Commencement 2023

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*
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Anthropology
  • Medha Asthana+
  • Abigail Marie Beckham
  • Nayonika Chatterjee
  • Antonio Gaetano Gioia*
  • Sophie Kathleen Katz
  • Mariah Morse
  • Victor Gabriel Oppenheimer Rodriguez#
  • Mickayla Marie Smith+
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Anthropology & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Julie Marion Scesney
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Chemistry
  • My Le
  • Joshua M. Litterio*
  • Qi Zhang
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Chinese Language and Culture
  • Sijia Li
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English
  • Sydney Adams*
  • Zhijiu Yu*
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English & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Andrew Winfield Evans+
  • Bryn Arleigh Linderman*
  • Kati Michelle Russ*
  • Aisha Raquelle Zamor*
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History
  • Amelie Hawker+
  • Jack Hynick
  • Lydia Ruth Mathews
  • Daniel Peter Shogan
  • Danielle Nicole Wallner+
  • Tianze Zhu+
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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
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Mathematics
  • Alexander Thomson Leighton
  • Bryce Anthony Edward Thomson
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Music & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Marie Comuzzo+
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Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
  • Tamar Sarah Aizenberg
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Near Eastern and Judaic Studies & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Lingxuan Liang
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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
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Politics
  • Miranda Rose Martin
  • Lan Di Ngo*
  • Nathanial Alfred Howlett Walker*
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Psychology
  • Dinia Clairveaux
  • Nicole Doherty+
  • Kassandra Doran
  • Jace Allen Eaton#
  • Anya Victoria Keomurjian#
  • Xinyu Liu
  • Zeyu Xue#
  • Ruoying Zhang
  • Xinjie Zou
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Sociology & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Juliana Morgan Richardson+
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Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Amelia Elisabeth Fetherolf+
  • Olivia Gallmeyer
  • jessie neal
  • Lila Shakti
  • Yi Song
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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+
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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#
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Master of Education

Education Leadership
  • Shira Hartman
  • Mitchell Alex Israel
  • Hailey Paige Kessler
  • Shachar Pinsky
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Teacher Leadership
  • Vered Gadot
  • Chana Meira Katz
  • Jeffrey Natter
  • Diana Ibeth Navarro
  • Matthew Aaron Rosenberg
  • Mor Sharon
  • Pamela Slifer
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Master of Fine Arts

Music Composition and Theory
  • Jingmian Gong
  • Nhat Minh Nguyen
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Master of Science

Biochemistry
  • Spencer Inman Clark
  • Anthony Kounga Djoko
  • Van Thanh Nguyen
  • Le Anh Thu Pham
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Biochemistry and Biophysics
  • Salvatore Atkinson LaRussa*
  • Carolyn Haught Morningstar
  • Luying Pan
  • Lufan Xiao
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Biology
  • Leah Adelle Farinella
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Biotechnology
  • Alma Nayelly Castillo Hernandez
  • Menachem Gourovitch Drogin
  • Cameren Joseph Mastrangelo#
  • Aislinn Naveh Mayfield#
  • Geyi Wang
  • Yi Zhang
  • He Zhao
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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+
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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#
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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
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Mathematics
  • Sarah Margaret May Dennis*
  • Jonathan Jay Fang
  • Simon Khanh The Huynh
  • Rachmiel Klein
  • Zachary Larsen
  • Tudor Popescu
  • August Schmidt
  • Kamryn P. Spinelli
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Molecular and Cell Biology
  • Kevin James Clark#
  • Zhantao Du
  • Samuel Joseph Furtado*
  • Anne Marie Silveira#
  • Emily Jane Stadnicki#
  • Ilias Vamvakas#
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Neuroscience
  • Emma Ayame Barash+
  • Leila Fatomae Darouey
  • Maya Dinero
  • Weng Ian Fok#
  • Benjamin M. Horsfall*
  • Gregory James Pappas Jr.
  • Nathalie Monique Vieux-Gresham
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Physics
  • Zachary A. Curtis
  • Emily Rose Duden
  • Olivia Soule Leland
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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
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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+~
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Mathematics
  • Te Cao+~
  • Ian Montague
    Seiberg-Witten Floer K-Theory and Cyclic Group Actions
  • Charles Stine+~
  • Kewen Wang+~
  • Yu Xin+~
  • Jiajie Zheng+~
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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
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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
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Musicology
  • Eric Hollander+~
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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
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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+~
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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+~
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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
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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
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Sociology
  • Thomas Eugene Bertorelli+~
  • Ann Gavin Ward+~
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