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Answered By: Laura Galas Last Updated: Jan 19, 2024     Views: 20273

Current Yale students, faculty and staff can access Yale dissertations and theses. 

After dissertations are accepted by and submitted to the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences , they are sent to ProQuest/UMI for microfilming according Yale University policy . In most cases, this process takes 8 months to a year before the original and the m icrofilm copy are returned to the Yale University Library . Once returned, they are discoverable through the searches below. 

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Buildings and Grounds of Yale University , Richard C. Carroll ed.

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Dedication of the Memorial Tablet to the Yale Men Who Lost Their Lives, Vietnam 1964-1973 , Yale University

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Yale: A Short History , George W. Pierson

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The Buildings of Yale University (Bulletin of Yale University, Series 61, Number 3) , Lottie G. Bishop ed.

Eating at Yale, 1701-1965 , Loomis Havemeyer

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Yale Memorials , Yale University, Office of the Secretary

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Yale in New Haven , Yale University

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Yale's Extracurricular & Social Organizations, 1780-1960 , Loomis Havemeyer

The Buildings of Yale University , Secretary's Office, Yale University

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Catalogue of Yale University Alumni, 1925-1954: Supplement to Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of Yale University, 1701-1924 , Yale University

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Report of the President's Committee on General Education , Yale University

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The Yale Residential Colleges [Yale Alumni Weekly special number] , Yale Alumni Weekly

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Yale Illustrated [Yale Alumni Weekly special number] , Yale Alumni Weekly

A Tour of Yale University 1931 , Yale Publishing Association

Yale University Library Gazette special issue on The Sterling Memorial Library, Volume V, Number 4 (April 1931) , Yale University Library

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The Old Brick Row , Charles Henry Smith

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Sketch of the History of Yale University , Franklin Bowditch Dexter

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In devane lectures, historian to examine the legacy of slavery and the civil war.

David W. Blight

David W. Blight, one of the country’s foremost authorities on slavery and the Civil War, will lead a course exploring the intertwined and lasting legacies of the two as part of an annual Yale lecture series that is open to the public at no charge.

The 2024 DeVane Lectures course, “Can it Happen Here Again? Yale, Slavery, the Civil War and their Legacies,” is based in part on the Yale and Slavery Research Project, a comprehensive examination of Yale’s historical connections to slavery . Blight led the project, which included faculty, staff, students, and New Haven community members, and is the primary author of “Yale and Slavery: A History” (Yale University Press), a scholarly, peer-reviewed book that presents the project’s research in full. (Key findings and the full book are available  online  for free.)

Registration for the course, which will be offered in the fall, opens April 15.

“ I hope people will take away a deep historical understanding of Yale’s own experience with this problem, and how slavery helped shape this university’s history and many others,” said Blight, Sterling Professor of History and African American Studies in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). “And that they gain an understanding of how what is arguably the most divisive issue we’ve ever had continues to shape us as a country. We’re close to that kind of divisiveness today.”

Blight is also director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale. He has authored numerous books related to slavery and the Civil War, including “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” (Simon & Schuster), the 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the once-enslaved 19 th -century orator who became a leader in the abolitionist movement.

Members of the Yale and New Haven communities are invited to attend the lecture series, which will be in-person only, for free. Yale undergraduates may enroll in the course for credit.

The DeVane Lectures series, established in 1969, is named for William Clyde DeVane, dean of Yale College from 1939 to 1963. Last year’s course, “China in Six Keys,” was taught by Jing Tsu, the Jonathan D. Spence Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Literatures and chair of comparative literature in FAS.

Blight’s DeVane course will be divided into three parts. The first will focus on the key elements of the Yale and slavery study, such as the early Yale leaders who owned enslaved people, the labor of enslaved people in constructing Connecticut Hall, and Yale alumni participation in quashing an effort to build the country’s first Black college in New Haven in 1831. It will incorporate documentation housed in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and Sterling Memorial Library, as well as readings from “Yale and Slavery: A History.”

That concludes in 1915 with the dedication of Yale’s sculpted Civil War Memorial on the ground floor of Woolsey Hall. The memorial honors the Yale graduates who died in the war in both the Union and Confederate forces, and makes no mention of slavery, the reason the war was fought.

“ It is the most significant monument to the Confederate ‘Lost Cause’ ideology on northern soil,” Blight said. “How did that happen?”

That question will set the stage for the second part of the course, which will cover the causes of disunion, the fighting of the Civil War, emancipation efforts (which eventually led to passage of the 13 th Amendment abolishing slavery), and the Reconstruction era that followed.

The final third of the course will take up the ways in which the legacies of that era are still with us today, and how they continue to threaten a multi-ethnic democracy. These concluding lectures will address the course’s provocative title, a twist on that of the 1935 Sinclair Lewis novel, “It Can’t Happen Here.”  The novel, about the election and totalitarian rule of a fascist president in the U.S., was frequently cited in recent years for its perceived parallels to Donald Trump’s election and the contemporary political landscape.

“ If we’re going to take up a subject with this kind of aftermath, why not understand how it still shapes us?” Blight said. “We’re reliving the issues of Reconstruction almost every day in this country, and not just because of Trumpism. It’s because they’re so unfinished.”

Members of the public must register for the DeVane Lectures on the course website . Registration begins on April 15. The lectures are held in person only. Beginning on August 29, lectures will take place Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:35 a.m.-12:25 p.m. in the O.C. Marsh Lecture Hall in the Yale Science Building, located at 260 Whitney Ave.

