Anthropologist Michael Dove described the dissertation as "a classic, in-depth, on-the-ground anthropological study of a 1,200-year-old 1,200-year-old 1,200-year-old
Seth was a graduate student at Stanford University when, while researching for his dissertation, he came across Pushkin's classic novel in verse, and realised that this was the form he wanted to use for his "tales of California".
After completing his dissertation, which is still considered a classic on Indonesian history, Kahin became a faculty member at Cornell University.
For several years she taught Latin in Clarkstown, NY, before receiving her Ph.D. in Classics at the USC in '85 with her dissertation on "Diana on Roman Coins".
She continued studies in the classics at Swarthmore and then at Boston University, where her dissertation on Greek drama in 1877 earned her a Ph.D. From 1877 to 1881 she studied in England at the University of Cambridge, placing third in her tripos (honours examinations) at Newnham College in the latter year.
The classic work Administrative Behavior, originally published in 1947 from the doctoral dissertation of Herbert Simon, dissected the vintage bureaucratic paradigm and concluded that it was frequently inconsistent with psychological and social realities.
It seems that just about the only kind of creature that can't be a trickster, at least of the classic type, is a female, a fact that somebody should write a dissertation on.
His dissertation, titled Nationalism and Revolution in Indonesia, is considered a classic on Indonesian history.
For my graduate dissertation project, I chose to investigate this idea further using the classic MMTV-Wnt1 mouse mammary tumor model (8).
As he developed the topic into his dissertation, Professor Downs recalls sparring with his adviser, Eric Foner, the author of the classic book "Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Business, 1863-1877".
When the book based on his dissertation, Social Choice and Individual Values, was published in 1951, it became an instant classic.
