Alumni & Past Dissertations

2024:

braegger, victoria l. Playing With(out) Golden Hands: The Intersections of Video Game Controllers and Gamer Identity. [Committee: Samantha Blackmon (chair), Michael Salvo, Patricia Sullivan, Kishonna Gray]. Assistant Professor of English and Technical Communication, Missouri University of Science and Technology.

Colón, Garrett Iván. En el Centro, on the Fringes of Belonging: Lessons from the Everyday Agents of Literacy in a University Partnership Between the United States and Colombia. [Committee: Harry Denny (chair), Jenny Bay, Angelica Duran, Bradley Dilger]. Web designer, College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University. 

Hall, Kailyn Shartel. GTA Preparation as Mentoring and Professional Development in Master's Programs in English and Writing Studies. [Committee: Bradley Dilger (chair), Janet Alsup, Harry Denny, Heidi Estrem]. Assistant Professor of English, University of Tennessee—Martin. 

Yerace, Marisa. Mentoring, Advocacy, Resilience: Investigating Strategies of Agility by Writing Program Administrators. [Committee: Bradley Dilger (chair), Dànielle DeVoss, Harry Denny, Nancy Rasche]. Assistant Professor of English Composition and Rhetoric, Weber State University.

2023:

Chen, Jianfen. Who Can We Listen to Amidst the Uncertainties and Risks of the Covid-19 Pandemic? A Comparative Study of Public Rhetorics of Two Influential Public Health Experts from China and the United States . [Committee: Richard Johnson-Sheehan (chair) Bradley Dilger, Jennifer Bay, Sweta Baniya]. Assistant Professor of Technical Communication, Towson University.

Gellis, Eliza. Encounters with the Divine in the Hebrew Bible. [Committee: Thomas Rickert (chair), Jennifer Bay, Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Steven B. Katz]. Consulting Program Senior Associate at TAMID Group. 

Pellegrini, Mason. Writing, Activity, and Genre Research in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: The Contrasting Strategies of Microenterprise and High-Growth Entrepreneurs. [Committee: Richard Johnson-Sheehan (chair), Jennifer Bay, Bradley Dilger, Clay Spinuzzi]. Assistant Professor of Technical Communication and Rhetoric, Texas Tech University. 

Wang, Isaac K. Weaving Centers of Resistance: Towards an Indigenized Writing Center Pedagogy . [Committee: Harry Denny (chair) Irwin Weiser, Jennifer Bay, Bradley Dilger, Patricia Sullivan, Georgeanne Nordstrom]. Assistant Professor of English, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. 

Weech, Shelton. The Rhetorics and Networks of Climate Change. [Committee: Bradley Dilger (chair), Jennifer Bay, Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Denise Tillery]. Assistant Professor of Technical Communication and Rhetoric, Utah Valley University. 

2022: 

Broughton, Kimberly N. Exploring Kinship Systems: The Retention of Black Undergraduate Students at HBCUs. [Committee: Thomas Rickert (chair), Jennifer Bay, Marlo. D David, Rosusan D. Bartee]. UX Writer, Vanguard. 

Geib, Elizabeth. Methodological Grand Narratives of Community Writing Projects: Accessing Sustainability and Reciprocity Through Qualitative Meta Analysis. [Committee: Harry Denny (chair) Jennifer Bay, Bradley Dilger, Patricia Sullivan]. Assistant Professor, Director of SRU Writing Center, Slippery Rock University

Hobza, Mitchell C. Resonant Reflection: Cultivating Empathetic Dispositions in Writing Centers. [Committee: Harry Denny (chair), Jennifer Bay, Bradley Dilger, Tony Silva, Lisa Blankenship]. Senior Program Manager for Distinguished Graduate Fellowships, Arizona State University

Jennings, Caroline. Expertise and Embodied Writing in Medical Writing Curricula. [Committee: Richard Johnson-Sheehan (chair), Thomas J. Rickert, Elizabeth L. Angeli, Irwin Weiser). Medical and Technical Writer/Editor, Tipton Health Communications. 

McCormick, Dee. Persuasive Substances: Transdisciplinary Rhetorics of Drugs and Recovery in the Rise and Decline of Psychedelic Therapy. [Committee: Thomas Rickert (chair), Jennifer Bay, Patricia Sullivan, Harry Denny, Karen Kopelson]. Limited Term English Lecturer, Purdue University. 

Murphy, Ryan Michael, Doctoral Examinations as Curricular Infrastructure: An Institutional Ethnography. [Committee: Michael J. Salvo (chair), Jennifer Bay, Thomas J. Rickert, Irwin Weiser]. Assistant Professor of Business Communication, California State University Channel Islands.

2021:

Joseph Forte. Civic online reasoning in first-year composition. [Committee: Irwin Weiser (chair), Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Tara Ginther, Bradley Dilger]. Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University.

Lee Hibbard. Preserving play: Archival practice in queer game studies. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Samantha Blackmon, Bradley Dilger, Bo Ruberg]. Marrion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Eugie Ruiz. The Rhetoric of Everyday-Entrepreneurship: Reframing Entrepreneurial Identity & Citizenship [Committee: Thomas Rickert (chair), Bradley Dilger, Patricia Sullivan, Liza Potts].

Rebekah Sims. Investigating culturally responsive teaching practices in first-year composition. [Committee: Bradley Dilger (chair), Nush Powell, Tara Johnson, Irwin Weiser]. Lecturer, University of Stratchclyde.

Derek Sherman. Cultures of writing: The state of transfer at regional state comprehensive universities. [Committee: Bradley Dilger (chair), Irwin Weiser, Jessie Moore (Elon University), Patricia Sullivan]. Assistant Professor, University of Findlay.

Allegra Smith. Digital age: A study of older adults’ user experiences with technology. [Committee: Bradley Dilger (chair), Patricia Sullivan, Liza Potts, Michael Salvo (Michigan State)]. Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech. 

2020:

Sweta Baniya. Comparative study of networked communities, crisis communication, and technology: Rhetoric of disaster in the Nepal earthquake and Hurricane Maria. [Committee: Richard Johnson-Sheehan (chair), Thomas Rickert, Jennifer Bay, Seungyoon Lee]. Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech University.

Tony Bushner. Hobbyist board game design practices: How do board game designers craft their rules manuals and solicit user feedback on prototype games? [Committee: Michael Salvo (chair), Bradley Dilger, Samantha Blackmon, Michael Trice]. Lecturer & Advisor, Digital Studies Institute, University of Michigan.

Daniel Ernst. The android english teacher: Writing education in the age of automation. [Committee: Irwin Weiser (chair), April Ginther, Bradley Dilger, Harry Denny]. Assistant Professor, Texas Women's University. 

Alisha Karabinus. We are building histories: Game studies and rhetorical metrics. [Committee: Irwin Weiser (co-chair), Samantha Blackmon (co-chair), Patricia Sullivan, Thomas Rickert, Bradley Dilger]. Assistant Professor, Grand Valley State University.

Lindsey Macdonald. The right to health: A rhetorical assemblage of mental health advocacy and legislation. [Committee: Richard Johnson-Sheehan (chair), Jennifer Bay, Michael Salvo, Elizabeth Angeli]. Writer/Editor for Purdue Mechanical Engineering and Energetics Research Center. 

Trinity Overmyer. The rhetorics of data: Insight and knowledge-making at a national science laboratory. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Michael Salvo, Jennifer Bay, Benjamin Sims]. Program Lead, Knowledge Management, Los Alamos National Labratory. 

