KELLEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, GRADUATE DIVISION
Thursday, April 24, 2025, 1:00 pm
Business
Lee, Yejee
When, Where, and How: Firm Responsiveness to Social and Environmental Sustainability Shocks
Hodge Hall M&E Main Conference room
Chair: Prof. Stephanie Wang, (812-856-7946)
Monday, April 28, 2025, 1:00 pm
Business
Jackson, Brittani
The Relation between Internal Control Quality and Distressed Firm Business Viability
Hodge Hall 7300
Chair: Prof. Marcy Shepardson / Prof. Joseph Schroeder, (512-538-8780 / 317-417-8391)
Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 2:00 pm
Business
Lee, Jaewook
Three Essays on Leader Expectations and Perfectionism
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Cristiano Guarana, (812-855-5437)
Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 2:00 pm
Business
Kim, Jaesik
House Hunting in the Dark: The Impact of State-Regulated House Price Disclosures on Mortgage Access
Hodge Hall 5103
Chair: Prof. Brian Miller, (812-855-2606)
Monday, May 05, 2025, 2:30 pm
Business
Li, Meng
Essays on Digital Marketing and AI-Generated Content
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Shibo Li, (812-855-9015)
Friday, May 30, 2025, 10:00 am
Business
Palley, Thomas
Essays on Operations and Decision Analysis in Public Policy
Godfrey Center 2063
Chair: Prof. Owen Wu / Prof. Oguz Cetin, (812-855-2676 / 919-808-6712)
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, GRADUATE DIVISION
Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 4:00 pm
Chemistry
Rezvani, Fereshteh
Effects of Ligand and Support Coordination on Metal-Ligand Single-Atom Catalysts in Water-Gas Shift and Carbon Monoxide Oxidation Reactions
Chemistry Building, CH033
Chair: Prof. Steven Tait, (812-855-1302)
Thursday, April 24, 2025, 2:30 pm
Economics
Kim, Hee Soo
Essays on Climate-Macro linkages: Investigating Macroeconomic Responses to Weather Variation
Wylie Hall Room 225
Chair: Prof. Christian Matthes, (812-855-3567)
Thursday, April 24, 2025, 2:30 pm
Linguistics
Nyamahanga, Richard
ASPECTS OF THE PHONOLOGY OF KIHEHE
Indiana Memorial Union, Sassafras Room
Chair: Prof. Stuart Davis, (812-855-2043)
Thursday, April 24, 2025, 4:00 pm
Chemistry
Bowers, Scott
Mechanistic Studies of Molecular Catalysts for Electrochemical CO2 Reduction, and Their Heterogenization
Chemistry Building, CH033
Chair: Prof. Liang-shi Li, (812-361-9044)
Friday, April 25, 2025, 12:30 pm
Microbiology
Mazney, Brittany
Bacterial metabolic Trait Evolution: From an Organismal to Community Perspective
Simon Hall 001
Chair: Prof. James McKinlay, (812-855-0359)
Friday, April 25, 2025, 1:00 pm
Chemistry
Mehfooz, Mohammad Azhar
Near-Infrared Responsive Gold Nanorods for Enediyne Cyclization: A Light-Triggered Platform for Selective Antimicrobial Therapy
Chemistry Building, Room 033
Chair: Prof. Jeffrey Zaleski, (812-855-2134)
Friday, April 25, 2025, 4:00 pm
Chemistry
Che, Minwei
Computer-Aided Design of Supramolecular Receptors and SMILES Materials
Chemistry Building, CH033
Chair: Prof. Krishnan Raghavachari, (812-322-2824)
Monday, April 28, 2025, 10:00 am
Economics
Zhuang, Huiqi
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Wylie Hall 225
Chair: Prof. Ruli Xiao, (812-855-3213)
Monday, April 28, 2025, 1:00 pm
Chemistry
Zeng, Xuyao
Glycosylation of exosomes during wound healing of diabetic mice
Chemistry Building, Room 033
Chair: Prof. David Clemmer, (812-322-6803)
Monday, April 28, 2025, 2:00 pm
History
Martinez-Osorio, Margarita
“Our Land Was a Work of Art”: Peasant Mobilization, Gender, and Utopias of Land in the Colombian Caribbean, 1950s-1970s
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Arlene Diaz / Prof. Diana Ojeda, (812-272-1595 / 812-837-6765)
Monday, April 28, 2025, 3:00 pm
Spanish
Wray, Madison
