Summer and Fall 2019 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
- Noor Abu-El-Rub
PHD Computer Science
"Promotional Campaigns in the Era of Social Platforms" - Abhinav Aggarwal
PHD Computer Science
"Thwarting Adversaries with Randomness and Irrationality" - Saleh Nur Muhammad Al Mamun
PHD Economics
"Interdependencies Between Energy, The Environment, And Stakeholder Choices" - Ahmad Alenezi
PHD Educational Linguistics
"A Systemic Functional Linguistics Analysis of the Discourse of English Friday Sermons" - Geoffrey Alexander
PHD Computer Science
"Non-Trivial Off-Path Network Measurements without Shared Side-Channel Resource Exhaustion" - Mohammad Ali
PHD Economics
"Essays on Nutrition and Cognitive Production in Developing Countries: Evidence from Ethiopia & Nepal" - Rijasoa Andriamanana Josoa
PHD Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies
"Resaka kolontsaina le raha (It Is About Cultures): Cultures in Foreign Language Teaching in Madagascar" - Julian Antolin Camarena
PHD Physics - Dudley Babb
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Camden Bair
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"Intratypic Genetic Variability Of Human Adenovirus Type 4: Implication For Pathogenesis" - Karishma Bansal
PHD Physics
"Searching for Supermassive Binary Black Holes and their Gravitational Waves" - Jessica Binder
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"Tauopathies, Novel Optogenetic Tools, And The Future Of Artificial Intellience In Medicine." - Adrienne Borders
PHD Psychology
"Substance Use Treatment Accessibility for Pregnant and Postpartum Women" - 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" - Claudia Boyd
PHD Communication
"The Sweet Tale: A Pilot Study Of An Interactive Narrative Health Communication Intervention For Children Using Positive Deviance To Highlight Communicative Acts That Lead To Effective Management Of Diabetes Among Hispanics" - Scott Burley
PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
"Effects Of Pacing Conditions On Knowledge And Fitness In Two Psi Introductory Physical Fitness Activity Courses For Adult Learners" - Anirban Ch Narayan Chowdhury
PHD Physics - Praveen Chander
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"Neuron Specific Gene 2 (nsg2): A Novel Regulator Of Excitatory Neurotransmission Via Ampa Receptor Trafficking At A Subset Of Glutamatergic Synapses" - Marie Chavez
PHD Educational Linguistics
"Linguistic Discrimination against Native Spanish Speakers in the New Mexico Bar Examination in the 1970s" - Rahulreddy Chennareddy
PHD Engineering
"Retrofit Of Corroded Corrugated Metal Culverts Using Gfrp Slip-liner" - Jocelyn Colella
PHD Biology
"Mixing it up: the impact of episodic introgression on the evolution of high-latitude meso-carnivores" - Jacob Collison
PHD Engineering
"The Collison Floating Evaporation Pan: Design, Validation, and Comparison." - Cathy Cumberland
PHD Biology
"Forty years of change in southwestern bee assemblages" - Ivana Cvetkovic
PHD Communication
"Framing of European Union borders in online news: Multimodal discourses of inclusion and exclusion" - Michael Darling
PHD Engineering
"Using Uncertainty To Interpret Supervised Machine Learning Predictions" - Benjamin Datko
PHD Chemistry
"Triplet Population Dynamics and Excited State Relaxation in Chalcogenophene Polymers" - Caitlin Davis
PHD Anthropology
"A Noncoherent Governance: Tinkering with Stones in the Old City of Acre" - Dietger De Maeseneer
EDD Educational Leadership
"Acknowledging The Genealogical: A Deleuzian hermeneutics of narrated identity" - Ricardo de Souza
PHD Linguistics
"The Interaction of Domain-initial Effects with Lexical Stress: Acoustic Data from English, Spanish, and Portuguese" - Katherine Deblasio
PHD Physics
"The Production Cross Section of the J/psi Meson Measured Using the PHENIX Detector at sqrt{s}=510 GeV" - Margaret Depond
PHD History
"Beach Bodies: Gender and the Beach in American Culture, 1880-1940" - Megan Devan
PHD Biology
"Warming up: Climate change related shifts of mycorrhizal fungal communities in high latitude ecosystems" - Zhao Ding
PHD Communication
"Resisting The Victimization: Examining Ideological Tensions Of Race, Gender, Sexuality And Transnationality Among First-generation Chinese Migrant Women In U.s. Academia" - Yuka Doherty
PHD Sociology
"Boundaries of Citizenship: Gendered and Racialized Reproduction and Motherhood in Contemporary Japan" - Amber Dukes
