A Microanalysis of Doctoral Dissertations & Committees
Within the RPI Department of Science & Technology Studies

Lane DeNicola

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Last Update: November 25, 2007

 Table of Contents

Committees

History of Faculty Participation as Dissertation Committee Member

Table - Faculty Member History

Being chair counts as being a member in this tabulation.  An X in a cell indicates a year that was prior to the faculty member's joining the department.  An empty cell indicates that I was unable to determine whether that individual was a member of the department in that year or not, but either way they did not serve as a member of any dissertation committees in that year.

History of Faculty Participation as Dissertation Committee Chair

Faculty Chair History

Dissertations Listed by Chair

A reasonable thing for any prospective dissertation-writer to do would be to peruse a few of the dissertations that their prospective chair has guided to completion in the past (especially those they speak highly of).  This requires (of course) that one know which dissertations they chaired (only author's names are given below, but full details can be found on the dissertations page).  Note that only those dissertations chaired by one of the 13 faculty members above are listed here (41 out of the total of 47).

Breyman, Steve
    Blaise Farina, Nicole Farkas

Campbell, Nancy
    Virginia
Eubanks, Jenrose Fitzgerald, Lorna Ronald

Caporael, Linnda
    Seval
Dulgeroglu

Eglash, Ron
    Lawrence Eng

Fortun, Kim
    Msmaku Asrat, Jean-Francois Blanchette, Camar Diaz-Torres, Arthur Fricke, David Levinger, Jason Patton, Marie Rarieya, Erich Schienke, Alex Sokoloff, Ann Sundberg, Bo Xie

Fortun, Michael
    Eun-Sung Kim, Lane DeNicola

Hess, David
    Barbara Allen, Jill Fisher, Kenneth Fleischmann, Natasha Lettis, Lisa McLoughlin, Torin Monahan, Margaret Wooddell

Layne, Linda
    Deborah Blizzard

Restivo, Sal
    Wenda Bauchspies, Jennifer Croissant

Winner, Langdon
    Sulfikar Amir, Michael Bennett, Hsin-Hsing Chen, Todd Cherkasky, John Monberg, Meera Nanda

Woodhouse, Edward
    Patrick Feng, Jeffrey Howard, Dean Nieusma, Steve Pierce, Andrew Weiss

Particulars on Select Faculty

Faculty Credentials

Much of this information is spotty, but my objective was a uniform presentation for all 13 faculty represented in this analysis.