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Summer and Fall 2024 doctoral and terminal degrees

The following list is based on information gathered from the Banner database. Given the number of graduates and evolving status of many prospective graduates' degree status, mistakes and omissions may have occurred. Being listed or not here has no bearing on a student's official graduation status.

Graduate Programs

  • Kelsey Bourbeau
    PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
    "Effects Of Home-based High-intensity Interval Training Versus Continuous Walking On Cognition In Overweight And Obese Women"
  • Yuka Doherty
    PHD Sociology
    "Boundaries of Citizenship: Gendered and Racialized Reproduction and Motherhood in Contemporary Japan"
  • Abdulaziz Masoud
    PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
    "The Effect of Sodium Bicarbonate on Acute Kidney Injury Markers During Physical Work in the Heat"
  • Sangita Paudel
    PHD Chemistry
    "Excited State Processes in Radical Elaborated Platinum Donor-Acceptor Complexes"
  • Aditi Sarkar
    PHD Economics
    "The Economic Impact Of Oil And Gas Production In The Permian Basin"
  • Kritika Sen Chakraborty
    PHD Economics
    "Essays on human capital, labor, and gender"
  • Elena Stein
    PHD Psychology
    "Validation of the Addictions Neuroclinical Assessment Among Diverse Individuals With Alcohol Use Disorder"
  • Rajani Thapa Magar
    PHD Chemistry
    "Syntheses and Characterization of photoactive ruthenium and iron polypyridyl complexes"

College of Education and Human Sciences

  • Leticia Archuleta
    EDD Educational Leadership
    "Embracing Social-emotional learning and Nurturing Character: A Systematic Review of Intersectional-EQ Strategies For Educational Leaders"
  • Lou Ellis Brassington
    PHD Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies
    "Things Fall(ing) Apart: Deconstructing Humanism for History Teaching in a Posthumanist Society"
  • Brent Collom
    EDD Educational Leadership
  • Sarah Curley
    EDD Educational Leadership
    "Din White Corn Boy Yellow Corn Girl Find Success on Their Educational Journeys"
  • Peggy Duffie
    PHD Special Education
    "The IEP Team: Team Member Perspectives of the Decision-Making Process"
  • Gulay Guler
    PHD Educational Psychology
    "Instructor-Supported Psychological Need Satisfaction as a Predictor of Student Engagement and Learning in College"
  • Pamela Herrington-Moriarty
    PHD Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies
    "Using Practitioner Research to Improve an Instructor's Teaching Approaches in an Accelerated Developmental Reading and Writing Course"
  • Julia Church Hoffman
    PHD Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education
    "What is Compassionate Care in Elementary General Music Teaching and Learning? A Narrative Inquiry."
  • Marsha Hubbell-Espinosa
    EDD Educational Leadership
    "Sustaining Principals in Native Serving Schools"
  • Erik Litzenberg
    PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
    "Social Identity Theory in Emergency Response Organizations"
  • Annah Macha
    PHD Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies
    "A phenomenological exploration of language shift of iKalanga in Botswana: Implications for language revitalization"
  • Gabrielle Pretto
    PHD Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education
    "Exploring How Funds of Knowledge is Utilized Among Teacher Educators in a Teacher Preparation Program Focusing on Arts Integration and Language Diversity"
  • Zack Ramsey
    PHD Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education
    "Innovations in Educational Research: Developing an Original Survey to Measure New Mexico's Teacher Practices and Beliefs Related to Project-Based Learning and Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching"
  • Nonabah Sam
    EDD Educational Leadership
    "Teachings From The Hogan Floor: Preserving Culture And Language Through Museum Collections"
  • Alexandra Tonigan
    PHD Educational Psychology
    "Exploring the associations between perceived parent communication and involvement, community violence exposure during adolescence, and subsequent risk for alcohol use disorder (AUD) in young adulthood"
  • Anna Welch
    PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
    "The Feasibility of an Acute Bout of High Intensity Interval vs Continuous Moderate-Intensity Exercise on Cognition in Chronic Stroke Patients"

