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D.C. Spriestersbach Dissertation Prize
List of Current and Past Winners

• 2007
• 2006
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003
• 2002
• 2001
• 2000
• Winners prior to 2000
   

2007 Winners

        Michael Chaser, English
        Adalaide Morris, Dissertation Supervisor
       Everyday Reading: US Poetry and Popular Culture,
       1880-1945

        Michael R. Koenigs, Neuroscience
        Daniel Tranel, Dissertation Supervisor
       A Novel Role for Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex in
       Emotion and Decision-Making: Lesion Studies of Moral
       Judgment, Economic Choice and Brand Preference

2006 Winners

        Marius V. Ionescu, Mathematics
        Paul Muhly, Dissertation Supervisor
       C*-Algebras Associated with Mauldin-Williams Graphs

       Katherine B. Dernbach, Anthropology
       Mac Marshall, Dissertation Supervisor
       Popular Religion: A Cultural and Historical Study of
       Catholicism and Spirit Possession in Chuuk, Micronesia

2005 Winners

Kristin King Gilbert, Art History
Dorothy Johnson, Dissertation Supervisor
Pedagogical Innovation and Reform at the
Académie de France à Rome during the
directorate of Charles Joseph Natoire (1752-1775)

Salil Anil Lachke, Biological Sciences
David Soll, Dissertation Supervisor
Developmental Biology of "Candida Albicans" and "Candida Glabrata" and Its Clinical Significance

2004 Winners

Hind A. Al-Abadleh, Chemistry
Vicki Grassian, Dissertation Supervisor
Heterogeneous Reactions of Atmospheric Gases on Oxide, Carbonate and Soot Surfaces

C. Wesley Brakefield-Younts, Sociology
Lisa Troyer, Dissertation Supervisor
Status, Validation and the Legitimacy of Deviance

2003 Winners

Angela Hess, Anatomy and Cell Biology
Mary Hendrix, Dissertation Supervisor
Molecular Dissection of Melanoma Tumor Cell Vasculogenic Mimicry
Also CGS/UMI Outstanding Dissertation Finalist

Michael Tavel Clarke, Enlgish
Ed Folsom, Dissertation Supervisor
These Days of Large Things: The Culture of Size in America, 1865-1930
Also CGS/UMI Outstanding Dissertation Finalist

2002 Winners

Nathan William Brixius, Computer Science
Kurt Anstreicher, Dissertation Supervisor
Solving Large-Scale Quadratic Assignment Problems
Also CGS/UMI Outstanding Dissertation Finalist

Bettina Fabos, Education
Cynthia Lewis, Dissertation Supervisor
A Commercial Highway in Every Classroom: Investigating Web Content in U.S. Schools

2001 Winners

Eric Fure-Slocum, History
Shelton Stromquist, Dissertation Supervisor
The Challenge of the Working-class City: Recasting Growth Politics and Liberalism in Milwaukee, 1937-1952

Josef Parvizi, Neuroscience
Antonio Damasio & Gary Van Hoesen, Co-Dissertation Supervisors
The Signature of Alzheimer's Disease in the Brainstem

2000 Winners

Christopher Otrok, Economics
B. Ravikumar, Dissertation Supervisor
Implications of Temporally Dependent Preferences for Asset Pricing Puzzles and the Welfare Cost of Business Cycles:
A Spectral Investigation
Also CGS/UMI Outstanding Dissertation Finalist

Marius Stefan, Mathematics
Florin Radulescu, Dissertation Supervisor
Some Indecomposability Properties of Free Group Factors
 

Winners prior to 2000

1999    Daryl A. Scott, Genetics (CGS/UMI Finalist)
1999    Eric Griffin, English (CGS/UMI Finalist)
1998    Razvan Gelca, Mathematics (CGS/UMI Finalist)
1998    Randy Ziegenhorn, Anthropology
1997    Susan Behrends Frank, Art History (CGS/UMI Winner)
1997    Jeff E. Engel, Biology
1996    Claire Fox, Comparative Literature
1995    Bing Ji, Physics & Astronomy
1994    Mary Beth Solner-O'Hagan, Psychology
1993    Matthew Anderson, Physiology (CGS/UMI Winner)
1992    Alice Adams, English (CGS/UMI Finalist)
1991    Lin Hua Shan, Physics
1990    Jeffrey Ostler, History
1989    Judith Stoll, Biology (CGS/UMI Finalist)
1988    Dennis Bielfeldt, Religion
1987    Robert Bosch, Physics
1986    Marcelline Hutton, History
1985    Robert Finney, Biology
1984    David Lasocki, Music (CGS/UMI Winner)
1983    Hector Salas, Mathematics
1982    John Ims, Psychology
1981    Mark Knuepfer, Pharmacology (CGS/UMI Finalist)