Doctoral Dissertations 1996-2001
2000-2001
MARIA CORREIA
FEBRUARY 2001
Dissertation:
JOSE SEROLCHLOROPLAST RETENTION IN ELPHIDIUM EXCAVATUM (TERQUEM)
Advisor: John Lee (City)
Maria is Assistant Professor, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa,
Portugal
CELESTINE M. DURANDO
OCTOBER 2000
Dissertation:
MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS OF THE REPLETA SPECIES
GROUP OF THE GENUS DROSOPHILA
Advisors: Marvin Wasserman (Queens) and Rob DeSalle (Museum)
Celestine is now a full-time musician.
VALERIE ANN SCHAWAROCH
OCTOBER 2000
Dissertation:
MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY OF THE DROSOPHILA
MELANOGASTER SPECIES GROUP, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE MONTIUM SUBGROUP
Advisors: Gail Simmons (City) and Rob DeSalle (Museum)
Valerie is currently an NSF DIG postdoctoral fellow in Invertebrate
Zoology—Entomology, American Museum of Natural History.
1999-2000
MARCELO R. De CARVALHO
OCTOBER 1999
Dissertation:
A SYSTEMATIC REVISION OF THE ELECTRIC RAY
GENUS NARCINE HENLE, 1834 (CHONDRICHTHYES: TORPEDINIFORMES:
NARCINIDAE), AND THE HIGHER-LEVEL PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS
OF THE ORDERS OF ELASMOBRANCH FISHES (CHONDRICHTHYES)
Advisors: Melanie Stiassny and Gareth Nelson (Museum)
Subsequently Marcelo was a postdoctoral fellow in Vertebrate
Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History.
ABEBE GETAHUN
FEBRUARY 2000
Dissertation:
SYSTEMATIC STUDIES OF THE AFRICAN SPECIES OF THE GENUS GARRA (PISCES:
CYPRINIDAE)
Advisor: Melanie Stiassny (Museum)
Abebe is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Addis Ababa
University, Ethiopia, where he carries on an active research
program in freshwater fish systematics and conservation.
1998-1999
JOHN RAYMOND YOUNG
FEBRUARY 1999
Dissertation:
A THREE-PARAMETER DEVELOPMENTAL MODEL FOR
ANALYZING FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY IN MERISTIC CHARACTERS Consolidated
Edison Company
1997-1998
JESUS ALEJANDRO ESPINOSA DE LOS MONTEROS
SOLIS
OCTOBER 1997
Dissertation:
MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY OF TROGONIFORMES
(AVES)
Advisor: Joel Cracraft (Museum)
Alejandro is working for the Departamento de Ecología
y Comportamiento Animal, Instituto de Ecología,
A.C., Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
MONICA TOLEDO-PIZA
OCTOBER 1997
Dissertation:
SYSTEMATIC REVISION OF THE CYNODONTINAE (TELEOSTEI: OSTARIOPHYSI:
CHARACIFORMES)
Advisor: Melanie Stiassny
Monica is an Assistant Professor of Biology at the University
of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
JAMES L. VAN TASSELL
MAY 1998
Dissertation:
PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF SPECIES WITHIN THE GOBIID GENUS GOBIOSOMA SENSU
BOHLKE AND ROBINS (1968) WITH COMMENTS ON THEIR RELATIONSHIPS
TO OTHER GENERA IN THE TRIBE GOBIOSOMINI
Advisors: Gareth Nelson (Museum) and Joe Rachlin (Lehman)
James is currently teaching at a prep school in New York
State.
1996-1997
CAROLYN MARY BOCIAN
FEBRUARY 1997
Dissertation:
NICHE SEPARATION OF BLACK-AND-WHITE COLOBUS
MONKEYS (COLOBUS ANGOLENSIS AND C. GUEREZA) IN
THE ITURI FOREST
Advisors: John Oates (Hunter) and Carol Simon (City)
CAROLE S. GRIFFITHS
OCTOBER 1996
Dissertation:
MOLECULES, MORPHOLOGY AND THE PHYLOGENY
OF FALCONIFORM BIRDS
Advisors: George Barrowclough (Museum) and Robert Rockwell
(City)
Frank M. Chapman Postdoctoral Fellow, Ornithology, American
Museum of Natural History, 1996-1998.
Carole is Assistant Professor of Biology, Long Island University,
Brooklyn Campus, 1998-present.
DILRUKSHAN PRIYANTHA WIJESINGHE
FEBRUARY 1997
Dissertation:
RELATIONSHIPS OF SPARTAEINE AND OTHER PRIMITIVE
JUMPING SPIDERS, WITH REVIEWS OF CYRBA AND COCALUS AND
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS (ARACHNIDA: ARANEAE: SALTICIDAE)
Advisor: Norman Platnick (Museum)
For the entire list of CUNY PhD theses, of which this is an
excerpt, go to
www.gc.cuny.edu/dissertations/dissertations2000_2001.htmm
