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Microbiology

10/30/2009

 
​Who ate the methane?
and who is eating the oil?
deep into the mud…

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Beth Orcutt
University of Georgia

​I studied the fascinating microbes living in marine sediments that metabolize methane and other hydrocarbons.

Mathematics

10/30/2009

 
​It should be here but…
Unpredictable bastard
When thou art too large

​
Gil Ariel
New York University

​Title: “Effective stochastic dynamics in deterministic systems” (2006).
My thesis concerns a few examples of deterministic systems that seem random when they are large enough. This is related to the “paradox” that even though the underling dynamics of a system my be deterministic (e.g., described by Newton’s laws), large ensembles can be treated in a probabilistic way using the tools of statistical physics.

Sociology

10/30/2009

 
​Roma monument
new Holocaust memories,
path to inclusion?

​
Nadine Blumer
University of Toronto

​I am writing about Holocaust memory politics of the Sinti and Roma population in Germany. My focus is on the contested development of the Berlin Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Persecuted under the National Socialist Regime (opening in Spring 2010).

Political Science

10/29/2009

 
Calling people names
Denies individual choice
Of identity

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Nick Appleby
University of Newcastle upon Tyne

​I research the construction/denial of identity through political discourse on violence.

History

10/29/2009

 
​No horizon, lots
of dreams, how they fill the gap?
Yes we can! they write.

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Adva Selzer
Bar-Ilan University, Israel

​Dissertation Title: “‘Freedom still my soul demands’ – Growing up in a Jewish Family in Inter-War Poland”
In my dissertation I’m trying to understand the experience of growing up as a Jew in Poland between the wars. Focusing on the inner life, dreams and hopes of youth and the “alternative realities” they created to bridge the gap between aspirations and daily life.

Political Science

10/28/2009

 
​Market was state-planned,
So was World War II.
Coincidence? Nope.

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Daniel Rosenberg
University of Haifa, Israel.

​My MA thesis deals with the relation between the rise of market economy in the early 19th century and its relation with modern totalitarianism, as reflected in the writings of selected postwar thinkers.

Psychology

10/28/2009

 
​Schedules are messy,
but schedulers are not dumb.
So, how do they work?

​
Yishai Boasson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master’s Thesis Title: “The cognitive aspects of scheduling”

History

10/27/2009

 
​Either in Rum, or
perhaps in Sham, thought to be
one but in fact more

​
Guy Burak
New York University

​I am studying Ottoman history. My dissertation is about the multiplicity within the Hanafi legal school (one of the four legal schools in Sunni Islam) in the Ottoman domains. My main focus is on this history of the school in Anatolia (AKA Rum) and Syria (AKA in Turkish and Arabic as Sham).

Neurobiology

10/27/2009

 
​Minor channel gene…
Its new role now discovered:
Building the synapse!

​
Peri Kurshan
Harvard University

​Peri submitted one of the first dissertation haiku.  She is now finishing her Ph.D., and has figured out why the gene she’s studying causes the malfunctions that are observed when it is knocked out in fruit flies.  –the editor

Computer Science

10/26/2009

 
​Level by level
Evolution will suffice
A mind will emerge

​
Liza Nadal

​My dissertation is about emergent processes and the formation of complex patterns from simple founding principles such as displayed in Conway’s game of life.

History

10/26/2009

 
​Soldiers’ tales for sale,
summoned from oblivion,
to build nation’s self.

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Uri Rosenheck
Emory University

​My dissertation: “Fighting for Home Abroad: Remembrance and Oblivion of WWII in Brazil” is about the collective memory of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force that fought in Italy alongside the Allies in WWII and its uses by different groups to construct and contest national, and other, identities in Brazil.

Comparative Literature

10/26/2009

 
​Shabtai wrote on Tel
Aviv & realized that
Cities means a lot

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Dror Burstein
Tel Aviv University

​My dissertation is a reading in Jacob Shabtai, a prominent Israeli novelist, focusing on spatial aspects of his prose.

Physics

10/25/2009

 
​Pieces from above
Assembled by strength to be as one
Lightening the big dark
​

Dori Reichmann
Weizmann Institute of Science

​My dissertation is about the microscopical physics of black holes. As part of a greater effort to use String theory methods to give a first principle derivation for thermodynamical behavior of black holes. The first part focuses on a phase transition in a class of black holes known as BTZ. The second part focuses on the emergence of entropy at zero temperature for a class of black hole know as SUSY-ADS5.

Ecology

10/25/2009

 
​Night, shelter here, mate
Or flower has no offspring, yet
By morning – heat’n go

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Yuval Sapir
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

​Dissertation title: Pollination ecology of Oncocyclus irises (2004)
The work showed that night-sheltering male bees are the pollinators of the dark-colored irises in the middle-east, and that their reward is not food (such as nectar), but heat absorbed by the dark flowers at sunrise. The heated flowers warm the male bees, and they fly to their day-time business.