Evaluating acquisitional opportunities and student attitudes in elementary DLI and FLEX Spanish classrooms
Global and International Studies Building GA2067
Chair: Prof. Laura Gurzynski-Weiss, (812-855-6392)
Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 9:15 am
Neuroscience / Psychology
Cutts, Sarah
Localizing Spatiotemporal Sources of Subject Variation in Functional Brain Networks
Psychology Building, Room 128
Chair: Prof. Olaf Sporns / Prof. Rick Betzel, (812-855-2772 / 812-856-7468)
Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 1:00 pm
History
Spaeth, Elizabeth
THE COSMOPOLITANS: THE INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION FROM LIBERAL INTERNATIONALISM TO NEOLIBERAL GLOBALIZATION (1919–2003)
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Cara Caddoo / Prof. Ellen Wu, (812-855-7581 / 812-855-6344)
Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 2:00 pm
Psychology / Cognitive Science
Jo, Youngheun
An edge-centric perspective on dynamic brain networks across the human lifespan
Psychology Room A312
Chair: Prof. Richard Betzel / Prof. Olaf Sporns, (812-856-7468 / 812-855-2772)
Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 1:00 pm
Psychology
Freiburger, Erin
Trustworthiness is Gleaned from Gendered Facial Cues Differently across Target Gender & Race
Multidisciplinary Science Building ll, 2nd Floor Conference Room
Chair: Prof. Kurt Hugenberg, (513-420-7860)
Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 2:00 pm
Economics
Luu, Khoi
Essays on Regime-Switching DSGE Models
Wylie Hall 225
Chair: Prof. Yoosoon Chang, (979-777-8742)
Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 2:30 pm
Chemistry
Huizenga, Caleb
Exploration of the Properties of Bare Lanthanide Oxide Clusters in the Gas Phase using Anion Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Computational Chemistry
Chemistry Building, CH033
Chair: Prof. Caroline Jarrold, (812-856-1190)
Thursday, May 01, 2025, 10:00 am
Economics
Kang, Nayeon
Three Essays in Behavioral Macroeconomics
Wylie Hall Room 225
Chair: Prof. Christian Matthes, (812-855-3567)
Thursday, May 01, 2025, 1:00 pm
History and Philosophy of Science
Wells, Brenton
Aristotelian Approaches to Plant Classification in the Renaissance (1530 to 1630)
Ballantine Hall 901
Chair: Prof. Domenico Bertoloni Meli, (812-855-8746)
Thursday, May 01, 2025, 1:00 pm
Psychology / Neuroscience
Niou, Zhen-Xian
Role of NMNAT2 in Axonal Health and Cortical Energy Homeostasis: Insights from Metabolic Reprogramming and Sarm1 Ablation
Multidisciplinary Science Building II (MSBII), Gill Conference Room 102
Chair: Prof. Hui-Chen Lu / Prof. Ken Mackie, (812-856-9663 / 812-855-2042)
Thursday, May 01, 2025, 1:00 pm
Chemistry
Lyu, Jianen
Bugs as Drugs – Exploring Attenuated Listeria Monocytogenes as a Cancer Therapeutics Delivery Vector
Chemistry Building, CH033
Chair: Prof. Michael VanNieuwenhze, (254-710-3311)
Friday, May 02, 2025, 12:30 am
Microbiology
Green, Virginia
Gene regulation at the membrane: the mechanism and regulation of transmembrane transcriptional regulators in bacteria
Simon Hall 001
Chair: Prof. Ankur Dalia, (812-856-1895)
Friday, May 02, 2025, 9:00 am
American Studies
Doi, Elizabeth
Journey to the Ireito: Japanese American Community Pilgrimages as Practices of Identity, Story, Place, and Repair
Ballantine Hall 550
Chair: Prof. Karen Inouye, (812-855-7718)
Friday, May 02, 2025, 9:30 am
History
Lanz, Jonathan
The Birkenau Boys: Childhood Experiences, Postwar Identity, and Memory in a Community of Holocaust Survivors
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Mark Roseman, (812-855-8325)
Friday, May 02, 2025, 10:00 am
English
Perez-Cancino, Bianca
Domestic Maritime Masculinity in British Novels of the Sea, 1815-1915
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Rae Greiner, (812-855-8224)
Friday, May 02, 2025, 10:00 am
Microbiology
