Degree Candidates
Each degree candidate's name links to their personal page, where you can view their photo and/or quote, if submitted.
Academic distinctions are projections based on data as of April 1, 2020, and may differ from the final diploma distinction.
Bachelor of Arts
Rene Fernando Acuna
Film and Television
Samantha Marian Asher
Film and Television
Amy Lynn Bailey
Film and Television
Natalia Sophia Calvillo
Film and Television
Kaelyn Larae Cooper
Theatre Arts
Anh Minh Dao
Studio Art
Stephanie Michelle Davies
Film and Television
Mia Arianna de Mello
Film and Television
Colleen Devaney
Film and Television
Carly Rose Drobot
Film and Television
Chase Jordan Farache
Film and Television
Marisa Rose Favero
Film and Television
Eric Fine
Film and Television
Jack Judson Fletcher
Film and Television
Alexander Carlos Gallastegui
Film and Television
Kameron Victoria Galvez
Film and Television
Hannah Lee Gammon
Film and Television - Film and Television
Stephen Ray Garcia
Art History
Steven M. Gonzales
Film and Television
Jose Gerardo Guzman
Film and Television
William J. Harmon
Film and Television
Emily Virginia Herrera
Film and Television
Nicholas Alois Hoe
Film and Television
Spencer William Ittig
Film and Television
Taylor Imani Jackson
Art History
Charles Spencer Jones
Film and Television
Kameron Spencer Kindschi
Film and Television
Stephen Andrey Lull
Theatre Arts
Gabrielle Dominique Medina
Art History
Oren Elijah Meged
Film and Television
Alanah Matila Moltrup
Film and Television
Mia Pilar Moyano
Film and Television
Jenny Noel Myers
Theatre Arts
Kailee Jordan Nafziger
Theatre Arts
Xuehan Niu
Studio Art
Alexander N. Olmedo
Film and Television
Chelsea Carolina Ortiz
Studio Art
Francine Poirier
Studio Art
Grant Zangrando Prior
Film and Television
Santana Alexa Ramos
Theatre Arts
Mary Clare Woods Samuels
Studio Art
Stella Dean Schulte
Studio Art
Su Shen
Studio Art
Adam D. Stricker
Film and Television
Ryan M. Vanderpool
Film and Television
Betty N. Yang
Film and Television
Bachelor of Music
Kathleen Elizabeth Cluff
Performance - Tuba
Martin J. Constantine
Performance - Voice
Caroline Elizabeth Earnhardt
Performance - Tuba
Anthony Patrick Elias-Hand
Music Education - Music Education
Jesse Factor
Performance - Tuba
Kai David Felix
Performance - Jazz Studies
Chiara Ferrero
Performance - Violin
Steveland Armando Figueroa
Performance - Trombone
Grace Lorraine Hoskinson
Music Education
David Liam Ingram
Performance - Voice
Austin James Kruger
Performance - Composition
David Oregon
Performance - Performance
Haoshen Qi
Performance - Composition
George Adam Rosas
Music Education
Kenneth Roy Saufley
Performance - Trumpet
Diego Armando Urias
Performance - Jazz Studies
Julie Marie Vivaldo
Performance - Clarinet
Hannah Sunseri Whelchel
Music Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Carly Diane Altieri
Studio Art - Illustration and Design
Emma Diane Bayne
Art and Visual Culture Education - Teaching
Eavan Clare Brunswick
Theatre Production - Professional Actor Training Program
Tristan David Caldwell
Musical Theatre
Tristan Roy Carmichael
Studio Art - Illustration and Design
Michael Ryan Cochiolo
Studio Art - Illustration and Design
Dylan Cotter
Theatre Production – Acting
Michael Forrest Cox
Studio Art - Studio Art
Paola Renee D’Gyves
Studio Art - Visual Communication
Gemma Janea Dick
Theatre Production - Design Technical Production
Uthai Andres Espinoza
Art and Visual Culture Education - Art and Visual Culture Education
Magna Cum Laude
Emily Michelle Filener
Studio Art - Illustration and Design
Amy Elizabeth Fredrickson
Studio Art - Photography
Ryan Gao
Studio Art - Photography
Lauren Davis Geiselhart
Theatre Production - Design Technical Production
Gabriela Marie Giusti
Theatre Production - Professional Actor Training Program
Molly Jessica Gluzinski
Theatre Production - Design Technical Production
Nicholas Johannsen Gonsowski
Studio Art - Illustration and Design
Brian Michael Graham
Theatre Production - Design & Technical Production
Carly Nicole Grossman
Musical Theatre
Devon Marquis Hall
Studio Art - Illustration and Design
Anne-Rose Jemes
Studio Art - Three Dimensional
Eric Wojciech Klich
Dance
Emma Acuna Lavarias
Studio Art - Illustration and Design
Jasmine Mo Li
Studio Art - Illustration and Design
Ian Phillip Lowney
Film and Television
Alexandra Lund
Studio Art - Two Dimensional
Carl Jansson Lundblad
Studio Art - Illustration and Design
Talia Marie Luzzo
Dance
Annika Elizabeth Maher
Theatre Production - Design Technical Production
Tyler Jon Mandel
Studio Art - Photography
Claudia Jamilett Molina
Studio Art - Illustration and Design
Guy Thomson Norris
Theatre Production - Professional Actor Training Program
Magna Cum Laude With Honors
Gabrielle Slade Pattea
Studio Art - Photography
Paige Rachel Pflueger
Studio Art - Two Dimensional
Jaime Gabriel Pla
Theatre Production - Professional Actor Training Program
Magna Cum Laude With Honors
Frederick Kyle Reece
Theatre Production - Design Technical Production
Brandon Reyes
Musical Theatre
Nathan Douglas Shipp
