Alumni
Our alumni continue to lead the way in research and teaching in the field of Communication and Culture. The following is a partial list of Ph.D. alumni, organized by last name, that includes e-mail contact information.
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Michela Ardizzoni (University of Louisville):
Global media, gender, race, television, diasporas, postcolonial cinema, Italian media
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Eugenia Badger (Indiana University-Purdue University, Columbus): Intercultural studies, language, metaphor
Courtney Bailey (Allegheny College): The intersection of rhetoric, feminism, and cultural/media studies, with an interest in the meaning of discussions of visual rhetoric
Jeff Bennett (University of North Texas): the intersection of rhetoric and cultural studies, queer theory, social movements, stigmatized bodies, blood donor deferral policies leveled against men who have sex with other men
C
James Cherney (Miami University of Ohio): Ableism and the rhetorical institutions that propagate and sustain it
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Suzanne Enck-Wanzer (Eastern Illinois University): Domestic violence as it is portrayed in and understood through Hollywood movies and popular news accounts, the congressional debates about the Violence Against Women Act
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Richard Falvo (Creighton University): Compliance-gaining in intimate relationships, cellular communication in Japan, communication apprehension; how course content and structure may affect learning outcomes in the Basic Communication course
Bryan Fisher (Francis Marion University): The instruction of public speaking
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Vikki Godwin (New England College): Wicca, Neo-Paganism, media, and science fiction fandom
Stephanie Huston Grey (Michigan State University): The formation and maintenance of expert cultures, metaphors defining the human body, and the constitutive nature of institutional communities
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Teresa Heinz (Hope College): Representations of homelessness in contemporary American newspapers; media, cultural studies, society, politics of housing and homelessness, alternative media, newspapers sold by the homeless, the back-to-the-land movement
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Jon Kraszewski (Texas Christian University): Television history, cultural analysis of media industries, the construction of authorship, theories of race
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George F. LaMaster (Marian College): Contemporary religious rhetoric
Larry Lambert (Indiana University, South Bend): Rhetoric and early nineteenth-century American public address
Camille Lewis (Bob Jones University): Bob Jones University and the romantic rhetoric of separation
Sharoni Little (University of Southern California): Victimage rhetoric and the 1922 Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill
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Irwin Mallin (Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne): Legal communication, organizational communication, argumentation, scholarship of teaching and learning
Matthew McGarrity (University of Washington): Education, public deliberation, argumentation, critical pedagogy, and civic engagement
Viola Milton (University of Pretoria, South Africa): The role of popular media representations in influencing broader public perceptions of social problems
David Moscowitz (Wabash College): Rhetorical examinations of popular culture and Jewish identity
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Stephen Olbrys (University of Massachusetts, Amherst): Combines performance studies, folklore, and rhetorical theory to study the Salem Witch Trials
Randy Osborn (University of Nevada): The rhetorical construction of racial and regional identity
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Alena Amato Ruggerio (Southern Oregon University): The intersection of rhetoric, feminism, and religion
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Daniel F. Schowalter (Rowan University): The intersections of rhetoric, visuality, history, and the popular imagination, with special interest in rhetorics of documentary imagery
Kristina Sheeler (Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis): Rhetorical theory and criticism, women’s public discourse, political communication, public address
Jamie Skerski (College of St. Catherine): Images of gender and sexuality with rhetorical perspectives on subjectivity and identity, with a consideration of the implications for discursive agency
Jacob Smith: Media performance, recorded sound, media history
Kristin Sorensen (Bentley College): Media globalization, discourses of human rights and the environment, Latin America
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Helen Tate (Columbia College): Rhetorical theory and criticism with an emphasis on feminism's many waves and incarnations
Drew Todd (San Jose State University): Dandyism and the construction of masculinity in popular culture, the relationship between the modern arts and cinema, crime films, the Bengali director Satyajit Ray, the functions of art deco design in classical Hollywood productions
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