Special Notice
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the University Graduate School has updated its guidelines for conducting thesis and dissertation defenses. Click here for more information.
Schedule Your Defense
One of the last steps to obtaining your doctoral degree is to defend your dissertation. Once you have finalized your dissertation, you must schedule and announce your defense.
First, arrange a mutually agreeable time with your committee. Set up the oral exam at least 30 days prior to when you wish to defend. Provide all members of your committee with a complete copy of your dissertation at least 30 days before the defense so they will have sufficient time to read and criticize your work.
Announce Your Defense
Once the date of your defense has been established, you should complete the Ph.D. Defense Announcement Submission through OneStart. The announcement e-doc must reach the University Graduate School at least 30 days before the date of your defense. The University Graduate School begins counting the 30 days from the date your e-doc is received by our office. We recommend that you submit the e-doc at least 40 days before your defense date to allow time for the e-doc to route for approval through your academic department.
The summary should be informative and contain a brief statement of the principal results and conclusions. Unlike the abstract, which is intended for specialists in the field, an attempt should be made in the summary to communicate the findings in language and style that can be understood by the University community at large. The summary should be no less than 150 and no more than 300 words in length.
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Once announced, the time and place cannot be changed without the approval of the dean of the University Graduate School.
Ordinarily, the defense is conducted here at Indiana University, but under extraordinary circumstances other arrangements can sometimes be made. Prior approval must be obtained from your committee and the University Graduate School.
After submitting your Ph.D. Defense Announcement Submission e-doc, track your document to ensure timely approval. Retain the email confirmation containing your document ID.
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At Your Defense
Have your committee sign the acceptance and abstract pages of your dissertation at the defense.
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Upcoming Announcments
This list of scheduled Ph.D. dissertation defenses is distributed so that faculty may attend or see the full announcement. If you are a faculty member and wish to see the full announcement, please call the University Graduate School Office at (812) 855-8853. If you wish to attend, please contact the committee chair in advance as a courtesy.
KELLEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, GRADUATE DIVISION
Monday, July 11, 2022, 2:00 pm
Business
Mayo, Kevin
Operational Antecedents and Impacts of Turnover
Hodge Hall 7301
Chair: Prof. George Ball / Prof. Kurt Bretthauer, (812-856-0625 / 812-855-3487)
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, GRADUATE DIVISION
Tuesday, June 28, 2022, 10:00 am
History
Ransford, Amy
Trading Women: Race, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in the Hudson River Watershed, 1600 - 1730
Remote defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. Sarah Knott, (218-856-0092)
Tuesday, June 28, 2022, 10:00 am
Germanic Studies
Christner, Bettina
How Literature Produces Presence
Remote defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. Fritz Breithaupt, (812-272-4361)
Tuesday, June 28, 2022, 11:00 am
Economics
Seidel, Joseph
Essays on experimental asset markets and financial decision making
Wylie Hall Room 225
Chair: Prof. Daniela Puzzello, (812-856-5419)
Tuesday, June 28, 2022, 9:00 pm
Economics
Song, Xiaoxue
Labor Market Heterogeneity: Implications for Labor Market Dynamics and Macroeconomic Policy
Remote defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. Yoosoon Chang, (812-855-8035)
Wednesday, June 29, 2022, 1:00 pm
Anthropology
DeMuth, Robert
Beyond Labor - Archaeologies of Race and Childhood in a West Virginia Coal Company Town
Remote defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. Stacie King, (812-855-3900)
Thursday, June 30, 2022, 2:00 pm
Psychology
Karmazyn Raz, Hadar
BEYOND NAMING MOMENTS: A MODEL OF HOW TIME-EXTENDED SOCIAL INTETACTIONS SUPPORT RAPID OBJECT NAME LEARNING IN INFANTS
Psychology Building PY-128
Chair: Prof. Linda Smith, (812-855-6052)
Tuesday, July 05, 2022, 8:00 am
Economics
Choi, Mijung
Three essays in Econometrics
Remote defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. Yoosoon Chang / Prof. Joon Park, (812-855-8035 / 812-856-0268)
Tuesday, July 05, 2022, 12:00 pm
Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences
Merritt, Brandon
Perceptual Representation of Speaker Gender
Remote defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. Tessa Bent, (812-856-3279)
Wednesday, July 06, 2022, 11:00 am
