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Summer and Fall 2025 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"
  • Sajjad Khan
    PHD Nanoscience and Microsystems Engineering
    "Point-Spread Function (PSF) Engineering and Adaptive Measurements for Single Molecule Super-Resolution Imaging"
  • 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"
  • Stephen Porter
    PHD Nanoscience and Microsystems Engineering
  • 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

  • Johnny Abeyta
    EDD Educational Leadership
    "Partnering for Youth Empowerment: Establishing Boys and Girls Clubs in Tribal Communities"
  • Fahad Aldosari
    PHD Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies
    "Vocabulary Learning Strategies Employed By Saudi Efl Military Cadets"
  • Shing Yee Bay
    PHD Counselor Education
    "Systemic and Individual Predictors of Burnout in Counselor Education: A Job Demands-Resources Perspective"
  • Jackie Cusimano
    PHD Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education
    "A Phenomenological Study Of The Lived Experiences Of Implementing An Education Model From School Leaders’ Perspectives"
  • Heather Di Luzio
    PHD Special Education
  • Neritza Diaz-Cruz
    PHD Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies
    "Boricua hasta en la luna: An ethnographic case study in the spatialities of Puerto Ricans in New Mexico"
  • Hannah Garver
    PHD Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education
    "When Two Worlds Collide: A Narrative Inquiry Into The Teacher Identity Development Of Graduate Students Of Additional Language"
  • Baset Haridy
    PHD Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies
    "Can Web-based International Standardized Tests Be More Inclusive? A UDL Mixed-Methods Study of Accented Tasks"
  • Dominic Harrison
    PHD Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies
    "Deaf Black Youth's Narratives about Identity and Education"
  • Mishelle Jurado
    PHD Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies
    "Spanish Language Arts (SpanLA) Guerreras y Guerreros: Narratives of Figured Worlds on Pedagogy, Lucha, e Identidad"
  • Hongyoung Kim
    PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
    "Predicting the Unpredictable: Advancing Risk Management in Fitness Centers Through Data Science-Driven Judicial Outcome Modeling"
  • Alonzo Maestas
    PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
    "Addressing head injuries in high school football: An assessment of best practices and challenges in the area of concussions as held by New Mexico Activities Association high school varsity football head coaches and athletic directors"
  • Jonathan Specht
    PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
    "Lifestyle factors contributing to occupational heat-related acute kidney injury"
  • Kerenthia Swan
    EDD Educational Leadership
    "Baa Nihidahzho: Chronicles of Din College Graduates in Pursuit of Educational Attainment"
  • Yanira Vazquez
    EDD Educational Leadership
    "What can we learn from the high school math reform efforts in California, Georgia, and Oregon? A policy analysis approach"
  • Caitlin Wharton
    PHD Family and Child Studies
    "Examining the Relations Between Parenting Stress, Harsh Parenting Practices, and Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms"

College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences

  • Dayra Fallad-Mendoza
    PHD Organization, Information and Learning Sciences
    "Artificial Intelligence And Content Analysis Of Online Knowledge Construction"

College of Nursing

  • Demetrius Cianci Chapman
    PHD Nursing
    "A Comparative Subnational Policy Analysis of State COVID-19 Vaccine Policies and Application of the Political Determinants of Health Model."
  • Janna Hackett
    PHD Nursing
    "Cultural Humility, Holistic Admission Review, and Multicultural Experiences Among Newly Admitted Nursing Students"

