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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.

April 2026

Andrew F. Chelius, Sociology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
"We Meet our Clients Where They're at and Most People are in Traumatic Situations:" A Study of Formal and Informal HR Across a Fragmented Institutional Landscape
April 1, 2026, at 12:00 p.m.
Gladfelter 713

Cheri Amor Hudson, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
From Likes to Lives: Understanding Social Media Influence on Health Decisions
April 1, 2026, at 12:00 p.m.
Zoom

Adanna Ogechi Ohaegbulam, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
What's Your Fashion Footprint? Understanding Consumer Behavior Towards Sustainable Fashion
April 1, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
Zoom

Sanjib Chakraborty, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
Disruptive Workforce Dynamics: The Impact of AI and Technology in the Telecommunications Industry
April 1, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
Alter 722

Justin Chang, Chemistry PhD, College of Science and Technology
Strategies Toward Vicinal Functionality via Carbon-Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions
April 1, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
Beury Hall

Tyhesha R. Tidwell, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
Balancing Leadership Expression within the Executive Environment: Insight from Black Leaders
April 2, 2026, at 10:00 a.m.
Zoom

Kristina Mari Westover, Music Education PhD, Boyer College of Music and Dance
A Grounded Theory of Secondary School Music Teacher Resilience
April 2, 2026, at 10:00 a.m.
Presser Center for Research and Creativity in Music

Jenifer Taylor Eaton, Education PhD, College of Education and Human Development
An Exploration of the Relationship Between Parents' Literacy Beliefs and Their Literacy Supporting Behaviors During Shared Book Reading With Their Children With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
April 2, 2026, at 10:30 a.m.
Zoom

Kimberly Alecia Douglas, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
The Silent Esquire Under Fire: a Phenomenological Study on the Perceived Interpersonal Mistreatment of Black Female Lawyers in the Workplace
April 2, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
Zoom

Bryan Hartling, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
The Last Mile: AI's Transformation of Leadership Across Hierarchies
April 2, 2026, at 12:30 p.m.
Zoom

Christian Geoffrey Hahm, Computer & Information Sciences PhD, College of Science and Technology
Genetic Encoding for Evolving Instincts and Learning in Non-Axiomatic Reasoning Systems
April 3, 2026, at 8:00 a.m.
SERC 306

Munui Park, Media and Communication PhD, Klein College of Media and Communication
Antifeminism as a Winning Political Strategy: A Case Study of the 2022 Korean Presidential Election Campaign
April 3, 2026, at 10:00 a.m.
The Mind Lab, AH1

Noah A. Randolph, Art History PhD, Tyler School of Art and Architecture
"The Same Blinding Games": Un-Monumental Practices in the American Symbolic Landscape
April 3, 2026, at 10:00 a.m.
Arch 203

Olivia A. Chambers, Africology and African American Studies PhD, College of Liberal Arts
She Ain't No Mammy: African American Midwives' Utilization of Ma'at in the Preservation and Continuity of African Epistemology
April 3, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
Zoom

Kacie Hoagland, Spanish and Portuguese PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Language and Identity Development of Spanish Heritage Speakers: a Case for Critical Immersion
April 3, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
Mazur Hall 1221

Amber S. Roberts, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
The Impact of Outbound, International Medical Tourism on Practitioner-Patient Relationship Dynamics in the United States
April 3, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
Zoom

Anthony Jeron Smith, Executive DBA, Fox School of Business
The Public Policy Effect on Customer Value and Technology Adoption in the United States: A Case for Plug-In Electric Vehicles
April 3, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
Altar 507

Bryce William Collingwood, Chemistry PhD, College of Science and Technology
Investigating DNA Remodeling in DNA Mismatch Repair
April 3, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
Beury Hall 404

Yuanyuan Zhong, Business Administration/Risk Management and Insurance PhD, Fox School of Business
Essays on Asymmetric Information in Insurance Markets
April 3, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
Zoom

Logan T. Smith, Psychology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Creating and Evaluating the Predictive Utility of Risk Phenotypes for Bipolar Spectrum Disorders in Adolescence
April 6, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
Weiss Hall 615

Md Saidur Rahman Pavel, Electrical Engineering PhD, College of Engineering
Array Processing with Compressive Measurements and Coherent Signals
April 6, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
ECE Conference Room, Engineering Building

Julie Whalen McIntyre, Education PhD, College of Education and Human Development
You Gotta Love Them First: Educators' Experiences with a Trauma-Informed Approach in Urban Secondary Schools
April 6, 2026, at 2:30 p.m.
Zoom

Michael Brody Mistrot, Chemistry PhD, College of Science and Technology
Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction Solutions for Extradimensional, Aperiodic Network Solid Electrolytes and Advanced Structural Determination
April 7, 2026, at 12:30 p.m.
Ritter Hall 200