Economics
Cardozo, Marcos
Essays in Coordination Games
Wylie 225
Chair: Prof. Daniela Puzzello, (812-856-5419)
Monday, July 11, 2022, 9:00 am
Mathematics
Byun, Seok Hyun
Generalization of MacMahon's theorem and related problems
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Mihai Ciucu, (812-855-6731)
Tuesday, July 12, 2022, 8:30 am
Economics
Ding, Siying
Trade, Banking, and Taxation
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Ahmad Lashkaripour / Prof. Volodymyr Lugovskyy, (812-855-9531 / 812-856-4594)
Wednesday, July 13, 2022, 10:00 am
Religious Studies
Kulisz, Abby
Sacred Friendship, Holy Hatred: Christian-Muslim Encounters with the Book in the Medieval Middle East
Hamilton Lugar School of Global & International Studies, Room 2134
Chair: Prof. Jeremy Schott, (812-855-3531)
Wednesday, July 13, 2022, 1:00 pm
Genome, Cell, & Developmental Biology; Neuroscience
Rylee, Johnathan
A multimodal approach to identifying factors involved in terminal photoreceptor differentiation
A multimodal approach to identifying factors involved in terminal photoreceptor differentiation
Chair: Prof. W. Dan Tracey / Prof. Andrew Zelhof, (812-856-2574 / 812-855-0294)
Wednesday, July 13, 2022, 2:00 pm
Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures
Esshali, Abdullah
Simplifications of English three-member coda clusters by Saudi Najdi Arabic EFL learners
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Salman Alani, (812-855-8555)
Thursday, July 14, 2022, 2:00 pm
Astronomy
Agostino, Christopher
On the Hunt for AGN: an exploration of the observational diversity of active galaxies
Swain West 319
Chair: Prof. Samir Salim, (812-855-4340)
Monday, July 18, 2022, 11:00 am
Religious Studies
Afaqi, Mian Ahmed Shaheer
Music Lessons: Al-Ghazali's Sonic Emotional Artistry
Center for Religion and the Human (E, 1211 Atwater Ave, Bloomington, IN 47401) - Conference Room
Chair: Prof. Constance Furey / Prof. Kevin Jaques, (812-272-8313 / 812-272-8313)
Monday, July 18, 2022, 4:00 pm
Chemistry
Johnstone, James
The influence of shell structure on near-barrier fusion of neutron-rich nuclei
Chemistry CH033
Chair: Prof. Romualdo deSouza, (812-855-3767)
Tuesday, July 19, 2022, 11:00 am
French
Robu, Cristina
THE NARRATIVIZATION OF THE SICK BODY OF THE OTHER IN CONTEMPORARY QUEBECOIS LITERATURE AND CINEMA
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Oana Panaite, (812-855-1134)
Tuesday, July 19, 2022, 1:00 pm
Psychology
Sherman, Janelle
"All I Have to Give": The Impact of Perceptions of a Romantic Target's Lay Theory of Relational Identity Capacity on Interpersonal Outcomes
Remote defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. Edward Hirt, (812-855-4815)
Tuesday, July 19, 2022, 2:00 pm
Geography
Khodaee, Mahsa
Integrating remote sensing and field observations to investigate the impacts of vegetation dynamics on emergent ecological and hydrological processes at the watershed scale
Student Building Room 005
Chair: Prof. Taehee Hwang / Prof. Scott Robeson, (812-855-6303 / 812-855-7722)
Tuesday, July 19, 2022, 2:00 pm
History
Sutton, Jazma
Borderline Freedom: Black Women and Transition from Slavery to Freedom in East Central Indiana, 1816-1865
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, (812-855-2030)
Wednesday, July 20, 2022, 9:30 am
Evolution, Ecology, & Behavior
Ramesh, Ashwini
The paradox of the parasite: Ecological mechanisms of parasite species coexistence
Simon Hall 001
Chair: Prof. Farrah Bashey-Visser / Prof. Spencer Hall, (812-855-1962 / 812-855-6009)
Wednesday, July 20, 2022, 1:00 pm
Criminal Justice
Ducate, Caitlin
Masculinity, Femininity, & Crime: How Threats to Gender Explain Crime and Deviance
Wright Education Building, Room 1084
Chair: Prof. Jonathan Brauer, (812-856-7234)
Thursday, July 21, 2022, 1:00 pm
Psychology
Joshi, Mansi
Beyond Boys' Clubs: How Female Leaders Shape Perceived Network Structures in STEM
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Amanda Diekman, (812-856-7516)
Friday, July 22, 2022, 2:00 pm
Mathematics
Agarwal, Sanjana
THH of Morava E-theory spectrum E2
Rawles Hall 104
Chair: Prof. Michael Mandell, (812-855-8524)
Monday, July 25, 2022, 10:00 am
Communication & Culture
Braverman, Lisa
Intentionally Unsolvable: U.S. Congressional Rhetorics of Human Migration, 1981-2018
Student Building 159
Chair: Prof. Ilana Gershon, (812-856-3728)
Monday, July 25, 2022, 1:00 pm
Philosophy
Buckley, Daniel
Evidence and Epistemic Normativity
Remote defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. Adam Leite, (812-856-4148)
Wednesday, July 27, 2022, 1:00 pm
Evolution, Ecology, & Behavior
Dury, Guillaume
Gene by Environment Interactions, Genetic Variation and the Evolution of Plasticity Within and Across Generations
Simon Hall 001
Chair: Prof. Jennifer Lau / Prof. Michael Wade, (269-270-4236 / 812-856-4680)
Thursday, July 28, 2022, 11:00 am
Political Science
Luo, Simon
The Afterlives of a Revolution: Memories of the Cultural Revolution and Political Possibilities in Contemporary China
Woodburn Hall 218
Chair: Prof. Jeffrey Isaac, (812-855-8605)
