Candidates for Degrees in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
# August 2022 Graduate
* February 2023 Graduate
+ Future Award Date
~ Dissertation in Progress
Master of Arts
Ancient Greek and Roman Studies
- Kelly Ann Marie Ahrens*
- Mary Elizabeth Ellen Arendash
- Morgan Christina Barnett
- Rachael Cahoon*
- Emily Elizabeth Damiano*
- Isabella deVito-Brown
- Rebecca Nicole Frankel
- Michelle A. Heeman#
- Theo Merback
- Molly Jane Tartaglia+
- Carlee Lorraine Unger*
Anthropology
- Medha Asthana+
- Abigail Marie Beckham
- Nayonika Chatterjee
- Antonio Gaetano Gioia*
- Sophie Kathleen Katz
- Mariah Morse
- Victor Gabriel Oppenheimer Rodriguez#
- Mickayla Marie Smith+
English & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Andrew Winfield Evans+
- Bryn Arleigh Linderman*
- Kati Michelle Russ*
- Aisha Raquelle Zamor*
History
- Amelie Hawker+
- Jack Hynick
- Lydia Ruth Mathews
- Daniel Peter Shogan
- Danielle Nicole Wallner+
- Tianze Zhu+
Jewish Professional Leadership
- Samuel Max Balogh
- Rachel Esther Dovek
- Annie Elise Fortnow
- Sivan Yona Gopen
- Shira Hartman
- Mitchell Alex Israel
- Matthew Samuel Kaufman
- Hailey Paige Kessler
- Isaac J. Minkoff
- Shachar Pinsky
- Elana Rachel Pogal
- Molly Rose Shuman
- Rachel Lerner Zylberfink
Mathematics
- Alexander Thomson Leighton
- Bryce Anthony Edward Thomson
Music & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Marie Comuzzo+
Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
- Tamar Sarah Aizenberg
Near Eastern and Judaic Studies & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Lingxuan Liang
Philosophy
- Sebastian Masaya Brumfield Mejía*
- William Dempsey*
- Xueqiu Deng*
- Elisabeth Holmes
- Colbert Joseph Sebock Kirchner*
- Anna Mancevice*
- William M. Siegmund*
- John Aran McCormick Szostak*
- Elizabeth Anne Wigton
- Jingyuan Wu
Politics
- Miranda Rose Martin
- Lan Di Ngo*
- Nathanial Alfred Howlett Walker*
Psychology
- Dinia Clairveaux
- Nicole Doherty+
- Kassandra Doran
- Jace Allen Eaton#
- Anya Victoria Keomurjian#
- Xinyu Liu
- Zeyu Xue#
- Ruoying Zhang
- Xinjie Zou
Sociology & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Juliana Morgan Richardson+
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Amelia Elisabeth Fetherolf+
- Olivia Gallmeyer
- jessie neal
- Lila Shakti
- Yi Song
Master of Arts in Teaching
Elementary Education
- Danielle Aviles+
- Geraldine Marie Bogard#
- Steven James D’Alessandro+
- Alexander Regetsy Gamota Jr.+
- Hillary Miriam Haas+
- Elizabeth Louise Huebner+
- Tasmia Ejaz Hussain#
- Anna Lindo+
- Ji In Moon+
- Jacqueline Lucia Mundis#
- Elisabeth Ng#
- Siobhan Erin O’Donnell#
- Francesca Bena Sirignano+
Secondary Education
- Jeffrey Patrick Bombardier#
- Gaia Daelli#
