Spring 2021 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
- Benjamin Abbott
PHD American Studies
"Health and Revolution: Anarchist Biopolitics in the Borderlands" - Victor Alfaro
PHD Biology
"Global population divergence of a cosmopolitan desert plant" - Aaron Anderson
PHD Organization, Information & Learning Sciences
"Give Me a Story Memorable Enough, and I Shall Move the World: A Proto-Typology of Storytelling in Online Petitions of Human Rights International Non-Governmental Organizations" - Larissa Anderson
PHD Biology
"Heterogeneity in hosts and environment: implications for Schistosomiasis control" - Andrew Aragon
PHD Engineering
"Etched-and-regrown diodes on m-plane GaN for next generation power electronic devices" - Rajan Bishwakarma
PHD Economics
"Acquired And Useful Abilities: Three Essays On Human Capital Development" - Eman Bosaad
PHD Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies
"Saudi Efl Female Teachers' Beliefs: A Single Case Study" - Graham Bounds
PHD Philosophy
"Heidegger and the Second Nature of Entities: Sense, Ontology, and Normativity" - 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" - Nicholas Boynton
PHD Engineering
"Heterogeneously Integrated Photonic Modulators and High Volume Manufacturing of Related Technologies" - Mary Brammer
PHD Counselor Education
"Lived Experiences of Parents with Transgender and Gender Expansive Children" - Holly Brause
PHD Anthropology
"Cultivating the Future: Globalized Competition and Environmental Interactions in the New Mexico Chile Industry" - Griffin Canning
PHD Chemistry
"Understanding the Role of Atom Trapping in the Evolution of Hydrocarbon Transformation Catalyst Morphology" - Shaofan Che
PHD Earth & Planetary Sciences
"Microstructural Constraints On The Nebular And Asteroidal Histories Of Calcium-aluminum-rich Inclusions From Cv3 Chondrites" - Elizabeth Clarke
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"The Effects of Glycosylation on Immunogenicity and Replication of Emerging Viral Pathogens" - Jared Clay
PHD Political Science
"Cross-Pressured: Agriculture, Immigration, and Congressional GOP Position-Taking" - Henning De May
PHD Biomedical Sciences - Matthew DiMario
PHD Physics
"Non-Gaussian Measurements of Coherent States of Light for Metrology and Communication" - Yuka Doherty
PHD Sociology
"Boundaries of Citizenship: Gendered and Racialized Reproduction and Motherhood in Contemporary Japan" - Drew Enigk
PHD Anthropology
"Behavioral strategies of social relationship formation and competition among adolescent and adult male chimpanzees at Kanyawara, Kibale National Park, Uganda" - Kristen Fedesco
PHD Multicultural Teaching & Child Education
"Understanding School-based Recreational Therapy Treatment Intervention For Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Applying Foundations To Practice" - Annette Fiedler
PHD Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies
"My Story to Tell: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Instructional Coaching for Culturally Responsive Pedagogy through Multicultural Literature in Elementary Classrooms" - Cynthia Freeman
PHD Computer Science
"AutoML for Anomaly Detection of Time Series and Sequences of Short Text" - Olga Glinskii
PHD Anthropology
"Performing Multiculturalism: Ukrainian-Canadian Identities in Transnational Politics of Recognition" - Aidan Grummer
PHD Physics
"A Search for New Physics in B(s)-->mu+mu- Decays Using Multivariate Data Analysis, and Development of Particle Detection Technology with Silicon Pixel Detectors" - Arjun Gupta
