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Author:

Kretsinger-Harries, Anne Catherine

Title:

The Contestable John Brown: Abolitionism and the Civil War in U.S. Public Memory

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Rhetoric
Abolitionism
John Brown
Public Memory

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr J Michael Hogan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Hogan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Merlo, Elyse M.

Title:

RHETORICS OF RAPE: FEMINIST RHETORICS AND POSTFEMINIST DISCOURSE OF RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Feminism
Rape
Rhetoric
Postfeminism

File:

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Committee Members:

Rosa A Eberly, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rosa A Eberly, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

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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:

Browne, Kevin Adonis

Title:

Mas Movement: Toward a Theory of Caribbean Rhetoric

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Caribbean
Rhetorical Tradition
Rhetoric

File:

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Committee Members:

Raymond Keith Gilyard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Keith Gilyard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John L Selzer, Committee Member
Stuart Selber, Committee Member
Cary Fraser, Committee Member

Author:

Hlavacik, Mark Joseph

Title:

The Rhetoric of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001: History, Economics, and Coercion

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
education policy
Rhetoric
coercion
statutory rhetoric

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas Walter Benson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Walter Benson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Walters, Shannon Kelly

Title:

A Rhetoric of Touch: Disability and the Reshaping of Rhetorical Bodies

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Disability Studies
Rhetoric

File:

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Committee Members:

Susan Merrill Squier, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John L Selzer, Committee Member
Stuart Selber, Committee Member
Michael Francis Berube, Committee Member
Carolyn Elizabeth Sachs, Committee Member

Author:

Donovan, Timothy J.

Title:

Apocalyptic Acts: Rhetoric, Ethics, Community, and Futurity

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Rhetoric
Ethics
Community
and Futurity

File:

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Committee Members:

Richard Matthew Doyle, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffrey Nealon, Committee Member
Garrett Sullivan Jr., Committee Member
Amy S Greenberg, Committee Member
Robert Lawrence Caserio Jr., 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:

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:

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Committee Members:

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

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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:

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:

Niebauer, Allison Kate

Title:

Constructions of Guilt and Logics of Punishment: American Narratives of German Guilt After World War II

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Rhetoric
World War II
Holocaust
Nuremberg Trials
Narrative
Transitional Justice
Communication
Henry Stimson
Henry Morgenthau
Robert Jackson

File:

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Committee Members:

Stephen Browne, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Benson, Committee Member
Michele Kennerly, 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:

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Hsu, Vicki Chenyi

Title:

Dynamic Disclosures: Personal Writing, Relational Rhetoric, and Institutional Narratives

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Rhetoric
Composition
Diversity
Personal
Narratives
Multiculturalism

File:

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Committee Members:

Debra Hawhee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debra Hawhee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suresh Canagarajah, Committee Member
Ebony Coletu, Committee Member
Rosemary Jane Jolly, 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:

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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:

Kurr, Jessica Anne

Title:

A Rhetorical History of the Federal Reserve

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Rhetoric
Rhetorical Criticism
Public Address
Ethos
History
Economics
Federal Reserve
Marriner Eccles
Paul Volcker
Alan Greenspan

File:

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Committee Members:

J. Michael Hogan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
J. Michael Hogan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michele Kennerly, Committee Member
Stephen H. Browne, Committee Member
Suzanna Linn, Outside Member

Author:

Maxson, James David

Title:

Rhetorical Burials: Memorial Practices of New Orleans

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Jazz Funerals
Second Lines
Public Memory
Commemoration
Confederate Monuments
New Orleans
Rhetoric

File:

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Committee Members:

Debra Hawhee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Debra Hawhee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michele Jean Kennerly, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member
Matthew Frank Jordan, Outside Member

Author:

Mapston, Breanna Nicole

Title:

Digital Activism and Contemporary Social Movements: A Case Study of the Black Lives Matter Global Network

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Rhetoric

File:

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Committee Members:

Mary Stuckey, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kirt Wilson, Committee Member
Anne Demo, Committee Member

Author:

Patia, Kaitlyn Grace

Title:

The (F)utiliy of Knowledge: The Democratic Faith of W.E.B. Du Bois and Jane Addams

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Democratic Faith
Rhetoric
Memory
Addams
Du Bois
Poetics
Storytelling
Agitation
Hull-House

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Committee Members:

Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rosa A Eberly, Committee Member
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member
Debra Hawhee, Outside Member
Denise Haunani Solomon, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Orth, Nikki Shayna

Title:

Rhetorics of Remembrance: Civil Rights Memoirs and Civil Rights Memory

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Rhetoric
Memory
Civil Rights Movement
Memoirs

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Committee Members:

Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rosa A Eberly, Committee Member
Anne T Demo, Committee Member

Author:

Naseeruddin, Uzma Safiya

Title:

Global Conflict and Refugee Crisis

Graduate Program:

Communications

Keywords:

Immigration
Nationalism
Neo-Racism
Rhetoric
Framing
anti-immigration
Americanism

File:

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Committee Members:

Nakho Kim, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter Jones Kareithi, Committee Member
Kamini Grahame, Committee Member

Author:

Rountree, John

Title:

Congressional Town Hall Meetings: Rhetoric, Inclusion, and Deliberative Democracy

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Rhetoric
democratic deliberation
congress
town hall meetings

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Committee Members:

Kirt H. Wilson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kirt H. Wilson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeremy Engels, Committee Member
John Gastil, Committee Member
Amy Allen, Outside Member

Author:

Smilges, Johnathan

Title:

Queer Silence: Rhetorics of Resistance

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Rhetoric
disability studies
queer theory
trans* studies

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Committee Members:

Cheryl Jean Glenn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Debra Hawhee, Committee Member
Janet Wynne Lyon, Committee Member
Hilary Jade Malatino, Outside Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Manthey, Dominic Joseph

Title:

The Peace Script: Varieties of Anti-War Dissent in U. S. History

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

War
Peace
Rhetoric
Social Movements
Violence

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Committee Members:

Stephen Howard Browne, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kirtley Hasketh Wilson, Committee Member
Bradford James Vivian, Committee Member
John David Mccarthy, Outside Member
Denise Haunani Solomon, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Erby, Brandon Marcell

Title:

The Rhetorical Campaigns of Mamie Till-Mobley

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Mamie Till-Mobley
Emmett Till
Motherhood
Rhetoric
Lynching
Activism
Racism
Pedagogy
Feminism
Social Justice
Civil Rights Movement
Black Lives Matter Movement

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Committee Members:

Raymond Keith Gilyard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Raymond Keith Gilyard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Member
John L Selzer, Committee Member
Crystal Renee Sanders, Outside Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kennedy, Curry

Title:

Grace and Skill: Religion and Rhetorical Education in Early Modern England

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Rhetoric
Religion
Early Modern England
Rhetorical Education
Literacy Education
History of Religion
Reformation
Humanism
Renaissance

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Committee Members:

Debra Hawhee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stuart Selber, Committee Member
David Andrew Loewenstein, Committee Member
Claire Mary Louise Bourne, Committee Member
Michele Jean Kennerly, Outside Member
Debra Hawhee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Andrew Loewenstein, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Seabloom-Dunne, John Louis

Title:

Tactical Technical Communication – A History of Study and Practice

Graduate Program:

English (PHD)

Keywords:

Technical Communication
Tactical Technical Communication
Rhetoric
Pedagogy

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Committee Members:

Stuart Selber, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Cheryl Glenn, Major Field Member
Raymond Gilyard, Major Field Member
Stephen Browne, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mark Morrisson, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mulligan, Ashley

Title:

Wordsworth's Sacrificial Poetics: Rhetoric and Self-Formation, 1791-1801

Graduate Program:

English (PHD)

Keywords:

William Wordsworth
Romanticism
Poetry
Rhetoric

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Committee Members:

Daniel Purdy, Outside Unit & Field Member
Cheryl Glenn, Major Field Member
Robert Edwards, Major Field Member
Mark Stewart Morrisson, Program Head/Chair
Claire Colebrook, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Maier, Caleb Renwick

Title:

Tourhettorics: Visions of Disorderly Rhetorics

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Rhetoric
Tourhettorics
Tourette's
Tourettes
Tourette
Tourette syndrome
tics
disability studies
disability rhetoric
disorderliness
disorder
mental disorder
disordered
rhetorical agency
meaning
disability narrative
disability memoir
memoir
visual rhetoric
disability
eugenics
Lloyd Bitzer
Melanie Yergeau
pathologized speech
pathologized texts
chronotope
Bakhtin
Touretteshero
Communication studies
disorderly rhetorics
Oliver Sacks
Lowell Handler
Jessica Thom

File:

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Committee Members:

Rosa Eberly, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anne Demo, Committee Member
Kirt Wilson, Committee Member
Denise Haunani Solomon, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Johnson, Jeremy David

Title:

Rhetoric and the Making of Algorithmic Worlds

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Rhetoric
Algorithms
Networks
Agency
Power
Kosmos
Facebook
Google
YouTube

File:

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Committee Members:

Rosa Eberly, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rosa Eberly, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anne Demo, Committee Member
Stephen Browne, Committee Member
Stuart Selber, Outside Member
Michele Kennerly, Committee Member

Author:

Kulchar, Douglas Alan

Title:

Rhetorical Mechanics

Graduate Program:

English (PHD)

Keywords:

Rhetoric
Cybernetics
Plato
Sellars
Deleuze
Sophist

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Committee Members:

Janet Wynne Lyon, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Daniel Susser, Outside Unit & Field Member
Claire Colebrook, Major Field Member
Richard Doyle, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jeffrey Nealon, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Green, Gabriel

Title:

Slam Rhetorics: A Study of Collegiate Poetry Competitions

Graduate Program:

English (PHD)

Keywords:

Rhetoric
Poetry Slam
Poetry
Rhetorical Theory
Kairos
Ethos
Rhetorical Identification
Counterstory
Autoethnography

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Committee Members:

Amira Rose Davis, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xiaoye You, Major Field Member
Debbie Hawhee, Major Field Member
Raymond Gilyard, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Janet Wynne Lyon, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Cody, Adam William

Title:

Corax in Chalk: A Discursive Ecology of Deipnosophistae

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Athenaeus
Rhetoric
Authority
Narrative
Text
Information
Manuscript
Form
Function
Miscellany
Encyclopedia
Compilation
Memory

File:

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Committee Members:

Rosa A Eberly, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rosa A Eberly, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member
Michele Jean Kennerly, Committee Member
Anna Irene Peterson, Outside Member
Denise Haunani Solomon, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Belk, John Michael

Title:

Rhetorical Verse: Persuasion in Early Twentieth-century American Poetry

Graduate Program:

English

Keywords:

Rhetoric
Poetry
Early Twentieth-Century America
Political Left
Judicial Rhetoric

File:

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Committee Members:

Cheryl Jean Glenn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheryl Jean Glenn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Debra Hawhee, Committee Member
John Edmond Marsh, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Special Member

Author:

Firgens, Benjamin Aaron

Title:

Foresight at the Wright Brothers National Memorial: Technology, Memory, and the American Imagination

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences (PHD)

Keywords:

Public Memory
Technology
Rhetoric
Social Imagination
Wright Brothers

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Committee Members:

Rosa Eberly, Major Field Member
Michele Kennerly, Major Field Member
Mary Stuckey, Major Field Member
Patrick Parsons, Outside Unit & Field Member
Stephen Browne, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Andrew High, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies