Spring 2024 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" - 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" - 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"
School of Engineering
- Andre Chavez
PHD Engineering
"Engineering Composite Gridlines for Improved Solar Module Reliability" - Andisheh Dadashi
PHD Computer Science
"Evolution in Complex Systems: A Computational Perspective" - Rubel Das
PHD Engineering
"Wind Farm Optimization And Analysis Of Complex Wake Structures" - Rowdy Davis
PHD Engineering
"Improving Criticality Safety Benchmark Coverage by Developing a Benchmark Evaluation of the UNM AGN-201M Reactor" - Mary Louise Gucik
PHD Engineering
"Electrodeposition of Gadolinium Metal Thin Films for Neutron Phase Contrast Imaging" - Md Amanul Hasan
PHD Engineering
"Multi-Physics-Based Crack Modeling of Asphalt Concrete" - Harsh Kumar
PHD Engineering
"ML/AI Enabled Intelligent Next Generation Autonomous Network System: Network Performance Enhancement and Management" - Sajay Krishnan Paruthiyil
PHD Engineering
"Fault Location in DC Microgrids using Traveling Waves." - Jean-Elie Pierre
PHD Engineering
"Securing The Skies: Safety-Constrained Decentralized Multi-UAV Coordination With Deep Reinforcement Learning" - Sheng Zhong
PHD Computer Science
"Online Temporal Data Mining and Learning: Pursuing Enhanced Efficiency and Robust Algorithms"
College of Education & Human Sciences
- Elizabeth Berton Reilly
PHD Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies
"The Wyandot Of Anderdon Nation Meaning-Making, Constructing, And Affirming Their Tribal Identities Through Archiving Historical Documents" - Lynda Cruz
PHD Family and Child Studies
"Academic Stress and Pro-Social Outcomes: The Role of Maternal Support" - Magdalena Dathe
PHD Language, Literacy, & Sociocultural Studies
"The language to Labor: Critical Narratives of Latina Women Speaking Up about ESL" - Sean Fullerton
PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
"Investigating Software App Use in Secondary Physical Education" - Christopher Gunnare
EDD Educational Leadership
"A Phenomenological Study of Cognitive Dissonance in College Classroom Settings." - Andy Lim
PHD Educational Linguistics
"A Multiple Case Study of ASL Mentoring for the Field of Interpreting" - Vincent Mays
EDD Educational Leadership
"From Newark to Navajo: An Autoethnography of a "Cultural Outsider"" - Shannon McCoy-Hayes
EDD Educational Leadership
"Women Doctoral Students In Computer Science: Nevertheless, They Persist" - Brigid Ovitt
PHD Special Education
"Dialogue Journals in Assessment of Student Writing" - Kenneth Salazar
EDD Educational Leadership
"Teacher Leadership and Principal Turnover in Elementary Schools: A Deductive Mixed Methods Multiple Case Study" - Ophelia Sanchez
EDD Educational Leadership
"Indigenous Leadership: Leading The Journey So Others Follow" - Heidi Sanders
PHD Family and Child Studies
"Mindfulness and Harsh Parenting: The Indirect Role of Maternal Stress" - Jessica Smith
PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
"The Physiological and Perceptual Responses to Continuous- and Interval-based High-Intensity Functional Training" - Martin Vasquez
PHD Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science
"Exploring Ethnically Diverse Teacher Socialization" - Hafiz Yar
PHD Educational Linguistics
"A Study of Teachers' Beliefs about Teaching Academic Writing in Pakistani Universities" - Danielle Yepa Gunderson
EDD Educational Leadership
"Indigenous Land Acknowledgement, Learning Spaces, and Sacred Places as Factors for Native American First-Year Students in Higher Education"
