Placement of 2002–2008 Doctoral Degree Recipients
Mickey Bannon, Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh. Dissertation: “The Battle of Deer Creek Crossing: A Case Study of Rhetorical Exigence and Environmental Controversy.”
Weiming Yao, Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Pittsburgh. Dissertation: "Falun Gong Rhetoric and Chinese Religious Traditions."
Kevin J. Ayotte, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Communication Faculty, California State University , Fresno. Dissertation: “The Rhetoric of Terror: The Threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction in American Foreign Policy Discourse.”
Thomas W. Baggerman, Assistant Professor of Communication (tenure track), Capital University, Columbus OH. Dissertation: “Structurally Unsound: The Changing State of Local Television.”
Jody Baker. Dissertation: “Landscapes: Nature, Culture, and the Production of Space.”
Michael Barberich, Visiting Assistant Professor in Communication, State University of New York at Albany. Dissertation: “From the Frontier to the Fireside: Rhetoric and Public Memory in the Depression and the War
Peter K. Bsumek, Director of Debate, School of Communication Studies, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA. Dissertation: “Conservation Biology, Post Modern Theory & Rhetoric in ‘The Great New Wilderness Debate' : A Case Study in Environmental Rhetoric, the Rhetoric of Science & Public Argument.”
Alice Elizabeth Crawford. Dissertation: “The City in the Future Perfect: Information Technology, Utopianism, and Urban Life.”
Guillermo Caliendo, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Department of Communication Studies, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY. Dissertation: “Mediated Memory: Political Assassinations & the Dialectics of Social Recollection.”
Nathan Crick, Assistant Professor of Communication (tenure-track), Assistant Professor of Communication, Louisiana State University. Dissertation: "John Dewey on the Art of Communication."
Robert Danisch, Assistant Professor of Communication. Concordia University, Montreal. Making an American Democracy: Pragmatism and the Necessity of Rhetoric.”
Aimee-Marie Dorsten, Assistant Professor of Communication, Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA. Dissertation“Keep It Private! Economy of Digital Media Innovation in Developing Countries.”
Jennifer Friedlander, The Edgar E. and Elizabeth S. Pankey Professor of Media Studies and Assistant Professor of Art and Art History (tenure track), Media Studies, Pomona College, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA. Dissertation: “Moving Images: Film, Photography & Spectatorship.”
Zachary Furness, Dissertation: “‘Put the Fun Between Your Legs!’: The Politics and Counterculture of the Bicycle.”
John Gillette, Assistant Professor, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA. “A Rhetorical Analysis of the Campesinos Sin Tierra Struggle for Land Reform in Paraguay.”
Kelly Happe, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Communication and Women's Studies, University of Georgia. Dissertation: “Genomics and the Social Order: Rhetoric, Media, and the Case of Breast Cancer.”
Mark Harrison. Dissertation: “A Genealogy of the Extraterrestrial in American Culture.”
Lisa Keranen , Assistant Professor (tenure track), Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder. Dissertation: “The Rhetoric of Self-Defense: Rhetoric, Politics, and Personae in the Bernard Fisher Breast Cancer Controversy.”
Allen R. Larson, Lecturer, Assistant Professor of Communication (tenure track), Pennsylvania State University, New Kensington (offer). Dissertation: “Alienated Affections: Stardom, Work, and Identity in United States Twentieth-Century Culture.”
Junya Morooka, Assistant Professor of English, Kanda University of International Studies. Dissertation: “The Rhetoric of the Foreign Worker Problem in Contemporary Japan.”
Jessica Mudry, Assistant Professor, General Studies Unit, Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal. Dissertation: “An Appetite for Numbers: Quality, Quantity and American Food.”
Marcus Paroske, Director of Debate, Temple University, Philadelphia. “The Rhetoric of the AIDS Policy in South Africa.”
Marc Porrovecchio, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Oregon State University, “F.C.S. Schiller and the Style of Pragmatic Humanism.”
Michelle Rodino, Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in the College of Communications, Deparment of Film/Video and Media, Penn State University. Dissertation: “Anytime, Anywhere: Technomadic Work and Gender in the New Economy.”
Dawn M. Schmitz, Council on Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dissertation: "The Humble Handmaid of Commerce: Chromolithographic Advertising and the Development of Consumer Culture, 1876-1900."
Maxwell Schnurer, Lecturer and Debate Coach, Marist College , Poughkeepsie, NY. Dissertation: “Conscious Rebellion: A Rhetorical Analysis of Political Cross-Fertilization in the Animal Rights Movement.”
Michelle R. Silva, Assistant Professor of Communications (tenure track), Saginaw Valley State University. Dissertation: "Digital Alchemy: Matter and Metamorphosis in Contemporary Digital Animation and Interface Design."
Karen Taylor, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Communication, Tulane University, New Orleans. Dissertation: “Identifying the Traitor Among Us: The Rhetoric of Espionage & Secrecy.”
Vanda Thorne. Instructor, New York University Study Abroad Program. Dissertation: "Ideologies and Realities of the Masses in Communist Czechoslovakia."
Ron von Burg, Assistant Professor, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia. Dissertation: “The Cinematic Turn in Public Discussions of Science.”
