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Other Dissertations Nominated for Outstanding Dissertation
2001

Nominee Department Supervising Professor(s) Title of Dissertation Degree Date
Mark David Anderson Anthropology Edmund T. Gordon Garifuna Kids:  Blackness, Modernity, and Tradition in Honduras May, 2000
Hermina Georgeta- Benedicta Anghelescu Library and Information Science Donald G. Davis, Jr. Public Libraries in Modern and Contemporary Romania:  Legacy of French Patterns and Soviet Influences, 1830-1990 August, 2000
Stephanie Vivian Brown Anthropology (Folklore) Kathleen Stewart Learning Adolescence:  Producing the Family and the Self in an Expert Culture August, 2000
Nicholas Albert Thomas Brown Kinesiology Jody L. Jensen Construction of a Dynamic-contact Task by Children:  The Role of Segmental Mass and Inertia in Cycling December, 2000
Loretta Maureen Cavagnaro Art and Art History Ann M. Reynolds Eva Hesse in Exhibition:  Contexts and Categories May, 2000
Davina Adrianne Cheek Linguistics Richard P. Meier and Scott P. Myers The Phonetics and Phonology of Handshape in American Sign Language May, 2001
Edi Young Chung Music Elliott M. Antokoletz and Eugene A. Gratovich Bartok's Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano:  Structural Functions of Polymodal Combination (Bela Bartok, Hungary) May, 2000
Catherine Lorraine Schuur Geological Sciences William E. Galloway and John A. Goff Latest Quaternary Stratigraphy and Seafloor Morphology of the New Jersey Continental Shelf May, 2001
Brice Lindell Erickson Classics Paula T. Perlman Late Archaic and Classical Crete:  Island Pottery Styles in an Age of Historical Transition, ca. 600-400 B.C. (Greece) December, 2000
Francis Henrique Ramos Franca Mechanical Engineering John R. Howell Inverse Thermal Design Combining Radiation, Convection, and Conduction May, 2000
Christa Gaug Germanic Studies Katherine M. Arens Situating the City:  The Textual and Spatial Construction of Late-nineteenth-century Berlin and Vienna in City Texts by Theodor Fontane and Daniel Spitzer (Germany, Austria) May, 2000
Huatao Guo Molecular Biology Alan M. Lambowitz The Target-site Recognition Mechanism of Group II Intron Endonucleases and Its Use in Gene Targeting May, 2000
Mary Elizabeth Harris Social Work Cynthia G. S. Franklin A School-based Cognitive Behavioral Group Intervention for Helping Mexican American Adolescent Mothers Toward Self-sufficiency:  An Effectiveness Study December, 2000
Dale Andrew Howell Astronomy John Craig Wheeler Type Ia Supernovae: Constraints on Progenitors and Asphericity December, 2000
Cathryn Ann Hoyt Geography Stephen Austin Hall Grassland to Desert:  Holocene Vegetation and Climate Change in the Northern Chihuahuan Desert August, 2000
Achim Egbert Klug Zoology George D. Pollak The Response of Inferior Colliculus Neurons in the Mexican Free-tailed Bat to Species-specific calls December, 2000
Miranda Jane Mann Psychology Caryn L. Carlson and David M. Tucker A Neuropsychological Investigation of Dopamine Receptor 4 Differences Among Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder-combined Type and Control Children May, 2000
Jennifer Adrienne Mason English Evan B. Carton and Ann Cvetkovich Civilized Creatures:  Animality, Cultural Power, and American Literature, 1850-1901 (Susan Warner, Nathaniel Hawthorn, Charles Waddell Chestnutt, Harriet Beecher Stowe) August, 2000
Delia Leticia Mendez Montesinos Spanish and Portuguese Lily Litvak

From Spanish Stage to California Vineyards:  The Survival of the Resilient Simpleton (Cantinflas, Lope de Rueda)

August, 2000
Mikel Rolf Miller Materials Science and Engineering Paul S. Ho Interfacial Adhesion and Subcritical Debonding of Low-k Dielectrics in Flip-chip-packaged Copper/Low-k Interconnect Structures August, 2000
Hemanth P. Nair Neuroscience Francisco Gonzalez-Lima Brain Imaging of Developmental Learning Effects December, 2000
Kevin Louis Nibbe History William H. Goetzmann The Greatest Opportunity:  American Artists and the Great War, 1917-1920 May, 2000
Jackson Arnold Niday, II Communication Studies Richard A. Cherwitz Governance at Midnight:  A Rhetorical and Contextual Analysis of the 1995 United States Senate Hearing:  The Militia Movement in the United States May, 2001
Elizabeth Underwood Patterson Curriculum and Instruction James V. Hoffman On the Wings of Words:  A Life History of Bill Martin, Jr. May, 2000
Mary Bolling Satterfield Chemistry Jennifer S. Brodbelt Enhanced Detection and Structural Characterization of Phytochemicals with Metal Complexation Using Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry May, 2001
Kumar S. Vemaganti Engineering Mechanics John Tinsley Oden Goal-oriented Adaptive Modeling of Heterogeneous Elastic Solids December, 2000
Florence Johanna Widmer-Schnyder Comparative Literature Katherine M. Arens and Carol H. MacKay Nineteenth-century Women's Narratives at the Crossroads:  Problems of Travel, Genre, and Identity (Charlotte Bronte, Anna Leonowens) December, 2000
Jing Xu Nutritional Sciences Steven D. Clarke Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Suppress Hepatic Lipogenic Gene Transcription By Accelerating Sterol Regulatory Element Binding Protein-1 Transcript Decay May, 2001
Hae-Seong Yoon Pharmacy Serrine S. Lau A Role for the Tuberous Sclerosis-2 Tumor Suppressor Gene in Quinol-thioether-induced Nephrocarcinogenicity in the Eker Rat December, 2000