Convocation Spring 2024
2024 Convocation Ceremony Video:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
2024 Convocation Slideshow
Summer 2023 Undergraduates
Cheyenne Weaver
Fall 2023 Undergraduates
Kathryn Bruce
Cayla Burlingame
Audrey Chavez
Shayne Dolye
Matthew Espen
Nadia Graston
Annalisa Herrera
Detroit Kallunki
Jordan Lenz
Van Mai
IsaBelle McAlpine
Leslie Molina Garcia
Jazmin Molinar
Alicia Rodriguez-Acosta
Camila Seluja
Jillian Selwyn
Walden Shank
Savannah Shelton
Hailey Watt
Spring 2024 Undergraduates
Aiman Aamer
Ariana Aguilar
Bailey Barrows
Grace Bell
Jacx Crane
Alexandra Dark
Robert Dyers
Seth Gloshay
Victoria Gomez
Jessi Hobby
Galli Huaute
Simona Jayne
Addison Key
Daniel Kinghorn
Noel Kittredge
Lark Landon
Adrianna LeDoux
Alexandria Longo
Ariel Lotero
Eric Lucero
Ramona MacLeod
Elijah Maestas
Julian Martinez
William Martinez
Castalia Mayerhofer
Alex Moulton
Jeanette Nelson
Juan Pena
Sophia Puglia-Henry
Gareth Ripol
Sofia Rivera
Sarah Romero
Victoria Ruiz
Andrew Russell
Acacia Ryska Denika Saiz
Kelly Stanley
Lizbeth Torrez Quiroz
Tanya Tyler
Marina Tynku
Mia Uhlenbrock
Chandler Veal
English Minors
Allison Anderson
Sara Atencio-Gonzales
Fiona Mae Balasuit
Sarah Beck
Jordan Bruce
Liz Funnell
Izaynah Garcia
Nathan Gonzales
Julian Gunther
Alex Jaqua
Isabella Krooth
Adayna Leon
Bryant Nelson
Desirae Ortiz
Malia Saavedra
Nathan Sandoval
Ellie Walton
Fall 2023 English-Philosophy
Evan Kieling
Lily O’Connor
Spring 2024 English-Philosophy
Evan Chilton-Garcia
Daniel Ulloa Vega
Undergraduate Departmental Honors
Alexandria Longo, “House of Zodiac”
magna cum laude
Advisor: Daniel Mueller
Castalia Mayerhofer, “Crafting Experience: Harryette Mullen and Gertrude Stein’s Poetic Experimentalism Transforming Aesthetic Experience as Defined by John Dewey’s Art as Experience”
magna cum laude
Advisor: Matthew Hofer
Alex Moulton, “America’s Gender Trouble: Janet Mock, Joshua Whitehead, and Billy-Ray Belcourt”
magna cum laude
Advisor: Kathryn Wichelns
Camila Seluja, “A Subgenre of Double Vision: Trauma as Magical Realism Experience in Lebanese Women's Autofiction”
magna cum laude
Advisor: Doaa Omran
Undergraduate Awards
Bank of America Undergraduate Student Award
Candis Canaday; Maria Fernandez
Bank of America Returning Student Award
Javier Cruz; Gareth Ripol
Reba Rutz Beidleman Endowed Scholarship
Tanya Tyler
Linda Gayle and Arthur John Brender Endowed Scholarship
Raquel Barcena
Elsie and James Demas Scholarship
Castalia Mayerhofer; Alex Moulton
Phyllis Flanders Dorset Scholarship in English Literature
Savannah Phelps; Morgan Tracy
Howard Dean Everett Scholarship
Monika Toledo
Virginia R. Fultz Scholarship
Aja Quintana
Hillerman-McGarrity Scholarship in Creative Writing
Leah Livingston
Irene B. Kimball Endowed Scholarship
Michelle Corral
Dr. E.A. Mares Award in Chicano Literature
Evelyn Cisneros; Ariel Menendez
Mary M. McDonald Scholarship Fund in English
Karina Bolanos
Dale and Ivan Melada Endowed Scholarship
Mahlan Parker; Miriam Reichsfeld; Sydney Walker
New Mexico Folklore Scholar in English
Jacob Garcia
Katherine G. Simons Scholarship
Lilly Porter; Samantha Ramirez
Katherine M. Sims Memorial Scholarship
Jenessa Seaman
Joseph B. Zavadil Memorial Scholarship
Orion Lee
8th Annual Karen McKinnon Poetry Awards:
Isabella Clarke, 1st Place for "the hotel"
Tanya Tyler, 2nd place for “To My Yáázh”
Kadra Guillermo, 3rd place for "Lonely the Jackrabbit"
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Fall 2023 Graduates
Jared Gallardo, MFA Fiction
Danielle Stevens, MA Rhetoric & Writing
Spring & Summer 2024 Graduates
Emily Alameda, MFA Fiction
Didi Asiya, MA Rhetoric & Writing
Kyndall Benning, MFA Nonfiction
Kalila Bohsali, PhD Language & Literature
Asa Holcombe, MA Medieval Studies
Ian Martin, MA Medieval Studies
Ford Peay, MA Medieval Studies
Isabel Strawn, MA Rhetoric & Writing
Deanna Tenorio, MA Language & Literature
Isabella Valdez, MFA Nonfiction
Leo Williams, MFA Nonfiction
Chrysta Wilson, PhD Language & Literature
Anthony Yarbrough, MFA Fiction
Graduate Certificate in Technical and Professional Writing
Didi Asiya
Elyse Barnes
Kyle Browder
Annah Macha
Delsie Morrison
Isabel Strawn
Graduate Awards
Graduate Student Award in Rhetoric and Writing
Didi Asiya
Hillerman/McGarrity Scholarship in Creative Writing
Paris Baldante ; Leo Williams ; Anthony Yarbrough
Howard Dean Everett Scholarship
Madeline Mendoza
Rudolfo Anaya Fellowship
Lucas Garcia ; Isabella Valdez
Vicente Ximenes Scholarship
Isabel Strawn
TA Teaching Awards
Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award
Kani Aniegboka
Outstanding 2120 Sequence
Rae Stringfield
Outstanding Core Writing Instructor
Julie Peterman
Outstanding New Writing Instructor
Jesyln Pool
Outstanding Peer Mentor
Lucas Garcia
Fresch and Davis Literature Teaching Award
Chrysta Wilson
Patricia Smith Creative Writing Teaching Award
Gwyneth Henke
Susan Deese-Roberts Outstanding Teaching Assistants of the Year
Kani Aniegboka; Julie Peterman