School of Medicine

  • Jacob Anderson
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "The role of membrane cholesterol in regulating vascular function"
  • Annette Fernandez Oropeza
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Adolescence increases vulnerability to stress that is enhanced by PAE; possible link to neuroimmune factors and clock genes in corticolimbic areas."
  • Srinivasa Rao Gadam
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Microneedle-based LC-MS/MS profiling of dermal interstitial fluid reveals early lipid dysregulation contributing to painful neuropathy in prediabetic and type 2 diabetic rats"
  • Olivia Heath
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Effect of tRNA Synthetase Inhibitors on Aging in Caenorhabditis elegans"
  • Andzoa Jamus
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Exploration, Optimization, and Expansion of Bacteriophage Virus-Like Particle Vaccines"
  • Stefan Klimaj
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Innate Immune Evasion by Seoul Orthohantavirus within Its Natural Reservoir"
  • Maurine Morris
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Bianca Myers
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Neurodevelopmental And Environmental Mechanisms Of Invasion, Proliferation, And Tumor Cell Fate Specification In Glioblastoma"
  • Parisa Nikeghbal
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Patient-Derived Ovarian Cancer Models Provide Insight into Cancer Cell-intrinsic and Immune Cell-Dependent Effects on Therapeutic Response"
  • Megan Tuineau
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "The pathophysiological role of mitochondrial acid-sensing ion channel 1a in hypoxic pulmonary hypertension"
  • Ruoning Wang
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Immune regulation in fungal airway inflammation and host defense"

College of Fine Arts

  • Megan Bartley-Matthews
    MFA Art Studio
    "Feels Like Nothing, Like Everything // Feels Like Everything, Like Nothing"
  • Amari Becker
    MFA Art Studio
    "Path Dependence: Deviations from Standardization"
  • Lara Goldmann
    PHD Art History
    "Stay On It_a Theory_illumination Happens"
  • Rachel Hebert
    MFA Art Studio
    "Field Guide, Love Letter"
  • Julia Knowlden
    MFA Art Studio
    "Traces"
  • Jessica Lanham
    MFA Art Studio
    "Found in the overflow"
  • Tiranee Moody
    MFA Art Studio
    "No matter how quiet I am somehow I am still the loudest"
  • Jill Nuckles
    MFA Art Studio
    "Glint"
  • Carissa Bernadette Pobre
    MFA Art Studio
    "slant school as autonomous study: an inquiry into the social formation of the Global South intellectual-activist"
  • Shondra Thomas
    MFA Art Studio
    "Bright Dark"
  • Kimberly Thompson
    MFA Art Studio
    "Container"

