KELLEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, GRADUATE DIVISION
Friday, April 11, 2025, 8:00 am
Business
Tipnis, Vinit
Understanding Nonprofit Dynamics: The Role of Behavior in Volunteering and Fundraising
Hodge Hall 7301
Chair: Prof. Christopher Chen / Fei Gao, (812-855-5268 / 812-855-9984)
Monday, April 14, 2025, 1:00 pm
Business
Lee, Hong
Essays in Industrial Organization
Hodge Hall 2080
Chair: Prof. Jeff Prince, (812-856-2692)
Thursday, April 24, 2025, 1:00 pm
Business
Lee, Yeejee
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)
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
Thursday, April 03, 2025, 9:00 am
History
Riley, Meghan
A Sword Trembles Overhead: American Humanitarian Relief in the Concentration Camps of Unoccupied France, 1939-42
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Mark Roseman, (812-855-8325)
Thursday, April 03, 2025, 3:00 pm
Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Williams, Shaun
Singing for the Roma: Lautari and the Politics of Romani Memory and Identity in Romania Under Communism and Post-Socialist Transition
Classroom Office Building, Room 261
Chair: Prof. Daniel Reed, (812-320-9687)
Friday, April 04, 2025, 1:00 pm
Chemistry
Lin, Sheng
Indium Chloride-Promoted Thioether Bond Formation: A Gateway to Diverse Natural Products
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Michael VanNieuwenhze, (812-856-7545)
Friday, April 04, 2025, 1:00 pm
Religious Studies
Kim-Kort, Rachel
KOREANITY: CITIZENSHIP, TRANSPACIFIC ENTANGLEMENTS, AND THE RACIALIZING ASSEMBLAGES OF AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY
Sycamore Hall
Chair: Prof. Sarah Imhoff, (812-855-3458)
Thursday, April 10, 2025, 11:30 am
Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Warner-Evans, Hilary
Sense of Place, Community, and Traditionalization in the Maine Songs of Albert L. “Bert” Baily: A Folkloristic Study of the Role of the Local Song in the Twenty-First Century
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Ray Cashman, (812-856-2774)
Thursday, April 10, 2025, 1:00 pm
Physics
Hermanek, Keith
On the Effective Field Theories of Highly Enhanced Muon Mass and Dipole Operators
Swain West 130
Chair: Prof. Radovan Dermisek, (812-856-6918)
Thursday, April 10, 2025, 1:00 pm
Economics
Stevens, Miles
Essays on Institutions, Trade, and Political Economy
Wylie Hall 225
Chair: Prof. Volodymyr Lugovskky, (812-856-4594)
Friday, April 11, 2025, 1:00 pm
Economics
Berryhill, Andrew
Three Essays on the Political Economy of Fiscal Rules
Wylie Hall 225
Chair: Prof. Gustavo Torrens, (812-856-8131)
Monday, April 14, 2025, 10:00 am
Genome, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Ladaika, Christopher
Targeting Enteroendocrine Cell Differentiation in Colorectal Cancer
Simon Hall 001
Chair: Prof. Heather O'Hagan, (812-855-3035)
Monday, April 14, 2025, 11:00 am
Classical Studies: Latin and Greek
Kochman, Sidney
Forensic Fabulae: Story Structures in Attic Orations
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Matthew Christ, (812-855-6651)
Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 2:30 pm
Chemistry
Christudas Beena, Nayana
Composition-Structure-Property Relationships of Layered Photocatalysts
Chemistry Building, CH033
Chair: Prof. Sara Skrabalak, (812-856-1892)
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 12:30 pm
Physics
Edelson, Charles
Visual Information Processing in Dynamic Natural Scenery
Swain West 130
Chair: Prof. Rob de Ruyter, (812-855-6857)
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 12:45 pm
Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Boehm, Emma
Local adaptation along a latitudinal gradient and phenotypic responses to a changing world in a winter annual plant
Biology Building 001
Chair: Prof. Jennifer Lau, (269-270-4236)
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 2:00 pm
Sociology
Kirchoff, Alisha
Protecting the Promise: Organizational Impression Management and the Legal Services Corporation
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Fabio Rojas, (812-855-2924)
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 2:15 pm
Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Katsougia, Eleni
Evolution of nuclear receptor-mediated function in a resource polyphenism
Ballantine Hall, Room 203
Chair: Prof. Erik Ragsdale, (812-856-1946)
Thursday, April 17, 2025, 10:00 am