Stark, Nicole
The Role of Pseudouridine Synthases and Pseudouridine RNA Modifications in Alphavirus Replication
Biology Building A100
Chair: Prof. Richard Hardy, (812-856-0652)
Friday, May 02, 2025, 12:00 pm
Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Myers, Micky
Traditionally Underrepresented: The Narratives of First-Generation College Students
Classroom Office Building, Room 261
Chair: Prof. Diane Goldstein, (812-327-3209)
Friday, May 02, 2025, 2:00 pm
Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Benli Garcia Guerrero, Ezgi
Listening to Alevis: Community, Religiosity, and Spirituality in Muhabbet Gatherings
Classroom Office Building, Room 261
Chair: Prof. David McDonald, (812-855-0396)
Friday, May 02, 2025, 3:00 pm
English
Fladager, Daniel
Forms of Preservation: Writing the Environment and Drawing Boundaries in the American West
Harlos House
Chair: Prof. Christoph Irmscher, (443-622-3277)
Monday, May 05, 2025, 10:00 am
Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Bianchi, Emily
Monastic Memories at Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village
Classroom Office Building, Room 261
Chair: Prof. Ray Cashman, (812-856-2774)
Monday, May 05, 2025, 2:00 pm
History
Kingsley, Liam
Of Primary Concern: Health Administration, HIV/AIDS, and Namibian Independence
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. John Hanson, (812-855-5212)
Tuesday, May 06, 2025, 9:00 am
Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Lopezalles, Sierra
Quantitative Functional Morphology of the Mammalian Humerus and its Implications for Estimating Body Mass and Maximum Running Speed
Geological Sciences 2033
Chair: Prof. David Polly, (812-855-7994)
Tuesday, May 06, 2025, 10:00 am
Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Williams, Jennie
Adapting Tradition: Stories of Community, Aging, and Music Participation in Southern Indiana
Classroom Office Building, Room 261
Chair: Prof. Rebecca Dirksen, (812-855-4124)
Tuesday, May 06, 2025, 10:00 am
Spanish
Guo, Jingyi
The acquisition of anaphoric direct objects in a third language: A variationist perspective
Global and International Studies Building GA 2134
Chair: Prof. Patricia Amaral / Prof. Manuel Diaz-Campos, (812-855-8577 / 812-856-5462)
Tuesday, May 06, 2025, 1:00 pm
Germanic Studies
Kniess, Tyler
Nasalization and nasal vowels in the Swabian dialect of Horb: A phonological analysis of Kauffmann 1890
Global and International Studies Building 3067
Chair: Prof. Tracy Alan Hall, (812-855-1640)
Tuesday, May 06, 2025, 1:30 pm
Economics
Pyun, Do-Yeon
Econometric Models with Functional Observations
Wylie Hall Room 225
Chair: Prof. Joon Park / Prof. Yoosoon Chang, (812-856-0268 / 812-855-8035)
Tuesday, May 06, 2025, 2:00 pm
Psychology / Cognitive Science
Hu, Mingjia
Examining self-directed learning of natural science categories through adaptive learning systems
Psychology Building, PSY128
Chair: Prof. Robert Nosofsky / Prof. Ben Motz, (812-855-2534 / 812-855-0318)
Tuesday, May 06, 2025, 9:00 pm
Sociology
Davis, Jasmine
Tress Code: Hair, Identity, and the Politics of Black Womanhood in the Professional World
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Fabio Rojas, (812-856-1491)
Wednesday, May 07, 2025, 9:00 am
Geography
Wahab, Sharif
Refugee Habitats: Producing and Maintaining Displaceable Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh
Student Building SB159
Chair: Prof. Ishan Ashutosh, (812-856-2834)
Wednesday, May 07, 2025, 10:00 am
Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences / Neuroscience
Alexander, Julianne
Silent Strategies: Inner Speech and Problem Solving in Aphasia
Regional Academic Health Center Room C1020A
Chair: Prof. Brielle Stark / Prof. Gavin Bidelman, (812-855-7760 / 812-855-9339)
Wednesday, May 07, 2025, 11:00 am
Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Campbell-Maher, Lydia