School of Engineering

  • Adedamola Adesokan
    PHD Engineering
    "Intelligent Crowdsourcing Based on Online Social Networks"
  • Michele Anderson
    PHD Engineering
    "Engineering Cementitious Composites: The Good, The Bad, and The Possibilities"
  • Mariella Digna Arcos Padilla
    PHD Engineering
    "Targeting Myeloid Cell Iron Metabolism in Salmonella-induced Colitis"
  • Chris Fetrow
    PHD Nanoscience and Microsystems Engineering
    "A Rechargeable Metal-CO2 Battery Using Lower-Cost Materials"
  • Ralph Gesner
    PHD Engineering
    "Modeling V-band Atmospheric Loss with Deep Learning"
  • Alireza Ghasempour Shirazi
    PHD Engineering
    "Integrating Machine Learning, Data Fusion, and Statistical Methods to Predict Electric Load in Smart Grids"
  • Raul Gutierrez
    PHD Engineering
    "Secondary Electron Yield of Metals, Alloys, and Metal Oxides from First Principles Based Monte Carlo Simulations"
  • Sleight Halley
    PHD Engineering
    "Mixed Potential Sensor For Natural Gas Leak Detection Design, Manufacturing, And Simulation"
  • Md Mehedi Hasan
    PHD Engineering
    "Understanding Longitudinal Top-down Cracking to Enhance Asphalt Mix Design"
  • Maren Hatch
    PHD Engineering
    "On The Surface Topography Of Local Overheating And Plasma Formation Due To Initial Condition Perturbations Sourcing The Electrothermal Instability On High-current-density Conductors"
  • Kendall Hoff
    PHD Engineering
    "Advancements In Microarray Manufacturing Enable Emerging Genomics Technologies"
  • Md Sahabul Hossain
    PHD Engineering
    "Location Aware Task Offloading Framework for Edge Computing Empowered by Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces"
  • Jenilee Jao
    PHD Engineering
    "Physical Layer Entropy Analysis for Physical Unclonable Functions"
  • Nicholas Kemp
    PHD Engineering
    "Distributed Energy Trading Models Utilizing Reinforcement Learning and Game-Theoretic Based Approaches in Smart Grids"
  • Mohammed Khalil
    PHD Engineering
    "Antimicrobial Activity and Photostability of Cationic Conjugated Polyelectrolytes"
  • Angelea Maestas-Olguin
    PHD Engineering
    "Rational Design of Nanoparticles for Overcoming Barriers of Nucleic Acid Delivery: Applications in Cancer Therapeutics"
  • Kaveh Malek
    PHD Engineering
    "Integration Of Pattern Recognition, Convolutional Networks, And Robotics Fundamentals With Wearable Immersive Platforms"
  • Daniel Manu
    PHD Engineering
    "Deep Learning Framework for Graph-Based Molecular Drug Discovery"
  • Quinn McCulloch
    PHD Nanoscience and Microsystems Engineering
    "Development and Characterization of Automated Screen Mesh-Based Microfluidic Device to Perform Continuous Countercurrent Liquid-Liquid Extraction"
  • Shepard Moore
    PHD Engineering
    "Utility Of Different Human Lung Cell Models For Toxicology, Drug Screening, And Biomarker Discovery"
  • Jawad Moussa
    PHD Engineering
    "Methods for Efficient Computation of Neutron Multiplicity Distributions and SNM Sample Characterization"
  • Benjamin Murphy
    PHD Engineering
    "Coupled Monte Carlo and Depletion Sensitivity Coefficient Methods"
  • Vignesh Sivaramakrishnan
    PHD Engineering
    "Theory and algorithms to learn, propagate, and exploit uncertainty for stochastic optimal control of dynamical systems"
  • David Smith
    PHD Engineering
    "The Corona-to-Spark Transition and its Dependence on Electric Field Non-uniformity"
  • Julie Smith
    PHD Engineering
    "Channel Selection Of A Hybrid Communication System Using Machine Learning"
  • Idris Somoye
    PHD Engineering
    "Periodic Information Leakage Fault Detection on RISC-V Microprocessors"
  • Humayra Tasnim
    PHD Computer Science
    "Insight Into Complexity: Novel Information Theoretic Analysis of Spatiotemporal Interactions"
  • Jayakrishnan Vijayamohanan
    PHD Engineering
    "Source detection and automatic modulation classification for modern antenna array processing"
  • Liangkun Yu
    PHD Engineering
    "Deep Learning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Coordination in Air Corridors"
  • Muhammad Saeed Zafar
    PHD Engineering
    "Towards 3D Printed Concrete for Infrastructural Applications: Fresh properties, Printability, and Reinforcement."

