Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Organizing Queer Civil Rights Movements: Pride Parades and Communicative Dilemmas, David J. Dooling
Uprooted, Displaced, Resilient: Kosovar Women’s Narratives of Organizing for Survival During the Kosovo War, Erjona Gashi
“Destiel is Forever”: Negotiating Authenticity in The CW’s Supernatural Family and Beyond, Hannah Lay
Examining Localized Communication, Political Action, and Polarization in the 108th Senate, Mitchell Popovic
Disruptions in the Experiences of First-Time Military Family Members, Ana C. Vidal
Did I Do That?: Lived Experience and Media Representation of the Awkward Black Girl, Kendra Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Consumer Purchase Intent in Opinion Leader Live Streaming, Jihong Huo
Organizing and Communicating Health: A Culture-centered and Necrocapitalist Inquiry of Groundwater Contamination in Rural West Bengal, Parameswari Mukherjee
"Queen of the Mother-Tucking (Western) World": Authenticity and Nationality on Drag Race, Zane A. Willard
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Reviving the Christian Left: A Thematic Analysis of Progressive Christian Identity in American Politics, Adam Blake Arledge
Organizing Economies: Narrative Sensemaking and Communciative Resilience During Economic Disruption, Timothy Betts
Inflammatory Bowel Disease & Social (In)Visibility: An Interpretive Study of Food Choice, Self-Blame and Coping in Women Living with IBD, Jessica N. Lolli
Florida Punks: Punk, Performance, and Community at Gainesville’s Fest, Michael Anthony Mcdowell Ii
Re-centering and De-centering ‘Race’: an Analysis of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing Organizational Websites, Beatriz Nieto-Fernandez
The Labors of Professional Wrestling: The Dream, the Drive, and Debility, Brooks Oglesby
Outside the Boundaries of Biomedicine: A Culture-Centered Approach to Female Patients Living Undiagnosed and Chronically Ill, Bianca Siegenthaler
The Effect of Racial and Ethnic Identity Salience on Online Political Expression and Political Participation in the United States, Jonathon Smith
Grey’s Anatomy and End of Life Ethics, Sean Micheal Swenson
Informal Communication, Sensemaking, and Relational Precarity: Constituting Resilience in Remote Work During COVID, Tanya R.M. Vomacka
Making a Way: An Auto/ethnographic Exploration of Narratives of Citizenship, Identity, (Un)Belonging and Home for Black Trinidadian[-]American Women, Anjuliet G. Woodruffe
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
When I Rhyme It’s Sincerely Yours: Burkean Identification and Jay-Z’s Black Sincerity Rhetoric in the Post Soul Era, Antoine Francis Hardy
Explicating the Process of Communicative Disenfranchisement for Women with Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions (COPCs), Elizabeth A. Hintz
Mitigating Negativity Bias in Media Selection, Gabrielle R. Jarmoszko
Blue Rage: A Critical Cultural Analysis of Policing, Whiteness, and Racial Surveillance, Wesley T. Johnson
Narratives of Success: How Honors College Newcomers Frame the Entrance to College, Cayla Lanier
Peminist Performance in/as Filipina Feminist Praxis: Collaging Stand-Up Comedy and the Narrative Points in Between, Christina-Marie A. Magalona
¿De dónde eres?: Negotiating identity as third culture kids, Sophia Margulies
The Rise of the "Gatecrashers": The Growing Impact of Athletes Breaking News on Mainstream Media through Social Media, Michael Nabors
Learning From The Seed: Illuminating Black Girlhood in Sustainable Living Paradigms, Toni Powell Powell Young
A Comparative Thematic Analysis of Newspaper Articles in France after the Bataclan and in the United States of America after Pulse, Simon Rousset
This is it: Latina/x Representation on One Day at a Time, Camille Ruiz Mangual
STOP-motion as theory, method, and praxis: ARRESTING moments of racialized gender in the academy, Sasha J. Sanders
Advice as Metadiscourse: On the gendering of women's leadership in advice-giving practices, Amaly Santiago
The Communicative Constitution of Environment: Land, Weather, Climate, Leanna K. Smithberger
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Constructing a Neoliberal Youth Culture in Postcolonial Bangladeshi Advertising, Md Khorshed Alam
Communication, Learning and Social Support at the Speaking Center: A Communities of Practice Perspective, Ann Marie Foley Coats
A Visit to Cuba: Performance Ethnography of Place, Adolfo Lagomasino
Elemental Climate Disaster Texts and Queer Ecological Temporality, Laura Mattson
When the Beat Drops: Exploring Hip Hop, Home and Black Masculinity, Marquese Lamont McFerguson
Communication Skills in Medical Education: A Discourse Analysis of Simulated Patient Practices, Grace Ellen Peters
Hiding Under the Sun: Health, Access, and Discourses of Representation in Undocumented Communities, Jaime Shamado Robb
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Walking Each Other Home: Sensemaking of Illness Identity in an Online Metastatic Cancer Community, Ariane B. Anderson
Widow Narratives on Film and in Memoirs: Exploring Formula Stories of Grief and Loss of Older Women After the Death of a Spouse, Jennifer R. Bender
Life as a Reluctant Immigrant: An Autoethnographic Inquiry, Dionel Cotanda
“It’s A Broken System That’s Designed to Destroy”: A Critical Narrative Analysis of Healthcare Providers’ Stories About Race, Reproductive Health, and Policy, Brianna Rae Cusanno
Representations of Indian Christians in Bollywood Movies, Ryan A. D'souza