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Teona Williams, “ Deepening Roots: Black Feminist Ecological Practices in the Civil Rights Era, 1940-1990,” 2022. Advisors: Dr. Paul Sabin and Dr. Crystal Feimster.  Website

Joanna Linzer, “Iron Archipelago: Environment and Industry in Early Modern and Modern Japan,” (2021).  Advisor: Dr. Daniel Botsman.  Website

Yuan Julian Chen, “ China’s Song Dynasty’s Capital of Kaifeng and Its Hinterlands: An Environmental History, 960-1127 ,” (2020)  Advisor: Dr. Valerie Hansen.  Website

Camille Cole, “ Empire on Edge: Land, Law, and Capital in Gilded Age Basra , ” (2020)  Advisor: Dr.Alan Mikhail.  Website

Keri Lambert, “ Elastic Allegiances: Rubber, Development, and the Production of Sovereignties in Ghana, 1880-2017 ,” (2020)  Advisor: Dr. Robert Harms.  Website

Adrián Lerner Patrón, “ Jungle Cities: The Urbanization of Amazonia,” (2020) Advisors: Dr. Gilbert M. Joseph and Dr. Stuart Schwartz.  Website

Timothy Lorek, “ Developing Paradise: Agricultural Science in Colombia’s Cauca Valley, 1927-1967, ” (2019) Advisor: Dr. Gilbert M. Joseph.  Website

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Abigail Agresta, “ Many Waters: An Environmental History of Valencia, 1300-1500, ” (2016) Advisor: Dr. Paul Freedman. Website

Arielle Gorin, “ Cascadian Crossings: The Battle for the Pacific Northwest Borderlands after the Oregon Treaty, ” (2016)  Advisor: Dr. John Mack Faragher.  Website

Ryan Hall, “ Blackfoot Country: The Indigenous Borderlands of the North American Fur Trade, 1782-1870, ” (2015)   Advisors: Dr.   John Mack Faragher and Dr. Ned Blackhawk.  Website

Andrew Horowitz,  ” The End of Empire, Louisiana: Disaster and Recovery on the Gulf Coast, 1915-2012 “  (2014)  Advisor: Glenda Gilmore.  Website

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Jacob S. T. Dlamini, “ Putting Kruger National Park in its Place: A Social History of Africans and Conservation in a Modernizing South Africa, 1900-2010 ,” (2012) Advisor: Robert Harms.  Website

Catherine McNeur, “ The ‘Swinish Multitude’ and Fashionable Promenades: Battles over Public Space in New York City, 1815-65, ” (2012)   Advisor:   Dr.   John Mack Faragher.  Website

Taylor Spence, “ The Endless Commons: Indigenous and Immigrant in the British-American Borderland, 1835-48, ” (2012) Advisor: Dr.  John Mack Faragher.  Website

Sarah Cameron, “ The Hungry Steppe: Soviet Kazakhstan and the Kazakh Famine, 1921-1934, ” (2010) Advisor: Dr. Laura Engelstein. Website

Catherine Dunlop, “ Borderland cartographies: Mapping the lands between France and Germany, 1860–1940, ” (2010) Advisor: Dr. John Merriman. Website

Barry Muchnick, “ Nature’s Republic: Fresh Air Reform and the Moral Economy of Citzenship in Turn of the Century America ,” (2010) Advisors: Dr. Michael Dove and  Dr. John Mack Faragher. Website

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Sarah Pickman, “ The Right Stuff: Material Culture, Comfort, and the Making of Explorers,  1820-1940,” (2023) Advisor: Dr. Joanna Radin. Website  

Liana DeMarco, “ Sick Time: Medicine, Management, and Slavery in Louisiana and Cuba, 1763-1868” (2022) Advisor: Dr. John Harley Warner. Website

Ashanti Shih, “ Invasive Ecologies:  Science and Settler Colonialism in Twentieth-Century Hawai’i, ” (2019)   Advisor: Dr. Paul Sabin.   Website

Rachel Rothschild, “ A Poisonous Sky: Scientific Research and International Diplomacy on Acid Rain, ” (2015) Advisor: Dr. Daniel J. Kevles. Website

Robin Scheffler, “ Cancer Viruses and the Construction of Biomedicine in the United States from 1900-1980,” (2014) Advisor: Dr. Daniel J. Kevles. Website

Ying Jia Tan, “ Revolutionary Current: Electricity and the Formation of the Party State in China and Taiwan, 1937-1957 ,” (2015) Advisor: Dr. Frank Snowden. Website

 Helen Anne Curry, “ Accelerating Evolution, Engineering Life: American Agriculture and Technologies of Genetic Modification, 1925-60 ,” (2012) Advisor: Daniel J. Kevles. Website

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Sigma Colon, “ Watershed Colonialism and Popular Geographies of North American Rivers ,” (2017)   Advisors: Dr. Alicia Schmidt-Camacho and Dr. Katherine Morrissey.   Website

Francesca Ammon , “ Culture of Clearance: Waging War on the Landscape in Postwar America ,” (2012) Advisor: Dr. Dolores Hayden. Website

Christine DeLucia, “ The Memory Frontier: Geographies of Violence and Regeneration in Colonial New England and the Native Northeast after King Phillip’s War ,” (2012) Advisor: Dr. John Mack Faragher. Website

April Merleaux, “ Sugar and Civilization: Race, Empire, and the Cultural Politics of Sweetness in the United States, 1898-1939 ,” (2010) Advisor: Dr. Stephen Pitti. Website 

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• Set up by you or your program prior to dissertation submission, depending on departmental practice. If your program allows students to create the NOR you will see a Notification of Readers tile in the Dissertation Progress Reporting and Submission (DPRS) site. Contact your departmental registrar for questions and assistance.
• Notify program of your intent to submit by February 15 (spring) or September 1 (fall)
• Three readers are required with a maximum of five permitted. Two must be ladder or ladder-track Yale faculty, including the adviser. All readers must hold a PhD degree and a faculty position or be considered otherwise qualified to evaluate the dissertation by the DGS and the Graduate School.
• NOR Submission Instructional video

Submission Information:

• March 15 for spring degree conferral in May/June, 5:00 pm
• October 1 for fall degree conferral in December, 5:00 pm
• A pdf of your dissertation may be submitted using the degree petition page in the  Dissertation Progress Reporting and Submission  (DPRS) site at any time within the academic year. Dissertations submitted after the above semester submission deadlines will be processed for the following degree date
• Final changes to the dissertation must be uploaded in DPRS within 30 days of the submission deadline. To make changes to your dissertation after it has been submitted, email  dissertationreaders@yale.edu .
• Upon submission of your dissertation and approval of your readers by the DGS, a pdf of your dissertation will be automatically sent to all readers.
• Upon request from a reader, students are required to and responsible for mailing a soft-bound copy of the dissertation to the reader.