College of Arts and Sciences

  • Hasan Ahmed
    PHD Optical Science and Engineering
    "Predictive Modeling of Electro-optic Modulators Under Electromagnetic Interference"
  • Antonia Androski
    PHD Biology
    "Connecting climate and geography with diversification and conservation in a western North American endemic mammal, Sorex monticola"
  • Arjun Aryal
    PHD Optical Science and Engineering
  • Carter Barnwell
    PHD History
    "Wars of Position: The Construction of an Antifascist Public Sphere in Spain, 1931-1939"
  • Daniel Beene
    PHD Geography
    "Critical geospatial data science: Considerations for curating, analyzing, and sharing geospatial data"
  • Dominic Bosomtwi
    PHD Optical Science and Engineering
    "Optical Responses of Hybrid Electromagnetic Nanostructures"
  • Collin Brandl
    PHD Earth and Planetary Sciences
    "Crustal structure beneath the East Coast Magnetic Anomaly from seismic refraction tomography"
  • David Camak
    PHD Biology
    "Conservation Genomic Investigation of a Threatened Trout Species Endemic to the Gila River"
  • Kit Carson Wilson
    PHD English
    "The Borders of Embodiment: Transgression, Transformation, and Corporeality in Chicanx Speculative Fiction"
  • Rachael Cassidy
    PHD History
    "A Social History of Native Residents of Washington, D.C., 1839 to 1973"
  • Matthew Chow
    PHD Physics
    "Scalable Methods for Performant Control of Hyperfine Qubits in Atoms and Ions"
  • Daniel Clayton
    PHD Economics
    "Return Migration, Economic Welfare, and Financial Inclusion in Mexico."
  • Rowan Converse
    PHD Geography
    "Validating a remote sensing / machine learning framework for wildlife monitoring"
  • Luis Esparza
    PHD Chicana and Chicano Studies
    "Agave, Tamarindo, and Jamaica: Testimonies and Movements of Joteria Rural and Afro-Joteria Rural from the Ranchos and Pueblos of Rural Southern Mexico"
  • David Forman
    PHD Psychology
    "Motivational Interviewing For Problem And Pathological Gambling: A Systematic Review And Meta-analysis"
  • Natalie Fullenkamp
    PHD Sociology
    "Pain as Knowledge"
  • Nikhil Ganvir
    PHD Economics
    "Essays Analyzing Economic Consequences Of Caste Dynamics In India"
  • Tania Garcia
    PHD American Studies
    "Trauma, Memory, Imagination, and Survivance: Uncovering Haunting Stories within the Southwest Borderlands"
  • Ethan Gyllenhaal
    PHD Biology
    "Crossing the ocean: the importance of gene flow in island evolution"
  • Aisha Hamid
    PHD Biology
    "Developmental programs regulating the specification and function of neural circuits in the Drosophila central complex"
  • Hailey Heinz
    PHD Political Science
    "Determinants of Child Care Subsidy Policies in the American States: A Mixed-Method Investigation in the Era of COVID-19"
  • Jalene Herron
    PHD Psychology
    "Cultural Factors and Alcohol Use in American Indian Adults: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial of Contingency Management"
  • Aria Holmes
    PHD Earth and Planetary Sciences
    "Carbonate And Organic Proxies And The Impacts Of Climate On Lake Systems: Paleoclimate Interpretations From Lake Chalco, Mexico"
  • Troy Hutchins-Delgado
    PHD Optical Science and Engineering
    "Germanium quantum wells: material for the post-Moore era"
  • Karol Ibarra Zetter
    PHD Spanish and Portuguese
    "Reduction of the Vocalic Sequence /ea/ in Tapatio Spanish"
  • Md Didarul Islam
    PHD Communication
    "Media Road To Violence: A Process Of Racialization Of Rohingya Ethnic Minority"
  • Brett Janos
    PHD History
    "Americans Face Migration: A Comparative Study of State Immigration Policy by Region,1865-1925"
  • Daejin Kim
    PHD Linguistics
    "Articulation of the tongue back in American English and Seoul Korean"
  • Jesse Lepluart
    PHD Chemistry
    "Theoretical And Spectroscopic Insights Into Molybdenum- And Tungsten-sulfur Bonding"