Computer Science

10/25/2009

 
​the genome is packed.
histone marks and dynamics
control expression.

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Tommy Kaplan
The Hebrew University

​Dissertation title: “From DNA Sequence to Chromatin Dynamics: Computational Analysis of Transcriptional Regulation” (2008).
During my PhD I developed and implemented computational algorithms to understand the basic principles of transcriptional regulation. How the DNA sequence and its cellular packaging control the expression of genes.

Urban Planning

10/24/2009

 
​Cities and suburbs,
Borders, they mark the line
between “us” and “them”.

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Nethanel Reicher
Erasmus University, The Netherlands

​My master thesis dealt with the regional & local implementation of national housing policy in the Netherlands in the 1990’s. I found out that though national policies aimed at strengthening the socio-economic situation of big cities by developing new residential areas in the whole metropolitan area, what really mattered was the municipal belonging of those new areas.

Comparative Literature

10/24/2009

 
​The feminine mark –
A cover story hidden
under common text

​
Nitza Karen
Bae-Ilan University, Isreal

​Dissertation title: “The Feminine Mark: Feminine Poetics – Its Characteristics and Its Embodiments in Contemporary Israeli Women’s Writing” (2005)
My dissertation is about to be published as a book titled: Like a Sheet in the Hand of the Embroideress – Women’s Writing and the Hegemonic Text, in the series “Interpetaion and Culture”, by Bar-Ilan University Press (more information here).

Art History

10/20/2009

 
Lying, is it wrong?
When identities performed
are disrupted: free.

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Cynthia Foo
University of Rochester

​My dissertation looks at the performance of lying as a way to disrupt assumptions of race, gender and class. In so doing, I argue that a space of free expression can emerge.

Process

10/19/2009

 
​seven years later
academic gladiator
call me doctor lee

​
Sarah C. Lee
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Process

10/18/2009

 
​manic death spiral
produces my dissertation
I hope I don’t fail

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Sarah C. Lee
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

English and Film

10/16/2009

 
​Our bodies are rot,
Dead meat with a difference.
Skin breaks; flesh fights back.

​
Jesse Stommel
University of Colorado at Boulder

​Dissertation Title: “Pity Poor Flesh”
My dissertation is about the evaporation of our physical bodies in the postmodern era. I look to the zombie as a figurative solution, a powerful opportunity for revolt, a reclaiming of flesh in the wake of rapid technological advancement.

Philosophy

10/12/2009

 
​No alternatives?
Responsible, we are not…
Save by convention.

​
Matt
Marquette University

​Dissertation Title: The Principle of Alternate Possibilities: Finding Freedom After Frankfurt (2006).
My dissertation examines the principle that alternate possibilities are required for moral responsibility (PAP) and the debate that followed Harry Frankfurt’s seminal article attacking it. I conclude that libertarian concerns have not been adequately addressed by compatibilists, so that any robust sense of moral responsibility requires alternate possibilities and an agent capable of realizing them. The nature of such an agent would necessarily be quite mysterious. Nevertheless, a conventional sense of moral responsibility could remain untouched by the lack of such agency.

Physical Oceanography

10/11/2009

 
​Drift, little critters!
Upwell? Bottom? Seagrass home.
Wind blows, ’round they go.
​

Austin Todd
Florida State University

​After gag grouper spawn near shelf-edge reefs in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico, their larvae drift with ocean currents some 50-100 miles inshore, where they settle into seagrass beds all along the Florida coast. My dissertation investigates the different possible physical processes responsible for this net onshore transport, which include upwelling circulation and bottom Ekman transport.

Education

10/10/2009

 
​Arts education
must be managed by someone.
Artists or lawyers?

​
John Austin
Fordham University

​My qualitative dissertation focuses on the case studies of leaders of four performing arts schools. Specifically, the research questions are aimed at determining if artists or non-artists are best equipped to run these types of schools.

Microbiology

10/6/2009

 
​earthworm symbiont
happy to feed on urine
sweet nephron, sweet home

​
Marie Lund
Aarhus University, Denmark

​I studied the evolution and function of the symbiosis between earthworms and bacteria living in their nephridia (excretory organs).
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​​​           Doctoral Dissertations in Haiku
“One of my old professors liked to say that a poem isn’t any good unless you can explain it to a three-year-old. I never would have thought one could apply that same standard to a doctoral dissertation, but then I came across a brilliant little website called Dissertation Haiku.” 
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09/30/2009 05:12 am ET | Updated Nov 17, 2011
        Dissertations are Long and Boring​
"This indisputable fact is the impetus behind the genius blog Dissertation Haiku, which explains itself thus: Dissertations are long and boring. By contrast everyone likes haiku. So why not write your dissertation as a haiku?
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