IMPORTANT: Students who submit their dissertations before the end of the add/drop course enrollment period (see the  academic calendar ) are NOT eligible to register as students for the remainder of that term. Students who wish to remain registered until the end of a given semester must submit their dissertations AFTER add/drop closes in order to remain registered for that semester.

• Submitting Degree Petition and Dissertation in DPRS:

The Degree Petition page in DPRS consists of the degree petition, links to required surveys, and a site to upload a pdf of your dissertation. No paper submission is required.

• ​ The dissertation title is populated from your most recent Dissertation Progress Report. You can change the final title on the petition page by clicking the “No” radio button and modifying the title. Click the save button at the bottom of the page to save the title prior to submitting the dissertation
• Survey of Earned Doctorates – submission confirmation page
• GSAS Exit Survey – upload first page of GSAS Survey that has your email address
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• Upload a pdf of your dissertation

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Formatting the Doctoral Dissertation

Physical Requirements:

• Double spaced
• Exceptions: block quotations, bibliographic references, captions, footnotes should be single spaced, with a double space between each entry
• Saved as a pdf to be uploaded on the Degree Petition and Dissertation Submission page in DPRS
• No paper copy needs to be submitted

Margins: Left side margin of 1.5”, 1” margin on all other sides

Page Numbers

• 0.5” from any edge
• Preliminary pages are numbered with lower-case roman numerals, except title page and copyright page which are not numbered. The page following the copyright will be numbered (iii) and additional pages will be numbered sequentially
• The dissertation proper begins with page Arabic number “1” and runs consecutively to the end            
• 10- to 12-point font
• Same font type should be used throughout, including header, footnotes, page numbers

Order of Sections:

• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Front Matter (acknowledgements, list of illustrations or tables, etc.)
• Body of Text
• Back Matter (appendices, bibliography, supplemental figures and tables, etc.)
• Placed immediately preceding the title page
• Heading centered on page
• Dissertation title and name of author must match title page
• Text of abstract below the heading, double spaced

Full title of dissertation

Full name of author

Year of PhD conferral (e.g., 20XX)

• All text centered
• Month and year of conferral (e.g., May or June 20XX, or December 20XX)
• See attached example at end of guide

Copyright Notice:

• Typed 3” below top margin
• Format includes copyright symbol ©

                     © 20__ by [Student’s Name]

                     All rights reserved.

• Note: the copyright available through ProQuest is optional and an additional fee

Tables and Figures:

• Tables placed as close as possible to their reference in the text
• Heading at top of table
• Consecutive numbering throughout, or by chapter (e.g., 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2)
• Captions placed at bottom

(Sample Title Page)

Dissertation Title: Subtitle

(first letter of each word in title should be capitalized)

A Dissertation

Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School

Yale University

In Candidacy for the Degree of

Doctor of Philosophy

[Full Name of Author]

Dissertation Director: [Full  Name of the Advisor(s)]

(or chairperson of advisory committee)

(month of graduation, not of submission)

Submission Policy

Dissertations for the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Doctor of Philosophy degree must be submitted to the Graduate School by 5:00 pm on March 15 for consideration at the May meeting of the degree committee, and by 5:00 pm on October 1 for consideration at the fall meeting of the degree committee. These deadlines are established to allow sufficient time for readers to make careful evaluations and for departments to review those evaluations and make recommendations to the Graduate School. No extensions of the deadlines will be granted. Dissertations submitted after the deadlines will be considered for degree conferral during the following term.

In accord with the scholarly ideal that the candidate for a doctorate must make a contribution to knowledge, all dissertations that have been accepted by the Graduate School are made available in the Yale library.

Students do not need to be registered to be eligible to submit the dissertation.

Students who complete all PhD requirements within four continuous years of full-time study in the PhD program will be registered and charged full tuition only through the term in which the dissertation is submitted. Students who take a leave of absence must complete the four-year full tuition obligation, regardless of when they submit the dissertation.

The Graduate School does not compel departments to evaluate the dissertations of degree candidates who are no longer registered. In practice, however, departments normally agree to evaluate these dissertations.

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Ryan Adelsheim, Drama

“Unfinished: Queer Identity in Process on the American Stage, 1972-2022”

My dissertation considers the aesthetic and structural intervention queer artists make that produces feelings of fracturing, fading, and fizzling, what I am calling the queer unfinished. Beginning in the 1970s, a period of calcification of vocabulary for queerness and simultaneous expansion of representation, this project considers how queer identity onstage is constantly in a process of “becoming” alongside evolutions in LGBTQ politics and thought.  Building on ideas of queer time and failure, I examine how cultural texts—ranging from domestic drama to dance theater to ambitious historical reimaginings—are tied to an unfinished queer history and archival silence. The queer unfinished allows artists to occupy this space in the archive and facilitates a movement between, or awareness of, previously fractured identities in queer public cultures. I argue that this aesthetic intervention holds a future-focused impulse that allows previously overlooked theatrical work to offer a new perspective on the ongoing survival and invention of and by queer artists.