2019:

Erin Brock Carlson. ”There is wealth in the struggle”: Unearthing and embracing community knowledges through organizing work in Appalachia. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Jennifer Bay, Michael Salvo, Samantha Blackmon, W. Michele Simmons]. Assistant Professor, West Virginia University.

Carrie Grant. Activist technical communication at girls’ technology camps: Building girls’ confidence in digital literacies. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Jennifer Bay, Samantha Blackmon, Michael Salvo]. Assistant Professor, Towson University.

Patrick Love. Online education, circulation, and information economies of the future. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Thomas Rickert, Samantha Blackmon, Peter Fadde]. Assistant Professor, Monmouth University.

Michelle McMullin. Crafting new materialist research frameworks for collaborative response. [Committee: Bradley Dilger (chair), Patricia Sullivan, Thomas Rickert, Blake Scott]. Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University.

John Sherrill. DIY feminism in post-industrial spaces. [Committee: Michael Salvo (chair), Samantha Blackmon, Bradley Dilger, Kristin Arola]. Assistant Professor, Qatar University.

Beth Towle. ”It depends on who you talk to”: Mapping writing center-writing program relationships at small liberal arts colleges. [Committee: Harry Denny (chair), Bradley Dilger, Irwin Weiser, Jackie Grutsch McKinney]. Assistant Professor and Associate Writing Center Director, Salisbury University.

2018:

Amelia Chesley. Conventions of the commons: Technical communication and crowdsourced digital publishing. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Jennifer Bay, Michael Salvo, Richard Johnson-Sheehan]. Assistant Professor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Sherri Craig. On the front line: Locating mentorship in the composition practicum. [Committee: Bradley Dilger (chair), Jennifer Bay, Thomas Rickert, Irwin Weiser]. Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech. 

Samuel Dunn. Pathology or neurodiversity?: Cognitive accessibility and the rhetorical construction of ADHD in higher education. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Samantha Blackmon, Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Michael Salvo]. Assistant Teaching Professor, Brigham Young University.

Jeff Gerding. Advocating for users, engaging citizens: Analyzing the rhetoric of civic engagement in the digital services movement. [Committee: Michael Salvo (chair), Harry Denny, Bradley Dilger, Patricia Sullivan]. Assistant Professor, Xavier University.

Talisha Haltiwanger Morrison. Nooses and balancing acts: Reflections and advice on racism and antiracism from Black writing tutors at predominantly white institutions. [Committee: Harry Denny (chair), Samantha Blackmon, Bradley Dilger, Michele Eodice]. Director of the OU Writing Center, Director of the Edith Kinney Gaylord Expository Writing Program, Assistant Professor of Writing, affiliate faculty in the OU English Department, University of Oklahoma.

Daniel Liddle. Beyond animation: Toward a rhetoric of motion design for technical and professional writing. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Samantha Blackmon, Thomas Rickert, Michael Salvo]. Assistant Professor, Western Kentucky University.

Erin Cromer Twal. Excavating rhetoric’s place in Petra: Cultivating public memory through material culture. [Committee: Thomas Rickert (chair), Jennifer Bay, Richard Enos, Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Patricia Sullivan]. User Experience Researcher at Amazon. 

2017:

Tyler Carter. The rhetorics of Vipassanā meditation. [Committee: Thomas Rickert (chair), Jennifer Bay, Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Patricia Sullivan]. Assistant Professor, Duke Kunshan University.

Dan Kenzie. Defining injury, managing uncertainty: Articulating definitions of traumatic brain injury. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Bradley Dilger, Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Lisa Meloncon, Irwin Weiser]. Assistant Professor of Pharmacy, North Dakota State University.

Elizabeth T. Lane. From silence to impact: Analyzing women rhetors and activist discourse in networked spaces. [Committee: Jennifer Bay (chair), Harry Denny, Bradley Dilger, Patricia Sullivan]. Associate Professor, Coordinator of Writing, University of Memphis.

Nicholas Marino. Muscular articulations: Towards a theorization of the interaction between rhetoric and physical fitness. [Committee: Harry Denny (co-chair), Richard Johnson-Sheehan (co-chair), Jennifer Bay, Tracey Jean Boisseau]. Lecturer, Trinity College.

Mary McCall. "It takes a certain kind of girl to be in engineering": The rhetorical construction of undergraduate women's engineering identities. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Jennifer Bay, Bradley Dilger, Alice Pawley]. Public Relations Specialist and Marketing Analyst, IRONCLAD Marketing

Kathryn Yankura Swacha. ”I could probably live to be 100": A rhetorical analysis of aging and public health. [Committee: Jennifer Bay (chair), Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Thomas Rickert, Patricia Sullivan]. Assistant Professor, University of Maine.

2016:

Charlotte Hyde. Silent dissent: The effect of structural secrecy on professional communication at NASA. [Committee: Michael Salvo (chair), Jennifer Bay, Samantha Blackmon, Patricia Sullivan]. Assistant Professor, Kansas State University. In memoriam. 

Emily Legg. Listening to our stories in dusty boxes: Indigenous storytelling methodology, archival practice, and the Cherokee Female Seminary. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Jennifer Bay, Samantha Blackmon, Thomas Rickert]. Assistant Professor, Miami University.

Christine Masters-Wheeler. Encounters beyond the interface: Data structures, material feminisms, and composition. [Committee: Jennifer Bay (chair), Samantha Blackmon, Thomas Rickert, Patricia Sullivan]. Assistant Professor and Professional Writing Program Coordinator, Francis Marion University.

Gracemarie Mike Fillenwarth. Rhetoric and feminism in the Americanization Era: The YWCA's rhetorical education program for immigrant women. [Committee: Jennifer Bay (chair), Janet Alsup, Tony Silva, Patricia Sullivan]. Assistant Professor, Rowan University.

Stacy (Nall) Dean. Decentering the writing program archive: How composition instructors save and share their teaching materials. [Committee: Jennifer Bay (chair), Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Shirley Rose, Patricia Sullivan, Irwin Weiser]. Assistant Professor and Director of University Writing Services, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota.

Luke Redington. Methodology on trial: The rhetorical function of Toulminian warrants in expert testimony. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Jennifer Bay, Mark Hannah, Thomas Rickert]. Assistant Teaching Professor and Writing Center Director, Gordon College.

Enrique Reynoso, Jr. Pick yourself up by your broadband: Access, the digital divide, and migrant workers. [Committee: Samantha Blackmon (chair), Thomas Rickert, Michael Salvo, Patricia Sullivan]. Lecturer, University of Washington-Bothell.

Fernando Sanchez. Technical communication in place-making professions: Exploring the network pictures of urban designers. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Jennifer Bay, Bradley Dilger, Michael Salvo]. Assistant Professor, University of St. Thomas.

Ellery Sills. Emerging genres, dangerous classifications: The kairos of digital composing policy. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Jennifer Bay, Samantha Blackmon, Thomas Rickert]. Assistant Professor, Minnesota State University-Moorhead.

Adam Strantz. Wayfinding localized research practices through mobile technology. [Committee: Michael Salvo (chair), Jennifer Bay, Samantha Blackmon, Patricia Sullivan]. Assistant Professor, Miami University.

