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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:

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Boes, Cynthia Dawn

Title:

DEFENDING DARFUR: THE PROBLEMS AND POTENTIAL OF SPEAKING FOR OTHERS

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

rhetoric
intercultural communication
speaking for others

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas Walter Benson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Hogan, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member
Linda Furgerson Selzer, Committee Member

Author:

Kuperavage, Jessica Lauren

Title:

Becoming Rational: Rhetoric, Agency, and Mental Illness

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

mental illness
agency
rhetoric

File:

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Weber, Jill Mary

Title:

For the Good of "The Family": The Rhetoric of Family Values in U.S. National Policymaking

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

policymaking
rhetoric
family
family values

File:

Download Weber_diss_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Walter Benson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Deborah Frances Atwater, Committee Member
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member
Michael Paul Johnson, Committee Member

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:

Miller, Eric Carl

Title:

Fighting for Freedom: Culture War Rhetoric and the Liberal Tradition

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Culture War
Family Values
Social Movements
Liberalism

File:

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Committee Members:

Stephen Howard Browne, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Hogan, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member
John Philip Christman, Special Member

Author:

Coletta, Kristin Summer-mathe

Title:

Envisioning Democratic Citizenship: Rhetorical Constructions in the Public Sector Labor Movement

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

labor movement
democracy
citizenship
rhetoric
public sector

File:

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Committee Members:

Stephen Howard Browne, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Hogan, Committee Member
Paul Clark, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member

Author:

Kuperavage, Jessica Lauren

Title:

From Private Tragedy to Public Health: Public Health and the Rhetorics of Responsibility

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

rhetoric
communication
public health
health campaigns
health policy
infant mortality
maternal mortality

File:

Download Kuperavage_dissertation_grad_school_version-1.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeremy Engels, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Hogan, Committee Member
Rachel Annette Smith, Committee Member
Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Member

Author:

Perry, Adam Louis

Title:

From the McCarthy Era to "Gangsta Rap": The Rhetoric of Popular Music and Moral Panic in America

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Rhetorical criticism
popular music
social movements
moral panic

File:

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Committee Members:

James Hogan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Member
Matt Jordan, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Geraths, Cory Paul

Title:

Digital Missionaries: The Neoliberal Sponsorship Rhetoric of Compassion International

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Christianity
mission
technology
neoliberalism
rhetoric
feminism

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeremy Engels, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hlavacik, Mark Joseph

Title:

A Rhetorical History and Criticism of U.S. Education Policy, 1980-1994

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Rhetoric of Public Policy
Education Policy
Jonathan Kozol
Milton Friedman
A Nation at Risk
Richard J. Herrnstein

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas Walter Benson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member
Rosa A Eberly, Committee Member
Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Committee Member
Keith Gilyard, Special Member

Author:

Stec, Frank Joseph

Title:

What's in a Number?: The Rhetoric of Numbers During Wartime

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

rhetoric
war rhetoric
biopower
counting
numbers

File:

Download Disseration_-_Stec_1.0_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeremy Engels, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Hogan, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member
Matt Jordan, Committee Member

Author:

Blankfield, Bryan Boyd

Title:

Letters to Fala: The Rhetorical Construction and Function of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Dog

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Fala
Presidential rhetoric
animal studies
citizenship
visual rhetoric
epistolary rhetoric

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas Walter Benson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member
Debra Hawhee, Committee Member

Author:

Minbiole, John Francis

Title:

Interrupting Cinematic Narratives of the First World War

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

rhetoric
narrative
cinema
film
war
first world war
ethics
Heidegger
Gadamer
interruption

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeremy Engels, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member
Dennis Schmidt, Committee Member

Author:

Kretsinger-Harries, Anne Catherine

Title:

Civil War Centennial Commemoration and the Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Rhetoric
Public Memory
Commemoration
Civil Rights Movement
Civil War Centennial
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson

File:

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Committee Members:

Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Hogan, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member
Debra Hawhee, Committee Member

Author:

Serber, Bradley Allen

Title:

Reaction Rhetorics: Targeted Violence and Public Security

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

targeted violence
stasis theory
publics theory
public memory
rhetorics of violence

File:

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Committee Members:

Rosa A Eberly, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member
Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Committee Member
Greg Eghigian, Outside Member

Author:

Good, Tiara Kay

Title:

Saccharin Civic Engagement, Rhetoric, and Popular War Movies

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

saccharin citizenship
war
war movies
war films
PTSD
soldier representation
rhetoric

File:

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Committee Members:

Jeremy Engels, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeremy Engels, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michele Jean Kennerly, Committee Member
Bradford James Vivian, Committee Member
Matthew Frank Jordan, Outside Member

Author:

Cox, Jeremy Logan

Title:

A WAR OF OPINIONS: THE RHETORIC OF AMERICAN NATIONAL CHARACTER AND THE GREEK WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE, 1821-1827

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Rhetoric
American Nationalism
National Character
Philhellenism
American Classicism
American Romanticism
Public Address

File:

Download Cox_Dissertation_.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Howard Browne, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rosa A Eberly, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member
William Alan Blair, Outside Member
Michele Jean Kennerly, Committee Member

Author:

Geraths, Cory Paul

Title:

Voices and Visages: Mary Magdalene's Afterlives in Text and Art

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Mary Magdalene
Rhetoric
Historiography
Feminism
Art
Afterlives
Christianity
Communication
Graphic
Apocryphal
Gnostic

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Committee Members:

Michele Kennerly, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michele Kennerly, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rosa Eberly, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member
Cheryl Glenn, Outside Member

Author:

Mumtaz, Mehr

Title:

Rhetoric of Identity and Citizenship in European Policy Discourse Surrounding the Crisis of Multiculturalism in Europe

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Multiculturalism
Intercultural Dialogue
Islamophobia
Rhetoric of Identity and Citizenship
European Nativist Political Discourse
Council of Europe

File:

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Committee Members:

Bradford James Vivian, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Committee Member
Anne T Demo, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member