PHD Psychology
"The Impact Of Persistent Sadness And Bullying Victimization On Suicidal Thoughts And Behaviors Among Heterosexual-Identified Sexual Minority And LGBQ Adolescents" - Adeline Fanni
PHD Engineering
"Detection and Remodeling of Toxic Amyloid Aggregates by Novel Conjugated Polyelectrolytes" - Juan Faria Briceno
PHD Engineering
"Optical Angular Scatterometry: In-line metrology Approach for Roll-to-Roll and Nano-imprint Fabrication" - Hafiz Muhammad Fazal e Haq
PHD Educational Linguistics
"The Identification of Formulaic Sequences in Urdu Language and Their Pedagogical Implication For SLA (ESL/USL)." - Kristin Fitzgerald
PHD Anthropology
"We Practice Lakota Way, But We Are Not An Indian Church: The Diverse Ways Lakota Christians Articulate, Perform And Translate Ethnicity In Congregational Life" - Joshua Frank Cardenas
PHD Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies
"Jack D. Forbes and the Search for a Decolonizing Philosophy of Education" - Candace Frerich
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"Mechanisms of MYB gene activation in salivary gland tumors" - Caroline Gabe
PHD Anthropology
"Seventeenth-Century Spanish Colonial Identity in New Mexico: A Study of Identity Practices through Material Culture" - Claudia Garrido Martins
PHD Engineering
"Assessment of Project Risks in Fast-Track Construction Projects" - Joseph Gleason
PHD Engineering
"Software Design for Probabilistic Safety: Stochastic Reachability and Circadian Control" - Jessica Gross
PHD Anthropology
"The History of Admixture in African Americans" - Holly Gurule
EDD Educational Leadership
"How schools create healthy testing cultures and how principals use standardized test data to become leaders of learning" - Elizabeth Harding
PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
"Are steps per day enough? Quality versus quantity of ambulatory behavior after a light-intensity physical activity intervention of older cancer survivors Quality vs. quantity of ambulatory behavior after light-intensity physical activity intervention for" - Xuanhao He
PHD Economics
"Three Essays on the Societal Impact of Health Policies and Laws" - Meghan Healy
PHD Anthropology
"Ethnic identity and genetic ancestry in New Mexicans of Spanish-speaking descent" - James Hendrie
PHD Optical Science & Engineering
"Tailored Frequency Comb Structures and Their Sensing Applications Their Sensing Applications" - Kelly Hunnings
PHD English
"The Chaotic Domestic: Tracing Affect In Representations Of Nation, Class, And Gender In Eighteenth-century Laboring-class Women's Writing" - Miriam Hutchinson
PHD Biology
"Fungi in a hot, dry, changing world" - Lo Jaramillo
PHD Engineering
"Implementations of Resilience Engineering for Natural System Disturbances: A Panarchical Perspective A Panarchical Perspective" - Laura Jeffery
EDD Educational Leadership
"Preservice Teachers' Perceptions of Readiness for Teaching in 1:1 Classrooms" - Yunji Jeong
PHD Special Education
"Knowledge and desires of parents of middle school students with intellectual disability regarding inclusive education laws and practices in South Korea: Qualitative case study" - Shekhar K C
PHD Chemistry
"Development of Ni-catalyzed Alkene Dicarbofunctionalization Reaction" - Bijesh Kafle
PHD Chemistry
"Self-assembly, Integration, Characterizations And Applications Of Plasmonic And Excitonic Nanomaterials" - Elmira Kalhor
PHD Economics
"Dynamic and Integrated Models of the Energy-Water-Land Nexus: Economic and Environmental of Policy Decisions Economic and Environmental Evaluation of Policy Decisions" - Ahmed Khawaji
PHD Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies
"Communicative and Collective Formative Program Evaluation: A Descriptive Case Study of an ELT Program in Saudi Arabia" - Min Jung Kim
PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
"Beyond Spectator Sports: Scale Development and Validation for Mediated Sports Consumption" - Sarah Kintner
PHD Nanoscience & Microsystems Engineering
"Effects Of Temperature And Nitrogen Depletion On Biodiesel Production Under Saline Conditions By A Mixed Algal Community" - Matthew Koppa
PHD Physics
"Direct observation of atomic exchange during surface self-diffusion" - Eric Kruger
PHD Psychology
"Effect of a Learned-Threat on Pain Perception and Behaviors" - Randy Lafler
PHD Physics
