Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Telling a Rape Joke: Performing Humor in a Victim Help Center, Angela Mary Candela
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
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
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
Inside NFL Marriages: A seven year ethnographic study of love and marriage in professional football, Rachel Anne Binns Terrill
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
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
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: Movement 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, 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