College of Arts and Sciences

  • Ahsan Ali
    PHD Mathematics
    "Algebraic Multigrid Methods for Nonsymmetric and Indefinite Problems: Theory and Applications"
  • Kani Aniegboka
    MFA Creative Writing
    "Today You Become a Man"
  • Emerson Kai Armstrong
    PHD Communication
    "How to Talk to a Seahorse: Communication in Transmasculine Gestational Experiences as Told Through Narrative"
  • Sharifa Bahri
    PHD Linguistics
    "A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Saudi Arabian Women In Zoe Ferraris' Finding Nouf"
  • Joseph Birkmann
    PHD Anthropology
    "A Long, Static Prelude to the Ceramic Producing Southwestern Cultures of the Christian Era : The Archaic Occupation of New Mexico and Southern Arizona"
  • Meredith Blackwell
    PHD Psychology
    "Predictors of Recovery in Advocacy-Based Refugee Treatment Outcome: The Role of Prior Traumatic Experiences and Current Chronic Stressors"
  • John Boynton
    PHD Chemistry
    "A Mutational Analysis of Thatisin: Deriving Information from an Understudied Peptide Using Single Site Mutations"
  • Katie Brewer
    PHD Anthropology
  • Joseph Byrne
    MFA Creative Writing
    "Bilateral Symmetry is Proof of God"
  • Ethan Campbell
    PHD Psychology
    "Neurobehavioral Mechanisms of Psychotic-Like Experiences and Cannabis Use"
  • Jeng Hann Chong
    PHD Earth and Planetary Sciences
    "Integrating Satellite Observations and Modeling Approaches To Study Tectonic and Land Surface Hazards"
  • Logan Cordonnier
    PHD Physics
    "Investigating Long-Lasting Meteor Train Phenomena in Optical and Radio Regimes"
  • Robert Dukes
    PHD Mathematics
    "Minimal Error Functions on Irregular Subsets of the Real Line"
  • Chauncey Gadek
    PHD Biology
    "Dynamics of avian elevational ranges reveal hidden evolutionary forces"
  • Eliza Gilbert
    PHD Biology
    "The Nature Of Anthropogenically Driven River Drying: Spatiotemporal Causes And Consequences"
  • Catriona Gordon
    PHD Chemistry
    "ScRiPPt: Computational and Experimental Characterization of RiPP Graspetide Synthetases"
  • Stephen Harrison
    PHD Mathematics
    "On Sharpest Tail Bounds for Functions of Tail Bounded Random Variables"
  • Penelope Haulotte
    PHD Philosophy
    "Harmony and Disquietude: Leibnizian Currents in German Idealist Thought"
  • Alexandra Hernandez-Vallant
    PHD Psychology
    "The medication is only 10% of recovery: A mixed-method analysis of facilitators and barriers to the equitable implementation of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder treatment"
  • Tyler Hipple
    PHD Chemistry
    "Genomic Architecture of Obesity: Elucidating the Genetic Causes of this Complex Disease"
  • Yanhong Huang
    PHD Geography
    "Analyzing Environmental Health: Air Pollution And Human Health Using Geospatial Data Science"
  • Carlos Enrique Ibarra Cantu
    PHD Spanish and Portuguese
    "Bilingual and trilingual Nuu Savi (Mixtecos) in rural northwest Oregon: intergenerational cultural and linguistic identity, Spanish language attitudes and maintenance, and language usage domains"
  • Lyounghee Kim
    PHD Communication
    "Everyday Lives In The U.s.: An Intersectional Approach To North Korean Women Refugees, Identities, And Experiences"
  • Jackson Kock
    PHD Optical Science and Engineering
    "Toward Yb:YLF-based optical cryocooler: monolithic architecture, pump management, fluorescence thermometry and saturation effects"
  • Meghan Lentz
    PHD Physics
    "A Systematic Approach to the Characterization of Liquid-Vapor Coexistence in Platinum"
  • Ruizhe Liu
    PHD Anthropology
    "Does reliance on kin erode with market integration? A social network perspective"
  • Paige Lynch
