KELLEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, GRADUATE DIVISION
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, 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
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)
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
English
Tscherry, Laura
Architectures of the Queer Domestic: Intimacy and Kinship in Communal Spaces
Ballantine Hall 403
Chair: Prof. Judith Brown, (812-855-8224)
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)
Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 2:00 pm
Spanish
Di Maggio Ferraro, Genoveva
Beyond vistes: a sociolinguistic and diachronic study of second-person singular preterite verb ending variation.
Global and International Studies Building GA2134
Chair: Prof. Manuel Diaz-Campos, (812-855-4526)
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, May 26, 2025, 10:00 am
Biochemistry
Du, Jianqiu
Structure-Guided Design of Therapeutic Antibody and Engineering of TCR
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Adam Zlotnick, (812-856-1925)
Tuesday, May 27, 2025, 1:00 pm
Gender Studies
Wang, Suisui
Just Listen: Hotline Activisms and Technopolitics of Crisis
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Sara Friedman, (812-856-4595)
Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 9:00 am
French
Fouchereaux, Claire
Redefining the nation? Rap, communities, and institutions in Québec
Global and International Studies Building, room 1060
Chair: Prof. Vincent Bouchard, (812-856-2549)
Friday, May 30, 2025, 1:00 pm
Genome, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Huang, Yi-Ting
The regulation of unscheduled endocycling cell growth and their impact on tissue growth
Biology Building 248
Chair: Prof. Brian Calvi, (812-855-5450)
Monday, June 02, 2025, 10:00 am
Statistical Science
Kim, Jongwook
Parametric Modeling of Intrinsic Structure Covariance Functions for Non-Homogeneous and Non-Stationary Spatio-Temporal Random Processes on the Sphere
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Chunfeng Huang, (614-558-3972)
Tuesday, June 03, 2025, 10:00 am
Sociology
Brooks, Caroline
Invisible Illness and the Self: Exploring the Interplay of Migraine, Social Networks, and Identity
Karl Schuessler Institute for Social Research (KSISR) Room 100
Chair: Prof. Brea Perry, (812-855-4127)
Wednesday, June 04, 2025, 10:00 am
History and Philosophy of Science
Yao, Siyu
Connecting the Stars: Narrative Knowledge, Coherence, and Productive Research in Astronomy
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Jordi Cat, (812-855-8806)
Wednesday, June 04, 2025, 11:00 am
Mathematics
Lim, Ahram
A Bicategory Approach to Hermitian Morita Theory
Rawles Hall 104
Chair: Prof. James Davis, (812-855-5069)
Thursday, June 05, 2025, 12:00 pm
Psychology / Neuroscience
Sepe-Forrest, Linnea
An Examination of Early Psychotropic Drug Use and Serious Mental Illness in Youth
Psychology Building 137C
Chair: Prof. Patrick Quinn / Prof. Brian D'Onofrio, (8-12-855-9789 / 812-856-0843)
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
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, May 27, 2025, 1:00 pm
Higher Education
Hawkins, Chandler
We Have Always Been Beautiful: A Critical Narrative Analysis Examining Black Undergraduate Women's Experiences With (Un)Desirability
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Lucy LePeau, (812-856-8392)
Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 10:00 am
Higher Education
Askew, Da'Ja'Nay
THE POWER OF CONNECTION: HOW FACULTY INTERACTIONS SHAPE BLACK STUDENTS’ HIGHER EDUCATION EXPERIENCES AT PRIVATE LIBERAL ARTS INSTITUTIONS
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Chair: Prof. Lucy LePeau, (812-856-8392)
Thursday, May 29, 2025, 10:00 am
Higher Education
Hu, Tien-Ling
Fostering Student Success: A Multi-Article Dissertation on Access, Equity, and Quality in Undergraduate Research
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Chair: Prof. Victor Borden, (317-652-0402)
Friday, June 06, 2025, 10:00 am
Literacy, Culture and Language Education
Jeon, Jaeho
Chatbot-Assisted Dynamic Assessment for Critical L2 Reading: Toward a Teacher-AI Collaborative Model
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Chair: Prof. Serafin Coronel-Molina, (812-856-8232)
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
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Chair: Prof. Serafin Coronel-Molina, (812-856-8232)
SCHOOL OF INFORMATICS, COMPUTING, AND ENGINEERING, GRADUATE DIVISION
Wednesday, May 07, 2025, 2:00 pm
Computer Science
Liu, Yuchen
Representation Learning for Enhanced Audio Privacy: Towards Robust and Secure Conversational Agents
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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)
Friday, June 06, 2025, 2:00 pm
Informatics
Wu, Yuxing
Designing Everyday Family Technologies: Supporting Health and Wellbeing in Family-Food Interactions with Children
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Chair: Prof. Chia-Fang Chung / Prof. Elizabeth Kaziunas, (206-696-1912 / 610-297-1344)
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)
Thursday, July 10, 2025, 10:00 am
Informatics
Balladichanda, Rachith Aiyappa
Towards Empirically Validated Models of Cogno-Social Belief Dynamics
Luddy AI Building Conference Room 2005
Chair: Prof. Yong-Yeol Ahn, (812-856-2920)
THE MEDIA SCHOOL, GRADUATE DIVISION
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 GLOBAL AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, GRADUATE DIVISION
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)
Tuesday, May 27, 2025, 1:00 pm
Middle Eastern Languages and Culture
Yang, Fang-Yu
Women’s Representation and Gender-Biased Attitudes in Democratic Legislatures: Evidence from Cultural Measurements in Israel and Taiwan
Global and International Studies Building, room 2067
Chair: Prof. Aziza Khazzoom, (812-855-4323)
Tuesday, June 03, 2025, 10:00 am
Middle Eastern Languages and Culture / Anthropology
Nighswander, Tyler
Baboons and Behaviors: Inquiries about the Great Chain of Being and Primate Cognitive Science
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Chair: Prof. Tom Schoenemann / Prof. John Walbridge, (812-855-8800 / 812-855-8689)
Thursday, June 05, 2025, 3:00 pm
Central Eurasian Studies
Durmaz, Mustafa
A Kurmanji Kurdish Reference Grammar
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Oner Ozcelik, (812-219-3683)
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS, GRADUATE DIVISION
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
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
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Chair: Prof. Lucia Guerra-Reyes, (812-856-7663)
Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 9:00 am
Health Behavior
Qin, Weisiyu
LONGITUDINAL IMPACTS OF FAMILY RULES ON CANNABIS USE IN EARLY ADOLESCENCE AND YOUNG ADULTHOOD
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Dong Chul Seo / Prof. Kit Elam, (812-855-0695 / 812-855-0695)
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)