College of University Libraries & Learning Sciences
- Sara Dominguez
PHD Organization, Information & Learning Sciences
"Teacher-Implemented Scaffolding" - Monica Dorame
PHD Organization, Information & Learning Sciences
"Native American Women Leadership in Higher Education" - Amber Gallup
PHD Organization, Information & Learning Sciences
"The development of identity, self-efficacy, and persistence intentions among frontline healthcare apprentices"
College of Arts and Sciences
- Christopher Anderson
PHD Biology
"The descent of Anolis: assemblages, convergence, and ecomorphological evolution" - Elisabeth Baker
PHD Spanish & Portuguese
"Overregularization Of Irregular Spanish Verbal Morphology: The Cases Of 2sg Preterit And Irregular Past Participles" - Jason Barton
PHD Philosophy
"A Hegelian Theory of Divine Revelation" - Kalila Bohsali
PHD English
"The Reading Rooms: Harnessing Reading for Pleasure for the Literature Classroom" - Owen Davis
PHD Mathematics
"Mathematically Rigorous Deep Learning Paradigms for Data-Driven Scientific Modeling" - Birendra Dhanasingham
PHD Physics
"A New Effective Gravitational Lensing Approach to Constrain Dark Matter" - Claire Doherty
PHD Biology
"New Insights into T Lymphocyte-Mediated Immunity to Toxoplasma gondii" - Tia Donaldson
PHD Psychology
"The Effects Of Acute And Chronic Ethanol Exposure On Mouse Spontaneous Spatial Behaviors" - Luis Gamboa
PHD Spanish & Portuguese
"Muertos made in Mexico: Necrocapitalismo en la cultura mexicana" - Monica Goncalves Garcia
PHD Psychology
"Neurobiology of Human Navigation Strategies in the virtual Morris Water Task" - Zonnie Gorman
PHD History
"The First Twenty-Nine: A Microhistory of the Original Pilot Group of Navajo Code Talkers" - Caitlin Grann
PHD American Studies
"The Lying Woman: Avant-Garde Collaboration in Jo Harvey Allen's Alt-Country" - Kyle Henke
PHD Mathematics
"Analysis and Computation of Constrained Sparse Coding on Emerging non-von Neumann Devices" - Fatih Ince
PHD Optical Science & Engineering
"MBE Growth of Sb based alloys using interfacial misfit arrays for MWIR devices" - Steven Kostelecky
PHD History
"History In The Present Tense: News And History On The Radio 1924-1944" - Machienvee Lammey
PHD Sociology
""Everyone Got to Eat My Tears": Racialized Emotions, Mentoring Experiences, and the Political and Ethical Commitments of Women of Color Graduate Students in STEM" - Tongtong Li
PHD Chemistry
"Exploring the Complex Landscape of Proteins: From Intrinsically Disordered Proteins to Peptidomimetics through Computational Approaches" - Anupam Mitra
PHD Physics
"Entanglement with neutral atoms in the simulation of nonequilibrium dynamics of one-dimensional spin models" - Emily Moes
PHD Anthropology
"Sensitive developmental windows in craniofacial and dental fluctuating asymmetry" - Easwar Anand Narayanan
PHD Physics
"A Precise Measurement of the Lifetime of B-mesons, Measurement of CP-violation Parameters of Bs-mesons, the ATLAS Experiment at the LHC, and Development of Silicon Detectors for Future Particle Physics Experiments" - Anthony Peavy
PHD Communication
"Racialized Masculinities in Professional Basketball: Utilizing Mixedness to Challenge Commonplace Black/White Media Discourses About NBA Players" - Sarah Poiani
PHD Mathematics
"On Properties of Pair Operations" - Ceara Purcell
PHD Earth & Planetary Sciences
"Paleoecology of the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway and Gulf Coastal Plain" - Elizabeth Sabbath
PHD Sociology