Kyle Vealey. Storytelling failure in the Vale of Leven: How a bacterial outbreak became a wicked problem. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Samantha Blackmon, Thomas Rickert, Michael Salvo]. Assistant Professor, West Chester University.

Jonathan Wallin. An ecology of place in composition studies. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Jennifer Bay, Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Thomas Rickert]. Director of Institutional Effectiveness, Southern Virginia University.

2015:

Fredrik DeBoer. The CLA+ and the two cultures: Writing assessment and educational testing. [Committee: Richard Johnson-Sheehan (chair), Janet Alsup, Bradley Dilger, April Ginther]. Author, The Cult of Smart.

Cody Reimer. Big data-fueled design: Rapid iteration and constructing compelling systems. [Committee: Samantha Blackmon (chair), Nathan Johnson, Michael Salvo, Patricia Sullivan]. Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Stout.

Don Unger. What peer-to-peer networks teach us about institutional service. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Jennifer Bay, Samantha Blackmon, Michele Simmons]. Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi.

2014:

Tristan Abbott. Writing, politics, and agnotology: Maintaining the institutional viability of composition studies in an age of reform. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Jennifer Bay, Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Nathan Johnson]. Writing Center Director & Assistant Professor, Morgan State University.

Zachery Koppelmann. Understanding the rhetorical engineer. [Committee: Richard Johnson-Sheehan (chair), Jennifer Bay, Jim Jones, Irwin Weiser]. Assistant Professor and Writing Center Director, Wabash College.

Alexandra Layne. Policies, women, and procedural ethics: Obscured presences in meritocratic technological environments. [Committee: Samantha Blackmon (chair), Jennifer Bay, Michael Salvo, Patricia Sullivan]. Associate Professor, Metropolitan State University.

Patricia Poblete. Administration, situation, and scholarship: A posthuman examination of writing program administrators. [Committee: Thomas Rickert (chair), Jennifer Bay, Samantha Blackmon, Patricia Sullivan]. Assistant Professor and Writing Program Administrator, Henderson State University.

Justin Rademaekers. Rhetoric for the disciplines: A theory of writing and language instruction for students of interdisciplinary and applied sciences. [Committee: Richard Johnson-Sheehan (chair), Jennifer Bay, Leigh Raymond, Patricia Sullivan]. Associate Professor and Writing Across the Curriculum Director, West Chester University.

Katie Taylor. Attuned advocacy: Rhetorics of engagement in urban Appalachia. [Committee: Thomas Rickert (chair), Jennifer Bay, Kendall Leon, Patricia Sullivan]. CEO, Untold Content.

2013:

Jessica Clements. The new face of ethos: Assembling students' ethical competencies. [Committee: Samantha Blackmon (chair), Jennifer Bay, Thomas Rickert, Patricia Sullivan]. Associate Professor, Whitworth University.

Jeremy Cushman. Selling a $600 piece of paper: Rhetorical action in an automotive repair shop. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Jennifer Bay, Samantha Blackmon, Thomas Rickert, Michael Salvo]. Associate Professor, Western Washington University.

C. Jo Doran. Engaging (in) the university: Researching L2 graduate students' academic discourse needs through affect literacy. [Committee: Tony Silva (co-chair), Thomas Rickert (co-chair), Margie Berns, Z. Z. Lehmberg].

Alexandra Hidalgo. Lifers, casual offenders, and remixers: Bringing together rhetoric and feminist film and video production. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Jennifer Bay, Samantha Blackmon, Peter Fadde]. Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Documentary Laboratory for Creative Non-Fiction Film, Michigan State University.

Laurie Pinkert. [In]visible writing programs: The infrastructure of graduate writing across and within the disciplines. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Linda Bergmann, Samantha Blackmon, Thomas Rickert]. Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs, University of Central Florida.

Adam Pope. Programmatically-centered design: An integrated approach to LMS design and curation. [Committee: Michael Salvo (chair), Jennifer Bay, Nathan Johnson, Patricia Sullivan]. Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas.

Ethan Sproat. Inexorable burden: Rhetoric and togetherness. [Committee: Thomas Rickert (chair), Jennifer Bay, Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Patricia Sullivan]. Director of Proposal Development, Utah Valley University.

2012:

Elizabeth Angeli. Networks of communication in emergency medical services. [Committee: Richard Johnson-Sheehan (chair), Linda Bergmann, Stephen Bernhardt, Patricia Sullivan]. Associate Professor, Marquette University.

Jeff Bacha. Organizational structures, usability studies, and story telling: Rhetorically (re)examining the user's role in product development. [Committee: Michael Salvo (chair), David Blakesley, Thomas Rickert, Patricia Sullivan]. Associate Professor and Director of English Internship Program, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Cristyn Elder. ”Dear OWL Mail”: Reshaping our stories about writers and writers’ concerns. [Committee: Irwin Weiser (chair), Linda Bergmann, Samantha Blackmon, April Ginther, Patricia Sullivan]. Associate Professor, Director of Rhetoric and Writing, and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum, University of New Mexico.

Kristen Moore. Rhetoric, interrupted: Public engagement practices and policy work. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Jennifer Bay, Samantha Blackmon, Michael Salvo, Michele Simmons]. Associate Professor, University at Buffalo.

Margaret Morris. That third hybrid thing: Locating a disciplinary view of collaboration and a conceptual model for exigency-based collaboration research. [Committee: Linda Bergmann (co-chair), Shirley Rose (co-chair), Thomas Rickert, Irwin Weiser]. Assistant Professor, Michigan State University.

Ehren Pflugfelder. In measure of the world: Advancing a kinaesthetic rhetoric. [Committee: Michael Salvo (chair), Jennifer Bay, Thomas Rickert, Patricia Sullivan]. Associate Professor, Oregon State University.

Josh Prenosil. A proposal for a non-modern rhetoric of social movements. [Committee: Richard Johnson-Sheehan (chair), Jennifer Bay, Thomas Rickert, John Schilb]. Assistant Professor, Creighton University.

Meg Schoen. Rhetoric of the thirstland: Discourse and democracy in Botswana. [Committee: Richard Johnson-Sheehan (chair), Thomas Rickert, Patricia Sullivan, Irwin Weiser]. Associate Professor and Director of First-Year Writing, Oakland University.

Mark Sidey. WPAs and adjuncts: What we can learn from social identity & expertise theories. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Samantha Blackmon, Stuart Blythe, Richard Johnson-Sheehan]. Continuing Lecturer, Purdue University Fort Wayne.

Jennifer Talbot. Re-articulating postprocess: Affect, neuroscience, and institutional discourse. [Committee: Thomas Rickert (chair), Jennifer Bay, Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Patricia Sullivan, Irwin Weiser]. Associate Professor, University of Central Arkansas.

2011:

Mark Hannah. Theorizing a rhetoric of connectivity. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Jennifer Bay, Thomas Rickert, Michael Salvo, Irwin Weiser]. Associate Professor, Arizona State University.

Karen Kaiser Lee. From telling to transforming: Rhetorical invention and the genre of the research paper. [Committee: Richard Johnson-Sheehan (chair), Jennifer Bay, Linda Bergmann, Patricia Sullivan]. Assistant Professor, Saint Xavier University.

Mark Pepper. Redefining the popular: Systems, networks, and the circulation of digital desire. [Committee: Thomas Rickert (chair), Jennifer Bay, Samantha Blackmon, David Blakesley]. Associate Professor, Utah Valley University.

