophy and interdisciplinary philosophy. The interdisciplinary concentration allows students to count relevant courses in another field toward the major and is a particularly good fit for students choosing philosophy as a second major.

Philosophy and Religion

• B.A. in Philosophy and Religion, Major in Philosophy
• Interdisciplinary Philosophy
• Logic and Reasoning

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