Home Navigating Your Degree Oral Defense Dates Oral Defense Dates Bobby Wolesensky Program: Chemistry Dissertation Title: Advancements in Group 10-Mediated Transformations: Mechanism, Decarbonylation, and C?H Bond Functionalization Date: 10 Jun 2026 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: CHEM 1706 Chair: Melanie S Sanford Farida Bibi Mughal Program: Nursing Dissertation Title: A Survivor-Centered Framework of Trauma Healing After Gender-Based Violence: Development and Validation of the I-MOVE Scale and Testing of a Multidimensional Healing Model Date: 10 Jun 2026 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: CLASSROOM 2184 (2ND FLOOR, 400 SNB #1) Chair: Denise M Saint Arnault Meifeng Yang Program: Economics Dissertation Title: Essays on Economic Security of Older Americans Date: 10 Jun 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: NORTH QUAD 4445 Chair: John Bound and Matthew D Shapiro Joshua Kerobo Program: Music: Musicology Dissertation Title: Japa Syndrome: Popular Music, 21st Century Youth Social Movements, and Affective Activism in Fourth Republic Nigeria Date: 10 Jun 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/94917698822 Chair: Christi-Anne Castro Loren Dobkin Program: Nursing Dissertation Title: Addressing Contemporary Challenges to Diagnosing and Treating Chlamydia Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States Date: 10 Jun 2026 Time: 2:30 p.m. Location: 426 NORTH INGALLS NURSING BLDG 2, RM 1250; HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/99897673518 PW: DEFENSE Chair: Erin Kahle and Yasamin Yoko Kusunoki Xinhai Hou Program: Bioinformatics Dissertation Title: Foundation Models for Brain Tumor Diagnosis and Prognosis Date: 11 Jun 2026 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/8831108003 PASSCODE: THESIS Chair: Brian D Athey and Todd Charles Hollon Irene Zhang Program: Biomedical Engineering Dissertation Title: Engineering Towards the Vascular Hierarchy via Granular Materials and Bioprinting Date: 11 Jun 2026 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: LEC 4231 HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/99568441303 PASSCODE: VESSELS Chair: Andrew Putnam Cassandra Euphrat Weston Program: History Dissertation Title: Date: 11 Jun 2026 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: EIHS CONFERENCE ROOM (1521 HAVEN HALL) AND ZOOM: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/96582719534? PW:CEWDEFENSE Chair: Deborah Dash Moore Sahil Bhola Program: Aerospace Engineering Dissertation Title: Reliable Predictive Modeling Under Resource Constraints: Learning Under Data, Hardware, and Fidelity Limitations Date: 11 Jun 2026 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: MCDIVITT CONFERENCE ROOM (FXB-1044); HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/91830810002 Chair: Karthik Duraisamy Natalie Jusko Program: Pharmaceutical Sciences Dissertation Title: In Silico Models of Drug Safety and Drug Release: Machine Learning Prediction of Kinase Inhibitor Adverse Events and Deconvolution Analysis of In Vivo Release from Modified Release Formulations Date: 12 Jun 2026 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/95594240220?FROM=ADDON PW:869018 Chair: Duxin Sun Caroline Murphy-Racette Program: Classical Studies Dissertation Title: Female Power in Early Greek Epic Date: 12 Jun 2026 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: ZOOM: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/94817305004 Chair: Jonathan Levin Ready Kathryn Hoegeman Program: Medicinal Chemistry Dissertation Title: Phenotypic Discovery of Anti-Steatotic Agents for MASLD: Putative DPP-IV/HSD17B13 Modulation by a-Terthienyl and Optimization of Benzimidazole Scaffolds Date: 12 Jun 2026 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: RACKHAM, EAST CONFERENCE ROOM – FOURTH FLOOR Chair: Martin C Clasby Claire Yin Program: Chemical Engineering Dissertation Title: Understanding the Microenvironment for the Aqueous CO2 Reduction Reaction in Gas Diffusion Electrode Flow Cells Date: 12 Jun 2026 Time: 1:30 p.m. Location: NCRC10 G063 AND G064 Chair: Suljo Linic and Nirala Singh Xinying Hou Program: Information Dissertation Title: Advancing Personalized, Engaging Learning and Assessment in the AI Era Date: 12 Jun 2026 Time: 1:30 p.m. Location: FOUNDER?S