The ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award recognizes exceptional and unusually interesting work produced by doctoral students. Each year Rackham invites faculty to nominate the dissertations produced in their programs that were outstanding. The nomination dossiers submitted then are read and discussed by a review panel of faculty members who identify the finalists. Then, members of the Michigan Society of Fellows read the finalists’ dissertations, review the merits, and select the winners. Listed here as well are the Distinguished Dissertation Award honorable mentions, who also produced outstanding and noteworthy dissertations.
The recipients of this year’s dissertation awards are:
Distinguished Dissertation Award Winners
Azadeh Ansari, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Nielson Baxter, Microbiology and Immunology
Yoonseob Kim, Chemical Engineering
Emily Maclary, Human Genetics
Elizabeth Mann, Political Science
Austin McCoy, History
Cassie Miura, Comparative Literature
Naveen Narisetty, Statistics
Sara Rimer, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Emily Waples, English Language and Literature
Distinguished Dissertation Award Honorable Mentions
Alexander Burnap, Design Science
Daniel Castro, Psychology
Susan Cheng, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Eli Fahrenkrug, Chemistry
Ashley Lemke, Anthropology
Kathryn Livingston, Pharmacology
Michael MacDonald, Applied Physics
Ruth Spooner, English and Education