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.
Learn how to track your announcement »
At Your Defense
Have your committee sign the acceptance and abstract pages of your dissertation at the defense.
Learn more about formatting requirements »
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, June 21, 2021, 10:00 am
Business
Deng, Sheran
Three Essays on Regulation of firms and investment funds
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Eitan Goldman, (812-856-0749)
Friday, July 09, 2021, 1:00 pm
Business
Seol, Seyoung
Social Media Effects on News Consumption: A Multi-Method Analysis of Fake News Consumption and Social Media Contagion
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Alan Dennis, (812-855-2691)
Tuesday, July 27, 2021, 11:00 am
Business
De, Anwesha
IMPACT OF BRAND'S MARKETING COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Remote defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. Girish Mallapragada, (317-410-1960)
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, GRADUATE DIVISION
Tuesday, June 22, 2021, 10:00 am
Geography; Geological Sciences
Bregy, Joshua
RECONSTRUCTING MULTIDECADAL TO MULTICENTENNIAL VARIATIONS IN THE TROPICAL CYCLONE HYDROCLIMATE AND ITS CLIMATIC CONTROLS IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES
Remote Defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. Justin Maxwell / Prox. Brian Yanites, (812-855-5557 / 812-855-6109)
Wednesday, June 23, 2021, 10:00 am
Chemistry
Lambright, Alison
ADVANCEMENTS IN NI-CATALYZED ARYLBORATION OF UNACTIVATED ALKENES
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. M. Kevin Brown, (812-855-9043)
Thursday, June 24, 2021, 10:00 am
Genome, Cell, & Developmental Biology
Policastro, Robert
Genome wide mapping and analysis of transcription start sites with STRIPE-seq and TSRexploreR
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Gabriel Zentner, (812-856-7377)
Friday, June 25, 2021, 9:00 am
Anthropology
Vlasenko, Polina
Global Circuits of Fertility: The Political Economy of the Ukrainian Ova Market
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Sarah Phillips / Prof. Andrea Wiley , (812-855-7309 / 812-856-4993)
Friday, June 25, 2021, 2:30 pm
English
Hamer, Molly
Different and New: Women Writers of Color in the Turn-of-the-Century American Press
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Jennifer Fleissner, (812-391-0817)
Monday, June 28, 2021, 1:00 pm
English
Ottman, Rebecca
Theorizing Eloquence as a Means-Driven Process of Recursive Invention
Remote defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. Dana Anderson / Prof. Katherine Silvester, (812-855-6278 / 812-855-8224)
Tuesday, June 29, 2021, 2:30 pm
Chemistry
Yu, Yanqi
Imaging Interactions at Cell Membranes: From Receptor-Ligand Recognition, Signaling, to Trafficking
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Yan Yu, (812-855-0593)
Wednesday, June 30, 2021, 10:00 am
Geological Sciences
Valenza, Jeffery
Controls on river avulsion style and stratigraphy in foreland basins
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Douglas Edmonds, (812-855-4512)
Wednesday, June 30, 2021, 3:00 pm
Physics
Winney, Daniel
Amplitude analysis studies of the three-body decay and photoproduction processes.
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Adam Sczcepaniak, (812-855-0236)
Thursday, July 01, 2021, 8:00 am
Central Eurasian Studies / History
Bass, Samuel
The Bound Steppe: Slavery, State, and Family in Qing Mongolia
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Gardner Bovingdon / Prof. Jonathan Schlesinger, (812-856-0230 / 812-855-6882)
Monday, July 05, 2021, 1:00 pm
Sociology
Nicholson, Daniel
The Causes and Consequences of Poverty in US States: Examining Prevalence and Penalties, 1993-2016
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Arthur Alderson, (812-856-5883)
Tuesday, July 06, 2021, 10:00 am
Mathematics
Hu, Yaqing
Waring's Problem for Locally Nilpotent Groups: The Case of Discrete Heisenberg Groups
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Michael Larsen, (812-855-1064)
Tuesday, July 06, 2021, 2:30 pm
Chemistry
Waghwani, Hitesh Kumar
Protein cage Nanoparticles as a model platform for bio-inspired nanomaterials
Remote defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. Trevor Douglas, (812-856-6936)
Thursday, July 08, 2021, 10:00 am
Linguistics
Lotven, Samson
The Phonetics and Phonology of Zophei
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Kelly Berkson, (603-568-7273)
Thursday, July 08, 2021, 1:00 pm
Chemistry
Walsh, Brenna
H2S signaling via reactive sulfur species (RSS) in the major human pathogens Enterococcus faecalis and Acinetobacter baumannii
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. David Giedroc, (812-856-3178)
Thursday, July 08, 2021, 1:00 pm
Anthropology
Higelin Ponce de Leon, Ricardo
