Sean M. Dinces ’13 A.M., ’14 Ph.D. 

• PhD: American Studies
• Master's: Urban Education Policy
• Dissertation - Bulls Markets: Power, Place, and Professional Sport in Late Twentieth-Century Chicago
• Current Position: Associate Professor of History, Long Beach City College

Jie Ren ’15 A.M., ’16 Ph.D.

• PhD: Cognitive Science
• Master’s: Biostatistics
• Dissertation - From Features to Words: A Study of Developmental Continuity
• Current Position: Faculty Member, Voice Department, Bard College

Yao Zhang ’15 Sc.M., ’16 Ph.D.

• PhD: Chemistry
• Master’s: Computer Science
• Dissertation - Coherent Structural Dynamics of Rydberg-Excited Molecules
• Current Position: Google

Jing Feng ’17 Sc.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: Engineering (Electrical) 
• Master’s: Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship 
• Dissertation - Plasmonic Interferometry: A New Approach toward Highly-Sensitive Multispectral Biochemical Detection
• Current Position: Professor, Material Science and Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology

Dennis Johannssen ’15 A.M., ’17 Ph.D.

• PhD: German Studies
• Master’s: Philosophy
• Dissertation - Unclaimed Language: The Literary Criticism of Walter Benjamin and Theodore W. Adorno
• Current Position: Assistant Professor of German, Lafayette College

Patrick McKelvey ’17 A.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: Theatre and Performing Arts
• Master’s: Anthropology
• Dissertation - Performing Disemployment: Disability, Theatre, and Work in the United States Since the 1970s
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre Arts, University of Pittsburgh

Ayalu Reda ’17 A.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: Sociology
• Master’s: Biostatistics
• Dissertation - Wealth, Health, and Child Education in Developing Countries
• Current Position: Director, Data Science, Enact Mortgage Insurance

Arielle N. Schilit Nitenson ’16 MAT, ’17 Ph.D.

• PhD: Neuroscience
• Master’s: Science Education
• Dissertation - Acetylcholine Supports Olfactory Perceptual Learning through Adult Neurogenesis
• Current Position: Senior Research Data Manager, Office of Research Integrity, Brown University

Eboni Chambers ’18 MPA, Ph.D.

• PhD: Pathobiology
• Master’s: Public Affairs
• Dissertation - The Role of Adenosine Signaling in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Induced Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
• Current Position: Regional Medical Director, Horizon Therapeutics

Diana Dukhanova ’16 A.M., ’18 Ph.D.

• PhD: Slavic Studies
• Master’s: Religious Studies
• Dissertation - Jesus of Bethlehem: Vasily V. Rozanov and the Discourse of Matrimonial Sexuality in the Russian Orthodox Church
• Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, College of the Holy Cross 

Susan Herringer ’18 A.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: Engineering (Materials Science)
• Master’s: Archaeology and the Ancient World
• Dissertation - Archaeometallurgical Investigations of Copper Alloy Artifacts and Copper Smelting: Studies Utilizing Neutron Methods and Thermodynamic Modeling
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, Switzerland

Mark Ho ’15 Sc.M., ’18 Ph.D.

• PhD: Cognitive Science
• Master’s: Computer Science
• Dissertation - Teaching and Learning in Situated Environments
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology

Brian House ’16 A.M., ’18 Ph.D.

• PhD: Computer Music and Multimedia
• Master’s: Modern Culture and Media
• Dissertation - Rhythmanalysis of the Earth, the Animal, and the Machine
• Current Position: Assistant Professor and Studio Head of Digital Media Fields Center, Department of Art, Lewis and Clark College

Ioana Bogdana Jucan ’15 A.M., ’18 Ph.D.

• PhD: Theatre and Performing Arts
• Master’s: Philosophy
• Dissertation - Out of Concern: Performance Modes of Engaging with the World
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College

Chang Liu ’17 Sc.M., ’18 Ph.D.

• PhD: Chemistry
• Master’s: Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship 
• Dissertation - Solid State and Solution State Studies of Lithium Amide Enolates Homoaggregates and Mixed Aggregates
• Current Position: Bioconjugation Scientist, Celnovte Biotech Inc.; Co-founder of STA Technology

Adam Nitenson ’17 Sc.M., ’18 Ph.D.

• PhD: Neuroscience
• Master’s: Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship 
• Dissertation - Genetic Contributions to Heterogeneous Subjective and Neural Response to Psychostimulants
• Current Position: Health Research Project Director, Rhode Island Department of Health

Lakshmi Padmanabhan ’18 A.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: Modern Culture and Media
• Master’s: History
• Dissertation - The Untimely Image: On Feminist Inactivism and Postcolonial Ethics
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, School Communication, Northwestern University

 Seth Thorn ’15 A.M., ’18 Ph.D. 