PHD Engineering
"Array Processing with Machine Learning" - Alexander Hafez
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"Molecular mechanisms of circRNA-mediated regulation of synaptic gene expression - implications for psychiatric disorders" - Alesia Hallmark
PHD Biology
"Near-surface Repeat Digital (NeRD) photography lends insights into plant phenology, physiology, and carbon uptake dynamics in semi-arid environments" - David Hensley
PHD Engineering
"A Reconfigurable, Stretchable Liquid Metal Antenna, Phase Shifter, and Array for Wideband Applications" - Oluwole Ilesanmi
PHD Special Education
"Parental Choice Of Charter Schools For Middle School Students With Disabilities" - Laura Ingersol
PHD Chemistry
"Studies of the rectification behavior of the PDT ligand and the active site of MsrP" - Ryan Jackson
PHD Earth & Planetary Sciences
"Investigations of geochemical variations with depth at the first 15 drill sites on Mars analyzed by the ChemCam instrument onboard the Curiosity Rover, and supported by laboratory studies and analog research at the Valle Grande paleolake, Valles Caldera," - Shailja Jakhar
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"Exploring the Interaction of Amphiphilic Mycobacterial Lipoarabinomannan with Lipoproteins: Implications for Blood-based Diagnosis" - Monica Jaramillo
PHD Engineering
"Computational Electromagnetics (CEM) Modeling of Foliage Penetration (FOPEN)" - Yousef Katba Bader
PHD Chemistry
"Synthesis And Characterization Of Regioregular Cross-conjugated Poly(thienylene Vinylene)s" - Shannon Kindilien
PHD Pharmaceutical Science
"All-cause 30-day Non-elective Readmissions Among Adults With An Index Visit For Status Epilepticus In The United States" - Scott Kirk
PHD Anthropology
"Functional Changes in Fortified Places: Strategy and Defensive Architecture in the Medieval and Early Modern Era" - Kathryn Leverett
EDD Educational Leadership
"AVID Graduates' Transition to College" - Megan Lewis
PHD Physics
"Probing the Galactic AGB population through infrared and SiO maser emission" - Sofia Locklear
PHD Sociology
"White Identity and American Indian/Alaska Native Culture in the Pacific Northwest" - Adrian Luna Leon
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"Mek/erk Signaling As The Nexus Of Hpv Oncogene Expression And A Therapeutic Target For Hpv Associated Diseases" - Nikki Maphis
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"Characterization of virus-like particle-based vaccine strategies to reduce pathological tau accumulation in multiple models of tauopathy" - Chriselle Martinez
PHD Counselor Education
"Experiences of Latino First Year Students Utilizing a Wellness Model for Analysis at a Four Year Institution in the Southwest" - 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" - Christopher Mellor
PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
"An Appreciative Approach To Studying Wash-out During Professional Socializaton; Washed Out Or Never Washed In? A Case Study Examining Washout In Professional Socialzation" - Catherine Montoya
EDD Educational Leadership
"Utilizing K'¿¿ to Build a New Mexico Higher Education Collaborative: Supporting Native Student Success" - Cristina Murray-Krezan
PHD Statistics
"Extension Of The Two-step Approach For Informative Dropout In Survival Analysis" - Roberto Carlos Nava
PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
"The Influence of Training Status on the Exercise-Induced HIF-1 Response to Acute Exercise" - Eduardo Nunez Cruz
