Notre Dame Law School NDLScholarship Commencement Programs Law School History 5-16-2020 175th University of Notre Dame Commencement Program University of Notre Dame Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/commencement_programs Part of the Law Commons 17 5 th may 16 - 17, 2020 UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME COMMENCEMENT 1 DOCTORAL DEGREES COLLEGE OF ARTS AND LETTERS *Elizabeth Eva Clemmons, Hyattsville, Maryland Ebenezer Akesseh, Ajumako Besease, Ghana Major Subject: Theology Major Subject: Theology Dissertation: Social Elements and the Meaning of the Dissertation: Relevance of the Virtue of Justice to Nuptial Union in the Song of Songs Contemporary Discussions of Corruption Director: Dr. Gary A. Anderson Director: Dr. Jean Porter *Katherine Ruth Comeau, South Bend, Indiana **Xia Elizabeth Allen, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Major Subject: Sociology Major Subject: Psychology, Research and Experimental Dissertation: The “Hinge” in Humanitarian Dissertation: Exploring Language and Interpersonal Development: How Groups Affect the Work of NGOs Dysfunction in Psychoticism in Cross-Cultural Settings Director: Dr. Lee Anna Clark Director: Dr. Lynette P. Spillman **Cary Adam Balser, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina John Joseph Conlan, Kildare, Ireland Major Subject: Economics Major Subject: English Dissertation: Essays on Maternity Leave Policy Dissertation: Altered States: Biopolitics and Precarious and Educational Experiments Life in Flann O’Brien and James Joyce Directors: Dr. Kasey S. Buckles and Dr. Abigail Wozniak Director: Dr. Declan Kiberd **Brian Randall Barrett, Athens, Texas Daniel Matías Contreras Ríos, Santiago, Chile Major Subject: Theology Major Subject: Medieval Studies Dissertation: The Clothing of Divinity: The Unity Dissertation: Primum cognitum: Bonaventure and of Letter and Spirit in Origen’s Exegesis Aquinas on the Foundations of Knowledge Director: Dr. Brian E. Daley Director: Dr. Stephen D. Dumont *Judith Nathalie Biesen, Bremen, Germany Jeremiah Timothy Coogan, South Bend, Indiana Major Subject: Psychology, Research and Experimental Major Subject: Theology Dissertation: Using Communal Activation to Increase Dissertation: Eusebius the Evangelist: Rewriting the Relationship Enhancing Behaviors and Attitudes and Fourfold Gospel in Late Antiquity Decrease Vulnerable and Grandiose Narcissistic Tendencies Directors: Dr. Blake Leyerle and Dr. David N. Lincicum Director: Dr. David A. Smith *Amanda Daniela Cortez, Olympia, Washington Nicholas Edward Bonneau, Providence, Rhode Island Major Subject: Anthropology Major Subject: History Dissertation: Framing Women and Animals: Visibility, Dissertation: Unspeakable Loss: New England’s Invisible Multispecies Care, and Photography Tourism in Cusco Throat Distemper Epidemics, 1735-1775 Directors: Dr. Agustín Fuentes and Dr. Natalie Porter Director: Dr. Christopher S. Hamlin *James David Cotton, South Bend, Indiana *Mark Brockway, Denver, Colorado Major Subject: Literature Major Subject: Political Science Dissertation: Destruction: A Renaissance Ideal from Dissertation: Secular Activism in Party Politics Spenser to Dryden Director: Dr. Geoffrey C. Layman Director: Dr. Margaret A. Doody Christopher Justin Brophy, Totowa, New Jersey **Gregory Michael Cruess, South Bend, Indiana Major Subject: Political Science Major Subject: Theology Dissertation: Perilous Ascent: The Education of Erōs Dissertation: Augustine’s Biblical Christology: A Study in Plato’s Symposium of the In Iohannis Evangelium Tractatus CXXIV Director: Dr. Susan Collins Director: Dr. John C. Cavadini Philip Byers, Jeffersonville, Indiana Anna Huiberdina Hilda de Bakker, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Major Subject: History Canada Dissertation: How Firm the Foundation: The Lilly Major Subject: Medieval Studies Endowment and American Christianity, 1937-1989 Dissertation: Writing the Cistercian Office in the Director: Dr. Darren T. Dochuk Thirteenth Century Low Countries Ian Ross Campbell, Memphis, Tennessee Director: Dr. Margot E. Fassler Major Subject: Psychology, Research and Experimental Roberto Jose De La Noval, Miami, Florida Dissertation: Measuring Subpopulation Invariance in Major Subject: Theology Test Equating with Equivalence Testing Dissertation: Sophiology in Suspension: The Theological Directors: Dr. Ying Cheng and Dr. Ken Kelley Condemnations of Fr. Sergius Bulgakov Nathan Peter Chase, Murphy, Texas Director: Dr. Cyril J. O’Regan Major Subject: Theology Emily Jane de Wet, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Dissertation: Rethinking Anaphoral Development in Major Subject: Anthropology Light of the Barcelona Papyrus Dissertation: “Oh I Love the Vibe”: Alternative Township Director: Dr. Maxwell E. Johnson Geographies in Cape Town *Graham Springmann