Dissertations from 2016
Queer Intersectionality: Queering the Limits of Identity Studies in Critical Intercultural Communication Research, Benjamin LeMaster
Women's Textile Graffiti: An Aesthetic Staging of Public/Private Dichotomies, Diana Christine Woodhouse
Dissertations from 2015
Archiving and Advocating for Performance Festivals as Sites of Disciplinary Action, Andrea Michea Baldwin
Performing Black Feminisms in Diasporic Contexts: Sub-Saharan Women Negotiating Identity across Cultures, Gloria Pindi Nziba
RACE, SOCIALIZATION, AND CIVILITY: INTERROGATING THE COMMUNICATIVE CONSTRUCTION OF THE WHITE HABITUS, Charles Kyle Rudick
Conducting Experiments: On the Connections Between Experimental Art Praxes and Performance Studies, Nicole E. Wood
Dissertations from 2014
EDUCATING HUMANIZATION: AN EXAMINATION INTO THE HUMANIZING PEDAGOGIES OF PAULO FREIRE, Jared M. Bishop
ON WOMEN AND RUNNING: A FEMINIST RHETORICAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE POLITICAL AND ONTOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING VIA THE SHARING OF WOMEN'S RUNNING STORIES, Janelle Leann Briggs
COMMUNICATING CARE: A CRITICAL COMMUNICATION PEDAGOGY OF CARE IN THE UNIVERSITY CLASSROOM, Molly Cummins
I am a Merry Midwest Mestizo: Race, Space, and the Landscaping of Identity, David Alva Hanley-Tejeda
The Collaborative Performance of Open Mic Poetry and the Art of Making Do, Joseph Hassert
ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT: A CASE STUDY OF THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY, JiangBo HuangFu
From Losing Everything to Finding Community: How Homeless People Narrate their Lived Experiences, Joshua Daniel Phillips
(RE)CLAIMING THE INTELLIGENT HEART: A CRITICAL PEDAGOGUE'S JOURNEY TOWARD CONNECTED SCHOOLING, Melinda L. Yeomans
Hearing Existenzspeak: An Existential Response to Millennial Angst, Brian Zager
Dissertations from 2013
Alcoholism on the American Stage: De-Stigmatizing Socially Constructed Depictions of the Alcoholic through Performance, Thomas Michael Campbell
PERFORMATIVE CORPORATE TRAINING IN TAIWAN, Sheng-Tao Fan
Performative Riffing: Theory, Praxis, and Politics in Movie Riffing and Embodied Audiencing Rituals, Matthew M. Foy
The Politics of Interventionist Performance at the Intersection of Gender, Sexuality, and Trauma, Jennifer L. Freitag
HELP AS COMMUNICATIVE PRACTICE: A CRITICAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF A TEACHER EDUCATION CLASSROOM, Aubrey Anne Huber
Communicative Construction and Maintenance of Palestinian Identity in Diaspora, Ragda Farid Kahil
INDECISION 2008: REAPPROPRIATION AS POLITICAL ARGUMENT IN THE DAILY SHOW'S COVERAGE OF THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, Brian Nelson Norcross
Epistolary Pedagogy: Communicating Care in the University Classroom, Lisa Jayne Raser
MAKING MYTH MATTER: INTERROGATING NARRATIVE AND RECONSTRUCTING METANARRATIVE IN CLASSICAL MYTH ADAPTATION, Erin Zimmerman
Dissertations from 2012
UNDERNEATH THE STREETS, THE BEACH: DRIFTING TOWARD/FROM A PROTO-POSTSTRUCTURALIST PERFORMANCE OF EVERYDAY SPATIAL SUBJECTIVITY, Hunter Hawkins Fine
Eco-Theatre and New Media: Devising Toward Transnational Balance, Marnie Jane Glazier
A Ritual in Perspective: An Ethnographic Analysis of a Lakota Sundance At Hoosier National Forest, Gabor Hardy
Iconic Images, Visual Appropriations, and Public Culture: Negotiating the Rhetorical Challenges of the USDA Food Pyramids, Elizabeth Ann Petre
Realignments of Doxa in U.S. American Politics: Tracing the Rhetorical Histories of Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama, James Taft Petre
Shopping for Substance: Style and the Material Rhetoric of Conscious Consumerism, Jessie Ann Stewart
TWIN TALK, Jennifer J. Summary
GLOBALIZATION AND "HAIER": AN ORGANIZATIONAL DISCOURSE STUDY OF A LEADING CHINA-BASED TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATION, Chengxiu Suo
YOU CAN BREASTFEED BUT . . . : A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF IMAGES AND COMMENTARY ON BREASTFEEDING, Jonna Ziniel
Dissertations from 2011
Performing Race, Performing History: Oral Histories of Sundown Towns in Southern Illinois, Elena Esquibel
UNEQUAL RIGHTS AND CONSTRAINED CHOICE: NARRATING WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES WITH IDENTITY, REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES, AND ABORTION, Jamie Lee Huber
Capturing the Significance of African American English (AAE): An Insider Perspective, Lilly Johnson
Viscera(l) Views: Performing on the Brink of the Human, Shauna M. MacDonald
Hearing Miles Davis: A Pedagogy of Autobiographical Performance and Jazz, Chris McRae
"DO WE NOT SING THESE TEXTS?": PRESENCE EFFECTS IN PERFORMANCE ART, Charles Timothy Parrott
Achieving an Anabaptist Vision: The Constitutive Rhetoric of Goshen Circle Mennonite Leaders, Zachary J. Walton
Dissertations from 2010
Shadowing practices: Ethnographic accounts of private eyes as entrepreneurs, Craig L. Engstrom
At the Mercy of Ruin: Performative Sites/Sights of Landscapes and Loss, Patrick Santoro
Dissertations from 2009
Identities In Motion: Cyberspace And Diasporic Queer Male Bodies In The Context Of Globalization, Ahmet Atay
Reconciliation, Rhetoric, And The Return Of The Political To Its Practical Calling, Jay Brower
FOOD AND PERFORMANCE IN THE PRISON SYSTEM, Christopher Collins
Pencils of Light: Family, Photography, and Performance, Amy Lynn Darnell
Roasting on Earth: A Rhetorical Analysis of Eco-Comedy, Alison Aurelia Fisher
(Mis)Diagnosing Silence: A Cultural Criticism of the Virginia Tech News Coverage of Silence as Public Pedagogy, Richie Neil Hao
A longitudinal latent growth modeling perspective on communication apprehension, self-perceived communication competence, and willingness to communicate, Georgeta Mioara Hodis
"Sometimes You'Ll Feel Like An Outcast": Using Superman To Interrogate The Closet, Andrew J. Kirk
"We're Just Women Who Like To Ride:" An Ethnographic Journey On A Woman's Motorcycle, Patricia Meyer
Becoming Japerican And Amerinese: An Ethnographic Study Of Employees At A Multicultural Workplace, Sachiko Tankei
An Examination Of Everyday Interactions Between Fathers And Their Adult Sons, Samuel Luke Thomas
Homeplace of Hands: Fractal Performativity of Vulnerable Resistance, Diana L. Tigerlily
The Ella Effect: An Activist's Journey Towards Mentoring Progressive Black Masculinities Into Motion, Derrick Lamonte Williams