Dissertation Winners for 2006-2007
Dept Name
APY M. Heather Fried
Title Takers Anyone?: TuThangka & the Tibetanizing Effects of Tourism in Tongren County, China
BIO Daniel Poland
Title Specificity and Flexibility in Coral-Algal Symbioses
ECO Xuezheng Qin
Title Safety Net Care and the Uninsured: Kill or Cure?
ECO Yiqun Wu
Title Essays on International Outsourcing
ENG Sarah Campbell
Title Hearing Voices: Reading for Speech in Henry James and Gertrude Stein
ENG Peter DeGabriele
Title Authority, Literature and Historiography in Eighteenth Century England
ENG Naomi Miyazawa
Title American Urbanization, Readability and the Detective Gaze
GEO Bo Ae Chun
Title Environmental education w/geographical perspectives using GIS: Empirical evidence for the effect on environmental literacy & spatial thinking ability
GEO Jonghoon Lee
Title Relevance Feedbacks for Geographic Image Retrieval based on an F-statistic Weighting and a Bayesian Query Point Movement Approaches
GEO Diep Thai
Title Women farmers, microfinance and rural development in Northern Vietnam
HIS David Head
Title Sailing for South America: Foreign Privateering in the Early American Republic, 1800-1830
HIS Daniel Wessel
Title Impossible Sovereignty: Anarchist Social Thought in Nineteenth Century America
LIN S. H. Hui-Chen
Title Verbs that focus on motion events in Mandarin
LIN G. Perez-Baez
Title Impact of large-scale outmigration on the prospect of survival of endangered languages
LIN R. Romero-Mendez
Title Reference grammar of Ayutla Mixe, a language from the Mixe-Zoque family, spoken in Southern Mexico, Oaxaca
MS Diedie Weng
Title Producing and directing a 45-minute documentary called Ming: Day and Night
MTH Bo Li
Title Aspects of the Berezin symbol calculus
MUS Kedar Awati
Title Submit a score of an original piece with art music of India and that of the West
MUS Nora Ponte
Title Composition for large ensemble in three movements
PHI Daniel Novotny
Title Mind-dependent Entities: A Study in Baroque Scholasticism
PHI Joseph Palencik
Title Believing in Others: An Inquiry into the Philosophical Founations of Testimony
PSC Eric Wilk
Title Pork Projects: The Electoral and Legislative Consequences of Earmarks
PSY Kathryn Bottonari
Title Impact of Life Stress, Style, and Depressive Symptomatology on HIV Treatment Adherence
PSY Lorig Kachadourian
Title The Impact of Infidelity in Dating Relationships and the Promotion of Forgiveness among Faithful Partners
RLL Virginia Berner
Title Mystics, Inquisition and Early Modernity