Doctoral Oral Exams for June 22–26

The Graduate Dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates. All exams will be held via videoconferencing. Contact the department for online meeting information.

Final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates are scheduled as follows:

Bharat Rathod, Ph.D., College of Education, Monday, June 22, 1 p.m. Dissertation: “Dalit Academic Experiences: Stigma, Social Reproduction and Systematic Exclusion in Indian Higher Education.” Sangeeta Kamat, chr.

Jackson Allison, Ph.D., Economics, Monday, June 22, 2 p.m. Dissertation: “A New Economic History of Deindustrialization: Class Conflict and Race in the Motor City.” Gerald Friedman, chr.

Usmaan Farooqui, Ph.D., Political Science, Monday, June 22, 2 p.m. Dissertation: “Precarious Pipes: Governance, Informality, and the Politics of Access in Karachi.” Regine Spector, chr.

Zachary Meadows, Ph.D., Physics, Monday, June 22, 3 p.m. Dissertation: “A Search for New Resonances Decaying into a Weak Vector Boson and a Higgs Boson in Hadronic Final States with the ATLAS Detector at the Large Hadron Collider.” Stephane Willocq, chr.

Hallie Brown, Ph.D., Psychological and Brain Sciences, Wednesday, June 24, 10 a.m. Dissertation: “Early Development of ADHD and ODD Symptoms from the Toddler and Preschool Years.” Elizabeth Harvey, chr.

Carolyn Anderson, Ph.D., Linguistics, Thursday, June 25, 1 p.m. Dissertation: “Shifting the Perspectival Landscape: Methods for Encoding, Identifying, and Selecting Perspectives.” Brian Dillon and Rajesh Bhatt, co-chrs.

Anita Anup Dey, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Thursday, June 25, 1 p.m. Dissertation: “Experimental Observation of Fluid-Structure Interaction.” Jonathan Rothstein, chr.

Jenny Krichevsky, Ph.D., English, Friday, June 26, 1 p.m. Dissertation: “Passing Literacies: Soviet Immigrant Elders and Intergenerational Language Practice.” Rebecca Lorimer Leonard, chr.