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Author:

Bergmaier, Michael J

Title:

"I WELCOME THIS DEBATE": THE LIMITS OF DEMOCRATIC DELIBERATION OVER NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

rhetoric
deliberation
democracy
war
foreign policy
national security

File:

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Committee Members:

J. Michael Hogan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
J. Michael Hogan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rosa A. Eberly, Committee Member
Jeremy David Engels, Committee Member
John Selzer, Outside Member

Author:

Brooks, Earl Holmes

Title:

On Rhetoric and Black Music

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

rhetoric
black music
jazz
ragtime
public sphere
discourse
Scott Joplin
Duke Ellington
John Coltrane
Mary Lou Williams

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Committee Members:

Keith Gilyard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Keith Gilyard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John "Jack" Selzer, Committee Member
Cheryl Glenn, Committee Member
Paul C Taylor, Outside Member

Author:

Camacci, Lauren Rose

Title:

The Blueprint and the Mirror: Richard Nixon's Presidential Rhetoric and American Masculinity

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

rhetoric
Richard Nixon
masculinity
masculinities
Cold War
Vietnam
Kent State
Apollo 13
Watergate

File:

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Committee Members:

Stephen H. Browne, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen H. Browne, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michele J. Kennerly, Committee Member
Kirt H. Wilson, Committee Member
Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Keren

Title:

ATLAS OF SACRIFICE: Three Studies of Ritual Sacrifice in Late Capitalism

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

globalization
neoliberalism
ritual
sacrifice
rhetoric
political philosophy
political theory
transnationalism
political communication

File:

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Committee Members:

Stephen Howard Browne, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member
Larry Cata Backer, Outside Member

Author:

Lehman, Marguerite Nguyen

Title:

The Things I Won't Tell You: Privycy, A Rhetorical Strategy

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

privy
privacy
publicity
transgender
MeToo
disclosure
rhetoric
queer theory

File:

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Committee Members:

Anne T Demo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michele Jean Kennerly, Committee Member
Pamela Ruth Vanhaitsma, Committee Member

Author:

Pettus, Mudiwa Mpho

Title:

African-American Rhetorical Education in the Age of Booker T. Washington

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Booker T. Washington
African-American rhetorical education
African-American rhetorical theory
post-Reconstruction
interracial communication
W.E.B. Du Bois
Pauline Hopkins
Sutton Griggs
democratic deliberation
rhetoric
rhetorical education
compromise
nineteenth-century rhetoric

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Committee Members:

Raymond Keith Gilyard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shirley Moody, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Committee Member
Esther Susana Prins, Outside Member

Author:

Tellmann, Bryce

Title:

The Great Plains and the Available Means of Regionalism

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

rhetoric
regionalism
Great Plains
place
region

File:

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Committee Members:

Michele Kennerly, Major Field Member
Jeremy Engels, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Laszlo Kulcsar, Outside Unit & Field Member
Stephen Browne, Major Field Member
Andrew High, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Smith, Emily

Title:

Performing Histories: Archival Embodiment as Rhetorical Historiography

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

historiography
public memory
performance
rhetoric

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Committee Members:

Cheryl Jean Glenn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Debra Hawhee, Committee Member
Stuart Selber, Committee Member
Pamela Ruth Vanhaitsma, Outside Member
David Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Johnson, Morgan

Title:

Discursive Death and Eternal Vigilance: A Rhetorical Study of Necropower

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

rhetoric
race
necropower
police
resistance

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Committee Members:

Cynthia Young, Outside Unit & Field Member
Rosa Eberly, Major Field Member
Jeremy Engels, Major Field Member
Kirtley Wilson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Andrew High, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Nagel, Jeffrey

Title:

Queering Absence: The Rhetoric of the Homophile Movement

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

homophile movement
rhetoric
queer theory
absence
social movements
memory
silence
passing
invisibility
forgetting

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Committee Members:

Cheryl Glenn, Outside Unit & Field Member
Bradford Vivian, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Stephen Browne, Major Field Member
Andrew High, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Pamela Vanhaitsma, Major Field Member
Member Committee, Special Member