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Doctor of Philosophy (continued) Jean Lee Neely, English, B.A., University of California, Irvine; B.A., University of Paris IV Sorbonne, France Dissertation: Sensing Race Against Representation in the Experimental Writings of Gertrude Stein: 1910-1940 Lindsay Rebecca Nelson, Comparative Literature, B.A., BFA, University of Texas, Austin; M.A., University of Southern California; M.A., Sophia University, Japan Dissertation: Small Remnants: The Monstrous Child in Japanese Fiction and Cinema, 1946-2008 Russell Arthur Newman, Communication, B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.A., University of Southern California; M.S., Suffolk University Dissertation: The Paradoxes of Network Neutralities Lauren Christina Ng, Psychology, B.A., Yale University; M.A., University of Southern California Dissertation: Direct and Indirect Predictors of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Distress Symptoms in Orphaned Survivors of the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi Genocide Chrisshonna Grant Nieva, American Studies and Ethnicity, B.A., Pomona College; M.A., University of Southern California Dissertation: This is My Country: The Use of Blackness in Discourses of Racial Nativism Towards Latino Immigrants Saro Nikraz, Aerospace Engineering, B.E., Khajeh Nassiroddin Toosi University of Technology, Iran; M.S., University of Warwick, United Kingdom Dissertation: Flame Synthesis of TiO2 Nanoparticles and Their Application in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells Kyoungrae Noh, Mechanical Engineering, B.E., M.Engr., Inha University, Korea Dissertation: Dynamic Analysis and Control of Onedimensional Distributed Parameter Systems Arash Noshadravan, Civil Engineering, B.S., Sharif University of Technology, Iran; M.Eng., University of Southern California Dissertation: Stochastic Characterization, Realization and Upscaling of Polycrystalline Materials Leigh Anne Novak, Business Administration, B.S., M.S., University of Florida Dissertation: Forgiveness: Elucidating the Underlying Psychological Processes that Foster Brand Forgiveness and Interpersonal Forgiveness Taylor Louise Nygaard, Cinematic Arts, B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., University of Southern California Dissertation: The Virtual Big Sister: Visuality and Technology in Girls Media Culture
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Robert Christopher O’Malley, Integrative and Evolutionary Biology, B.A., Miami University; M.A., University of Alberta, Canada Dissertation: Environmental, Nutritional and Social Aspects of Insectivory by Gombe Chimpanzees Yoon-Kyung Oh, Policy, Planning and Development, B.A., Yonsei University, Korea; MPA, University of Southern California Dissertation: Key Individuals of Community Collective Action and Their Network Roles; The Case of Neighborhood Councils in the City of Los Angeles Younjung Oh, Art History, M.A., University of Southern California; B.A., Seoul National University, Korea Dissertation: Art into Everyday Life: Department Stores as Purveyors of Culture in Modern Japan Trevor Stuart Orr, Aerospace Engineering, B.S., University of California, Irvine; M.S., University of Southern California Dissertation: Flow Around a Sphere Moving in a Steady Horizontal Motion Through a Linearly Stratified Fluid Ronald Elliott Osborn, Political Science and International Relations, B.A., Atlantic Union College; M.S., School of Oriental and African Studies, United Kingdom Dissertation: Nihilism’s Conscience: Searching for the Good after Darwin, Marx, and Nietzsche Courtney Schultz Pade, Communication, B.A., M.A., Stanford University; M.A., University of Southern California Dissertation: Yours Is Mine, But Is Mine Yours? Examining Social Exchange Relationships In Transactive Memory Systems Payam Pakbin, Engineering, B.S., Sharif University of Technology, Iran; M.S., University of Southern California Dissertation: Investigation of Physico-chemical Characteristics of Size-segregated Particulate Matter in a Metropolitan Environment and Their Impact on Air Quality in Southern California David Gi-Yeh Pan, Psychology, B.A., Stanford University; M.A., University of Southern California Dissertation: Directive and Non-directive Therapist Styles: Brief Intervention for Subsyndromal Depression for Asian and European Americans Hong Pang, Political Science and International Relations, B.Law, B.Econ., Peking University, China Dissertation: The Political Economy of Implementation: Intellectual Property Rights Protection across the World