Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Title
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From Probes to Therapeutics: Chemical Biology Studies of Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase (ALK) and Cereblon
(2020-01-22)Although there is still discussion surrounding the exact definition of the field, chemical biology is generally described as the development and deployment of a chemical toolbox to manipulate biological systems. The two ... -
From Program to Practice: Unpacking the Impacts of Professional Development for Early Childhood Educators
(2020-09-10)Despite increasing demands for high-quality early childhood education programs, programmatic quality across the United States’ broad early education sector remains inconsistent. To encourage early educators to implement ... -
From Protest to Rebellion? Institutions and Protest Escalation in Autocracies.
(2015-09-22)Major exogenous shocks, which increase the vulnerability of autocratic regimes, present a unique opportunity for citizens to rebel against their hegemons. Yet in practice, we observe significant variation in protest ... -
From Reform to Revolution: the Transformation of Cuba’s Education System, 1959–62
(2016-09-21)This thesis examines the transformation of Cuba’s educational system from 1959 to 1962 as a case study for the limits of liberal reforms during the Cold War. It explores the birth of the revolutionary state and society, ... -
From Rings to Smoke: the quest to uncover a mechanism of turbulence
(2021-04-01)The equations of motion that govern the dynamics of fluid flows--the Navier-Stokes equations--were formulated nearly two centuries ago. In that time, we have made immense advancements in the ways that we understand these ... -
From Siraf to Sumatra: Seafaring and Spices in the Islamicate Indo-Pacific, Ninth-Eleventh Centuries C.E.
(2013-10-08)This dissertation is a study of early Islamicate commerce in natural luxuries of the tropical Indian Ocean and Western Pacific Rim, such as spices, ambergris and pearls, between the ninth and eleventh centuries C.E. I ... -
From Social Data to Neural Networks: Robust Decision-Making in Machine Learning
(2021-09-13)In this thesis we develop algorithms to control and understand the behavior of a system despite erroneous, noisy or otherwise problematic input. In our first line of work, we focus on the decision-making for social data ... -
From Stars to Galaxies: Unveiling Their Properties, Connection, and Evolution With Next Generation Stellar Models
(2018-05-11)Many areas of astrophysics spanning orders of magnitudes in physical scales—from exoplanets to high-redshift galaxies—are deeply rooted in our interpretation of light emitted by stars. Thus the importance of a well-tested ... -
From the Brothel, to the Body: The Relocation of Male Sexuality in Japan's Prostitution Debate, 1870-1920
(2012-10-23)This dissertation argues that the Japanese debate over prostitution regulation between the 1870s and the 1910s saw a fundamental shift in the construction of male sexuality as a political tool. Before the turn of the century ... -
From the House to the Street: Sex Workers and Domestic Laborers in Brazil's Democratic Transition
(2023-05-09)This dissertation intervenes in debates about grassroots feminism and Brazilian re- democratization in the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s, contending that poor women of color, mobilizing around their rights as workers and citizens, ... -
From the Islamic State to the Messiah's Global Government: Structures of the Final World Order According to Contemporary Sunni and Shiíte Discourses
(2017-10-10)This dissertation exposes a genre of Islamic thought that has remained unstudied in academic scholarship: Islamic conceptions of “final world order.” At the intersection of political and apocalyptic thought, “final world ... -
From the Job’s Worth to the Person’s Price: Pay-Setting, Gender Inequality, and the Changing Understanding of Fair Pay
(2022-06-06)How do employers set pay for job candidates? The idea that job candidates are paid their “market price” is now widely institutionalized but beliefs about the right way to set pay have varied over time. This dissertation ... -
From the S-matrix to the lattice: bootstrapping QFTs
(2023-05-11)In this thesis, I present our attempts to formulate new bootstrap approaches to Quantum Field Theories. The main goal of these approaches is to offer complementary techniques to the Effective Field Theory paradigm. Namely, ... -
From Urban Form to Friending Bias: Testing Jane Jacobs’ Hypotheses
(2023-06-30)Recent work has shown that social integration can influence a variety of outcomes ranging from educational attainment to overall health to income inequality. This paper examines the extent to which urban design can foster ... -
From Wilderness to the Toxic Environment: Health in American Environmental Politics, 1945-Present
(2013-09-30)This dissertation joins the history of science and medicine with environmental history to explore the language of health in environmental politics. Today, in government policy briefs and mission statements of environmental ... -
From Womb to Doom: Mechanical Regulation of Cardiac Tissue Assembly in Morphogenesis and Pathogenesis
(2013-02-14)The assembly, form, and function of the heart is regulated by complex mechanical signals originating from intrinsic and extrinsic sources, such as the cytoskeleton and the extracellular matrix. During development, mechanical ... -
Frontiers in Coalescent Theory: Pedigrees, Identity-by-Descent, and Sequentially Markov Coalescent Models
(2016-05-14)The coalescent is a stochastic process that describes the genetic ancestry ofindividuals sampled from a population. It is one of the main tools of theoretical population genetics and has been used as the basis of many ... -
Fueling Galaxy Growth Through Gas Accretion in Cosmological Simulations
(2015-05-17)Despite significant advances in the numerical modeling of galaxy formation and evolution, it is clear that a satisfactory theoretical picture of how galaxies acquire their baryons across cosmic time remains elusive. In ... -
Full-sky, High-resolution Maps of Interstellar Dust
(2015-05-12)We present full-sky, high-resolution maps of interstellar dust based on data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Planck missions. We describe our custom processing of the entire WISE 12 micron All-Sky ... -
Fully Homomorphic Encryption with Applications to Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
(2023-06-30)There are two dominant trends today that appear to be mutually exclusive: on the one hand, machine learning services that provide accurate predictions based on personal data have become widespread, but on the other hand, ...