BIOARCHAEOLOGY OF OAXACA: A VIEW FROM UNDERREPRESENTED SKELETONS FROM THE CLASSIC - POSTCLASSIC PERIOD
Remote defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. Stacie King, (812-325-2505)
Monday, July 12, 2021, 9:00 am
Speech & Hearing Sciences
Brister, Eileen
Development and Functional Role of Ligaments Within the Gerbil Middle Ear
Remote defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. Yi Shen, (812-855-2272)
Monday, July 12, 2021, 2:00 pm
English
Ang, Abby
Careful Curiosity: Insect and Human Encounters in Latin and Vernacular Texts of Medieval England
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Patricia Ingham, (812-272-8203)
Tuesday, July 13, 2021, 1:00 pm
Central Eurasian Studies
Tsepak, Tenzin
THE MIRROR: TIBETAN INTELLECTUALS IN PURSUIT OF INDIC POETICS (1250-1800)
Remote defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. Jonathan Schlesinger, (240-281-8935)
Wednesday, July 14, 2021, 12:00 pm
Mathematics
Guilbault, Kelvin
Biperiodic Knots
Remote defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. James Davis, (812-855-5069)
Thursday, July 15, 2021, 3:00 pm
Economics
Shen, Peng
Essays in Automobile Defect Investigations and Applied Econometrics
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Vivek Astvansh / Prof. Keli Xu, (812-855-8953 / 812-855-5525)
Tuesday, July 20, 2021, 1:00 pm
Microbiology
Alakavuklar, Melene
Inhibition of flagellar motility by a novel component of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens acid response
Remote defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. Clay Fuqua, (812-856-6005)
Friday, July 23, 2021, 10:00 am
Central Eurasian Studies; History
Cwiek, Brian
Seeds of Change: State-building and Cotton Agriculture in Twentieth-Century Xinjiang
Remote defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. Jonathan Schlesinger / Prof. Ron Sela, (812-855-6882 / 812-856-7017)
Tuesday, July 27, 2021, 4:00 pm
Chemistry
Bottorff, Brandon
Nitrous acid, hydroxyl radicals, and peroxy radicals: Measurements, model predictions, and implications for indoor and outdoor atmospheric chemistry
Remote defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. Philip Stevens, (812-856-0863)
Thursday, July 29, 2021, 11:00 am
Religious Studies
Hillman, Brian
Textual Authority and Jewish Modernity: The Case of the Lithuanian Mithnagdim
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Sarah Imhoff, (812-855-3531)
Thursday, July 29, 2021, 1:00 pm
Genome, Cell, & Developmental Biology
Cohen, Matan
Regulation of SUMOylation During Meiosis
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Soni Lacefield / Prof. Michael Lichten, (812-856-2429 / 240-760-7561)
Tuesday, August 03, 2021, 12:30 pm
Sociology
Ince, Jelani
Walking the [Color] Line: Managing Religion and Negotiating Diversity in a Racialized Organization
Remote defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. Timothy Hallett, (812-856-1426)
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, GRADUATE DIVISION
Tuesday, June 22, 2021, 12:00 pm
Counseling Psychology
McFadden, Patrick
AN ULTRARUNNER'S LIFE STORY: ONE RUNNER'S ATTEMPT TO FIND BALANCE IN LIFE AND RACING
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Jesse Steinfeldt, (812-856-8331)
Wednesday, June 30, 2021, 12:00 pm
Higher Education
Peczalska, Ania
Diversity Support, Interactive Diversity, and Institutional Satisfaction: Comparing Chinese International and Domestic Student Experiences
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Victor Borden, (812-856-0855)
Wednesday, June 30, 2021, 2:00 pm
Curriculum & Instruction
Gatza, Andrew
NOT JUST MATHEMATICS, "JUST" MATHEMATICS: INVESTIGATING MATHEMATICAL LEARNING AND CRITICAL RACE CONSCIOUSNESS
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Crystal Morton / Prof. Erik Tillema, (317-292-1824 / 812-345-3652)
Friday, July 02, 2021, 10:00 am
History, Philosophy, & Policy in Education
Everson, Emma
Examining K-12 Teachers' English Learner Legal Knowledge and Literacy: The Impact of Training, Experience, and Confidence
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Janet Decker, (812-856-8375)
Wednesday, July 07, 2021, 11:00 am
School Psychology
Baker, Blair
Examining and Conceptualizing Racial Battle Fatigue Among Black Adolescents
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. David Shriberg, (812-856-8049)
Wednesday, July 07, 2021, 1:00 pm
Instructional Systems Technology
Basdogan, Merve
Critical discourse analysis of open and distance education concepts from a postphenomenological perspective
Wright Education Bldg 2277
Chair: Prof. Curtis Bonk, (812-322-2878)
Thursday, July 08, 2021, 1:00 pm
Counseling Psychology
McCullough, Keiko
"Tell me what to do, Gabriel?" "Do what is right": Gender hegemony in the film Far From the Madding Crowd
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Y. Joel Wong, (812-856-8293)
