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Author:

Lunceford, Brett Lance

Title:

Democracy and the Hacker Movement: Information Technologies and Political Action

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

information society studies
social movements
computer hackers
rhetorical criticism
democratic practice
protest action

File:

Download Brett_Lunceford_-_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Hogan, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member
Jorge Reina Schement, Committee Member

Author:

Ercolini, Gina L.

Title:

KANT’S ENLIGHTENMENT LEGACY: RHETORIC THROUGH ETHICS, AESTHETICS, AND STYLE

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Communication
History of Rhetoric
Rhetoric and Philosophy
Immanuel Kant
Ethics
Enlightenment

File:

Download Ercolini-Diss-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Howard Browne, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Member
Rosa A Eberly, Committee Member
Debra Hawhee, Committee Member

Author:

Jones, Hillary A

Title:

BALANCING FLUX AND STABILITY: URSULA K. LE GUIN’S THE DISPOSSESSED

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Kropotkin
The Dispossessed
Rhetoric
Anarchism
Feminism
Taoism
Le Guin

File:

Download Jones_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Walter Benson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Paul Mcallister, Committee Member
Nancy A Tuana, Committee Member
Rosa A Eberly, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Norton, Heather M.

Title:

PATRIOTS OR PARANOIDS? THE CREATION OF A PUBLIC IDENTITY FOR THE MODERN MILITIA MOVEMENT

Graduate Program:

Speech Communication

Keywords:

public identity
social movement
militias
Militia Movement
news media

File:

Download Norton_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

James Hogan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member
John David Mccarthy, Committee Member

Author:

Saunders, John Hanson

Title:

The Evolution of Snow White: A Close Textual Analysis of Three Versions of the Snow White Fairy Tale

Graduate Program:

Speech Communication

Keywords:

Snow White
fairy tales
rhetoric
Literary studies

File:

Download JohnSaunders-FinalDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Member
Tony Lentz, Committee Member
Steven Herb, Committee Member

Author:

Biedendorf, Jennifer

Title:

Memory Beyond Borders? Cosmopolitanism and the International Criminal Court

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

rhetoric
memory
transnationalism
cosmopolitanism
International Criminal Court
human rights
nation-state
conservative
women’s rights
U.S. foreign policy
Darfur
genocide

File:

Download Biedendorf_Jennifer_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Howard Browne, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Member
James Hogan, Committee Member
John Philip Christman, Committee Member
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Member

Author:

Haman, Mary Kathryn

Title:

Wild Women of the Progressive Era: Rhetoric, Gender, and Agitation in the Age of Reform

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Social Movement Rhetoric

File:

Download Mary_Haman_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr J Michael Hogan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Hogan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member
Daniel L Letwin, Committee Member

Author:

Tumolo, Michael Warren

Title:

Just Remembering: The Experience of Rhetoric and Public Memory

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

National Holocaust Memorial Museum
Committee on Conscience
Hannah Arendt
public memory
rhetoric

File:

Download Tumolo_Just_Remembering_The_Experience_of_Rhetoric_and_Public_Memory___ETD.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Member
Rosa A Eberly, Committee Member
James Hogan, Committee Member
Christopher P Long, Committee Member

Author:

Thomas, Nicholas A.

Title:

THE JOY OF RHETORIC: TURNS IN RHETORIC AND ONTOLOGY THAT ORIENT BEING IN AESTHETIC HABITUATION

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

habit
aesthetics
ontology
rhetoric
tropos

File:

Download Dissertation--Dec_08.pdf

Committee Members:

Rosa A Eberly, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Member
Christopher P Long, Committee Member

Author:

Stahl, Roger John

Title:

War Games: Citizenship and Play in Post-industrial Militarism

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

media
militarism
war
terrorism
video games
sports
recruitment

File:

Download War_Games.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles Edward Scott, Committee Member
Rosa A Eberly, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member

Author:

Quinlivan, Raena Lynn

Title:

Corporeality and the Rhetoric of Feminist Body Art

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

corporeality
materiality
feminist rhetoric
body art

File:

Download FINAL_DISS.pdf

Committee Members:

Rosa A Eberly, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member
Jeanne Hall, Committee Member
Stephanie Springgay, Committee Member

Author:

Stone Watt, Sarah E.

Title:

Women of Watts: Picturing the STRONGBLACKWOMAN in the 1965 Watts Uprising

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

African American Women
Watts
riot
rhetoric

File:

Download Dissertation_ETD_Revision.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Deborah Frances Atwater, Committee Member
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Member
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Member

Author:

Kimokeo-Goes, Una Haunani

Title:

BUILDING AN EMPIRE, DEFINING A NATION: THE RHETORIC OF U.S. EXPANSION AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

U.S. Foreign Policy
U.S. Expansion
Samoa
Hawaii’s Annexation
Progressive Era
Imperialism
Rhetoric
American Identity

File:

Download kimokeo_dissertation_10.25.11.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr J Michael Hogan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Hogan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Member

Author:

Briceno, Mia E

Title:

Engendering the Pageant: Rhetorical Constructions of Identity and Citizenship Through Drama and Contest, 1900-present

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

pageant
identity
citizenship

File:

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Committee Members:

Rosa A Eberly, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member
Susan Merrill Squier, 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:

Download Blankfield_Final_Dissertation_Draft_4.5.pdf

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:

Download Minbiole-dissertation-FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Manthey, Dominic Joseph

Title:

From “Lumbee” to “Tuscarora”: Varieties of Citizenship Claims in Robeson County, North Carolina

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Social Movements
Rhetoric of Resistance
Indigenous Studies
Civil Rights

File:

Download THESIS_ETD_6.19.15.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Howard Browne, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Walter Benson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Andrews, Jason Scott

Title:

Unum et Pluribus: Walt Whitman's Philosophy of Democracy

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Whitman
democracy
ideology
ontology
synecdoche
trope
One and many

File:

Download Andrews_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Walter Benson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Lyle Johnstone, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member
Vincent M Colapietro, Committee Member