Morgan Reitmeyer. From glass flowers to computer games: Examining the emergent media practices of plant biologists. [Committee: Linda Bergmann (chair), Samantha Blackmon, Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Michael Salvo]. Independent Consultant.

Christina Saidy. Civics lessons: Rhetorics for citizenship in the public and academic spheres. [Committee: Thomas Rickert (chair), Samantha Blackmon, Patricia Sullivan, Irwin Weiser]. Associate Professor, Arizona State University.

Lars Soderlund. Catalyzing persuasion: Toward a theory of kairos and repetition. [Committee: Thomas Rickert (chair), Samantha Blackmon, Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Dan Smith, Patricia Sullivan]. Associate Professor, Western Oregon University.

Tom Sura. “Is this on Google?”: Toward a theory and pedagogy of digital archives for composition teachers. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Samantha Blackmon, Shirley Rose, Irwin Weiser]. Associate Professor, West Virginia University.

2010:

Allen Brizee. College-community partnerships: Designing a sustainable and participatory literacy program. [Committee: Linda Bergmann (chair), Patricia Sullivan, Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Tony Silva]. Associate Professor and Faculty Director for Community-Engaged Learning and Scholarship, Loyola University Maryland.

Jenniemarie Calcamuggio. Public intellectual as rhetor: Employing epideictic rhetoric, ethos, and technology to open spaces, promote participation, and encourage action. [Committee: Richard Johnson-Sheehan (chair), Patricia Sullivan, Thomas Rickert, Jennifer Bay].

Danielle Cordaro. How student data matters in writing program administration. [Committee: Linda Bergmann (chair), Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Irwin Weiser, April Ginther]. Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Faculty Development, University of Mount Union.

Joy Santee. Inter-institutional collaboration and the composition of cartographic texts: Mapping the Underground Railroad bicycle route. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Michael Salvo, Thomas Rickert, Richard Johnson-Sheehan]. Assistant Professor, University of Southern Indiana.

Karen Schiler. A movable ethos: How ethics and rhetoric can imagine and invite new publics. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Samantha Blackmon, David Blakesley]. Department Chair of English and Modern Languages, Oklahoma City University.

Jaclyn Wells. Online writing labs as sites for community engagement. [Committee: Linda Bergmann (chair), Shirley Rose, Patricia Sullivan, Irwin Weiser]. Associate Professor and Writing Center Director, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

2009:

Dana Driscoll. Pedagogy of transfer: Impacts of student and instructor attitudes. [Committee: Linda Bergmann (chair), Anne Beaufort, Shirley Rose, Irwin Weiser]. Professor and Writing Center Director, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Kristine Johnson. Meeting when he asks to be met: Public religious discourse in the "Catholic Worker". [Committee: Irwin Weiser (chair), Patricia Sullivan, Jennifer Bay, Thomas Ryba, Richard Johnson-Sheehan]. Associate Professor, Calvin University.

Megan Morton. Deliberative rhetoric and colonial identity in New England, 1632-1646: Miantonomi, Roger Williams, Samuel Gorton, and Edward Winslow. [Committee: Linda Bergmann (co-chair), Kristina Bross (co-chair), Ryan Schneider, Patricia Sullivan]. Assistant Professor, Geneva College.

Nathaniel Rivers. Cultivating rhetorics: Exploring and exploiting the emergent boundaries of nature and culture. [Committee: Thomas Rickert (chair), Samantha Blackmon, David Blakesley, Patricia Sullivan]. Associate Professor, Saint Louis University.

Marc Santos. Toward another rhetoric: Web 2.0, Levinas, and taking responsibility for response ability. [Committee: David Blakesley (chair), Patricia Sullivan, Jennifer Bay, Thomas Rickert]. Assistant Professor, University of Northern Colorado.

Morgan [Sousa] Dennis. Mapping usability: A critical research analysis of trends in software usability research, theory, and practice. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), David Blakesley, Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Thomas Rickert]. Clinical Engagement Strategist, Ontada.

Jeremy Tirrell. Mapping a geographical history of digital technology in rhetoric and composition. [Committee: David Blakesley (chair), Patricia Sullivan, Thomas Rickert, Michael Salvo]. Associate Professor, University of North Carolina Wilmington.

Ryan Weber. Ironically we dwell. [Committee: Thomas Rickert (chair), Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Jennifer Bay, David Blakesley]. Associate Professor, University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Jessica Woodruff. Agnostics, skeptics, and believers: Writing teachers' perspectives on student-centered teaching. [Committee: Shirley Rose (chair), Samantha Blackmon, Linda Bergmann, Irwin Weiser, Janet Alsup]. Associate Professor, Ivy Tech Community College.

2008:

Jennifer Consilio. Attitudes of African American vernacular speakers towards technology. [Committee: Samantha Blackmon (co-chair), Irwin Weiser (co-chair), Shirley Rose, Patricia Sullivan]. Professor and Writing Center Director, Lewis University.

Timothy Krause. Strategic Web design: Practice and peril in user-centered Web design. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Jennifer Bay, David Blakesley, Michael Salvo]. Professor and Department Chair, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

Maria Lombard. Professional writing, technology, and the rhizomatic transmission of knowledge. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), David Blakesley, Samantha Blackmon, Thomas Rickert]. Assistant Professor, Northwestern University in Qatar.

Paul Lynch. Entertaining moralities: Casuistry and the teaching of writing. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), David Blakesley, Richard Johnson-Sheehan, Thomas Rickert, Irwin Weiser]. Associate Professor, Saint Louis University.

Alexis Ramsey-Tobienne. [ad]dressing the past: a critical methodology for archival research in rhetoric and composition. [Committee: Shirley Rose (chair), Susan Curtis, Jennifer Bay, Thomas Rickert]. Associate Professor, Eckerd College.

Jingfang Ren. Sustaining webs of connections: A qualitative meta-analysis of research in professional writing (1970-2006). [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), David Blakesley, Irwin Weiser, Michael Salvo].

Kristen Seas [Trader]. Of a certain persuasion: Rhetoric, complexity, and the emergence of subjectivity. [Committee: Thomas Rickert (co-chair), Irwin Weiser (co-chair), Jennifer Bay, Patricia Sullivan]. Instructional Designer, Carroll University.

2007:

James Beasley. A prehistory of rhetoric and composition: New rhetoric and neo-Aristotelianism at the University of Chicago, 1947—1959. [Committee: David Blakesley (chair), Patricia Sullivan, Shirley Rose, Thomas Rickert]. Associate Professor, University of North Florida.

Geoffrey Carter. Rereading and rewriting bloc/ks: Teaching multi-modal literacies through an apprenticeship in proper names. [Committee: David Blakesley (chair), Jennifer Bay, Thomas Rickert, Daniel Smith]. Associate Professor, Saginaw Valley State University.

Huiling Ding. Rhetoric of a global epidemic: Intercultural and intracultural professional communication about SARS. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Michael Salvo, Thomas Rickert, David Blakesley]. Professor, North Carolina State University.

Debrah Huffman. Reading by the book: An examination of reading pedagogy in introductory composition textbooks. [Committee: Irwin Weiser (chair), Linda Bergmann, Shirley Rose, Janet Alsup]. Assistant Professor, Purdue University Fort Wayne.

Lisa McGrady. Writing together with technology: Technological literacy and collaboration in professional writing student teams. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Samantha Blackmon, David Blakesley, Shirley Rose]. Dean of Teaching and Learning, Olivet University.

Amy Ferdinandt Stolley. (Re)placing grammar in the composition classroom. [Committee: Irwin Weiser (chair), Shirley Rose, Linda Bergmann, Patricia Sullivan]. Associate Professor, Grand Valley State University.

Karl Stolley. An art of emergent visual rhetoric. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Petronio Bendito, Thomas Rickert, David Blakesley]. Associate Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology.

Barbara M. Whitehead. A rhetorical analysis of John Fowles's "Daniel Martin". [Committee: Shirley Rose (co-chair), Janice Lauer (co-chair), William Palmer, Irwin Weiser].

Linda K. Yost. Their silence set them apart: A study of international students in a mainstream composition class. [Committee: Irwin Weiser (co-chair), Tony Silva (co-chair), Margie Berns, Christina Biava].

2006:

D. Kate Agena. Process and power: Building strategies for technical communicators to effect organizational change. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), David Blakesley, Michael Salvo, Jennifer Bay]. IBM.

Sean Conrey. Coming to terms with place: Toward a phenomenological technique of rhetorical placemaking. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Thomas Rickert, David Blakesley, Daniel Smith]. Part Time Instructor and Associate Director of Project Advance program, Syracuse University.

Tarez Samra Graban. Towards a feminine ironic: Understanding irony in the oppositional discourse of women from the early modern and modern periods. [Committee: Victor Raskin (co-chair), Patricia Sullivan (co-chair), Linda Bergmann, Salvatore Attardo, Janice Lauer]. Associate Professor, Florida State University.

Lu, Liu. Understanding rhetorical traditions, rethinking writing pedagogies: A cross-national study of written argumentation instruction in secondary school textbooks. [Committee: Irwin Weiser (co-chair), Tony Silva (co-chair), Janet Alsup, Margie Berns, Andy Kirkpatrick].

Julie Staggers. Learning to love the bomb: Secrecy and denial in the atomic city, 1943—1961. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Michael Salvo, Stuart Blythe, David Blakesley]. Associate Professor, Washington State University.

Winner, James A. Berlin Award for Best Dissertation, Conference on College Composition and Communication

2005:

Colin Charlton. A pedagogical becoming: Alternatives to the rhetoric of "You don't know jack" in first-year composition. [Committee: David Blakesley (chair), Thomas Rickert, Shirley Rose, Jennifer Bay]. Professor and Department Chair, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

Jonikka Charlton. Explaining ourselves to others: A study of how WPAs argue for humanities-oriented composition programs in the "Corporate University". [Committee: Shirley Rose (chair), Jennifer Bay, Thomas Rickert, Irwin Weiser]. Associate Vice President for Student Academic Success & Dean of the University College, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

Jessica Clark. An investigation of the quantity and quality of collaboration in writing center tutorials. [Committee: Linda Bergmann (chair), Irwin Weiser, Shirley Rose, Patricia Sullivan, Janet Alsup]. Director, Huntington Learning Center.

Carlann Fox [Scholl]. Relationship-centered discourse for clinical medicine: A case study in medical rhetoric. [Committee: Irwin Weiser (chair), Shirley Rose, Thomas Rickert, David Blakesley].

Serkan Gorkemli. The globalization of digital technologies and LGBT identities: The Turkish collegiate lesbigay population's access to the Internet and the formation of lesbigay identities and communities in Turkey. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Margie Berns, Dino Felluga, Samantha Blackmon]. Associate Professor, University of Connecticut

Kelly Pender. Writing beyond the art/chance binary: The ongoing debate about techne in rhetoric and composition. [Committee: Janice Lauer (co-chair), David Blakesley (co-chair), Thomas Rickert, Irwin Weiser, Michael Carter]. Associate Professor, Virginia Tech University.

Michael Pennell. English in the "hurricane winds of change": Labor market intermediaries and literacy in two Indiana counties. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Samantha Blackmon, Thomas Rickert, David Blakesley]. Associate Professor, University of Kentucky.

Meredith Zoetewey [Johnson]. Mobile writing technologies and the dis/location of the computer classroom. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Samantha Blackmon, David Blakesley, Michael Salvo]. Professor, University of South Florida.

2004:

Jennifer Courtney. The rhetoric of domestic advice: Ethos and metaphor. [Committee: Irwin Weiser (chair), Shirley Rose, Thomas Rickert, Pat Sullivan]. Associate Professor, Rowan University.

Michael Kapper. Affect as epistemic source in a posthuman age. [Committee: David Blakesley (chair), Samantha Blackmon, Thomas Rickert, Irwin Weiser].

Erin Karper. "Ordinary people do this": A rhetorical case study of novice Web design. [Committee: David Blakesley (chair), Patricia Sullivan, Samantha Blackmon, Johndan Johnson Eilola]. Associate Professor, Niagara University.

Karen Kuralt. Collaborative literacy in the writing classroom: A theory of pedagogy. [Committee: Janice Lauer (co-chair), Shirley Rose (co-chair), Irwin Weiser, Patricia Sullivan]. Associate Professor, University of Arkansas Little Rock.

Jessie Moore [Kapper]. Mapping the geographies of second language writing. [Committee: Tony Silva (chair), Patricia Sullivan, Thomas Rickert, Paul Kei Matsuda].

Julia Romberger. The ecology of a digital environment: Using ecofeminist theory to understand Microsoft Word's rhetorical design. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Samantha Blackmon, Thomas Rickert, Irwin Weiser]. Associate Professor, Old Dominion University.

2003:

Matthew Abraham. The rhetoric of resistance and the resistance to theory: Controversial academic scholarship in the American public sphere. [Committee: Arkady Plotnitsky (chair), William McBride, Aparajita Sagar, Leonard Harris, Patricia Sullivan]. Professor, University of Arizona.

Nicole Brown. Constructing 'community' online: A discussion of metaphor, meaning, and rhetorical action. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Samantha Blackmon, Irwin Weiser, David Blakesley]. Assistant Professor, Western Washington University.

Kevin De Pew. The rhetorical process of digital subjectivities: Case studies of international teaching assistants negotiating identity with digital media. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Samantha Blackmon, Margie Berns, Tony Silva]. Associate Professor, Old Dominion University.

Christopher Gilliard. Sports, power, and the black body: Pedagogy and writing race. [Committee: Irwin Weiser (chair), Janice Lauer, Samantha Blackmon, Shirley Rose]. Professor, Macomb Community College.

Christine Norris. The rhetoric of cookbooks in eighteenth-century England. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Emily Allen, Shirley Rose, Patrocinio Schweickart]. Assistant Professor, University of South Alabama.

Bridget Fahey. Visual rhetoric, media, and rhetors: Creating spaces for deliberation. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), David Blakesley, Irwin Weiser, Anne Wysocki].

2002:

Robert Bergland. Downsizing and upgrading: A manufacturing firm's move to electronic distribution of documents. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), David Blakesley, Janice Lauer, Graham Smart]. Associate Professor, Northwest Missouri State University.

Karen Bishop-Morris. Documenting institutional identity: Strategic writing in the IUPUI comprehensive campaign. [Committee: Shirley Rose (chair), Irwin Weiser, Janice Lauer, Patricia Sullivan, Ulla Connor]. Associate Professor, Purdue University Northwest.

Teresa (Teddi) Fishman. Writing distance education: Select histories of distance education writing courses and their effects on ongoing distance education writing course pedagogy. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Irwin Weiser, Shirley Rose, Johndan Johnson Eilola]. Former Director, International Center for Academic Integrity.

