KELLEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, GRADUATE DIVISION
Friday, March 28, 2025, 10:00 am
Business
Adams, Joel
TAKING VISION SERIOUSLY: IMPLICATIONS FOR RATIONALITY, ACTION, AND THE NATURE OF THE ENTREPRENEUR
Hodge Hall 7301
Chair: Prof. Jeff McMullen, (812-855-2718)
Tuesday, April 01, 2025, 3:00 pm
Business
Neshatomidvaran, Navid
Three Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance
Hodge Hall 7301
Chair: Prof. Eitan Goldman / Prof. Kristoph Kleiner, (202-288-8624 / 828-289-5432)
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)
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, GRADUATE DIVISION
Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 1:00 pm
Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Jones, Joshua
The Dung BEETLE MICROBIOME: A STUDY OF ECOLOGICAL ADAPTATIONS TO COMPLEX LIFE CYCLES AND RECALCITRANT DIETS
Myers A100
Chair: Prof. Armin Maczek, (812-856-1468)
Thursday, March 27, 2025, 11:00 am
Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Reed, Jeremy
FESTIVAL-AS-RESOURCE: FESTIVALS AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE IN JORDAN
Classroom Office Building, Room 261
Chair: Prof. David McDonald, (812-855-0396)
Thursday, March 27, 2025, 12:00 pm
Genome, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Liao, Qin
GENOME ARCHITECTURE AND SEGREGATION IN BACTERIA
Biology Building 248
Chair: Prof. Xindan Wang, (617-935-2041)
Thursday, March 27, 2025, 2:00 pm
Geological Sciences
Ryan, James
Identification and Predictability of Extreme Temperature Events
Geology Building Room 2029
Chair: Prof. Ben Kravitz, (812-855-4334)
Friday, March 28, 2025, 1:00 am
Second Language Studies
Rocca, Brian
The effects of lexical characteristics, phonetic categorization, and vocabulary size on language learners’ phonolexical representations: A lexical friction account
Ballantine Hall 104
Chair: Prof. Isabelle Darcy, (812-606-2208)
Friday, March 28, 2025, 9:00 am
History and Philosophy of Science
Inoue, Takatomo
Alchemy in Medieval Islam and Ab? Bakr al-R?z?
Ballantine Hall 903
Chair: Prof. William Newman, (812-855-3071)
Friday, March 28, 2025, 12:30 pm
Microbiology
Schakel, Olivia
Cross-feeding can rescue a bacterial gene loss mutant when separated from its competitive ancestor.
Simon Hall 001
Chair: Prof. James McKinlay, (812-855-0359)
Tuesday, April 01, 2025, 11:00 am
Physics
Balta, Jerald
Research into Neutron Spin Rotation, Neutron Cross Section Measurements, and Flexible, Low-Gamma-Radiation Neutron Radiation Shielding
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. W. Michael Snow, (812-855-7914)
Tuesday, April 01, 2025, 2:30 pm
Psychology
Heiman, Samantha
Intentionality and Consequences of Political Identity Signaling
Multidisciplinary Science Building II, Room 234
Chair: Prof. Edward Hirt, (812-855-4815)
Tuesday, April 01, 2025, 2:30 pm
Chemistry
Maha, Ibrar
Plasmonic Metal Nanoaprticles and their Assemblies for Anti-Counterfeit Applications
Chemistry Building, CH033
Chair: Prof. Sara Skrabalak, (812-856-1892)
Wednesday, April 02, 2025, 4:00 pm
Chemistry
Ali, Noor
Advancing development of site-specific vibrational probes for protein dynamics
Chemistry Building, CH033
Chair: Prof. Bogdan Dragnea, (812-856-0087)
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
Economics
Stevens, Miles
Essays on Institutions, Trade, and Political Economy
Wylie Hall 225
Chair: Prof. Volodymyr Lugovskky, (812-856-4594)
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)
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
Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
Katsougia, Eleni
Evolution of nuclear receptor-mediated function in a resource polyphenism
Biology Building 248
Chair: Prof. Erik Ragsdale, (812-856-1946)
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)
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, 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)
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)
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, 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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
Thursday, March 27, 2025, 2:00 pm
Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methodology
Li, Pei-Jung
Invisible and In-Between: Unpacking International Doctoral Students’ Educational Experiences in the United States with Participant-Led Research
Wright Education Building 2140
Chair: Prof. Jessica Nina Lester, (812-856-8328)
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)
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)
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)
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, 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)
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)
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
Tuesday, April 01, 2025, 3:00 pm
Music Theory
Cooke-Dickens, Thomas
Impulse Based Riffs in Blues Rock Music
Simon Music Center SM267
Chair: Prof. Frank Samarotto, (812-856-5740)
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)
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)
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 10:00 am
Epidemiology
Kummer, Allisandra
Improving mathematical, computational, and analytical tools for epidemic outbreak preparedness and response
School of Public Health room PH C100
Chair: Prof. Marco Ajelli, (812-671-1001)
Friday, March 28, 2025, 10:00 am
Human Performance
Date, Surabhi Shripad
Effect of a Virtual Reality Active Video Gaming Intervention on Static and Dynamic Balance in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder: a Controlled Clinical Trial
School of Public Health, room PH C100
Chair: Prof. Georgia Frey, (812-369-9800)
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)
