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Upcoming Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Announcements

Upcoming Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Announcements

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.

Schedule 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.

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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.

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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.

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, GRADUATE DIVISION

Friday, December 13, 2019, 8:00 am
Anthropology
Upton, John
Culture on Trial: Law, Custom, and Justice in a Taiwan Indigenous Court
Student Building 159
Chair: Prof. Sara Friedman, (812-856-4595)

Friday, December 13, 2019, 2:00 pm
Spanish
Robinson, Ellen
New Tales of Trauma, Memory, and Historical Fiction in Postcolonial Caribbean, Iberian, and Afro-Lusophone Women's Writing
Global and International Studies Building, Room 2170
Chair: Prof. Anke Birkenmaier, (812-855-0639)

Monday, December 16, 2019, 1:00 pm
Anthropology
Popa, Elena
Romanian and Roma Migration to France after 1989: Citizenship, Precarity, and Hierarchies of Deservedness
Student Building 159
Chair: Prof. Sarah Phillips, (812-855-7309)

Tuesday, December 17, 2019, 11:30 am
American Studies
Mitchel, Courtney
Feeling Capital: Subjectivity and Survival in American Empire
Ballantine Hall 543
Chair: Prof. Micol Seigel, (812-855-7707)

Monday, January 13, 2020, 8:30 am
Political Science
Waqar, Maria
Gender Quotas and Political Dynasties: Explaining Women's Substantive Representation in the National Assembly
Woodburn Hall 218
Chair: Prof. Lauren MacLean, (812-856-2376)

Monday, January 13, 2020, 12:00 pm
Anthropology
Herstad, Kaeleigh
Reclaiming Detroit: Urban Blight and Contested Heritage on the Postindustrial Frontier
Student Building 159
Chair: Prof. Anne Pyburn, (812-855-2563)

Thursday, January 16, 2020, 9:00 am
History & Philosophy of Science & Medicine
Grauvogel, Kate
A Gendered History of Pathology: Reproduction, Hormones, and Blood Clots, 1784 - 1969
Morrison Hall Room 228
Chair: Prof. Sander Gliboff / Prof. Jutta Schickore, (812-855-7417 / 812-855-9728)

Friday, January 24, 2020, 4:00 pm
Chemistry
VanDenburgh, Katherine
Fluorescent Molecules and Materials: Amine Sensing and Small-Molecule Ionic Isolation Lattices
Chemistry Building, Room C033
Chair: Prof. Amar Flood, (812-856-3642)

Friday, February 07, 2020, 1:30 pm
History
Hagstrom, Jacob
Learning from Asymmetric War: Army Officers in Florida and France, 1830-1845
Weatherly Hall 122
Chair: Prof. Konstantin Dierks, (812-341-5159)

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, GRADUATE DIVISION

Friday, December 13, 2019, 11:00 am
History, Philosophy, & Policy in Education
Chan, Roy
How Does the 15 to Finish Initiative Affect Academic Outcomes of Low-Income, First-Generation Students? Evidence from a College Promise Program in Indiana
Wright Education Bldg 2277
Chair: Prof. Victor Borden, (812-856-0855)

Tuesday, December 17, 2019, 2:00 pm
Curriculum & Instruction
Hootman, Stacy
EXAMINING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONTENT KNOWLEDGE, CURRICULAR ROLE IDENTITY, AND SCIENCE TEACHING SELF-EFFICACY OF PRESERVICE TEACHERS ENROLLED IN A PHYSICAL SCIENCE CONTENT COURSE FOCUSED ON CURRICULUM
Wright Education Bldg 4204
Chair: Prof. Meredith Park Rogers, (812-856-8168)

Monday, January 06, 2020, 2:00 pm
Higher Education
Peck, Leah
International development in higher education: Understanding stakeholder challenges in capacity development contexts after funding agency oversight ends in post-conflict Macedonia
Wright Education Bldg 4214
Chair: Prof. Thomas Nelson Laird, (812-322-4916)

SCHOOL OF INFORMATICS, COMPUTING, AND ENGINEERING, GRADUATE DIVISION

Wednesday, December 18, 2019, 9:00 am
Intelligent Systems Engineering
Duncan, Adam
Securing Field-Programmable Gate Arrays Against Post-Deployment Attacks
4063 Luddy Hall
Chair: Prof. Martin Swany, (812-369-0321)

Friday, December 20, 2019, 9:00 am
Computer Science
Hemann, Jason
Constraint microKanren in the CLP Scheme
Luddy Hall 2069
Chair: Prof. Daniel Friedman, (812-327-3536)

Wednesday, January 08, 2020, 1:00 pm
Computer Science
Wickramasinghe, Udayanga
A Hardware and Software Approach for Optimizing Communication With Direct Memory Access Techniques
Luddy Hall, Room 3006
Chair: Prof. Andrew Lumsdaine, (206-528-3491)

Friday, January 24, 2020, 12:30 pm
Computer Science
Zhang, Haoyu
String Similarity Joins and Search on Edit Distance
Luddy Hall, Room 4004
Chair: Prof. Qin Zhang, (408-802-5610)

SCHOOL OF MUSIC, GRADUATE DIVISION

Friday, December 13, 2019, 4:00 pm
Musicology
Chapman, Katie
Digital Approaches to Troubadour Song
Simon Music Center M267
Chair: Prof. Giuliano Di Bacco, (812-855-6889)

SCHOOL OF GLOBAL AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, GRADUATE DIVISION

Monday, December 16, 2019, 1:00 pm
Near Eastern Languages & Culture
Albawardi, Abdulrahman
REFUSAL STRATEGIES, AND THEIR ORIENTATIONS AMONG ARABIC OUSTED PRESIDENTS' CALMING SPEECHES BASED ON RAPPORT MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK
Global and International Studies Building 2134
Chair: Prof. Nader Morkus, (812-856-2400)

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS, GRADUATE DIVISION

Tuesday, December 17, 2019, 10:30 am
Public Policy
Carpenter, Stefan
Unpacking the Efficacy of Community-Based Wildlife Governance: The Influence of Economic Benefit Types, Risk, and Heterogeneity on Collective Action
Woodburn Hall 220A
Chair: Prof. Jennifer Brass / Prof. Lauren MacLean, (415-608-9657 / 812-856-2376)

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Monday, December 16, 2019, 11:30 am
Epidemiology
Bell, April
ATTITUDES ACROSS THE REPRODUCTIVE SPECTRUM: FAMILY PLANNING AND ABORTION IN GHANA AND KENYA
School of Public Health Room C013
Chair: Prof. Juhua Luo, (812-856-2858)