Mary Gitzen. Face to face: Conferencing as ESL writing instruction. [Committee: Tony Silva (chair), Irwin Weiser, Linda Bergmann, Margie Berns].

Molly Flaherty Haas. A case study of grant proposal writing in a nonprofit workplace: Writing to keep families off the street. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Ulla Connor, Patricia Sullivan, David Blakesley].

Scott Jones. The role of electronic mail in workplace writing. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Janice Lauer, David Blakesley, Samantha Blackmon]. Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Lander University.

Karen Kopelson. Teaching trouble: Performativity and composition pedagogy—Composing connections. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Shirley Rose, Samantha Blackmon]. Associate Professor, University of Louisville.

Jennifer Morrison. Purdue University's School of Liberal Arts Writing Intensive Initiative: A case of professional development for teaching assistants. [Committee: Irwin Weiser (chair), Shirley Rose, Patricia Sullivan, Patricia Harkin]. Admissions Counselor, Erie Community College.

2001:

Hulda Amenya. English in a Kenyan university: How Kenyan students negotiate their cultural upbringing and the university's western-oriented education in writing. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Shirley Rose, Margie Berns, Shaun Hughes]. Lecturer, University of Eastern Africa, Baraton.

Jonathan Bush. Teaching writing in a middle school: A multiple case study of pedagogical content knowledge, context, and beliefs. [Committee: Margaret Finders (chair), Irwin Weiser, Patricia Sullivan, Christian Knoeller]. Professor, Western Michigan University.

Mary Ellen Daniloff-Merrill. Using critical discourse analysis to analyze a basic writing workbook. [Committee: Irwin Weiser (chair), Janice Lauer, Tony Silva, Margie Berns]. Professor, Southwest Minnesota State University.

Helen Foster. An institutional critique of writing process. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Irwin Weiser, Shirley Rose, Patricia Harkin]. Associate Professor, University of Texas at El Paso.

Amy Kimme Hea. Entanglements: Re-articulating discourses and practices of Web-based teaching and learning. [Committee: Irwin Weiser (co-chair), Johndan Johnson-Eilola (co-chair), Patricia Sullivan, David Blakesley]. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Student Success, University of Arizona.

Lynn Sykes. Collaboration in a group of graduate writing teachers. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Janice Lauer, Shirley Rose, Margaret Finders].

Melinda Turnley. Re-writing media: A critical investigation of mediological assumptions in composition pedagogies. [Committee: Irwin Weiser (chair), Johndan Johnson-Eilola, David Blakesley, Shirley Rose]. Assistant Director, MS in Learning & Organizational Change, Northwestern University.

2000:

Laurie Cubbison. Validating illness: Internet activism in response to institutional discourse. [Committee: Patricia Harkin (chair), James Porter, Patricia Sullivan, Johndan Johnson-Eilola]. Professor, Radford University.

Suanna Haston Davis. A rhetorical analysis of the influence of official missionary correspondence on community identity in selected Churches of Christ. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Irwin Weiser, Shirley Rose, Patricia Harkin]. Assistant Professor, Abilene Christian University.

Baotong Gu. From the oracle bones to the computer: A rhetorical perspective on writing technology development in China. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Janice Lauer, Tony Silva, Johndan Johnson-Eilola]. Associate Professor, Georgia State University.

Jeffrey Jablonski. Reconceiving interdisciplinary collaboration: Locating the intellectual work of writing across the curriculum consultants. [Committee: Irwin Weiser (chair), Shirley Rose, Graham Smart, Tony Silva]. Associate Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Bryan Kopp. The cultural rhetorics of deviance: True crimes in postwar America. [Committee: Patricia Harkin (chair), Siobhan Somerville, Richard Dienst, Irwin Weiser, John Schilb]. Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin La Crosse.

Paul Kei Matsuda. ESL writing in twentieth-century United States higher education: The formation of an interdisciplinary field. [Committee: Tony Silva (chair), Margie Berns, Ulla Connor, Patricia Harkin, Irwin Weiser]. Professor, Arizona State University.

Kathleen Parvin. Toward a theory for ethical-democratic composition practice: Transgressing boundaries of radical pedagogy discourses. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Shirley Rose, Irwin Weiser, Patricia Harkin].

Larissa Reuer [Vinogravada]. The eighteenth-century Russian rhetorical tradition: V. K. Trediakovsky's career and rhetorical views. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Shirley Rose, Irwin Weiser, Victor Raskin].

Carlos Salinas. Toward a critical rhetoric of images: Design/writing within a corporate Web site. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Patricia Harkin, Tony Silva]. Writing Center Director, Kalamazoo Valley Community College.

Michele Simmons. Building public rhetorics: A critical approach to public participation in environmental public policy. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Irwin Weiser, James Porter]. Associate Professor, Miami University.

1999:

Lori Baker. Collaboration and gender communication traits: The negotiation of authority in a composition class. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Shirley Rose, Irwin Weiser, Patricia Sullivan]. Professor and Writing Center Director, Southwest Minnesota State University.

Michelle Comstock. Re-mapping the territory of "youth": Youth-generated sites of rhetorical, cultural, and political practice. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Siobhan Somerville, Patricia Harkin, Johndan Johnson-Eilola]. Associate Professor, University of Colorado Denver.

Bill Hart-Davidson. Writing networks: A participatory design initiative for preparing teachers of professional writing for networked environments. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Shirley Rose, James Porter, Johndan Johnson-Eilola]. Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, Michigan State University.

Barbara L'Eplattenier. Investigating institutional power: Women administrators during the Progressive Era, 1890—1920. [Committee: Patricia Harkin (chair), Shirley Rose, Patricia Sullivan, Nancy Gabin]. Professor, University of Arkansas Little Rock.

Sharon James McGee. A qualitative study of student response to teacher-written comments. [Committee: Irwin Weiser (chair), Shirley Rose, Tony Silva, Janice Lauer]. Professor and Dean of Graduate Studies, East Tennessee State University.

Shayela Mian. Literacy for Bangladeshi students. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Patricia Sullivan, Irwin Weiser, Tony Silva]. Instructor, Temple University Japan.

Elizabeth Miles. Building rhetorics of production: An institutional critique of composition textbook publishing. [Committee: James Porter (chair), Patricia Sullivan, Patricia Harkin, John Trimbur]. Associate Professor, University of Vermont.

Thomas Moriarty. South Africa's rhetoric of reconciliation: Changes in ANC and Pretoria government rhetoric, 1985—1991. [Committee: Patricia Harkin (chair), Janice Lauer, Patricia Sullivan, Harry Targ]. Professor, San Jose State University.

Miriam Olver. Negotiation of difference, context, and audience: A case study of a Haitian-American young adult's written and oral strategy. [Committee: Tony Silva (chair), Patricia Harkin, Janice Lauer, Myrdene Anderson].

Tim Peeples. (Re)writing the WPA: A spatial analysis of the organizational subject. [Committee: James Porter (chair), Janice Lauer, Irwin Weiser, Johndan Johnson-Eilola]. Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professor, Elon University.

Mark Schaub. Sociolinguistic profiling and the negotiation of stakeholder expectations in a writing program: A case study. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Margie Berns, Tony Silva, Shirley Rose]. Professor, Grand Valley State University.

