TexasHookEm,
Glad you paid such close attention during the defense, accurately listing all of the faculty like that, including Dan from anthropology. Oh wait, sorry, I mean John Hartigan.
Maybe if any of the other faculty in the department had bothered to come to the defense or even bothered reading even part of the way through the online dissertation (though I do hear websites are kind hard sometimes), they could have a leg to stand on in insulting the work of a newly fellow PhD and tenure track professor like Joey.
Pardon any perceived impudence, I'm a bit new to this site, having recently discovered this hotbed of academic navel-gazing at its finest. I guess I was too busy applying to and getting accepted into a graduate program to seek out web forums to talk about applying to and waiting to get accepted into a graduate program. My bad.
Do any of you have links to your dissertations so we can compare the amount of research that went into it?