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Summer and Fall 2023 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

  • Rosstin Ahmadian
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Cholesterol Regulation of EGFR-dependent Vasoconstriction in Chronic Hypoxia-induced Pulmonary Hypertension"
  • Ragai Altamimi
    PHD Engineering
    "Miniature, Submersible Electromagnetic Pumps of Molten Lead and Sodium for Gen-IV Nuclear Reactors Development"
  • Ishtiaque Anwar
    PHD Engineering
    "Investigation Of Issues Concerning Wellbore Leakage"
  • Minea Armijo
    PHD Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies
    ""Si solo nos dan esta oportunidad": Stories of Transnational Students in an Intercultural Secondary Program in Santa Fe de la Laguna, Michoacan, Mexico."
  • Roger Atanga
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Effects Of Acute And Chronic Gut Injury On Secretory Lineage Differentiation"
  • Tania Balderas
    PHD English
    "Resistance Narratives: Storytelling of Transnational Insurgencies in 1960-70s US and Mexico"
  • Quint Berkemeier
    PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
    "High Altitude Exercise, Autophagy, And Angiogenesis"
  • Aaron Billie
    EDD Educational Leadership
    "Indigenous Student Responses of Resiliency to Adversity"
  • Alana Bock
    PHD American Studies
    "The Haunting Aesthetics of Empire: Filipinx America, US Empire, and Cultural Production"
  • 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"
  • Florence Castillo
    PHD Sociology
    "Disrupting Whiteness in Education Organizations: Community Testimonios of Strategy, Resistance, and Perseverance in Educational Justice Organizing"
  • Tybur Casuse
    PHD Engineering
    "Gold Thin Film Electrodes for High Sensitivity & Selectivity Electrochemical Detection of Arsenite in Water"
  • Jesse Cohen
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Erin Coleman
    PHD Sociology
    "The longitudinal relationship between social mobilization, crime, and police behavior"
  • Leah Cook
    PHD History
    "The Wild Ones: Violence, Vengeance and Sensationalism in the Borderlands"
  • Mario Del Angel Guevara
    PHD Spanish & Portuguese
    "Returning to Northern New Mexico: A Study of the Nuevomexicano Lexicon"
  • Tran Dinh
    PHD Psychology
    "Effects of Childhood Health and Adversity on Women's Estrous and Extended Sexuality in Romantic Relationships"
  • Yuka Doherty
    PHD Sociology
    "Boundaries of Citizenship: Gendered and Racialized Reproduction and Motherhood in Contemporary Japan"
  • Evelyn Dohme
    PHD Engineering
    "Comparison of Random Coupling Model to Stochastic Green's Function when Coupling to a Distributed Port"
  • Crystle Dorsey
    PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
    "An Intersectional Grounded Theory Study Examining Identity Exploration For Former Student-athletes Against The Backdrop Of 2020"
  • Stephanie Fox
    PHD Anthropology
    "Social tolerance, cooperation and constraint shape differentiated social relationships in female chimpanzees"
  • Serafin Garcia Fernandez
    PHD Engineering
    "Repair of a Wellbore Microannulus"
  • Benjamin Gerstner
    PHD Biology
    "Resolving The Paradox Of Polyploidy: Underexplored Facets Of Polyploid Plants"
  • Suraj Ghimire
    PHD Economics
    "Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, Environmental Quality and Public Health"
  • Benjamin Gibson
    PHD Psychology
    "Understanding the Learning Benefits Associated with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation of the Right Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex"
