Theses/Dissertations from 2013
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