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Other Dissertations Nominated for Outstanding Dissertation
1997

Nominee Department Supervising Professor(s) Title of Dissertation Degree Date
James Travis Abbott Geography Karl Butzer Late Quaternary Alluviation and Soil Erosion in Southern Italy May, 1997
Nandi Bhatia Comparative Literature Barbara Harlow and Elizabeth Richmond-Garza Staging a Change:  Modern Indian Drama and the Colonial Encounter August, 1996
Michael Brotherton Astronomy Beverly Wills The Nature of QSO Emission-line Regions August, 1996
Cathy Lynn Campbell Educational Psychology John L. Warfield An Exploration of Strength in African-American, European American, and Mexican American Single Mothers Across Socioeconomic Levels May, 1997
David Allen Cole, Jr. Art Histry Linda Henderson The Rhetoric of Degeneracy of Evolutionism in the American Critical Response to Modern Art, 1908-1921 December, 1996
Adson Ferreira da Rocha Biomedical Engineering Jonathan Valvano The Dynamic Behavior of Thermistor Probes May, 1997
Martha Diase Radio-Television-Film Emile McAnany Egyptian Television Serials, Audiences, and the Family House:  A Public Health Enter-Educate Serial December, 1996
Ricardo H. Dunia Chemical Engineering T. F. Edgar A Unified Geometric Approach for Process Monitoring and Control May, 1997
John B. Etnyre Mathematics Robert Gompf Symplectic Constructions on 4-Manifolds December, 1996
Seth Fein History Robert Divine Hollywood and United States-Mexico Relations in the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema August, 1996
Benjamin Feinberg Anthropology Kathleen Stewart A Toyota in Huautla:  Metacultural Discourse in the Sierra Mazateca of Oaxaca, Mexico August, 1996
Luis Rene Garcia Microbiology Ian Molineux Characterization of Bacteriophage T7 DNA Entry into Escherichia Coli August, 1996
Frederick C. Hoerner English Theresa M. Kelley Figures Bearing Sway:  Milton, Romanticism, and Poetic Transmission (2 volumes) May, 1997
Thomas J. Hollis Biochemistry Jon Robertus Structure-Function Analysis of Plant Defense Proteins May, 1997
Martin Humpal Germanic Studies John Hoberman and Lynn Wilkinson The Roots of Modernist Narrative:  Knut Hamsun's Novels Hunger, Mysteries, and Pan December, 1996
Marcus Kaltenbach Computer Sciences Jayadev Misra and E. Allen Emerson Interactive Verification Exploiting Program Design Knowledge:  A Model-Checker for UNITY December, 1996
Anne Monroe Lambright Spanish and Portuguese Jose Cerna-Bazan The Feminine and the Nation in Three Novels by Jose Maria Arguedas May, 1997
Ashleigh Carol Merritt Psychology Robert L. Helmreich National Culture and Work Attitudes in Commercial Aviation:  A Cross-Cultural Investigation December, 1996
Timothy S. O'Keefe Philosophy R. J. Hankinson

Epicurus on Reductionism, Determinism and Freedom

May, 1997
Kirsten Poling Marine Science Lee Fuiman Sensory and Behavioral Ontogeny of Three Species of Sciaenids and the Importance of Habitat May, 1997
Suryanarayanan Ravindran MSIS Andrew Whinston and Anitesh Barua Organizational Mechanisms that Impact Information Sharing Attitudes August, 1996
Judith Ann Sebesta Theatre and Dance Charlotte Canning Locating Power:  A Spatial Analysis of Feminist Performance in the United States May, 1997
Mary Beth Shapiro Linguistics Keith Walters Style Shifting:  The Perception and Production of Formality in English May, 1997
Kevin Barry Shelburne Mechanical Engineering Marcus Pandy Modeling the Mechanics of the Normal and Reconstructed Knee Joint May, 1997
Preston Trent Staats Electrical and Computer Engineering W. Mack Grady and Ari Arapostathis The Harmonic Impact of Electric Vehicle Battery Charging May, 1997
Joshua Todd Trachtenberg Zoology Wesley J. Thompson Bi-directional Schwann Cell-Axon Signaling at Developing Neuromuscular Junctions in the Rat May, 1997
Jana Walters Sociology Charles Bonjean Resisting Rationalization:  Organizational Culture in a Residential Facility Serving Mentally Retarded Adults August, 1996