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Alishan Bairamian

In 1969, he successfully defended his dissertation, written on the Sanjak of Alexandretta, in the Armenian language, in Yerevan, and was thus awarded a doctorate.

Arieh Iserles

He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and wrote his PhD dissertation on numerical methods for stiff ordinary differential equations.

Aubrey J. Kempner

Aubrey Kempner received in 1911 his PhD with the dissertation Über das Waringsche Problem und einige Verallgemeinerungen under Edmund Landau at the University of Göttingen.

Auguste Ménégaux

In 1899 he supported his graduate thesis at the Sorbonne with a dissertation on marine bivalves titled Recherches sur la circulation des Lamellibranches marins.

Augusto Del Noce

He completed his degree in Philosophy in 1932 at the University of Turin, with a dissertation on Malebranche under the direction of Adolfo Faggi.

Daniel Fischlin

Fischlin has a BFA in Music Performance, an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies (Musicology/English Literature; Concordia University), and a PhD in English Literature (York University), with a dissertation on the English lute song directed by Richard Hillman.

Diana Whitney

In her 1980 dissertation, funded by the National Institute of Education, Whitney studied and mapped the processes used for the dissemination of educational innovations.

Diane Ackerman

Among the members of her dissertation committee was Carl Sagan, an astronomer and the originator of the Cosmos television series.

Divisia monetary aggregates index

Salam Fayyad's 1986 PhD dissertation did early research with those aggregates using U.S. data.

Doris Bartholomew

Her doctoral dissertation concerned the reconstruction and historical linguistics of the Oto-Pamean languages.

Edwin Cranston

His dissertation, a translation of and commentary on the Izumi Shikibu diary, was published in 1969 in the Harvard-Yenching Monograph series as The Izumi Shikibu Diary: A Romance of the Heian Court and remains the authoritative English version.

Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

In 1991, Leo Bogart criticized Noelle-Neumann, accusing her of anti-Semitic passages in her dissertation and articles she wrote for Nazi newspapers.

Émile Lauvrière

A doctor in Literature specializing in the English domain, he wrote a dissertation on Edgar Allan Poe, entitled Edgar Poe, un génie morbide later published under the title Edgar Poe, sa vie et son œuvre ; étude de psychologie pathologique (Paris: Alcan, 1904).

George W. Littlefield

Works on Littlefield include David B. Gracy, II, George Washington Littlefield: A Biography in Business (Ph.D. dissertation; Texas Tech University, 1971) and J. Evetts Haley's George W. Littlefield, Texan (1943; through the University of Oklahoma Press in Norman, Oklahoma).

Geraldine Claudette Darden

Her dissertation was completed under the auspices of James Reid, Ph.D., entitled, "On the Direct Sums of Cyclic Groups".

Gerhard Schedl

Students of Gerhard Schedl have included Klaus Wiede, Stefan Thomas, Dieter Hermsdorf and Daniel Hensel, who wrote the first musicological study and dissertation on the music of Gerhard Schedl.

Gregory Kealey

He completed his MA and PhD at the University of Rochester, working under the supervision of American labour historian Herbert Gutman and Christopher Lasch on a dissertation that examined the Toronto working class during the transition to industrial capitalism.

Hans Redlich

From 1929 until 1931, Redlich studied musicology at Frankfurt University and completed a dissertation on stylistic changes in Monteverdi's madrigals.

Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science

The institute also runs an evening physics and maths school, an ex-budgetary Scientific Research Laboratory while the Academy has provision for post-graduate military courses, MA and PhD dissertation boards.

Isaac ben Moses Arama

Arama's works were likewise esteemed by the Christian world; for in 1729 an academical dissertation by M. A. J. van der Hardt, of the University of Helmstedt, was published under the title Dissertatio Rabbinica de Usu Linguæ in Akedat Ischak, treating of section 62 of Arama's work, giving it in Hebrew with Latin translation.

Jack Paul Sederholm

Sederholm received his Ph.D. from Wayne State University in 1974, writing his doctoral dissertation on the stage career of Hassard Short.

Jakob Kellenberger

He wrote his undergraduate dissertation on Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his doctoral thesis on the Spanish playwright Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

Jon B. Higgins

He later continued his studies under the renowned dancer T. Balasaraswati, and wrote his dissertation on the dance music of bharatanatyam.

José Ortega Torres

José Ortega Torres majored in Romance Philology at the University of Granada between 1966 and 1969 and in 1971 read his dissertation "Aproximación a la poesía de Rafael Guillén" (Approach to the poetry of Rafael Guillén), under the supervision of Professor Emilio Orozco Díaz.

Joseph Owades

Born in Manhattan and raised in the Bronx, he graduated from City College of New York (undergraduate) and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (Master’s and PhD in biochemistry, with a dissertation on cholesterol).

Kathlamet language

The most extensive records of the language were made by Franz Boas, and a grammar was documented in the dissertation of Dell Hymes.

