Past Defenses

Stephen Horrocks: "Insulin Pump Use and Type 1 Diabetes: Connecting Bodies, Identities, and Technologies." - American Studies
Annagul Yaryyeva: "Russian Immigrants: Transnationalism in the Context of U.S.-Russia Relations Since 2014." - American Studies
Riham Ismail: "The Construction and Negotiation of Identity and Place in Muslim Women's Fictional Narrative." - Comparative Literature
Zihan Wang: "Fiction Medicine and the Communist Revolution in the People's Republic of China." - Comparative Literature
Ashley Kentner: "Examining the syntax and semantics of ASL MORE- and BEAT-constructions". - Linguistics

Ricardo Quintana Vallejo: "Children of Globalization: Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels in German, England, and the United States". - Comparative Literature
Ghaleb Alomaish: "Double Reflection: Image Projection and Perception in Saudi-American Contexts: A Comparative Study". - Comparative Literature
Maria Pritchett Cupery: "The Use of Corpus and Network Analysis in Teaching Engineering EAP Phrases". - Linguistics
Patrick Hoburg: "Stratigraphic Time: Conceptualizing the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis". - Philosophy & Literature

Jingyi Liu: "Storytelling and the National Security State of America: Korean War Stories from Cold War to Post-911" - American Studies
Keturah Nix: "Is the Veil On or Off?: Uncovering America's Racial Tensions Through the Symbolization of Booker T. Washington." - American Studies

Olon Dotson: "Fourth World Nation: A Critical Geography of Decline". - American Studies
Jenna T. Conklin: "The Roles of Vowel Harmony and Stress in Predicting Vowel-to-Vowel Coarticulation". - Linguistics
Neda Taherkhani: "A Syntactic Analysis of Motion Predicates in Southern Tati (Takestani Dialect)". - Linguistics
Lacey J. Davidson: "That's (Also) Racist! Entity Type Pluralism, Responsibility, and Liberatory Norms". - Philosophy & Literature
Reyes Espinoza: "Toward an Ethics of Tragic Uncertainty: Miguel de Unamuno and Global Social Conflict". - Philosophy & Literature
Joel D. Johnson: "Final Causality in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas". - Philosophy & Literature
Robert M. Spears: "Technology and Topology: Rethinking the Space of Existence". - Philosophy & Literature

Katje J. Armentrout: "Notes on the State of American Agriculture: Young Farmers and "The Farm" After the 1980 Farm Crisis". - American Studies
Christopher Munt: "A Century in the Baths”: Allan Bérubé, Spatial Politics, and the History of Gay Bathhouses in the United States". - American Studies
Pamela Sari: "Politics of the (Most) High: Transnational Networks between Gospel of the Kingdom Megachurch (Indonesian Mennonite Synod) in Central Java, Indonesia and Pentecostal/Charismatic Institutions in the United States". - American Studies
Jennifer Sdunzik: "Mapping Whiteness: Uncovering the Legacy of All White Towns in Indiana". - American Studies
Jeff Wimble: "Survival Technologies: African-American Musical Modernisms". - American Studies
Charles R. Bradley: "Transparency of Transitivity in Pantomime, Sign Language". - Linguistics
Mirisen Ozpek: "An Intersectional Approach to LGBTQ Children's Literature: A Case Study on Queer Women in Children's Picture Books." - Linguistics