Ann Marie Mann Simpkins. The professional writing practices and dialogic rhetoric of two black women publishers: Discourse as social action in the nineteenth-century. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair)].

1998:

Teresa Henning. Ethics and the scope of rhetoric: Constructions of moral and rhetorical agency in selected cultural critical rhetorics. [Committee: James Porter (chair), Patricia Sullivan, Irwin Weiser, Janice Lauer]. Professor, Southwest Minnesota State University.

Patricia Jenkins. A pedagogy for basic writing. [Committee: Irwin Weiser (chair), Janice Lauer, Shirley Rose, Patricia Harkin]. Professor, University of Alaska Anchorage.

Bridget O'Rourke. Meanings and practices of literacy in urban settlement communities: Chicago's Hull House, 1890-1940. [Committee: Patricia Harkin (chair), Janice Lauer, Irwin Weiser, Shirley Rose]. Professor, Elmhurst University.

Cynthia Ryan. Competing discourses and the female consumer: Implications for feminist composition theory, research, and pedagogy. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Patricia Harkin, Victor Raskin, Katherine Rowan]. Associate Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Michelle Sidler. Teaching genre literacy in composition. [Committee: Patricia Harkin (chair), Shirley Rose, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Vincent Leitch]. Associate Professor, Auburn University.

Michael Zerbe. Toward a cultural studies-based pedagogy for the rhetoric of science. [Committee: Irwin Weiser (chair), Patricia Harkin, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Janice Lauer]. Professor, York College of Pennsylvania.

1997:

Stuart Blythe. Technologies and writing center practices: A critical approach. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Muriel Harris, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, James Porter]. Associate Professor, Michigan State University.

Karen Dwyer. A cultural and rhetoric analysis of internationalized human rights discourse. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Irwin Weiser, James Porter, Patricia Harkin]. Principal Lecturer, Arizona State University.

Karin Evans. A contextual-developmental approach to basic writing: Broadening environments and practicing literacy. [Committee: Irwin Weiser (chair), Shirley Rose, Janice Lauer, Muriel Harris]. Professor, College of DuPage.

Jeffrey Grabill. Situating literacies and community literacy programs: A critical rhetoric for institutional change. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Janice Lauer, Patricia Harkin, James Porter]. Professor and Associate Provost for Teaching, Learning, and Technology, Michigan State University.

Bonnie Selting. The entry of student discourse communities into academic conversation: An inquiry into student identities in composition classrooms. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Patricia Harkin, Shirley Rose, Patricia Sullivan]. Campus Writing Program Coordinator, University of Missouri.

Barry Thatcher. Orality and writing in Latin American and United States of America professional communication. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Tony Silva, James Porter, William Asher]. Professor, New Mexico State University.

1996:

Thomas Clemens. A rhetoric of early Anglo-Saxon law: A revisionary interpretation of the interrelationships among rhetor, audience, and culture. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), James Porter, Edward Schiappa].

Lisa Langstraat. Toward a feminist politics of affect for cultural studies approaches to composition. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Patricia Harkin, Patricia Sullivan, Vincent Leitch]. Associate Professor, Colorado State University.

Dan Lupo. Negotiating context: A multiple case study of professional writing majors in transition from academic to workplace contexts. [Committee: James Porter (chair), Janice Lauer, Patricia Sullivan, Irwin Weiser]. Deacon, St Thomas More Catholic Church.

Ed Nagelhout. Writing and professional apprenticeship: Case studies of biology graduate students' entry into the scientific community. [Committee: Irwin Weiser (chair), Muriel Harris, Janice Lauer, Patricia Sullivan]. Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Lisa Toner. Ethical roles for the writing teacher: A rhetorical casuistic perspective. [Committee: James Porter (chair), Irwin Weiser, Janice Lauer, Thomas Ryba].

Debbie Williams. 'Olelo huna: A rhetorical critique of literacy policies in Hawai'i. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Irwin Weiser, Patricia Harkin, Shirley Rose]. Professor, Abilene Christian University.

1995:

Joanne Addison. Emancipatory research and composition studies: Feminist postmodern, cultural studies, and teacher research methodologies. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Irwin Weiser, Janice Lauer, Rachel Spilka]. Professor, University of Colorado Denver.

Debra Jacobs. Positioning the subject in discourse: Toward a rhetorical theory of voice in writing. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Irwin Weiser, Vincent Leitch, Patricia Harkin]. Associate Professor, University of South Florida.

Susan Latta. Women and writer's block: An exploration of social and cultural influences upon the writing processes of five graduate student writers. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Irwin Weiser, Patricia Sullivan, Rachel Spilka]. Associate Professor, Indiana State University.

Elizabeth Lopez. The geography of computer writing spaces: A critical postmodern analysis. [Committee: James Porter (chair), Patricia Sullivan, Irwin Weiser, Johndan Johnson-Eilola]. Associate Professor, Georgia State University.

Pamela Takayoshi. Theorizing technocentrism in computers and composition: Conflicting values, competing visions, and pedagogical interventions. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), James Porter, Janice Lauer, Irwin Weiser]. Professor, Kent State University.

Janice Tovey. A visual rhetoric of electronic-aided publishing. [Committee: James Porter (chair), Patricia Sullivan, Janice Lauer, Irwin Weiser].

1994:

Kristine Blair. The politics of popular culture in the composition classroom: Toward a pedagogy of resistance and transformation. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Patricia Sullivan, Richard Dienst, Edward Schiappa]. Dean of Liberal Arts, Duquesne University.

David Carrell. The ethos of two corporate annual reports: A rhetorical analysis of the visual and discursive aspects. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Irwin Weiser, Rachel Spilka, James Porter].

Julie Farrar. Constructing Chaim Perelman: Implications of the New Rhetoric for teaching argumentation in the composition classroom. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Irwin Weiser, Victor Raskin, Don Burks].

Karen Griggs. Audience complexities in administrative law: An historical case study of an environmental policy. [Committee: James Porter (chair), Rachel Spilka, Janice Lauer, Patricia Sullivan].

Rebecca Hettich. Writing apprehension: A critique. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Muriel Harris, Patricia Harkin, Robert Yagelski].

Marjorie Rush Hovde. The knowledgeable practice of computer documentation writers: Tactics for constructing user and software images and for negotiating organizational boundaries. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Janice Lauer, Rachel Spilka, James Porter]. Associate Professor, Indiana University — Purdue University Indianapolis.

Bruce McComiskey. Postmodern cultural studies and the politics of writing instruction. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Robert Yagelski, Edward Schiappa, Patrick O’Donnell]. Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Nancy McCoy. A relationship between rhetoric and poetics: English studies in secondary schools, a composition-literature paradigm (1874-1917). [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Patricia Sullivan, Robert Yagelski, Irwin Weiser].

1993:

Dianne Atkinson. A meta-analysis of recent research in the teaching of writing: Workshops, computer applications, and inquiry. [Committee: Janice Lauer (co-chair), William Asher (co-chair), Patricia Sullivan, Kathryn Linden].

Vicki Byard. Considering heuristics as symbolic acts: Their relevance to epistemic rhetoric, social invention, and cultural studies. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), James Berlin, Irwin Weiser, Don Burks]. Professor, Northeastern Illinois University.

Nancy DeJoy. Rhetoric of critique/critique of rhetoric: Toward critical discursive practices in the academy. [Committee: James Berlin (chair), Janice Lauer, Irwin Weiser, Patricia Sullivan, Margaret Moon Rowe]. Associate Professor, Michigan State University.

