Commencement

Candidates for Graduate Degrees in the School of Social Sciences and Social Policy

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

Master’s Certificate

Jewish Professional Leadership
  • Karen Cohen Ames#
  • Rose Bridger#
  • Molly Elizabeth Dunn#
  • Lauryn Rose Eisenstein#
  • Samantha Herbert#
  • Sarah Alexis Jacobs#
  • Sarah Rose LaPedis#
  • Erin Leigh Moseley#
  • Marla F. Olsburg
  • Elena Simpser
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Master of Arts

Anthropology
  • Sara Lynn Frailich
  • Zachary David Jansa*
  • Ivory Ana Mazyck#
  • Siân Stephanie Michaels
  • Nicole Elizabeth Van Meter*
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Anthropology & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Sneha Lakshmi Visakha Annavajjala#
  • Cali Eileen McKenzie
  • Xiaoya Yang
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Conflict Resolution and Coexistence
  • Majid Ali*
  • Mohammad Loqman Ansari
  • Nino Baramia*
  • Annalise James Chapdelaine*
  • Mariama Darboe#
  • Murray Dawson
  • Lindsey April Dembeck*
  • Armin Dubert*
  • Rebecca Duke Wiesenberg*
  • Israa Mahfouz Eltawil*
  • Joseph Anthony Getto
  • Wiame Hammouchene*
  • Gracious Kajah*
  • Isaac Dimogso Konlan*
  • Owen Luke Madaus*
  • Solomon Mensah*
  • Cliveland Mwanji*
  • Nangyallay Nang*
  • Hero Nkubito*
  • Ifeyinwa Emily Nwobi*
  • Mohamed Sawadogo*
  • May Nyein Mon Swe*
  • Michael Ilya Teixido
  • Daniel Tjiawi*
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Global Sustainability Policy and Management
  • Junaid Ahmed
  • Pem Dem
  • Arianna Kalise Jackson+
  • Hamal Ikram Kashani
  • Almaz Kasymbekov
  • Kennedy Alexis Messado+
  • Adriana Maria Neira Caamano+
  • Davaajargal Sukhbaatar
  • Muhammad Umar
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History
  • Lianne D. Gallant
  • Kamran Geshnizjani#
  • Yanli He
  • Abigail Lee Mullins
  • Annie Paolo
  • Ayse Tugba Silahtar Subasi
  • Amélie Héloïse Todd*
  • Colin James Wilson
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Jewish Professional Leadership
  • Tal Bande
  • Elaine Sultana Berger
  • Yonatan Minale Eyov
  • Sela Shulamit Yerushalmi Goldstein
  • Samuel Martin Powers
  • Gonen Rimer+
  • Samantha Schnall
  • Benjamin Noah Timbers#
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Near Eastern and Judaic Studies & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Zoe Yana Bronstein
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Social Policy
  • Fernanda Artimos de Oliveira
  • Jordan Berg Powers
  • Michelle Cheng
  • Shawn Dunlap
  • Jenna L. McElroy
  • Daniel Zachary Nussbaum
  • Arielle Irene Papalimberis
  • Miranda Jane Safir
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Sociology
  • Stephanie Sarni Garlow
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Sociology & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  • Kwame Gayle#
  • Riagan McMahon+
  • Charley Tilney Wickersham Mestrich*
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Sustainable International Development
  • Adwoa Adobea-Owusu
  • Herbert Adu-Gyamfi
  • Solomon Afriyie Akoto-Bamfo
  • Proscovia Atyang
  • Rossina Chimkwita
  • Eunsook Jang
  • Ebenezer Kwapong
  • Eric Wononuo Osman
  • Nazira Osmonova
  • Bipasha Roy
  • Mrinmoy Samadder
  • Essence Unique Smith
  • Stanley Ssengaaga
  • Sumina Suwal
  • Sibghat Ullah
  • Fabiola Vega Prosper#
  • Shweta Vyas
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Master of Business Administration

Executive MBA for Physicians
  • Jackson Agraz
  • Usman Ahmad
  • Brenda Cuellar de Orellana
  • David Caba Molina
  • Mohammad Rizwan Choudhary
  • Tracey Ellen Cohen
  • Sheila Marie Coogan
  • Apara R. Davé
  • Stephanie Renee Goldberg
  • Aashima Gupta
  • Ellen Hagopian
  • Caitlin Ann Halbert
  • Grace Hyun
  • Romeo Castro Ignacio Jr.
  • Angela M. Ingraham
  • D’Andrea K. Joseph+
  • Kavina Juneja
  • Amit Sudhakar Kharod
  • Hisham Marwan
  • Patricio Marcelo Polanco
  • Ajit S. Puri
  • Christian Rodriguez
  • Kathryn W. Russell
  • Raghuram Sampath
  • Andres Schanzer
  • Marc Evan Sher
  • Kevin Mauclair Simon
  • Carrie Sims
  • Donn Hatiim Spight
  • Kirsten Jennifer Voss
  • Rajalakshmi Nair Warrier
  • Jilian George White
  • Michael Edwin Willers+
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Master of Education

Education Leadership
  • Elaine Sultana Berger
  • Sela Shulamit Yerushalmi Goldstein
  • Samantha Schnall
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Teacher Leadership
  • Shira Eve Cantor^
  • Andrea Carin Duran^
  • Jessica Hadaway Jobanek^
  • Karly Joseph^
  • Audrey A. Kraus^
  • Alexandra E. Ramras^
  • Vicki Lynn Ross
  • Naomi Saks^
  • Brandon Michael Sousa
  • Haley Rose Talbert^
  • Valerie Madeleine Verhas-Toskin^
  • William Warren Walthall IV

^ The Legacy Heritage Master’s Scholars gratefully acknowledge the generous grant provided by Legacy Heritage Fund to support the completion of their master’s degrees in Teacher Leadership.

