Dissertations from 2023
Black Genealogies Matter in U.S. Genealogy Tourism: A Content Analysis of Family Heritage Books and Plan for the HBCUHeritageHome.com, Pamela E. Foster
Addressing Rural America’s Suicide Disparity Among Men: How Mental Health Stigma Is Communicated Through Storytelling Networks, Lindsey Hand
Motivations for Providing Social Support on Social Media, Yuehan Liu
The Interplay of Technological Affordances, Audience, and Context in Shaping Feminist Discourse: A Study of #Neverthelessshepersisted on Twitter and Instagram, Virginia Massignan
Rhetorics of Cancer in America, Christopher J. Wernecke
Dissertations from 2022
Memory in the time of COVID, William HY Canter
Naturalism and Process Ontology for Rhetorical Theory and Methodology: Reconsidering the Ideological Tautology, Caleb M. Cates
Image Frames, Cascading Activation, and Formation of Foreign Policy: A Case Study of the 2012 Benghazi Attacks, Michael Jablonski
Receiver Factors and Persuasive Communication: Strategies to End Factory Farming that Encourage Meat Reduction among American Flexitarians, Allen Zimmerman
Dissertations from 2021
Webs of Social Support for Mental Health: An Examination of College Students' Social Support Seeking Behavior on Social Media, Dilan Sinem Basaran
Identity Tetris: Transnational Muslim NGOs within Global Contexts, Nagham El Karhili
Imagined Economics: An Analysis of Non-state Actor Economic Messaging, Ayse Lokmanoglu
“Maintaining Frame” in the Incelosphere: Mapping the Discourses, Representations and Geographies of Involuntary Celibates Online, Meredith L. Pruden
Dissertations from 2020
How Do Teachers’ Childhood and Adolescent Bullying Victimization Experiences Influence Their Responses to Bullying in the Classroom?, Kelley D. Alexander
Displacing the "Black Mecca": Romanticizing or Witnessing African American Historical Trajectories in the Case of the Atlanta BeltLine, Rhana Gittens
The impacts of new technologies on physical activities: Based on fitness app use and fitness social media postings, Hyungmin Kim
Dissertations from 2019
The Love of My Sisters: Exploring Black Women Academics’ Narratives on the Uses and Benefits of Sister Circles, LaVette M. Burnette
The Henrietta Hypothesis: Redefining Crisis Communication Practice For Women’s Health Organizations, Monica L. Ponder
Visceral Whiteness: Public Memory and (Dis)Comfort in 'Post-Racial' Narratives about Slavery and Civil Rights in America, John Russell
Dissertations from 2018
Privacy in the age of Snowden: The Affective Infrastructure of Late Liberalism., Jason Derby
Dissecting Visual Conflict: A Comparative Analysis of ISIS and the Egyptian Military's Photographs in 2016-2017, Kareem El Damanhoury
Forgiveness Communication During End-of-Life: Perspectives From Surviving Loved Ones, Carmen Goman
The Filibuster As Populist Transcendence: The Deliberative, Dramatic, And Spectacular Forms Of Talking A Bill To Death, Evan Layne Johnson
Beyond the Scripted Presidency: Heckling's Affective Ripples, Milene Ortega Ribeiro
Dissertations from 2017
Love, Touch and the Documentary Project, Laurel Ahnert
Neo-Fascism and the State: The Negotiation of National Identity in Modern Russia, Hanna Baranchuk
Cinemas of Endurance, Adam Cottrel
A Hip-Hop Joint: Thinking Architecturally About Blackness, Lauren Cramer
Discourse and Network Analysis of Iran Expertise in the U.S., Esmaeil Esfandiary
Newsworthiness Guidelines for a Socially Responsible Press: Aligning Definitions at the Intersection of Journalism, Ethics, and the Law, Megan Hodgkiss
Narrative Change in Professional Wrestling: Audience Address and Creative Authority in the Era of Smart Fans, Christian Norman
Celebrities’ Climate Change Advocacy on Twitter and its Effects on Public Perception and Behavioral Change, Sejung Park
