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Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences One Hundred Fifty-Fourth Commencement Monday, May 18, 2015 Order of Exercises commencement diploma ceremony Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Monday, May 18, 2015 Organ Prelude English Department Dissertation Prize Prelude and Fugue in G Minor, WoO 10 samuel fallon J. Brahms justin sider Meditation Estwing Hammer Prize M. Duruflé zhixue du allison hsiang Sonata VI victoria mccoy F. Mendelssohn Excellence in Teaching Prize Jacob Street, Organist david auerbach Yale Institute of Sacred Music james super Processional Miguel Ferreyros Memorial Award Grand Choeur Triomphale, Op. 47 No. 2 christopher harnisch Alexandre Guilmant Harry Burr Ferris Prize Please rise when the faculty and graduating nicole darricarrere students enter the hall. eric guo brant webster Recognition of Student Prize Recipients Theron Rockwell Field Prize kyle andrew dugdale Marsten Anderson Prize carmel addie raz jessica moyer William Ebenezer Ford Prize Francis J. Anscombe Award taylor kilian chao gao colton lynner Henry Prentiss Becton Prize Hans Gatzke Prize ngai yin yip nathaniel kurz Frederick W. Beinecke Prize rachel rothschild ryan hall James B. Grossman Dissertation Prize Frances Blanshard Fellowship Prize su mei lee meredith gamer William J. Horwitz Prize sylvia houghteling marina brown Harding Bliss Prize matteo di giovanni alyssa siefert Academic Excellence in International Relations Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize farsan ghassim john cooper Mary Ellen Jones Prize Dirk Brouwer Memorial Prize hoong chuin lim katherine tease Annie Le Fellowship Anthony DiGuida Delta Mu Research Prize olga buzovetsky lisa braun joori park George Washington Egleston Historical Prize andrew horowitz Elias Loomis Prize Recognition of Public Service Award Recipient ivy tan community service award srikanth toppaladoddi jill kelly John Spangler Nicholas Prize nicholas frankel Recognition of Graduating Prize Teaching daniel goldhill Fellows bradley parry alexander cerjan 2011-2012, 2013-2014 alexis rovner jean elyse graham 2010-2011 Philip M. Orville Prize andrew horowitz 2011-2012, 2012-2013 erin wirth moriarty susanna kimport 2013-2014 yige zhang Marguerite A. Peyre Prize Recognition of Graduate Mentor Award clementine fauré-bellaïche Recipients benjamin hoffmann in the humanities John Addison Porter Prize verity harte dana johanna graef Professor of Philosophy and Classics shawnakim blake lowey-ball in the natural sciences Leonard J. Savage Writing Prize hal blumenfeld cynthia rush Professor of Neurology, of Neurobiology, & of Neurosurgery George Gaylord Simpson Prize alex dornburg in the social sciences teresa feo naomi lamoreaux Carolyn Slayman Prize in Genetics Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics helen rankin and History steven reilly Presentation of Diplomas Edwin W. Small Prize justin barr phd, mphil, ma, ms, and mas david minto Lynn Cooley, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; C.N.H. Long Professor of Marvin B. Sussman Dissertation Prize Genetics; and Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular, michael yarbrough Cellular & Developmental Biology George Trimis Prize Thomas Pollard, Emeritus Dean of the james duffy Graduate School nicolas werquin Karl K. Turekian Prize Recessional david auerbach Prelude and Fugue in B Major, Op. 7, No. 1 Richard Wolfgang Prize M. Dupré joseph fournier david romney tina wang Arthur and Mary Wright Prize mary brazelton shawnakim lowey-ball Academic Procession Marshal Lynn Cooley, Dean of the Graduate School Graduate School Marshals Pamela Schirmeister, Sr. Associate Dean Richard Sleight, Associate Dean Allegra Di Bonaventura, Associate Dean Robert Harper-Mangels, Assistant Dean Carl Hashimoto, Assistant Dean Robin Ladouceur, Assistant Dean Graduate School Banner Bearers Steven Reilly, Genetics Sara Ronis, Religious Studies phd Student Marshals Matthew Akamatsu, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry Alyssa Siefert, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Biomedical Engineering ma Student Marshal Donna Hernandez, Global Affairs ms Student Marshal Michela Paganini, Physics mphil Student Marshal Quiao Lu, Immunobiology Degree recipients and their families and friends are cordially invited to a reception immediately following Commencement Exercises in the Hall of Graduate Studies courtyard, 320 York Street. degrees granted, december 2014 and may 2015 african american studies Najwa Mayer Master of Arts Doctor of Philosophy Juliet Monique Nebolon Lucia Esther Cantero Master of Arts Specters of the Market: Consumer-Citizenship and the Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard Visual Politics of Race and Inequality in Brazil African American Studies Anthropology Master of Arts Adom Getachew Joseph Plaster