Beshouy Botros, History

“Before Trans Medicine: Race, Gender and Coloniality Between Egypt and the Maghreb”

My dissertation project reckons with a coincidence: two surgeons, on opposite ends of Northern Africa, in Cairo and Casablanca, perform gender affirming procedures in the mid-twentieth century. “Coincidence” signals my non-teleological, non-causal approach to historical inquiry and some of my operational questions; what made trans medicine uniquely feasible in Egypt and Morocco, and inversely, how did Northern African racial topologies shape trans medicine. In the mid-twentieth century Georges Burou, the Franco-Algerian who moved to Casablanca on the eve of the Algerian War of Independence, and Ludwig Levy-Lenz, the German Jew who worked with Magnus Hirschfield before fleeing Nazi Germany and opening a clinic in Cairo, confronted racial, religious and sexual differences with long histories. It would be easy to explain their itineraries in terms of convenience; both doctors fled European wars and settled in major cities on the other side of the Mediterranean, but this would discount the complexity of the worlds they entered, worlds where people had nuanced Amazigh and Arabic grammars for understanding the body. Mining these grammars and prehistories, I turn to a very long nineteenth century as I read Arabic-language medical treatises and analyze the advent of modern medical education in Northern Africa. By excavating the meanings of race, gender and sexuality as they were expressed in Northern Africa, before trans medicine, my project proposes that these dialogical negotiations shaped the emergence of trans medicine and the modern social body more broadly.

Sophia DeLeonibus, History

“The Age of Identity: Gender & Cultural Meanings of Sexual Difference”

Our understanding of the cultural and political significance of sexual dimorphism through the conceptual paradigm of gender identity is a historically novel phenomenon. This project traces the intellectual history of gender identity and asks how the concept has changed understandings of the sexed body as a cultural object and become a primary lens through which we understand the embodied fact of our existence. In doing so, I track the rise of identity as a contingent and historical conceptual framework in its own right. To this end, I explore the spread and rising significance of two postwar concepts – gender and identity – and their entwinement in debates over the essence of selfhood in American psychoanalytic, psychological, feminist, queer, and political thought from the 1950s through the end of the twentieth century.

Kelsey Henry, American Studies

“Developmental Humanisms: Black Histories of Developmental Science and Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century U.S.”

My dissertation follows the underexplored legacies of nineteenth-century scientific metrics of human development and racial difference, metrics forged in the crucible of racial slavery, in histories of twentieth-century developmentalism. I study what is retained and reconfigured of nineteenth-century racial developmentalism, namely a tendency to equate blackness with an “overdeveloped” sexual body and an “underdeveloped” mind, in twentieth century pediatric medicine, endocrinology, and neurobiology. While developmental metrics, including pediatric growth charts and diagnostic criteria for developmental disability, are often perceived as race-neutral, this dissertation argues that developmental standards and technologies for managing child and adolescent growth were tailored to white bodies, minds, and sexualities from their inception. I intervene in critical black studies scholarship on the afterlives of slavery by foregrounding scientific metrics of human development as a cultural field through which the racial parameters of the human have been repeatedly renegotiated, and how this comes to bear on the measurement and management of black life in the twentieth century.

Kate Redburn, History

“The Private Square: Gay Rights, Religious Freedom, and U.S. Political Economy at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century”

My dissertation examines the changing meaning of sexual and religious freedom in the marketplace since the mid-1960s. I show how conflicts between LGBT legal advocates and conservative Christian lawyers have changed the way law structures the relationships between state, market, and subject, by looking closely at the history of public accommodations law. In the aftermath of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, U.S. legal consensus held that private businesses serving the general public were subject to anti-discrimination laws, even when the proprietors objected to racial equality on religious grounds. By 2017, that consensus had largely deteriorated, and cases before the Supreme Court in 2020 suggest that a religious exemption to anti-discrimination law may become constitutional nationwide. How should we understand this dramatic change? I argue that the conservative vision succeeded in devolving public powers of inclusion and recognition to private parties, recalibrating public law to protect religious and business interests, and sometimes limiting the reach of public law altogether. I suggest that these changes form an important part of the transition from a New Deal political economy into a lopsided neoliberalism, where some subjects are rewarded and others penalized for non-normativity in their quest for full economic citizenship.

Carlo Sariego, Sociology and WGSS

“Cracking the Egg Along the Edge of the Horizon: Trans Reproductive Potential Against State Control, Technology, and Desire in the Past, Present and Future”

My dissertation examines the intersection between state reproductive control and transgender

reproduction through an interdisciplinary and multi-method qualitative study of archival materials, legislative and legal documents, analyses of repro tech, and semi-structured interviews with trans adults. This project sits at the intersection between transgender studies, reproductive studies, and state theory in order to examine the contemporary emergence of an increased focus on trans reproduction to expand the concept of trans repro futurity. As such, this dissertation seeks to push theories of transgender reproduction beyond just a question of what is  necessary  towards one of what is  possible  by looking at trans repro pasts, presents, and futures. 

Hannah Srajer, History

“The Clockwork Cure: Behavior Modification and Rehabilitative Logics in the American Carceral State, 1950-1990”

My dissertation explores the allegedly rehabilitative behavior modification programs implemented in federal and state prisons from the late 1960s to the 1990s. Key to the agenda of those programs was the project of gender and sexual normativity and the construction of the ideal worker of racial capitalism. The proliferation of behavior modification programs functioned to police gender, heterosexual, and racial norms, linking “violent,” “deviant,” and “criminal” behavior to homosexuality and gender queerness. My dissertation’s analysis of such programs shows how racial, sexual, and gender norms are co-constituted through modern penal technologies. More broadly, I illustrate how prison’s investment in behavior modification—scientifically and medically-informed, expert-led “rehabilitative” programs—expanded and enriched punitive carceral institutions and carceral violence in the United States.

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Dissertations.

