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Author:

Sierlecki, Bonnie J

Title:

CONSTITUTING THE IDEAL AMERICAN: JESSE OWENS AND THE RHETORIC OF ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENT

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

presidential rhetoric
Jesse Owens
sport
American Dream rhetoric
American ideals
nationalism
autobiography
Jesse Owens Museum

File:

Download Bonnie_Sierlecki_MA_Thesis_2008.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeremy Engels, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeremy Engels, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Drury, Sara Ann Mehltretter

Title:

THE LONG TWILIGHT STRUGGLE: PRESIDENTIAL RHETORIC AND NATIONAL SECURITY IN THE COLD WAR, 1945-1974

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

presidential rhetoric
national security
Cold War
rhetorical criticism
foreign policy

File:

Download SaraAMDrury_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

James Hogan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Hogan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member
John Philip Jenkins, Committee Member

Author:

Sierlecki, Bonnie J

Title:

Fit for Democracy: Sport and Presidential Rhetoric

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Sport
physical fitness
presidential rhetoric
Theodore Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
Gerald R. Ford
Barack Obama

File:

Download Sierlecki_dissertation_FINAL1.pdf

Committee Members:

James Hogan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Member
Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Committee Member
Marie Hardin, Committee Member

Author:

Johnson, Brandon

Title:

Remembering Jimmy Carter: The Rhetorical Evocations of Presidential Memories

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

presidential rhetoric
memory
jimmy carter
collective memory
character
iran hostage crisis
U.S. presidency

File:

Download Brandon_Johnson_Final_MA_Thesis_Submission_Remembering_Jimmy_Carter_The_Rhetorical_Evocations_of_Presidential_Memories.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Elizabeth Stuckey, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member
Michael Steudeman, Committee Member
Denise Haunani Solomon, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Johnson, Brandon

Title:

Running The Country Like A Business: Donald Trump, Neoliberalism, and The Metaphor of The CEO Presidency

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

presidential rhetoric
U.S. politics
neoliberalism
masculinity
leadership
postracialism

File:

Download The_CEO_Presidency_Brandon_M_Johnson_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kirt Wilson, Program Head/Chair
Mary Stuckey, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Michael Steudeman, Major Field Member
Stephen Browne, Major Field Member
Desiree Lim, Outside Unit & Field Member