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
Wednesday, April 28, 2021, 2:00 pm
Business
Bergman, Brian
Entrepreneurial support organizations: Curating and catalyzing entrepreneurial action
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Jeffery McMullen, (812-855-2718)
Wednesday, May 05, 2021, 9:00 am
Business
Mah, Suyun
Marketing Strategies for IPO Firms
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Chair: Prof. Rebecca Slotegraaf, (812-855-1014)
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, GRADUATE DIVISION
Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 9:00 am
Geological Sciences
Mitchell, Nathaniel
Extracting Geologic Information from Bedrock River Morphology: Rivers Reveal both Geologic History and Spatial Patterns in Rock Strength
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Bryan Yanites, (812-855-6109)
Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 1:00 pm
Mathematics
Lahiri, Aranya
Two results in locally analytic representations of p-adic groups
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Chair: Prof. Matthias Strauch, (812-856-5179)
Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 1:00 pm
Spanish
Knight, Justin
Time and the Writing of Foundations: Allegory, History, and Modernity in Nineteenth-century Spanish American Narrative
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Chair: Prof. Alejandro Mejias-Lopez, (812-856-1059)
Wednesday, April 21, 2021, 1:00 pm
Economics
Chung, Won Suk
Essays on Housing and Credit Market
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Chair: Prof. Bulent Guler, (812-855-7791)
Thursday, April 22, 2021, 11:00 am
Neuroscience; Psychology
Sherrill, Samantha
FROM SPIKES TO SYNERGY: FEATURES OF NEURAL COMPUTATION IN LOCAL CORTICAL NETWORKS
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Chair: Prof. John Beggs / Prof. Ehren Newman, (812-855-7359 / 812-855-4541)
Friday, April 23, 2021, 12:00 pm
Second Language Studies
Swanson, Kyle
Neurocognition and non-native grammatical processing: The view from anaphora in successive-cyclic wh-movement in L1-Mandarin/L2-English
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Chair: Prof. Laurent Dekydtspotter, (812-855-2221)
Monday, April 26, 2021, 12:00 pm
Spanish
Denbaum, Nofiya
POLYMORPHISM OF SECOND PERSON SINGULAR FORMS OF ADDRESS IN MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA: USAGE AND LANGUAGE ATTITUDES, WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Remote Defense: Contact Chair for Details
Chair: Prof. Manuel Diaz-Campos, (812-856-5462)
Monday, April 26, 2021, 1:30 pm
Mathematics
Lai, Tim
Classification of Sato-Tate Subgroups of $U(3)$
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Chair: Prof. Michael Larsen, (812-855-1064)
Tuesday, April 27, 2021, 1:00 pm
Neuroscience; Psychology
Faskowitz, Joshua
An edge-centric perspective for brain network communities
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Chair: Prof. Aina Puce / Prof. Olaf Sporns, (812-856-0417 / 812-855-2772)
Tuesday, April 27, 2021, 3:30 pm
English
Martinson, Trevor
Genealogies of the Postmodern: Reflexive Embodiment in the Genomic Age
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Chair: Prof. Rebekah Sheldon, (718-915-4290)
Tuesday, April 27, 2021, 4:00 pm
Chemistry
Zhang, Mi
Single Biomolecule Analysis with Integrated Nanofluidic Devices
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Chair: Prof. Stephen Jacobson, (812-855-6620)
Thursday, April 29, 2021, 11:00 am
Central Eurasian Studies
Jia, Jianfei
Crime and Punishment: Law, Justice, and Society in Qing Huijiang (1759-1864)
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Chair: Prof. Gardner Bovingdon / Prof. Devin DeWeese, (812-856-0230 / 812-320-1589)
Friday, April 30, 2021, 11:00 am
Anthropology / Central Eurasian Studies
Conrad, Sara
Momo, Motherhood, and The 7 Train: Exiled Tibetan Women in New York City
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Chair: Prof. Gyorgy Kara / Prof. Marvin Sterling, (812-855-0460 / 812-855-3858)
Friday, April 30, 2021, 2:00 pm
Geological Sciences
Ascari, Silvia
Functional morphology of extinct organisms: using shape analyses to decode the function of deinonychosaurid killer claws
