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Dissertations from 2024

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Cuir Latinidades: Decolonial Explorations of Cuir Borders of Identity and Relationality, Stephanie Colin

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Black Feminist Counterpublic Pedagogy: A Study of Digital Black Feminism and its Pedagogical Possibilities, Alexandria N. Hatchett

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It’s Britney, Bitch, Mary Hyepock

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YOU’RE LOOKING VERY SHANE TODAY: RHETORICAL FIELD METHODS & THE MATERIALITY OF QUEER MEDIATED REPRESENTATION FOR SAPPHIC WOMEN, Ariel L. Kizer

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THE USER-MADE NATION: (RE)NEGOTIATING AND (RE)IMAGINING SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONALISM ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS, Kholofelo M. K Theledi

Dissertations from 2023

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Harmonies of Dissent: The Role of Speech Acts and Necropolitics in the Music of the 1979 Nicaraguan Revolution., Elvis J. Bendaña Rivas

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Narrative Infidelity and White Resentment in the Rhetorical Mobilization of the Anti-CRT Movement, Julien Burns

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The Social Support Experiences of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Adults, Lindsay A. Duede and Colter Ray

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Performance, Identity, and Cultural Practices in the Oral Histories of Three Generations of Iranian Women, Oldooz Oli Mohammadi

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The Black Performer's Toolbox: A Critical Authoethnography, Laura D. Oliver

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Family Communication Patterns During Emerging Adulthood: An Investigation of Parent-Child Communication About Vaccine Decisions, Rebecca M. Riccardi

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In Knowledge We Trust(ed): A Case Study in Abolition Theatre, Misty Dawn Saribal

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Women's Interracial Friendships: Cultivating Coalitional Possibilities Across Difference Through Dialogue, Akie Fukushige Wenk

Dissertations from 2022

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My Favorite Murder as Discursive Performance, Taylor Dawson

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Communicating About Sexual Health with New Partners During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Adam Jade Harvey

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Nonfiction Narratives and Journalism Ethics in Podcasts: A Narrative and Burkean Analysis of the Podcast S-Town, Kayla J. Hastrup

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Experimental Music and Collaboration: Developing Artistry Through Performance Practice, John Lambert

Dissertations from 2021

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Stigma and Social Support: Experiences on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Laura Carper

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Rhetorics of Rebuke in the Sub-veillance Meme Genre, Taylor Catherine Moran

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Intimate Rhetorics of Networked Motherhood, Katie Nelson

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"Will God Forgive Us?": Christianity and the Climate Crisis in Auteur Cinema, Margaret Alice Parson

Dissertations from 2020

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Virtual Touch: Embodied Experiences of (dis)Embodied Intimacy in Mediatized Performance, Naomi Petrea Bennett

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Two Communication Approaches to Explaining Interpersonal Sibling Differences: Interpersonal Conflict Causing Sibling Deidentification and Media Use Cultivating Family Communication Orientation, Judson Holloway Eldredge

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Baton Rouge SLAM!: An Obituary for Summer 2016: A Critical Performance Ethnography of Eclectic Truth Poetry Slam, Joshua Hamzehee

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Student Perceptions of Rules for Classroom Interaction, Hanson Paul LeBlanc III

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Communication Observation in Interpersonal Relationships: Development and Validation of the Communication Observation Measure, Ryan D. Rasner and Ryan Rasner D

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Theater of the Obsessed, Cynthia Sampson

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The Voice Of Honor: Centering An Indigenous Ethic Of Protocol In U.S. Rhetorical Studies, Dakota Sandras

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Ties That Bind: Black Familyness and the Politics of Contingent Coalitions, Cordarrell Self

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The Choreo-Story Workshops: Devising Body Narratives, Montana J. Smith

Dissertations from 2019

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Modes of Cartoon Corporeal Performance, Gregory Langner

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The Rhetoric of Sickle Cell Anemia, Raquel McFarland Robvais

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An Archive of Pain: In Queer Suicide's Cultural Wake, Evan Schares