ROOM (3-3470) AT LEINWEBER, HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/93273199175 Chair: Barbara Jane Ericson Malte Hendrickx Program: Philosophy Dissertation Title: Ambition Date: 12 Jun 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: ANGELL HALL Chair: Sekhar Chandra Sripada Jay Kayser Program: Social Work & Psychology Dissertation Title: Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Cognitive Function: Correlates, Consequences, and Causes in Older Adults Date: 12 Jun 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: SSWB 1794 & HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/95903563553 Chair: Jacqui Smith and Xiaoling Xiang Patrick KON Program: Computer Science & Eng Dissertation Title: Expanding the Deployment Substrate: Leveraging Emerging Infrastructure Platforms for Internet Censorship Circumvention Date: 15 Jun 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: 4901 BBB Chair: Ang Chen Alexander Ritchie Program: Electrical & Computer Engineer Dissertation Title: Covariate Structure as Weak Supervision in Estimation Problems Date: 15 Jun 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: 3316 EECS Chair: Laura Balzano and Clayton D Scott Wayne Tu Program: Civil Engineering Dissertation Title: Harnessing the Mechanics of Basket Weaving to Create 3D Functional Structures and Metamaterials Date: 15 Jun 2026 Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: GGB 2029 Chair: Evgueni Filipov Andrea Jacoby Program: Communication Dissertation Title: Stuck in the Web: Digital Life and Platform Undeath in the Enshittification Era Date: 16 Jun 2026 Time: 10:30 a.m. Location: NQ 5450, HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/91067092333 Chair: Megan Sapnar Ankerson and Susan J Douglas Jinhong Min Program: Materials Science & Engin Dissertation Title: Quantifying Electrochemical Charge and Discharge in Individual Battery Particles Date: 16 Jun 2026 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: LEC4231 Chair: Yiyang Li Nishkarsh Agarwal Program: Materials Science & Engin Dissertation Title: In Situ Electron Microscopy of Superlattice Order: From Cryogenic to High Temperatures Date: 16 Jun 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: 3150 HH DOW Chair: Robert Hovden Kiran Kumar Program: Biostatistics Dissertation Title: Statistical and Coalescent Models for Genotype Imputation of Modern and Ancient Genomes Date: 17 Jun 2026 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: SPH I 1750 Chair: Sebastian K Zoellner Irene Morse Program: Political Science Dissertation Title: Mixed Method Approaches to Turkish Politics: A Three-Paper Dissertation Date: 17 Jun 2026 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: PREFUNCTION ROOM, 5769 HAVEN HALL Chair: Mark A Tessler Mix Mann Program: History Dissertation Title: Date: 17 Jun 2026 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/92447209094 PW:DRMIX2026 Chair: Jennifer Dominique Jones and Lakisha Michelle Simmons Sean Hannifin Program: Immunology Dissertation Title: Hypoxia-induced Fibroblast IL-6 promotes Immunosuppressive Macrophage Polarization in Pancreatic Cancer Date: 17 Jun 2026 Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: KAHN AUDITORIUM, BRSB Chair: Kyoung Eun Lee and Marina Pasca Di Magliano Mary Quiroga Program: Public Policy & Economics Dissertation Title: Essays in Public and Environmental Economics Date: 18 Jun 2026 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: NORTH QUAD 4445 Chair: Catherine Hausman and James R Hines Jr Xinyue Chen Program: Computer Science & Eng Dissertation Title: Designing Human-AI Systems to Mediate Collaborative Work Date: 18 Jun 2026 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: BOB & BETTY BEYSTER BUILDING, 3725; HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/MY/XUWANGUM Chair: Xu Wang Amina Abdu Program: Information Dissertation Title: Legitimacy Practices Under Algorithmic Governance Date: 19 Jun 2026 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: LEINWEBER 3470 Chair: Abigail Zoe Jacobs Zhuoqi Liu Program: Astronomy & Astrophysics Dissertation Title: Characterizing the Circumgalactic and Intergalactic Medium with Giant Quasar Nebulae Date: 19 Jun 2026 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: WEST HALL 411 Chair: Sean