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Graduate Calendar

Temple’s Graduate Calendar is your resource for key dates and deadlines related to graduate education, including deadlines for submitting final dissertations and theses, doctoral dissertation and MFA project completion grant applications, fellowship nominations and First Summers Research Initiative applications.

You can also access the Office of the University Registrar calendar, which includes important universitywide dates.

Upcoming Defense Dates

The following are scheduled dissertation defenses. This schedule is updated continuously as defense announcements are received by the Graduate School.

January 2025

Sezgi Başak Kavakli, Media and Communication PhD, Lew Klein College of Media and Communication
Media, Migration, Polarization: Can Journalists Help Mitigate Polarization Regarding Migration in Türkiye?
January 16, 2025, at 3:00 p.m.
Zoom

Nadia Niknami, Computer and Information Science PhD, College of Science and Technology
Improving Performance of Intrusion Detection Systems for Software-Defined Networks
January 24, 2025, at 8:00 a.m.
Zoom

Theresa M. White, Higher Education EdD, College of Education and Human Development
What are the Academic Experiences of Master's Students who are Caregivers?
January 24, 2025, at 1:00 p.m.
Zoom

February 2025

Michael J. Giordano, Education/Applied Linguistics PhD, College of Education and Human Development
The Effects of Lexical Coverage, Discourse Structure, and Text Variables on Listening Comprehension
February 1, 2025, at 5:30 p.m.
Japan Campus

Alexander Bourne, Educational Leadership EdD, College of Education and Human Development
Identifying Key Determinants of School Effectiveness in Jamaica From an Analysis of the National Education Inspectorate Findings
February 24, 2025, at 10:00 a.m.
Zoom

Austin Matthew Mullen, Higher Education EdD, College of Education and Human Development
Conference Realignment and the Role of Faculty Athletics Representatives
February 24, 2025, at 3:00 p.m.
Ritter Hall 349

Ricardo Bennett, Educational Leadership EdD, College of Education and Human Development
Investigating the Impact of Mentorship and Feedback on Student Teachers' Perceptions of the Final Year Teaching Practice: Listening to Jamaican Student Teachers
February 25, 2025, at 11:00 a.m.
Zoom

Channing Shippen, Music Therapy PhD, Boyer College of Music and Dance
Perspectives on Group Music Therapy Encounters With People Experiencing Homelessness: a Narrative Inquiry
February 25, 2025, at 3:30 p.m.
Presser Hall Conference Room

Arjun Balaram, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
It Starts at the Top: Exploring CEOs' Global Mindset Attributes
February 26, 2025, at 1:00 p.m.
Zoom

HyunHee (Hanna) Woo, Music Therapy PhD, Boyer College of Music and Dance
Music Therapy Practices for Incompetent to Stand Trial (IST) Patients in Forensic Psychiatric Hospitals: Content Analysis
February 26, 2025, at 3:00 p.m.
Presser Hall Conference Room

Lauren E. Ruhnke, Anthropology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Negotiating (Non)Belonging: Queer Selfhoods and Socialities in Neoliberal Urban Mumbai
February 28, 2025, at 9:00 a.m.
Zoom

March 2025

Stephen Gluckman, English PhD, College of Liberal Arts
“The whole world could break into a thousand little pieces”: Anxieties of Incomprehensibility and Community in Modern and Contemporary American Fiction?
March 10, 2025, at 11:00 a.m.
Zoom

Maureen Shetty, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
Advancing Representation in U.S. Clinical Trials: An Analysis of Intent to Participate, Participation Dynamics, Barriers, and Motivations
March 11, 2025, at 10:00 a.m.
Zoom

Tawny Threats, Educational Leadership EdD, College of Education and Human Development
Give Teachers the Mic: An Investigation into the Literacy Gap and Education
March 11, 2025, at 10:00 a.m.
Zoom

Alexa S. Trifilo, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
Implicit Bias in Hiring: Leveraging Avatars to Foster Inclusive Hiring Practices
March 12, 2025, at 10:30 a.m.
Zoom

Julien G. Ehrenkonig, Anthropology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Illustrating Islam: Comics as Dakwah and the Negotiation of Muslim Identity in Indonesia
March 12, 2025, at 3:00 p.m.
Zoom

Hao Jiang, Operations and Supply Chain Management PhD, Fox School of Business
From Coopetition to Control: Strategies for Navigating Supply Chain Complexities
March 13, 2025, at 12:00 p.m.
Zoom

Amanda M. Peluzzo, Biomedical Sciences PhD, Lewis Katz School of Medicine
The Role of IL-19 in Lymphangiogenesis and Lymphatic Function Through Regulation of Junctional Morphology
March 18, 2025, at 11:00 a.m.
MERB 1010

Min Kyung Boo, English PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Disidentifying with America: Idea of Development in Post-2000 Asian Immigrant Narratives
March 19, 2025, at 9:00 a.m.
Zoom

Rick Barrantes Aguero, Music Performance/Bassoon DMA, Boyer College of Music and Dance
A Performance Guide and Analysis of Carlos Escalante Macaya's Desasosiego for Solo Bassoon, Strings, and Percussion (2017)
March 19, 2025, at 11:00 a.m.
Presser Hall 103

Tammy Lind-Butikis, Educational Leadership EdD, College of Education and Human Development
Is DEI DOA? Leadership Practices that Foster Pride, not Prejudice in America's Schools
March 20, 2025, at 1:30 p.m.
Zoom

Lily F. Scott, Art History PhD, Tyler School of Art and Architecture
Neither Then nor Now: Queer Temporalities and Interwar Portraits of Expatriate Sapphists
March 21, 2025, at 10:00 a.m.
Zoom

Wenonah M. Carney, Religion PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Virgins, Visons, Dreams and the Prophetess: 'Catholic' New Prophecy and the Innovation of Montanism
March 24, 2025, at 3:00 p.m.
Zoom

Samantha N. Kimmel, Higher Education EdD, College of Education and Human Development
Dual Benefits: Dual Enrollment's Impact on Student Enrollment, Persistence, and Host Institution
March 28, 2025, at 11:00 a.m.
Zoom

April 2025

Kirsten Paulus, Social and Behavioral Sciences PhD, College of Public Health
How We Communicate Behavior Matters: Adolescent Sexual Behavior in the Era of Streaming Television
April 1, 2025, at 11:00 a.m.
Ritter Annex 992

Nicole Emser, Art History PhD, Tyler School of Art and Architecture
Disordering the Land: Visual and Material Strategies of Creating Futurity and the Otherwise in Contemporary Caribbean Art
April 1, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.
Zoom

Meryl Fernandez Lumba, Philosophy PhD, College of Liberal Arts
The Dual Structure of Comedy in Hegel's Philosophy of Art
April 16, 2025, at 8:00 p.m.
Mazur Hall

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