  • Yan Gioseffi
    PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
    "Risk Management Perceptions And Preventive Practices Of Athletic Directors From Naia Schools"
  • Samuel Goodfellow
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Investigation of Orthohantavirus Genetics in Rodent Reservoirs and Clinical Samples"
  • Raeisa Grine
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Seyed Iman Habibi
    PHD Engineering
    "Noise-resilient and Adaptive Distributed Control Techniques for Microgrids"
  • Cameron Harjes
    PHD Engineering
    "Inhibiting Surface Flashover in Vacuum with High Gradient Insulators"
  • Md Rashidul Hasan
    PHD Statistics
    "Probabilistic Modeling of Social Media Networks, Distinguishing Phylogenetic Networks from Trees, and Fairness in Service Queues"
  • Mahya Hatambeigi
    PHD Engineering
    "Experimental And Numerical Investigation Of Fluid Flow Behavior Through Fractured Wellbore Cement"
  • Amanda Heffernan
    PHD Nursing
    "Pregnancy in United States Immigration Detention: Listening to Migrant Women's Stories"
  • Forrest Hubert
    PHD Optical Science & Engineering
    "Super-Resolution Microscopy with Color Centers in Diamond"
  • Trevor Jackson
    PHD Psychology
    "The Reward Positivity as an Additive and Temporally Independent Event-Related Potential Feature"
  • Manuel Jimenez Carrion
    PHD Organization, Information & Learning Sciences
    "Advanced Quantitative Approaches to Unveil Social Inequities in Educational Contexts"
  • Abhradeep Karmakar
    PHD Economics
    "Essays on the child health and education benefits of government programs"
  • Namrata Khanal
    PHD Chemistry
    "Synthesis and Reactivity of Heteroatom Embedded Cycloalkynes in SPAAC, Nickel Catalyzed Alkylarylation of Alkenes, and Carbofluorination of Alkynes"
  • Aashish Sanjay Khandelwal
    PHD Engineering
    "Development of The Navigator: A Lagrangian smart sensing system to characterize aquatic ecosystems."
  • Amy Korzekwa
    PHD Educational Psychology
    "Examining the Relationship Between Teacher Candidate Characteristics and Teacher Workforce Entry"
  • Gavin Lynch
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Tracy Mallette
    PHD Engineering
    "Heterochiral DNA Nanotechnology for Biomedical Applications"
  • 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"
  • Naif Masrahi
    PHD Educational Linguistics
    "Sociolinguistics of Saudi Vision 2030: Paradigm Shift Through English Faculty's Perspectives of Translanguaging at a Saudi University"
  • Austin Miller
    PHD Communication
    "Queer crises: Movements from queerness and feelings of white religion in the United States"
  • Jonathan Milton
    PHD Engineering
    "Optimizing High-Performance Computing Design: The Impacts of Bandwidth and Topology Across Workloads for Distributed Shared Memory Systems"
  • Emma Mincks
    PHD English
    "Long In The Tooth: The Commodification Of Teeth, Land, And Character; Resistance To British Oral Culture In Nineteenth-century Britain, Ireland, And The Americas 1770-1900"
  • Jo Anna Nevada
    PHD English
    "Digitally Rural: Identifying How Technological Inequity Impacts Rural Students in First-Year Writing Courses"
  • Justin Nichols
    PHD Engineering
    "Combining Semi-Continuous and Discrete Water Quality Data to Characterize Solute Transport, Biogeochemical Processes, and Wildfire Disturbances in Fluvial Systems"
  • Sangita Paudel
    PHD Chemistry
    "Excited State Processes in Radical Elaborated Platinum Donor-Acceptor Complexes"