Mark Gellis. Burke, Campbell, Johnson, and Priestley: A rhetorical analysis of four British pamphlets of the American Revolution. [Committee: James Berlin (chair), Janice Lauer, Irwin Weiser, Alan McKenzie]. Associate Professor, Kettering University.

Myrna Harrienger. Medicine as dialogic rhetoric and the elderly ill woman. (Volumes I-III). [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Patricia Sullivan, James Berlin, Janet Emig].

Joan Karbach. Writing expressive discourse: ESL and native English-speaking freshmen. [Committee: Janice Lauer (co-chair), Tony Silva (co-chair), Margie Berns, Irwin Weiser].

Haixia Lan [Wang]. Chinese public discourse: A rhetorical analysis of the account of the Tiananmen Square incident by the newspaper "People's Daily". [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), James Berlin, James Porter, Patricia Sullivan]. Professor, University of Wisconsin La Crosse.

John Weaver. The concept of ethos in Tudor rhetorical theory and practice. [Committee: Janice Lauer (co-chair), Charles Ross (co-chair), James Berlin, Ann Astell].

1992:

Sheila Ewing. The effects of time and instruction on writing performance of eighth-grade students in writing assessment situations. [Committee: William Asher (chair), Janice Lauer, Kathryn Linden, Patricia Sullivan].

Michael Gos. Computer anxiety and the computerized writing classroom: A qualitative and quantitative study. [Committee: William Evans (chair), Jim Lehman, Pat Sullivan, Janice Lauer].

Gary Heba. Inventing culture: A rhetoric of social codes. [Committee: James Berlin (chair), Janice Lauer, Joe Palmer, Virgil Lokke]. Associate Professor, Bowling Green State University.

Elizabeth Hoger. Writing in the discipline of music: Rhetorical parameters in writings about music criticism. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Janice Lauer, Irwin Weiser, James Porter].

Tharon Howard. The rhetoric of electronic communities. [Committee: James Porter (chair), Patricia Sullivan, Janice Lauer, James Berlin]. Professor, Clemson University.

Anne Rosenthal.Transforming the cultural politics of writing across the curriculum: Cross-disciplinarity, advanced literacy, and democracy. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Vincent Leitch, James Berlin, Virgil Lokke]. Associate Professor, Oglethorpe University.

Sonja Schrag. The discourse of music scholarship. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Patricia Sullivan, Irwin Weiser, James Porter]. Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin La Crosse.

1991:

Nancy Allen. Collaborative voices: Rhetorical and textual features of collaboratively written reports. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Janice Lauer, Irwin Weiser, William Asher].

Randy Mark Brooks. Rhetorical theory in business communication curricula from 1900 to 1980: An historical critique. [Committee: James Berlin (chair), Janice Lauer Patricia Sullivan, Irwin Weiser]. Professor, Millikin University.

Susan Brown Carlton. Poetic, rhetoric, and disciplinary discourse. [Committee: James Berlin (chair), Vincent Leitch, Janice Lauer, Virgil Lokke]. Emerita Senior Lecturer, Bowling Green State University.

Jennie Dautermann. Writing at Good Hope Hospital: A study of negotiated discourse in the workplace. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Janice Lauer, Margie Berns, Thomas Gaston].

Robert Johnson. Rhetoric and use: Toward a theory of user-centered computer documentation. [Committee: Patricia Sullivan (chair), Irwin Weiser, Janice Lauer, Robert Lawler]. Emeritus Professor, Michigan Tech University.

Barbara Kelb. Martin Buber's philosophy of dialogue and three modern rhetorics. [Committee: Thomas Gaston (chair), Janice Lauer, Irwin Weiser, Muriel Harris].

Christine Persak. Representing the social order: Rhetoric and Victorian hierarchy, 1839-1852. [Committee: James Berlin (chair), Janice Lauer, Patricia Sullivan, Irwin Weiser].

1990:

Janet Atwill. Refiguring rhetoric as art: Aristotle's concept of techne and the humanist paradigm. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), James Berlin, Virgil Lokke, Calvin Schrag]. Professor, University of Tennessee Knoxville.

Jonathan Lee Campbell. The relevant communication of rhetorical arguments. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Victor Raskin, Irwin Weiser, Thomas Gaston]. Associate Professor, Valdosta State University.

David Dedo. Profile of the ESL freshman writer: Predicting success in the academic setting. [Committee: Margie Berns (chair), Janice Lauer, William Asher, Irwin Weiser]. Associate Professor, Samford University.

Gary Hafer. An analysis of writing instruction in the home school. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Irwin Weiser, David O’Brien, Muriel Harris]. Professor, Lycoming College.

Elizabeth Roberts [Huettman]. Writing for the unknown reader: An ethnographic case study in a business setting. [Committee: Janice Lauer (co-chair), Patricia Sullivan (co-chair), James Berlin, Irwin Weiser].

Tony Silva. A comparative study of the composing of selected ESL and native English-speaking freshman writers. [Committee: Janice Lauer (co-chair), Victor Raskin (co-chair)]. Professor, Purdue University.

Heping Zhao. "Wen Xin Diao Long": An early Chinese rhetoric of written discourse. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), James Berlin, Victor Raskin, Leonard Gordon, Leonora Woodman]. Professor, California State University Fullerton.

1989:

Catherine Hobbs [Peaden]. Language and rhetoric in Locke, Condillac, and Vico. [Committee: Janice Lauer (co-chair), James Berlin (co-chair), Virgil Lokke, Vincent Leitch, Patricia Sullivan].

Mark Simpson. Shaping computer documentation for multiple audiences: An ethnographic study. [Committee: Jeanne Halpern (co-chair), Janice Lauer (co-chair), Patricia Sullivan, Irwin Weiser].

1988:

Georgina Barcelow-Hill. The effect of peer critique groups on students' critiquing and writing ability. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), William Asher, Muriel Harris, Katherine Rowan].

Linda Calendrillo. The art of memory and rhetoric. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), James Berlin, Patricia Sullivan, Victor Raskin].

Margaret Morgan. Four dimensions of the collaborative composing processes of student writers. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Patricia Sullivan, Irwin Weiser, Muriel Harris]. Professor Emerita, University of North Carolina Charlotte.

1987:

Laura Andres. The authentic I: A theory of expressive writing. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Leonora Woodman, Margaret Moon Rowe, Katherine Rowan].

Mary McDonald [Murray]. Measuring insight in student writing. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair)]. Writing Center Director, Cleveland State University.

Bernard Miller. Heidegger and the Gorgian 'kairos'. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Irwin Weiser, Virgil Lokke, Calvin Schrag].

Jim Weston. Toward a contextual approach to cliches. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Irwin Weiser, Leonora Woodman, Howard Ranken].

1986:

Michael Carter. Genesis of written discourse: Features of the art. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Patricia Sullivan, Irwin Weiser, Howard Ranken].

Steve Merrill. Audience adaptiveness in job application letters written by college students: An exploratory study. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Patricia Sullivan, Irwin Weiser, Brant Burleson].

1985:

Katherine Rowan. Producing written explanations of scientific concepts for lay readers: Theory and a study of individual differences among collegiate writers. [Committee: Janice Lauer (chair), Leonora Woodman, William Asher, Victor Raskin]. Emerita Professor, George Mason University.