2010 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards

Posted Friday, March 11th, 2011

Rackham is pleased to announce the the winners of the 2010 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards. These awards recognize exceptional and unusually interesting work produced by doctoral students in the last phase of their graduate work.

Alyson Jones, Musicology
Playing Out: Women Instrumentalists and Women’s Ensembles in Contemporary Tunisia

Casie LeGette, English Language & Literature
The Past Jumps Up: British Radicals and the Remaking of Literary History 1790-1870

Jamaal Matthews, Education and Psychology
Toward a Holistic Understanding of Academic Identification in Ethnic Minority Boys at Risk for Academic Failure

Bobak Mosadegh, Biomedical Engineering
Design and Fabrication of Integrated Microfluidic Circuits Using Normally-Closed Elastomeric Valves

Gustavo Patino, Neuroscience
Who moved my protein? Mechanisms of Epileptogenesis due to Mutations of Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel SCN1B

Christopher Roberts, Public Policy and Sociology
Exploring the Fractures within Human Rights: An Empirical Study of Resistance

Kevin Tucker, Mathematics
Jumping Numbers and Multiplier Ideals on Algebraic Surfaces

Feng Wang, Biological Chemistry
Structural Analyses of Telomere Associated Proteins

An awards ceremony will be held on Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 2:00 pm in the Assembly Hall, 4th floor, Rackham Building. A reception will follow.