Dissertation Award
Every Spring semester, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at NC State requests nominations for the year’s Dissertation Award. Since 2016, the CRDM committee ranks the dissertations nominated to the CHASS award and chooses its awardee as the top ranked nominee.
2017 Dissertation Award
Dr. Elizabeth Pitts
Dissertation Title: “Distributing Biotechnology: (Re)Organizing DNA and Scientific Work”
Defended On: December 2016
Committee Members: Jessica Jameson and Bill Kinsella (co-chairs), Susan Katz, Jason Delborne, John Godwin, and Steve Katz
2016 Dissertation Award
Dr. Fernanda Duarte
Dissertation Title: “OpenAnalogInput(): Hybrid spaces, Self-making and Power in the Internet of Things”
Defended On: December 2015
Committee Members: Adriana de Souza e Silva (chair), Jeremy Packer, David Rieder, and Steve Wiley