Johnson Azhar Dyussekenova Program: Slavic Lang & Literature Dissertation Title: Unvirgin Steppe: The Queer Ecologies of Central Asian Postcolonial Cultural Production Date: 22 Jun 2026 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: 3308 MLB Chair: Olga Maiorova Grace Wilsey Program: Film, Television, and Media Dissertation Title: Thrift: How Authorship Mediates Systems of Power Amidst Technological Change Date: 23 Jun 2026 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: NORTH QUAD 6450 Chair: Sarah Murray and Johannes Von Moltke Morgan Wofford Program: Information Dissertation Title: Characterizing Climate Crisis Skeptics' Data Reuse to Generate Insights for Data Repositories and Intermediaries Date: 23 Jun 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/95195111549?JST=4 Chair: Libby Hemphill and Andrea Thomer Keerthikka Ravi Program: Molecular, Cell & Dev Biology Dissertation Title: A Comparative and Functional Genomics Approach in Lactobacillus johnsonii for Identifying Genetic Determinants of Host Adaptation Date: 23 Jun 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: KHAN AUDITORIUM, BSRB Chair: Gary B Huffnagle Sam Hobson Program: Sociology Dissertation Title: The Stories We Tell, The Justice We Seek, The Power We Reproduce: A Foucauldian Discourse Study of Progressive Movement Framing in New York City Food Justice Date: 23 Jun 2026 Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/99354880168 Chair: Fatma Muge Gocek Marnie McLean Program: Movement Science Dissertation Title: Resistance Exercise in Perimenopause Date: 24 Jun 2026 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: SCHOOL OF KINESIOLOGY BUILDING 2140 Chair: Abbi Danielle Lane Charles Katulamu Program: Sociology Dissertation Title: Abortion in Criminalized and Restricted Contexts: Essays from Uganda Date: 24 Jun 2026 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: LSA SOCIOLOGY LIBRARY ROOM 4147 Chair: Sarah Andrea Burgard and Maggie Frye Contact Academic Records and Dissertations Hours: Academic Records and Dissertations is open Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The office is closed Saturdays and Sundays and on the following holidays: Thanksgiving (Thursday and the following Friday), Christmas through New Year’s, Memorial Day, Independence Day (July 4), and Labor Day. 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Bobby Wolesensky Program: Chemistry Dissertation Title: Advancements in Group 10-Mediated Transformations: Mechanism, Decarbonylation, and C?H Bond Functionalization Date: 10 Jun 2026 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: CHEM 1706 Chair: Melanie S Sanford
Farida Bibi Mughal Program: Nursing Dissertation Title: A Survivor-Centered Framework of Trauma Healing After Gender-Based Violence: Development and Validation of the I-MOVE Scale and Testing of a Multidimensional Healing Model Date: 10 Jun 2026 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: CLASSROOM 2184 (2ND FLOOR, 400 SNB #1) Chair: Denise M Saint Arnault
Meifeng Yang Program: Economics Dissertation Title: Essays on Economic Security of Older Americans Date: 10 Jun 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: NORTH QUAD 4445 Chair: John Bound and Matthew D Shapiro
Joshua Kerobo Program: Music: Musicology Dissertation Title: Japa Syndrome: Popular Music, 21st Century Youth Social Movements, and Affective Activism in Fourth Republic Nigeria Date: 10 Jun 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/94917698822 Chair: Christi-Anne Castro
Loren Dobkin Program: Nursing Dissertation Title: Addressing Contemporary Challenges to Diagnosing and Treating Chlamydia Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States Date: 10 Jun 2026 Time: 2:30 p.m. Location: 426 NORTH INGALLS NURSING BLDG 2, RM 1250; HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/99897673518 PW: DEFENSE Chair: Erin Kahle and Yasamin Yoko Kusunoki
Xinhai Hou Program: Bioinformatics Dissertation Title: Foundation Models for Brain Tumor Diagnosis and Prognosis Date: 11 Jun 2026 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/8831108003 PASSCODE: THESIS Chair: Brian D Athey and Todd Charles Hollon