• PhD: Multimedia and Electronic Music Experiments
• Master’s: German Studies
• Dissertation - Alto.Glove: Instrument and Augmentation
• Current Position: Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Arts, Media, and Engineering, Arizona State University

Yun (Ryan) Xu ’18 Sc.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: Pathobiology
• Master’s: Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship 
• Dissertation - Modeling Innate Immune Triage: The Early Responses to Concurrent Dermal Wounds and Pulmonary Infections
• Current Position: Director, Global Marketing, Strategic Planning and Operations - General Medicine, Amgen

Michael Bedard ’16 Sc.M., ’19 Ph.D.

• PhD: Economics
• Master’s: Applied Mathematics
• Dissertation - Efficient Estimation with Latent Variables
• Current Position: Economist, Amazon

Jessica Emerson ’19 Sc.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: Behavioral and Social Health Sciences
• Master’s: Cognitive Sciences
• Dissertation - When Outcomes Matter: A Temporal Analysis of Beliefs in the Exercise and Smoking Domains
• Current Position: Scientific Advisor, Clario

Valeria Federici ’19 A.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: Italian Studies
• Master’s: History of Art and Architecture
• Dissertation - Network Culture in Italy in the 1990s and the Making of a Place for Art and Activism
• Current Position: Lecturer, Italian, University of Maryland

Anna Santucci ’16 A.M., ’19 Ph.D.

• PhD: Italian Studies
• Master’s: Theatre and Performance Studies 
• Dissertation - Performing Language and Culture: Teaching and Learning Italian through Critical Embodied Encounters
• Current Position: Senior Lecturer in Teaching and Learning Enhancement, University College Cork

Asha Tamirisa ’19 A.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: Computer Music
• Master’s: Modern Culture and Media
• Dissertation - Lossy Recollections
• Current Position: Assistant Professor of Music, Bates College

Vikram Saraph ’19 Sc.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: Computer Science
• Master’s: Mathematics
• Dissertation - Fault-Tolerant Distributed Computability
• Current Position: Senior Software Engineer, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Mohak Patel ’19 Sc.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: Engineering
• Master’s: Computer Science
• Dissertation - High-Resolution, Kinematics-based Measurements for Characterizing 3-D Cellular Deformation Fields
• Current Position: Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Google

William Jordan ’19 Sc.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry
• Master’s: Data Science
• Dissertation - Drosophila Dosage Compensation as a Model for Combinatorial Transcriptional Regulation
• Current Position: Scientific Investigator, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)

Apollonya Porcelli ’16 Sc.M., ’19 Ph.D.

• PhD: Sociology
• Master’s: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
• Dissertation - An upwelling of expertise: The collapse of the Peruvian Anchoveta Fishery and the Rise of Grassroots Science, 1973-2000
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Bucknell University

Prannath Moolchand, ’17 Sc.M., ’19 Ph.D.

• PhD: Neuroscience
• Master’s: Applied Mathematics
• Dissertation - Biophysical and Architectural Mechanisms of Subthalamic Theta under Response Conflict
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Neurosurgery, Stanford University

Rachel Deraney, ’19 MPH, Ph.D.

• PhD: Biomedical Engineering
• Master’s: Public Health
• Dissertation - Sample Preparation and Nucleic Acid Extraction for Molecular Diagnostics: Innovations for Resource Limited Setting
• Current Position: Senior Manager, Technical Development Operations, Particles for Humanity, PBC

Gabriela Manzano Nieves ’19 MPA, Ph.D.

• PhD: Neuroscience
• Master’s: Public Affairs
• Dissertation - Developmental Effects of Early Life Adversity on Somatic Growth and Auditory Fear Conditioning
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Weill Cornell

Keith Spangler ’18 Sc.M., ’19 Ph.D.

• PhD: Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
• Master’s: Epidemiology 
• Dissertation - Spatial Heterogeneity of Climatic Health Risks: Evidence to Inform Adaptation
• Current Position: Research Scientist, School of Public Health, Boston University

David Abel ’19 A.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: Computer Science
• Master’s: Philosophy
• Dissertation - A Theory of Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning
• Current Position: Senior Research Scientist, DeepMind, London, UK

Xi Chen ’19 Sc.M., ’20 Ph.D.

• PhD: Chemistry
• Master’s: Computer Science 
• Dissertation - The Application of Variational Transition State Theory in Combustion Related Reactions
• Current Position: Software Engineer, Amazon

Amy Teller ’16 Sc.M., ’20 Ph.D.

