| Nominee | Department | Supervising Professor(s) | Title of Dissertation | Degree Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Paul Bartkowski | Sociology | Christopher Ellison | Gender Reinvented, Gender Reproduced: The Discourse and Negotiation of Spousal Relations Within Contemporary Evangelicalism | August, 1997 |
| Charles Andrew Causey | Folklore | Ward Keeler | More Than They Bargained For: Toba Batak Wood Carvers and Western Travellers in a Utopic Marketplace | December, 1997 |
| Eric Kin Chan | Biomedical Engineering | Ashley J. Welch | Laser Tissue Welding: Effects of Solder Coagulation and Tissue Optical Properties | August, 1997 |
| Shirley Katherine Chism Selber | Social Work | Calvin L. Streeter | Measuring Customer Perceptions of Service Quality in Human Services | August, 1997 |
| William Arthur Christensen | Spanish and Portuguese | Stanislav Zimic | The Renaissance Psychology of Guzman de Alfarache | December, 1997 |
| Charles A. Cramer | Art History | Richard Shiff | Formal Reduction and the Empirical Ideal, 1750-1914: An Essay in the History of Ideas of Classicism | August, 1997 |
| Timothy Mark Davis | American Civilization | Jeffrey Meikle and William Stoff | Mount Vernon Memorial Highway and the Evolution of the American Parkway | December, 1997 |
| Leila Flores Duenas | Curriculum and Instruction | George Blanco | Second Language Reading: Mexican American Student Voices on Reading Mexican American Literature | December, 1997 |
| Christina Marie Friend | English | Lester Faigley | Public Voices, Private Lives: Reconnecting Rhetorical and Ethical Education in the Postmodern Writing Classroom | August, 1997 |
| Salah Dean Assaf Hassan | Comparative Literature | Barbara Harlow | Between Issues: The Politics of Cultural Journals in the Postwar Era, 1944-1962 | December, 1997 |
| Marc Joseph Hetherington | Government | Robert Luskin | Negative News, Negative Consequences: One Reason Americans Hate Politics | December, 1997 |
| Song Hee Hong | Pharmacy | Marv Shepherd | Pharmaceutical Price Increases Resulting from a Competitive Strategy Used by Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Facing General Drug Entry | August, 1997 |
| Kathy Jo Jakielski | Communication Sciences and Disorders | Barbara Davis | Motor Organization in the Acquisition of Consonant Clusters | May, 1998 |
| Stana Bell Martin | Radio-Television-Film | Nikhil Sinha | Information Technologies and Information Work 1970-1995: Gender, Technology, and Work in the Information Society | August, 1997 |
| Rajmohan Rajaraman | Computer Sciences | Greg Plaxton | Sharing Resources in Distributed Systems | December, 1997 |
| Linda Lee Ridge | Educational Psychology | Frank Richardson | Women and Body Image: A Philosophical Hermeneutic-Feminist Inquiry | August, 1997 |
| Jay Robert Rooker | Marine Science | G. Joan Holt | Early Life History of Red Drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) in Subtropical Seagrass Meadows: Patterns of Condition, Growth, and Mortality | December, 1997 |
| David Christopher Seets | Chemical Engineering | Charles Buddie Mullins | Mechanisms of the Dissociative Chemisorption of Methane on the (110) and (111) Surfaces of Iridium | December, 1997 |
| Celeste Alexander Vanhorn | Educational Administration | Deborah Kazal-Thresher | How Organizational Structure and Grouping in Elementary School Contributes to Formal Tracking of Students in Mathematics at the Onset of Middle School |
December, 1997 |
| Marlene Walden | Nursing | Joy Penticuff | Changes Over Six Weeks in Multivariate Responses of Premature Neonates to a Painful Stimulus | August, 1997 |
| Kira Lee Wennstrom | Zoology | David Crews | Sex Determination and Sexual Differentiation of the Brain in Whiptail Lizards | December, 1997 |
| Donna Faye Wilson | Classics | Erwin Cook | The Politics of Compensation in the Homeric Iliad | December, 1997 |
| Larisa Zlatic | Linguistics | Ileana Comorovski and Stephen Wechsler | The Structure of the Serbian Noun Phrase | August, 1997 |