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 |