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Upcoming Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Announcements

July 18, 2008

Graduate Faculty, Students and Staff:
This list of scheduled Ph.D. dissertation defenses is distributed so that you may attend or so that you may see the full announcement. If you wish to see the full announcement, please call the University Graduate School Office [(812) 855-8853 ]. If you wish to attend, as a courtesy please contact the committee chair in advance.

James C. Wimbush, Dean, The University Graduate School

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, GRADUATE DIVISION

Anthropology
Doubleday, Alison French: "LRP5 Polymorphisms and Bone Mineral Density in the Baboon (Papio hamadryas)." Monday, July 28, 2008, 1:00 p.m., Jordan Hall, Room 102. Chair: Prof. Frederika A. Kaestle (855-3164)

Art History
Smith, Laura E.: "Obsuring the Distinctions, Revealing the Divergent Visions: Modernity and Indians in the Early Works of Kiowa Photographer Horace Poolaw, 1925-1945." Saturday, July 19, 2008, 10:00 a.m., FA007. Chair: Prof. Sarah Burns (855-2652)

Biology
Christiansen, Katy M.: "Characterization of defense responses in the Arabidopsis thaliana mutant enhanced disease resistance 1." Monday, July 21, 2008, 009 Jordan Hall. Chair: Prof. Roger Innes (855-2219)

Yamada, Masashi: "The Role of the Transport Inhibitor Response2 (T1R2) Gene in Auxin Synthesis in Arabidopsis." Monday, July 28, 2008, 11:00 a.m., Jordan Hall 248. Chair: Prof. Mark Estelle (856-1216)

Communication and Culture
Cochran, David M.: "Revolutionary Antislavery: Birth of an American Prophetic Tradition." Tuesday, August 5, 2008, 10:00 a.m., Room 272, 800 E. Third Street. Chair: Prof. John Louis Lucaites (855-5411)

Edwards, Tonia M.: "From Boyz to the Banlieue: Race, Nation, and Mediated Resistance." Friday, August 1, 2008, 1:00 p.m., Classroom-Office Building, 272. Chair: Prof. Joan Hawkins (855-1548)

Hamel, Keith J.: "The History of Hype & the Art of Anticipation: The Evolution and Aesthetics of Hollywood Film Trailers." Monday, August 4, 2008, 11:00 a.m., 800 East Third Street, Room 256. Chair: Prof. James Naremore (855-2137)

West, Isaac: "Legal Trans/scripts: Transgender Rhetorics of Law and Everyday Life." Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 10:00 a.m., 272 Classroom Office Building. Chair: Prof. John Louis Lucaites (855-5411)

Comparative Literature
Kao, Chia-Li: "Imperialist Ambiguity and Ambivalence in Japanese and Taiwanese Literature, 1895-1945." Monday, July 28, 2008, 10:00 a.m., Ballantine Hall, Room 916. Co-Chairs: Prof. Purnima Bose (855-5334) and Prof. Michiko Suzuki (856-7002)

Kim, Jungsoo: "Res Videns: The SUbject and Vision in the Plays of Samuel Beckett, Sam Shepard, and Harold Pinter." Friday, August 8, 2008, 1:00 p.m., Ballantine Hall, Room 916. Co-Chairs: Prof. Claus Cluver and Prof. Angela Pao

Economics
Arcalean, Calin: "Essays on the Dynamic Effects of Public Policies in Regional Economies." Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Room 225, Wylie Hall. Chair: Prof. Gerhard Glomm (855-6160)

de Araujo, Pedro F.: "Heterogeneity in Macro Models of Asset Accumulation." Thursday, July 31, 2008, 9:30 a.m., Room 225, Wylie Hall. Chair: Prof. Gerhard Glomm (855-7256)

Lee, Changmin: "Essays on Boards of Directors." Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Room 329, Wylie Hall. Chair: Prof. Eric Rasmusen (855-9219)