    PHD Anthropology
    "Sociocultural and Environmental Changes and Their Biological Impact on Non-Elite Polish Individuals"
  • Dan Mason
    PHD Earth and Planetary Sciences
    "Contemporary Martian Geomorphic Processes and the Suitability Characterization of Terrestrial Analogues"
  • Robert McKinley
    PHD Philosophy
    "Blind Will: Schelling, Schopenhauer, and the Problem of Evil"
  • Blair Mirka
    PHD Geography
    "Correcting class imbalance using synthetic data and 3D modeling for carabid beetle pitfall trap sampling"
  • Benjamin Morrison
    PHD Physics
    "Full-Stack Quantum Computing"
  • Phuc Duc Loc Ngo
    PHD Physics
    "Exploring the very early cosmological history with dark matter and primordial black holes"
  • Tosin Olofinsao
    PHD Economics
    "Agricultural Water Management, Farmer Decision-Making and Climate Adaptation in Dryland Agriculture: a case of the Middle Rio Grande Basin"
  • Stephen Owusu
    PHD Economics
    "Essays on the Economics of Education Policy"
  • Bisweswar Patra
    PHD Optical Science and Engineering
    "Light-Matter Interaction, Molecular Optomechanics and Interfacial Processes in Plasmonic Nanocavity"
  • Katherine Peck
    PHD Anthropology
    "The South Kohala Field System: Historical Ecology of a Marginal Landscape"
  • Ken Plackowski
    PHD Chemistry
    "A Study of Machine Learning Techniques in Solving Biochemical and Chemical Problems"
  • Md Nasful Huda Prince
    PHD Optical Science and Engineering
    "Volumetric Imaging Of Cellular Dynamics Using Light-sheet Microscopy: From Subcellular Structures To Whole Organisms"
  • Pan Qi
    PHD Economics
    "Health Impacts, Air Pollution And Electric Vehicles In California"
  • Bradley Robert
    PHD Psychology
    "Effects Of High Frequency Random Noise Stimulation With A Direct Current Offset On Sustained Attention And Visual Search Performance In A Synthetic Aperture Radar Task"
  • Eve Rowland
    PHD Biology
    "From Computer Simulations to Channel Island Foxes: Life in the Face of Environmental Change"
  • Maziar Saleh Ziabari
    PHD Optical Science and Engineering
    "Advancing diamond quantum sensors: phase noise mitigation and isotropic flux concentrators"
  • Jordan Sampson
    PHD Biology
    "Genetic Gain and Loss in the Evolution of Amniote T Cell Receptor and Immunoglobulin Genes."
  • Sarigai Sarigai
    PHD Geography
    "Advancing Interactive Web Cartography through Designing and Developing an Open-Source, Data-Driven Framework for Accessible Geovisualization of Geospatial (Big) Data"
  • Maya Shamsid-Deen
    PHD Biology
    "The Dynamics of Plant Colonization and Persistence: Roles of Phenotypic Plasticity and Fungal Symbiosis"
  • Cassie Smith
    PHD Anthropology
    "Making the MACC: Communities of Practice and Cultural Citizenship in Austin, Texas"
  • Wenkai Song
    PHD Earth and Planetary Sciences
    "Seismological investigations of magmatic systems using dense nodal arrays"
  • David Tan
    PHD Biology
    "The Island Biogeography of Mangrove-dwelling Vertebrates: Isolation, Specialisation, and Extinction"
  • Joseph Ukockis
    PHD History
    "Interdependence and Place in Mescalero Homelands, 1660-1865"
  • Suzanne Vaccaro
    PHD Psychology
    "The Influence of Infant Temperament on Maternal Sensitivity in Preterm Infants"
  • Nicholas Vinciguerra
    PHD Biology
    "Geographic patterns and evolutionary processes of avian diversification"
  • Liota Weinbaum
    PHD Biology
    "Mechanistic models of transmission dynamics in livestock: quantifying commercially-relevant outcomes of infectious disease prevention"
  • Xiaobing Zhu
    PHD Optical Science and Engineering
    "Phase Nanoscopy with Correlated Frequency Combs"