"Studying The Properties Of SF6 Gas Mixtures For Directional Dark Matter Detection" - Christine Lenhart
PHD Multicultural Teaching & Child Education
"Teachers' Perspectives of the Observation Process within the Evaluation" - David Liakos
PHD Philosophy
"From Deconstruction to Rehabilitation: Heidegger, Gadamer, and Modernity" - Paulina Lima Guaman
PHD Engineering
"An Investigation of Runoff Sources to Headwater Streams and Implications for Hydropower Projects using Stable Isotope Analyses" - Ginger Looney
PHD Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies
"A Dialectical Relational Analysis of TESOL Quarterly 2006 Special Issue on Race: Discourse, Race, and White Supremacist Ideology" - Maria Lopez-Garcia
PHD American Studies
"Cartographies of Precarity: The Cultural Politics of Filipina and Mexican Migrant Domestic Workers" - Na Lu
PHD Economics
"Essays on Agricultural Water Pollution and Human Health" - Qi Lu
PHD Computer Science
"An Efficient Multiple Place Foraging Algorithm for Scalable Robot Swarms" - Yoshira Macias Mejia
PHD Political Science
"Racial Identity Among Latino Millennials: A Determining Factor for Political Behavior" - Raquel Madrigal
PHD American Studies
"Immigration/migration And Settler Colonialism: Doing Critial Ethnic Studies On The U.s. ¿¿¿ Mexico Border" - Joseph Malins
PHD Physics
"Using Natural Phenomena to Study the Ionosphere" - Jamal Mamkhezri
PHD Economics
"Market and Non-Market Valuation of Renewable Energy" - Vijay Saradhi Mangu
PHD Engineering
"Pixelated GaSb Membranes for Photovoltaics: Fabrication & Structure-Property relationships" - Ahmad Mansoori
PHD Optical Science & Engineering
"Reduction of threading dislocation in GaSb epilayer grown on GaAs substrate for photovoltaic and thermophotovoltaic applications" - Jairo Marshall
PHD History
""Little Farm Hands: Rural Child Labor, Family, and Memory in the U.S Southwest, 1890-1940"" - Tye Martin
PHD Engineering
"Computational Investigation of the Interactions Between Bioactive Compounds and Biological Assemblies" - Trisha Martinez
PHD American Studies
""Living the Manito Trail: Maintaining Self, Community, and Culture"" - Monica Martinez-Archuleta
EDD Educational Leadership
"School and Community Expectations in a Small, Rural, Northern New Mexico School" - 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" - Levi Maston
PHD Biomedical Sciences - James Maurer
PHD Psychology
"Investigating error-related processing in incarcerated adolescents with elevated psychopathic traits" - Hanieh Mazloom Farsibaf
PHD Physics
"Investigation of Membrane Protein Dynamics using Correlative Single-Particle Tracking and Super-resolution Microscopy Combined with Bayesian Inference of Diffusion in Arbitrary Landscape." - Susan Metheny
PHD Educational Linguistics
"FOUND IN SPACE: A CROSS-LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN ENGLISH MAP TASK PERFORMANCE the Educational Assessment of Second Language Learners of English: ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿" - Saadat Mishkat Ul Masabih
PHD Engineering
"Progress towards the development of a 369 nm GaN-based vertical cavity surface emitting laser." - Terence Moriarty
PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
"Exercise-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation Improves Cognitive Function Among CVD Patients" - Carmen Mosley Barbolla
PHD Anthropology
"A Biocultural Examination of Health Risk among New Mexicans of Spanish-speaking Descent" - Natalia Moss
PHD Psychology
"Bilingualism and Executive Functioning in Children Born Very Low Birth Weight and Normal Birth Weight" - Adan Myers y Gutierrez
PHD Nanoscience & Microsystems Engineering
"Diagnostic Sequence Detection Against a Complex Background Using a DNA Molecular Computation Framework" - Razieh Nadafianshahamabadi
PHD Engineering
"Is Transportation Planning Effective? A Critical Review of Long-range Regional Transportation Planning in the United States" - Shima Nezhadbadeh
PHD Optical Science & Engineering
"Integrated chirped grating spectrometer-on-chip" - Phuong Anh Nguyen
PHD Engineering - Alexis O'Donnell
PHD Anthropology
"Trends in Health, Stress, and Migration in the pre-contact Southwest United States" - Doaa Omran Mohamed
PHD English
"Female Protagonist Mega-Archetypes: A Study in European Romances" - Jennifer Ong
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"Chronic Environmental Exposure To Metal Mixtures In Tribal Populations And Potential Immune System Effects" - Linda Ottley