(re)Making Worlds Together: Rooster Teeth, Community, and Sites of Engagement, Andrea M. M. Fortin
In Another's Voice: Making Sense of Reproductive Health as Women of Color, Nivethitha Ketheeswaran
Communication as Constitutive of Organization: Practicing Collaboration in and English Language Program, Ariadne Miranda
Interrogating Homonationalism in Love, Simon, Jessica S. Rauchberg
Making Sense at the Margins: Describing Narratives on Food Insecurity Through Hip-hop, Lemuel Scott
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Telling a Rape Joke: Performing Humor in a Victim Help Center, Angela Mary Candela
Becoming a Woman of ISIS, Zoe D. Fine
The Uses of Community in Modern American Rhetoric, Cody Ryan Hawley
Opening Wounds and Possibilities: A Critical Examination of Violence and Monstrosity in Horror TV, Amanda K. Leblanc
As Good as it Gets: Redefining Survival through Post-Race and Post-Feminism in Apocalyptic Film and Television, Mark R. McCarthy
Managing a food health crisis: Perceptions and reactions to different response strategies, Yifei Ren
Everything is Fine: Self-Portrait of a Caregiver with Chronic Depression and Other Preexisting Conditions, Erin L. Scheffels
Lives on the (story)Line: Group Facilitation with Men in Recovery at The Salvation Army, Lisa Pia Zonni Spinazola
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Breach: Understanding the Mandatory Reporting of Title IX Violations as Pedagogy and Performance, Jacob G. Abraham
Documenting an Imperfect Past: Examining Tampa's Racial Integration through Community, Film, and Remembrance of Central Avenue, Travis R. Bell
Chemotherapy-Induced Alopecia and Quality-of-Life: Ovarian and Uterine Cancer Patients and the Aesthetics of Disease, Meredith L. Clements
Full-Time Teleworkers Sensemaking Process for Informal Communication, Sheila A. Gobes-Ryan
Volunteer Tourism: Fulfilling the Needs for God and Medicine in Latin America, Erin Howell
Practical Theology in an Interpretive Community: An Ethnography of Talk, Texts and Video in a Mediated Women's Bible Study, Nancie Hudson
Performing Narrative Medicine: Understanding Familial Chronic Illness through Performance, Alyse Keller
Second-Generation Bruja: Transforming Ancestral Shadows into Spiritual Activism, Lorraine E. Monteagut
The Rhetoric of Scientific Authority: A Rhetorical Examination of _An Inconvenient Truth_, Alexander W. Morales
Daniel Bryan & The Negotiation of Kayfabe in Professional Wrestling, Brooks Oglesby
Improvising Close Relationships: A Relational Perspective on Vulnerability, Nicholas Riggs
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
When Maps Ignore the Territory: An Examination of Gendered Language in Cancer Patient Literature, Joanna Bartell
From Portraits to Selfies: Family Photo-making Rituals, Krystal M. Bresnahan
Spiritual Frameworks in Pediatric Palliative Care: Understanding Parental Decision-making, Lindy Grief Davidson
Blue-Collar Scholars: Bridging Academic and Working-Class Worlds, Nathan Lee Hodges
The Communication Constitution of Law Enforcement in North Carolina’s Efforts Against Human Trafficking, Elizabeth Hampton Jeter
“Black Americans and HIV/AIDS in Popular Media” Conforming to The Politics of Respectability, Alisha Lynn Menzies
Selling the American Body: The Construction of American Identity Through the Slave Trade, Max W. Plumpton
In Search of Solidarity: Identification Participation in Virtual Fan Communities, Jaime Shamado Robb
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Straight Benevolence: Preserving Heterosexual Authority and White Privilege, Robb James Bruce
A Semiotic Phenomenology of Homelessness and the Precarious Community: A Matter of Boundary, Heather Renee Curry
Heart of the Beholder: The Pathos, Truths and Narratives of Thermopylae in _300_, James Christopher Holcom
Was It Something They Said? Stand-up Comedy and Progressive Social Change, David M. Jenkins
The Meaning of Stories Without Meaning: A Post-Holocaust Experiment, Tori Chambers Lockler
Half Empty/Half Full: Absence, Ethnicity, and the Question of Identity in the United States, Ashley Josephine Martinez
Feeling at Home with Grief: An Ethnography of Continuing Bonds and Re-membering the Deceased, Blake Paxton
"In Heaven": Christian Couples' Experiences of Pregnancy Loss, Grace Ellen Peters
“You Better Redneckognize”: White Working-Class People and Reality Television, Tasha Rose Rennels
Designing Together with the World Café: Inviting Community Ideas for an Idea Zone in a Science Center, William Travis Thompson
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Crisis Communication: Sensemaking and Decision-making by the CDC Under Conditions of Uncertainty and Ambiguity During the 2009-2010 H1N1 Pandemic, Barbara Bennington
Communication as Yoga, Kristen Caroline Blinne
Love and (M)other (Im)possibilities, Summer Renee Cunningham
The Rhetoric of Corporate Identity: Corporate Social Responsibility, Creating Shared Value, and Globalization, Carolyn Day
"Is That What You Dream About? Being a Monster?": Bella Swan and the Construction of the Monstrous-Feminine in The Twilight Saga, Amanda Jayne Firestone
Organizing Disability: Producing Knowledge in a University Accommodations Office, Shelby Forbes
Emergency Medicine Triage as the Intersection of Storytelling, Decision-Making, and Dramaturgy, Colin Ainsworth Forde
Changing Landscapes: End-of-Life Care & Communication at a Zen Hospice, Ellen W. Klein
"We're Taking Slut Back": Analyzing Racialized Gender Politics in Chicago's 2012 Slutwalk March, Aphrodite Kocieda