Michael Abraham: “The Avant-Garde of Feeling: Queer Love and Modernism” directed by Langdon Hammer, Marta Figlerowicz, Ben Glaser” 

Peter Conroy: “Unreconciled: American Power and the End of History, 1945 to the Present” directed by Joe Cleary, Joseph North, Paul North

Trina Hyun: “Media Theologies, 1615-1668” directed by John Durham Peters, Catherine Nicholson, Marta Figlerowicz, John Rogers (University of Toronto)

Margaret McGowan: “A Natural History of the Novel: Species, Sense, Atmosphere” directed by Jonathan Kramnick, Katie Trumpener, Marta Figlerowicz

Benjamin Pokross: “Writing History in the Nineteenth-Century Great Lakes” directed by Caleb Smith, Greta LaFleur, Michael Warner

Sophia Richardson: “Reading the Surface in Early Modern English Literature” directed by Catherine Nicholson, Lawrence Manley, John Rogers(University of Toronto)

Melissa Shao Hsuan Tu: “Sonic Virtuality: First-Person Voices in Late Medieval English Lyric” directed by Ardis Butterfield, Jessica Brantley, John Durham Peters

Sarah Weston: “The Cypher and the Abyss: Outline Against Infinity” directed by Paul Fry, Tim Barringer, John Durham Peters

December 2022

Anna Hill: “Sublime Accumulations: Narrating the Global Climate, 1969-2001” directed by Joe Cleary, Marta Figlerowicz, Ursula Heise (UCLA)

Christopher McGowan: “Inherited Worlds: The British Modernist Novel and the Sabotage and Salvage of Genre” directed by Joe Cleary, Michael Denning, Katie Trumpener

Samuel Huber: “Every Day About the World: Feminist Internationalism in the Second Wave” directed by  Jacqueline Goldsby, Margaret Homans, Jill Richards

Shayne McGregor: “An Intellectual History of Black Literary Discourse 1910-1956” directed by Joseph North, Robert Stepto

Brandon Menke: “Slow Tyrannies: Queer Lyricism, Visual Regionalism, and the Transfigured World” directed by Langdon Hammer, Wai Chee Dimock, Marta Figlerowicz

Arthur Wang: “Minor Theories of Everything: On Popular Science and Contemporary Fiction” directed by Amy Hungerford, John Durham Peters, Sunny Xiang

December 2021

Sarah Robbins: “Re(-)Markable Texts: Making Meaning of Revision in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature” directed by Caleb Smith, Jacqueline Goldsby, Anthony Reed

David de León: “Epic Black: Poetics in Protest in the Time of Black Lives Matter” directed by  Langdon Hammer, Daphne Brooks, Marta Figlerowicz

Clio Doyle: “Rough Beginnings: Imagining the Origins of Agriculture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain” directed by Lawrence Manley, David Kastan, Catherine Nicholson

Clay Greene: “The Preexistence of the Soul in the Early English Enlightenment: 1640-1740” directed by John Rogers, Jonathan Kramnick, Lawrence Manley

December 2020

Wing Chun Julia Chan: “Veritable Utopia: Revolutionary Russia and the Modernism of the British Left” directed by Katie Trumpener, Jill Richards, Katerina Clark

James Eric Ensley: “Troubled Signs: Thomas Hoccleve’s Objects of Absence” directed by Jessica Brantley, Alastair Minnis, Ardis Butterfield

Paul Franz: “Because so it is made new”: D. H. Lawrence’s charismatic modernism directed by David Bromwich, Ben Glaser, and Langdon Hammer

Chelsie Malyszek: Just Words: Diction and Misdirection in Modern Poetry directed by Lanny Hammer, David Bromwich, and Ben Glaser

Justin Park: “The Children of Revenge: Managing Emotion in Early English Literature” directed by Roberta Frank, Alastair Minnis, David Kastan

Peter Raccuglia: “Lives of Grass: Prairie Literature and US Settler Capitalism” directed by Michael Warner, Jonathan Kramnick, Michael Denning

Ashley James: “ ‘Moist, Fleshy, Pulsating Surfaces’: Seeing and Reading Black Life after Experientiality” directed by Professors Jacqueline Goldsby, Elizabeth Alexander, and Anthony Reed

Brittany Levingston: “In the Day of Salvation: Christ and Salvation in Early Twentieth-Century African American Literature” directed by Professors Jacqueline Goldsby, Robert Stepto, and Anthony Reed

Lukas Moe: “Radical Afterlives: U.S. Poetry, 1935-1968” directed by Professors Langdon Hammer, Jacqueline Goldsby, and Michael Denning

Carlos Nugent: “Imagined Environments: Mediating Race and Nature in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands” directed by Professors Wai Chee Dimock, Amy Hungerford, and Michael Warner

Anna Shechtman: “The Media Concept: A Genealogy” directed by Professors Amy Hungerford, John Durham Peters, and Michael Warner

December 2019

Bofang Li: “Old Media/New Media: Intimate Networked Publics and the Commodity Text Since 1700” directed by Professors Wai Chee Dimock, R. John Williams, and Francesco Casetti

Scarlet Luk: “Gender Unbound: The Novel Narrator Beyond the Binary” directed by Professors Margaret Homans, Jill Campbell, and Jill Richards

Phoenix Alexander: “Voices with Vision: Writing Black, Feminist Futures in Twentieth-Century African America” directed by Professors Jacqueline Goldsby, Daphne Brooks, Anthony Reed, and Wai Chee Dimock

Andrew S. Brown: “Artificial Persons: Fictions of Representation in Early Modern Drama” directed by Professors David Kastan, John Rogers, and Joseph Roach

Margaret Deli: “Authorizing Taste: Connoisseurship and Transatlantic Modernity, 1880-1959” directed by Professors Ruth Yeazell, Joseph Cleary, and R. John Williams

Ann Killian: “Expanding Lyric Networks: The Transformation of a Genre in Late Medieval England” directed by Professors Ardis Butterfield, Jessica Brantley, and Alastair Minnis

Alexandra Reider: “The Multilingual English Manuscript Page, c. 950-1300” directed by Professors Roberta Frank, Ardis Butterfield, and Alastair Minnis

December 2018

Seo Hee Im: “After Totality: Late Modernism and the Globalization of the Novel” directed by Professors Joseph Cleary, Katie Trumpener, and Marta Figlerowicz

Angus Ledingham: “Styles of Abstraction: Objectivity and Moral Thought in Nineteenth-Century British Literature” directed by Professors David Bromwich, Jill Campbell, and Stefanie Markovits

Jason Bell: “Archiving Displacement in America” directed by Professors Caleb Smith, Wai Chee Dimock, and Jacqueline Goldsby