PHD Nursing
"A Qualitative Examination of Prostate Cancer Decision-Making Among Black Men" - Luis Palomino
PHD Engineering
"Neutronic And Cfd-thermal Hydraulic Analyses Of Very-small, Long-life, Modular (vsllim) Reactor" - Santosh Pathak
PHD Mathematics
"L^{\infinity}-estimates of the solution of the Navier-Stokes equations for periodic initial data." - Sangita Paudel
PHD Chemistry
"Excited State Processes in Radical Elaborated Platinum Donor-Acceptor Complexes" - Richard Pepermans
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"Identification of a novel class of ER-selective ligands lacking cross-reactivity to GPER." - Molly Perara-Lunde
PHD Educational Linguistics
"Using the linguistic experiences of youth and their families as curriculum: The language box project" - Dominique Perez
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"Cyclic AMP efflux inhibition as a potential therapeutic target for acute leukemia: small molecule discovery and validation" - Melissa Pielech
PHD Psychology
"Prescription of opioids to youth 2005-2016: An examination of trends, patient characteristics, and outcomes through 12 months" - Jessica Pommy
PHD Psychology
"Pilot RCT of MBRP in Outpatient Methadone Clinic: A Neuropsychologically-Informed Approach" - Daniel Poulson
PHD Engineering
"Interrogation of Spent Nuclear Fuel Casks Using Cosmic-Ray Muon Computed Tomography" - Katelyn Reinhart
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"Influence of metabolic capacity on the consequences of spreading depolarization" - Christopher Riley
PHD Nanoscience & Microsystems Engineering
"The Design of Redox-Stable Single Atom Catalysts Achieved through Ceria Doping" - Ailesha Ringer
PHD Communication
"Sex, labor, and digital spaces: A critical discourse analysis of GPGuiadelas, a Brazilian sex worker Twitter feed." - Philip Roveto
PHD Engineering
"Biointerfacial Studies of Nitrifying Biofilms on Physically and Chemically Modified Surfaces" - Lauren Rowell
PHD Psychology
"Clearing the Muddy Waters: Is Lack of Motivational Interviewing Quality Accounting for Mixed Findings and Can Measuring Fidelity Help?" - Katelyn Rusk
PHD Anthropology
"Facial fluctuating asymmetry: developmental origins and implications for long-term health" - Gauhar Sabih
PHD Engineering
"Effects of coefficient of thermal expansion on unbonded concrete overlay design and performance." - Christine Sanchez
Doctor of Physical Therapy - 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" - Mohamed Nabil Shaikh
PHD Engineering
"Organic/Inorganic Interfacial Interaction Affecting Metal Reactivity: Water Treatment and Sensor Applications" - Kara Shanley
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"Altered proteasome expression and nuclear factor (erythroid-derived 2)-like signaling in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis" - Daniel Shattuck
PHD Anthropology
"Amaro e Piccante: The Production and Use of Terroir in the Scandal of Italian Extra Virgin Olive Oils" - Afroza Shirin
PHD Engineering
"Optimal Control Strategies for Complex Biological Systems" - Ezad Shojaee
PHD Physics
"Measurement and control for quantum state tomography, state preparation, and metrology" - Shikhar Shrestha
PHD Pharmaceutical Science
"Assessment Of Post-discharge Health Care Utilization In Infants With Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome" - Margaret Siebert
PHD Communication
"Genetically Modified Salmon And The Future Of Food: A Qualitative Content Analysis Of Twitter" - Morgan Sims
PHD English
"Multimodal Composition and Digital Technology: Investigating the Out-of-Class Experiences of Students in a First-Year Composition Class Investigating the Out-of-Class Experiences of Students in a First-Year Writing Class" - Elena Stein
PHD Psychology
"Validation of the Addictions Neuroclinical Assessment Among Diverse Individuals With Alcohol Use Disorder" - Elizabeth Stein
PHD Psychology
"Patient-Provider Communication in Community Mental Health: How Perceptions of Engagement in Decision-Making Influences Patient-Perceptions of Well-Being" - George Stelle
PHD Computer Science
"Shared-Environment Call-by-Need" - Michael Stroh
PHD Physics
"Circumstellar SiO Masers in the Bulge Asymmetries and Dynamical Evolution Survey" - Jennie Sturm
PHD Anthropology