  • Juan Pena
    PHD Psychology
    "Ethnic and Racial Group Differences in Attitudes Towards Undocumented Latino Immigrants"
  • Laura Powell
    PHD History
    "Ayllus and Haciendas: Social Reproduction of Community and Reciprocity in Nineteenth Century Ecuador"
  • Khusiman Pun
    PHD Economics
    "Three essays on the economics of children's health and education in Nepal"
  • Romaisha Rahman
    PHD Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies
    ""That felt weird.": International graduate students' emerging critical awareness of their experiences with microaggression."
  • Ali Rastegari
    PHD Optical Science & Engineering
    "Filaments and their application to air lasing, spectroscopy, and guided discharge"
  • Idris Robinson
    PHD Philosophy
    "Paradigms and Logical Morphology in Wittgenstein's Philosophy"
  • Aditi Sarkar
    PHD Economics
    "The Economic Impact Of Oil And Gas Production In The Permian Basin"
  • Joseph Scanlon
    Doctor of Physical Therapy
  • Kurt Schmidt
    EDD Educational Leadership
    "Student Perceptions Of Participation In Socratic Seminars At A Paideia School"
  • Thatcher Seltzer-Rogers
    PHD Anthropology
    "Between Casas Grandes And Salado: Community Formation And Interaction In The Borderlands Of The American Southwest/mexican Northwest Region, Ad 1200-1450"
  • Kritika Sen Chakraborty
    PHD Economics
    "Essays on human capital, labor, and gender"
  • Spencer Staley
    PHD Earth & Planetary Sciences
    "Weathering, erosion, and dust accumulation at Stoneman Lake, Arizona, USA: Timescales and drivers of geomorphic activity across the Southwest"
  • Elena Stein
    PHD Psychology
    "Validation of the Addictions Neuroclinical Assessment Among Diverse Individuals With Alcohol Use Disorder"
  • Roman Sverdlov
    PHD Mathematics
    "Modified geometries, Clifford algebras and graphs: their impact on discreteness, locality and symmetry"
  • William Talbot
    PHD Biology
    "Thermoregulation in Nocturnal Volant Endotherms Occupying Hot Deserts"
  • Rajani Thapa Magar
    PHD Chemistry
    "Syntheses and Characterization of photoactive ruthenium and iron polypyridyl complexes"
  • Korey Tillman
    PHD Sociology
    "The (im)mobility of being: The anti-black and colonial roots of contemporary policing"
  • Brian Topper
    PHD Optical Science & Engineering
    "High-power laser cooling and temperature-dependent fluorescence studies of ytterbium doped silica"
  • Diego Trujillo
    EDD Educational Leadership
    "Understanding the Academic and Socio-Cultural Experiences of Academically Underprepared Males and the Risk and Protective Factors Influencing Degree Attainment in a Community College System"
  • Emigdio Turner
    PHD Chemistry
    "Methods Of Magneto-optical Spectroscopy And Analysis For Porphyrins, And Polymer Thin-films"
  • Jared Valdez
    PHD English
    "Cinematic Camouflage"
  • Stuart Ward
    PHD Physics
    "Application of Quantum Mechanical Techniques to Optical Waveguide Structures"
  • Colin Weaver
    PHD Engineering
    "Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis of Inertial Confinement Fusion Experiments"
  • Justin Wilgus
    PHD Earth & Planetary Sciences
    "Applications of observational seismology: insights into volcanic and near surface processes"
  • Ingrid Wilson
    PHD Nursing
    "Mandatory Child Abuse And Neglect Reporting Behaviors Among Registered Nurses In New Mexico: A Statewide Comparative Study"
  • Lauren Zundel
    PHD Physics
    "Near- and Far-Field Optical Response of Ensembles of Nanostructures"