Singing Resilience: A Life History of Irish Sean-nós Singer Eilís Ní Shúilleabháin
Classroom Office Building, Room 261
Chair: Prof. Daniel Reed / Prof. Ray Cashman, (812-320-9687 / 812-856-2774)
Wednesday, May 07, 2025, 11:00 am
Geological Sciences / Anthropology
Hawley, Kirsten
Communities and Clays: Exploration of cultural landscape in La Altagracia, Dominican Republic through investigating archaeological site formation and local heritage practices
Geology Building Room 2049
Chair: Prof. Claudia Johnson / Prof. Anne Pyburn, (812-855-0646 / 812-855-2563)
Wednesday, May 07, 2025, 1:00 pm
Geography
Fobi, Daniel
Agricultural Policies and Soil Health Management in Ghana.
Indiana Memorial Union, Maple Room
Chair: Prof. Annie Shattuck, (812-855-9552)
Wednesday, May 07, 2025, 1:00 pm
Psychology
Bove, Rebecca
Drawing as a Learning Tool for Cognitive Abilities in Children
IUB Psychological & Brain Sciences and 137C
Chair: Prof. Karin James, (812-856-0659)
Wednesday, May 07, 2025, 1:30 pm
Religious Studies
Wenig, Josie
The Helicopter and the Idol: Religion in Feminist Theory and Transgender Art
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Sonia Velazquez, (812-855-3458)
Wednesday, May 07, 2025, 2:00 pm
Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Pappa Eddy, Emmie
Keep the Girls Shaking: Preserving Occupational Knowledge at the Burlesque Hall of Fame Museum
Classroom Office Building, Room 251
Chair: Prof. Pravina Shukla, (812-856-1715)
Wednesday, May 07, 2025, 2:30 pm
Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Green, Isaiah
Echoes of Hope in the Smokies: Expressive Culture, Environmental Change, and Economic Development in Southern Appalachia
Classroom Office Building, Room 272
Chair: Prof. Rebecca Dirksen, (812-855-4124)
Thursday, May 08, 2025, 1:00 am
Political Science
Stanko, John
How Leaders in Highly Centralized, Structurally Disadvantaged States Utilize the International for the Benefit of Their Regime: A Foreign Policy Analysis of Small Power Authoritarian States
Woodburn Hall 218
Chair: Prof. Sumit Ganguly, (650-724-5484)
Thursday, May 08, 2025, 1:00 pm
Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Ling, Micah
Dressing Tradition: Visual Culture, Performance, and Historical Imagination in American Old-Time Music
Classroom Office Building, Room 261
Chair: Prof. Pravina Shukla, (812-856-1715)
Friday, May 09, 2025, 10:00 am
Germanic Studies
Harris, Jane
GKS 1010 fol. (Hrokkinskinna), a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript of the Norwegian Kings' Sagas – Studies on Codicology, Provenance, and Language
Global and International Studies Building 3134
Chair: Prof. Christopher Sapp, (812-856-4404)
Monday, May 12, 2025, 10:00 am
English
Tscherry, Laura
Architectures of the Queer Domestic: Intimacy and Kinship in Communal Spaces
Ballantine Hall 403
Chair: Prof. Judith Brown, (812-855-8224)
Monday, May 12, 2025, 10:00 am
Mathematics
Simanjuntak, Ricky
The Blaschke Model for Cubic Polynomial Main Hyperbolic Component
Rawles Hall 368
Chair: Prof. Kevin Pilgrim, (631-371-1997)
Monday, May 12, 2025, 10:00 am
Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Neupane, Suyash Kumar
Sounds and Tastes: A Sensory Ethnography in the South of Nepal
Classroom Office Building, Room 261
Chair: Prof. Rebecca Dirksen, (812-855-4124)
Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 11:00 am
Psychology / Cognitive Science
Hasan, Eeshan
The Training-Deployment Cycle of Humans and Machines in Medical Artificial Intelligence
Geology Building 6050G
Chair: Prof. Jennifer Trueblood / Prof. Robert Goldstone, (812-855-2012 / 812-272-5226)
Tuesday, May 13, 2025, 2:00 pm
French
Marvasi, Antonio
Le discours critique européen dans les revues à l’époque de la crise de l’esprit
