Defense Announcements

Defense Announcements for the Week Of:

November 23, 2009 - November 29, 2009

Monday, November 23, 2009

10:30 a.m. Carol Curtis, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Dissertation Defense - "Justice, Punishment, and Docile Bodies: Michel Foucault and the Fiction of Franz Kafka." Major Professor, R.M. Berry. Defense to be held in DIF, room 436.

3:00 p.m. Greg McCandless, Music, Dissertation Defense - "Rhythm and Meter in the Music of Dream Theater." Major Professor, Jane Piper Clendinning. Defense to be held in KMU, Lounge.

9:00 p.m. Gisele Pires de Oliveira Mota, Music, Treatise Defense - "The Songs by Ronaldo Miranda for Voice and Piano: Music, Poetry, Performance and Phonetic Transcriptions." Major Professor, Carolyn Bridger. Defense to be held in KMU, Lounge.

Wednesday, November 24, 2009

11:00 a.m. Yanli Ma, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Dissertation Defense - "Not Graduating in Six Years: Characteristics of First-Time Full-Time College Students Who Drop Out Late and Who Stay Long." Major Professor, Shouping Hu. Defense to be held in STB, room 1210A.

5:15 p.m. Johann R. Pautz, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Dissertation Defense - "Black Helicopters, Blue Helmets, White Fear: Anxiety of a Globalized World in the End times Narratives of the American Far-Right." Major Professors, Will Moore and Max Paul Friedman. Defense to be held in BEL, room 532.