School of Engineering

  • Mohamed Abuhegazy
    PHD Engineering
    "RANS-DNS Simulations for Uncertainty Quantification in DNS Data of Turbulent Mixing Layer"
  • Torin Adamson
    PHD Computer Science
    "Improving Human-Automation Collaboration in Motion Planning"
  • Zeinab Akhavan
    PHD Computer Science
    "Smart Applications and Resource Management in Internet of Things"
  • Farhan Asif Chowdhury
    PHD Computer Science
    "Domain Specific Feature Representation Learning for Diverse Temporal Data"
  • Mohammad Amin Dehghani Najvani
    PHD Engineering
    "Early-Age Strength and Failure Characteristics of 3D Printable Polymer Concrete: Numerical Modelling and Experimental Testing"
  • Mina Faltas
    PHD Nanoscience & Microsystems Engineering
    "Electrodeposition Of Giant Magnetostrictive Transducers For A Fabricated Mixed Physics Signal Transmission Device"
  • Zeynel Guler
    PHD Engineering
    "Design, Fabrication And Characterization Of Zero Power Sensor/harvester For Smart Grid Applications"
  • Zafrul Hakim Khan
    PHD Engineering
    "Modeling of Asphalt Concrete for Cross-Anisotropic Visco-Elasticity and Heterogeneity"
  • Sarika Kumar
    PHD Computer Science
    "Computational Study of the Effect of Geometry on Molecular Interactions"
  • Lewis Larsen
    PHD Engineering
    "Colloid Fabrication for Biomedical Engineering Applications Through Droplet Microfluidics"
  • Blaise Mariner
    PHD Engineering
    "Introduction of proteasomal activity in mammalian cells by lifespan-extending tRNA synthetase inhibitors"
  • Md Parvez Mollah
    PHD Computer Science
    "Roadside LiDAR Data Processing for Intelligent Transportation System"
  • Alexander Newell
    PHD Engineering
    "Characterization analysis and design of mid-wave infrared III-V-based type-II superlattice nBn photodetectors for space applications"
  • Oameed Noakoasteen
    PHD Engineering
    "AI Assisted Workflows for Computational Electromagnetics and Antenna Design"
  • Kaitlyn Read
    PHD Nanoscience & Microsystems Engineering
    "An Exploration of Tissue Specific Impedance using Microneedle Based Wearable Sensors"
  • Scott Shore
    PHD Engineering
    "Extremum Seeking Control Algorithms for Extremely High Frequency Antenna System Pointing"
  • Petro Tshakwanda
    PHD Engineering
    "Enabling Intelligent Network Management through Multi-Agent Systems: An Implementation of Autonomous Network System"

College of Education & Human Sciences

  • Megan Chibanga
    EDD Educational Leadership
    "Are the Housing Staff Alright? A Hermeneutic Phenomenological examination of experiences of on-campus student housing professionals through the COVID19 pandemic"
  • Adan Delgado
    EDD Educational Leadership
    "A Phenomenological Study of Successful Superintendent Retention in a North-Central New Mexico School District"
  • Seana Evelyn
    PHD Special Education
    "Telling stories: Teaching children with Down syndrome story grammar using augmentative and alternative communication"
  • Joshua Krause
    PHD Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies
    "Teachers-as-Designers in Culturally Revitalizing and Sustaining Indigenous Education"
  • Thomas Mabrey
    PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
    "The Institutional Complexity within the Diffusion of Club and School Sports"
  • Marco Martinez Leandro
    PHD Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education
    "Using L1 student narratives and peer teaching to increase secondary education mathematical understanding"
  • Peter Mwangi
    PHD Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies
    "Leadership And Service: Kenyan Teachers Bringing Community Cultural Wealth Into Practice"
  • Eduardo Pena
    PHD Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education
    "An Inquiry into Urban Schooling and the Social Justice Nexus: An Agency Case Study for Transformative Change"
  • Kelli Williams-Page
    PHD Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education
    "A Study of Preservice Teachers' Preparedness to Teach Reading"

School of Medicine

  • Russell Hunter
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Environmental Ozone Exposure, Gestational Health, And The Lung-placental Axis"
  • Derek Rinaldi
    PHD Biomedical Sciences
    "Interrogation of the molecular mechanisms that fine-tune Fc¿¿RI signaling and mast cell outcomes"

College of University Libraries & Learning Sciences

  • Elvira Martin
    PHD Organization, Information & Learning Sciences
    "An exploratory study of how American Indian college students develop a sense of well-being as they pursue an associate degree in a rural community college"

