Placement of 2002–2009 Doctoral Degree Recipients
Kevin J. Ayotte, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Communication, California State University, Fresno, California. Dissertation: “The Rhetoric of Terror: The Threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction in American Foreign Policy Discourse.”
Thomas W. Baggerman, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Communication, Capital University, Columbus OH. Dissertation: “Structurally Unsound: The Changing State of Local Television.”
Mickey Bannon, Lecturer, Communication, University of Pittsburgh. Dissertation: “The Battle of Deer Creek Crossing: A Case Study of Rhetorical Exigence and Environmental Controversy.”
Michael Barberich, Visiting Assistant Professor, 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."
Alessandra Beasley, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Communication, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Dissertation: "Caught Between History and Imagination: The Arguments for Post-National European Union Citizenship.
Peter K. Bsumek, Assistant Professor (tenure track), 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.”
Guillermo Caliendo, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Communication Studies, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY. Dissertation: “Mediated Memory: Political Assassinations & the Dialectics of Social Recollection.”
Nathan Crick, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Communication, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Dissertation: "John Dewey on the Art of Communication."
Hugh Curnutt, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Communication Studies, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey. Dissertation: "Remodeling TV Talent: Participation and Performance in MTV's Real World Franchise."
Robert Danisch, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Communication, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Dissertation: "Making an American Democracy: Pragmatism and the Necessity of Rhetoric.”
Aimee-Marie Dorsten, Assistant Professor, Communication, Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Dissertation: “Keep It Private! Economy of Digital Media Innovation in Developing Countries.”
Christine Feldman, Lecturer, Communication, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire. Dissertation: "We Are The Mods: Transnational History of a Youth Subculture."
Jennifer Friedlander, Edgar E. and Elizabeth S. Pankey Professor of Media Studies and Assistant Professor of Art and Art History (tenure track), Pomona College, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California. Dissertation: “Moving Images: Film, Photography & Spectatorship.”
Zachary Furness, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Cultural Studies, Columbia College. Dissertation: “‘Put the Fun Between Your Legs!’: The Politics and Counterculture of the Bicycle.”
John Gillette, Assistant Professor, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA.Dissertation: “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.”
Lisa Keranen, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Communication, University of Colorado-Denver. Dissertation: “The Rhetoric of Self-Defense: Rhetoric, Politics, and Personae in the Bernard Fisher Breast Cancer Controversy.”
Deepa Kumar, Assistant Profressor (tenure track), Media Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway, New Jersey. Dissertation: "Media, Class and Democracy: Framing the UPS Strike."
Allen R. Larson, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Communication, Pennsylvania State University, New Kensington. Dissertation: “Alienated Affections: Stardom, Work, and Identity in United States Twentieth-Century Culture.”
Erika Molloseau, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Communication, Denison University. Dissertation: Exhibiting Racism: The Cultural Politics of Lynching Photography Re-Presentations.
Junya Morooka, Assistant Professor (tenure track), 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, Assistant Professor and Director of Debate (tenure track), Communication, University of Michigan-Flint, Flint, Michigan. Dissertation: “The Rhetoric of the AIDS Policy in South Africa.”
Damien Pfister, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Communication Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska. Dissertation: "Toward a Grammar of the Blogosphere: Rhetoric and Attention in the Networked Imaginary."
Marc Porrovecchio, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Speech Communication, Oregon State University, Corvalis, Oregon. Dissertation: “F.C.S. Schiller and the Style of Pragmatic Humanism.”
Ian Reyes, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Communication Studies, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island. Dissertation: "Sound, Technology, and Interpretation in Subcultures of Heavy Music Production."
Michelle Rodino, Assistant Professor (tenure-track), 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, Associate Professor (tenured), Communication, Humboldt State University, Humboldt, California. Dissertation: “Conscious Rebellion: A Rhetorical Analysis of Political Cross-Fertilization in the Animal Rights Movement.”
Michelle R. Silva, Lecturer, Communication, University of Michigan-Flint, Flint, Michigan. "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 (tenure track), Communication Studies, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia.Dissertation: “The Cinematic Turn in Public Discussions of Science.”
Weiming Yao, Visiting Assistant Professor, Communication, University of Pittsburgh. Dissertation: "Falun Gong Rhetoric and Chinese Religious Traditions."