• PhD: Sociology
• Master’s: Ecology, Evolutionary Biology
• Dissertation - Chocolate Futures: How Eco-Civic Engagement is Remaking Past Monoculture on Brazil's Cocoa Coast
• Current Position: Researcher, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Doria Charlson ’18 A.M., ’20 Ph.D.

• PhD: Theatre Arts and Performance Studies
• Master’s: History
• Dissertation - Consuming Crises: Migrant Labor, Spectacle, and Precarity in the Twentieth-Century
• Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California Davis

Margaret Geoga ’18 A.M., ’20 Ph.D.

• PhD: Egyptology and Assyriology
• Master’s: Comparative Literature
• Dissertation - Receptions of a Middle Egyptian Poem: A Textual and Material Study of the Teaching of Amenemhat in the New Kingdom
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

Yuan Liu ’18 Sc.M., ’20 Ph.D.

• PhD: Chemistry
• Master’s: Engineering
• Dissertation - Finite Temperature Physics of Molecules and Solids via Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo and Observation of p-Type Dipole-Bound States Near the Molecular Threshold
• Current Position: Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science, North Carolina State University

Lu Lu ’19 Sc.M., ’20 Ph.D.

• PhD: Applied Mathematics
• Master’s: Computer Science
• Dissertation - Theory, Algorithms, and Software for Physics-Informed Deep Learning
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Yale University

Diego Ramos Toro ’19 A.M., ’20 Ph.D.

• PhD: Economics
• Master’s: History
• Dissertation - History, Social Preferences, and Development Outcomes
• Current Position: Assistant Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College

Malay Firoz Arora ’19 A.M., ’20 Ph.D.

• PhD: Anthropology
• Master’s: Modern Culture and Media
• Dissertation - The Resilience Paradox: Ethical Quandaries of Humanitarian Aid in Jordan and Lebanon
• Current Position: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Arizona State University

Qingyu Ye ’20 Sc.M., ’21 Ph.D.

• PhD: Chemistry
• Master’s: Data Science
• Dissertation - D-FW Analysis with Corrections on Diffusion Coefficients by a Molecular Shape Representation Learned by Triplet Deep Clustering Algorithm
• Current Position: Applied Scientist, Amazon

Min Chen ’21 Sc.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: Engineering
• Master’s: Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship 
• Dissertation - The Exploration of Lead-Free Halide Perovskite Materials for Solar Cells
• Current Position: Chief Technology Officer, PeroNova

Miriam Rothenberg ’21 Sc.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: Archaeology and the Ancient World
• Master’s: Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences
• Dissertation - Community and Corrosion: A Contemporary Archaeology of Montserrat's Volcanic Crisis in Long-Term Comparative Perspective
• Current Position: Junior Research Fellow, Christ Church College

Watufani Poe ’18 A.M., ’21 Ph.D.

• PhD: Africana Studies
• Master’s: History
• Dissertation - Resisting Fragmentation: The Radical Possibilities of Black LGBTQ+ Activism in Brazil and the United States
• Current Position: Assistant Professor of Activist Media, Department of Communication, Tulane University

Jordan Jones ’21 A.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: Portuguese and Brazilian Studies 
• Master’s: Hispanic Studies
• Dissertation - Affective Crossings: Mapping Empathy and Human Rights in Literature of the Americas
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University 

Warren Harding ’19 A.M., ’21 Ph.D.

• PhD: Africana Studies
• Master’s: Comparative Literature
• Dissertation - Migratorial Reading: Black Caribbean Women in Migration and the Work of Literary Cultures
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Binghamton University State University of New York

Yixiang Deng ’19 Sc.M., ‘22 Ph.D.

• PhD: Engineering
• Master’s: Applied Mathematics
• Dissertation - Biomechanistic and Bioinformatic Modeling for Diabetes
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard

Amanda Khoo ’21 Sc.M., ’22 Ph.D.

• PhD: Biomedical Engineering
• Master’s: Data Science
• Dissertation - Profiling Cancer Cell Invasion and Plasticity in Biomimetic Materials
• Current Position: Senior Data Scientist, Media Therapeutics

Anni Pullagura  ’22 A.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: American Studies 
• Master’s: History of Art and Architecture
• Dissertation - Seeing Feeling: The Work of Empathy in Exhibition Spaces
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale Center for British Art

Parsa Bastani ’22 MPH, Ph.D.

• PhD: Anthropology
• Master’s: Public Health
• Dissertation - Continuing the War on Drugs: Carceral Public Health During the U.S. Opioid Crisis
• Current Position: Epidemic Intelligence Officer, Center for Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Cheng Zeng ’22 Sc.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: Engineering
• Master’s: Data Science
• Dissertation - Molecular Simulations by Exploiting Atomic Forces
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Northeastern University

Yichen Chai ’21 Sc.M., ’22 Ph.D.