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Master of Public Policy

  • Makendi Henry Alce Sr.
  • Quieraney DeJanae Belvin
  • Jennifer Flanagan
  • Jordyn Ruth Green#
  • Jonathan Etai Kahn+
  • Lal Kumar#
  • Chloe Isabel Morales
  • Annika Mila Neigus Meurs
  • Adriana Maria Paz Diaz
  • Carnuela Petit Frere
  • Cassidy Rivera-Keefe
  • Nicholas W. Schiavo
  • Natan Tayachew
  • Tessa A. Venell*
  • Margaret Fiske Worman+
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Master of Science

Global Health Policy and Management
  • Amanuel Nedaw Abesha
  • Chukwuemeka Abraham Agbarakwe
  • Fatima Asghar#
  • Uwingabire Blandine Jr.
  • Bereket Alemayehu Chaka
  • Kayitare Adolphe Cyusa
  • Pacifique Dusabeyezu
  • Richmond Worlanyo Dzeamesi
  • Isaiah Kaunda Dzimbiri
  • Stella T.L. Flahn
  • Sosina Milikit Haile
  • Mehran Heydari Seradj
  • Sitra Mesfin Hussen
  • Justine Imanishimwe Kirezi
  • Eunice Ingabire
  • Aminata Jaiteh
  • Lal Kumar
  • Amos M’yisa Makelele
  • Evaline Augustino Maziku
  • Bekri Delil Mohammed
  • Tarini Mohan
  • Innocent Mukangahe
  • Ratherford Njanji
  • Mercy Chidinma Okpara
  • Emma Grace Ortman
  • Anjila Pandey
  • Charmaine Tendai Phiri
  • Lydia Asa Akua Randall
  • Marium Rehan
  • Sanjeev Kumar Sahani
  • Susan Sambou
  • Amanuel Mamo Tsegaye
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Doctor of Philosophy

Anthropology
  • Medha Asthana
    Masculine Daughters: Gender, Natal Kinship, and Queer Transmasculinities in North India
  • Kimberly Marie Craig
    Bare Branches and Clashing Doors: Masculinity, Morality, and the Marriage Economy in Contemporary China
  • George Van Kollias III#
    Political Frontiers of the Usumacinta River, Chiapas- An Investigation of Classic Period Maya Polities and Their Interstices
  • Arantxa Belen Ortiz#
    On the Material and Sensory Politics of Illegalization: Embodied Borders, Feminist Accompaniment, and Sensory Work
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History
  • Susann Longva Vaeth#
    Liberated Schools and Occupied Europe: Teaching the war in primary and secondary schools in northern and western Europe, 1945-1985
  • Joey Low*
    Lords of the Left River Region: Rethinking Chieftains, States, and Economy in the Early Modern China-Vietnam Borderlands
  • Alaa Murad#
    Ottoman Belonging in Novel Form: Jurjī Zaydān’s History of Islam Series (1891–1914)
  • Alexandra M. Szabo
    A Prolonged Genocide: The Sterilization and Castration Experiences of Hungarian Jews and Roma in National Socialist Camps
  • Joseph Peter Yauch#
    Take All the Pine and Spruce You Want: Native Dispossession and Industrial Natural Resource Extraction in the Penobscot River Watershed, 1820-1933
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Politics
  • Daniel Joseph Ruggles#
    Building the New Right: How Conservatives Mobilized Young Americans for Freedom to Capture the Republican Party, 1960-1980
  • Nathanial Alfred Howlett Walker*
    Global Commons: Explaining Sovereignty Beyond the State
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Social Policy
  • Ophelia Delali Amenuxe Akoto
    From STEM Precarity to Precocity: Addressing Female Labor Force Development and Livelihood Insecurity through STEM Education in Ghana
  • Aaron Drew Camp
    More than a Sunday Service: The Role of Congregational Assets in Shaping Health Programming Efforts in Black Churches
  • Paul Dismukes#
    Associating race/ethnicity and plan type with the patient care experience of prostate cancer patients
  • Emily Megan Ledingham
    Chronic Pain Among People with Disabilities: An Epidemiologic Study of Pain, Treatment, and Alcohol Use
  • Spencer Lawrence Lewis
    The Dynamics of Unit-Based Teams in Healthcare: The Impact of Team Participation on Assessments of Workplace Technologies
  • David Jeremy Manchester#
    Religious Engagement and Coping with Loneliness
  • Tozoe Elaine Marton
    Governing Birth: Midwifery and Maternal Healthcare in Kenya
  • Janelle Ridley
    Playing for Keeps & Breaking the Chain: Understanding the Construction of the School-to-Prison Pipeline within America’s Industrial Educational System and the Advocacy for a Social Determinants of Health Framework in K-12 Education
  • Kumba Sennaar#
    Variations in the Birthing Experience: Cesarean Delivery and the Impact of the Patient-Provider Dynamic
  • Marcia Stein*
    Differentiators Between Transient and Persistent High-Cost Medicare Beneficiaries: An Examination of Utilization and Cost Drivers
  • Deborah Strod
    Understanding Career Paths of Specialty Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Service Providers
  • Adam Vose-O’Neal
    Who gets in? A mixed methods analysis of racial disparities and police discretion in a police-assisted diversion program for those with alcohol, drug, and/or mental health issues
  • Elizabeth Ann Wong*
    Providing Child Care in a 24/7 Economy: A Mixed Methods Study of the Supply of Nontraditional Hour Care in the Child Care Subsidy System
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Sociology
  • Jing Huang#
    Encountering China’s Small-Town Consumers: Aspirations, Cultures, and Status
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