Thesis reflections
Anthropology
Pharmaceutical Care, Public Experiments, and Patient Knowledge in the Brazilian Public Healthcare System
Adviser: João Biehl
Anthropology
Public Girls, Separate Prep: Single-Sex Public Education in New York City
Adviser: Rena S. Lederman
Architecture
Fault Lines: The City of Jerusalem and the Architecture of Division
Adviser: Edward A. Eigen
Architecture
City of Lights, City of Fire: Architectural Apartheid in the Paris Banlieue
Adviser: Esther da Costa Mayer
Art and Archaeology
Fragmentation, Layering, Discrepancy: The Artistic Practice of the Lettristes
Adviser: Hal Foster
Astrophysical Sciences
New Frontiers in Exoplanet Detection: High Contrast Imaging with Subaru
Advisers: Edwin L. Turner, Michael W. McElwain
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Elucidating the Maturation Mechanism of the Lasso-Structured Antimicrobial Peptide Microcin J25
Adviser: A. James Link
Chemistry
Small Molecule Modulation of Vibrio cholerae Virulence through Quorum Sensing
Adviser: Martin F. Semmelhack
Chemistry
Investigation of the Deposition of Octyl-D/L-ribofuranosides onto HOPG and Characterization of Iridescent Adenosine Films
Adviser: Steven L. Bernasek
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Structural and Constructional Feasibility of Glass Elements: A Hyperbolic Umbrella
Adviser: Sigrid M. Adriaenssens
Civil and Environmental Engineering
A Novel Deployable Tied Arch Bridge
Adviser: Branko Glišić
Classics
Reconsidering Cicero’s De Amicitia as a Search for Realism
Adviser: Robert A. Kaster
Classics
Hermione and Kleopatra: Two Princeton Papyri concerning Women in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
Adviser: AnneMarie Luijendijk
Comparative Literature
Musical Alchemy, Temporal Analogy: The Hidden Compositional Models of The Magic Mountain and Doctor Faustus
Adviser: Maria A. DiBattista
Comparative Literature
Khwājū Kirmānī’s Humāy o Humāyūn: Illuminating Issues of Image and Word in Medieval Persian Manuscripts
Advisers: Thomas W. Hare, Michael Barry
Comparative Literature
In the Shadows of Words: Three Modes of Literary Translation and the Bilingual Writer
Advisers: Sandra L. Bermann, Olga P. Hasty
Computer Science
Applying Karnaugh Map Analysis to the Candidate Cryptographic Hash Functions of the NIST SHA-3 Competition
Advisers: Edward W. Felten, Boaz M. Barak
East Asian Studies
The Grass Mud Horse’s Reinless Reign: Towards a New Exploration of Play and Politics in Chinese Cyberspace
Adviser: Martin Kern
East Asian Studies
Sowing the Seeds of J-Horror: The Cross-Fertilization of Japanese and American Horror Cinema
Adviser: Richard H. Okada
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
The Impact of Chronic Stress on Immunity and Reproductive Hormones in Zebu Cattle (Bos indicus)
Adviser: Andrew P. Dobson
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Acaricide Use and the Control of Theileria parva Infection at the Wildlife-Livestock Disease Interface in Kenya
Adviser: Simon A. Levin
Economics
Do Stock Orders Flock Together? An Empirical Analysis of Order Arrival Rates using Hawkes’ Self-Exciting Point Process
Adviser: Jakub W. Jurek
Electrical Engineering
Microwave Photonic Filters for Adaptive Phased Array Antenna Systems
Adviser: Paul R. Prucnal
English
“Mee thinks I play at football withe the stars”: Lady Hester Pulter’s Unpublished Devotion
Adviser: Nigel Smith
French and Italian
Modern Methods: The Intersection of Myth and Science in the Works of Giorgio de Chirico and Primo Levi
Adviser: Pietro Frassica
Geosciences
Reinterpretation of the Elatina Rhythmite Fold Structures: Evidence for a Seasonal Slushball Earth and Giant Impact Lunar Formation ~ 4.4 Ga
Adviser: Adam C. Maloof
Geosciences
Trichodesmium Response to Ocean Acidification
Adviser: François M. M. Morel
German
“Wichtig zu Lernen”: Einverständnis and Body Politics in Brecht’s Lehrstücke
Adviser: Devin A. Fore
German
The Specter of Automation: The Organic and Its Limits in Robert Musil’s Man Without Qualities
Adviser: Michael W. Jennings
History
Moderate Republicans in the Conservative Rise: The Ripon Society, 1962–1982
Adviser: Robert Sean Wilentz
Mathematics
Wavelet Analysis of Paintings by Goswin van der Weyden and Paul Gauguin
Adviser: Robert Calderbank
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Adjoint-Based Design Optimization for Unsteady Flows
Adviser: Luigi Martinelli
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Adhesion and Failure in Stretchable Organic Electronic Systems
Adviser: Winston O. Soboyejo
Molecular Biology
Conditionally Essential and Promiscuous Functions of De Novo Designed Proteins in Escherichia coli
Adviser: Michael H. Hecht
Molecular Biology
From Polysaccharides to Proteins: The Challenge of Vaccination against Serogroup B Meningococcal Disease
Adviser: Adel A. Mahmoud
Music
Links to Fantasy: The Music of The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, and the Construction of the Video Game Experience
Adviser: Noriko Manabe
Near Eastern Studies
Islam and the Black Body: An Investigation of the Role and Instrumentalization of Islam in Two African American Communities
Adviser: Wallace D. Best
Operations Research and Financial Engineering
From Smart Grid Vision to Reality: Agent-Based Modeling of the Smart Grid
Adviser: Alain L. Kornhauser
Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Utility Pricing of Collateralized Debt Obligations
Adviser: K. Ronnie Sircar
Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Relative Pricing of Options and Defaultable Bonds under Stochastic Volatility
Adviser: Ramon van Handel
Physics
Foraging Strategies for Dictyostelium discoideum
Adviser: Ned S. Wingreen
Politics
Originalism in Crisis: The Movement towards Indeterminate Originalism
Adviser: Robert P. George
Politics
The New Supermajority: Judicial Review, Supermajority Voting Rules, and the United States Supreme Court
Adviser: Christopher L. Eisgruber
Psychology
Fortune Favors the Bold (and the Italicized): A Study of Fluency in Classroom Environments
Adviser: Daniel M. Oppenheimer
Religion
New York’s Lost-Found Tribe: Urban Black Youth, Five Percenter Philosophy and Nationalism in the Golden Age of Hip-Hop
Adviser: Wallace D. Best
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Syntax in Aleksandr Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin: A Statistical and Interpretive Approach
Adviser: Michael A. Wachtel
Sociology
Predicting Health Outcomes among the Elderly: Racial Differences in Long-Term Care Transitions and Mortality
Adviser: Scott M. Lynch
Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures
A Devious Odyssey: Roberto Bolaño’s Anti-Epic
Adviser: Angel G. Loureiro
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
An Imperfect Marketplace of Ideas: The Rise of Independent Media in Egypt and Implications for U.S. Policy
Adviser: Daniel C. Kurtzer