• PhD: Chemistry
• Master’s: Computer Science
• Dissertation - New Algorithms and Insights for Geodesic Paths through Potential Energy Landscapes for Liquid State Systems

Marie Schenk ’21 Sc.M., ’22 Ph.D.

• PhD: Political Science
• Master’s: Data Science
• Dissertation - America Online: Everyday Talk and Conflict in Online Communities
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Lehigh University

Tong Cai ’22 Sc.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: Chemistry
• Master’s: PRIME
• Dissertation - Metal Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals: Colloidal Synthesis, Doping Chemistry, Transformation and Optoelectronic Applications
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University

Tong Shen ’21 Sc.M., ’23 Ph.D.

• PhD: Chemistry
• Master’s: Applied Math
• Dissertation: Recursive Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo: From Simulations in the Canonical Ensemble to Entanglement Measures
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Southern California

Selahaddin Gumus ’23 Sc.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: Chemistry
• Master’s: PRIME
• Dissertation: Toward Reliable and Sustainable Data Storage Using Molecular Systems
• Current Position: Co-Founder, AtomICs

Brian Markovitz ’23 A.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: TAPS
• Master’s: Anthropology
• Dissertation - Mark Rothko's Harvard Murals: A Fugitive History of Art and Science
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar, Northwestern University

Albert Webson ’23 A.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: Computer Science
• Master’s: Philosophy
• Dissertation: Tuning Language Models to Follow Instructions
• Current Position: Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind

Mariz Kelada ’23 A.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: Anthropology
• Master’s: Modern Culture and Media
• Dissertation: Behind the Seen: The Extramoral Political Economics of Visual Media Production in Egypt
• Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Europe in the Middle East (EUME)

Brooke Grasberger ’23 A.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: History
• Master’s: Religious Studies
• Dissertation - Spirits of the Sea: the Faith of Sailors through the Death of the Age of Sail
• Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston College

Joe Colleyshaw ’23 A.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: Slavic Studies
• Master’s: Political Science
• Dissertation - Melding Gold to Steel: The Rehabilitation of the Russian Empire’s Belle Epoque in Putin’s Russia

Yifeng Cai ’23 MPH, Ph.D.

• PhD: Anthropology
• Master’s: Public Health
• Dissertation - How China's Male Sex Workers Mix Business with Pleasure
• Current Position: Founder and CEO, Polar Education (Shanghai, China)

Kiara Lee ’22 MPH, ’23 Ph.D.

• PhD: BioMedical Engineering
• Master’s: Public Health
• Dissertation - Leveraging Biotransport Mechanisms in the Design of Technologies to Improve Access to Blood-Based Diagnostics
• Current Position: NIH Fogarty LAUNCH Postdoctoral Fellow, Fogarty International Center at NIH

Louis Gularte ’24 Sc.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: Philosophy
• Master’s: Cognitive Science
• Dissertation - Nothing is Bad, and So Is Suffering - A Gentle Critique of Moral Thinking
• Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University

Ying Huang ’24 Sc.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: Philosophy
• Master’s: Cognitive Science
• Dissertation - Explanation: Distance, Gaps, Regress and Circularity

Marlon Jimenez Oviedo ’21 A.M., ’24 Ph.D.

• PhD: Theatre & Performance Studies
• Master’s: Integrative Studies (Development Studies)
• Dissertation - Majoritarian Decolonization: A Performance Ethnography

Rachel Eleanor Kalisher ’24 Sc.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: Archaeology
• Master’s: Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology
• Dissertation - A Bioarchaeological Study of House Kinship at Bronze Age Megiddo
• Current Position: Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor of Anthropology, New York University

Robert Christopher Kashow ’24 A.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: Religious Studies
• Master’s: Anthropology
• Dissertation - The Violent Imagination: Agency and Representation in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and Ancient Judaism
• Current Position: Adjunct Faculty Religious and Theological Studies, Salve Regina University

Bryan Natividad ’24 Ph.D.

• PhD: Sociology
• Master’s: Data Science
• Dissertation - Invisible or Invincible? An Empirical Analysis of University Disability Support Services and Academic Success

Marko Vitas ’24 A.M., Ph.D.

• PhD: Classics
• Master’s: Egyptology & Assyriology
• Dissertation - The Myth of Destruction Beyond Floods and Wars: An Essay in Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Literature

Tara Mara Wheelwright ’21 A.M., ’24 Ph.D.

• PhD: Slavic Studies
• Master’s: Theatre & Performance Studies
• Dissertation - Creating a National Style: Soviet Drama-Ballet and the Elevation of the Word 
• Current Position: Assistant Director of STEM Global Awards at New York University