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Nicolas Valazza / Prof. Oana Panite, (812-855-5764 / 812-855-1134)
Wednesday, May 14, 2025, 1:30 pm
Economics
Berger, Jack
Essays on Random Consideration in Empirical Industrial Organization
Wylie Hall Room 225
Chair: Prof. Ruli Xiao, (812-855-3213)
Thursday, May 15, 2025, 10:30 am
Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Perez, Sierra
Resilience mechanisms of grassland plant communities to global change
Biology Building 009
Chair: Prof. Jennifer Lau, (269-270-4236)
Friday, May 16, 2025, 11:00 am
Sociology
Heilman, Monica
Morally Fraught Identities: How Multiracial Individuals Navigate Race and Whiteness
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Dina Okamoto, (812-855-2209)
Monday, May 19, 2025, 11:00 am
Genome, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Mahaptra, Ananya
Molecular mechanisms of post-transcriptional gene regulation mediated by ADARs in the Caenorhabditis elegans nervous system
Simon Hall 001
Chair: Prof. Heather Hundley, (812-856-7245)
Thursday, May 22, 2025, 1:30 pm
Geological Sciences
Quagraine, Kwesi
Investigating the Drivers of Co-Occurring Weather Phenomena and Atmospheric Rivers, and Their Effects on Precipitation
Patton Room, Geology Building
Chair: Prof. Travis O'Brien, (530-417-2640)
Monday, June 23, 2025, 10:00 am
Geography
Watkins, Jennifer
Who Profits from the Plate? Labor and Power in the U.S. Restaurant Industry
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Daniel Knudsen, (812-855-6303)
Friday, August 15, 2025, 10:00 am
Mathematics
Cho, Myung Sin
K-theoretic Tate-Poitou duality at prime 2
Rawles Hall 127
Chair: Prof. Michael Mandell, (812-855-8524)
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, GRADUATE DIVISION
Monday, April 28, 2025, 9:00 am
Learning and Development Science
Harris III, Robert
Expansive Framing as a Pathway for Fostering
Transfer of Teacher Preparation to Diverse Contexts
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Daniel Hickey, (812-822-3436)
Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 12:00 pm
Learning Sciences
Vickery, Morgan
Towards a Critical-Participatory Framework for Body-Inclusive Embodied Learning Activity
Wright Education Building 2140
Chair: Prof. Joshua Danish, (812-856-8330)
Thursday, May 01, 2025, 2:00 pm
Curriculum and Instruction
Pol, Mariah
Learning in the aftermath of a historical harm: Transforming U.S. teachers' peace education conceptualizations and practices through an international learning experience in Northern Ireland
School of Education, Room 2277
Chair: Prof. Alexander Cuenca, (786-897-5337)
Thursday, May 01, 2025, 3:30 pm
Higher Education
Nguyen, Stephanie
Asian American Studies in the Midwest: An Organizational History of Program Building, 1970-2010
Wright Education Building 4204
Chair: Prof. Andrea Walton, (812-856-8358)
Friday, May 02, 2025, 9:00 am
Curriculum and Instruction
Al Hosni, Samira
Faculty Perceptions of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in an Undergraduate Teacher Education Program at a Midwestern Public University
School of Education, ED 2277
Chair: Prof. Patricia Kubow, (812-855-0172)
Tuesday, May 06, 2025, 10:00 am
Learning Sciences
Ryan, Zachary
Playful participatory design: Centering youths' heterogeneous perspectives of nature-culture relations through playful learning experiences
Wright Education Building 2140
Chair: Prof. Joshua Danish, (812-856-8330)
Tuesday, May 06, 2025, 11:00 am
Curriculum and Instruction
Kaminski, Chelsea
Teacher Appraisal by Peers and Principals: The Effect on Teacher Self-Efficacy in France, Italy, and Portugal
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Alexander Cuenca, (812-856-8357)
Tuesday, May 06, 2025, 2:00 pm
Higher Education
Copeland, Olivia
Prisms of Possibility: A Three-Manuscript Dissertation of LGBTQ+ Students' Social Media Use
