Upcoming Ph.D. Dissertation Defense Announcements
November 21, 2009
Graduate Faculty, Students and Staff:
This list of scheduled Ph.D. dissertation defenses is distributed so that you may attend or so that you may see the full announcement. If you wish to see the full announcement, please call the University Graduate School Office, (812) 855-8853. If you wish to attend, as a courtesy please contact the committee chair in advance.
James C. Wimbush, Dean, The University Graduate School
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, GRADUATE DIVISION
Theatre & Drama
al-Shukaili, Fatma M.: Women and Theatre in Arabia
Monday, November 23, 2009, 3:00 pm
Theatre and Drama Center, Art Gallery (Mezzanine)
Chair: Prof. Ronald Wainscott, (855-9021)
Chemistry
Plasencia, Manolo D.: Proteomic and Glycomic Analysis of Human Plasma Using Ion Mobility - Mass Spectrometry
Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 2:00 pm
C311, Chemistry
Chair: Prof. David E. Clemmer, (855-8259)
Political Science
Junisbai, Barbara: Market Reform Regimes, Elite Defections, and Political Opposition in the Post-Soviet States: Evidence from Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan
Tuesday, December 01, 2009, 1:00 pm
Woodburn Hall, Room 218
Chair: Prof. Jack Bielasiak, (855-3711)
Communication and Culture
Sperb, Jason: A Frown Upside Down / The Affective, Cultural, and Convergence Histories of Disney's Song of the South (1946)
Wednesday, December 02, 2009, 10:30 am
Classroom Office Building, Room 256
Chair: Prof. Barbara Klinger, (334-1526)
Ethnomusicology
Okigbo, Austin C.: Ingoma Yomzabalazo - Music of the Struggles: An Ethnography of a South African Zulu Choral Music and the HIV/AIDS Struggle
Thursday, December 03, 2009, 9:00 am
501 North Park, Seminar Room
Chair: Prof. Ruth M. Stone, (855-0398)
Criminal Justice
Stewart, Cindy: Police Intervention in Mental Health Crisis: A Case Study of the Bloomington Crisis Intervention (CIT) Program
Friday, December 04, 2009, 9:00 am
Sycamore Hall, Room 146
Chair: Prof. Mary Lee Luskin, (855-5820)
English
Higgins, Richard S.: Feeling Like a Clerk: The Emotional Economy of the Lower Middle Class in Dickens, Gissing, and Wells
Friday, December 04, 2009, 1:00 pm
Ballantine Hall, Parker Library (Room 442)
Chair: Prof. Andrew H. Miller, (855-2529)
Physics
Dussan, Helber: Equation of Sate of the Crust of Neutron Stars and Fusion Reactions of Neutron Rich Nuclei in Accreting Neutron Stars
Friday, December 04, 2009, 2:30 pm
Swain West, Room 251
Chair: Prof. Charles J. Horowitz, (855-2959/855-0303)
Criminal Justice
Thichempully Krishna, Vinod Kumar : Public Events, Police Response, and Democratic Discourse in India - an Empirical Study
Monday, December 07, 2009, 9:00 am
Sycamore Hall, Room 146
Chair: Prof. Arvind Verma, (855-0220)
English
Hermes, Margaret: Unnatural Selections: Linguistic Preservation and Divine Origins in the Age of Darwin and the OED
Monday, December 07, 2009, 2:30 pm
Ballantine Hall, Parker Library (Room 442)
Chair: Prof. Andrew H. Miller, (855-2529)
History
Cafer du Plessis, Elizabeth: Meatless Days and Sleepless Nights: Food, Agriculture, and Environment in World War I America
Monday, December 07, 2009, 3:30 pm
Ballantine Hall, Room 704
Chair: Prof. Eric Sandweiss, (855-0210)
Ethnomusicology
al-Harby, Majid H.: Performing History, Creating Tradition: The Making of Afro-Omani Musics in Umm liGrumtēn, Şūr li Fiyyah
Tuesday, December 08, 2009, 1:00 pm
508 North Fess, Room 104
Chair: Prof. Ruth M. Stone, (855-0398)
Economics
Li, I-Hsin: Three Essays on the Economics of Long-Term Care
Tuesday, December 08, 2009, 2:30 pm
Wylie Hall, Room 225
Chair: Prof. Gerhard Glomm, (855-6160)
Anthropology
Eastwood, William: Georgian Baptists: Church Reform, Orthodox Christianity, and National Belonging
Wednesday, December 09, 2009, 4:00 pm
Student Building, Room 159
Chair: Prof. Beverly Stoeltje, (855-8014)
Chemistry
Qu, Kun: Transcriptional and Alternative Splicing Regulatory Networks and their Applications in Cancer and Stem Cell Differentiation
Thursday, December 10, 2009, 9:00 am
Chemistry Building, Room A400
Chair: Prof. Peter J. Ortoleva, (856-6000)
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, GRADUATE DIVISION
Language Education
Pu, Hong: Global Pedagogy, Local Meanings: Toward the Glocialization of Communicative Language Teaching in the Classrooms of Western-Trained Chinese EFL Teachers
Tuesday, December 01, 2009, 3:00 pm
W. W. Wright School of Education, Room 3134
Chair: Prof. Faridah Pawan, (856-8287)
School Psychology
Peters Myszak, Jessica: Effectiveness of a Computer Program in Increasing Social Skills in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Friday, December 04, 2009, 10:00 am
W. W. Wright School of Education, Room 4112
Chair: Prof. Jack Cummings, (856-8327)
SCHOOL OF HEALTH, PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND RECREATION, GRADUATE DIVISION
Human Performance
Suh, Young Ik: Examining the Psychological Factors Associated with Fantasy Sports Participants: The Relationship between Motivations, Constraints, Perceived Service Quality, Satisfaction, Attitude, and Actual Usage
Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 1:00 pm
School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, Room 125
Chair: Prof. Paul M. Pedersen, (855-0466)
Gordon, Brian J.: A Method to Determine the Orientation of the Upper Arm about its Longitudinal Axis, and an Application to the Tennis Serve
Monday, December 07, 2009, 2:30 pm
School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, Room 034
Chair: Prof. Jesus Dapena, (855-8407)
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, GRADUATE DIVISION
Medical and Molecular Genetics
Li, Deqiang: Dishevelled-associated Activator of Morphogenesis 1 (Damm 1) is Required for Heart Morphogenesis
Monday, November 30, 2009, 9:00 am
Medical Sciences Building, Room 326
Chair: Prof. Weinian Shou, (317/274-8952)
SCHOOL OF MUSIC, GRADUATE DIVISION
Music Education
Seybert, John M. : A History of North American Band Directors' Coordinating Committee, 1960-1970
Wednesday, December 09, 2009, 4:00 pm
Simon Music Building, Room M271
Chair: Prof. Estelle R. Jorgensen, (855-4430)