School of Engineering

  • Rahul Adhikari
    PHD Engineering
    "Real-time Frequency Tuning Of Kinetic Energy Harvesters Via System Mass Adjustment"
  • Ali Ahmadikashani
    PHD Engineering
    "Data-Driven Constrained Control"
  • Siham Al Shanti
    PHD Engineering
    "Acoustic Black Hole Structure Using 3d-printed Polymer Concrete"
  • Ryan Alcala
    PHD Engineering
    "Thermally Stable Catalysts for Alkane Activation"
  • Zinah Alsaad
    PHD Engineering
    "Bridging the Gap to Midwave Infrared Event-Based Sensors: Design, Sensitivity, and Radiation-Hardness Characterization of a Single-Pixel III-V Event-Based Infrared Sensor for Space Applications"
  • Jose Chacon
    PHD Engineering
    "Modeling and Simulations of a Laboratory Frequency-Tunable High Power A6 Relativist Magnetron Variant Utilizing Mechanically Articulating Vane Structure for Cavity Perturbations"
  • Gerald Collom
    PHD Computer Science
  • Mona Esmaeili
    PHD Engineering
    "AI-Driven EMI Mitigation for Smart Healthcare: Generative Adversarial Networks and Edge Computing for Reliable Medical Systems"
  • Raymond Fasano
    PHD Engineering
    "PRIA: Process Risk Identification and Analysis"
  • Jannatul Ferdous
    PHD Computer Science
    "Exploring Immune System through Computational Modeling: A Comprehensive Study of Lymph Nodes and Immune Response Scaling, Vaccine Efficacy, and Large-Scale Extreme First Passage Time"
  • Alexander Glick
    PHD Engineering
    "Development of a Near Terahertz Backward Wave Oscillator Using Standard Waveguide"
  • Edmund Gyandoh
    PHD Engineering
    "Techno-economic Analysis (TEA) and Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Production through Circular Economy (CE) Practices in Sandoval County, New Mexico: A Focus on Supply Chain Optimization and Policy Implications"
  • Grant Heileman
    PHD Engineering
    "Principals of Photoconductive Antennas"
  • Jennifer Leute
    PHD Engineering
    "A Risk-informed Approach To Performing The Pre-closure Safety Analysis For The Deep Borehole Disposal Of Radioactive Waste"
  • Luo Li
    PHD Engineering
    "Multiscale and Multi-model Studies of Metal Plasticity"
  • Alexis Maldonado
    PHD Engineering
    "Coupled Adjoint-based Perturbation Theory for Dynamics and Heat Transfer Multiphysics for Nuclear Transients"
  • William Marts
    PHD Computer Science
    "A Systematic Evaluation of Threaded Internode Communication in HPC"
  • Natalia McIver
    PHD Engineering
    "Recreating Artificial Ligaments with Fiber Recruitment Using Additive Manufacturing"
  • Seth Miller
    PHD Engineering
    "Studies of Electrical Breakdown of High-Pressure Ultra-Zero Air"
  • Ali Mohammadkhorasani
    PHD Engineering
    "A Novel Augmented Reality Human-in-the-Loop Methodology for Enhancing Structural Inspections"
  • Amir Nazerian
    PHD Engineering
    "Networked Systems: Synchronization, Decomposition, and Transient Dynamics"
  • Jake Nichol
    PHD Computer Science
    "Seeking Etiologies in Complex Systems: From Feature Analysis to Space-Time Causal Discovery with Applications in Climate Science"
  • Tushar Ojha
    PHD Engineering
    "A Bump Hunting Approach to Finding Interpretable Data Pockets"
  • Jude Oka
    PHD Engineering
    "Predicting Leakage From Nuclear Material Containers At Los Alamos National Laboratory Through Drop Testing, Leak Testing, Finite Element Analysis And Digital Image Correlation"
  • Adam Quintana
    PHD Engineering
    "Combined Theoretical and Experimental Characterization of Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation of Elastin-Like Polypeptides."
  • Dheeman Saha
    PHD Computer Science
    "Irregularities in the Dynamics of Large Networks: Cases on Social Networks and the Internet"
  • Jianda Wang
    PHD Engineering
    "Dissertation"
  • Ian Wilcox
    PHD Engineering
    "Optimization and Acceleration of PUF Design through Reduced Order Standard Cell Modeling"
  • Yonatan Melese Worku
    PHD Engineering
    "Network Intelligence for Next-Generation Wireless Networks: Advancing Distribution and Coordination"

College of Nursing

  • Dominique Gomez
    DNP Nursing
  • Andrea Lima
    DNP Nursing
  • Elizabeth Melton
    DNP Nursing
  • Natalie Montgomery
    DNP Nursing
  • Lyric Nakashima
    DNP Nursing
  • Linda Waggener
    DNP Nursing

School of Law

  • Case Allison
    Juris Doctor
  • Michael Campbell
    Juris Doctor
  • Mariela Cisco
    Juris Doctor
  • Winter Flack
    Juris Doctor
  • Eli Green
    Juris Doctor
  • Raphael Lobato
    Juris Doctor
  • Kevin Lopez
    Juris Doctor
  • Rosalie Martin
    Juris Doctor
  • Trey Mitchell
    Juris Doctor
  • Julie Nguyen
    Juris Doctor
  • Samuel Peoble
    Juris Doctor
  • Victor Reyes
    Juris Doctor
  • Crystal Saenz
    Juris Doctor
  • Natalie Smead
    Juris Doctor

School of Medicine

  • Joseph Esquibel
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Damian Fountain
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Tyler Hough
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Vanessa Iturralde
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Dailey Jackson
    OTD Occupational Therapy
  • Julianne Olguin
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Ryan Shaffer
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Dominique Spence
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Jennifer Strand
    OTD Occupational Therapy
  • Melissa Tencza
    OTD Occupational Therapy
  • Vanessa Trujillo
    OTD Occupational Therapy
  • Rebecca Turiciano
    OTD Occupational Therapy