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If We're "Over," Is It Really Over?: How Past Romantic Relationships Impact Subsequent Relationships, Cassie Elizabeth Shimek

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Get in Your Posse: An Exploratory Study of Semester-Long Small Groups in Public Speaking Courses, Rebekah Christine Whitaker

Dissertations from 2018

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Sell Yourself: Building a Foundational Structure Around an Institution's Position in the College Application Process, Brock Thomas Adams

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A Narrative and Performative Methodology for Understanding Adolescent Cancer Stories, Patrick Mcelearney

Dissertations from 2017

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The White Bicycle: Performance, Installation Art, and Activism in Ghost Bike Memorials, Nicole Marie Costantini

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Mapping a Beat Repertoire: Recovering Everyday Life Performances of the Women of the Beat Generation, Stephanie Patricia Heath

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Thoreau's Melancholia, Walden's Friendship, and Queer Agency, Julia Morgan Leslie

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Questing with Grandma: Building Closer Families Through Intergenerational Video Gaming, Sanela Osmanovic Vukelic

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Detecting deception: The diagnostic utility of unanticipated questions, Kassi M. Wilcox

Dissertations from 2016

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Equipment for Dying: A Dramatistic Critique of Heroism and the Crises Assaulting Returning Soldiers, Jonathan Mark Broussard

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The Repertoire of Understanding: The Linguistic Patterning of Repetition and Alignment within Supportive Conversations, Kaitlin Emily Cannava

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Chemical Communication: The Effects of Stress-Induced Apocrine Sweat on Human Perceptions and Interactions, Laura Caitlyn Hatcher

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What Every New Coach Should Know: Analysis of Coaches' Goals for Organizational Entry/Assimilation, through the Goals-Plans-Action Theory and Socioemotional Selectivity Theory, Destini J'ne Hughes

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"I Listen to Their Story, They Listen to My Comments, and Then I Pocket My Fee:" Sherlock Holmes as Rhetorical Equipment for Living, Andrew Cessna Jones

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After Images: Using Augusto Boal's Image Theatre to Balance Artistry, Analysis, and Activism in the Performance Composition Process, Bonny Leah McDonald

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There’s a Skid Row Everywhere, and This is Just the Headquarters: Impacts of Urban Revitalization Policies in the Homeless Community of Skid Row, Douglas Mungin

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Necessary Medicine: Rethinking Health Communication at Burning Man, Raquel Irene Polanco

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Relational Effects of Person-Centered Comfort, Andrea Jean Vickery

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Relational Red Flags: Detecting Undesirable Qualities in Initial Romantic Encounters, Richard C. White

Dissertations from 2015

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Musicking New Orleans Street Musicians: A Methodology for Writing About Music, Savannah Cadi Rose Ganster

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Rhetoric and Food: The Rise of the Food Truck Movement, Bryan W. Moe

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Examining Electronic Medical Records System Adoption and Implications for Emergency Medicine Practice and Providers, Barbara Cook Overton

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Mark Twain, James Thurber, and David Sedaris: American Literary Humorists, Liz Sills

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Regarding Suicide: A Textually Informed Rhetorical and Psychoanalytic Construct of the State of Disconstituency, Disconstitutive Rhetoric, and the Disconstituent as Related to the Constitutive Rhetorical Structure of the Vanishing Subject, Charles Stowers Womelsdorf

Dissertations from 2014

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Teacher Matters: Teacher Normative Influence and Student Persistence in College, Jonathan Paul Denham

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Paul Tillich's Communication Theology and the Rhetoric of Existentialism, Elizabeth R. Earle

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Performing Joseph Cornell's chronotopes of assemblage, Sarah Kathryn Jackson

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Raptivism: the Act of Hip Hop’s Counterpublic Sphere Forming into a Social Movement to Seize its Political Opportunities, Matthew C. Maddex

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The Devil Made Her Do It: Three Horror Film Case Studies in the Exorcism Subgenre, Charles Austin McDonald II

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"Post Your Version Here!": Performances in/of Online, Noncommercial, Video-to-Video Adaptations, Lyndsay Michalik