Studio Art - Illustration and Design
Jordan Nicole Solich
Studio Art - Photography
Alyssa Jasmine Thomas
Art and Visual Culture Education - Teaching
Kristin Leann Valencia
Studio Art - Visual Communication
Jessica Anaya Villasenor
Studio Art - Illustration and Design
Lawrence Anthony Ware
Theatre Production - Design Technical Production
Tyra Mildred White
Art and Visual Culture Education - Teaching
Johanna Beth Woods
Studio Art - Visual Communication
Master of Arts
Gustav Meuschke
Art and Visual Culture Education - Community and Museums
Dr. Amy Kraehe & Dr. Gloria Wilson
Samantha Rodriguez
Art and Visual Culture Education - Community and Museums
Code Catalyst: Digital Storytelling through Illustration and Augmented Reality
Dr. Ryan Shin
Master of Music
Tad Thomas Biggs
Musicology
Thesis: Julia Perry’s Stabat Mater, Black Historical Memory, and the Lynching of Christ
Dr. Matthew Mugmon
Jennifer Dorothy Brobeck
Music Education
Thesis: A Narrative Case Study of Sight-Singing Philosophies and Practices of Two Secondary Choral Educators
Dr. Dawn Corso
Lucas Carballeira
Theory
Thesis: Metrical Consonance and Dissonance Complementing Formal Structures in the Music of The Dillinger Escape Plan
Dr. John Muniz
Grant Stephen Knox
Musicology
Document: Examining the Double-Consciousness: Portraits of Americana in the Works of Ulysses Kay
Dr. Matthew Mugmon
Eloy Fidel Ramirez
Musicology
Thesis: Queer Theory and Third-Wave Feminism in Pauline Oliveros’s Meditative Work
Dr. Mattew Mugmon
Master of Fine Arts
Elizabeth Ann Eaton
Theatre Arts - Theatre Design and Production
Costume Design for The Light in the Piazza
Prof. Patrick Holt
Ryan B. Moore
Theatre Arts - Theatre Design and Production
Costume Design for Two Gentleman of Verona
Prof. Patrick Holt
Rachel Ashley Wilkins
Theatre Arts - Theatre Design and Production
Costume Director for The Light in the Piazza
Prof. Richard Tuckett
Doctor of Musical Arts
Matthew Mark Crosby
Choral Conducting - Choral Conducting
Document: Franz Schubert's Use of Harmony to Express the Texts in His Musical Settings of Franz Grillparzer's Poetry
Dr. Bruce Chamberlain
Angelica Marie Dunsavage
Conducting - Choral
Document: Johann Schein, Poet-Composer: Analyzing the Assimilation of Rhetoric and Word Painting in the Diletti Pastorali Collection
Dr. Elizabeth Schauer
Shuree Enkhbold
Performance - Piano
Document: The Piano Music of Sharav Byambasuren: Expressing Mongolian Identity Through Piano Performance
Dr. Rex Woods
Christian Charles Giddings
Conducting - Choral
Document: The Poetic Influence of Torquato Tasso on Monteverdi's Madrigals
Dr. Bruce Chamberlain
Benjamin Jason Hansen
Conducting - Choral
Document: Textual/Musical Interrelationships in Five Unaccompanied Works by Ivo Antognini
Dr. Bruce Chamberlain
Yujia Luo
Conducting - Choral
Document: A New Edition of Anlun Huang's A Requiem in Chinese with an English translation and International Phonetic Alphabet Transcription
Dr. Bruce Chamberlain
Pavel Francisco Meza Peraza
Performance - Guitar
Document: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Sonata Omaggio a Boccherini, op. 77: A Comparison of the Original Score with Andrés Segovia's Standard Edition, Analysis, and New Scholarly Performance Edition
Prof. Tom Patterson
Andrew Paul Morales
Performance - Percussion
Document: Sticking Categories: A Practical Application in Contemporary Literature for Four-Mallet Marimba
Dr. Norm Weinberg
Sangjoon Park
Performance - Piano
Document: Musical Oration: J.S. Bach's Use of Rhetorical Devices in the Fantasia and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 904, and the Chromatic Fantasia and Fuge in D Minor, BWV 903
Dr. Rex Woods
Jacob Lewis Ransom
Performance - Performance
Document: Use of the Program Ableton Live to Learn, Practice, Compose, and Perform Electro-Acoustic Drumset Works
Dr. Morris Palter
Kevin Michael Seal
Conducting - Choral
Document: Achieving a Historically-Informed Performance of Johann Christoph Graupner's Church Cantatas: A Conductor's Guide and New Edition of "Wo gehet Jesus hin, GWV 1119/39
Dr. Bruce Chamberlain
William Kullen Thomas
Performance - Organ
Document: Rhythmic Freedom in Felix Mendelssohn's Six Organ Sonatas, Op. 65
Dr. Rex Woods
Todd Wachsman
Conducting - Choral
Document: Stylistic Features of the Compositions of the Modern American Composer Peter Williams, Particularly as Found in His Missa Brevis
Dr. Bruce Chamberlain and Dr. John Brobeck
Doctor of Philosophy
Faez Ismael Abdalla Abarca
Music - Theory
Dissertation: Towards a Theory of Early-Romantic First-Movement Concerto Form: A Study of Felix Mendelssohn and His Contemporaries
Dr. Boyd Pomeroy
Sierra Norris
Music Education
Dissertation: Private Studio Music Teachers' Attitudes Towards Students with Disabilities: A Descriptive Analysis
Dr. Matt Williams and Dr. Dawn Corso
Kristi Rucker
Art History & Education - Art and Visual Culture Education
Dissertation: An A/r/tographical Examination of the Transformation to Becoming an Art Teacher
Dr. Ryan Shin
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