- Joshua Reese Feld#
- Shayna Eve Fidler+
- Tal Golan#
- Dana Homer#
- Patrick Hurley#
- Matthew G. Kolk+
- Walter Jack Komishane#
- Lauren Victoria Landis+
- Rebecca MacKillop+
- Andrew J. Marshall#
- Jenevieve Alyse McCauley#
- Ethan Thurlow Miller#
- Jacob Madison Mitchell#
- Sarah Elizabeth Riley#
- Eric Arthur Rosenheim#
- Lucciana Samir Sarkis+
- Kaitlyn York#
Master of Education
Education Leadership
- Shira Hartman
- Mitchell Alex Israel
- Hailey Paige Kessler
- Shachar Pinsky
Teacher Leadership
- Vered Gadot
- Chana Meira Katz
- Jeffrey Natter
- Diana Ibeth Navarro
- Matthew Aaron Rosenberg
- Mor Sharon
- Pamela Slifer
Master of Fine Arts
Master of Science
Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Salvatore Atkinson LaRussa*
- Carolyn Haught Morningstar
- Luying Pan
- Lufan Xiao
Biotechnology
- Alma Nayelly Castillo Hernandez
- Menachem Gourovitch Drogin
- Cameren Joseph Mastrangelo#
- Aislinn Naveh Mayfield#
- Geyi Wang
- Yi Zhang
- He Zhao
Computational Linguistics
- Ching-wen Chen+
- Yangyang Chen+
- Ginger Grace Ciaburri
- Gabrielle Han Dinh
- William Michael Gardner
- Ryan James Partlan+
- Ruth Rosenblum
- Benjamin Thomas Soli
- Patrick Sonnenberg
- Zhan Tang
- Spencer Thomas
- Tali Tukachinsky
- Xijia Wang
- Melissa Weisberg
- Arsalan Yaghoubi
- Hongjun Yu
- Haoyu Harry Zhu+
Computer Science
- Veronika Belkina
- Guobin Chen*
- Meng-Ku Chen
- Zhijian Chen
- Jing Cheng
- Jingqian Cheng
- Elizabeth Julia Diener*
- Aiden Dumas
- Danqiu Fu*
- Mkhanyisi Gcebani Gamedze*
- Lu Hao
- Jiafan He
- Jian He
- Jeremy Huey
- Ni Jian
- Bradley Clayton Kaplan+
- Wenpeng Lai*
- Jiefang Li
- Peizhao Li
- Ximeng Li
- Yunrui Li
- Tiehuan Lin*
- Lingyu Liu
- Qing Liu*
- Tingwei Liu
- Zihao Liu
- Yiwen Luo
- Muthhukumar Malaiiyyappan
- Nehad Mousa*
- Ijeoma N. Ogbogu
- Alexander Romer
- Kay Afolake Kim Smith
- Christopher Gandek Tighe
- Anjola Uprety
- Chanissara Viboonlarp
- Gillian Yongyi Wang
- Junhao Wang
- Weidong Wang
- Wanyue Xiao*
- Qishi Xing*
- Zhendong Yin*
- Lecheng Zeng
- Yifan Zhang#
Genetic Counseling
- Delany Berry
- Kylie Elise Butler
- Rebecca Lynn Clark
- Silvana Patricia Davila
- Gabriella Marie Hoener Gondran
- Kiera Eileen Klopfenstein
- Kaleigh Liebler
- Lucian Bailey Parece
- Jesika Mae Smith
- Lily Ann Weglarek
Mathematics
- Sarah Margaret May Dennis*
- Jonathan Jay Fang
- Simon Khanh The Huynh
- Rachmiel Klein
- Zachary Larsen
- Tudor Popescu
- August Schmidt
- Kamryn P. Spinelli
Molecular and Cell Biology
- Kevin James Clark#
- Zhantao Du
- Samuel Joseph Furtado*
- Anne Marie Silveira#
- Emily Jane Stadnicki#
- Ilias Vamvakas#
Neuroscience
- Emma Ayame Barash+
- Leila Fatomae Darouey
- Maya Dinero
- Weng Ian Fok#
- Benjamin M. Horsfall*
- Gregory James Pappas Jr.
