Commencement

Candidates for Graduate Degrees in the School of Arts, Humanities and Culture

# August 2025 Graduate
* February 2026 Graduate
+ Future Award Date

Master of Arts

Ancient Greek and Roman Studies
  • Anna Marie Roche*
  • James Dalton Travis
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English
  • Sreemoyee Bhattacharyya#
  • Arunendro Dutta
  • Connor Arthur Gustafson
  • Iana Seerung#
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English & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Aryana Khun*
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Music Composition and Theory
  • Peter Zhaoyang Han
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Musicology
  • Shawn Robert Mikkelson#
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Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
  • Selma Dogmac
  • Seth Addison Eislund
  • Gonen Rimer+
  • Benjamin Noah Timbers#
  • Carl Weinstein
  • Jenifer Lynn Winfree
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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*
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Master of Fine Arts

Music Composition and Theory
  • Dylan Needleman
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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

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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

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Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
  • Tamar Sarah Aizenberg
    “Knowledge of the Same Abyss”: Grandchildren of Survivors, Grandchildren of Perpetrators, and Holocaust Memory

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