Joshua Stanley: “If but Once We Have Been Strong: Collective Agency and Poetic Technique in England during the Period of Early Capitalism” directed by Professors Paul Fry, David Bromwich, and Anthony Reed

December 2017

Carla Baricz: “Early Modern Two-Part and Sequel Drama, 1490-1590” directed by Professors David Quint, Lawrence Manley, and David Kastan

Edward King: “The World-Historical Novel: Writing the Periphery” directed by Professors Joseph Cleary, R. John Williams, and Michael Denning

Palmer Rampell: “The Genres of the Person in Post-World War II America” directed by Professors Amy Hungerford, Michael Warner, and R. John Williams

Anya Adair: “Composing the Law: Literature and Legislation in Early Medieval England” directed by Professors Roberta Frank, Ardis Butterfield, and Alastair Minnis

Robert Bradley Holden: “Milton between the Reformation and Enlightenment: Religion in an Age of Revolution” directed by Professors David Quint, Bruce Gordon, and John Rogers

Andrew Kau: “Astraea’s Adversary: The Rivalry Between Law and Literature in Elizabethan England” directed by Professors Lawrence Manley, David Quint, and David Kastan

Natalie Prizel: “The Good Look: Victorian Visual Ethics and the Problem of Physical Difference” direcgted by Professors Janice Carlisle and Tim Barringer

Rebecca Rush: “The Fetters of Rhyme: Freedom and Limitation in Early Modern Verse” direcgted by Professors David Quint, David Kastan, and John Rogers

Prashant Sharma: “Conversions to the Baroque: Catholic Modernism from James Joyce to Graham Greene” directed by Professors Paul Fry, Joseph Cleary, and Marta Figlerowicz

Joseph Stadolnik: “Subtle Arts: Practical Science and Middle English Literature” directed by Professors Ardis Butterfield and Alastair Minnis

Steven Kirk Warner: “Versions of Narcissus: The Aesthetics and Erotics of the Male Form in English Renaissance Poetry” directed by Professors John Rogers and Catherine Nicholson

December 2016

Kimberly Quiogue Andrews: “The Academic Avant-Garde: Poetry and the University since 1970” directed by Professors Langdon Hammer, Paul Fry, and Wai Chee Dimock

Alexis Chema: “Fancy’s Mirror: Romantic Poetry and the Art of Persuasion” directed by Professors David Bromwich and Paul Fry

Daniel Jump: “Metadiscursive Struggle and the Eighteenth-Century British Social Imaginary: From the End of Licensing to the Revolution Controversy” directed by Professors Michael Warner, Jill Campbell, and Paul Fry

Jordan Brower: “A Literary History of the Studio System, 1911-1950” directed by Wai Chee Dimock, JD Connor, and Joe Cleary

Ryan Carr: “Expressivism in America” directed by Michael Warner, Caleb Smith, and Paul Fry

Megan Eckerle: “Speculation and Time in Late Medieval Visionary Discourse” directed by Jessica Brantley and Alastair Minnis

Gabriele Hayden: “Routes and Roots of the New World Baroque: U.S. Modernist Poets Translate from Spanish” directed by Landon Hammer and Wai Chee Dimock

Matthew Hunter: “The Pursuit of Style in Shakespeare’s Drama” directed by David Kastan, Lawrence Manley, and Brian Walsh

Leslie Jamison: “The Recovered: Addiction and Sincerity in 20th Century American Literature” directed by Wai Chee Dimock, Amy Hungerford, and Caleb Smith

Jessica Matuozzi: “Double Agency: A Multimedia History of the War on Drugs” directed by Jacqueline Goldsby, Amy Hungerford, and Anthony Reed

Aaron Pratt: “The Status of Printed Playbooks in Early Modern England” directed by David Kastan, Lawrence Manley, and Keith Wrightson

Madeleine Saraceni: “The Idea of Writing for Women in Late Medieval Literature” directed by Jessica Brantley, Ardis Butterfield, and Alastair Minnis

J. Antonio Templanza: “Know to Know No More: The Composition of Knowledge in Milton’s Epic Poetry” directed by John Rogers and Paul Fry

Andrew Willson: “Idle Works: Unproductiveness, Literature Labor, and the Victorian Novel” directed by Janice Carlisle, Stefanie Markovits, and Ruth Yeazell

December 2015

Melina Moe: “Public Intimacies: Literary and Sexual Reproduction in the Eighteenth Century” directed by Katie Trumpener, Wendy Lee, Jonathan Kramnick, and Jill Campbell

Merve Emre: “Paraliterary Institutions” directed by Wai Chee Dimock and Amy Hungerford

Samuel Fallon: “Personal Effects: Personal and Literary Culture in Elizabethan England” directed by David Kastan, Catherine Nicholson, and Lawrence Manley

Edgar Garcia: “Deep Land: Hemispheric Modernisms and Indigenous Media” directed by Wai Chee Dimock, Langdon Hammer, and Anthony Reed

Jean Elyse Graham: “The Book Unbound: Print Logic between Old Books and New Media” directed by David Kastan, Catherine Nicholson, and R. John Williams

December 2014

Len Gutkin: “Dandiacal Forms” directed by Amy Hungerford, Sam See, and Katie Trumpener

Justin Sider: “Parting Words: Address and Exemplarity in Victorian Poetry” directed by Linda Peterson, Leslie Brisman, and Stefanie Markovits

William Weber: “Shakespearean Metamorphoses” directed by David Kastan

Thomas Koenigs: “Fictionality in the United States, 1789-1861” directed by Michael Warner, Jill Campbell, and Caleb Smith

Andrew Kraebel: “English Traditions of Biblical Criticism and Translation in the Later Middle Ages” directed by Alastair Minnis, Jessica Brantley, and Ian Cornelius

Tessie Prakas: “The Office of the Poet: Ministry and Verse Practice in the Seventeenth Century” directed by John Rogers, David Kastan, and Catherine Nicholson

Nienke Christine Venderbosch: “‘Tha Com of More under Misthleothum Grendel Gongan’: The Scholarly and Popular Reception of Beowulf ’s Grendel from 1805 to the Present Day” directed by Roberta Frank and Paul Fry