  • Amir Mani Varnoosfaderani
    PHD Biology
    "Host-Microbiome Interactions in the Teleost Brain"
  • Aaron Marks
    PHD Linguistics
    "Topics in Wappo Phonology"
  • Jenna McCullough
    PHD Biology
    "Unraveling the Paradox of the 'Great Speciators': Evolutionary Dynamics of a Geographic Radiation of Island Kingfishers (Todiramphus)"
  • Nazanin Mosavian
    PHD Optical Science and Engineering
    "Super-resolution magnetic microscopy and Earth's field magnetometry with Color Centers in Diamond"
  • Ria Mukerji
    PHD Geography
    "Pathways Of Participation: Community Engagement And Collaborative Adaptation In Disaster Contexts Across Diverse Environments"
  • Teagan Mullins
    PHD Psychology
    "Impact of Emotional Processing on Working Memory in Preadolescents with High Autistic and Anxiety Traits"
  • Beau Murphy
    PHD Anthropology
    "Imperial Architecture and Absolute Chronology in the Inka State: The View from Northern Chile"
  • Sami Nazib
    PHD Optical Science and Engineering
    "Fabrication and characterization of monolithic photonic integrated circuit with high aspect ratio photonic device structures"
  • Anh Nguyen
    PHD Communication
    "(Dis)connecting incommensurable relationalities: Aesthetics of desirable citizenship & ethics of solidarity in Vietnamese/American diasporic media"
  • Tomide Oloruntobi
    PHD Communication
    "Transnational(izing) African Communication: A Post-/Decolonial Approach to Nollywood and Globalization"
  • Bamadou Ouattara
    PHD Economics
    "Impact Of Shale Oil And Gas Exploration In The Permian Basin: Public Finances, House Prices, Migration, And Labor Market Outcomes"
  • Thaneshwar Paneru
    PHD Economics
    "Nonmarket Valuation Of Environmental And Agricultural Services: Renewable Energy, Wildlife Watching, And Index Insurance"
  • Chris Pirrung
    PHD Psychology
    "Source Estimation of the Reward Positivity and Related Resting State Network Activity in Major Depressive Disorder"
  • Emily Reiff
    PHD English
    "Grievability and the Contingency of Life Value in Twenty-First-Century Science Fiction"
  • David Robinson
    PHD Biology
    "Metagenomic Analysis Of Antarctic Microbial Communities"
  • Kaitlyn Schodt
    PHD Psychology
    "A Comparison of Cognitive Impairment in Health Anxiety, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and the Moderating Role of Social Connectedness"
  • Tony Seat
    PHD Chemistry
    "The cytosolic interface with caveolin-1 in the Niemann-Pick disease type C pathway of endolysosomal cholesterol and sphingolipid efflux"
  • Xin Shore
    PHD Statistics
    "Improvement and Evaluation of Multiple Imputation by Heckmans One-Step ML Estimation for Binary MNAR Outcomes and Various Types of MAR Covariates"
  • Rex Sitti
    PHD Economics
    "Essays on the Societal Impacts of Housing and Substance Use Disorder Treatment"
  • Samuel Torres
    PHD Sociology
    "Unequal Neighbors in Diverse Neighborhoods: Accounting for Variation in the Impact of Relative Inequality on Neighborhood Crime"
  • Jens Van Gysel
    PHD Linguistics
    "A Usage-Based Account of Ongoing Structural Changes in Sanapan: Grammar Sketch and Case Studies"
  • David Vargas
    PHD Mathematics
    "Parallel Multigrid in Time for Chaotic Dynamical Systems"
  • Victoria Votaw
    PHD Psychology
    "Validating Reward and Relief Drinking Phenotypes: A Multimethod Assessment"
  • Miao Wang
    PHD Political Science
    "Presidential Unilateralism in Contemporary U.S. Trade Policymaking: An Analysis of the Section 232 Tariff Exclusion Process by the Trump Administration"
  • Kevin Willson
    PHD Biology
    "Forest response to increasingly frequent and severe fire and drought disturbances"
  • Mingyang Zhang
    PHD Optical Science and Engineering
    "Multi-Pass In-Well Pumping Hybrid Membrane External-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser for Laser Guide Star Applications"

