Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Informing, Entertaining and Persuading: Health Communication at The Amazing You, David Haldane Lee
(Dis)Abled Gaming: An Autoethnographic Analysis of Decreasing Accessibility For Disabled Gamers, Kyle David Romano
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
African Americans and Hospice: A Culture-Centered Exploration of Disparities in End-of-Life Care, Patrick Dillon
Polysemy, Plurality, & Paradigms: The Quixotic Quest for Commensurability of Ethics and Professionalism in the Practices of Law, Eric Paul Engel
Examining the Ontoepistemological Underpinnings of Diversity Education Found in Interpersonal Communication Textbooks, Tammy L. Jeffries
The 2008 Candlelight Protest in South Korea: Articulating the Paradox of Resistance in Neoliberal Globalization, Huikyong Pang
Compassionate Storytelling with Holocaust Survivors: Cultivating Dialogue at the End of an Era, Chris J. Patti
Community on the Menu: Seven-Courses to Cultivate Familial Bonds, Exchange Social Capital, and Nourish Community, David Franklin Purnell
Fracking Teco: Analyzing the Communication Strategies in Teco Peoples Gas Advertisements, Magdaline Southard
An Analysis of How Female Business Owners Construct and Communicate Identity, Allison Dawn Weidhaas
When Celebrity Women Tweet: Examining Authenticity, Empowerment, and Responsibility in the Surveillance of Celebrity Twitter, Megan M. Wood
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Performances of Gender and Sexuality in Extreme Sports Culture, Carly Michelle Gieseler
Unlocking the Black Box of Policymaking: A Discursive View of the Florida Commission on Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Ardis Hanson
Community as Metaphor: Dialectical Tensions of a Racially Diverse Organization, Joseph Jacob Jenkins
Masculinity, Sexuality, and Soccer: An Exploration of Three Grassroots Sport-for-Social-Change Organizations in South Africa, Sarah Theresa Mcghee
The War of the Roses: Ritual Shaming, Morality, and Gender on the Radio, Jill M. Potkalesky
An Evolving Dyke-otomy: Lesbianism and Learning, Megan Pugh
The Rhetoric of Evidence in Recent Documentary Film and Video, Steven W. Schoen
Improvisational Music Performance: On-Stage Communication of Power Relationships, David A. Steinweg
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Giving Meaning to Grief: The Role of Rituals and Stories in Coping with Sudden Family Loss, Julia Janelle Barnhill
Inside NFL Marriages: A seven year ethnographic study of love and marriage in professional football, Rachel Anne Binns Terrill
Constructing Alternative Christian Identity: An Ethnography of Jesus People USA's Cornerstone Festival, Brian Johnston
The Construction of Adversarial Growth in the Wake of a Hurricane, Beverly Lynn Mcclay Borawski
My Bad Romance: Exploring the Queer Sublimity of Diva Reception, Blake Paxton
Improvising Close Relationships: A Relational Perspective on Vulnerability, Nicholas A. Riggs
Realizing Virtuality: Tracing the Contours of Digital Culture, Nicholas Andrew Riggs
The Culture of Mean: Gender, Race, and Class in Mediated Images of Girls' Bullying, Emily Davis Ryalls
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Where Christ Dies Daily: Performances of Faith at Orlando‘s Holy Land Experience, Sara B. Dykins Callahan
Looking Good and Taking Care: Consumer Culture, Identity, and Poor, Minority, Urban Tweens, Elizabeth Edgecomb
Who Owns Disability? An Investigation into the Politics of Representation, Shelby Forbes
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Southern Black Women: Their Lived Realities, Robin M. Boylorn
Communication as a Cultural Construct at the United Nations Arabic Translation Service, Amina Iraqi
“The Bitch,” “The Ditz,” and the Male Heroes: Representations of Feminism and Postfeminism in Campaign 2008, Dana Schowalter
Rhetorics of Fear, Deployment of Identity, and Metal Music Cultures, Gregory Vance Smith
Communicating Spirituality, Dying and a “Good Death” at the End-of-Life: The Role of Hospice Interdisciplinary Team Members, Jillian A. Tullis Owen
Public Service Television Policy and National Development in Morocco, Bouziane Zaid
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Learning, Living, and Leaving the Closet: Making Gay Identity Relational, Tony E. Adams
Time Bending: Temporal Malleability and Organizational Response in Crisis Situations, Gary W. Carson
Family Business Daughters: The Ties that Bind and Divide, Angela M. Day
Capitalism, Consumerism, and Individualism: Investigating the Rhetoric of The Secret, Carolina Fernandez
The Drama Of Collaborative Creativity: A Rhetorical Analysis Of Hollywood Film Making-Of Documentaries, Robert M. González Jr.
