Dissertations from 2024
Cuir Latinidades: Decolonial Explorations of Cuir Borders of Identity and Relationality, Stephanie Colin
Black Feminist Counterpublic Pedagogy: A Study of Digital Black Feminism and its Pedagogical Possibilities, Alexandria N. Hatchett
It’s Britney, Bitch, Mary Hyepock
YOU’RE LOOKING VERY SHANE TODAY: RHETORICAL FIELD METHODS & THE MATERIALITY OF QUEER MEDIATED REPRESENTATION FOR SAPPHIC WOMEN, Ariel L. Kizer
THE USER-MADE NATION: (RE)NEGOTIATING AND (RE)IMAGINING SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONALISM ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS, Kholofelo M. K Theledi
Dissertations from 2023
Harmonies of Dissent: The Role of Speech Acts and Necropolitics in the Music of the 1979 Nicaraguan Revolution., Elvis J. Bendaña Rivas
Narrative Infidelity and White Resentment in the Rhetorical Mobilization of the Anti-CRT Movement, Julien Burns
The Social Support Experiences of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Adults, Lindsay A. Duede and Colter Ray
Performance, Identity, and Cultural Practices in the Oral Histories of Three Generations of Iranian Women, Oldooz Oli Mohammadi
The Black Performer's Toolbox: A Critical Authoethnography, Laura D. Oliver
Family Communication Patterns During Emerging Adulthood: An Investigation of Parent-Child Communication About Vaccine Decisions, Rebecca M. Riccardi
In Knowledge We Trust(ed): A Case Study in Abolition Theatre, Misty Dawn Saribal
Women's Interracial Friendships: Cultivating Coalitional Possibilities Across Difference Through Dialogue, Akie Fukushige Wenk
Dissertations from 2022
My Favorite Murder as Discursive Performance, Taylor Dawson
Communicating About Sexual Health with New Partners During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Adam Jade Harvey
Nonfiction Narratives and Journalism Ethics in Podcasts: A Narrative and Burkean Analysis of the Podcast S-Town, Kayla J. Hastrup
Experimental Music and Collaboration: Developing Artistry Through Performance Practice, John Lambert
Dissertations from 2021
Stigma and Social Support: Experiences on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Laura Carper
Rhetorics of Rebuke in the Sub-veillance Meme Genre, Taylor Catherine Moran
Intimate Rhetorics of Networked Motherhood, Katie Nelson
"Will God Forgive Us?": Christianity and the Climate Crisis in Auteur Cinema, Margaret Alice Parson
Dissertations from 2020
Virtual Touch: Embodied Experiences of (dis)Embodied Intimacy in Mediatized Performance, Naomi Petrea Bennett
Two Communication Approaches to Explaining Interpersonal Sibling Differences: Interpersonal Conflict Causing Sibling Deidentification and Media Use Cultivating Family Communication Orientation, Judson Holloway Eldredge
Baton Rouge SLAM!: An Obituary for Summer 2016: A Critical Performance Ethnography of Eclectic Truth Poetry Slam, Joshua Hamzehee
Student Perceptions of Rules for Classroom Interaction, Hanson Paul LeBlanc III
Communication Observation in Interpersonal Relationships: Development and Validation of the Communication Observation Measure, Ryan D. Rasner and Ryan Rasner D
Theater of the Obsessed, Cynthia Sampson
The Voice Of Honor: Centering An Indigenous Ethic Of Protocol In U.S. Rhetorical Studies, Dakota Sandras
Ties That Bind: Black Familyness and the Politics of Contingent Coalitions, Cordarrell Self
The Choreo-Story Workshops: Devising Body Narratives, Montana J. Smith
Dissertations from 2019
Modes of Cartoon Corporeal Performance, Gregory Langner
The Rhetoric of Sickle Cell Anemia, Raquel McFarland Robvais
An Archive of Pain: In Queer Suicide's Cultural Wake, Evan Schares
If We're "Over," Is It Really Over?: How Past Romantic Relationships Impact Subsequent Relationships, Cassie Elizabeth Shimek
Get in Your Posse: An Exploratory Study of Semester-Long Small Groups in Public Speaking Courses, Rebekah Christine Whitaker
Dissertations from 2018
Sell Yourself: Building a Foundational Structure Around an Institution's Position in the College Application Process, Brock Thomas Adams
A Narrative and Performative Methodology for Understanding Adolescent Cancer Stories, Patrick Mcelearney
Dissertations from 2017
The White Bicycle: Performance, Installation Art, and Activism in Ghost Bike Memorials, Nicole Marie Costantini
Mapping a Beat Repertoire: Recovering Everyday Life Performances of the Women of the Beat Generation, Stephanie Patricia Heath
Thoreau's Melancholia, Walden's Friendship, and Queer Agency, Julia Morgan Leslie
Questing with Grandma: Building Closer Families Through Intergenerational Video Gaming, Sanela Osmanovic Vukelic
Detecting deception: The diagnostic utility of unanticipated questions, Kassi M. Wilcox
Dissertations from 2016
Equipment for Dying: A Dramatistic Critique of Heroism and the Crises Assaulting Returning Soldiers, Jonathan Mark Broussard
The Repertoire of Understanding: The Linguistic Patterning of Repetition and Alignment within Supportive Conversations, Kaitlin Emily Cannava
Chemical Communication: The Effects of Stress-Induced Apocrine Sweat on Human Perceptions and Interactions, Laura Caitlyn Hatcher
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
"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
After Images: Using Augusto Boal's Image Theatre to Balance Artistry, Analysis, and Activism in the Performance Composition Process, Bonny Leah McDonald
