2010 Program

1 2 3 4 GRADUATE SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT CEREMONY SATURDAY, MAY 15, 2010 10 A.M. EDT JOYCE Center — PURCELL PAVILION UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME 5 Order of Exercises Processional Convening of the Convocation Thomas G. Burish, Ph.D. Provost of the University Invocation Alvin Plantinga, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy Commencement Address Gregory E. Sterling Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of Theology The Conferral of Doctoral Degrees John T. McGreevy the I.A. O’Shaughnessy Dean of the College of Arts and Letters and Professor of History Peter K. Kilpatrick the McCloskey Dean of the College of Engineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering Gregory P. Crawford the William K. Warren Foundation Dean of the College of Science and Professor of Physics Recognition of Graduate School Award Recipients Dean of the Graduate School Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Graduate School Award Engineering: Zachary R. Gagnon Humanities: Abigail Louise Palko Science: Bennett R. Streit Social Science: Patrick Flavin Distinguished Graduate Alumnus Award Robert Boguslaski, Ph.D. President, Serim Research Corporation Ph.D. Chemistry (1966) James A. Burns, C.S.C. Award Alvin Plantinga, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy 6 The Conferral of Master Degrees John T. McGreevy the I.A. O’Shaughnessy Dean of the College of Arts and Letters and Professor of History Peter K. Kilpatrick the McCloskey Dean of the College of Engineering and Professor of Chemical Engineering Gregory P. Crawford the William K. Warren Foundation Dean of the College of Science and Professor of Physics Closing of the Convocation and Benediction Reverend John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. President of the University Notre Dame, Our Mother* – (Alma Mater) Nicholas James Cooper and Hayley Lily Dalgleish M.S.M. Recipients, Theology The Notre Dame Concert Band and Audience Notre Dame, Our Mother, tender, strong and true Proudly in the heavens gleams thy gold and blue. Glory’s mantle cloaks thee, golden is thy fame And our hearts forever praise thee, Notre Dame; And our hearts forever love thee, Notre Dame. —O’Donnell-Casasanta Recessional _____________________ * It is customary for men, although not for women wearing academic garb, to have their caps removed during the Commencement Address and the singing of the Alma Mater. 7 Doctoral Degrees *Evelyn J. Boria-Rivera, Marietta, Georgia THE DEGREE OF PHILOSOPHIAE DOCTOR Major Subject: English ON: Dissertation: Policing the Maternal: Puerto Rican and Cuban-American Literature and the Legacy of the Cold War College of Arts and Letters Director: Dr. Joseph A. Buttigieg Joan Frances Arbery, Dallas, Texas **Robert Brenneman II, Dowagiac, Michigan Major Subject: Literature Major Subject: Sociology Dissertation: Remembering Purgatory: Dissertation: From Homie to Hermano: Contemporary Purgations in Paris, London, and Conversion and Gang Exit in Central America Dublin Director: Dr. Christian Smith Co-Directors: Dr. Margaret Anne Doody and Dr. Luke Gibbons *Julianne Bruneau, South Bend, Indiana Major Subject: English María Alejandra Armesto, Córdoba, Argentina Dissertation: Perceval the Welshman: Identity in Major Subject: Political Science Medieval British Romance Dissertation: Territorial Control and Director: Dr. Kathryn E. Kerby-Fulton Particularistic Spending: The Provision of Local Public Goods by Subnational Governments in *Samara Anne Cahill, Austin, Texas Mexico and Argentina Major Subject: English Director: Dr. Frances Hagopian Dissertation: “Intelligent Souls”: Women, Reason, and Identity in England’s “Long” Eighteenth *Rhodora Elizabeth Beaton, Claremont, Century New Hampshire Director: Dr. Margaret Anne Doody Major Subject: Theology Dissertation: The Sacramentality of the Word: *Patrick Mahaney Clark, South Bend, Indiana Contributions of Karl Rahner and Louis-Marie Major Subject: Theology Chauvet to a Roman Catholic Theology of the Word Dissertation: For the Greater Glory: Courage, Director: Dr. Mary Catherine Hilkert, O.P. Death, and Virtue in Aquinas and His Philosophical Inheritance *Martin Beisswenger, Suessen, Germany Director: Dr. Jean Porter Major Subject: History Dissertation: Petr Nikolaevich Savitskii **Maria-Elena Chandler Domingo Diaz, (1895−1968) and the Invention of “Eurasia” Norman, Oklahoma Co-Directors: Dr. Gary M. Hamburg and Major Subject: Sociology Dr. Alexander M. Martin Dissertation: Asian Embeddedness and Political Participation: An Examination of Social *Kimberly Hope Belcher, Chicago, Illinois Integration, Asian Heterogeneity, Ethnic Major Subject: Theology Organization, and Asian Voting Behavior Dissertation: Your Spirit Breathed on the Waters: Co-Directors: Dr. William Carbonaro and A Trinitarian Gift of Identity in Postconciliar Infant Dr. Rory M. McVeigh Baptism