Esmeralda Soriano, Psychology and Neuroscience PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Categorization of Ethnoracial Differences in Associations Between Contextual- and Individual-level Factors and Trajectories of Adolescent Delinquent Behaviors
April 7, 2026, at 3:15 p.m.
Weiss Hall 615

FengYi Yin, Media and Communication PhD, Klein College of Media and Communication
Emerging South-South Media Flows: Chinese Media in Africa
April 8, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
Zoom

Bethany Kosmicki, Sociology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Situation as Assemblage: Elements Contributing to a Community-Supported Abortion Access Island in the Midwest
April 8, 2026, at 12:00 p.m.
Gladfelter Hall 713

Jonathan Piscitelli, Chemistry PhD, College of Science and Technology
Investigating Strand Specific Iterative Nicking in Mismatch Repair
April 8, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
Beury Hall 404

Crishnaa Joshi, Psychology and Neuroscience PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Sleep Consistency, Unfair Treatment, and Sleep Hygiene in Black University Students: A Daily Diary Study
April 8, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
Weiss Hall 615

Jay Bradford, Psychology and Neuroscience PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Minority Stress and Depression Among Black College Students: Investigating the Protective Contributions of Faculty Support and Coping
April 9, 2026, at 10:00 a.m.
Weiss Hall 542

Qi Zhang, Computer & Information Sciences PhD, College of Science and Technology
Scalable Information Extraction with Large Language Models
April 10, 2026, at 9:30 a.m.
Zoom

Negar Mohammadi Koushki, Computer & Information Sciences PhD, College of Science and Technology
Domain Knowledge Assisted Configuration Management and Diagnosis in Data Centers
April 10, 2026, at 10:15 a.m.
Zoom

Daniel Craig Remer, Philosophy PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Beyond the Body as Object: A Critical Examination of the Ethics of Objectification in Transplant
April 10, 2026, at 12:00 p.m.
Mazur 722

Steven A. Martinez, Psychology and Neuroscience PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Why We Keep Scrolling: Novelty and Habit Learning as Drivers of Digital Information-seeking
April 10, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
Weiss Hall 615

John Benjamin Allard, Bioinformatics PhD, College of Science and Technology
Phylogeny-informed Machine Learning for Comparative Genomics
April 10, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
BioLife 234

Kanghyun Cho, Management Information Systems PhD, Fox School of Business
The Role of Algorithmic Automation and Augmentation in Expert Decision-Making
April 10, 2026, at 3:00 p.m.
Speakman Hall 200

Jovan Andjelkovic, Computer & Information Sciences PhD, College of Science and Technology
Data Representations in High-Dimensional and Complex Data: Predictive Modeling in Healthcare and Social Media
April 13, 2026, at 10:00 a.m.
Zoom

Gavin Thomas Koma, Bioengineering PhD, College of Engineering
Kinematic Analysis of Locomotion and Skilled Reaching to Understand Motor Circuit Function in Health and Post-Injury
April 13, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
Engineering Building 201A

Nicole L. Lemon, Biomedical Sciences PhD, Lewis Katz School of Medicine
Mitochondrial Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors as a Potential Therapy Against Cerebrovascular Dysfunction and Neurodegeneration in Models of Alzheimer's Disease and Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
April 13, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
MERB 810

Jazmyne L. Jackson, Biomedical Sciences PhD, Lewis Katz School of Medicine
Investigating Mitochondrial Alterations in Esophageal Pathologies
April 15, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
Pharmacy Allied Health Building, Room 310

Ganesh Khatei, Geoscience PhD, College of Science and Technology
Particulate Matter Emissions and Soil Moisture Dynamics in Salt-Affected Soils
April 15, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
Beury Hall 305

Yingdongjin Fang, Media and Communication PhD, Klein College of Media and Communication
"Being There" in a Story World: An Explication of Narrative Presence
April 16, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
Annenberg Hall

Claire Deckers, Biomedical Sciences PhD, Lewis Katz School of Medicine
Sex Differences and the Role of Dorsal Raphe Serotonin Systems in Heroin-motivated Behaviors
April 17, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
MERB 810

Michele Pich, Criminal Justice PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Conceptions and Applications of Trauma-Informed Policing: International Perspectives
April 20, 2026, at 9:00 a.m.
Gladfelter Hall 9th Floor

Jacquayla Jackson, Education PhD, College of Education and Human Development
Teacher Beliefs and the Discipline Gap: A Mixed-Methods Study of Educator Identity, Racialized Perceptions, and Discipline Practices
April 20, 2026, at 12:00 p.m.
Zoom

Weixiao Gao, Mechanical Engineering PhD, College of Engineering
Additive Manufacturing of Anisotropic Cu-ZnO Composites for Transverse Thermoelectric Applications
April 24, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
Engineering Building 201A

