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 Gareth Ripol
Award
Dale and Ivan Melada Endowed Scholarship Leah Livingston
Sophia PugliaHenry
AJ Wood
Elsie and James Demas Scholarship Ethan Ward
Spenser Willden
HillermanMcGarrity Scholarship
in Creave Wring Robin Babb
Howard Dean Evere 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
Sam antha R amirez
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 Foundaon Fellowship Kalila Bohsali
Emily Rei
BuchananArms Award in English Sara Flores
Graduate Student Award
in Rhetoric and Wring Sunnie Clahchischiligi
HillermanMcGarrity Scholarship
in Creave Wring Vera Clyne
Howard Dean Evere 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 MirandaJuarez
TA Teaching Awards
Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award Jessie Bonafede
Outstanding 1120 Sequence Rae Stringeld
Outstanding Core Wring Instructor Cyrus Stuvland
Outstanding New Wring Instructor Julie Peterman
Outstanding Peer Mentor Madeline Mendoza
Fresch and Davis Literature Teaching Award Emily Rei
Patricia Smith Creave Wring Teaching Award Isabella Valdez