College of Arts and Sciences

  • Sumaira Abrar
    PHD Communication
    "Intersections Of Health And Religion: Experiences And Perceptions Of Muslim Refugee Women In The Us Regarding Communication Heatlhcare Providers"
  • Mitchell Brickson
    PHD Physics
    "Modeling lithographic quantum dots and donors for quantum computation and simulation"
  • Seth Bruzewski
    PHD Physics
    "Radio Insights Into Gamma-Ray Mysteries"
  • Alexander Cameron
    PHD Biology
    "Synteny to SNPS: Comparative and Population Genomics of Endemic Gila River Fishes."
  • Joseph Crockett
    PHD Biology
    "Quantifying the influences of Abiotic and Biotic factors on Post-Fire Vegetation in the Southwestern US"
  • Lukas Denk
    PHD Linguistics
    "Stable Complexity: Verbal Inflection in Prominent and Frequent Environments"
  • Sayed Hassan Dibaji Foroushani
    PHD Optical Science & Engineering
    "Volumetric Imaging Using the Pupil-Matched Remote Focusing Technique in Light-Sheet Microscopy"
  • Cara Greene
    PHD Philosophy
    "Bloody Rationality: The Dialectic of Modern Reason and Sacrifice in Hegel, Adorno, and Horkheimer"
  • Pratik Kumar
    PHD Physics
    "Understanding the Nature of Pulsars and Characterizing Propagation Effects using Pulsar Timing"
  • Xuefeng Li
    PHD Optical Science & Engineering
    "Carrier Dynamics In Green Iii-nitride Leds Using Small-signal Electroluminescence"
  • Diana Macias
    PHD Biology
    "Recruitment dynamics and landscape genomics in a dominant climate-change vulnerable tree species, the pinon pine"
  • Kimberly Morrissey
    PHD Biology
    "The Third Domain of T Cells in the Evolution of Novel Immune Cell Types"
  • Samsun Naher
    PHD Economics
    "Three Essays On Disability Claiming And Mental Health"
  • David Paez Acevedo
    PHD Linguistics
    "Conceptual Meaning in Phonology: Multimodal Iconic Expressions in Discourse Focus"
  • John Roesgen
    PHD Biology
    "Mimicking biofilms: Photosynthetic assessments of C. reinhardtii in 3 physical forms"
  • Danielle Sanchez-Combs
    PHD Psychology
    "Do I Listen to You, or Do I Listen to Me? An Individual Difference Investigation into Advice Utilization"
  • Christine Shell
    PHD American Studies
    ""I Know the Dream Mine is True": Mormons, Mining, and the Making of "Bad Religion" in Early 20th Century Utah"
  • Garima Singh
    PHD Psychology
    "The Reward Positivity in Individuals with Alcohol Use Disorder"
  • Isabel Solis
    PHD Psychology
    "Neurobehavioral and EEG Characteristics in Latino Targets of Bullying"
  • Gregory Vuksich
    PHD Political Science
    "The 2005 Bosnian Law on Defense: A Policy Change Case Study"

College of Nursing

  • Lowell Bautista
    DNP Nursing

College of Pharmacy

  • Aaron Koslow
    Doctor of Pharmacy
  • Raul Salazar
    Doctor of Pharmacy

School of Law

  • Mareike Bandy
    Juris Doctor
  • Ruhika Caughfield
    Juris Doctor
  • Taylor Chavez
    Juris Doctor
  • Brandon Cummings
    Juris Doctor
  • Stephen Earsom
    Juris Doctor
  • Holly Gallegos
    Juris Doctor
  • Jennifer Harris
    Juris Doctor
  • Josh Hirsch
    Juris Doctor
  • Sarah Kienzle
    Juris Doctor
  • Andrew Lantz
    Juris Doctor
  • Klarice Medina
    Juris Doctor
  • Danielle Montgomery
    Juris Doctor
  • Sydney Tellez
    Juris Doctor
  • Grace Wilmeth
    Juris Doctor
  • Jeremy Wirth
    Juris Doctor

School of Medicine

  • Jorge Licano
    Doctor of Medicine
  • Emma Wolinsky
    Doctor of Medicine