Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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The Aesthetics of Discovery: Text, Image, and the Performance of Knowledge in the Early-Modern Book
(2015-05-21)How does the book-object in early modernity participate in the representation of scientific knowledge? How was the reader meant to approach the book and to comprehend its contents? This project starts from the contention ... -
Affecting Lives: The Politics of Biography in Modern Italy, 1850-1881
(2013-08-09)This study examines the spread of in-life biographies (biographies written and published while their subjects were still alive) in Italy during the later years of the Risorgimento and the early years of Unification. These ... -
Affective and Cognitive Processing in Nonsuicidal Self-Injury
(2014-02-25)Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a behavior recently added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) as a condition for further study. In this dissertation, I present findings from three studies ... -
African Migrants & Pentecostal World-Making in South Africa
(2022-05-10)This dissertation examines the intersections between African migrant journeys and Pentecostal Christianity in contemporary South Africa. We live in a world ever more in motion, with more international migrants and refugees ... -
After Math: (Re)configuring Minds, Proof, and Computing in the Postwar United States
(2015-01-26)This dissertation examines the history of three early computer programs that were designed to prove mathematical theorems: The Logic Theory Machine, the Program P, and the Automated Reasoning Assistant, all developed between ... -
After-Taste
(2013-08-09)This dissertation investigates the symbolic uses of food in twentieth-century America using, as case studies, major works by Edith Wharton, Toni Morrison, W.H. Auden, and Wallace Stevens. By incorporating different literary ... -
Afterlives of the Culture: Engaging with the Trans-East Asian Cultural Tradition in Modern Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese Literatures, 1880s-1940s
(2014-10-21)This dissertation examines how modern literature in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan in the late-nineteenth to the early-twentieth centuries was practiced within contexts of these countries' deeply interrelated literary ... -
Age of Miracles: Religion and Screen Media in Postwar American Fiction
(2014-06-06)This dissertation examines how four postwar American writers, whose lives and fiction reveal a serious and sustained interest in religion and religious belief, treat screen media in their work. More specifically, it argues ... -
The Age of Responsibility: On the Role of Choice, Luck and Personal Responsibility in Contemporary Politics and Philosophy
(2015-01-21)The value of “personal responsibility” increasingly stands at the center of contemporary discussions about distributive justice and the welfare state. While deep disagreements about who is responsible for which acts and ... -
AGE REVERSAL BY TRANSCRIPTOMIC REPROGRAMMING
(2022-11-23)Aging is a progressive multifaceted functional decline of a biological system. Chronic age-related conditions such as cancer, cardiovascular, and neurodegenerative diseases are leading causes of death worldwide. As the ... -
Agent-Based Modeling for Optimal Economic Policy with Exogenous Shocks
(2021-06-17)My thesis explores the application of reinforcement learning and agent-based computational economics to the problem of optimal policy in an environment with exogenous shocks. I develop an agent-based general equilibrium ... -
Agents of Aesthetics: The Technics of Contemporary Art, 1898-Present
(2022-05-09)This dissertation, Agents of Aesthetics: The Technics of Contemporary Art, 1898-Present, is about the extensive ways in which technology enters into contemporary art. Technical practitioners, technical systems and technical ... -
AI for Population Health: Melding Data and Algorithms on Networks
(2021-08-19)As exemplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, our health and wellbeing depend on a difficult-to-measure web of societal factors and individual behaviors. My research aims to build computational methods which can impact such ... -
AI Pricing Collusion: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Algorithms in Bertrand Competition
(2021-06-03)As e-commerce and online shopping become more widespread, firms are starting to maximize profit by using artificial intelligence, or more specifically reinforcement learning, to price goods. Calvano et al. showed that in ... -
Aid, Agency, and the Malleability of International Law: The Post-2003 Iraqi Refugee Crisis
(2013-03-06)Why do states tolerate large numbers of refugees? This dissertation offers an answer to this puzzle by examining changes in policy responses by the international community toward Iraqis displaced after the U.S. invasion ... -
Aid, Violence, and Intervention: Three Essays on the Transnational Implications of Refugee Polic
(2017-05-10)This collection of papers develops theory and empirical evidence to respond to three pressing questions on the implications of refugee policy. The first paper explains how large population flows can cause violence in their ... -
Air Pollution and Morbidity: A Comprehensive Assessment
(2020-09-25)As developing countries continue to industrialize and the effects of climate change begin to manifest, air pollution continues to be the greatest environmental risk factor to health and research in this area continues to ... -
Airborne Disease Transmission via Bioaerosols: Formation Mechanisms and the Influence of Viscoelasticity
(2013-03-18)Airborne disease transmission is a prominent problem facing an increasingly mobilized world. It involves small droplets (bioaerosols) containing pathogens which form in the lungs and are expelled to the environment, where ... -
Airborne Observations of the Human Impact on Remote Regions of Earth’s Atmosphere
(2021-05-12)Two of the most important aspects of our atmosphere for human life are insulating greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and a protective layer of ozone approximately 25 kilometers above the Earth’s surface. Since the Industrial ... -
Airport Urbanism: The Urban Infrastructure of Global Mobility
(2013-02-19)Around the world, the number of air passengers has quintupled since 1980. During the same time, air traffic in the Pearl River Delta--the urban region that includes Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou--has risen by a factor ...