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Academic distinctions are projections based on data as of December 1, 2020, and may differ from the final diploma distinction.

Bachelor of Arts

Aung Tun Aye

Film and Television

Nicole Borchaloui

Studio Art - Illustration + Design

Alice Qinghui Chen

Studio Art
Magna Cum Laude

Joseph Thomas Clark

Film and Television
Magna Cum Laude

Juan Carlos Clark

Art History
Summa Cum Laude

Kyle Jordan Cota

Film and Television

Abigail Eugenia Dunscomb

Theatre Arts
Summa Cum Laude

Dennis Eagar

Music
Magna Cum Laude

Lena Justine Farber

Studio Art
Cum Laude

Hannah Lee Gammon

Film and Television

Aaron Ray George

Music
Magna Cum Laude

Luis Fernando Gonzalez

Film and Television

Marina Rose Oloño

Theatre Arts
Magna Cum Laude

Rogelio Yasser Perea

Film and Television

Rachel Matsuo Saindon

Film and Television
Magna Cum Laude

Toshihiro Shojima

Film and Television

Camilla Stevenson

Art History
Cum Laude

Grant Allen Webb

Film and Television

Bachelor of Music

Han Lin

Performance - Piano

Jeremy Luke Meeker-Hackett

Music Education
Magna Cum Laude

Gareth Michael Montanarello

Performance
Magna Cum Laude

David Oregon

Performance
Cum Laude

Daniel Perez

Music Education

Jose Daniel Ramos

Performance

Daniel Stuart Saufley

Performance
Cum Laude

Bachelor of Fine Arts

Lucia Aguirre

Studio Art
Magna Cum Laude

Fabiola Miranda Bedoya

Studio Art
Cum Laude

Maria Kristina Bejar

Studio Art
Magna Cum Laude

Uthai Andres Espinoza

Art and Visual Culture Education
Magna Cum Laude

Benjamin Joseph Ferguson

Dance
Magna Cum Laude

Michael Robert Gasker

Studio Art
Magna Cum Laude

Noah Ray Hensley

Studio Art

Haoming Lang

Illustration + Design

Shira Elena Maas

Musical Theatre

Devan Rhiann Marin

Art and Visual Culture Education - Community & Museums
Magna Cum Laude

Viktoria Lissette Martinez

Studio Art
Magna Cum Laude

Alexander Donovan Mason

Musical Theatre
Summa Cum Laude

Henry Aaron McCormick

Theatre Production

Maggie Josephine McNeil

Theatre Production
Magna Cum Laude

John C Mulleneaux

Studio Art
Summa Cum Laude

Osvaldo Peña

Studio Art
Magna Cum Laude

Johnny Phan

Studio Art
Summa Cum Laude With Honors

Deborah Esther Ruiz

Studio Art
Summa Cum Laude

Hannah Kathleen Smith

Studio Art
Magna Cum Laude

Skylar Symonds

Art and Visual Culture Education - Teaching

Tenaya Rose Tidwell

Theatre Production
Cum Laude

Brisa Yunuen Tzintzun

Studio Art
Magna Cum Laude

Lauren Rebecca Vialva

Theatre Production
Magna Cum Laude

Megan Ashley Wiese

Theatre Production
Summa Cum Laude

Master of Arts

Hallye Danielle Becker

Art History
Thesis: Revolutionary Art in the CER: Examining murals and scrapbooks in a Mexico City primary school
Thesis Director: Dr. Stacie Widdifield

Anjana Madan

Art and Visual Culture Education - Community and Museums
Thesis: Soundscapes: A Participatory Project with the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson's Summer Camp
Thesis Director: Dr. Carissa DiCindio

Nicholas Matty McCullough

Art History
Thesis: The Consorts of Power: State Portrait Costumes of the Wives of the French Monarchs
Thesis Director: Dr. Paul Ivey

Andie Rodriguez

Art and Visual Culture Education
Thesis: Code Catalyst: Digital Storytelling through Illustration and Augmented Reality
Thesis Director: Dr. Ryan Shin

Dorothe Karin Santistevan

Art History
Thesis: Miniature, Precious, Affective: The Understated Power of Wallet Photos in the Construction of Identity
Thesis Director: Dr. Jeehey Kim

Master of Music

Walter Callum Robbins-Gennerich

Performance
Major Professor: Professor Timothy Kantor

Master of Fine Arts

Emigdio Arredondo Martinez

Dance
Thesis: Estudio Esencial de Identidad No. 1 2020 (con Cariño pa' la Gente Diaspórica y pa' Mi Mismo)
Thesis Director: Autumn Eckman

Doctor of Musical Arts

Matthew Mark Crosby

Choral Conducting
Document: Franz Schubert's Use of Harmony To Express the Texts in His Musical Settings of Franz Grillparzer's Poetry
Major Professor: Dr. Bruce Chamberlain

Minjun Dong

Performance
Document: A Comparative Study of Vladimir Leyetchkiss' 1985 Piano Transcription of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
Major Professor: Dr. Daniel Linder & Dr. John Milbauer

Shuo Pan

Performance
Document: Henri Dutilleux's Sonate pour piano, Op. 1 (1947-1948): External Influences on His Idiosyncratic Musical Style
Major Professor: Dr. Rex Woods

Jacob Lewis Ransom

Performance
Document: Use of the Program Ableton Live to Learn, Practice, and Perform Electroacoustic Drumset Works
Major Professor: Dr. Morris Palter

Jeffrey Keith Vanderlee

Choral Conducting
Document: A Rhetorical Analysis of Selected Motets of Johann Christoph Bach (1642-1703)
Major Professor: Dr. Bruce Chamberlain

Neal Warner

Composition
Document: Streamer Symphony
Major Professor: Professor Daniel Asia

Doctor of Philosophy

Kathy Acosta Zavala

Musiciology
Disseration: Toward a History of the Institutionalization of the Classical Guitar: Vahdah Olcott-Bickford (1885-1980) and the Shaping of Classical Guitar Culture in Twentieth-Century America
Major Professor: Dr. Matthew Mugmon

Elisabeth Marie Blin

Musiciology
Dissertation: Tropic√°lia's Second Generation: Sounding Antropof√°gia and New Gendered Tropes
Major Professor: Dr. Janet Sturman

Dominique Elise Polanco

Art History & Education
Dissertation: Facsimiles of Colonialism: The 1565 Pintura del gobernador, alcaldes y regidores de México and Its Reproductions
Dissertation Directors: Dr. Emily Umberger & Dr. Stacie Widdifield