RECENT THESES & DISSERTATIONS

Year Degree
Awarded
Student's Name Title of Thesis or Dissertation Faculty Director
2004 (M.A.) Paul Stob "A Moment in the Pragmatic Political Style: The Rhetoric of Louis D. Brandeis" James Aune
2002 (Ph.D.) William Harlow "Thundering Silence: The Rhetorical Reconstruction of George Herbert Walker Bush's Foreign Policy Discourse" Kurt Ritter
2002 (M.A.) Dollie Jean Criste "A Woman's Place is in the Maul: Organizing Gender in a United States Rugby Club" Linda Putnam
2002 (M.A.) Susan Dummer " 'I'm not perfect': An Analysis of the Narratives of Young Women's Body Image" Kathy Miller
2001 (M.A.) Rachel Martin "Completing the Work of the Guns: Presidential Rhetoric, National Character, and World War II Memorials" Vanessa Beasley
2001 (Ph.D.) Roy Joseph "Making Machines in Our Image: The Rhetoric of Artificial Intelligence" Charles Conrad
Marshall Scott Poole
2000 (M.A.) Catherine Langford Nation versus State: The Rhetoric of Federalism in Lopez" James Aune
2000 (M.A.) Barnabas Sprinkle "Converting the Choir: A Process Study of Member Reactions to Ministerial Succession" Marshall Scott Poole
2000 (M.A.) Holly McIntush Robin Hood v. Horatio Alger: How We Talk about School Finance" Charles Conrad
2000 (M.A.) Wynton Hall "Presidents, Polls, and Political Marketing: The Instrumental Uses of Public Opinion Research in Presidential Discourse" Martin Medhurst
1999 (M.A.) Amber Burkett Peplow "The AFT and the NEA Merger: A Study in Conflicting Values" Charles Conrad
1999 (M.A.) Crystal Church "Diversity and Symbolic Convergence Training" Charles Conrad
1999 (M.A.) Brian Smithwick "An Interactional Approach to Organizational Assimilation" Charles Conrad
1999 (M.A.) George Spatz "Burke, Foucault, and the Right to Privacy" James Aune
1999 (M.A.) Amy Tilton "George Bush and the Religious Right: A Case Study in the Rhetoric of Interest Group Policies" Martin Medhurst

 

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