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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:

Download Boes_Final_Dissertation.pdf

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:

Sheffield, Jessica Lee

Title:

Weblogs and Activism: A Social Movement Perspective on the Blogosphere

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

democratic deliberation
blogosphere
blogs
weblogs
social movements
rhetoric
rhetorical analysis

File:

Download Sheffield_Final_Draft.pdf

Committee Members:

James Hogan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Hogan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stuart Selber, Committee Member
Rosa A Eberly, Committee Member
Thomas Walter Benson, Committee Member

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:

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:

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:

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:

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