EDD Educational Leadership
"Study Abroad Opportunities For Minority Students" - Sangita Paudel
PHD Chemistry
"Excited State Processes in Radical Elaborated Platinum Donor-Acceptor Complexes" - Lauren Perry
PHD English
"Animal Texts: Critical Animal Concepts in Environmental Literature for the Anthropocene" - Crina Peterson
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"Molecular Characterization of a Unique Population of Human Cortical Interneurons; Implications for Primate-Specific Development" - Mostafa Peysokhan
PHD Optical Science & Engineering
"Optimization and characterization of the doped optical fibers for radiation balanced fiber laser and amplifier" - Karen Phillips
EDD Educational Leadership
"Charter School Autonomy in an Era of Standards-Based Reforms" - Marilyn Riggs
PHD Anthropology
"Games People Played: The Social Role of Gambling in the Pre-hispanic U.S. Southwest" - Amalia Sanchez Parra
PHD Biology
"Transcriptional Regulation of Stem Cell Function in the Drosophila Central Nervous System" - Aditi Sarkar
PHD Economics
"The Economic Impact Of Oil And Gas Production In The Permian Basin" - Mary Beth Schubauer
PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
"From vision to reality: The building of community-based adaptive sports and fitness facilities across the United States." - Kritika Sen Chakraborty
PHD Economics
"Essays on human capital, labor, and gender" - Gabriel Shipley
PHD Engineering
"On The Dynamic Generation Of Megagauss-level Magnetic Fields On 100-ns Timescales To Stabilize And Magnetize Pulsed-power-driven Liner Implosions" - Victoria Sieck
PHD Statistics
"Bayesian Methods in Operational Testing: Enhancing Testing Through Combining Information" - 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" - Arianna Trott
PHD Counselor Education
"The Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences And Risky Health Behaviors: Avenues For Prevention In New Mexico" - Jimmy Valdes
PHD Sociology
"A Quantitative Investigation of Ovarian Cancer Disparities" - Jerry Wallace
PHD History
"Don't Make Fun of the Residents! Revisiting the Sunbelt's Vanishing Communities: Mobility and Suburban Development, 1900-1990" - Frederick Williams
PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
"Fear of Failure in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Practitioners" - Amber Zimmerman
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"circHomer1¿¿¿is a molecular modulator of cortical synchrony important for signaling event saliency in¿¿the¿¿orbitofrontal cortex"
College of Nursing
- Erin Beverly
DNP Nursing - Tina Bui-Burgos
DNP Nursing - Sheena Ferguson
DNP Nursing - David Good
DNP Nursing - Karen Nielsen
DNP Nursing - Christina O'Connell
DNP Nursing - Michael Palacio
DNP Nursing - Erica Richards
DNP Nursing - Callie Whittington
DNP Nursing
College of Pharmacy
- Beverly Anderson
Doctor of Pharmacy - Parastoo Asgharzadeh
Doctor of Pharmacy - Ryan Ault
Doctor of Pharmacy - Merissa Begay
Doctor of Pharmacy - Miel Brown
Doctor of Pharmacy - Tesia Buszkiewicz
Doctor of Pharmacy - Branda Chaleunphonh
Doctor of Pharmacy - Krissa Chavarria
Doctor of Pharmacy - Rochanda Chee
Doctor of Pharmacy - Carmelita Coca
Doctor of Pharmacy - Wendy Davis
Doctor of Pharmacy - Phillip De Leon
Doctor of Pharmacy - Allen de Somer
Doctor of Pharmacy - Chanelle Dockery
Doctor of Pharmacy - Beroja Duriqi
Doctor of Pharmacy - Hanna Galewaler
Doctor of Pharmacy - Alma Garcia
Doctor of Pharmacy - Bianca Gonzales
Doctor of Pharmacy - Victoria Gutierrez