Folklore and Ethnomusicology
VerMeulen, Caroline
Diversity Within: Tradition and Identity Among Irish Traveller Women
Classroom Office Building, Room 261
Chair: Prof. Ray Cashman, (812-856-2774)
Friday, April 18, 2025, 9:00 am
Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
DeBlieux, Turner
Toward a mechanistic understanding of the community ecology of disease
Biology Building A100
Chair: Prof. Spencer Hall, (812-855-6009)
Friday, April 18, 2025, 9:30 am
Economics
Wu, Qian
Essays in Macroeconomics and Finance
Wylie Hall 225
Chair: Prof. Bulent Guler, (812-855-7791)
Friday, April 18, 2025, 10:30 am
Mathematics
Kim, Young Ho
Singular Abreu equations and linearized Monge-Ampère equations with drifts
Rawles Hall Room 368
Chair: Prof. Nam Le, (812-855-8538)
Friday, April 18, 2025, 12:30 pm
Microbiology
Paul, Payel
An in-depth study of the regulation and function of the type III secretion system mediated pathogenesis in Vibrio campbellii
Simon Hall 001
Chair: Prof. Julia van Kessel, (812-856-2235)
Friday, April 18, 2025, 1:30 pm
Mathematics
Lee, Yi-Lin
Enumeration of non-intersecting paths and related tiling problems
Rawles Hall RH 127
Chair: Prof. Mihai Ciuci, (812-855-6731)
Friday, April 18, 2025, 2:00 pm
Neuroscience / Psychology
Modak, Priyamvada
Decision-Making Under Subjective and Objective Goals
Psychology Room 137C
Chair: Prof. Joshua Brown / Prof. Aina Puce, (812-855-9282 / 812-856-0417)
Monday, April 21, 2025, 10:00 am
Germanic Studies
Rylander, Luke
Abortion and Infanticide in Goethe's Faust
Global and International Studies Building, GA2134
Chair: Prof. Johannes Turk, (812-855-1642)
Monday, April 21, 2025, 1:00 pm
Astronomy
Goyal, Armaan
Statistical Investigations of Small-Planet Architectures
Swain West 405
Chair: Prof. Songhu Wang, (812-855-2400)
Monday, April 21, 2025, 1:00 pm
Spanish / Linguistics
Santiago, Arroniz Parra
Compensatory Cues of /s/ Reduction in Voiced Stop Consonants in Western Andalusian Spanish
Global and International Studies Building GA 2067
Chair: Prof. Erik Willis / Prof. Sandra Kubler, (812-855-8494 / 812-855-3268)
Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 11:00 am
Linguistics
Tian, Zuoyu
Language Change in Ancient Chinese: a Computational Approach
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Sandra Kuebler / Prof. Patricia Amaral, (812-855-3268 / 812-855-8577)
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
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, 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, 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
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)
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)
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, 9:30 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)
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, 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)
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, 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)
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, GRADUATE DIVISION
Tuesday, April 08, 2025, 2:30 pm
History, Philosophy and Policy Studies in Education
Mclean Bent, Shelly
Governance for culturally responsive schooling in Indigenous and ethnic communities: The case of the Afro-Colombian Studies Program and the Raizal community
Wright Education Building 4214
Chair: Prof. Patricia Kubow, (812-855-0172)
Monday, April 21, 2025, 9:30 am
Special Education
Chiang, Yu-Shan
Family-Centeredness in Supporting Families of Children with Disabilities
Wright Education Building 3269
Chair: Prof. Ana Maria Brannan, (812-856-8119)
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)
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)
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)
SCHOOL OF INFORMATICS, COMPUTING, AND ENGINEERING, GRADUATE DIVISION
Friday, April 04, 2025, 10:30 am
Information Science
Gumusel, Ece
User Privacy Dynamics in Conversational Text-based AI Chatbots: Understanding Harms, Risks, and Strategies for Mitigation
ILS Conference Room, Luddy Hall, IF 2122
Chair: Prof. Howard Rosenbaum, (812-855-3250)
Monday, April 07, 2025, 9:00 am
Intelligent Systems Engineering
Ranawaka, Isuru
Distributed Memory Algorithms for High-Dimensional Data Embedding
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Ariful Azad, (765-237-2417)
