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Re: About whether Christine M. Blasey in fact was ever awarded a PhD from USC.

According to her bio in Wikipedia...

(( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Blasey_Ford#cite_note-NYT26Sep2018-4 ))

It states that in 1996 she received a PhD in "Educational Psychology" from the University of Southern California.

1-----I did a cursory search of USC Commencement Programs (the awarding of degrees ceremonies).... (The 112th:1995), (The 113th:1996), and (The 114th:1997). All three commencement ceremonies were held at USC's Alumni Memorial Park facility. The documents are available in the USC online Digital Library's "Subcollections" section, under "Commencement Programs".

http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/search/collection/p15799coll104/searchterm/Commencement%20Programs/field/parta/mode/exact/page/7

I used the "text" search feature, and none of these three Commencement Program documents (containing lists of each year's graduates to receive degrees on the days of each ceremony) had a Christine M. Blasey, or a Christine M. Ford, or Ford, or Blasey, or combinations thereof, receiving anything. Her name does NOT appear in those three year's lists of graduates in the ceremony's programs.

Maybe she graduated in absentia, or maybe it was a printer's error. Never-the-less, it is odd.

2-----Her USC doctoral dissertation, identified in Wikipedia as "Measuring Young Children's Coping Responses to Interpersonal Conflict", does appear in the USC listings of dissertations, in the USC Digital Library, under Dissertations and Theses subcollections.

The title page of her dissertation states that it was prepared "in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Counseling Psychology), August 1995". This is inconsistent with the Wikipedia page which states the PhD was in "Educational Psychology". In my mind there is quite a difference between "Counseling" and "Education", but what do I know.

3-----The Blasey Ford Wikipedia page says she was born "November 1966", with the rare absence of a "day" date. Then it lists her age as 51. Well, the math doesn't work out, does it.

So many small anomalies in this rabbit hole.