PH.D. HOODING CEREMONY AND RECEPTION SATURDAY, MAY 13, 2017, 5:30 P.M. DURHAM CONVENTION CENTER DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA What Graduate Students Mean to Duke Congratulations to the 2017 Ph.D. candidates! As soon-to-be alumni of the Duke University Graduate School, they represent a powerful legacy. Since the establishment of the school in 1926, graduate students have been the intellectual glue of our community. They push academic boundaries, offer fresh perspectives in research approaches, and give voice to emerging fields. To echo James B. Duke’s founding Indenture of Duke University, students and alumni of The Graduate School are individuals of “outstanding character, ability and vision” who pursue “those areas of teaching and scholarship that would most help to develop our resources, increase our wisdom, and promote hu- man happiness.”1 The Duke Graduate School has garnered an international reputation for excellence in research, teaching, and service, and its graduate students, as much as anyone, have contributed to the prominence that the university enjoys today. In This Program Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony Program ................................. 2 Graduate School Diploma Distribution .............................. 2 About Your Commencement Gift .................................. 2 The Graduate School Distinguished Alumni Award .................... 3 Order of the Hooding Ceremony ................................... 4 Dissertations Completed for Doctor of Philosophy .................... 8 2017 Dean’s Awards: Mentoring, Teaching, and Inclusive Excellence ..... 32 2017 Forever Duke Student Leadership Award ....................... 33 2016-2017 Few-Glasson Alumni Society Inductees .................... 33 Ph.D. Degree Granting Programs at Duke ........................... 34 Significance of the Academic Dress ................................ 35 Congratulations from The Duke Graduate School Staff ................ 36 1 This statement includes excerpts from the Indenture and Mission of Duke University, revised February 23, 2001. 1 Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony Program Presiding ����������������������������������������������������������Paula D. McClain, Ph.D. Dean of The Graduate School Vice Provost for Graduate Education Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Introductory Remarks Presentation of The Graduate School Distinguished Alumni Award Hooding Ceremony Address ��������������������������Paula D. McClain, Ph.D. Presentation of the Academic Hoods ������������John Klingensmith, Ph.D. Associate Dean of The Graduate School Associate Professor of Cell Biology Closing Remarks Graduate School Diploma Distribution Ph.D. candidates in attendance will receive their diploma during the hooding ceremony. Those unable to attend can pick up their diplomas at The Graduate School (2127 Campus Drive) from May 15 to May 18, between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. (please bring your student ID). About Your Commencement Gift Each year, The Graduate School gives a gift to students who attend the Ph.D. hooding ceremony as a way to say congratulations and thank-you for their contributions to the university. This year’s gift is Duke Blue: Moments, a coffee- table book of campus photos. The Graduate School would like to thank Duke University Stores for providing the book at a special rate. Additional copies of the book, as well as other Graduate School and Duke University gifts, can be found at the store, which is located in the Bryan Center. 2 Kenneth J. Gergen, Ph.D. The Graduate School Distinguished Alumni Award In the 1970s, psychology wrestled with an identity crisis, facing questions about everything from its methodology to its theories to its relevance to society. Kenneth J. Gergen helped ignite that debate, putting forth ideas that criticized the basic foundations of the discipline and sparked intense arguments within the field. Over the course of a five-decade career, Gergen emerged as a controversial and influential figure who challenged and enriched the potentials of his discipline. He is widely recognized for his contributions to social constructionist theory, technology and cultural change, and relational theory and practice. He holds honorary degrees from universities in Europe and the United States. His books have been translated into multiple languages, and he has received numerous awards, including fellowships from the Guggenheim, Fulbright, Humboldt, and Hongguo foundations. Gergen grew up in Durham with his three brothers. Their father, John Jay Gergen, was chair of the Duke Department of Mathematics from 1937 to 1966. Gergen earned his bachelor’s degree from Yale and served a stint in the Navy before coming to Duke for his Ph.D. in psychology. He earned his doctorate in 1963 and joined the faculty at Harvard University. In 