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 11:00 am
Informatics
Caven, Peter
Applying User-centric Communication Strategies to Mitigate Cybersecurity Risks and Increase Transparency
612 N Park Ave
Chair: Prof. Jean Camp, (812-855-6617)
Friday, April 18, 2025, 2:00 pm
Informatics
Ibrahim, Zaidat
Investigating the Impact of Faith on the Design of Personal Health Informatics Tools: Unpacking Muslim Menstruators' Health and Tracking Practices
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. James Clawson, (404-408-0048)
Monday, April 21, 2025, 10:30 am
Intelligent Systems Engineering
Akkas, Selahattin
Fast and Accurate Explanations of Graph Neural Networks
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Ariful Azad, (765-237-2417)
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)
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)
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)
THE MEDIA SCHOOL, GRADUATE DIVISION
Friday, April 04, 2025, 3:00 pm
Media Arts and Sciences
Anderson, Johnathan
Controlling the Game: Sports Fan Reactions to NFL Victories and Defeats in Mediated Sport
Franklin Hall 330H
Chair: Prof. Walter Gantz, (812-855-1621)
Friday, April 18, 2025, 12:30 pm
Media Arts and Sciences
Chen, Bevis Hsin-Yu
Addressing False Information on Online Platforms: Examining Taiwan’s Regulatory Framework and Proposing Policy Recommendations
Franklin Hall
Chair: Prof. Julien Mailland, (812-855-1532)
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 LAW, GRADUATE DIVISION
Friday, April 04, 2025, 6:00 pm
Law and Democracy
Kim, Kwangsup
PRESIDENTIAL POWER AND DEMOCRACY
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Susan Williams, (812-855-6319)
SCHOOL OF MUSIC, GRADUATE DIVISION
Thursday, April 10, 2025, 1:30 pm
Musicology
McCandless, Bret
You've Got to Be Carefully Taught: A History of Educational Programs for Musical Theater Writers, 1940-2000
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Judah Cohen, (812-855-4137)
Monday, April 21, 2025, 9:00 am
Music Theory
Park, Jinny
Diatonic Chord Loops in Post-millennial Pop Harmony
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Kyle Adams, (812-855-1859)
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 OPTOMETRY, GRADUATE DIVISION
Friday, April 04, 2025, 9:30 am
Vision Science
Bernucci, Marcel
AO-OCT imaging of individual cone photoreceptors reveals human spectral sensitivity and quantum efficiency: implications for human color vision and cone opsin genetics
Atwater Eye Care Center, Vistakon Room (Room 250)
Chair: Prof. Donald Miller / Prof. Stephen Burns, (812-679-6077 / 812-855-4447)
SCHOOL OF GLOBAL AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, GRADUATE DIVISION
Tuesday, April 08, 2025, 9:30 am
Central Eurasian Studies
Kraytkraemer, Michael
"One Reads with One's Heart": Islamic Texts and History in 20th-Century East Turkestan
Global and International Studies Building 4067
Chair: Prof. Ron Sela, (812-856-7017)
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)
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS, GRADUATE DIVISION
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 3:00 pm
Public Affairs
Fantoni, Marylis
Channel, Communication and Composition: Improving Reporting of Domestic Violence
O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Room A225
Chair: Prof. Claudia Avellaneda, (812-856-9026)
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 / Prof. Claudia Avellaneda, (812-856-7290 / 812-856-9026)
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)
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Thursday, April 17, 2025, 1:00 pm
Human Performance / Neuroscience
Watkins, Janette
Hoosier Sport Re-Social: Developing and Evaluating a Community-based Biobehavioral Intervention to Enhance Sport Participation and Body Positivity
School of Public Health, room PH C100
Chair: Prof. Kyle Kercher / Prof. David Koceja, (406-399-0888 / 812-855-7302)
Monday, April 21, 2025, 1:00 pm
Health Behavior
Baugh, Mika
The Sexual Health Education, Research, and Training (SHERT) Project: A Blind-Led, Blind-Centered Sexual Health Education Intervention for Blind Adults
School of Public Health, room PH C100
Chair: Prof. Alison Greene, (812-855-9805)
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)
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)