Schiopu, Ioana: "Essays in Human Capital Accumulation, Growth and Dynamic Public Policies." Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 10:00 a.m., Room 225, Wylie Hall. Co-Chairs: Prof. Gerhard Glomm (855-6160) and Prof. Michael Kaganovich (855-6967)

English
Smith, Nathanial B.: "Dreams of Influence: Embodied Reading in Early Renaissance English Literature." Monday, July 28, 2008, 3:30 p.m., Parker Library, Ballantine Hall, Room 442. Chair: Prof. Judith H. Anderson (855-3845)

Fine Arts
Keller, Candace: "Visual Griots: Social, Political and Cultural Histories in Mali through the Photographer's Lens." Friday, July 18, 2008, 1:30 p.m., Fine Arts Library Seminar Room. Chair: Prof. Patrick McNaughton (855-2548)

History and American Studies
Yaudes, Cynthia Gwynne: "Working an Image: Radical Labor Newspapers and the American Tabloid Press, 1919-1922." Monday, July 28, 2008, 2:00 p.m., Conference Room 704, Ballantine Hall. Co-Chairs: Prof. Eric Sandweiss (855-0210) and Prof. Eva Cherniavsky

Linguistics
Park, Hanyong: "Phonological information and linguistic experience in foreign accent detection." Friday, August 1, 2008, 10:00 a.m., Memorial Hall, Room 401. Chair: Prof. Kenneth de Jong (856-1307)

Mathematics
Hong, Seung-Moon: "Classification and Applications of Tensor Categories." Thursday, August 14, 2008, 1:00 p.m., Rawles Hall 316. Co-Chairs: Prof. Zhenghan Wang (805/893-8828) and Prof. Vladimir Touraev (855-6754)

Kuo, Jung-Miao: "The Clifford algebra of a cubic form." Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 10:00 a.m., Rawles Hall, Room 127. Chair: Prof. Darrell Haile (855-2197)

Neural Science and Linguistics
Ikuta, Toshikazu: "fMRI study of grammar, Parkinson's disease and dopaminergic medication." Friday, August 8, 2008, 11:00 a.m., C108, Speech and Hearing Sciences. Chair: Prof. Laura L. Murray (855-3585)

Philosophy
Alexander, Joshua: "Philosophical Intuitions and Experimental Philosophy." Friday, July 25, 2008, 2:00 p.m., 120 Sycamore Hall. Chair: Prof. Joan Weiner (855-5237)

Physics
Shin, Yunchang: "Studies in Neutron Phase Space Cooling for Cold and Ultracold Neutron Sources." Friday, August 15, 2008, 10:00 a.m., Indiana University Cyclotron Facility. Chair: Prof. W. Michael Snow (855-7914)

Welty-Rieger, Leah: "The Lifetime of a Beautiful and Charming Meson: Bc Lifetime Measured Using the DO Detector." Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:00 a.m., Swain Hall West 235. Chair: Prof. Rick Van Kooten (855-2650)

Sociology
Blouin, David D.: "All in the Family? Understanding the Meaning of Dogs and Cats in the Lives of American Pet Owners." Monday, July 21, 2008, 10:00 a.m., Room 843, Ballantine Hall. Chair: Prof. Robert V. Robinson (855-3987)

Fettes, Danielle L.: "Youth Mental Health Care in Social Context." Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 1:00 p.m., Ballantine Hall 843. Chair: Prof. Jane D. McLeod (856-4583)

Spanish and Portuguese
Urdangarain, Giovanna: "Bodies Lost, Bodies Recovered?: Memory, History and Identity in the Post-dictatorship Novel by Women Writers of the Southern Cone." Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 3:00 p.m., BH 844. Chair: Prof. Kathleen Myers (855-6691)

Telecommunications
Castillo, Jeanette: "Agonistic Democracy and the Narrative of Distempered Elites: An Analysis of Citizen Discourse on Political Message Forums." Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 2:00 p.m., Radio/Television, Room 271. Chair: Prof. Erik P. Bucy (855-7955)