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Cindy Ann Kilgo, (812-856-8391)
Wednesday, May 07, 2025, 1:00 pm
Curriculum and Instruction
Ponella, Debbi
Cultivating Creativity: An A/r/tographic Excavation
Wright Education Building 2277
Chair: Prof. Mary McMullen, (812-856-8393)
Thursday, May 08, 2025, 10:00 am
Curriculum and Instruction
Cowden, Ryan
Leadership in an election year: The gatekeeping decisions of social studies department chairs
Wright Education Building 2277
Chair: Prof. Alexander Cuenca, (786-897-5337)
Wednesday, May 14, 2025, 10:00 am
History, Philosophy and Policy Studies in Education / Sociology
Akada, Takuya
The Cultural Construction of Motives for Higher Education in Cambodia
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Bradley Levinson / Prof. Timothy Hallett, (812-856-8359 / 812-856-1426)
Monday, May 19, 2025, 10:00 am
Curriculum and Instruction
Duarte Mejia, Iris
Mental Processes Underlying Responsive Mathematics Teaching with Middle School Students: A Researcher Self Study.
Wright Education Building 3125
Chair: Prof. Amy Hackenberg, (812-345-3577)
Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 11:00 am
Special Education
Ahmed, Gelan
Mental Health and Coping Strategies of Refugee Parents of Children with ASD: A Case Study
Wright Education Building 3269
Chair: Prof. Jeffrey Anderson, (812-856-8155)
Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 2:00 pm
Literacy, Culture and Language Education
Kwon, Suok
Configuring Knowledge Diaspora: A Critical Ethnographic Case Study with Korean Doctoral Students on Translingual Practices and Transnational Identities Construction at a U.S. University
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Serafin Coronel-Molina, (812-856-8232)
SCHOOL OF INFORMATICS, COMPUTING, AND ENGINEERING, GRADUATE DIVISION
Thursday, April 24, 2025, 1:30 pm
Computer Science
Zaman, Ishtiak
A study of human preferences through computer vision and large scale data.
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. David Crandall, (812-856-1115)
Monday, April 28, 2025, 11:15 am
Informatics
Kaiser, Daniel
Computational methods for the reconstruction of real multiplex networks
Luddy Center for Artificial Intelligence Room 2005
Chair: Prof. Filippo Radicchi, (812-855-9322)
Monday, April 28, 2025, 2:00 pm
Informatics / Neuroscience
Pope, Maria
The organization of the human brain: an interplay of anatomy, dynamics and information
Psychology 128
Chair: Prof. Olaf Sporns / Prof. Rick Betzel, (812-855-2772 / 812-856-7468)
Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 10:30 am
Cognitive Science / Informatics
Merritt, Haily
Connection & Context: Brain network organization varies across social environments
Luddy AI Building Conference Room 2005
Chair: Prof. Richard Betzel / Prof. Olaf Sporns, (812-856-7468 / 812-855-2772)
Wednesday, April 30, 2025, 1:00 pm
Informatics
Plank, Nicholas
The Digital Tribuna:
Recontextualizing Sculpture and Historical Experience in Digital 3D
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Bernard Frischer, (310-266-0183)
Friday, May 02, 2025, 10:00 am
Computer Science
Chen, Tianyu
The Holy Grail of Gradual Security
Luddy Hall 1106 Dorsey Auditorium
Chair: Prof. Jeremy Siek, (812-855-7241)
Monday, May 05, 2025, 10:00 am
Informatics
DeVerna, Matthew
Social Media Misinformation: Spread, Impact, and Fact-checking with Large Language Models
Luddy Center for Artificial Intelligence Room 2005
Chair: Prof. Filippo Menczer, (812-856-1377)
Wednesday, May 07, 2025, 2:00 pm
Computer Science
Liu, Yuchen
Representation Learning for Enhanced Audio Privacy: Towards Robust and Secure Conversational Agents
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Apu Kapadia / Dr. Donald Williamson, (812-856-1465 / 812-856-3716)
Wednesday, May 07, 2025, 3:00 pm
Informatics
Truong, Bao Tran