1967, he became chair of the Department of Psychology at Swarthmore College. His early work, which examined topics such as social perception, self-presentation, and responses to altruism, received support from sources such as the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 1973, Gergen published arguably his most influential work, an article titled “Social Psychology as History.” Going against the mainstream, empiricist view of the discipline, he argued that social psychology research should be viewed as historical inquiry because, “unlike the natural sciences, it deals with facts that are largely non-repeatable and which fluctuate markedly over time.” The article ignited an intense response. Gergen said his ideas were rejected by mainstream researchers but embraced by those on the fringes (who were frustrated with the status quo of what was considered legitimate inquiry) and by colleagues from other social science fields. In the ensuing years, Gergen became a major figure in the development of social constructionism, an alternative to the empiricist view of scientific knowledge. Social constructionism holds that rather than reflecting an objective truth, scientific descriptions and explanations are derived from social interchange—communities agreeing on what is real, rational, and good. Gergen’s ideas remain controversial within his own field, but they are now shared across the social sciences. He helped establish the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology within the major division of the American Psychological Association that is concerned with methods of research. He also played a key role in establishing the journals Theory and Psychology and Qualitative Psychol- ogy. He is cofounder and current president of the Taos Institute, a virtual organization of scholars and practitioners exploring the intersection of social constructionist ideas and professional practices. Gergen’s significant writings includeThe Saturated Self and Relational Being: Beyond Self and Community. His other articles and books have tackled such topics as psychotherapy, organizational leadership, education, dialogic process, Buddhism, narrative, aging, arts-based research, and future-forming research. The Graduate School Distinguished Alumni Award is given annually to a graduate of a Duke University Ph.D. program who rendered distinguished service to his or her field of endeavor, to Duke, or to the betterment of humanity. Nominees must have received their Ph.D. from Duke at least 10 years ago. 3 Order of the Hooding Ceremony Ph.D. candidates will be called in the order listed Note: The list of candidates appearing in this program is not an officially certified list of graduates. Certification must come from the University Registrar. MOLECULAR CANCER BIOLOGY BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING Angela Lynn Gaviglio Sena Bae Yulong Li Nicholas Brian Bottenus Alexander Christian Robeson Yangxiaolu Cao Katherine Kerr Slemmons Shwetadwip Chowdhury Brittany Nicole Jesse Davis RELIGION Andrew Michael Fales Sean Patrick Burrus Cristina Elena Fernandez Eric Russell Chalfant Fang-Yao Hu Andrew Thomas Coates Jennifer Gamboa Jackman Sonia M. O. Hazard Thomas Andrew Jochum Mari Joerstad Anna Jisu Lee Julia Linnea Kelto Lillis Linying Li Daniel John Stulac Amy Frees Martinez Michelle Wolff Hoan Thanh Ngo Saadia Yacoob Hung Xuan Nguyen Brandon Scott Nichols ART, ART HISTORY AND Laila Christine Roudsari VISUAL STUDIES Jung Eun Choi Allison Lindsey Schmidt Kathryn Desplanque Jay Ketan Shridharani Katherine de Vos Devine Xiaoyu Tian Michael Tauschinger-Dempsey Maryam Vejdani Jahromi Yan Wu BIOCHEMISTRY Bonnie Joann Cuthbert BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Chun-Chieh Hsu Christopher Gorham Calvin Joshua Steven Rose Song Ma You-il Park BIOLOGY Esther E. Sackett Mercy Yvonne Akinyi Hillary Jane Doescher Wiener Selcan Tuncay Aydin Yue Zhang Erin Alison McKenney Musoki Mwimba CAROLINA-DUKE PROGRAM Jia Wern Pan IN GERMAN STUDIES Yan Xue Sandra Maike Christine Niethardt Claire Elizabeth Scott CELL BIOLOGY Yi-Tzu Lin Valerie Angela Tornini Aarti Urs 4 CHEMISTRY EARTH AND OCEAN SCIENCES Danielle E. Gorka Elizabeth Marjorie Bloomhardt Doran Charles Edward Hendrick Jennifer Sue Harkness Minhee Lee Kendra Elena Kaiser Chaoren Liu Katherine Murray Ratliff Xuehong Liu Margaret Ann Zimmer Yang Liu Gerardo X. Ortiz, Jr. ECOLOGY Julia Hamilton Roberts Brenna Renee Forester Mark Larston Sleeper Erin Cedar Seybold Ian Edward Stewart Kendra Nicole Smyth Jacob Charles Timmerman Joy Elia Stanistreet Qin Wang ECONOMICS Yang Yang Hasan Sadik Arik Du Zhang Luis Enrique Candelaria Barrera Yuqi Zhang Robert Edwin Davies, II CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL Xiaomin Fu ENGINEERING Olga Kozlova Mark Stephan Bartlett, Jr. Milenka Moschella Miloslavich Andres A. 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