Class of 2020
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Virtual Celebration and Degree Conferral for the CLASS OF 2020 Saturday, May 16, 2020 Contents Board of Visitors, 2 Administration, 3 Graduates and Degree Candidates* Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, 4 College of Arts & Sciences, 8 School of Medicine, 18 School of Law, 19 School of Engineering & Applied Science, 21 Curry School of Education and Human Development, 26 Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, 30 School of Architecture, 31 School of Nursing, 32 McIntire School of Commerce, 34 School of Continuing & Professional Studies, 36 Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, 37 School of Data Science, 37 Student and Faculty Awards, 38 Honorary Societies, 39 The Good Old Song, 42 * The degree candidates in this program were applicants for degrees as of May 1, 2020. The August 2019 and December 2019 degree recipients precede the list of May 2020 degree candidates in each section. © 2020 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia Designed by University of Virginia Printing and Copying Services University of Virginia Board of Visitors James B. Murray, Jr., Rector (Keene, VA) Whittington W. Clement, Vice Rector (Richmond, VA) Robert M. Blue (Richmond, VA) Mark T. Bowles (Goochland, VA) L.D. Britt, M.D., MPH (Suffolk, VA) Frank M. Conner III (Alexandria, VA) Elizabeth M. Cranwell (Vinton, VA) Thomas A. DePasquale (Washington, DC) Barbara J. Fried (Crozet, VA) John A. Griffin (New York, NY) Louis S. Haddad (Suffolk, VA) Robert D. Hardie (Charlottesville, VA) Maurice A. Jones (Norfolk, VA) Babur B. Lateef, M.D. (Manassas, VA) Angela Hucles Mangano (Playa del Rey, CA) C. Evans Poston, Jr. (Norfolk, VA) James V. Reyes (Washington, DC) Peter C. Brunjes, Faculty Member (Charlottesville, VA) Derrick Wang, Student Member (Moseley, VA) Susan G. Harris, Secretary to the Board of Visitors 2 University of Virginia Administration James E. Ryan, President Jennifer Wagner Davis, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer K. Craig Kent, M.D., Executive Vice President for Health Affairs M. Elizabeth Magill, Executive Vice President and Provost John C. Jeffries, Jr., Senior Vice President for University Advancement Colette Sheehy, Senior Vice President for Operations Melody S. Bianchetto, Vice President for Finance Timothy J. Heaphy, University Counsel Ronald R. Hutchins, Vice President for Information Technology Patricia M. Lampkin, Vice President and Chief Student Affairs Officer Mark M. Luellen, Vice President for Advancement David W. Martel, Vice President for Communications and Chief Marketing Officer Kevin G. McDonald, Vice President for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Melur K. Ramasubramanian, Vice President for Research Kelley D. Stuck, Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer Carla G. Williams, Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Programs Maïté Brandt-Pearce, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs Adam R. Daniel, Vice Provost for Planning Archie Holmes, Jr., Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Jody K. Kielbasa, Vice Provost for the Arts Stephen D. Mull, Vice Provost for Global Affairs Louis P. Nelson, Vice Provost for Academic Outreach Anda L. Webb, Vice Provost for Administration Maurice Apprey, Dean, African-American Affairs Ian B. Baucom, Dean, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Scott C. Beardsley, Dean, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration Craig H. Benson, Dean, School of Engineering & Applied Science Ila L. Berman, Dean, School of Architecture Philip E. Bourne, Dean, School of Data Science Pamela F. Cipriano, Dean, School of Nursing Risa L. Goluboff, Dean, School of Law Allen W. Groves, Associate Vice President and University Dean of Students Alex E. Hernandez, Dean, School of Continuing & Professional Studies Robert C. Pianta, Dean, Curry School of Education and Human Development Gregory W. Roberts, Dean, Undergraduate Admission Ian H. Solomon, Dean, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy John M. Unsworth, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries David S. Wilkes, M.D., Dean, School of Medicine Carl P. Zeithaml, Dean, McIntire School of Commerce Donna Price Henry, Chancellor, The University of Virginia’s College at Wise 3 Graduates and Degree Candidates Steven James Dakermanji Patrick Krauss King Lauren Kathleen Rudenko Graduate School of Chemistry Astronomy Biology Arts & Sciences Dissertation: Applications of Dissertation: Gas Dynamics Near Dissertation: Intraneuronal Tau Redox Processes to Molybdenum and Far: Observational MHD of Misfolding Induced by Extracellular Conferred August 2, 2019 and Tungsten Dearomatization Interstellar Molecular Clouds and Amyloid-ß Oligomers Doctors of Philosophy Agents X-Ray Ablation of Asteroids for