The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination: Towards a Master of Arts History of Anti-Colonial World Making Political Science Master of Arts Master of Philosophy Melissa Ann Castillo-Garsow African American Studies Heather Victoria Vermeulen Karla Marcela Cornejo Villavicencio American Studies Master of Arts Scott Wasserman Stern Janine Elyse Stockford african studies Master of Arts anthropology Joseph Charles Guido Doctor of Philosophy Annemari Raath Antonites american studies An Archaeological Investigation of Zhizo/Leokwe Foodways at Schroda and Pont Drift, Limpopo Valley, South Africa Doctor of Philosophy Ryan Patrick Clasby Megan Jeannette Asaka Exploring Long Term Cultural Developments and The Unsettled City: Migration, Race, and the Making of Interregional Interaction in the Eastern Slopes of the Andes: Seattle’s Urban Landscape A Case Study from the Site of Huayurco, Jaen Region, Peru Claudia Calhoun Catherine Anne Claus “The Story You Are About to Hear Is True”: Dragnet, Drawing Near: Conservation By Proximity In Okinawa’s Transmedia Storytelling, and the Postwar Police Coral Reefs Procedural Forestry and Environmental Studies Film Studies Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy Michael Jason Degani The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Tao Leigh Goffe Postsocialist Tanzania Chiney Royal: Afro-Asian Intimacies in the Americas Abigail Anne Dumes Tisha Yvonne Hooks Divided Bodies: The Practice and Politics of Lyme Disease Duct Tape and the U.S. Social Imagination in the United States Carolee Klimchock Dana Johanna Graef Heiress Weds Coachman: Elopement Scandals and the Isles of Green: Environmentalism and Agrarian Change in Performance of Coach Driving in the Gilded Age Costa Rica and Cuba Master of Philosophy Forestry and Environmental Studies Sarah Ariadne LeBaron von Baeyer Fadila Habchi National Worlds, Transnational Lives: Nikkei-Brazilian African American Studies Migrants in and of Japan and Brazil Master of Arts Atreyee Majumder Seng Fatt Liew Being Human in Howrah: On Historical Sensation and Light Transport and Lasing in Complex Photonic Public Gesture in an Industrial Hinterland Structures Oscar Gabriel Prieto Master of Philosophy Gramalote: Domestic Life, Economy and Ritual Practices of a Prehispanic Maritime Community Christopher James Axline Master of Philosophy Teresa Lynn Brecht Kevin Shu-Wei Chou Samar Mussa Al-Bulushi Eric Nuokai Jin Ryan Cecil Jobson African American Studies Xin Liang Kristen English McLean Zlatko Kristev Minev Elliott Edward Prasse-Freeman Anirudh Narla Amelia Elizabeth M Sancilio Sonya Dawn Sawtelle Master of Science Michelle Elizabeth Young Master of Science applied mathematics Eric Andrew Kittlaus Doctor of Philosophy Linshu Li Chong Deng Philip Charles Reinhold Estimating Function Approaches for Spatial Point Kyle Anthony Serniak Processes Erik Stassen Zhu Wang Heitman On the Improved Asymptotics for Oscillatory Solutions of Laszlo Janos Szocs Second Order Ordinary Differential Equations Jae Oh Woo archaeological studies Information Theoretic Inequalities, Limit Theorems, and Universal Compression over Unknown Alphabets Master of Arts Master of Philosophy Patricia S. Glass Yahui He Huamin Li applied physics architecture Doctor of Philosophy Doctor of Philosophy Joseph Lawrence Clarke Joel David Chudow The Architectural Discourse of Reverberation, 1750-1900 Terahertz Spectroscopy of Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes as a Probe of Luttinger Liquid Physics Kyle Andrew Dugdale Architecture After the Death of God: Uriel Birnbaum’s Der Benjamin Leung Kaiser und der Architekt Crystal Growth on a Designed Surface, Geometry, or Construct: MOCVD of Semipolar and Polar GaN on Master of Philosophy Sapphire and Amorphous Surfaces Michael Surry Schlabs astronomy Ramiro Luis Nandez Acosta Elucidating the Role of OCRL at Sites of Clathrin- Doctor of Philosophy Mediated Endocytosis Joel Daniel Tanner Robert J. Ross Simulating Convection in Stellar Envelopes The Role of Hsp90 in Spermatogenesis and the Piwi- piRNA Pathway Luis Carlos Vargas A Spectroscopic Survey of Chemical Evolution in Local Lena Kumba Schroeder Group Dwarf Satellite Galaxies Super-Resolution Investigations of COPI-Coated Vesicles in Thin Sections Master of Philosophy Rebecca Kiino Swartz Jeremy David Bradford Establishing a Role for Nuclear Envelope Bridging Master of Science Complexes in Homology-Directed Repair Duncan Alan Campbell Ruth Wangechi Wang’ondu Master of Science Induction of Markers of DNA Damage Signaling upon Matthew Jason Giguere Reactivation of Epstein-Barr Virus: A Novel Role for ZEBRA and the Pre-replicative Phase of the Viral Allison Taylor Merritt Lytic Cycle Master of Science Brant Michael Webster Joseph Randall Schmitt Quality Control of Nuclear Pore Complex Assembly Master of Science Molly Miranda Weiner Master of Science Novel Function of Piwi in Axis Determination