Eric Weiskott: “The Durable Alliterative Tradition” directed by Roberta Frank, Alastair Minnis, Ian Cornelius

December 2013

Anthony Domestico: “Theologies of Crisis in British Literature of the Interwar Period” directed by Amy Hungerford and Pericles Lewis

Glyn Salton-Cox: “Cobbett and the Comintern:  Transnational Provincialism and Revolutionary Desire from the Popular Front to the New Left” directed by Katie Trumpener, Katerina Clark, and Joe Cleary

Samuel Alexander: “Demographic Modernism: Character and Quantification in Twentieth Century Fiction” directed by Professors Pericles Lewis and Barry McCrea

Andrew Karas: “Versions of Modern Poetry” directed by Professors Paul Fry and Langdon Hammer

James Ross Macdonald: “Popular Religious Belief and Literature in Early Modern England” directed by Professors David Kastan and John Rogers

December 2012

Michael Komorowski: “The Arts of Interest: Private Property and the English Literary Imagination in the Age of Milton” directed by Professors David Quint and John Rogers

Fiona Robinson: “Raising the Dead: Writing Lives and Writing Wars in Britain, 1914-1941” directed by Professors Katie Trumpener, Margaret Homans, and Sam See

Nathalie Wolfram: “Novel Play: Gothic Performance and the Making of Eighteenth Century Fiction” directed by Professors Joseph Roach and Katie Trumpener

Michaela Bronstein: “Imperishable Consciousness: The Rescue of Meaning in the Modernist Novel” directed by Professors Ruth Yeazell and Pericles Lewis

David Currell: “Epic Satire: Structures of Heroic Mockery in Early Modern English Literature” directed by Professor David Quint

Andrew Heisel: “Reading in Darkness: Sacred Text and Aesthetics in the Long Eighteenth Century” directed by Professors Jill Campbell and Elliott Visconsi

Hilary Menges: “Authorship before Copyright: The Monumental Book, 1649-1743” directed by Professors Jill Campbell and John Rogers

Nathan Suhr-Sytsma: “Poetry and the Making of the Anglophone Literary World, 1950-1975” directed by Professors Wai Chee Dimock and Langdon Hammer

December 2011

Patrick Gray: “The Passionate Stoic: Subjectivity in Shakespeare’s Rome” directed by Professors Lawrence Manley and David Quint

Christopher Grobe: “Performing Confession: American Poetry, Performance, and New Media 1959” directed by Professors Amy Hungerford and Joseph Roach

Sebastian LeCourt: “Culture and Secularity: Religion in the Victorian Anthropological Imagination” directed by Professors Linda Peterson and Katie Trumpener

Laura Saetveit Miles: “Mary’s Book: The Annunciation in Middle England” directed by Jessica Brantley and Alastair Minnis

Stephen Tedeschi: “Urbanization in English Romantic Poetry” directed by Professors Paul Fry and Christopher R. Miller

Julia Fawcett: “Over-Expressing the Self: Celebrity, Shandeism, and Autobiographical Performance, 1696-1801” directed by Professors Jill Campbell and Joseph Roach

Daniel Gustafson: “Stuart Restorations: History, Memory, Performance” directed by Professor Joseph Roach and Elliott Visconsi

Sarah Mahurin: “American Exodus: Migration and Oscillation in the Modern American Novel” directed by Professors Wai Chee Dimock and Robert Stepto

Erica Levy McAlpine: “Lyric Elsewhere: Strategies of Poetic Remove” directed by Professors David Bromwich and Langdon Hammer

Sarah Novacich: “Ark and Archive: Narrative Enclosures in Medieval and Early Modern Texts” directed by Professors Roberta Frank and Alastair Minnis

Jesse Schotter: “The Hieroglyphic Imagination: Language and Visuality in Modern Fiction and Film” directed by Professors Peter Brooks and Pericles Lewis

Matthew Vernon: “Strangers in a Familiar Land: The Medieval and African-American Literary Tradition” directed by Professor Alastair Minnis

Chia-Je Weng: “Natural Religion and Its Discontents: Critiques and Revisions in Blake and Coleridge” directed by Professors Leslie Brisman and Paul Fry

Nicole Wright: “‘A contractile power’: Boundaries of Character and the Culpable Self in the British Novel, 1750-1830” directed by Professors Jill Campbell and Katie Trumpener

December 2010

Molly Farrell: “Counting Bodies: Imagining Population in the New World” directed by Professor Wai Chee Dimock

John Muse: “Short Attention Span Theaters: Modernist Shorts Since 1880” directed by Professors Joseph Roach and Marc Robinson

Denis Ferhatović: “An Early English Poetics of the Artifact” directed by Professor Roberta Frank

Colin Gillis: “Forming the Normal: Sexology and the Modern British Novel, 1890-1939” directed by Professors Laura Frost and Pericles Lewis

Katherine Harrison: “Tales Twice Told: Sound Technology and American Fiction after 1940” directed by Professor Amy Hungerford

Jean Otsuki: “British Modernism in the Country” directed by Professors Paul Fry and Margaret Homans

Erin Peterson: “On Intrusion and Interruption: An Exploration of an Early Modern Literary Mode” directed by Professor John Rogers

Patrick Redding: “A Distinctive Equality: The Democratic Imagination in Modern American Poetry” directed by Professors David Bromwich and Langdon Hammer

Emily Setina: “Modernism’s Darkrooms: Photography and Literary Process” directed by Professors Langdon Hammer and Pericles Lewis

Jordan Zweck: “Letters from Heaven in the British Isles, 800-1500” directed by Professor Roberta Frank

December 2009

Elizabeth Twitchell Antrim: “Relief Work: Aid to Africa in the American Novel Since 1960” directed by Professor Wai Chee Dimock

Emily Coit: “The Trial of Abundance: Consumption and Morality in the Anglo-American Novel, 1871-1907” directed by Professors Catherine Labio and Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Andrew Goldstone: “Modernist Fictions of Aesthetic Autonomy” directed by Professors Langdon Hammer and Amy Hungerford