Doctor of Pharmacy - Natalie Herrera
Doctor of Pharmacy - Alex Ho
Doctor of Pharmacy - Caleb Howard
Doctor of Pharmacy - Thao Huynh
Doctor of Pharmacy - Lauren Ashley Karl
Doctor of Pharmacy - Daeyong Kwon
Doctor of Pharmacy - Anh Le
Doctor of Pharmacy - Moochan Lee
Doctor of Pharmacy - James Long
Doctor of Pharmacy - Robyn Lowsayatee
Doctor of Pharmacy - Sean Michael Lujan
Doctor of Pharmacy - Joseph Luna
Doctor of Pharmacy - Adan Magallanes
Doctor of Pharmacy - Carlos Marquez
Doctor of Pharmacy - Alexis Meliniotis
Doctor of Pharmacy - Andres Molina
Doctor of Pharmacy - Ashlee Montoya
Doctor of Pharmacy - Chas Montoya
Doctor of Pharmacy - Isaiah Montoya
Doctor of Pharmacy - Gavin Nagy
Doctor of Pharmacy - Esther Nalamlieng
Doctor of Pharmacy - Duyen Nguyen
Doctor of Pharmacy - Erick Orosco
Doctor of Pharmacy - Kyle Ortiz
Doctor of Pharmacy - Neha Parmar
Doctor of Pharmacy - Bryan Pesko
Doctor of Pharmacy - Hien Pham
Doctor of Pharmacy - Jacqueline Phan
Doctor of Pharmacy - Madeleine Rademacher
Doctor of Pharmacy - Elvira Ramirez-Nicolas
Doctor of Pharmacy - Carlos Reyes
Doctor of Pharmacy - Jesse Robinson
Doctor of Pharmacy - Kyle Robinson
Doctor of Pharmacy - Aaron Rodriguez
Doctor of Pharmacy - Elias Romero
Doctor of Pharmacy - Jennifer Rose
Doctor of Pharmacy - Renee Salazar
Doctor of Pharmacy - Karissa Sandoval
Doctor of Pharmacy - Meera Shah
Doctor of Pharmacy - Shields Shields
Doctor of Pharmacy - Aydan Sparks
Doctor of Pharmacy - Whitney Spear
Doctor of Pharmacy - Erin Stever
Doctor of Pharmacy - Savannah Torres
Doctor of Pharmacy - Thomas Wilson
Doctor of Pharmacy - Kimberly Yeh
Doctor of Pharmacy
School of Law
- Felisha Adams
Juris Doctor - Isela Anchondo
Juris Doctor - Ethan Arviso
Juris Doctor - Celina Baca
Juris Doctor - Marissa Basler
Juris Doctor - Nikki Berry
Juris Doctor - Sabrey Blakeney
Juris Doctor - Jonathan Brown
Juris Doctor - Kristen Burby
Juris Doctor - Ashlee Carrasco
Juris Doctor - Wanerh Chen
Juris Doctor - Jacques Chouinard
Juris Doctor - Mallory Christensen
Juris Doctor - Lora Church
Juris Doctor - Robert Collins
Juris Doctor - Julia Cummings
Juris Doctor - Amanda Cvinar
Juris Doctor - Tony Dalton
Juris Doctor - Royce Deller
Juris Doctor - Arianne DePauli
Juris Doctor - Bryce Dorato
Juris Doctor - Adam Eisenberg
Juris Doctor - Kateri Eisenberg
Juris Doctor - Samantha Finlayson
Juris Doctor - Keane Frady
Juris Doctor - Paige Gallegos
Juris Doctor - Clair Gardner
Juris Doctor - Jarrod Greth
Juris Doctor - Alexander Grier
Juris Doctor - Alexandra Gutierrez
Juris Doctor - Christopher Hall
Juris Doctor - Frederick Hart
Juris Doctor - Vanessa Hidalgo
Juris Doctor - Katherine Holcomb
Juris Doctor - Savannah Hoover
Juris Doctor - David Hughes
Juris Doctor - Sarah Hyde
Juris Doctor - Justice Irons
Juris Doctor - Esther Jamison
Juris Doctor - Brooke Jordy
Juris Doctor - Connor Joy
Juris Doctor - Ian Keller
Juris Doctor - Dharma Khalsa
Juris Doctor - Ambrose Kupfer
Juris Doctor - Troy Lawton
Juris Doctor - Victoria LeBlanc-Vialpando
Juris Doctor - Isaac Lopez
Juris Doctor - Alejandro Macias-Urias
Juris Doctor - McKenna Mains
Juris Doctor - Erin Marshall
Juris Doctor - Jessica Martinez
Juris Doctor - Steven Martz
Juris Doctor - Sean Mc Kenzie
Juris Doctor - Sarah McLain
Juris Doctor - Micah McNeil
Juris Doctor - Juancarlos Miranda
Juris Doctor - Kori Nau
Juris Doctor - Hannah Neal
Juris Doctor - Lydia Ninham
Juris Doctor - Emily Nitschke
Juris Doctor - Riley Norris
Juris Doctor - Taylor Noya
Juris Doctor - Stephanie Padilla
Juris Doctor - Hope Pendleton