Fear vs. Hope: Do Discrete Emotions Mediate Message Frame Effectiveness In Genetic Cancer Screening Appeals, Matthew C. Sones
New International Broadcasters and the Global Economy: Sites of Contestation, Christopher M. Toula
Dissertations from 2016
Imagining the Housewife: Mediated Representations of Gender in Post-War America, Nicole Barnes
Exploring the Obesity-Related Lifestyle Attitudes and Behaviors of African-American Women and Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Women in Metro Atlanta, Georgia, Melany Chambers
Case Study of the “No On 37” Coalition Against the Deceptive Food Labeling Scheme: Public Relations Strategies & Tactics, Ethically Problematic Communication, and the First Amendment, Eugenia Pia Ferrero
Bodies That Scatter: Sound, Cinema, Figure, Form, Justin Horton
Doc Mcstuffins: How African American Preschoolers Interpret Entertainment-Education Messages, Shajobia Keys
Queering Images of Citizenship: Rhetoric, Representation, and LGBTI Refugees, Emily Kofoed
Dissertations from 2015
The February 20th Movement Communication Strategies: Towards Participatory Politics, Houda Abadi
Presidential Rhetoric at the United Nations: Cosmopolitan Discourse and the Management of International Relations, Andrew D. Barnes
Entertainment-Education To Increase Self-Efficacy And Reduce Counterarguing: HIV/AIDS Prevention And African Americans, Tonia N. East-Phanor
Representations of African American Women on Reality Television After the Great Recession, Steven Herro
Viewers' Involvement and Responses to an Entertainment Narrative in the Personal Television Environment, Sangmi Lee
Sonic Vocality: A Theory on the Use of Voice in Character Portrayal, Cindy Milligan
Comparing Effects of Public Service Announcements on Young Adults' Perception of the R-word, Vangelia Morris
"Hello Shoppers?" - Themed Spaces, Immersive Popular Culture Exhibition, and Museum Pedagogy, Ian Peters
The Digital Logic of Death, Steven Pustay
Global Playground: Mutualism, the Ethic of World Citizenship, and the Films of Dayyan Eng, Munib Rezaie
A Rhetorical Analysis of George Jackson's Soledad Brother: A Class Critical and Critical Race Theory Investigation of Prison Resistance, Nick J. Sciullo
Seeking Sexual Health Information from Romantic Partners: Testing an Application and Extension of the Theory of Motivated Information Management, Michael Tannebaum
The Evolution of Cable Network Branding: Time Warner in the Post-Network Era, 2001-2011, Darcey West
Post-Feminism, Shaming, and Wedding-Themed Reality Television, Katharine P. Zakos
Dissertations from 2014
From Splicing To Dicing: Film Sound Design Goes Digital In The 1990s, Vanessa Ament-Gjenvick
The Mobile Savage: Presidential Peace Rhetoric and the Perpetuation of Enemies, Stephen Heidt
Digital image politics: The visual rhetoric of Anonymous, Jason Jarvis
Institutionalized Speech: The Presidency and the Domestic Auto Industry, Steve A. Stuglin
The Rhetorical City: (Re)Arranging and (Dis)Placing Atlanta's Urban Space, Scott Tulloch
Dissertations from 2013
Oblique Optics: Seeing the Queerness of Ec-static Images, Kristopher L. Cannon
The Rhetoric of Louis E. Martin, "Godfather of Black Politics", Kristina E. Curry
The Role of The Media in a Precarious Plural Democracy: The Case of Lebanon, May Fawaz
Profit Margins: The American Silent Cinema and the Marginalization of Advertising, Jeremy W. Groskopf
Nothing But the Truthiness: A History of Television News Parody and its Entry into the Journalistic Field, Curt W. Hersey
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
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
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
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
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
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