the Earth’s Defense Adi Shaked Sophie May Abramowitz Catherine Lynn Debban Psychology English Biology Dajun Lin Dissertation: On the Same Wave- Dissertation: Playing the Folk: Dissertation: Reproductive Isolation Economics length: Shared Emotions as Black & Native Vernacular Perfor- and Gene Flow Vary Among Contact Dissertation: Multi-Dimensional Information for Social Evaluation mance, 1880-1940 Zones Between Incipient Species Abilities, Task Content of Occu- pations, and Career Choices: A Andrew Howard Sorber Mark Dombrovskiy Haniyeh Barahouiepasandi Dynamic Analysis History French Biology Dissertation: To Avoid Future Peril: Dissertation: Beyond the Borders: Dissertation: Neuroethology of Nicholas Wilson Lindberg Signs, Portents, and Prophecy in the The Transversal Adventures of Cooperative Behavior in Drosophila History Carolingian World, ca. 771-840 Graphic Novels Larvae Dissertation: A City of Rivals: Civic Notables and the Creation of Anthony Paul Sparacino Karl Cheng Heng Fua Thomas Andrew Berenato the Hellenistic World Government English Psychology Dissertation: The Democratic Dissertation: The Look of Forgiveness Dissertation: More than One Way Candace Nicole Miller and Republican Governors to Say I Love You: An Internet- Sociology Associations and the Nationaliza- Alison Christin Broach Dissertation: Based Intervention for Training Race, Entrepreneur- tion of American Politics Anthropology Flexible Thinking in Romantic ship, and Urban Revitalization in Dissertation: Voices of Spirit and Blood: Relationships Detroit Oscar Hernan Tovar-Argueta Garifuna Language Endangerment Religious Studies Sheng Gao Peter Nathaniel Miller Dissertation: Historicism and the Danilo Buscatto Medeiros Physics English Question of Normativity: From Foreign Affairs Dissertation: Synthesis and Dissertation: Writing Sound: Dissertation: Extremism and Polar- Thermoelectric Studies of a Narrow Poetry, Media, and the Matter of Georg Hegel to Karl-Otto Apel ization: How Income Inequality Gap Semiconducting Alloy for Prosody, 1845-1961 Diana Catalina Vallejo Pedraza Affects Legislative Behavior in Brazil Cooling: BiSb Rachel Kathleen Narr Sociology Wenqiang Cai Alison Elena Glassie Psychology Dissertation: Pricing Suffering: Economics English Dissertation: The Connection Compensation for Human Rights Dissertation: Three Essays on Dissertation: Novels of the Float- Project: Effects of an Adolescent Violations in Columbia and Peru Employee Benefits Policy ing World: Ocean, Climate, and Social-Bonding Intervention on Cory Andrew Weller Alyssa Danielle Collins Contemporary Sea Fiction Social Belongingness, Social Skills, Biology and Mental Health English Ryan Michael Grippo Dissertation: The Evolutionary Dissertation: Racing the Posthuman: Biology Xinyan Peng Implications of Adaptations to Blackness, Technology, and the Dissertation: The Influence of Anthropology Stressful Environments on Time Literary Imagination Dopamine Signaling on the Central Dissertation: We’ve Always Scales Spanning Days to Millennia Logan Aaron Combee Circadian Clock: Implications for Worked:Professionalizing Life Chemistry Jet Lag and Obesity Among White-Collar Women in Masters of Arts Contemporary Urban China Dissertation: New Methods Lucy Adeline Guarnera Bushra Abdelmalak Towards Efficient, Catalytic C-O Psychology Chuleeporn Prompahakul Hayley Anna Austin and C-N Bond Forming Reactions Dissertation: When Women Nursing Lindsay Cheatle Leeza Constantoulakis Conceive in Rape: A Mixed- Dissertation: Moral Distress Hongying Dong Nursing Methods Investigation of Legal Among Thai Nurses: A Mixed Evan Hall Dissertation: The Evaluation Obstacles, Public Misperceptions, Methods Study Michael Lam Ly and Policy Implications of Fruit and Vegetable Incentive Meghan Hill Puglia Programs on Childhood Obesity Julia Jong Haines Psychology Masters of Science Prevalence in the Special Supple- Anthropology Dissertation: The Noisy Brain Solianna Herrera mental Nutrition Program for Dissertation: Intimate Spaces in Infancy: A Neurobiological Jacob Daniel Higgins Women, Infants, and Children and Plantation Landscapes in Marker of Normative Social Michael Gilman Vitz Brynn Sequoia Cook Nineteenth-Century Mauritius: Development Ray Hess Bair Watson Archaeology of Indentured Laborers Environmental Sciences Syed Ali Raza in the Western Indian Ocean Dissertation: Assessing the Physics Conferred December 19, 2019 Potential of Tropospheric Oxidants Joshua David Hinkle Dissertation: Interplay of Symmetry to Interfere with Insect Host Chemistry and Interactions in Topological Doctors of Philosophy Location, Mate Location, and Dissertation: Antibody Sequence Phases of Matter Caleb Paul Agnew Foraging Choice Analysis by Controlled Proteolysis Christina Ross English and Ion-Ion Chemistry Heather Lynn Cook Nursing Dissertation: A Form that is Many Forms: The Stanza in Postwar Statistics Fauzia