Hannah Elizabeth Jackson, Education PhD, College of Education and Human Development
Inclusion in Charter Schools: A Comparative Study of Administrators' and General Education Teachers' Preparation, Practices, and Shared Vision for Including Students With Disabilities
April 24, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
Zoom

Zoe Vicencia Adogli, Clinical Psychology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Neurobiological Markers of Timing and Chronicity of Early Life Adversity and their Subjective Impact
April 29, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
Zoom

Hannah Kim, Bioinformatics PhD, College of Science and Technology
Harnessing Interdisciplinarity in the Investigation of Nucleotide Sequence Evolution
April 29, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
BioLife 234

Billy Truong, Biomedical Sciences PhD, Lewis Katz School of Medicine
Divergent Roles of ERK2 Substrate Binding Specification in Blood Neoplasms
April 30, 2026, at 9:00 a.m.
Fox Chase Cancer Center

Matthew Ford, Sociology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
The State, Struggle, and Organized Labor in the Public Sector: Police and Teacher Unions in Philadelphia's Long Sixties
April 30, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
Gladfelter Hall 713

Gianna Lynette Harris, Educational Leadership EdD, College of Education and Human Development
The Invisible Character of K-12 Academic Success: School Social Workers' Perception of Educational Leaders
April 30, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
Zoom

Shantanu Ramesh Shinde, Mechanical Engineering PhD, College of Engineering
A Multiscale Approach for Safety Evaluation of EV Batteries
April 30, 2026, at 12:00 p.m.
Engineering Building 201A

Omar Hussein Alkahily, Media and Communication PhD, Klein College of Media and Communication
The Impact of Acts of Religiosity on Celebrities' Perceived Trustworthiness
April 30, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
Annenberg Hall 005/Zoom

José Rodriguez-Plaza, Spanish PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Reading Aguajes: Spiritual Manifestations and Subtextual Disruptions in Diasporic Caribbean Literature
April 30, 2026, at 2:30 p.m.
Mazur Hall 821

Chuan Lu, Global Finance DS, Fox School of Business
Research on the Development of China's Commercial Paper Market and the Influencing Factors of Transfer Discount Price
April 30, 2026, at 7:30 p.m.
Zoom

May 2026

Madeline Rebecca Achour, Clinical Psychology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Tracing the Contributions of Prenatal Maternal Stress and Inflammation on Depressive Symptoms via Cognitive Functioning Across the Human Lifespan
May 1, 2026, at 9:00 a.m.
Zoom

Daniel Moscovitz, Electrical Engineering PhD, College of Engineering
Controlling the Intermittent: BTM Solar Detection, Load Uncertainty, and Constraint Control
May 1, 2026, at 10:00 a.m.
Engineering Building

Wiliam B. Chamberlin IV, Africology and African American Studies PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Blackness and Time: An Afrocentric Analysis of Racial Liberalism
May 1, 2026, at 12:00 p.m.
Zoom

Doyoung Kim, Mechanical Engineering PhD, College of Engineering
Experimental and Computational Investigation of Curved Needle-Tissue Interaction under Linear and Curvilinear Base Manipulation
May 1, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
Engineering Building 607A

Mehdi Khantan, Electrical Engineering PhD, College of Engineering
Virtual White Matter: A Novel System for Cross-Dish Neural Interaction and Modulation
May 4, 2026, at 9:00 a.m.
Zoom

Michael Barnes, Music Performance/Percussion DMA, Boyer College of Music and Dance
Forest Shadows: Analysis of Select Marimba Works by Robert Paterson
May 4, 2026, at 10:00 a.m.
Zoom

Stephen Conti Phillips, Higher Education EdD, College of Education and Human Development
"Breaking all Bounds of Representation": Nontraditional Self-Identification and Limits of Institutional Classification
May 4, 2026, at 10:00 a.m.
Zoom

Md Riadh Hasan Rana, Chemistry PhD, College of Science and Technology
From Optimized Enzymatic Synthesis to Biophysical Characterization of F2ApD: A Dually Fluorescent Fad Analog
May 4, 2026, at 10:30 a.m.
Beury Hall 404

Raciel Cuevas, Philosophy PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Hegel's Negative Aesthetics
May 4, 2026, at 12:00 p.m.
Zoom

Thuy-Trinh Nguyen, Criminal Justice PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Victim Help-Seeking: Examining Personal Support Networks to Understand Formal Service Engagement
May 4, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
Zoom

Ryan D. Young, Higher Education EdD, College of Education and Human Development
Perceptions of Staffing Practices and Job Satisfaction of Early-Career Housing and Residence Life Professionals
May 4, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
Zoom

Hope Dove, Africology and African American Studies PhD, College of Liberal Arts
An Afrocentric Theory of Recognition: Towards a Sociocultural Analysis of the Other/Self
May 5, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
Zoom