Clay, Raleigh, North Carolina Directors: Dr. Catherine E. Bolten and Dr. Alex E. Chávez Major Subject: Philosophy Corey Nathaniel Dethier, South Bend, Indiana Dissertation: Hume on Knowledge Major Subject: Philosophy Director: Dr. Samuel Newlands Dissertation: Multiple Models, Robustness, and the Epistemology of Climate Science Directors: Dr. Anjan Chakravartty and Dr. Curtis D. Franks 2 DOCTORAL DEGREES Julianne Dolan, Chicago, Illinois *Marjorie Alyssa Housley, Auke Bay, Alaska Major Subject: Theology Major Subject: English Dissertation: Being Laden with Love: A Theological Dissertation: Queer Time and the Ethics of Emotion Development of Jacques Maritain’s Creative Intuition in Medieval North Atlantic Heroic Literature Directors: Dr. Francesca A. Murphy and Dr. Cyril J. O’Regan Director: Dr. Christopher P. Abram *Douglas Duhaime, Bristol, Connecticut *Nicolas Daniel Kamas, Blanco, Texas Major Subject: English Major Subject: Medieval Studies Dissertation: Copyright and the Early English Book Dissertation: Humbert of Silva Candida and the Market: An Algorithmic Study Byzantine Rite Director: Dr. Matthew Wilkens Directors: Dr. Yury P. Avvakumov and Dr. Brian E. Daley Robert Geoffrey Thomas Edwards,Vancouver, *Taras Igorevich Karaulshchikov, Sugar Grove, Illinois British Columbia, Canada Major Subject: History Major Subject: Theology Dissertation: A History of Georgian Scientific Intelligentsia: Dissertation: Divine Providence and Biblical Narrative The Case of the Nikoladze Family 1860-1981 in the Thought of John Chrysostom Director: Dr. Semion Lyandres Director: Dr. Blake Leyerle *Muhammet Kilavuz, Bursa, Turkey **Richard Fahey, Chelmsford, Massachusetts Major Subject: Political Science Major Subject: English Dissertation: Authoritarian Persistence and Regime Change Dissertation: Enigmatic Design and Psychomachic in the Middle East and North Africa: Autocrats, Opposition, Monstrosity in Beowulf and Coalitions Director: Dr. Christopher P. Abram Director: Dr. Michael J. Coppedge *Christopher John Flanagan, Liverpool, United Kingdom *Suzanna Krivulskaya, Minsk, Belarus Major Subject: History Major Subject: History Dissertation: Empire Remade: Refining Empire in the Dissertation: Disgraced: How Sex Scandals Transformed American Revolution, 1774-1795 American Protestantism, 1832-1988 Director: Dr. Patrick N. Griffin Director: Dr. Darren T. Dochuk **Tobias Lee Flattery, Lancaster, California **Maryann Helen Yaa Afrifa Kwakwa, River Forest, Illinois Major Subject: Philosophy Major Subject: Political Science Dissertation: A Leibnizian Package Deal: Essentialism, Dissertation: The Ambiguous Cohort: How Alternative Causal Independence, and Existential Independence Undergraduate Experiences Affect Civic Engagement Director: Dr. Samuel Newlands Director: Dr. David E. Campbell *Marisol Fonseca Malavasi, Cartago, Costa Rica *Minju Kwon, Busan, Republic of Korea Major Subject: Literature Major Subject: Political Science Dissertation: Más allá del panóptico: movilidades y modelos Dissertation: Blacklisted Rebels: Commitment to Child visuales alternativos en la literatura de mujeres del Cono Sur Rights in Armed Conflict Director: Dr. María Rosa Olivera-Williams Director: Dr. Gary Goertz Maj-Britt Kristina Frenze, Vienna, Virginia *Ting Cho Lau, Tampa, Florida Major Subject: Medieval Studies Major Subject: Philosophy Dissertation: Nature and the Supernatural in Medieval Dissertation: The Reasons Management Framework Romance: Translation and Transmission in England and Director: Dr. Meghan E. Sullivan Scandinavia *Dylan M. LeBlanc, South Bend, Indiana Director: Dr. Christopher P. Abram Major Subject: History *Mengyu Gao, Hebei, People’s Republic of China Dissertation: Empire’s Callous Hands: British “Government Major Subject: Psychology, Research and Experimental Men” in the Atlantic Slave Trade Dissertation: Typologies of Daily Relationship Quality in Director: Dr. Patrick N. Griffin Marital and Parent-Child Subsystems: Implications for Ellen Victoria Lehet, Waterford, Connecticut Child Adjustment Major Subject: Philosophy Director: Dr. E. Mark Cummings Dissertation: The Explanatory Value of Category Theory Jonathan Farrell Gondelman, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Director: Dr. Curtis D. Franks Major Subject: Political Science *Eric A. Lewis, Saint Louis, Missouri Dissertation: Thucydides and the Passions of City Life Major Subject: English Director: Dr. Susan D. Collins Dissertation: Antagonistic Reading: Metalepsis and the *John R. Himelright II, Winchester, Virginia Intrusive Reader Major Subject: Philosophy Directors: Dr. Susan Cannon Harris and Dr. Barry McCrea Dissertation: An Austere Nominalist Strategy for **Joshua Han Lim, Irvine, California Paraphrasing Away Properties and Relations Major Subject: Theology Director: Dr. Peter van Inwagen Dissertation: Vidimus eum plenum gratiae