- Nathalie Monique Vieux-Gresham
Physics
Doctor of Philosophy
Anthropology
- Douglas Alexander Bafford#
The Sins of Our Ancestors: Conservative Evangelical Christianity and Cosmological Responses to Racial Division in Post-Apartheid South Africa - Maya Josepha Dworsky*
It Takes a Nation: Telescopic Temporality and Childhood in Israel - Houman Kooraei Oliaei#
On the Margins of Humanity: Humanitarianism, Displacement, and the Politics of Recognition among Displaced Yezidis
Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Austin Michael Bannister#
Src kinase dissected: conformational dynamics reveal how to hijack natural regulatory mechanisms - Anna Julia Henkin*
Investigations into the Mechanism of CB3A-mediated mTORC1 Inhibition - Karina Saskia Herlambang#
Single-molecule studies of transcription elongation factor dynamics during RNA Polymerase II transcription - Chansik Kim*
Exploiting Natural Traits of Kinases – Double-drugging and Forward Evolution - Ingrid Marko+~
- Michael A. Sennett#
Application and Evaluation of Probabilistic Sequence Reconstructions and Resurrections for Protein Evolution - Lev Tsidilkovski#
Multiscale Modeling Studies of Self-Assembling and Active Systems - Chie Ueda#
The Biophysical and Spectroscopic Characterization of Redox-active Metallocofactors in a Viral Fe-S Protein and a Diiron HD-domain Phosphohydrolase - Daniel Zhou+~
Chemistry
- Tianran Deng*
Organocatalytic Asymmetric α-C-H-functionalization of Amines and Nitriles - Alejandra Gonzalez+~
- Xiang Li
Fundamental Study of Molecular Photoswitches and Their Applications in Energy Storage and Self-Assembly - Gary Michael Marqus
Target Deconvolution of a Mechanistically Distinct Mtb Inhibitor - Daniel Polyak*
Homoallylboration of Aldehydes: Stereoselective Synthesis of E-Alkenes and a Mechanistic Switch to Cyclopropylcarbinylation - Adrianna Nicolette Shy
The Creation of Prodrugs and Heterotypic Assemblies via Enzymatic Instructed Self-Assembly (EISA) - Xingyou Wang#
The Inhibition of Bacterial IMPDHs by Mutagenesis and Kinetic Studies
Computer Science
- Solomon Eisenberg Garber
Video Background Modeling for Efficient Transformations Between Images and Videos - Trung D. Luu+~
- Kyeongmin Rim+~
- Jiarui Yao#
Cross-lingual Temporal and Modal Dependency Parsing
English
- Jordan Clapper#
Teepees in Hexadecimal: Queering and Indigenizing Playable Media - Emiliano Gutierrez-Popoca
Performing a servant’s faithful parts: Master-Servant Relations in Early Modern Drama - Chih-Chien Hsieh#
Caribbean Archipelagraphy: Geographies of the Black Diaspora and Imperial Intimacies - Dominick James Knowles*
Empire’s Foot: Cold War US Poetry & Imperialism in Latin America - Pyunghwa Lee#
The Novelistic Middle and Nineteenth Century Narratives of Midlife - Kemal Onur Toker*
The Poetics of the Sharing Economy: Shakespeare and Milton in the Age of the Leviathan
History
- Jared Berkowitz+~
- April Lynn French#
The Lived Religion of Baptist Women and Children in Soviet Siberia, 1941-1991 - Alexander Thomas Herbert
A Complex Protective Structure: Construction and Controversy of the Leningrad Flood Protection Barrier, 1924-2011 - Nataliia Laas#
Market Research Without a Market: Consumers, the State, and the Economy of Waste in the Soviet Union, 1947-1991
Mathematics
- Te Cao+~
- Ian Montague
Seiberg-Witten Floer K-Theory and Cyclic Group Actions - Charles Stine+~
- Kewen Wang+~
- Yu Xin+~
- Jiajie Zheng+~
Molecular and Cell Biology
- Rey Martin Aguilar Lopez*
Roles of ADF-H domain proteins and their co-factors in promoting actin turnover - Nikita Alimov+~
- Jihyun Choi*
The Repair Mechanisms of DNA Double Strand Breaks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae - Siobhan Everen Gartland*
The small RNA landscape is stable with age and resistant to loss of FOXO signaling in Drosophila - Jenna Harris+~
- Meghan Theresa Harris*
eIF5B Stimulates IRES Activity by Nucleating Biological Condensate Formation - Ajay Larkin+~
