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Paul Bump
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Summer 2016
BioPaul Bump is an explorer of the small and squishy. His research in strange, enigmatic, marine invertebrates hopes to unlock secrets around basic biological processes and provide novel perspectives to advance fundamental cell biology research. He currently studies how an organism can build two wildly different bodies during its life while having access to the same genetic information. While puzzling, the process of indirect development, with distinct larval and adult body plans, is the most common developmental strategy in many animals. His research involves studying the metamorphosis of Schizocardium californicum, an indirect developing hemichordate worm, which transforms from a small swimming planktonic balloon into a burrowing, muscular worm in a 24-48 hour time period.
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Benjamin Burford
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Autumn 2015
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsFor my PhD research, I utilize in situ footage, comparative respirometry, scientific surveys, animal-borne data loggers, and oceanographic data to understand the competitive ability of ecologically-similar social squid and fish in an environmental context.
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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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Luther Cox Cenci
Ph.D. Student in History, admitted Autumn 2018
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am interested in how the late imperial Chinese legal system tried to manage various axes of difference: ethnicity, gender, region, and religion.
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Jeffery Chun Jung Chen
Ph.D. Student in History, admitted Autumn 2018
Stanford Stdnt Employee-Summer, Hoover InstitutionBioI am a Ph.D. candidate in history at Stanford University. I completed my first graduate degree, an MSt. in British and European History, at the University of Oxford. Broadly, my research focusses on cross-cultural encounters between Qing China and eighteenth-century Europe and on the commercial networks linking the two regions.
Outside of academia, I enjoy composing, playing piano and chamber music, and creative writing. -
Evan Austen Coleman
Ph.D. Student in Physics, admitted Autumn 2018
BioI am a second-year physics graduate student interested in High Energy Physics, specifically in the areas of string theory and cosmology.
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Rachel Crane
Ph.D. Student in Biology, admitted Autumn 2015
BioRachel is interested in molluscan shell form. Animals’ shells defend them from a variety of environmental dangers and predatory attacks, including a multitude of low-magnitude, repeated stresses, which could cumulatively cause lethal fatigue damage. She studies how shell features—from composition and microstructure to overall morphology—contribute to fatigue resistance. By developing new mechanical techniques to test shell fatigue resistance, she hopes to answer questions about the evolution of shell shape and the ecological interactions between hard-shelled molluscs, their predators, and the environment.
Rachel received her B.A. in Biology from Swarthmore College where she worked with Rachel Merz studying worm burrowing and distribution in the muddy intertidal zone. She then worked as the lab manager in Sheila Patek’s lab at Duke University examining the behavioral strategies that mantis shrimp use when hammering open hard-shelled prey