Kjell Aartun

He obtained the dr. philos. degree in 1978, with a dissertation on the Ugaritic language in two volumes titled Die Partikeln des Ugaritischen (Kevelaer, 1974/1978).

Leonard Levy

Levy's first book was a revision and expansion of his doctoral dissertation on Lemuel Shaw, chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.

Louisa Adams

Joan R. Challinor, Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams: The Price of Ambition (Ph.D. dissertation, American University, 1982), 178 pages.

Marie-Dominique Chenu

While at the Angelicum Chenu was ordained in 1919 and completed his doctorate in theology in 1920 under the direction of Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange with a dissertation entitled De contemplatione, which studied the meaning of contemplation in Thomas Aquinas.

Mary Ann Buckles

Espen Aarseth, a researcher based in Copenhagen, is credited with raising the profile of Buckles’s dissertation, which Aarseth quotes eight times in his own book, Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature.

Michael Flinn

After the end of the war, Flinn took a history degree at the University of Manchester before spending two years as a grammar school teacher while writing a postgraduate dissertation in his spare time.

Nellie Neilson

Neilson's first major work was her doctoral dissertation, Economic Conditions on the Manors of Ramsey Abbey, in which she investigated the economic affairs of the lands held by Ramsey Abbey in the Middle Ages.

Nyasasaurus

The type species N. parringtoni was first described in 1956 in the doctoral dissertation of English paleontologist Alan J. Charig, but it was not formally described until 2013.

Olaf Rose

His dissertation, which was financially supported by the Clausewitz Society, explored the influence of Carl von Clausewitz as a military theorist in Russia and the Soviet Union.

Pascal Ory

A student of René Rémond, he specialises in cultural and political history and has written on Fascism ever since his masters dissertation on the Greenshirts of Henri Dorgères.

Philip Palmer Green

He earned his doctorate from Berkeley in mathematics in 1976 with a dissertation on C*-algebra, but, like his colleague Eric Lander, transitioned from pure mathematics into applied work in biology and bioinformatics.

Philip S. Foner

Further charges were levied in May 2003, when labor historian Mel Dubofsky accused Foner of having "borrowed wholesale from my then unpublished dissertation" on the Industrial Workers of the World for use in Volume 4 of his History of the Labor Movement in the United States.

Portia Sabin

While getting her Ph.D. in Anthropology & Education from Columbia University she played drums in several NYC bands before moving to Olympia, Washington to do her dissertation research.

Qasr Kharana

Archaeologist Stephen Urice wrote his doctoral dissertation, later published as a book, on Qasr Kharana, based on his work restoring the building in the late 1970s.

Raul Renter

In 1964 Renter defended Candidate of Economic Sciences degree, and in 1975 he presented his doctoral dissertation in Economics.

Richard G. Salomon

Going on to the University of Berlin, Salomon studied eastern European history under Theodor Schiemann (1847-1921), Byzantine history under Karl Krumbacher (1856-1921), the history of medieval law under Karl Zeurner (1849-1914), and Latin paleography under Michael Tangl (1861-1921), under whom he completed his doctoral dissertation in February 1907: Studien zur normannisch-italischen Diplomatik.

Robert E. Lee Chadwick

His dissertation, directed by Professor Robert Wauchope, was titled The Archaeology of a New World "Merchant" Culture.

Rommel Banlaoi

He also served as assistant professor in international studies at De La Salle University from 1997 to 1998, instructor in political science at the University of the Philippines (Los Banos) from 1992 to 1995, and in 1996 University Research Associate at the University of the Philippines (UP Diliman), where he took his BA, MA and PhD (ABD or All But Dissertation status) all in Political Science.

Salomon Bochner

There, he was a student of Erhard Schmidt, writing a dissertation involving what would later be called the Bergman kernel.

Sam Granick

Granick was born in New York City, and earned a B.S. (1931), M.S. (1933) and Ph.D. (1938) degrees from the University of Michigan, where he completed a dissertation in plant physiology.

Stetson Kennedy

Peggy Bulger, the head of the American Folklife Division of the Library of Congress, who wrote her Ph. D. dissertation on Kennedy and interviewed him extensively, maintains that Kennedy was always candid with her and others about his combination of two narratives into one in I Rode With the Ku Klux Klan: "His purpose was to expose the Klan to a broad reading audience and use their folklore against them, which he did."

Supachai Panitchpakdi

In 1973, he completed his doctoral dissertation under supervision of Professor Jan Tinbergen, the first Nobel laureate in economics.

William Pannapacker

His doctoral dissertation was on poet Walt Whitman, and his scholarly emphasis is 19th-century American literature and culture.

Yves Roucaute

Roucaute began his teaching career as a lecturer at Paris 8 University, with Jacques Lacan, then while working on his doctoral dissertation on Aristote, Smith, and Ricardo, he was associated with the Faculty of Law of Amiens University.


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