College of Nursing

  • Shauna Mangum
    PHD Nursing
    "The Association of Individual Characteristics, Treatment Type, Treatment Satisfaction, Symptoms of Pain and Fatigue with Health-Related Quality of Life Among Adults with Gaucher Disease Type 1"
  • Sara Nugent
    PHD Nursing
    "Comparing Costs and Predictors of Low-Value Healthcare Service Use Among Primary Care Nurse Practitioners in the Southwest United States"
  • Starr Tomlinson
    PHD Nursing
    "Impact Of Minority Stress And Resilience On Ptsd Symptom Severity Among A Sample Of Transgender And Gender Non-conforming (tgnc) Individuals"

School of Medicine

  • Mahgol Behnia
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Identification of lncRNAs Involved in the Host Response to Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus Infection"
  • Joshua DeAguero
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Molecular and cellular approaches toward understanding the role of lysosomes in gadolinium-based contrast agent nephrotoxicity"
  • Randy Ko
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "The Role of G Protein-Coupled Estrogen Receptor in Wound Healing"
  • Benjamin Lantz
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Immune Cell Balance in Chronic Hypoxia Induced Pulmonary Hypertension"
  • Tasmin Naila
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Mechanistic study of DNA ligase IV-mediated double-strand break repair in non-homologous end joining."
  • Erica Pascetti
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Tetraspanin CD82 Regulates Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cell Quiescence and Stress"
  • Julianne Peabody
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Deep sequence-coupled biopanning and vaccine development"
  • Sebastian Restrepo Cruz
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Tetraspanin CD82 regulation of EGFR organization and signaling"
  • Christine Robbins
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Conserved Mechanisms of Drug Induced Lifespan Extension in S. cerevisiae and C. elegans"
  • Matthew Sierra
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Miriam Valenzuela Cardenas
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "TNF Prevents the Establishment of Anti-tumor Immunity and Exacerbates Toxicities Following Myxoma Virus Based Oncolytic Virotherapy"
  • Luke Villareal
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 31s Role in Promoting Iron Loading, Tumorigenesis, and Metastasis in Colorectal Cancer"
  • Chunqing Wang
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Adipocyte-derived Messengers In Inflammatory And Autoimmune Diseases"
  • Jordan Weisend
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Cell and Molecular Mechanisms of Plasticity and Injury Associated with Spreading Depolarization"

College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences

  • Lindsey White
    PHD Organization, Information and Learning Sciences
    "Identity Configuration of Physician Clinician Educators: A Mixed Methods Study"

School of Law

  • Candido Archuleta
    Juris Doctor
  • Scott Beauchamp
    Juris Doctor
  • Hakim Bellamy
    Juris Doctor
  • Kelsey Chalay
    Juris Doctor
  • Alejandria Gallegos
    Juris Doctor
  • Ty'Queese Keyes
    Juris Doctor
  • Audriana Martinez
    Juris Doctor
  • Jennifer Nunez
    Juris Doctor
  • Bre Potter
    Juris Doctor
  • Ville Sneck
    Juris Doctor

School of Medicine

  • Shawn Fernandez
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Cyril Glaser
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Alexus Trujillo
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Alexander Win
    Doctor of Medicine