Juris Doctor - Navalyn Platero
Juris Doctor - Kristen Polk
Juris Doctor - Jenna Purpura
Juris Doctor - Dyea Reynolds
Juris Doctor - Jena Ritchey
Juris Doctor - David Rodriguez
Juris Doctor - Jari Rubio
Juris Doctor - Colleen Silversmith
Juris Doctor - Danny Silverstein
Juris Doctor - Ransom Smith
Juris Doctor - Taylor Smith
Juris Doctor - Max Spivak
Juris Doctor - Lawson Stiff
Juris Doctor - Krista Thompson
Juris Doctor - Lane Towery
Juris Doctor - Anna Trillo
Juris Doctor - Itzel Valencia Soria
Juris Doctor - Iridian Valladares-Tuna
Juris Doctor - Paula Vance
Juris Doctor - Aaron Villalpando
Juris Doctor - Kateri West
Juris Doctor - Zacary Wilson-Fetrow
Juris Doctor - Rachel Wisniewski
Juris Doctor - Mallory Wolff
Juris Doctor - Michael Woods
Juris Doctor - Hailey Zock
Juris Doctor
School of Medicine
- Tristen Adams
Doctor of Medicine - William Aragon
Doctor of Medicine - Jade Archuleta
Doctor of Medicine - Alexander Baker
Doctor of Medicine - Venus Barlas
Doctor of Medicine - Danika Bodmer
Doctor of Medicine - Dominick Byrd
Doctor of Medicine - Mitchell Byrd
Doctor of Medicine - Victoria Carpenter
Doctor of Medicine - Brooklyn Cochrane
Doctor of Medicine - Antonio Cordova
Doctor of Medicine - Helen Craft
Doctor of Medicine - Jera Davis
Doctor of Medicine - Henning De May
Doctor of Medicine
"Immune Modulation Of The Peritoneal Ovarian Tumor Microenvironment Using Both Novel And Standard Of Care Therapies" - Tyler Dejong
Doctor of Medicine - Kylie Disch
Doctor of Medicine - Tomas Escalona
Doctor of Medicine - Melissa Fang
Doctor of Medicine - Travis Frazier
Doctor of Medicine - Brandon Gehris
Doctor of Medicine - Elyssa Glassheim
Doctor of Medicine - Deanna Gonzalez
Doctor of Medicine - Andrew Goumas
Doctor of Medicine - Hannah Groves
Doctor of Medicine - Jaryse Harris
Doctor of Medicine - Martin Jurado
Doctor of Medicine - Rachel King
Doctor of Medicine - Jay Koernke
Doctor of Medicine - Alexander Kruczek
Doctor of Medicine - Amber Lalla
Doctor of Medicine - Katarina Leyba
Doctor of Medicine - Samuel MacDonald
Doctor of Medicine - Alexandra Mang
Doctor of Medicine - Tijana Marjanovic
Doctor of Medicine - Benjamin Monge
Doctor of Medicine - Juan Navarro
Doctor of Medicine - Bryce Owen
Doctor of Medicine - Madeleine Palmer
Doctor of Medicine - Emily Pearce
Doctor of Medicine - Crina Peterson
Doctor of Medicine - Jonathan Petrillo
Doctor of Medicine - Daniel Pitcher
Doctor of Medicine - Sahitya Podila
Doctor of Medicine - Dominique Price
Doctor of Medicine - Ryan Price
Doctor of Medicine - Fermin Prieto
Doctor of Medicine - Shannen Ramey
Doctor of Medicine - Niharika Ravichandran
Doctor of Medicine - Jason Reagor
Doctor of Medicine - Anita Reta
Doctor of Medicine - Audrey Rich
Doctor of Medicine - Juliana Runnels
Doctor of Medicine - John Salmon
Doctor of Medicine - Cynthia Sanchez
Doctor of Medicine - Colleen Sells
Doctor of Medicine - Mingma Sherpa
Doctor of Medicine - Alicia Sikora
Doctor of Medicine - Kyle Stephens
Doctor of Medicine - Diane Sun
Doctor of Medicine - Ryan Sun
Doctor of Medicine - Christine Teng
Doctor of Medicine - Samuel Thompson
Doctor of Medicine - Isaac Trujillo
Doctor of Medicine - John Valdez
Doctor of Medicine - Carlos Vargas Pavia
Doctor of Medicine - Myissa Weiss
Doctor of Medicine - Matthew Whicker
Doctor of Medicine - Hannah Wilcox
Doctor of Medicine - Michael Williams
Doctor of Medicine - Tewodros Wodajo
Doctor of Medicine - Carly Wujek
Doctor of Medicine - Joseph Yardman-Frank
Doctor of Medicine - Yushi Yeap
Doctor of Medicine