Theatre and Drama
Murphree, Patrick D.: "Crisis and Continuity: Comedy during the French Revolution." Monday, August 11, 2008, 1:00 p.m., Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center, A300U. Chair: Prof. Roger W. Herzel (855-4503)

KELLEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, GRADUATE DIVISION

Allee, Kristian D.: "Estimating Cost of Equity Capital with Time-Series Forecasts of Earnings." Friday, August 8, 2008, 9:00 a.m., Room 732, Kelley School of Business. Chair: Prof. James M. Wahlen (855-2658)

SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY, GRADUATE DIVISION

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, GRADUATE DIVISION

Counseling Psychology
Erickson, Christine J.: "The Effectiveness of Functional Family Therapy in the Treatment of Juvenile Sexual Offenders." Monday, July 21, 2008, 10:00 a.m., Center for Adolescent and Family Studies. Chair: Prof. Thomas Sexton (856-8350)

History, Philosophy, Policy in Education and Higher Education
Bathon, Justin M.: "Examining the Characteristics of School Leaders and of Local Schools where Indiana Educational Leadership Preparation Programs Place their Graduates." Monday, July 28, 2008, 3:00 p.m., W. W. Wright Education Building, Room 4204. Chair: Prof. Martha M. McCarthy (856-8384)

SCHOOL OF HEALTH, PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND RECREATION, GRADUATE DIVISION

Human Performance and Learning and Development Science
Polsgrove, Myles J.: "Optimizing Human Movement Through Knowledge and Understanding." Thursday, August 7, 2008, 3:00 p.m., 125, School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation. Co-Chairs: Prof. David Gallahue (855-1561) and Prof. Thomas Schwen (856-8469)

SCHOOL OF INFORMATICS, GRADUATE DIVISION

Computer Science
Mustacoglu, Ahmet F.: "Event-based Infrastructure for Reconciling Distributed Annotation Records." Thursday, July 31, 2008, 10:30 a.m., Lindley Hall 101. Chair: Prof. Geoffrey C. Fox (856-7977)

SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM, GRADUATE DIVISION

SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS, GRADUATE DIVISION

SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, GRADUATE DIVISION

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, GRADUATE DIVISION

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Beck, Brian: "Functional Analysis of Two Novel DNA Repair Factors, Metnase and Pso4." Monday, July 28, 2008, 2:00 p.m., Medical Science Room 4001, Indianapolis. Chair: Prof. Suk-Hee Lee (317/278-3465)

Microbiology and Immunology
Campbell, Timothy B.: "In vivo hematopoietic cell engraftment is modulated by DPPIV/CD26 inhibition and Rheb2 overexpression." Friday, August 1, 2008, 1:00 p.m., MS-326, Medical Science Building, Indianapolis. Chair: Prof. Hal E. Broxmeyer (317/274-7510)

Maina, Caroline N.: "Obstacles and Circumvention Strategies for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transduction by Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus Vectors." Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 1:00 p.m., R4-101, Indianapolis. Co-Chairs: Prof. Arun Srivastava (352/273-8259) and Prof. D. Wade Clapp ((317/278-9290)

SCHOOL OF MUSIC, GRADUATE DIVISION

SCHOOL OF OPTOMETRY, GRADUATE DIVISION

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS, GRADUATE DIVISION

Public Affairs
Cho, Yoon Jik: "Trust in Managerial Leadership within Federal Agencies: Antecedents, Outcomes, and Contextual Factors." Saturday, August 2, 2008, 10:00 a.m., Room 300, School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Co-Chairs: Prof. James L. Perry (855-5971) and Prof. Evan Ringquist (855-0732)

Espinosa, Salvador: "On Revenue Sharing and Budgetary Behavior: Assessing the Determinants of Subnational Financial Behavior and their Impact on the Creation of a Decentralized Tax System in Mexico." Thursday, July 24, 2008, 10:00 a.m., School of Public and Environmental Affairs Dean's Conference Room. Chair: Prof. John Mikesell (855-2840)

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK, GRADUATE DIVISION