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School of Communication Studies - Graduate Student Scholarship

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Increasing understanding of professor’s ADHD knowledge and perception of ADHD and how this informs their behavior towards students with ADHD, Rebecca Rosen

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Staying with and telling different stories: Toward a theory of environmental advocacy that bridges the scholarly and political selves, Michael Clay

“We Make Death Look Pretty”: A qualitative study analyzing reported effects of compassion fatigue on hospice nurse-patient communication, Katherine Harville

Between beeps: An autoethnographic study on Type 1 Diabetes, intersectionality and the body in chaos, Cristal Llave

“Taking the Power Away”: An autoethnographic exploration of intimate partner violence, social support, and survivorship, Darrian Pickett

(In)visibility and meaning in food labor: A Feminist autoethnography, Kathryn Shedden

The confirmation of Betsy DeVos: Polarization, populism, and moral foundations in U.S. political rhetoric, Jacob William Wrasse

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Tension and complexity in decolonial advocacy: A rhetorical analysis of situated approach in western Shoshone, Bikinian, and Hawaiian resistance to militarized colonialism, Taylor Johnson

This is herpes: A qualitative investigation of the disclosure patterns of HSV2 individuals, Katrina Miles

No stigma, no shame: Reducing the stigma of mental illness in college freshmen dorms, Ashley R. Reynolds

#Zika #Olympics: The use of dialogue in tweets regarding the Zika virus and the 2016 Rio Olympics, Daniel W. Vieth

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

My body, our illness: Negotiating relational and identity tensions of living with mental illness, Erin E. Casey

(Re)positioning black: Negotiating racial subjectivities in white discursively constructed spaces, Elisa Davidson

Achoo! Three major US newspapers reporting on the flu before and after H1N1, Philip A. Harris

“Knee high to a grasshopper”: An exploration of Appalachian youth, family communication patterns, and depression, Cori Howard

Padded assumptions: A critical discourse analysis of patriarchal menstruation discourse, Kathryn M. Lese

Contesting “obligation”: Memory, morality, and the (re)Construction of divestment narratives, Christina Quint

A tank full of wishful thinking: Crystallizing the rhythms of the road, Leanna K. Smithberger

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Policing Charities: A genealogy of the American nonprofit in the context of neoliberalism, Jaclyn Carroll

Place, space, and family: A rhetorical analysis of the resistance rhetoric of Judy Bonds, Alex K. Davenport

Making sense of mediation: The intersection of critical event narratives at a community conflict resolution center, Eric Dirth

Vanguardia mujerista haciendo escuela: An oral history of Cuban feminism, Marie Eszenyi

Identity disclosure in lesbian, gay, and bisexual patient-provider communication, Nicole Hudak

Let’s chat: Willingness to communicate and the development of a destigmatizing campaign, Ethan D. Smith