| Nominee | Department | Supervising Professor(s) | Title of Dissertation | Degree Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michelle Sondra Ballan | Social Work | Cynthia Franklin | A Psychoeducational Group Intervention to Train Parents to Become Sexuality Educators for Their Children with Mental Retardation: An Effectiveness Study | August, 2002 |
| James Albert Bednar | Computer Sciences | Risto Miikkulainen | Learning to See: Genetic and Environmental Influences on Visual Development | May, 2002 |
| Mary Caudle Beltran | Radio-Television-Film | Charles Ramirez-Berg and John Downing | Bronze Seduction: The Shaping of Latina Stardom in Hollywood Film and Star Publicity | August, 2002 |
| Denise Frances Blum | Curriculum and Instruction | Douglas Foley | Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Values: Alla en la lucha | December, 2002 |
| Donna Louise Cathro | Geological Sciences | William L. Fisher | Three-Dimensional Stratal Development of a Carbonate-Siliciclastic Sedimentary Regime, Northern Carnarvon Basin, Northwest Australia | August, 2002 |
| Kathryn Ann Ebel | Geography | Ian R. Manners | City Views, Imperial Visions: Cartography and the Visual Culture of Urban Space in the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1603 | August, 2002 |
| Alexandra Anne Garcia | Nursing | Sharon Brown | Diabetes Symptom Self-Care of Mexican Americans | August, 2002 |
| Suzanne Globetti | Government | Robert C. Luskin | Ideological Campaign Rhetoric and Its Effects | August, 2002 |
| William Glenn Griffin, Jr. | Advertising | Minette E. Drumwright | Beyond Implicit Theory: An Investigation of the Creative Process of Advertising Students Enrolled in Creative Programs | December, 2002 |
| Jinrong Liu | Pharmacy | Lane J. Brunner | The Roles of PXR and cAMP in Cyclosporine-Induced CYP3A Alterations | August, 2002 |
| Katherine Saunders McCalister | Kinesology and Health Education | Mary Steinhardt | Hardiness and Support at Work as Predictors of Work Stress and Job Satisfaction | May, 2003 |
| Harlan Laurence Miller, III | Marine Science | Kenneth H. Dunton | Photosynthetic Response of Scandinavian Kelp Forests to Stratospheric Ozone Depletion | December, 2002 |
| Charles Puryear Nelson, Jr. | Foreign Language Education | Diane Lemonnier Schallert and Margaret Ann Syverson | Contradictions in Learning to Write in a Second Language Classroom: Insights from Radical Constructivism, Activity Theory, and Complexity Theory | May, 2002 |
| Sarah Jane Reichardt | Music | James W. Buhler | Composing the Modern Subject: Four String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich | May, 2003 |
| Rachel West Robillard | Educational Psychology | Margaret Semrud-Clikeman and Mario Liotti | Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI) Correlation to Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scans of Individuals Coping with an Anxiety Producing Situation | August, 2002 |
| Kirk Regan Sanders | Classics/ Philosophy |
R. J. Hankinson | Natural Passions: Desire and Emotion in Epicurean Ethics | August, 2002 |
| Judith Campbell Shetler | Communication Studies | Larry D. Browning | Complex Adaptive Systems, Attractors, and Patching: A Complex Systems Science Analysis of Organizational Change | December, 2002 |
| Yancy Leonard Shirley | Astronomy | Neal J. Evans, II | Tracing the Mass During Star Formation: Studies of Dust Continuum and Dense Gas | August, 2002 |
| Charlotte Ann Sullivan | Educational Administration | James P. Duncan |
Presidential Leadership: A Documentation of the Defining Issues Confronted by Presidents of the University of Texas at Austin from 1967 to 1997 |
August, 2002 |
| Thomas Lafayette Thornton, Jr. | Psychology | David L. Gilden | Attentional limitation and multiple target visual search | December, 2002 |
| Kristy Lynne Towry | Accounting | Steven Kachelmeier | Control in a Teamwork Environment - The Impact of Social Ties on the Effectiveness of Mutual Monitoring Contracts | May, 2002 |
| Arthur Alvin VanderVeen, Jr. | English | Warwick Wadlington and Phillip Barrish | Other Minds, Other Worlds: Pragmatism, Hermeneutics, and Constructive Modernism, 1890-1942 | May, 2002 |