Narratives and Sensemaking in the New Corporate University: The Socialization of First Year Communication Faculty, Andrew F. Herrmann
Hollywood Forever: Culture, Celebrity, and the Cemetery, Linda Levitt
Cob Building: Movements and Moments of Survival, Jeanine Marie Minge
Framing in Leadership Communication: Strategies, Breakdowns and Outcomes, Slaheddine Mnasri
(Re)defining Relationships in a Mediated Context: Graduate Student Use of Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication, Michael P. Nicholas
The Class of ’65: Boomers at Sixty Recall Turning Points That Shaped Their Lives A Narrative Approach, Mary C. Poole
The Autoethnographic Call: Current Considerations and Possible Futures, Kendall Smith-Sullivan
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Friendships Between Men: Masculinity as a Relational Experience, Matthew L. Brooks
Communication for Planetary Transformation and the Drag of Public Conversations: The Case of Landmark Education Corporation, Patrick Owen Cannon
Making Sense of Complex System Failure: The Case of 9/11, Sandra M. Cooper
Interagency Collaboration and Communication: Funders and Service Providers Working Together to Create a Management Service Organization, Beth E. Eschenfelder
Meaning makers make it: Ambivalence about ambiguity in academic discourse, David Haldane Lee
Achieving sobriety: A narrative investigation of women, identity, and relationships, Cara T. Mackie
Getting it right: A story of truth in music performance, Christopher McRae
Documenting Dylan: How the documentary film functions for Bob Dylan fans, Theodore G. Petersen
Narrative efforts at social redemption by people with AIDS/HIV, Andrea Zolnier Thelen
Graduate students/mothers negotiating academia and family life:: Discourses, experiences, and alternatives, Shirlan A. Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Stormtroopers Among Us: Star Wars Costuming, Connection, and Civic Engagement, Dava L. Simpson
Communicating change: An ethnography of women's sensemaking on menopause, hormone replacement therapies, and the Women's Health Initiative, Linda Vangelis
Displaced Self and Sense of Belonging: A Chinese Researcher Studying Chinese Expatriates Working in the United States, Zhong (June) Wang
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Communicating Collaboration and Empowerment: A Research Novel of Relationships with Domestic Violence Workers, Elizabeth A. Curry
A Future With Hope: The Social Construction of Hope, Help, and Dialogic Reconciliation in a Community Children's Mental Health System of Care, Christine S. Davis
The Invisible Handshake: Interpreting the Job-Seeking Communication of Foreign-Born Chinese in the U.S., Hongmei Gao
One More River to Cross: The Therapeutic Rhetoric of Race in the Post-Civil Rights Era, Nigel I. Malcolm
Performativity and the Latina/o-White Hybrid Identity: Performing the Textual Self, Shane T. Moreman
A Rhetoric of Sports Talk Radio, John D. Reffue
Transforming Public Spaces Through Performance, Anthony G. Valentine
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Flat Chests and Crossed Eyes: Scrutinizing Minor Bodily Stigmas through the Lens of Cosmetic Surgery, Joan Ann George
Developing Organizational Development: Alienation and Organizing in the Age of Information, Robert D. Kreisher