"Welfare As We Know It Now: Examination of State-Level Effects of Welfare Expenditure and Policy Restrictiveness on Crime and Group-Specific Arrests Over Twenty-Four Years Following Reform" - Mahtab Shafiei
PHD Political Science
"The Effects of UN Missions on the Number of Deaths During Armed Conflict" - Shenghan Song
PHD Chemistry
"Molecular Dynamics Insights Into The Structural Behavior And Interactions Of Complex Biological Systems" - Melanie Sonntag
PHD Political Science
"Comparative Analysis of Sexual Harassment Policy and Implementation" - Amy Stevens
PHD Chemistry
"Investigating the structural ensemble and dynamic interactions of Protein Interacting with C-Kinase 1 (PICK1) using computational tools" - Sivaprasad Thattupurackal Omanakuttan
PHD Physics
"Quantum Computation Using Large Spin Qudits" - Joshua Williams
PHD Earth & Planetary Sciences
"Unboxing the Complicated Near Term Climatic and Geomorphic History of Mars." - Andrew Zhao
PHD Physics
"Learning, Optimizing, and Simulating Fermions with Quantum Computers"
School of Medicine
- Samuel Abbanat
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Luke Beauchamp
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Rabeya Bilkis
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"Functional analysis of chromatin remodeler CSB in PARP1/2-mediated oxidative DNA lesion repair." - Sage Galloway
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Tanner Geisler
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Kenidee Hatler
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Aubry Hershberger
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Henry Madsen
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Alisia Montoya
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Marisa Phillips
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Natalie Pinkowski
PHD Biomedical Sciences
"The Role of Spreading Depolarizations in Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries" - Cody Pisz
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Katarina Rasinski
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Chelsea Rizk
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Lauren Rupp
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Gabrielle Sanchez
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Oliver Schultz
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Stephen Schultz
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Jake Theis
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Katia Velasquez
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Margaret Walker
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Matthew Weinstein
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Joel Whitney
Doctor of Physical Therapy - Grady Woodul
Doctor of Physical Therapy
College of Nursing
- Angela Bachicha
DNP Nursing - Shawnadine Becenti
DNP Nursing - Tony Hume
DNP Nursing - Cynthia Johnson
DNP Nursing - Mariah Megli
DNP Nursing - Angelina Rodriguez
DNP Nursing - Danyelle Romero
DNP Nursing - Jessica Spurrier
DNP Nursing - Melissa Wyaco
DNP Nursing
College of Pharmacy
- Ethan Alvarado
Doctor of Pharmacy - Brooke Aston
Doctor of Pharmacy - Abed Ayesh
Doctor of Pharmacy - Robert Baca
Doctor of Pharmacy - Alyssa Barnes
Doctor of Pharmacy - Brianna Bustretsky
Doctor of Pharmacy - Heather Cabos
Doctor of Pharmacy - Jade Denninger
Doctor of Pharmacy - Simon Do
Doctor of Pharmacy - Jessica Duong
Doctor of Pharmacy - Makhaila Esquibel
Doctor of Pharmacy - Maraya Esquibel
Doctor of Pharmacy - Cesar Garay
Doctor of Pharmacy - Siem Goitom
