Convocation Spring 2023

2023 Convocation Ceremony Video:

Part 1 

Part 2

2023 Convocation Slideshow

Summer 2022 Undergraduates

Catherine Collier

Solana Harris Gutierrez 

Fall 2022 Undergraduates

Marcos Balido Romero

Charles Berlowitz

Callan Buday

Gage Davis
Meranda Feagin

Benjamin Fowler

Isabel Gastelum

Angel Jones
Julia Langeway

Katherine Love

Candra Lowery

Bianca Lucero
Karina Ortiz

Justine Pennington

Ana Rios

Grace Saiz
Rosanna Samudio

Alesha Sanchez

Brigid Shaski

Gabriel Simmons
Elizabeth Smith

Spring 2023 Undergraduates

Ariel Alexander

Gia Arellano

Sara Aslami

Robin Babb
Anneshka Barbone

Christian Calloway

Abigail Campbell

Jaron Chavez
Andrea Chin-Lopez

Grace Drew

Samantha Erreguin

Katie Fields
Karine Franco Perez

Ravyn Garcia

Charlotte Gates

Ariana Green
Sierra Martinez

Calista Monzingo

Natalya Mora

Jessica Rose Nunez
Jaquelin Pacheco-Marquez

Elija Padilla

Taylor Parsons

Alexis Pierce
Angelina Pompeo

Elizabeth Raaff

John Scott

Alexander Self
Samantha Sena

Nicole Sjoblom

Andrew Sowers

Catherine Sturgess
Christian Walker

Ethan Ward

Jocelyn Ware

Cheyenne Weaver
London Wilder

Spenser Willden

Joshua Williamson

Dionna Wright

Undergraduate Departmental Honors

Gia Arelllano, “The Female Perspective in Alfred Lord Tennyon’s
The Lady of Shalott and Contemporary Young Adult Adaptations”
cum laude
Advisor: Sarah Townsend

Robin Babb, “Fictional Boyfriends”
magna cum laude
Advisor: Greg Martin

Tamara Decker, “Traum-Informed Shakespeare Pedagogy: A Scholarly Memoir”
magna cum laude
Advisor: Marissa Greenberg

Benjamin Fowler, “Madness and Longing”
magna cum laude
Advisor: Daniel Mueller

Charlotte Gates, “Forming a Truth—A Memoir”
magna cum laude
Advisor: Greg Martin

Ethan Ward, “People and Endings”
magna cum laude

Advisor: Amaris Ketcham

Spenser Willden, “Raton”
magna cum laude
Advisor: Greg Martin

Undergraduate Awards

Bank of America Undergraduate Student Award

Miriam Reichsfeld

Bank of America Returning Student Award 

Gareth Ripol

Dale and Ivan Melada Endowed Scholarship

Leah Livingston

Sophia Puglia Henry
AJ Wood

Elsie and James Demas Scholarship

Ethan Ward
Spenser Willden

Hillerman-McGarrity Scholarship in Creavtie Writing

Robin Babb

Howard Dean Everet Scholarship

Eldrick Toya

Irene B. Kimball Endowed Scholarship

Tanya Tyler

Joseph B. Zavadil Memorial Scholarship

Madison Hogans

Katherine M. Sims Memorial Scholarship

Savannah Phelps

Katherine G. Simons Scholarship

Leslie Molina

Linda Gayle and Arthur John Brender Endowed Scholarship

Ariel Menendez

New Mexico Folklore Scholar in English

Danica Lee

Reba Rutz Beidleman Endowed Scholarship

Luke Sheppard

Virginia R. Fultz Scholarship Raquel Barcena
Samantha Ramirez

7th Annual Karen McKinnon Poetry Awards: Tessa Keenan, 1st place for “Facets;”Phia Smith, 2nd place for "Tomorrow I will pour you out;" Elijah Padilla, 3rd place for “another poem about autumn and death.” 

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Fall 2022 Graduates

Andrea Borunda, PhD BILS

Spring & Summer 2022 Graduates

Laura Anderson, MA Language & Literature

Tania Balderas, PhD ALS
Averie Basch, MA Medieval Studies

Kimberly Blake, MA Language & Literature
Sunnie Clahchischiligi, PhD Rhetoric & Writing

Todd Cronkhite, PhD ALS
Alexander Henkle, MA Language & Literature

Sinae Kang, PhD BILS
Emma Mincks, PhD BILS

Ruben Miranda-Juarez, MFA Fiction
Tyler Mortensen-Hayes, MFA Poetry

JoAnna Neveda, PhD Rhetoric & Writing
Evelyn Olmos Ontiveros, MFA Poetry

Charles O’Melia, MFA Fiction
Joshua Sanchez, MA Language & Literature

Cyrus Stuvland, MFA Nonfiction
Sofia Tarabrina, PhD Rhetoric & Writing

Jared Valdez, PhD ALS

Graduate Awards

Bilinski Foundation Fellowship

Kalila Bohsali
Emily Reiff

Buchanan Arms Award in English

Sara Flores

Graduate Student Award in Rhetoric and Writing

Sunnie Clahchischiligi

Hillerman-McGarrity Scholarship in Creative Writing

Vera Clyne

Howard Dean Everet Scholarship

Kimberly Blake
Madeline Mendoza

Mary M. McDonald Scholarship Fund

Averie Basch

Phyllis Flanders Dorset Scholarship in English Literature

Haley Bonner

Rudolfo Anaya Fellowship

Ruben Miranda-Juarez

TA Teaching Awards

Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award

Jessie Bonafede

Outstanding 1120 Sequence

Rae Stringfield

Outstanding Core Writing Instructor

Cyrus Stuvland

Outstanding New Writing Instructor

Julie Peterman

Outstanding Peer Mentor

Madeline Mendoza

Fresch and Davis Literature Teaching Award

Emily Reiff

Patricia Smith Creative Writing Teaching Award

Isabella Valdez