Summer and Fall 2017 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
- Suliman Alothaim
PHD Special Education
"Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Knowledge, Teaching Skills, Preparation, and Needed Knowledge of Saudi Arabian Special Educators to Meet the Needs of their Students with ASD." - Stephen Bello
PHD Physics
"Proposed Method for Measuring the LET of Radiotherapeutic Particle Beams" - Jennifer Benson
PHD Psychology
"Understanding Behavioral Health and Treatment Engagement with Former Users of Prenatal Substances: A Strengths-Focused Qualitative Inquiry" - Kathryn Bode
PHD Organization, Information & Learning Sciences
"Discovering Psychological Components of a Ph.D., the Road to Success" - 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" - Susan Brumbaugh
PHD Linguistics
"Anglo and Hispanic Vowel Variation in New Mexican English" - Colin Byrne
PHD Engineering
"A Numerical Investigation of the Implications of Altered Channel-Floodplain Connectivity on Hydrodynamic Flood Wave Processes" - William Carleton
PHD History
"Fruit, Fiber, and Fire: A Cultural History of Modern Agriculture in New Mexico." - Noel Dawson
PHD Nanoscience & Microsystems Engineering
"The Processing and Polarization Reversal Dynamics of Thin Film Poly(vinylidene) Fluoride" - Kelly Denisson
PHD Multicultural Teaching & Child Education
"Re-thinking Apprenticeship In Art Education" - Yuka Doherty
PHD Sociology
"Boundaries of Citizenship: Gendered and Racialized Reproduction and Motherhood in Contemporary Japan" - Matthew Dosanjh
PHD Computer Science
"Improving HPC Communication Library Performance on Modern Architectures" - Tammi Duncan
PHD Biology
"Bacterial Siderophore Production in Caves" - Regina Eddie
PHD Nursing
"A Socio-Ecological Analysis of Childhood Obesity and School Nutrition Policies and Practices in Select Elementary and Middle Schools on the Navajo Reservation" - Nicholas Estes
PHD American Studies
"Our History is the Future: Mni Wiconi and Struggle for Native Liberation" - Sadia Faiza
PHD Engineering
"Development Of Design Equation For Drilled Shafts In Granular Dense Soil Using Dem Simulations." - Nadiezda Fernandez Oropeza
PHD Engineering
"Development of biomimetic membrane assemblies on microparticles for high-throughput and multiplexable studies" - Rahmah Fithriani
PHD Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies
"Indonesian Students' Perceptions of Written Feedback in Second Language Writing" - Mark Gorski
PHD Physics
"Molecular Tracers of Star Formation Feedback in Nearby Galaxies" - Aram Gragossian
PHD Optical Science & Engineering
"Synchronous generation and coherent control of extreme wavelength radiation and ultrafast spectroscopy" - Vanessa Harris
PHD Educational Psychology
"The Effect of the Sophomore Slump on Students' Persistence" - Edward Hobbs
PHD Engineering
"Asymptotic Neutronic Solutions For Fast Burst Reactor Design" - Dewan Ibtesham
PHD Computer Science
"Improving Large Scale Application Performance via Data Movement Reduction" - Romica Kerketta
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"Exploring biological heterogeneity and its consequences at tissue and cellular scales through mathematical and computational modeling" - Dominic Kersi
PHD Chemistry
"Synthesis, Characterization, and Spectroscopy of Donor-Acceptor Charge Transfer Complexes" - Tae Kunisawa
PHD Educational Linguistics
"Thinking-For-Speaking and the EFL Mind: Face-to-Face Dialogue to Talk about Vertical Space" - Elisheva Levin
PHD Special Education
"Autism Spectrum Disorders Policymaking in New Mexico: An Ethnographic Case Study" - Umme Mannan
PHD Engineering
"Characterization Of Asphalt Healing And Incorporation In A Fatigue Damage Model" - 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" - Michelle McGeough
PHD Art History
"The Indigenous Sovereign Body: Gender, Sexuality and Performance." - Michael Morad-McCoy
PHD Counselor Education
"The Influence Of Personal Threat, Personal Loss, Age, Practice Characteristics, And Death Education On Counselors¿¿¿ Death Anxiety And Death Acceptance" - Mohsen Nami
PHD Optical Science & Engineering
"Nanowire-based light-emitting diodes: A new path towards High-speed visible light communication" - Jennifer Noble
PHD Biology
"Forage selection and habitat architecture as drivers of small mammal community dynamics in an arid, nutrient limited, highly stochastic ecosystem" - Robert Oliver
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"Post-transcriptional Regulation Of Addiction-related Behaviors: Opposing Roles Of Nucleus Accumbens Mir-495 And Hud" - Roberto Ollivier
PHD Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies
"Agency, The Uncanny, And Strangeways: An Autoethnographic Journey Through An International Wunderland." - Michelle Osowski