Doctor of Pharmacy - Leslie Gonzales
Doctor of Pharmacy - Jennica Granger
Doctor of Pharmacy - Kirstin Green
Doctor of Pharmacy - Ronnie Griego
Doctor of Pharmacy - Hannah Haynes
Doctor of Pharmacy - Nawasa Iamsen
Doctor of Pharmacy - Casey Karler
Doctor of Pharmacy - Nada Kherbik
Doctor of Pharmacy - Savannah King
Doctor of Pharmacy - Andrianna Lane
Doctor of Pharmacy - Janalee Livingston
Doctor of Pharmacy - Marissa Martinez
Doctor of Pharmacy - David McChesney
Doctor of Pharmacy - Kendall McKenzie
Doctor of Pharmacy - Kathryn McNeil
Doctor of Pharmacy - Kaydee Mego
Doctor of Pharmacy - Denise Mendoza
Doctor of Pharmacy - Bria Nelson-Sanderson
Doctor of Pharmacy - Michael Neville
Doctor of Pharmacy - Helen Ngo
Doctor of Pharmacy - Lisa Nguyen
Doctor of Pharmacy - Angela Nickens
Doctor of Pharmacy - Fariba Nikookar Dashtmiani
Doctor of Pharmacy - Nick Olivas
Doctor of Pharmacy - Venessa Padilla
Doctor of Pharmacy - Merissa Perea
Doctor of Pharmacy - Mostafa Qasemi
Doctor of Pharmacy - Sara Roach
Doctor of Pharmacy - Tessa Rogers
Doctor of Pharmacy - Roman Romero
Doctor of Pharmacy - Zachary Romero
Doctor of Pharmacy - Annajita Rubio
Doctor of Pharmacy - Atif Samadi
Doctor of Pharmacy - Tomanda Sandoval
Doctor of Pharmacy - Jade Tran
Doctor of Pharmacy - Bobby Trujillo
Doctor of Pharmacy - Alyssa Valdez
Doctor of Pharmacy - Arianna Werley
Doctor of Pharmacy - Isaiah Young
Doctor of Pharmacy
School of Law
- Ibrahim Al-Gahmi
Juris Doctor - Noah Allaire
Juris Doctor - Camilla Allison
Juris Doctor - Alex Alvarado
Juris Doctor - Griffin Arellano
Juris Doctor - Alia Attallah
Juris Doctor - Daniel Berenger-Russell
Juris Doctor - Oona Bjornstad
Juris Doctor - Joseph Brakenhoff
Juris Doctor - Sophia Bunch
Juris Doctor - Alyx Callison Leshem
Juris Doctor - Randy Carrillo
Juris Doctor - Alexandria Charney
Juris Doctor - Abigayle Christiansen
Juris Doctor - Henry Chynoweth
Juris Doctor - Melanie Coffing
Juris Doctor - Parker Connolly
Juris Doctor - Andrew Corbell
Juris Doctor - Jessica Cothern
Juris Doctor - Jess Czajkowski
Juris Doctor - Madeline D'Arezzo
Juris Doctor - Shannel Daniels
Juris Doctor - Thomas Davis
Juris Doctor - Shaniya Decker
Juris Doctor - Courtney Denker
Juris Doctor - Valerie DiBernardo
Juris Doctor - Lauren Earls
Juris Doctor - Lana Elledge
Juris Doctor - Daniel Goodwin
Juris Doctor - Alondra Granados-Diaz
Juris Doctor - Ricardo Guadarrama
Juris Doctor - Diego Guerrerortiz
Juris Doctor - Kristin Guin
Juris Doctor - Fetsum Habtemariam
Juris Doctor - Jack Hart
Juris Doctor - Paul Havern
Juris Doctor - Kevin Hedrich
Juris Doctor - Laura Ingersol
Juris Doctor - Jocelyn Jarrett
Juris Doctor - Ryleigh Johnson
Juris Doctor - Kameron Kennedy
Juris Doctor - Thomas Kennedy
Juris Doctor - Sundesh Khalsa
Juris Doctor - Grace Kienzle
Juris Doctor - Justin Lauriano
Juris Doctor - Natalia Listwan
Juris Doctor - Isabelle Lopez
Juris Doctor - Abigail Lutz
Juris Doctor - Brenda Macias Lopez
Juris Doctor - Maggie Maestas
Juris Doctor - Sabrina Martinez
Juris Doctor - Xaveria Mayerhofer
Juris Doctor - Colman McCanna
Juris Doctor - Alan Mena
Juris Doctor - Annalisa Miller
Juris Doctor - Chance Mitchell
Juris Doctor - Isabella Montoya
Juris Doctor - Jacqueline Munro-Vahey
Juris Doctor - Seve Naranjo
Juris Doctor - Rebecca Needhammer
Juris Doctor - Julia Oliver
Juris Doctor - Mikayla Ortega-Speight
Juris Doctor - Elena Papadakos
Juris Doctor - Kayd Patterson
Juris Doctor - Mary Helen Pavlides
Juris Doctor - Bethany Peterson
Juris Doctor - Morgan Pettit
Juris Doctor - Isaac Pushkin
Juris Doctor - Miguel Quintana