"Using Archaeological Remote Sensing to Evaluate Land Use and Constructed Space in Chaco Canyon" - Betsy Summers
PHD Engineering
"Multi-year water quality data reveal highly variable timing and magnitude of metabolism and physicochemical drivers in an aridland river network" - Lean Sweeney
PHD History
"Statewise: Jurisdictional Fictions, Transnational Politics And Remaking The Nation State On The Chiapas-Guatemala Border, 1821-1899" - Sheela Thapa
PHD Chemistry
"Design and Applications of Charge-Separated Metal-Organic Frameworks" - Rajani Thapa Magar
PHD Chemistry
"Syntheses and Characterization of photoactive ruthenium and iron polypyridyl complexes" - Mariko Thomas
PHD Communication
"Cartographies of roots: An Exploration of plant communication, place, and story" - Amy Thompson
PHD Anthropology
"Comparative Processes of Sociopolitical Development in the Foothills of the Southern Maya Mountains" - Catalina Tome
PHD Biology
"Ecological and morphological response of rodents to environmental change over the late Quaternary" - Jessica Troy
PHD English
"Calling All Corpses: An Examination of the Treatment of the Dead in Old English Literature" - Joshua Trujillo
PHD Engineering
"Study of Distributed Versus Compressed Layouts for Physically Unclonable Functions" - Mariya Tseptsura
PHD English
"Multilingual Writers and Online Writing Instruction: Expanding Theoretical and Instructional Frameworks" - Susmitha Udayan
PHD French Studies
"Narrating Refugee Lives: Political Asylum in 21st Century France" - Alvaro Ulloa Cerna
PHD Engineering
"Large Scale Electronic Health Record Data and Echocardiography Video Analysis for Mortality Risk Prediction" - Simoni Valadares
PHD Linguistics
"The Palikur Language (Arawak, Amazonian): Sociolinguistics, Grammar Sketch, and the Morphosyntax and Semantics of Spatial Terms and the Morphosyntax and Semantics of Spatial Terms" - Kristen Valencia
PHD American Studies
"More than a Fiesta: Cinco de Mayo Celebrations and the Transboundary Link in Ambos Nogales" - Nekoda Van de Werken
PHD Engineering
"Effect of Alignment, Sizing, and Manufacturing Method on Mechanical Properties of Recycled Carbon Fiber Composites" - Raviteja Vangara
PHD Engineering
"Coulombic and non-Coulombic effects of single and overlapping Electrical Double Layers with Surface Charge Regulation" - Kara Walter
PHD Economics
"The impact of exogenous shocks and heterogeneity on demand and preferences environmental and resource good in the Southwestern United States environmental and resource goods in the Southwestern United States" - Chih Feng Wang
PHD Optical Science & Engineering
"Near-Field and Far-Field Microscopic and Spectroscopic Characterizations of Coupled Plasmonic, Excitonic and Polymeric Materials" - Patrick Wayne
PHD Engineering
"Characterization of single- and multi-phase shock-accelerated flows" - Andrew West
PHD Communication
"¿¿¿What's with what¿¿¿s her name? Siri, call so and so... Can't you use your own hands!?¿¿¿ Older Adult Perspectives on the Roles Communication Technology and Physical Activity Play in Their Aging Experiences" - Marie Westover
PHD Biology
"Biogeographic implications of climate change for a small alpine mammal, the American pika" - Zhixian Yu
PHD Physics
"Topics in Three-Dimensional Imaging, Source Localization and Super-resolution Source Localization and Super-resolution" - Juliane Ziter
PHD Organization, Information & Learning Sciences
"Building Evaluation Capacity in Community Colleges" - Melanie Zollner
EDD Educational Leadership
"Non-traditional Hispanic Women Students in Post-Secondary Education"
School of Law
- Carmen Borja
Juris Doctor - Mizael Carrera
Juris Doctor - Kenneth Detro
Juris Doctor - Amanda Dingman
Juris Doctor - Christopher Elam
Juris Doctor - Lily Hofstra
Juris Doctor - Christian Jorgensen
Juris Doctor - Jordi Kandarian
Juris Doctor - Paul Martello
Juris Doctor - Rachael Rembold
Juris Doctor - Lucy River
Juris Doctor - Jacobett Rivera Lujan
Juris Doctor - Alisha Walz
Juris Doctor - Mikel Ward
Juris Doctor
School of Medicine
- Yalda Barlas
Doctor of Medicine - Jacqueline Cai
Doctor of Medicine - David Gangwish
Doctor of Medicine - Addison Himmelberger
Doctor of Medicine - Edward Lu
Doctor of Medicine - Jay Martinez
Doctor of Medicine - Sarina Pollat
Doctor of Medicine - Angelica Romero
Doctor of Medicine - Arinea Salas
Doctor of Medicine - Amy Singh
Doctor of Medicine - Sanjog Singh
Doctor of Medicine - Elisabeth Sledz
Doctor of Medicine