| Nominee | Department | Supervising Professor(s) | Title of Dissertation | Degree Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eugenio Enrique Benitez, Jr. | Philosophy | Alexander P. D. Mourelatos and Paul B. Woodruff | Forms in Plato's Philebus | December, 1985 |
| Hatte Anne Rubenstein Blejer | Linguistics | Winfred P. Lehmann | Discourse Markers in Early Semitic, and Their Reanalyses in Subsequent Dialects (Afroasiatic, Historical Linguistics, Focus, Diachronic Syntax, Arabic, Ethiopian) | May, 1986 |
| Sue Helen Boinski | Zoology | Lawrence E. Gilbert | The Ecology of Squirrel Monkeys in Costa Rica (Forest Phenology, Foraging, Saimiri Oerstidi, Mating System, Predation Pressure) | May, 1986 |
| Anabela Catarino Fernandes | Chemical Engineering | Donald R. Paul | Structure-miscibility Relationships for Selected Polymer Blends | May, 1986 |
| Pauline Jane Greenhill | Folklore | Roger D. Renwick | Contemporary Folk Poetry in Southern Ontario (Canada, Popular, Culture, Community) | December, 1985 |
| Jerry Lee Jensen | Petroleum Engineering | Larry W. Lake | A Statistical Study of Reservoir Permeability Distributions | May, 1986 |
| John Miller Kirk | Government | James R. Roach | An Analysis of the Ethiopian, Iranian, and Nicaraguan Revolutions from the Perspective of United States Involvement | December, 1985 |
| William Alan Koehler | Music | Michael C. Tusa and William C. Race | The Late Independent Keyboard Rondos of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach | August, 1986 |
| Thomas Mark Lessl | Speech Communication | Roderick P. Hart | The Public Scientist: Rhetoric and the American Space Movement, 1975-1985 | December, 1985 |
| John Daniel Marshall | Curriculum and Instruction | Ozro L. Davis, Jr. | The Politics of Curriculum Decisions Manifested through the Selection and Adoption of Textbooks for Texas | August, 1985 |
| Richard Henry Moore | Anthropology | John B. Cornell | Land Tenure and Social Organization in a Rice-growing Community in Tohoku, Japan (Households, Farming, Agriculture, Small-scale, Kinship) | August, 1985 |
| Mark Aron Roth | Computer Sciences | Henry F. Korth | Theory of Non-first Normal Form Relational Databases (Null Values, Nesting) | May, 1986 |
| Amelia Stewart Simpson | Spanish and Portuguese | George G. Wing | Social and Literary Expression in Latin American Detective Fiction | May, 1986 |
| Nag Un Song | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Tatsuo Itoh | A Study of Gallium-arsenide MESFET Modeling by Numerical Simulation | May, 1986 |
| Toshiyuki Sueyoshi | Management | William W. Cooper | Goal Programming/Constrained Regression and Alternative Approaches to Statistical Estimation (Natural Monopoly, Robust Estimation, Collinearity, Bell System Breakup, Cost Function) | May, 1986 |
| Marion Mast Tangum | English | Warwick P. Wadlington | Voices in Go Down Moses: Faulkner's Dialogic Rhetoric | May, 1986 |
| Dale Alvin Winkler | Geological Sciences | Ernest L. Lundelius, Jr. | Stratigraphy, Vertebrate Paleontology and Depositional History of the Ogallala Group in Blanco and Yellowhouse Canyons, Northwestern Texas (Miocene) | August, 1985 |
| Allan Dale Zimmerman | Botany | Marshall C. Johnston | Systematics of the genus Coryphantha (Cactaceae) (Chihuahuan Desert, Mexico, Escobaria, Taxonomy, Monograph) | August, 1985 |