Candidates for Graduate Degrees in the School of Arts, Humanities and Culture
# August 2025 Graduate
* February 2026 Graduate
+ Future Award Date
Master of Arts
Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
- Selma Dogmac
- Seth Addison Eislund
- Gonen Rimer+
- Benjamin Noah Timbers#
- Carl Weinstein
- Jenifer Lynn Winfree
Philosophy
- Shuo Bing*
- Antares Brown+
- Aengus Cairne Church*
- Andie Cook
- Qiyuan Feng*
- Thomas Castillo Fleming*
- Sunghoon Jang*
- Cheng Jin*
- Suzanne Esther Knop*
- Noah M. Kressel+
- Jacob Herriott Lichty*
- Yunong Niu*
- Yufan Peng*
- Shiheng Shang+
- Zongyuan Tang
- Yuyang Xiao*
- Jingying Yao*
Master of Fine Arts
Doctor of Philosophy
Music Composition and Theory
- Yu-Tung Cheng
Analysis of Quartet for Piano and Three Percussion (2016) by Alice Shields; and an Original Composition, Fallen Angel Atraxa for Ensemble (Clarinet in B♭, Trumpet in C, Violin, Cello, Percussion), Voice, Actor, Electronics, and Real-time Visuals - Qi Li
An In-Depth Analysis of Sven-David Sandström’s Requiem (2010-2011); and an original composition, Tides of Tears for Loadbang Ensemble with Multimedia - Ying-Ting Lin*
Continuity Through Contrast in Rebecca Saunders’ Fury II (2009) Sonic Saturation, Gesture, and the Composite Instrument; and an original composition, Press F to Practice (2024) for tenor saxophone and electronics - Ali Can Puskulcu*
The sound of Eternity: Temporal Stillness and Fluidity in Jonathan Harvey’s...Towards a Pure Land; and an Original Composition, Agnostic Ambiguities, for Seven Musicians
Musicology
- Mina Cho#
Improvising on Tradition and Spirituality: Dongjin Park’s Pansori Yesujeon and the Emergence of a New Korean Spiritual Aesthetic - Giorgos Mannouris*
The Wagner Manifesto: Metaphor, Metamorphosis, and the Ring Reforged - Daniel Jared Shapiro
The Solo Lieder of Karl Weigl (1881–1949): A Revised Catalog, History, and Assessment
Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
- Tamar Sarah Aizenberg
“Knowledge of the Same Abyss”: Grandchildren of Survivors, Grandchildren of Perpetrators, and Holocaust Memory