School of Humanities and Sciences
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Danielle Boles
Ph.D. Student in Psychology, admitted Autumn 2017
BioDanielle received her BA in Psychology and Environmental Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on improving mindsets about diet and health, enhancing the experience of healthy eating, and measuring the power of such mindsets and experiences to influence behavior and physiology.
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Nina Brooks
Ph.D. Student in Environment and Resources
Master of Arts Student in Economics, admitted Spring 2019Current Research and Scholarly InterestsNina’s research interests lie at the intersection of environmental, health, and development economics and she is broadly interested in the social and environmental determinants of population health. Her dissertation looks at the health and environmental externalities of brick manufacturing in Bangladesh. Her other work is focused on reproductive health access and policies in Sub-Saharan Africa and in Israel.
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Miray Cakiroglu
Ph.D. Student in Anthropology, admitted Autumn 2018
BioMy research revolves around the constitutive role of ruins, as a specific genre of objects, in the spatial organization of politics at multiple scales and in a historical continuum. As the constructed cultural progenitor of western Europe, the Mediterranean region occupies a special place in discussions of heritage with its extensive ruin landscapes. The search for the material remains of antiquity motivated much of travel eastward, shaping the archaeological imaginary in the discipline’s early days. I focus on the shifting trajectory of the meaning of ruins as they move from one context to another. I am specifically interested in the imperial encounters of the 19th century on what is now the Turkish Aegean and the afterlives of ruins in new sociopolitical frameworks. I am also interested in the territorial imagination of homelands and borderlands in relation to politics of death, dying, and martyrdom.
I received my B.A. in English Literature with a double major in Philosophy from Bogazici University. I completed an M.A. in Cultural Studies at the same university with a thesis on the formulation of urban space and urban citizen in the coursebooks of “Istanbul courses.” I hold another M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from New York University, where I focused on the mobility of a Seljuk sultan’s tomb in Syria, presently a Turkish territory outside national borders, in its relation to nationalism and place-making. I have two poetry books published in Turkish, one of which is the recipient of the prestigious Yasar Nabi Nayir Youth Award. -
Daniele Caratelli
Ph.D. Student in Economics, admitted Autumn 2017
BioDaniele Caratelli completed a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics and economics from the University of Chicago in 2015. From 2015 to 2017 he worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as a research analyst in the Macroeconomic and Monetary Studies division of the Research group, where he concentrated on nowcasting macroeconomic data and time series econometrics. He is interested in monetary economics, time series econometrics and search and matching theory.
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Shadab Hussain
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2013
Ph.D. Minor, Psychology
Student Resident Asst, Graduate Life OfficeCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsAcademic motivation; Biculturalism and multiculturalism; College student development; Cultural psychology; Culturally-relevant measurement; Developmental Psychology; Diversity and inclusion; Emerging adulthood; Multicultural issues in higher education; Racial-ethnic identity
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Stefania Manfio
Ph.D. Student in Anthropology, admitted Autumn 2018
BioI am a maritime archaeologist and current PhD student in the Department of Anthropology. I specialize on the use of 3D visualizations, based on gaming technology, as a tool for the enhancement and dissemination of maritime heritage. My research explores how the social, craft and biographical aspects of shipbuilding and the transportation of people can help us better understand the period of slavery and the transition to indenture. Moreover, I am broadly interested in understanding how the ‘vessel’, the ship itself, is a vehicle of culture contact and how the study of the artifacts found in the shipwreck can give us information on life at sea and the relationships on-board. For my Ph.D., I am working on materials and shipwrecks from Mauritius, serving as an ideal case for Indian Ocean labor movements.
I am also involved in developing the Marine Spatial Plan for Mauritius, developing ways to integrate maritime heritage into the Blue Economy mandate, and contribute to resilience in Small Island Developing States.
I completed my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the University of Ca’ Foscari, Venice. During my training in marine and underwater archaeology, I had the opportunity to participate in numerous underwater excavations, in Veneto, Sicily, Puglia, Calabria, and Croatia. -
Frederic Martenet
Ph.D. Student in Economics, admitted Autumn 2017
BioFrederic Martenet is a Ph.D. student in the Economics Department at Stanford University.
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Casey Maue
Ph.D. Student in Environment and Resources
Ph.D. Minor, EconomicsCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research concerns how environmental issues and efforts to promote economic development intersect in agricultural systems. Active projects include: (i) analyzing the patterns in and dynamics of agricultural TFP in 6 countries in SSA, (ii) investigating how access to informal financial services affects investment and productivity in the Ghanaian palm oil industry, and (iii) quantifying how changes weather risk induced by climate change have impacted economic outcomes in the agricultural sector.
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Gregg Muragishi
Ph.D. Student in Psychology, admitted Autumn 2015
BioMy research focuses on how individuals interpret and derive meaning from positive and negative cues in the social environment. In particular, I am interested in how subtle gestures of respect can ignite change within an institution to increase belonging, interest, and motivation for underrepresented groups.
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Chikara Onda
Ph.D. Student in Environment and Resources
Ph.D. Minor, EconomicsCurrent Research and Scholarly InterestsChikara studies the distributional impacts of climate and energy policies. His current research builds a climate policy model linked to a microeconometrically estimated labor choice model to simulate the impact of carbon pricing on labor and how this impact might differ across income groups. This model can be used to consider different policy designs, with an eye towards mitigating any negative impacts on low-income households.
