Doctoral Theses: Recent submissions

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    • The Realm of Grace 

      Mathew, Abraham (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-09)
      This dissertation examines three familiar interpersonal phenomena—repentance after wronging another, forgiveness in the wake of being wronged, and reciprocation after being helped—and what they teach us about moral obligation ...

    • Presuppositionless proxies of politeness: An (eventually) Optimality-Theoretic account 

      Wang, Ruoan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-09)
      Recent research has seen growing interest in the nature of social meaning, “the constellation of qualities and properties that linguistic forms convey about the social identity of language users” (Beltrama 2020, see also ...

    • Aft Fuselage Boundary-Layer Ingesting Propulsion Systems for Turbo-Electric Aircraft 

      Chen, Zhibo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-09)
      This thesis focuses on a rigorous assessment of a tube-and-wing turbo-electric boundarylayer ingesting (BLI) aircraft, including (i) definitions of the aerodynamic attributes for the best fuel burn benefit, (ii) design ...