Computational Approaches to Moderation on Social Media
Luddy AI Building Conference Room 2005
Chair: Prof. Filippo Menczer, (812-856-1377)
Friday, May 09, 2025, 12:00 pm
Information Science
Wang, Haining
Defending Against Authorship Attribution Attacks With Large Language Models
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Allen Riddell, (812-856-4730)
Thursday, May 15, 2025, 1:00 pm
Informatics / Cognitive Science
Tanner, Jacob
Unifying Frameworks for Neuroscience: The Convergence of Networks, Dynamical Systems, and Complex Systems
Luddy Center for Artificial Intelligence Room 2005
Chair: Prof. Richard Betzel / Prof. Randall Beer, (812-856-7468 / 812-856-0873)
Monday, May 19, 2025, 9:00 am
Informatics
Collins, Sawyer
Companionship, Introspection, and Care: Exploring the Adaptability and Customization of a Socially Assistive Robot Design for Those Living with Depression
Luddy AI Building, Room 2001
Chair: Prof. Selma Sabanovic, (812-856-0386)
Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 12:00 pm
Informatics
Hsu, Long-Jing
Designing Technology For and With Care
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Selma Sabanovic / Prof. Chia-Fang Chung, (812-856-0386 / 408-861-3700)
Thursday, June 12, 2025, 12:00 pm
Computer Science / Linguistics
Kuznetsova, Anastasia
Data efficiency and model complexity reduction
for speech processing systems
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Minje Kim / Prof. Francis Tyers, (217-419-8372 / 812-351-0853)
THE MEDIA SCHOOL, GRADUATE DIVISION
Monday, May 05, 2025, 1:00 pm
Media Arts and Sciences
Moon, Junghyun
Perceptions of Public Opinion Polls and Their Influence on Willingness to Share Polling News: Developing and Validating a Measure of Polling Distrust and Exploring Its Role.
Franklin Hall 030J
Chair: Prof. Jason Peifer, (812-855-2755)
Tuesday, May 06, 2025, 2:00 pm
Media Arts and Sciences
Liu, I-Lin
Before the Wave: Art Film Culture in Taiwan, 1945–1982
Franklin Hall 230M
Chair: Prof. Gregory Waller, (812-855-5721)
Thursday, May 15, 2025, 2:00 pm
Media Arts and Sciences
Mudavadi, Kevin
Navigating the Winds of Change: Forces Shaping Journalistic Role Conception in Kenya
Franklin Hall 230M
Chair: Prof. James Shanahan, (812-855-1963)
SCHOOL OF MUSIC, GRADUATE DIVISION
Friday, April 25, 2025, 4:00 pm
Musicology
Belt, Chelsey
Re-Stringing the Lyre: Monody and the Performance of Poetry in Early Seventeenth-Century Italy
Simon Music Center SM356
Chair: Prof. Massimo Ossi, (812-855-7965)
SCHOOL OF GLOBAL AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, GRADUATE DIVISION
Tuesday, May 06, 2025, 9:00 am
Central Eurasian Studies
Stranger, Emily
The Axis of Resistance in Virtual Space: Media Perspectives of Iranian Proxy Militias
Global and International Studies Building, room 3067
Chair: Prof. Jamsheed Choksy, (317-989-4178)
Friday, May 23, 2025, 9:00 am
Central Eurasian Studies
Han, Rabia
From Soviet Union to Independent Uzbekistan: An Intersectional Perspective of Women's Roles and Challenges
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Marianne Kamp, (812-855-4394)
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS, GRADUATE DIVISION
Thursday, April 24, 2025, 3:00 pm
Public Affairs
Navarro, Luis
Essays on Fiscal Federalism and Debt Management
O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs A275
Chair: Prof. Justin Ross, (812-856-7559)
Thursday, May 01, 2025, 11:00 am
Public Affairs
Salcedo Monroy, Dario
Essays in Public Policies and Health Economics
O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Conference Room 316
Chair: Prof. Kosali Simon, (812-856-3850)
Thursday, May 01, 2025, 11:00 am
Environmental Science
Bravo Pena, Felipe
Socioecological Resilience in Smallholder and Indigenous Farming Systems: Interplay of Agrobiodiversity, Network Dynamics, and Collective Institutions.