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Chair: Prof. David Polly, (812-855-7994)
Monday, May 03, 2021, 1:00 pm
English
Demmerle, Samantha
Character at the Margins: Formulating Minor Characters in Shakespeare
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Chair: Prof. Linda Charnes, (812-272-9668)
Monday, May 03, 2021, 1:30 pm
Mathematics
Park, Insung
Julia sets with Ahlfors regular conformal dimension one
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Chair: Prof. Dylan Thurston, (812-855-6730)
Tuesday, May 04, 2021, 1:00 pm
Spanish
Michalski, Ian
Sociolinguistic Perception of Stylistic Variation in a Second Language: Learner attitudes toward four variable structures of Spanish
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Chair: Prof. Kimberly Geeslin, (812-856-5470)
Wednesday, May 05, 2021, 9:00 am
Biochemistry
Newman, Jane
Biochemical mechanisms of quorum sensing transcriptional regulation in Vibrio species
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Chair: Prof. Julia van Kessel, (812-856-2235)
Wednesday, May 05, 2021, 10:30 am
Mathematics
Kemp, Dewey
Extending \ell^2 and \ell^p Decoupling to Cases of Vanishing Curvature
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Chair: Prof. Ciprian Demeter, (812-855-1869)
Wednesday, May 05, 2021, 1:00 pm
Geological Sciences
Yawar, Zalmai
Lithofacies Distribution, Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Devonian Ohio Shale in the Central Appalachian Basin, Kentucky
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Chair: Prof. Juergen Schiebe, (812-855-5322)
Thursday, May 06, 2021, 2:00 pm
Anthropology
Cullin, Jennifer
Biological Normalcy and Body Fat: Investigating Relationships Between Obesity Prevalence, Fat Stigma, and Allostatic Load
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Chair: Prof. Andrea Wiley, (812-856-4993)
Thursday, May 06, 2021, 2:00 pm
Spanish
Escalona Torres, Juan
The Social and Historical Workings of an Evolving Quotative System: The Case of European Spanish
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Chair: Prof. Patricia Amaral / Prof. Manuel Diaz-Campos, (812-855-8577 / 812-856-5462)
Wednesday, May 12, 2021, 2:00 pm
Chemistry
Petro, Ana Flavia
Electrochemical Investigation of Halophenylacetamides
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Chair: Prof. Lane Baker, (812-856-1873)
Thursday, May 13, 2021, 2:30 pm
Chemistry
Zhang, Zhichao
DEVELOPING ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETRY-MASS SPECTROMETRY TECHNIQUES TO STUDY STABILITY OF BIOMOLECULES
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Chair: Prof. David Clemmer, (812-855-8259)
Friday, May 14, 2021, 1:00 am
Biochemistry
Strittmatter, Brady
Ras/ERK and PI3K/AKT signaling differentially regulate oncogenic ERG mediated transcription in prostate cells
Jordan Hall 001
Chair: Prof. Peter Hollenhorst, (812-855-1151)
Monday, May 17, 2021, 9:30 am
Political Science
Nassar, Rita
THREAT, RHETORIC, AND WHITE AMERICANS' ATTITUDES TOWARD REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT
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Chair: Prof. Edward Carmines / Prof. Bernard Fraga, (812-855-5065 / 812-856-0132)
Tuesday, May 18, 2021, 10:00 am
Genome, Cell, & Developmental Biology / Neuroscience
Miller, Samuel
THE MECHANISTIC ROLE OF THE LYSINE DEMETHYLASE LSD1 IN THE PROMOTION OF COLORECTAL CANCER
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Chair: Prof. Heather O'Hagan, (812-855-3035)
Friday, May 21, 2021, 12:15 pm
Microbiology
Chlebek, Jennifer
Mechanism and Regulation of Bacterial Type IV Pilus Dynamic Activity
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Chair: Prof. Ankur Dalia, (812-856-1895)
Sunday, May 23, 2021, 11:00 am
History & Philosophy of Science
Allen, Meagan
Roger Bacon's Medical Alchemy: Medieval Pharmacology and the Prolongatio vita
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Chair: Prof. William Newman, (812-855-3071)
Friday, June 04, 2021, 10:00 am
Genome, Cell, & Developmental Biology / Neuroscience
Teeters, Gary
Formation and Maintenance of Dorsal/Ventral Patterning Regulates Organ Number in Drosophila Eye-Antennal Disc.
