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Author:

Eves, Rosalyn Collings

Title:

Mapping Rhetorical Frontiers: Women's Spatial Rhetorics in the Nineteenth-Century American West

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

rhetorics of space
spatial theory

File:

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Committee Members:

Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member
Hester Maureen Blum, Committee Member
John L Selzer, Committee Member
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Zuck, Rochelle Raineri

Title:

Imagined Citizens: Ethnic Nationalisms and Crises of Culture in the United States, 1816-1856

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

American Indian
African American
ethnic
citizenship
nation
American literature
imperium in imperio

File:

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Committee Members:

Carla Mulford, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Edwin Burkholder, Committee Member
Hester Maureen Blum, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member

Author:

Kahle, Shannon Miller

Title:

Visualizing the Chaotic Body in Popular Culture

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

visual rhetoric
the body
popular culture

File:

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Committee Members:

Matthew Paul Mcallister, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Matthew Paul Mcallister, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dennis Karl Davis, Committee Member
Matthew Frank Jordan, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, 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:

Wesley, Timothy Leon

Title:

The Politics of Faith: Religious Authority and Politics During the American Civil War

Graduate Program:

History

Keywords:

Civil War
religion
preachers
politics

File:

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Committee Members:

William Alan Blair, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Alan Blair, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Amy S Greenberg, Committee Member
Nan Elizabeth Woodruff, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, 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:

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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:

Kornfield, Sarah Joy

Title:

Postfeminist Detectives: Television Genres, Genders, and Crimes

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Rhetoric
Genre
Television
Postfeminist
Detectives
Crime Drama

File:

Download Kornfield_Postfeminist_Detectives2.pdf

Committee Members:

Rosa A Eberly, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member
Matthew Paul Mcallister, Committee Member
Lorraine Dowler, Special 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:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Sturges, Mark C

Title:

Dwelling on the Land: The Literature of Agriculture in the Early American Republic

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

American Literature
Agriculture
Environmental History
Ecocriticism

File:

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Committee Members:

Carla Mulford, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Edwin Burkholder, Committee Member
Ian Stuart Marshall, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee 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:

Rudewalker, Mathew Craig

Title:

Where Our Dead Lie Buried: Articulating American Indian Sovereignty

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Sovereignty
American Indian
Native American
rhetoric
politics
literature

File:

Download MRW_Where_Our_Dead_Lie_Buried_Final_version.pdf

Committee Members:

Carla Mulford Conklin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Keith Gilyard, Committee Member
Toni Jensen, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, 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:

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:

Biddle, Matthew

Title:

Periodic Publishing And Rhetorical Time: the Birth And "death" Of The Newspaper

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Rhetoric
Composition
Time
Chronotope
Periodicity
Seriality
Newspaper
Technology
New Media
Historiography

File:

Download Final_Dissertation_4-8-2015.pdf

Committee Members:

Cheryl Jean Glenn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stuart Selber, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John L Selzer, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, 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:

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

Author:

Cody, Adam William

Title:

Aristotelian Topics for Pluralist Democracy

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Rhetoric
Aristotle
Ancient Greece
Argumentation
Topics
Democracy

File:

Download Cody_-_Aristotelian_Topics_for_Pluralist_Democracy_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Rosa A Eberly, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michele Jean Kennerly, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, 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:

Download Serber__Dissertation__Final_.pdf

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