Irene Zhang Program: Biomedical Engineering Dissertation Title: Engineering Towards the Vascular Hierarchy via Granular Materials and Bioprinting Date: 11 Jun 2026 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: LEC 4231 HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/99568441303 PASSCODE: VESSELS Chair: Andrew Putnam
Cassandra Euphrat Weston Program: History Dissertation Title: Date: 11 Jun 2026 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: EIHS CONFERENCE ROOM (1521 HAVEN HALL) AND ZOOM: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/96582719534? PW:CEWDEFENSE Chair: Deborah Dash Moore
Sahil Bhola Program: Aerospace Engineering Dissertation Title: Reliable Predictive Modeling Under Resource Constraints: Learning Under Data, Hardware, and Fidelity Limitations Date: 11 Jun 2026 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: MCDIVITT CONFERENCE ROOM (FXB-1044); HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/91830810002 Chair: Karthik Duraisamy
Natalie Jusko Program: Pharmaceutical Sciences Dissertation Title: In Silico Models of Drug Safety and Drug Release: Machine Learning Prediction of Kinase Inhibitor Adverse Events and Deconvolution Analysis of In Vivo Release from Modified Release Formulations Date: 12 Jun 2026 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/95594240220?FROM=ADDON PW:869018 Chair: Duxin Sun
Caroline Murphy-Racette Program: Classical Studies Dissertation Title: Female Power in Early Greek Epic Date: 12 Jun 2026 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: ZOOM: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/94817305004 Chair: Jonathan Levin Ready
Kathryn Hoegeman Program: Medicinal Chemistry Dissertation Title: Phenotypic Discovery of Anti-Steatotic Agents for MASLD: Putative DPP-IV/HSD17B13 Modulation by a-Terthienyl and Optimization of Benzimidazole Scaffolds Date: 12 Jun 2026 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: RACKHAM, EAST CONFERENCE ROOM – FOURTH FLOOR Chair: Martin C Clasby
Claire Yin Program: Chemical Engineering Dissertation Title: Understanding the Microenvironment for the Aqueous CO2 Reduction Reaction in Gas Diffusion Electrode Flow Cells Date: 12 Jun 2026 Time: 1:30 p.m. Location: NCRC10 G063 AND G064 Chair: Suljo Linic and Nirala Singh
Xinying Hou Program: Information Dissertation Title: Advancing Personalized, Engaging Learning and Assessment in the AI Era Date: 12 Jun 2026 Time: 1:30 p.m. Location: FOUNDER?S ROOM (3-3470) AT LEINWEBER, HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/93273199175 Chair: Barbara Jane Ericson
Malte Hendrickx Program: Philosophy Dissertation Title: Ambition Date: 12 Jun 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: ANGELL HALL Chair: Sekhar Chandra Sripada
Jay Kayser Program: Social Work & Psychology Dissertation Title: Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Cognitive Function: Correlates, Consequences, and Causes in Older Adults Date: 12 Jun 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: SSWB 1794 & HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/95903563553 Chair: Jacqui Smith and Xiaoling Xiang
Patrick KON Program: Computer Science & Eng Dissertation Title: Expanding the Deployment Substrate: Leveraging Emerging Infrastructure Platforms for Internet Censorship Circumvention Date: 15 Jun 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: 4901 BBB Chair: Ang Chen
Alexander Ritchie Program: Electrical & Computer Engineer Dissertation Title: Covariate Structure as Weak Supervision in Estimation Problems Date: 15 Jun 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: 3316 EECS Chair: Laura Balzano and Clayton D Scott
Wayne Tu Program: Civil Engineering Dissertation Title: Harnessing the Mechanics of Basket Weaving to Create 3D Functional Structures and Metamaterials Date: 15 Jun 2026 Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: GGB 2029 Chair: Evgueni Filipov
Andrea Jacoby Program: Communication Dissertation Title: Stuck in the Web: Digital Life and Platform Undeath in the Enshittification Era Date: 16 Jun 2026 Time: 10:30 a.m. Location: NQ 5450, HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/91067092333 Chair: Megan Sapnar Ankerson and Susan J Douglas
Jinhong Min Program: Materials Science & Engin Dissertation Title: Quantifying Electrochemical Charge and Discharge in Individual Battery Particles Date: 16 Jun 2026 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: LEC4231 Chair: Yiyang Li
