Rackham Honors the Winners of the ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards
Posted Friday, April 30th, 2010
While all graduating Rackham students produce excellent dissertations, some students write dissertations that are truly exceptional for the high quality of their scholarship and for the significance and interest of their findings. We recognize these exceptional dissertations with the ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award.
Dissertations are nominated for the award by University faculty who have served as chairs of dissertation committees of outstanding students. The nominations are then read by a review panel composed of members of the Michigan Society of Fellows, with assistance from other members of the University faculty and research community.
The awards are co-sponsored by ProQuest, which publishes 70,000 dissertations annually, including nearly 800 by University of Michigan authors. We are delighted to have them join us in celebrating the remarkable intellectual achievements of these promising young scholars.
Distinguished Dissertation Awards of 2009 Winners
The Rackham Graduate School takes great pleasure in honoring these outstanding members of the community of scholars:
- Eric W. Groenendyk
- Political Science
- The Motivated Partisan: A Dual Motivations Theory of Partisan Change and Stability
- Blair Allen Johnston
- Music Theory
- Harmony and Climax in the Late Works of Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Jasper F. Kok
- Applied Physics
- Understanding Wind-Blown Sand and the Electrification of Granular Systems
- Eranda Nikolla
- Chemical Engineering
- Combined Experimental/Theoretical Approach Toward the Development of Carbon Tolerant Electrocatalysts for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Anodes
- Howard L. M. Nye
- Philosophy
- Ethics, Fitting Attitudes, and Practical Reason: A Theory of Normative Facts
- Robert Grant Rowe
- Cellular and Molecular Biology
- Differential Regulation of Two- and Three-Dimensional Cell Function
- Nathalie E. Williams
- Sociology
- Living With Conflict: The Effect of Community Organizations, Economic Assets, and Mass Media Consumption on Migration During Armed Conflict
- Ruth E. Zielinski
- Nursing
- Private Places – Private Shame: Women’s Genital Body Image and Sexual