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Chair: Prof. Justin Kumar / Prof. Gabriel Zentner, (812-856-2621 / 812-856-7377)
Tuesday, June 08, 2021, 1:30 pm
Genome, Cell, & Developmental Biology
Dwyer, Matthew
Dissecting the molecular mechanism of blue light-induced chloroplast movement in Arabidopsis thaliana
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Chair: Prof. Roger Hangarter, (812-855-5456)
Monday, June 14, 2021, 10:00 am
Economics
Garg, Geeta
Essays in Fiscal and Monetary Policy
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Chair: Prof. Todd Walker, (812-856-2892)
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, GRADUATE DIVISION
Monday, April 26, 2021, 3:00 pm
Curriculum & Instruction
Kang, Jiyoung
'You guys are eating squirrels': Korean American adolescents' understanding of race and racism
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Chair: Prof. Keith Barton, (812-856-8058)
Wednesday, April 28, 2021, 1:00 pm
Curriculum & Instruction
Wood, Lisa
Metamorphosis of Play Keepers: Engaging in Arts-Based Research with Two First Year Preschool Teachers
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Chair: Prof. Mary McMullen, (812-856-8393)
Thursday, April 29, 2021, 11:00 am
Higher Education
Nathan, Angel
KNOW YOUR ROLE: THE POSITIONING OF BLACK STUDENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION LEADERS' DISCOURSE IN UNITED STATES HIGHER EDUCATION
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Chair: Prof. Lucy LePeau, (812-856-8392)
Wednesday, May 05, 2021, 12:30 pm
Higher Education
Fassett, Kyle
Moving Beyond the Effects of Participation: Measuring the Quality of High-Impact Practices to Examine Differences in Student Experiences and Perceived Gains
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Chair: Prof. Thomas Nelson Laird, (812-322-4916)
Thursday, June 03, 2021, 11:00 am
Counseling Psychology
Kennedy, Kyle
VIRTUAL REALITY: A PERFORMANCE INTERVENTION FOR HIGH SCHOOL QUARTERBACKS
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Chair: Prof. Jesse Steinfeldt, (812-856-8331)
SCHOOL OF INFORMATICS, COMPUTING, AND ENGINEERING, GRADUATE DIVISION
Thursday, April 22, 2021, 1:00 pm
Information Science
Demarest, Bradford
Discourse Epistemetrics: A Novel Measure of Stance and Disciplinarity
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Chair: Prof. Susan Herring, (812-856-4919)
Friday, April 23, 2021, 8:00 am
Informatics
McClinton, Kelly
Computationally Modeling Domestic Roman Art and Architecture
711 North Park, Bloomington
Chair: Prof. Bernard Frischer / Prof. Luis Rocha, (310-266-0183 / 812-291-2141)
Wednesday, April 28, 2021, 1:30 pm
Computer Science
Wang, Tongxin
Machine Learning Approaches for Extracting Biological Insights from Heterogeneous Omics Data
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Chair: Prof. Kun Huang / Prof. Haixu Tang, (317-278-7722 / 812-856-1859)
Tuesday, May 11, 2021, 10:00 am
Intelligent Systems Engineering
Brunk, Nicholas
Self-assembly, Deformation, and Disassembly of Soft Materials
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Chair: Prof. Vikram Jadhao, (812-856-4018)
Wednesday, May 26, 2021, 1:00 pm
Computer Science
Vadapalli, Adithya
Distributed Point Functions and the applications to Multi-Party Computations
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Chair: Prof. Ryan Henry, (403-210-6307)
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS, GRADUATE DIVISION
Wednesday, May 19, 2021, 3:00 pm
Environmental Science
Cains, Mariana
Integrating Climate Change Vulnerability, Risk, and Resilience for Place-Based Assessment of Socio-Ecological Systems: Charleston Harbor Watershed, SC, USA
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Chair: Prof. Diane Henshel, (812-855-4556)
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 1:00 pm
Health Behavior
Ansu, Velarie
Assessing Biomarkers of Magnesium in the Diet and for Nutritional Status
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Chair: Prof. Nana Gletsu Miller, (812-855-7643)
Friday, April 30, 2021, 10:00 am
Leisure Behavior
Sharma, Tanmay
FACTORS INFLUENCING VISITORS’ ECO-INNOVATION ADOPTION AND GREEN CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR: THE CASE OF GREEN HOTEL
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Chair: Prof. Joseph Chen, (812-855-1880)
Wednesday, May 19, 2021, 1:30 pm
Environmental Health
Melo de Oliveira, Luma
MODULATION OF NON-ALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER DISEASE BY EXERCISE
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Chair: Prof. Amit Hagar / Prof. James Klaunig, (812-855-2541 / 812-856-3957)