Eli Benjamin Israel, Philosophy PhD, College of Liberal Arts
A Relational Theory of Trust
May 5, 2026, at 12:00 p.m.
Mazur Hall 722

Auburn Renee Stephenson, Clinical Psychology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
An Examination of Peripheral Inflammation and Executive Function in the Development of Depressive Symptoms during Adolescence
May 5, 2026, at 1:00 p.m.
Weiss Hall 615

Marco German Ghilotti, Biomedical Sciences MD/PhD, Lewis Katz School of Medicine
The Effects of Ketamine on Methamphetamine Withdrawal-Induced Anxiety and Drug-Seeking Behaviors in the Rat
May 5, 2026, at 3:00 p.m.
MERB 810

James Bouffard, Political Science PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Changing Tools: Growth Models, Union Power, and Inflation Policy
May 6, 2026, at 9:00 a.m.
Gladfelter Hall 407

Scott D. Dunn, Biomedical Sciences PhD, Lewis Katz School of Medicine
Purinergic P2x7 Receptor and Interleukin-1ß: Potential Therapeutic Targets in Preclinical Models of Opioid Use Disorder
May 6, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
MERB 810

Ewa Protasiuk, Sociology PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Restaurant Workers, the Pandemic, and Immigrant-Native Gaps: The Dynamics of Disaster and Inequality
May 6, 2026, at 1:30 p.m.
Gladfelter 713

Marian S. Blair, Educational Leadership EdD, College of Education and Human Development
Turning Around with Vision: Investigating the Traits and Strategies of Effective Charter School Principals
May 11, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
Zoom

Allison S. Langer, Psychology and Neuroscience PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Examining the Effects of Smartphone and Social Media Use on Self-Regulatory Control Across Development
May 13, 2026, at 11:30 a.m.
Weiss Hall 615

Maurice Robinson, Africology and African American Studies PhD, College of Liberal Arts
The Blackprint Academy: Rich in Spirit Afrocentric Economic Theory
May 14, 2026, at 10:00 a.m.
Zoom

Junghwan Park, Business Administration/Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior PhD, Fox School of Business
Can Asking for Help Boost Your Career? An Investigation of how Help-seeking and Task Structuredness Interact to Influence Social Judgements and Indicators of Career Success
May 18, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
Alter Hall 405

Caleb Zimmerman, Philosophy PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Neither Political Liberalism Not Illiberalism: Civility and Integrity in Democratic Society
May 18, 2026, at 12:30 p.m.
Mazur 722

Jesse T. Brey, Criminal Justice PhD, College of Liberal Arts
A Labor of Love: The Role of Incarceration in the Life Course of the Family
May 22, 2026, at 2:30 p.m.
Zoom

Meixian Wang, Management Information Systems PhD, Fox School of Business
Essays on Identity, Disclosure, and Engagement in the Creator Economy
May 28, 2026, at 10:00 a.m.
Speakman Hall 200

June 2026

Masoumeh Shahsavari, Business Administration/Operations and Supply Chain Management PhD, Fox School of Business
Strategic Design Choices in Digital Platforms under Demand Heterogeneity
June 1, 2026, at 9:00 a.m.
Zoom

Michael J. Swingler, Biomedical Sciences PhD, Lewis Katz School of Medicine
Regulation of OPRM1 pre-mRNA Alternative Splicing by Opioids and the Role of Induced Isoforms in Downstream Signaling and Dependence
June 5, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
MERB 710

Shelly Gupta, Computer & Information Sciences PhD, College of Science and Technology
Predictive Modeling using Heterogeneous Data Sources
June 10, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
Zoom

Joanna G. Severino Perez, Psychology and Neuroscience PhD, College of Liberal Arts
Consequences of Chronic Opioid Exposure in Rodent Models: Implications for Cognition and Pain
June 10, 2026, at 12:30 p.m.
Weiss Hall 615

Abdulrahman Dhaafi A Alharbi, Computer & Information Sciences PhD, College of Science and Technology
AI-Enabled Autonomous Knowledge Extraction from Large-Scale Textual Data
June 12, 2026, at 12:00 p.m.
Zoom

Megan Mohler, Criminal Justice PhD, College of Liberal Arts
How Change Happens: Evaluating the Role of Reflexivity in Pathways of Desistance from Problematic Substance Use
June 18, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
Gladfelter Hall 914

Özlem Yıldız, Art History PhD, Tyler School of Art and Architecture
Illustrating the Lives of the Prophets in Sixteenth Century Islamic Manuscripts
June 22, 2026, at 10:00 a.m.
Zoom

Marian Caitlin Berthoud, Art History PhD, Tyler School of Art and Architecture
Ruined and Rebuilt: Constructing the Ideal Baroque City after Natural Disasters
June 23, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
Tyler Arch 203

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