Proposal Defense Notice: Teng Zhang

Wed, April 14, 2021 1:30 PM at Virtual

Teng ZhangTeng Zhang will defend his dissertation proposal as follows:

Title: Mass Killings under a Magnifying Glass

Date and Time: Wednesday, April 14, 2021, 1:30 PM

Please contact geograd@msu.edu if you would like an electronic copy of the dissertation.

The defense will consist of two steps

First step:

Members of the Department (including faculty, students and staff) are invited to join an uninterrupted presentation by the student summarizing the dissertation proposal, and a subsequent questioning session. The session will be moderated by the co-advisors.

Second step:

The Co-Advisors and Guidance Committee will ask questions in the second stage of this session.

Faculty, graduate students, and other non-committee members (e.g., family and friends) CANNOT attend the second questioning stage.

Guidance Committee:

  • Ashton Shortridge (co-chair)
  • Siddharth Chandra (co-chair), Director of the Asian Studies Center, Professor of Economics in the James Madison College, and Professor (by courtesy) of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
  • Kyle Evered
  • Ronen Steinberg, History Department