Thursday, July 28, 2022, 1:00 pm
Mathematics
Sanford, Sean
Fusion Categories over Non-Algebraically Closed Fields
Rawles Hall 368
Chair: Prof. Julia Plavnik, (812-855-0433)
Friday, July 29, 2022, 2:00 pm
Physics
Xu, Qiaoru
Topology and Dynamics of Midgap Bosonic Excitations
Swain Hall West, room 214
Chair: Prof. Gerardo Ortiz, (812-855-0367)
Tuesday, August 02, 2022, 1:30 pm
Psychology
Ozier, Elise
Motives Matter: Communicating STEM Faculty Mindset Beliefs Through Course Syllabi
Remote defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. Mary Murphy, (812-855-4581)
Thursday, August 04, 2022, 1:00 pm
Genome, Cell, & Developmental Biology
Raghava Kurup, Reshma
ADAR3-mediated regulation of gene expression and A-to-I editing in glioblastoma cells
Simon Hall 001
Chair: Prof. Heather Hundley, (812-855-0675)
Thursday, August 04, 2022, 3:00 pm
Astrophysics (Astronomy)
Kader, Justin
Multiple Populations in Globular Clusters of the Galactic Bulge
Swain West 130
Chair: Prof. Catherine Pilachowski, (812-855-6913)
Monday, August 08, 2022, 1:00 pm
Mathematics
Condon, Daniel
LOZENGE TILINGS OF DENTED HEXAGONS
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Mihai Ciucu, (812-855-6731)
Wednesday, August 10, 2022, 12:00 pm
Physics
Dawid, Sebastian
Three-body scattering amplitudes in the B-matrix formalism
Swain Hall West, 214
Chair: Prof. Adam Szczepaniak, (812-855-1247)
Wednesday, August 10, 2022, 2:30 pm
Chemistry
McKenzie, Eric
Electroreduction of Aryl Halides Through Homo- and Heterogeneous Electron-Transfer Catalysis
Chemistry (CH) 001
Chair: Prof. Stephen Jacobson, (812-855-6620)
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, GRADUATE DIVISION
Thursday, June 30, 2022, 10:30 am
Literacy, Culture, & Language Education
Helstrom, Kirstin
What Lies Beneath: Exploring Beliefs and Practices of Legal Writing Education toward Increasing Transparency in Legal Academia
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Mary Beth Hines, (812-856-8290)
Monday, July 11, 2022, 10:00 am
Counseling Psychology
Gonzalez, Nayely
Greek Life Affiliation and Perceptions of Campus Regarding Sexual Violence: Impact on Bystander Intervention Confidence
Remote defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. Ellen Vaughan, (812-856-8243)
Monday, July 11, 2022, 11:00 am
Special Education
Liu, Xinyue
Parents' Competence in Mediating Social learning for Toddlers With Autism
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Hannah Schertz, (812-856-8146)
Wednesday, July 13, 2022, 10:00 am
Literacy, Culture, and Language Education
Hoffmann, Geoffrey
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE (ICC) DEVELOPMENT: PERCEPTIONS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS FROM A 400-LEVEL ELECTIVE CHINESE LANGUAGE COURSE
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Martha Nyikos, (812-856-8272 )
Monday, July 18, 2022, 1:00 pm
Higher Education
Washington, Sylvia
You Know It When You See It: The Influence of Television on Black College Women Meaning Making
Remote defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. Megan Palmer, (317-274-5231)
Tuesday, July 19, 2022, 1:00 pm
Curriculum & Instruction
Ataide Pinheiro, Weverton
At the intersections: Queer high school students' experiences with the teaching of mathematics for social justice
Remote defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. Erik Tillema, (812-345-3652)
Saturday, July 23, 2022, 3:00 pm
Literacy, Culture, and Language Education
Jeong, Weejeong
The Effects of Certain Linguistic Features and Genre of Test Prompt as Predictors of College Writing Placement
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Beth Lewis Samuelson / Prof. Raymond Smith, (812-856-8256 / 812-856-8246)
Friday, July 29, 2022, 3:00 pm
Higher Education
Ash, Richard
Discounting and discovery: how hybrid courses impact faculty job contentment in post-secondary educational institutions
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Thomas Nelson Laird, (812-856-8366)
Tuesday, August 02, 2022, 10:00 am
Higher Education
Lyness Reifel, Sara
Faculty Motivation to Participate in Instructional Development Programs
Wright Education Bldg 4204
Chair: Prof. Victor Borden, (812-856-0855)
Tuesday, August 09, 2022, 10:30 am
Counseling Psychology
Karipidis, Theoklitos
The Impact of Covid-19 on Identity Formation, Coping, and College Transition of NCAA Greek Student-Athletes
Wright Education Bldg 0034
Chair: Prof, Jesse Steinfeldt, (812-856-8331)
SCHOOL OF INFORMATICS, COMPUTING, AND ENGINEERING, GRADUATE DIVISION
Monday, July 11, 2022, 10:00 am
Intelligent Systems Engineering
Zokaee, Farzane
Bio-Specific Hardware Accelerators: from Emerging Devices to Bio-Informatics Applications
Remote defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. Lei Jiang, (812-855-7728)
Tuesday, July 26, 2022, 2:00 pm
Computer Science
Rashidi, Farid
Scalable Tumor Phylogeny Inference and Validation from Single-Cell RNA or DNA Data
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. S. Cenk Sahinalp, (812-369-6927?)