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Staging the voice : towards a critical vocal performance pedagogy, Derek Mudd

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The twin taboos of discussing religion and politics : a study of six "basic" emotions and interpersonal relationships in response to Rick Perry's "Strong", Michael Francis Rold

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Screening TED: A rhetorical analysis of the intersections of rhetoric, digital media, and pedagogy, Joseph Alan Watson

Dissertations from 2013

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Volatile congregations : crisis sensemaking in a Southern Baptist Church, Brandon Douglas Bannon

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When we break bread together: perceptions of consensus amongst queer organizers, David M. Caswell

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Masada performances : the contested indentities of touristic spaces, Ariel Gratch

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Performing folk punk : agonistic performances of intersectionality, Benjamin D. Haas

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Sport team fandom, arousal, and communication : a multimethod comparison of sport team identification with psychological, cognitive, behavioral, affective, and physiological measures, Shaughan Alan Keaton

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The relationship between forgiveness, imagined interactions, empathy and relational satisfaction among long-distance romantic couples, Christopher Michael Mapp

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Causes and consequences of conflict : exploring the influence of honor-based norms and values on the experience of intimate partner violence in the United States, Michelle Elaine Pence

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To speak as a human, a modern and as an American : blues rhetoric in Cornel West's prophetic pragmatism, Raquel M. Robvais

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The Rhetorical Strategies of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, David T. Tarvin

Dissertations from 2012

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AMD&ART: performativity and participation in ecological remediation, Travis Paine Brisini

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China's 20th century Sophist: analysis of Hu Shi's ethics, logic, and pragmatism, Rya Butterfield

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Communicating while stimulated: the effects of sensory-processing sensitivity on behavior and relationships, Christopher Charles Gearhart

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Performing nostalgia: body, memory, and the aesthetics of past-home, Jade C. Huell

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Reinhold Niebuhr's ethics of rhetoric, Joseph E. Rhodes

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A critical ethnography of The Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana with ruminations on hauntology, Holley Ann Vaughn

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Advice in troubles talk conversations between strangers: the role of problem seriousness and the impact of advice on helper supportiveness and the desire for future interactions, Andrea Jean Vickery

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Composing a method: écriture féminine as performance practice, Brianne Waychoff

Dissertations from 2011

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Performing toilets: putting matter into place, Danielle Dick McGeough

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When the saints go marching in: an ethnography of volunteer tourism in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, Jennifer Lea Erdely

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Efficacy of genres in training videos for emergency first responders, Kerry Jenkins

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Writing William Burroughs, performing the archive, John LeBret

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The American counter-monumental tradition: renegotiating memory and the evolution of American sacred space, Ryan Erik McGeough

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Performing selfhoods in U.S. rituals of private and public spheres, Linda A. Shkreli

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Eight is not enough: a historical, cultural, and philosophical analysis of the flash mob, Rebecca Walker

Dissertations from 2010

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"Do it for me, my dear": structuration and relational dialectics among mother-daughter dyads in Lebanese arranged marriages, Khaled Nasser

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A Study of Communication in Baby Boomers' Romantic Relationships and the Effects of their Children's Communication about the Relationships, Lois B. Nemetz

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Method and madness at the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum, Gretchen Stein Rhodes

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Similarities and differences in self-disclosure and friendship development between fact-to-face communication and Facebook, Pavica Sheldon

Dissertations from 2009

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Under construction: recollecting the museum of the moving image, Andrée Elise Comiskey Betancourt

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Typewriters typing typist: a performance history, Sarah Kathryn Jackson

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Strutting it up through histories: a performance genealogy of the Philadelphia Mummers Parade, Corey Elizabeth Leighton

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Third-party imagined interactions: expanding imagined interactions as false memories in understanding interactions, Marcus Allen Porter

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Dance dance attribution: exploring the relationship between dance and attractiveness in intial perceptions, Kellie St.Cyr

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An ethnography of "Hang It Out To Dry", Danielle Sears Vignes