- Inés Lucía Patop*
Understanding the cell-specific expression and function of circRNAs in the Drosophila head - Joyce Rigal#
Artificial transposon activity contributes to aging in Drosophila somatic tissue and dFOXO protects against detrimental effect on lifespan. - Thalia Halcyon Sass+~
- Albert Dayuan Yu+~
- Michela Zaffagni*
Unmasking the role of SARS-CoV-2 Nsp14 on the host cell gene expression changes and Adapting Cas13 to Drosophila melanogaster - Felix Zhou
Cell Cycle Arrest and Homology Search During Double-Strand Break Repair in S. Cerevisiae
Music Composition and Theory
- Giuseppe Desiato+~
- Brian Carl Sears*
The Point of Intersection: An Analysis of Interactivity and Synthesis in Historical Models of Mixed Music by Karlheinz Stockhausen and Elainie Lillios; and an original composition, bare. for trumpet, piano, percussion, and live electroacoustics
Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
- Yair Bar Zuri#
Embracing Contradiction in the Writings of Aharon David Gordon and Yosef Haim Brenner - Shirah Malka Cohen
Weaving Sounds into Words: Classical Music in Early 20th Century Modern Japanese and Modern Hebrew Literatures - Robert Bentley DeBoard
Empire, War, and Withdrawal: The End of the British Mandate for Palestine and the 1948 War, August 1947-May 1948 - Rima Farah*
A Predicament of The National Identity of Arabic-speaking Christians in Israel: 1980-2014 - Sarah Elizabeth Gardner Fein#
Conceiving Motherhood: The Reception of Biblical Mothers in the Early Jewish Imagination - Eva Gurevich
Reconstituting Israel: The Impact of the Six-Day War on Political Thought in the Land of Israel Movement (Hatenuah Lemaan Eretz Yisrael Hashlemah) - Bar Guzi#
Insisting on God: Theistic Naturalism in Twentieth-Century American Jewish Thought - Iddo Haklai*
“God is Still Speaking” – The Religious Thought of the Religious-Zionist Labor Movement in Mandatory Palestine, 1922-1948 - Lenin J. Prado+~
- Karen Louise Spira#
Disadvantaged and Orphaned Jewish Children in Palestine, 1881-1939
Neuroscience
- Mohamed Adel Hamed Abdelgalil+~
- Susannah Elizabeth Adel+~
- Juliet E. Bottorff+~
- Tyler Jacob Hill+~
- Aishwarya Krishnamoorthy
Understanding the physiological functions of circMbl and MBL in Drosophila melanogaster - Jasmine Quynh Le
Neuronal and molecular bases of circadian, wake, and sleep behaviors in Drosophila melanogaster - Abuzar Mahmood
On Dynamic Neural Responses and Neural Network Interactions during Taste Processing - Amy L. Scalera+~
- Derek L. Wise*
Maladaptive Homeostatic Plasticity: Impact of Prolonged Silencing on Cellular Hyperexcitability - Ryan A. Young+~
Physics
- Aldric Anto Rosario Alexis Rosario+~
- Prajita Bhattarai
Standard Model Precision Measurements with two Z bosons and two jets in ATLAS - Francesca Capocasa+~
- Jiayi Chen#
Probing new physics in the vector boson fusion production of Higgs bosons - Arnab Datta+~
- Alastair James Grant-Stuart#
Categorical structures in algebraic quantum field theory - Harsha Ramesh Hampapura+~
- Narges Kelly+~
- Bibi Najma+~
- Jishnu Narayanan Nampoothiri#
A Tensor Gauge Theory Framework for Elasticity in Jammed Solids - Sarvesh Sunil Uplap+~
- Zahra Zarei+~
Politics
- Mika Rachel Hackner
The End of the Party: Party Banning in Multi-Party Democracies - John Cayce Huguley#
Chokepoints and Consensus: The Origins and Evolution of Multilaterial Export Control Regimes - Lan Di Ngo
After the Fact: How States Respond to Faits Accomplis - Holly Eloise Robbins
Wielding Care: Democracy, Injustice, and Obligation
Psychology
- Runqiu Jin*
Distinguishing Risk and Difficulty in Human Visual Balancing - Xin Yao Lin#
Social Technology Use and Well-Being: The Role of Social Support and Physical Activity - Jennifer J. Wicks*
How Social Support Adaptively and Maladaptively Influences Depression Risk - Wanbing Zhang*
Mnemonic Effect of Imagining Loss and Gain