Wednesday, July 27, 2022, 1:00 pm
Computer Science
Torres Lugo, Christopher
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN: ON THE DETECTION OF COORDINATED INAUTHENTIC BEHAVIOR ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND ITS LIMITS
Luddy Center for Artificial Intelligence, room 2058
Chair: Prof. Filippo Menczer, (812-856-1377)
Tuesday, August 02, 2022, 12:30 pm
Computer Science
Ahmad, Imtiaz
Towards User-Centric Sensor Designs for Addressing Privacy Concerns with Shared Smart Devices
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Apu Kapadia, (812-856-1465)
THE MEDIA SCHOOL, GRADUATE DIVISION
Friday, July 15, 2022, 9:30 am
Media Arts & Sciences
Zheng, Xia
Do Negative Messages Backfire? Motivated Psychophysiological Responses to Political Messages
Franklin Hall - conference room 230M
Chair: Prof. Annie Lang, (812-340-4528)
Wednesday, August 03, 2022, 7:00 pm
Media Arts & Sciences
Silvestri, Anthony
Excess, Archival Labor, and the Production of Legacy: Kenneth Anger and the Kinsey Institute, 1947-2015
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Joan Hawkins, (812-855-1548)
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, GRADUATE DIVISION
Thursday, August 18, 2022, 1:00 pm
Cell, Molecular, & Cancer Biology
Muralikrishnan, Vaishnavi
Targeting ALDH1A1 and regulatory networks that support stemness in ovarian cancer cells
Simon Hall 001
Chair: Prof. Kenneth Nephew, (812-929-7728)
SCHOOL OF MUSIC, GRADUATE DIVISION
Wednesday, July 06, 2022, 4:00 pm
Music Education
Ellerbe, Amanda
A CASE STUDY OF CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION IN A COMMUNITY YOUTH ORCHESTRA PROGRAM
Simon Music Center M267
Chair: Prof. Julia Shaw, (812-856-5015)
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS, GRADUATE DIVISION
Friday, July 15, 2022, 10:00 am
Public Policy
Darnley, Megan
DRIVERS OF INTERAGENCY COOPERATION AND PARTNERSHIP OUTCOMES: THE CASE OF SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS
O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, 260C
Chair: Prof. Amanda Rutherford, (812-856-0828)
Monday, July 18, 2022, 2:00 pm
Environmental Science
Cain, Molly
Linking Dynamic Connectivity and Hydrologic Response
O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Room 274
Chair: Prof. Adam Ward, (989-860-9252)
Monday, July 18, 2022, 3:00 pm
Public Affairs
Wightman, Gregory
Suited for Succession: The Role of Managerial Fit in Public and Nonprofit Organizations
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Amanda Rutherford, (812-856-0828)
Tuesday, July 19, 2022, 9:30 am
Public Policy
de la Riva Aguero, Renzo
Too Complex to Deliver? Administrative Capacity, Governance, and Waste Management in Peruvian Municipalities
O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, A225
Chair: Prof. Jennifer Brass, (812-855-1460)
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Thursday, July 14, 2022, 10:00 am
Human Performance
Freemas, Jessica
Fluid Regulation in Women Across the Menstrual Cycle During Physical Work in the Heat
School of Public Health - Room PH C100
Chair: Prof. Zachary Schlader, (812-855-6953)
Friday, July 29, 2022, 12:30 pm
Human Performance
Nowak, Madeleine
Effects of Subconcussive Head Impacts on Neural Integrity and Function in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
School of Public Health - Room PH C100
Chair: Prof. Timothy Mickleborough, (812-855-0753)