Matthew Mutter: “Poetry Against Religion, Poetry As Religion: Secularism and its Discontents in Literary Modernism” directed by Professors David Bromwich and Pericles Lewis

Anna Chen: “Kinship Lessons: The Cultural Uses of Childhood in Late Medieval England” directed by Professors Jessica Brantley and Lee Patterson

Anne DeWitt: “The Uses of Scientific Thinking and the Realist Novel” directed by Professor Linda Peterson

Irina Dumitrescu: “The Instructional Moment in Anglo-Saxon Literature” directed by Professor Roberta Frank

Susannah Hollister: “Poetries of Geography in Postwar America” directed by Professors Paul Fry and Langdon Hammer

James Horowitz: “Rebellious Hearts and Loyal Passions: Imagining Civic Consciousness in Ovidian Writing on Women, 1680-1819” directed by Professors Jill Campbell and Elliott Visconsi

Ben LaBreche: “The Rule of Friendship: Literary Culture and Early Modern Liberty” directed by Professors David Quint and John Rogers

December 2008

Sarah Van der Laan: “What Virtue and Wisdom Can Do: Homer’s Odyssey in the Renaissance Imagination” directed by Professor David Quint

Annmarie Drury: “Literary Translators and Victorian Poetry” directed by Professor Linda Peterson

Jeffrey Glover: “People of the Word: Puritans, Algonquians, and the Politics of Print in Early New England” directed by Professors Elizabeth Dillon and Wai Chee Dimock

Dana Goldblatt: “From Contract to Social Contract: Fortescue’s Governance and Malory’s Morte ” directed by Professors David Quint and Alastair Minnis

Kamran Javadizadeh: “Bedlam and Parnassus: Madness and Poetry in Postwar America” directed by Professor Langdon Hammer

Ayesha Ramachandran: “Worldmaking in Early Modern Europe: Global Imaginations from Montaigne to Milton” directed by Professors Annabel Patterson and David Quint

Jennifer Sisk: “Forms of Speculation: Religious Genres and Religious Inquiry in Late Medieval England” directed by Professor Lee Patterson

Ariel Watson: “The Anxious Triangle: Modern Metatheatres of the Playwright, Performer, and Spectator” directed by Professor Joseph Roach

Jesse Zuba: “The Shape of Life: First Books and the Twentieth-Century Poetic Career” directed by Professors Langdon Hammer and Amy Hungerford

December 2007

Rebecca Boggs: “The Gem-Like Flame: the Aesthetics of Intensity in Hopkins, Crane, and H.D.” directed by Professor Langdon Hammer

Maria Fackler: “A Portrait of the Artist Manqué : Form and Failure in the British Novel Since 1945” directed by Professors Pericles Lewis and Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Melissa Ganz: “Fictions of Contract: Women, Consent, and the English Novel, 1722-1814” directed by Professor Jill Campbell

Siobhan Phillips: “The Poetics of Everyday Time in Frost, Stevens, Bishop, and Merrill” directed by Professors David Bromwich and Langdon Hammer

Morgan Swan: “The Literary Construction of a Capital City: Late-Medieval London and the Difficulty of Self-Definition” directed by Professor Lee Patterson

Andrea Walkden: “Lives, Letters and History: Walton to Defoe” directed by Professors David Quint and John Rogers

Rebecca Berne: “Regionalism, Modernism and the American Short Story Cycle” directed by Professors Wai Chee Dimock and Vera Kutzinski

Leslie Eckel: “Transatlantic Professionalism: Nineteenth-Century American Writers at Work in the World” directed by Professors Wai Chee Dimock and Jennifer Baker

December 2006

Gregory Byala: “Samuel Beckett and the Problem of Beginning” directed by Professors Paul Fry and Pericles Lewis

Eric Lindstrom: “Romantic Fiat” directed by Professors David Bromwich and Paul H. Fry

Megan Quigley: “Modernist Fiction and the Re-instatement of the Vague” directed by Professors David Bromwich and Pericles Lewis

Randi Saloman: “Where Truth is Important: The Modern Novel and the Essayistic Mode” directed by Professors David Bromwich and Laura Frost

Michael Wenthe: “Arthurian Outsiders: Heterogeneity and the Cultural Politics of Medieval Arthurian Literature” directed by Professor Lee Patterson

Christopher Bond: “Exemplary Heroism and Christian Redemption in the Epic Poetry of Spenser and Milton” directed by Professors David Quint and John Rogers

Lara Cohen: “Counterfeit Presentments: Fraud and the Production of Nineteenth-Century American Literature” directed by Professors Elizabeth Dillon and Wai Chee Dimock

Nicholas Salvato: “Uncloseting Drama: Modernism’s Queer Theaters” directed by Professors Joseph Roach and Michael Trask

Anthony Welch: “Songs of Dido: Epic Poetry and Opera in Seventeenth-Century England” directed by Professor David Quint

December 2005

Brooke Conti: “Anxious Acts: Religion and Autobiography in Early Modern England” directed by Professor Annabel Patterson

Brett Foster: “The Metropolis of Popery: Writing of Rome in the English Renaissance” directed by Professors Lawrence Manley and David Quint

Curtis Perrin: “Langland’s Comic Vision” directed by Professor Traugott Lawler

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Tom mccoy receives glushko dissertation prize.

Professor Tom McCoy was one of this year’s seven recipients of the Glushko Dissertation Prize. The prize is awarded annually by the Cognitive Science Society and the Glushko-Samuelson Foundation. Its goal is to recognize dissertations that “centrally address issues of interest to multiple fields that comprise cognitive science, including psychology, computer science, philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, neuroscience, and education.” Professor McCoy’s dissertation was completed in 2022 in the Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University, co-advised by Paul Smolensky and Tal Linzen. Its title is “Implicit compositional structure in the vector representations of artificial neural networks.”

For more information, click here: https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/glushko-dissertation-prize/