Nishkarsh Agarwal Program: Materials Science & Engin Dissertation Title: In Situ Electron Microscopy of Superlattice Order: From Cryogenic to High Temperatures Date: 16 Jun 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: 3150 HH DOW Chair: Robert Hovden
Kiran Kumar Program: Biostatistics Dissertation Title: Statistical and Coalescent Models for Genotype Imputation of Modern and Ancient Genomes Date: 17 Jun 2026 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: SPH I 1750 Chair: Sebastian K Zoellner
Irene Morse Program: Political Science Dissertation Title: Mixed Method Approaches to Turkish Politics: A Three-Paper Dissertation Date: 17 Jun 2026 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: PREFUNCTION ROOM, 5769 HAVEN HALL Chair: Mark A Tessler
Mix Mann Program: History Dissertation Title: Date: 17 Jun 2026 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/92447209094 PW:DRMIX2026 Chair: Jennifer Dominique Jones and Lakisha Michelle Simmons
Sean Hannifin Program: Immunology Dissertation Title: Hypoxia-induced Fibroblast IL-6 promotes Immunosuppressive Macrophage Polarization in Pancreatic Cancer Date: 17 Jun 2026 Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: KAHN AUDITORIUM, BRSB Chair: Kyoung Eun Lee and Marina Pasca Di Magliano
Mary Quiroga Program: Public Policy & Economics Dissertation Title: Essays in Public and Environmental Economics Date: 18 Jun 2026 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: NORTH QUAD 4445 Chair: Catherine Hausman and James R Hines Jr
Xinyue Chen Program: Computer Science & Eng Dissertation Title: Designing Human-AI Systems to Mediate Collaborative Work Date: 18 Jun 2026 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: BOB & BETTY BEYSTER BUILDING, 3725; HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/MY/XUWANGUM Chair: Xu Wang
Amina Abdu Program: Information Dissertation Title: Legitimacy Practices Under Algorithmic Governance Date: 19 Jun 2026 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: LEINWEBER 3470 Chair: Abigail Zoe Jacobs
Zhuoqi Liu Program: Astronomy & Astrophysics Dissertation Title: Characterizing the Circumgalactic and Intergalactic Medium with Giant Quasar Nebulae Date: 19 Jun 2026 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: WEST HALL 411 Chair: Sean Johnson
Azhar Dyussekenova Program: Slavic Lang & Literature Dissertation Title: Unvirgin Steppe: The Queer Ecologies of Central Asian Postcolonial Cultural Production Date: 22 Jun 2026 Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: 3308 MLB Chair: Olga Maiorova
Grace Wilsey Program: Film, Television, and Media Dissertation Title: Thrift: How Authorship Mediates Systems of Power Amidst Technological Change Date: 23 Jun 2026 Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: NORTH QUAD 6450 Chair: Sarah Murray and Johannes Von Moltke
Morgan Wofford Program: Information Dissertation Title: Characterizing Climate Crisis Skeptics' Data Reuse to Generate Insights for Data Repositories and Intermediaries Date: 23 Jun 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/95195111549?JST=4 Chair: Libby Hemphill and Andrea Thomer
Keerthikka Ravi Program: Molecular, Cell & Dev Biology Dissertation Title: A Comparative and Functional Genomics Approach in Lactobacillus johnsonii for Identifying Genetic Determinants of Host Adaptation Date: 23 Jun 2026 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: KHAN AUDITORIUM, BSRB Chair: Gary B Huffnagle
Sam Hobson Program: Sociology Dissertation Title: The Stories We Tell, The Justice We Seek, The Power We Reproduce: A Foucauldian Discourse Study of Progressive Movement Framing in New York City Food Justice Date: 23 Jun 2026 Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: HTTPS://UMICH.ZOOM.US/J/99354880168 Chair: Fatma Muge Gocek
Marnie McLean Program: Movement Science Dissertation Title: Resistance Exercise in Perimenopause Date: 24 Jun 2026 Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: SCHOOL OF KINESIOLOGY BUILDING 2140 Chair: Abbi Danielle Lane
Charles Katulamu Program: Sociology Dissertation Title: Abortion in Criminalized and Restricted Contexts: Essays from Uganda Date: 24 Jun 2026 Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: LSA SOCIOLOGY LIBRARY ROOM 4147 Chair: Sarah Andrea Burgard and Maggie Frye