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
Necessary Medicine: Rethinking Health Communication at Burning Man, Raquel Irene Polanco
Relational Effects of Person-Centered Comfort, Andrea Jean Vickery
Relational Red Flags: Detecting Undesirable Qualities in Initial Romantic Encounters, Richard C. White
Dissertations from 2015
Musicking New Orleans Street Musicians: A Methodology for Writing About Music, Savannah Cadi Rose Ganster
Rhetoric and Food: The Rise of the Food Truck Movement, Bryan W. Moe
Examining Electronic Medical Records System Adoption and Implications for Emergency Medicine Practice and Providers, Barbara Cook Overton
Mark Twain, James Thurber, and David Sedaris: American Literary Humorists, Liz Sills
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
Teacher Matters: Teacher Normative Influence and Student Persistence in College, Jonathan Paul Denham
Paul Tillich's Communication Theology and the Rhetoric of Existentialism, Elizabeth R. Earle
Performing Joseph Cornell's chronotopes of assemblage, Sarah Kathryn Jackson
Raptivism: the Act of Hip Hop’s Counterpublic Sphere Forming into a Social Movement to Seize its Political Opportunities, Matthew C. Maddex
The Devil Made Her Do It: Three Horror Film Case Studies in the Exorcism Subgenre, Charles Austin McDonald II
"Post Your Version Here!": Performances in/of Online, Noncommercial, Video-to-Video Adaptations, Lyndsay Michalik
Staging the voice : towards a critical vocal performance pedagogy, Derek Mudd
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
Screening TED: A rhetorical analysis of the intersections of rhetoric, digital media, and pedagogy, Joseph Alan Watson
Dissertations from 2013
Volatile congregations : crisis sensemaking in a Southern Baptist Church, Brandon Douglas Bannon
When we break bread together: perceptions of consensus amongst queer organizers, David M. Caswell
Masada performances : the contested indentities of touristic spaces, Ariel Gratch
Performing folk punk : agonistic performances of intersectionality, Benjamin D. Haas
Sport team fandom, arousal, and communication : a multimethod comparison of sport team identification with psychological, cognitive, behavioral, affective, and physiological measures, Shaughan Alan Keaton
The relationship between forgiveness, imagined interactions, empathy and relational satisfaction among long-distance romantic couples, Christopher Michael Mapp
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
To speak as a human, a modern and as an American : blues rhetoric in Cornel West's prophetic pragmatism, Raquel M. Robvais
The Rhetorical Strategies of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, David T. Tarvin
Dissertations from 2012
AMD&ART: performativity and participation in ecological remediation, Travis Paine Brisini
China's 20th century Sophist: analysis of Hu Shi's ethics, logic, and pragmatism, Rya Butterfield
Communicating while stimulated: the effects of sensory-processing sensitivity on behavior and relationships, Christopher Charles Gearhart
Performing nostalgia: body, memory, and the aesthetics of past-home, Jade C. Huell
Reinhold Niebuhr's ethics of rhetoric, Joseph E. Rhodes
A critical ethnography of The Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana with ruminations on hauntology, Holley Ann Vaughn
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
Composing a method: écriture féminine as performance practice, Brianne Waychoff
Dissertations from 2011
Performing toilets: putting matter into place, Danielle Dick McGeough
When the saints go marching in: an ethnography of volunteer tourism in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, Jennifer Lea Erdely
Efficacy of genres in training videos for emergency first responders, Kerry Jenkins
Writing William Burroughs, performing the archive, John LeBret
The American counter-monumental tradition: renegotiating memory and the evolution of American sacred space, Ryan Erik McGeough
Performing selfhoods in U.S. rituals of private and public spheres, Linda A. Shkreli
Eight is not enough: a historical, cultural, and philosophical analysis of the flash mob, Rebecca Walker
Dissertations from 2010
"Do it for me, my dear": structuration and relational dialectics among mother-daughter dyads in Lebanese arranged marriages, Khaled Nasser
A Study of Communication in Baby Boomers' Romantic Relationships and the Effects of their Children's Communication about the Relationships, Lois B. Nemetz
Method and madness at the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum, Gretchen Stein Rhodes
Similarities and differences in self-disclosure and friendship development between fact-to-face communication and Facebook, Pavica Sheldon
Dissertations from 2009
Under construction: recollecting the museum of the moving image, Andrée Elise Comiskey Betancourt
Typewriters typing typist: a performance history, Sarah Kathryn Jackson
Strutting it up through histories: a performance genealogy of the Philadelphia Mummers Parade, Corey Elizabeth Leighton
Third-party imagined interactions: expanding imagined interactions as false memories in understanding interactions, Marcus Allen Porter
Dance dance attribution: exploring the relationship between dance and attractiveness in intial perceptions, Kellie St.Cyr
An ethnography of "Hang It Out To Dry", Danielle Sears Vignes