O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs Room A225
Chair: Prof. Landon Yoder, (812-856-7290)
Thursday, May 01, 2025, 1:00 pm
Public Affairs
Fisher, Megdalynn
Policy and Unintended Consequences in Healthcare Quality: The Case of Long-term Care
O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Room 318
Chair: Prof. Kosali Simon, (812-856-3850)
Thursday, May 08, 2025, 4:00 pm
Environmental Science
Hoover, Bode
Nitrous Acid, Hydroxyl Radicals, and Volatile Organic Compounds: Measurements, Model Predictions, and Implications for Atmospheric Chemistry in Semi-Urban and Forested Environments
O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs A225
Chair: Prof. Philip Stevens, (812-856-0863)
Thursday, May 15, 2025, 1:00 pm
Public Affairs
Peng, Lanjun
Bureaucratic behavior and public finance
O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Conference Room A225
Chair: Prof. Justin Ross, (812-856-7559)
Friday, June 13, 2025, 1:00 pm
Public Affairs
Park, Wooserk
Essays on Equitable Urban Economics
O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs room A225
Chair: Prof. Ashlyn Nelson, (812-855-5599)
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 1:00 pm
Epidemiology
Beidelman, Erika
Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) in Rural South Africa: The Impact of Lifetime Stress and Infectious Disease Exposure on PAD Development and Outcomes
School of Public Health, room PH C100
Chair: Prof. Molly Rosenberg, (812-856-2509)
Thursday, May 01, 2025, 11:30 am
Leisure Behavior
Gerth, Jonathan
The impact of a medical specialty camp for youth with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (and me)
IU Bloomington Innovation Center, Room 156
Chair: Prof. Evan Jordan / Prof. Misty Hawkins, (269-830-8302 / 812-797-5756)
Thursday, May 01, 2025, 1:30 pm
Epidemiology
Harton, Moriah
Examining the Prospective Relationship Between Polysubstance Use of Alcohol, Cannabis, and/or Nicotine and Non-Prescribed Opioid Use in a Longitudinal Cohort of Nationally Representative Young Adults
School of Public Health, room PH C100
Chair: Prof. Maria Parker, (812-856-5950)
Monday, May 05, 2025, 3:00 pm
Health Behavior
Ward, Michaella
Disability and Sexual Health Education in Medical Training: Identifying Gaps and Barriers using Medical Students' Perspectives and Experiences
School of Public Health, room PH C100
Chair: Prof. Lucia Guerra-Reyes / Prof. Catherine Sherwood-Laughlin, (812-856-7663 / 812-855-2673)
Thursday, May 08, 2025, 10:00 am
Health Behavior
Marquez Lameda, Rossmary
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AS A STRATEGY TO ANALYZE TEXTUAL DATA GENERATED BY ORGANIZATIONS: AN APPLICATION EXAMPLE USING MEDIA ANALYSIS REPORTS COLLECTED DURING EMERGENCY RESPONSES
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Lucia Guerra-Reyes, (812-856-7663)
Wednesday, July 23, 2025, 1:00 pm
Health Behavior
Khan, Shahzarin
Sexual Pleasure Experiences of South Asian Women in the USA
School of Public Health, room PH C100
Chair: Prof. Eric Walsh-Buhi, (812-855-4867)
