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Other Dissertations Nominated for Outstanding Dissertation
1998

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