PHD Educational Psychology
"The predictability of New Mexico's summative reading assessment by two commonly used early literacy assessments, the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills Next (DIBELS Next) and the Developmental Reading Assessment - Second Edition (DRA2)." - Sangita Paudel
PHD Chemistry
"Excited State Processes in Radical Elaborated Platinum Donor-Acceptor Complexes" - Albert Perry
PHD Nanoscience & Microsystems Engineering
"Incorporation of catalytic modalities for forming of a catalytic cascade" - India Rael Young
PHD Art History
"Cultural imPRINT: A History of Northwest Coast Native and First Nations Prints" - A S M Rahman
PHD Engineering
"Characterization and Modeling of Asphalt Concrete for Dynamic Properties and Performances" - Priyanka Rawat
PHD Engineering
"Next-generation sequencing technologies for real-time genotyping and targeted sequencing for precision medicine" - Nathaniel Redekopp
PHD Spanish & Portuguese
"Performing (female) Masculinity In The Early Modern Ibero-atlantic World: An Analysis Of The Mujer Varonil In Gender And Genre" - Emma Renteria
PHD Engineering
"Integration of Thin Film TPV Cells to CVD Diamond Heat Spreaders." - Aaron Roy
PHD Engineering
"Anodic Catalysts for Anion Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells." - Jorge Santamaria Carrera
PHD Engineering
"Quantifying The Effect Of Construction Site Factors On Concrete Quality, Costs And Production Rates" - Aditi Sarkar
PHD Economics
"The Economic Impact Of Oil And Gas Production In The Permian Basin" - Hamide Seidfaraji
PHD Engineering
"High Power Microwave Metamaterial Based Passive And Active Devices" - Kritika Sen Chakraborty
PHD Economics
"Essays on human capital, labor, and gender" - Karra Shimabukuro
PHD English
"Devilish Leaders, Demonic Parliament, and Diabolical Rebels: The Political Devil and Nationalistic Rhetoric from Malmesbury to Milton" - Denis Silantyev
PHD Mathematics
"Nonlinear Waves, Instabilities And Singularities In Plasma And Hydrodynamics" - Elena Stein
PHD Psychology
"Validation of the Addictions Neuroclinical Assessment Among Diverse Individuals With Alcohol Use Disorder" - Emma Stein
PHD Art History
"Porous Time and Space in Contemporary Photography: How Social Constructions of Space and Reenactment Produce Alternative Histories" - Michael Stocz
PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
"Measuring Accommodation on Facebook between Single-A Minor League Baseball Teams and Facebook Users" - Connie Tagtmeyer
PHD Counseling
"Twice Exceptional College Students Identified as Gifted and Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Comparative Case Study" - Rajani Thapa Magar
PHD Chemistry
"Syntheses and Characterization of photoactive ruthenium and iron polypyridyl complexes" - Elise Trott Jaramillo
PHD Anthropology
"Bodies of Water: Politics, Ethics, and Relationships along New Mexico's Acequias" - Jackelyn Van Buren
PHD Linguistics
"Cuasi nomas ingles: Prosody at the crossroads of Spanish and English in 20th Century New Mexico" - Cirila Estela Vasquez Guzman
PHD Sociology
"A Sociological Analysis of Cultural Competence: Essays on the Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Implementation of Cultural Competence in the U.S. Medical Profession" - Jui Jen Wang
PHD Physics
"MiniCLEAN Dark Matter Experiment" - Mark Weaver
PHD Organization, Information & Learning Sciences - Jonathan West
PHD Engineering
"Applying Heterogeneous Teams of Robotic Agents to Education and Mapping Applications" - Guihua Zeng
PHD Chemistry
""Construction of Synthetic Signal Pathways in Mammalian Cells Via Induced Protein Proximity"" - Dominick Zurlo
PHD Educational Psychology
"Effective Training Modalities to Teach the Use of Naloxone Nasal Spray"
School of Law
- Sarah Bauer
Juris Doctor - Deshawnda Chaparro
Juris Doctor - Jesse Clifton
Juris Doctor - Samuel Defillippo
Juris Doctor - Reyes Delacruz
Juris Doctor - Alexandria Dell
Juris Doctor - Alexis Dudelczyk
Juris Doctor - Shonnetta Estrada
Juris Doctor - Lisa Giandomenico
Juris Doctor - Abeer Ibrahim
Juris Doctor - Gary Lee
Juris Doctor - Veronica Lewis
Juris Doctor - Teng Ma
Juris Doctor - Sarah Mahoney
Juris Doctor - Deian McBryde
Juris Doctor - Leigh Messerer
Juris Doctor - Jannette Mondragon
Juris Doctor - Christopher Muldrow
Juris Doctor - Carlos Padilla
Juris Doctor - Gillian Sherwood
Juris Doctor - Collin Stradling
Juris Doctor - Troy Ward
Juris Doctor
School of Medicine
- Alaa Elmaoued
Doctor of Medicine - Julie Everett
Doctor of Medicine - Francisco Izquierdo
Doctor of Medicine - Benjamin Johnson
Doctor of Medicine - Sarah Johnson
Doctor of Medicine - Ingrid Lindquist
Doctor of Medicine - Gina Stroud
Doctor of Medicine