Juris Doctor - Sophie Rane
Juris Doctor - Maxwell Reidys
Juris Doctor - Michelle Reitz
Juris Doctor - Logan Rice
Juris Doctor - Krista Russell
Juris Doctor - Serafina Seluja
Juris Doctor - Aaron Sharratt
Juris Doctor - Justin Starr
Juris Doctor - Hannah Stephens
Juris Doctor - Logan Stokes
Juris Doctor - Christa Street
Juris Doctor - Augustin Ternoir
Juris Doctor - Hunter Thomas
Juris Doctor - Devrim Tiryaki
Juris Doctor - Maria Trujillo
Juris Doctor - Nicholas Valdez
Juris Doctor - Sage Wagner
Juris Doctor - Holly Watson
Juris Doctor - Pauline Wayland
Juris Doctor - Aaron Whiteley
Juris Doctor - Matt Whitworth
Juris Doctor - Connor Woods
Juris Doctor - Kristin Woodworth
Juris Doctor - Tory Works
Juris Doctor
School of Medicine
- Lucas Akes
Doctor of Medicine - Danielle Alaouieh
Doctor of Medicine - Michael Apostol
Doctor of Medicine - Brenna Banwarth-Kuhn
Doctor of Medicine - Ashlynn Black
Doctor of Medicine - Anurag Borah
Doctor of Medicine - Chantel Clark
Doctor of Medicine - Tegan Clarke
Doctor of Medicine - Van Cochran
Doctor of Medicine - Amanda Collar
Doctor of Medicine - Jonathon Cordova
Doctor of Medicine - Lydia Crooks
Doctor of Medicine - Lizeth Cueto
Doctor of Medicine - Kristen Cummings
Doctor of Medicine - Michael Delahoussaye
Doctor of Medicine - Alexandra Do
Doctor of Medicine - Flora Feiluola
Doctor of Medicine - Angela Feng
Doctor of Medicine - Andres Flores
Doctor of Medicine - Tessa Flores
Doctor of Medicine - Emily Funsten
Doctor of Medicine - Devon Garland
Doctor of Medicine - Desna Ghatalia
Doctor of Medicine - Rikki Hall
Doctor of Medicine - Emily Hong
Doctor of Medicine - Veronica Hutchison
Doctor of Medicine - Priyanka Jain
Doctor of Medicine - Johnathan Jensen
Doctor of Medicine - Scott Jun
Doctor of Medicine - Sean Kaisler
Doctor of Medicine - Madison Kajder
Doctor of Medicine - Alexander Kassicieh
Doctor of Medicine - Arash Kheyraddini Mousavi
Doctor of Medicine - Jessica Larsen
Doctor of Medicine - Eric Leung
Doctor of Medicine - Remy Link
Doctor of Medicine - Erica Logue
Doctor of Medicine - Austin Lucero
Doctor of Medicine - Lucas Maestas
Doctor of Medicine - Kevin Martinez
Doctor of Medicine - Alison McWhorter Anderson
Doctor of Medicine - Pachely Mendivil Aguayo
Doctor of Medicine - Marisa Michealson
Doctor of Medicine - Michael Miera
Doctor of Medicine - Cody Moezzi
Doctor of Medicine - Florencia Monge
Doctor of Medicine - Alycia Montgomery
Doctor of Medicine - Gaelan Montoya
Doctor of Medicine - Addi Moya
Doctor of Medicine - Monica Moya Balasch
Doctor of Medicine - Ashley Newman
Doctor of Medicine - Hoang Nguyen
Doctor of Medicine - Oluwaseun Oyeku
Doctor of Medicine - Johann Pacheco
Doctor of Medicine - Chris Paiz
Doctor of Medicine - Talia Passarelli
Doctor of Medicine - Juhee Patel
Doctor of Medicine - Keisha Patel
Doctor of Medicine - Mikayla Pulliam
Doctor of Medicine - Marco Ramos
Doctor of Medicine - Dante Rangel
Doctor of Medicine - Glenn Ratmeyer
Doctor of Medicine - Mueez Rehman
Doctor of Medicine - Anna Reviere
Doctor of Medicine - Marshall Reviere
Doctor of Medicine - Bailey Rivera
Doctor of Medicine - Alexander Robles
Doctor of Medicine - Bethany Sanchez
Doctor of Medicine - Jacob Sanchez
Doctor of Medicine - Payton Sandoval-Eddy
Doctor of Medicine - Joseph Sena
Doctor of Medicine - Grace Thompson
Doctor of Medicine - Joshua Thurgood
Doctor of Medicine - Jacob Torres
Doctor of Medicine - Samantha Trujillo
Doctor of Medicine - Danielle Turner
Doctor of Medicine - Virva Walkington
Doctor of Medicine - Jordan West
Doctor of Medicine - Avalon Yi
Doctor of Medicine