Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The Rhetoric of Louis E. Martin, "Godfather of Black Politics", Kristina E. Curry
The Ontological Scandal of Corporate Personhood and Speech: A Rhetorical Analysis of Key Supreme Court Decisions, Nneka Logan
The Last Stone is Just the Beginning: A Rhetorical Biography of Washington National Cathedral, Teresa F. Morales
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Vernacular Posthumanism: Visual Culture and Material Imagination, Drew R. Ayers
Phenomenal Bodies: The Metaphysical Possibilities of Post-Black Film and Visual Culture, Michele P. Beverly
Subterranean Dissent in the Okefenokee Swamp: The Life and Politics of Walt Kelly's 1950s POGO, James E. Black Dr.
Exploring Subtext Processing in Narrative Persuasion: The Role of Eudaimonic Entertainment Use Motivation and a Supplemental Conclusion Scene, Elizabeth L. Cohen
Strategies of Narrative Disclosure in the Rhetoric of Anti-Corporate Campaigns, Richard A. Herder
Reconsidering Testimonial Forms and Social Justice: A Study of Official and Unofficial Testimony in Chile, T. Randahl C. Morris
The Critical Eye: Re-Viewing 1970s Television, Karen C. Petruska PhD
Mass Media and Representation: a Critical Comparison of the CCTV and NBC Presentations of the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Summer Games, James R. Schiffman
"Doing it For The Dudes": A Comparative Ethnographic Study of Performative Masculinity in Heavy Metal and Hardcore Subcultures, John Ike Sewell Jr.
Black Public Creative Figures in the Neo-Racial Moment: An Analysis of Tyra Banks, Tyler Perry and Shonda Rhimes, 2005-2010, Danielle E. Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Rhetorical Failures, Psychoanalytic Heroes: A Psychorhetoric of Social Change, Kimberly D. Huff
Webs of Resistance: The Citizen Online Journalism of the Nigerian Digital Diaspora, Farooq A. Kperogi
Competing Image Vernaculars in the Anti-lynching Movement of the 1930's, Samuel P. Perry
The Playful Audience: Professional Wrestling, Media Fandom, and the Omnipresence of Media Smarks, Shane Matthew Toepfer
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Jake Wells Enterprises and the Development of Urban Entertainments in the South, 1890-1925, Eric Dewberry
Corruptions of the Flesh: The Body, Subjectivity, Postmodernity, Larrie Dudenhoeffer
Unnamed Sources: A Longitudinal Review of the Practice and its Merits, Matt J. Duffy
Strategic Positioning: UNESCO's Use of Argumentation to Encourage a U.S. Return to Membership, Jared L. Johnson
Recovering Hyperbole: Re-Imagining the Limits of Rhetoric for an Age of Excess, Joshua R. Ritter
Mexican Cinema in a Global Age: The Films of Guillermo Del Toro, Alfonso Cuarón, and Alejandro González Iñárritu, Stacy S. Rusnak
The Paranoid Style in an Age of Suspicion: Conspiracy Thinking and Official Rhetoric in Contemporary America, Chara Kay Van Horn
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Constructing Professionalism: Reifying the Historical Inevitability of Commercialization in Mass Media Communication, RuAnn Rae Keith
Building Subcultural Community Online and Off: An Ethnographic Analysis of the CBLocals Music Scene, Bryce James McNeil
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Snakes and Funerals: Aesthetics and American Widescreen Films, John Harper Cossar
U.S. Newspaper Representation of Muslim and Arab Women Post 9/11., Nahed Mohamed Atef Eltantawy
Reality & Effect: A Cultural History of Visual Effects, Jae Hyung Ryu
Re-Mediating the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Use of Films to Facilitate Dialogue, Elana Shefrin
Traveling through Space: Stylistic Progression and Camera Movement, Laszlo Strausz
Masks and Sartre's Imaginary: Masked Performance and the Imaging Consciousness, William Keith Tims
Wired Valentines and Webs of Love: An Examination of People’s Attitudes and their Intentions to Use the Net to Form Romantic Relationships, Raiza A. Toohey
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Foreign Policy Rhetoric for the Post-Cold War World: Bill Clinton and America's Foreign Policy Vocabulary, Jason Allen Edwards
Imaging and the National Imagining: Theorizing Visual Sovereignty in Trinidad and Tobago Moving Image Media through Analysis of Television Advertising, Susan Lillian McFarlane-Alvarez
Communicating Cosmopolitanism:An Analysis of the Rhetoric of Jimmy Carter, Vaclav Havel, and Edward Said, Rasha I. Ramzy
The South Korean Mediascape: State, Civil Society and the Implications of Regional Political Economy for Cultural Transformation, Woongjae Ryoo
An Open Source Technoscape in India: Motivations, Manifestations, and Speculations, Sumitra Srinivasan
Freedom and Terror: President George W. Bush's Ideograph Use during his First Term, Joseph Michael Valenzano III
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
America's #1 Fan: A Rhetorical Analysis of Presidential Sports Encomia and the Symbolic Power of Sports in the Articulation of Civil Religion in the United States, Michael David Hester