Director: Dr. Nathan D. Mitchell Daniel E. Colón, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Major Subject: Literature **Barry Lee Blackburn, Jr., Johnson City, Dissertation: Vigencia de la Vida y Obra de Pablo Tennessee Neruda: Un Análisis del Discurso Autobiográfico y Major Subject: Theology la Sensibilidad Social en su Obra Temprana Dissertation: The Mystery of the Synagogue: Director: Dr. José Anadón Cyril of Alexandria on the Law of Moses Director: Dr. Brian E. Daley, S.J. ____________________ **Catherine Anne Borck, Pfafftown, North Carolina This listing is the property of the University of Notre Dame and is subject Major Subject: Political Science to copyright protection. It may not be reproduced, copied or used for Dissertation: Becoming Friends in Speech and commercial purposes without the expressed written consent of Dennis K. Deed: Socratic Friendship in the Platonic Dialogues Brown, Assistant Vice President of News and Information at the University Director: Dr. Catherine H. Zuckert of Notre Dame. 8 Elizabeth Covay, Lima, Ohio Kathryn Lynn Gardner, Loveland, Ohio Major Subject: Sociology Major Subject: Political Science Dissertation: The Emergence and Persistence of Dissertation: Constructing and Deconstructing the Black-White Achievement Gap Islam in the Western State: A Comparative Look at Director: Dr. William J. Carbonaro the Politicization of Religion in France, Great Britain, and the United States, 1945−2008 David Mark DiQuattro, Grove City, Pennsylvania Director: Dr. Anthony M. Messina Major Subject: Philosophy Dissertation: Learning to Speak: A Prelude to an *Raymond F. Hain IV, Notre Dame, Indiana Augustinian Conception of Practical Reason Major Subject: Philosophy Director: Dr. W. David Solomon Dissertation: Practically Virtuous: Instrumental Practical Reason and the Virtues **Amy M. Donaldson, Aloha, Oregon Co-Directors: Dr. Ralph McInerny and Major Subject: Theology Dr. W. David Solomon Dissertation: Explicit References to New Testament Variant Readings Among Greek and **Megan Halteman Zwart, South Bend, Indiana Latin Church Fathers Major Subject: Philosophy Director: Dr. Brian E. Daley, S.J. Dissertation: ‘What Simple Description...Can Never Grasp’: Heidegger and the Plato of Myth Krista E. Duttenhaver, Savannah, Georgia Co-Directors: Dr. Stephen E. Gersh and Major Subject: Theology Dr. Stephen H. Watson Dissertation: Love’s Labor: The Relational Self in Simone Weil’s Mystical-Political Elizabeth Elaine Hayes, Washington, Director: Dr. Cyril J. O’Regan District of Columbia Major Subject: History and Philosophy of Matthew T. Eggemeier, Dayton, Ohio Science Major Subject: Theology Dissertation: American Science and the Pursuit Dissertation: Prophetic Apophasis: Emmanuel of “Useful Knowledge” in the Polite Eighteenth Lévinas and Johann Baptist Metz on Philosophy/ Century, 1750−1806 Theology, the Subject, and God After the End of Director: Dr. Christopher S. Hamlin Theodicy Director: Dr. J. Matthew Ashley *James Christopher Hebbeler, Cincinnati, Ohio Major Subject: Philosophy **M. Annabella España Nájera, Vancouver, Dissertation: Critical Belief in the Unconditioned: British Columbia, Canada Kant’s Antinomy as a Positive Response to Major Subject: Political Science Skepticism About Reason Dissertation: Party Systems and Democracy After Director: Dr. Karl P. Ameriks the Conflicts: El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua *Patrick Lawrence Hill, Indianapolis, Indiana Director: Dr. Scott P. Mainwaring Major Subject: Psychology Dissertation: How to Succeed in Morality Patrick J. Flavin, Burnsville, Minnesota Without Really Trying: Testing the Influence of Major Subject: Political Science Implicit Prototypes on Moral Action Dissertation: Political Inequality in the American Director: Dr. Daniel K. Lapsley States Director: Dr. Rodney E. Hero Rev. Andrew Hofer, O.P., Cincinnati, Ohio Major Subject: Theology *James E. Ford III, South Bend, Indiana Dissertation: Herald of the Word: Gregory of Major Subject: English Nazianzus Evoking Christ Dissertation: Thinking Through Crisis: 1930s Director: Dr. Brian E. Daley, S.J. African-American Literature and Politics Director: Dr. Joseph A. Buttigieg **Sarah Loretto Houser, Houston, Texas Major Subject: Political Science *Gavin Maxwell Foster, South Bend, Indiana Dissertation: Loving Pimlico: Patriotism in the Major Subject: History Age of the Cosmopolis Dissertation: The Social Structures and Cultural Director: Dr. Michael P. Zuckert Politics of the Irish Civil War Director: Dr. James Smyth *Özlem Kayhan Pusane, Ankara, Turkey Major Subject: Political Science Peter Joseph Fritz, Cincinnati, Ohio Dissertation: Insurgencies, Counterinsurgencies, Major Subject: Theology and Civil-Military Relations: When, How, and Why Dissertation: Sublime Apprehension: A Catholic, Do Civilians Prevail? Rahnerian Construction Director: Dr. Keir A. Lieber

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