Friday, July 16, 2021, 12:00 pm
Counseling Psychology
Murphy, Quillian
Post-Doctorate Kinships Experiences of Black First-Generation College Students from Low-income Communities
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Rebecca Martinez, (812-856-8324)
Tuesday, July 20, 2021, 11:30 am
Higher Education
Palmer, Dajanae
I Got A Lot To Be Mad About: Sista Circles As A Counterspace for Black Women Doctoral Students
Remote defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. Lucy LePeau, (812-856-8392)
Monday, July 26, 2021, 1:00 pm
Special Education
Andresen, John
Social Privilege's Influence on Postsecondary Access and Employment for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
Remote defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. Derek Nord, (815-855-7102)
Wednesday, August 04, 2021, 3:00 pm
Higher Education
Liu, Xiqian
Understanding the Effects Of Level Of Indebtedness On Student Persistence And Degree Attainment: A Heterogeneous Approach
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Chair: Prof. Victor Borden, (812-856-0855)
Tuesday, September 14, 2021, 1:00 pm
History, Philosophy, & Policy in Education
Sargent, Bobbie
Understanding Critical Thinking: bridging theory and practice
School of Education, Room 4204
Chair: Prof. Margaret Sutton, (812-856-8368)
SCHOOL OF INFORMATICS, COMPUTING, AND ENGINEERING, GRADUATE DIVISION
Thursday, June 24, 2021, 1:00 pm
Informatics
Rashidi, Yasmeen
How Young Adults Manage Privacy and Maintain Social Norms in the Era of Pervasive Photography and Social Media
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Apu Kapadia, (812-856-1465)
Friday, June 25, 2021, 2:00 pm
Informatics
Bu, Diyue
Human Genomic Data Sharing and Privacy
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Haixu Tang, (812-856-1859)
Wednesday, July 07, 2021, 2:30 pm
Intelligent Systems Engineering
Lou, Qian
EFFICIENT PRIVATE DEEP LEARNING
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Lei Jiang, (812-855-7728)
Wednesday, July 14, 2021, 10:00 am
Informatics
Momenzadeh, Seyedbehnood
Economics study on the future of cryptocurrencies
Myles Brand Hall (I) E130
Chair: Prof. L. Jean Camp, (812-856-1865)
SCHOOL OF OPTOMETRY, GRADUATE DIVISION
Monday, June 21, 2021, 12:00 pm
Vision Science
Ferris, Lyndsey
ACUTE CONCUSSION DETECTION AND THE VESTIBULAR/OCULAR-MOTOR SCREENING IN COLLEGIATE ATHLETES
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Nicholas Port, (812-856-0124)
Tuesday, June 22, 2021, 12:00 pm
Vision Science
Cheung, Hin
Reflectance-Based Structural Quantification of the Healthy and Glaucomatous Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer using Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. William Swanson, (812-856-4681)
Friday, June 25, 2021, 1:30 pm
Vision Science
Sapoznik, Kaitlyn
Enhanced retinal microvasculature imaging and small arteriole remodeling in diabetes and hypertension
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Stephen Burns, (812-856-3713)
Monday, June 28, 2021, 1:00 pm
Vision Science
Luo, Ting
RETINAL VASCULATURE MEASUREMENTS AND IMAGE PROCESSING USING ADAPTIVE OPTICS SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPE (AOSLO)
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Stephen Burns, (781-608-3833)
SCHOOL OF GLOBAL AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, GRADUATE DIVISION
Thursday, July 01, 2021, 8:00 am
Central Eurasian Studies / History
Bass, Samuel
The Bound Steppe: Slavery, State, and Family in Qing Mongolia
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Gardner Bovingdon / Prof. Jonathan Schlesinger, (812-856-0230 / 812-855-6882)
Thursday, July 01, 2021, 2:00 pm
Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
Niemi, Matthew
Semantic Trajectories of the Din of Islam from the Seventh Century to the Present
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Asma Afsaruddin, (812-856-7347)
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS, GRADUATE DIVISION
Thursday, July 01, 2021, 10:00 am
Public Affairs
Graff, Michelle
Unpacking the Determinants and Burdens of Energy Insecurity and Energy Assistance in the United States
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Sanya Carley / Prof. David Konisky, (812-856-0920 / 812-855-6990)
Thursday, July 08, 2021, 12:00 pm
Public Affairs
Lee, Hung Wai
Evaluating the Efficacy of Institutions on Human Behavior
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Maureen Pirog, (812-360-0232)
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Wednesday, July 14, 2021, 10:30 am
Epidemiology
Luetke, Maya
EMPLOYMENT, PHYSICAL ABUSE, AND SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTION RISK IN A LONGITUDINAL COHORT OF ADOLESCENT GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN IN RURAL SOUTH AFRICA
Remote defense: Contact chair for details
Chair: Prof. Molly Rosenberg, (812-856-2509)