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Author:

Jennings-Kelsall, Victoria Sonoda

Title:

The Impact of Social Support on Resilience of Spousal Caregivers in Wounded Warrior Families

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

social support
caregiving
resilience
communication
stress
military
non-normative stress
social networks

File:

Download Jennings-Kelsall_eTD_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Denise H. Solomon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Denise H. Solomon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Dillard, Committee Member
Jon F. Nussbaum, Committee Member
Amy Marshall, Outside Member

Author:

Worthington, Amber Kelly

Title:

Responsibility in the “Pivot Generation”: Information Sharing about the Benefits of Outdoor Physical Activity to Manage Overweight or Obesity

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Responsibility communication
Health behavior change

File:

Download Worthington_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Jon F. Nussbaum, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jon F. Nussbaum, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rachel A. Smith, Committee Member
Mary Beth Oliver, Committee Member
Marianne Hillemeier, Outside Member

Author:

Ha, Yerheen

Title:

Exploring the disproportionate persuasive impact of melodrama on hostile (vs. favorable) audiences

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

persuasion
narrative
narrative processing
hostile audiences
melodrama
resistance

File:

Download Yerheen_Ha_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

James P. Dillard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James P. Dillard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Denise H. Solomon, Committee Member
Lijiang Shen, Committee Member
Mary Beth Oliver, 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:

Download Good_Saccharin_Citizenship_Dissertation_vfinal.pdf

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:

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:

Download Kurr_-_Dissertation_vFinal_2017-10-12.pdf

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:

Bergmaier, Michael J

Title:

"I WELCOME THIS DEBATE": THE LIMITS OF DEMOCRATIC DELIBERATION OVER NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY IN THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

rhetoric
deliberation
democracy
war
foreign policy
national security

File:

Download Bergmaier__2017__Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

J. Michael Hogan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
J. Michael Hogan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rosa A. Eberly, Committee Member
Jeremy David Engels, Committee Member
John Selzer, Outside Member

Author:

Brinker, David Lee

Title:

THE RELATIONAL BASIS OF DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Political Communication
Democratic Deliberation
Interpersonal Communication
Relational Framing Theory

File:

Download Brinker_Dissertation_Draft___Final_Submission_to_Grad_School.pdf

Committee Members:

John Gastil, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Gastil, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James P. Dillard, Committee Member
Denise Haunani Solomon, Committee Member
Michael Schmierbach, Outside Member

Author:

Schneider, Haley Elizabeth

Title:

Utopian Rhetorics: Space and Time in the United Nations' Pursuit of Cosmopolitan Progress

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

temporality
memory
international politics
political ideology

File:

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Committee Members:

Rosa A Eberly, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bradford James Vivian, Committee Member
Stephen Howard Browne, Committee 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:

Download FINAL_THESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Camacci, Lauren Rose

Title:

The Blueprint and the Mirror: Richard Nixon's Presidential Rhetoric and American Masculinity

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

rhetoric
Richard Nixon
masculinity
masculinities
Cold War
Vietnam
Kent State
Apollo 13
Watergate

File:

Download Camacci_PSU_CAS_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen H. Browne, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen H. Browne, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michele J. Kennerly, Committee Member
Kirt H. Wilson, Committee Member
Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Outside Member

Author:

Marriott, Robert Windsor

Title:

SWEET TALK: A SURVEY OF PERSUASIVE MESSAGING FROM TEN SUGAR-SWEETENED BEVERAGE TAXATION REFERENDA

Graduate Program:

Communication Arts and Sciences

Keywords:

Communication
Referendum
Persuasion
Campaign
Sugar Tax

File:

Download Robert_Marriott_thesis_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

James Dillard, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rachel Annette Smith, Committee Member
John W Gastil, Committee Member