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Recent Dissertations
| Name |
Title |
Year |
Advisor |
| Audiology & Hearing Sciences |
| Banerjee, Shilpi Pranab |
The Role of Training in Improving Hearing Aid Benefit |
Fall, 2003 |
Dean C. Garstecki |
| Badri, Rohima |
Cochlear Mechanical Impairment in People with Difficulties Communicating in Noise Despite Clinically Normal Hearing Thresholds |
Fall, 2005 |
Jonathan H. Siegel |
| Fitzgerald, Matthew Blair |
Patterns of Learning and Generalization Seen After Training on Sinsuoidal-Amplitude-Modulation (SAM) Rate-Discrimination and SAM-Detection Tasks |
Fall, 2005 |
Beverly A. Wright |
| Pillai, Jagan Ayyappan |
Interaction of Tamoxifen and Noise Induced Hearing Loss |
Fall, 2005 |
Jonathan H. Siegel |
| Mossbridge, Julia Ann |
Perceptual Learning of Auditory Relative-Timing Tasks |
Fall, 2006 |
Beverly A. Wright |
| Communication Studies |
| Clarke, Lynn Evette |
Struggles for Definition in Legislative Discourse: A Case Study of the Defense of Marriage Act, 1996 |
Spring, 2003 |
Thomas B. Farrell |
| Li, Luyan |
Environmental and Social Campaigns of China |
Fall, 2003 |
James Schwoch |
| Normoyle, Angela Hoppes |
Socially Shared Cognition in Small Decision-Making Groups |
Spring, 2003 |
Paul Arntson |
| Tepper, Samuel Robert |
The Trial as Whodunit: The Role of Question Types and Degree of Detail on Perceptions of Attorney-Eyewitness Interactions |
Fall, 2003 |
Michael Roloff |
| Wysocki, Matthew D. |
Cracking the Hacker Code: An Analysis of the Computer Hacker Subculture From Multiple Perspectives |
Spring, 2003 |
James Schwoch |
| Chen, Chun-Fu |
Media Consumption in the Cross-Cultural Context: Transnational Television Fiction and Taiwanese Young Audience |
Spring, 2004 |
James Schwoch |
| Lah, Peter |
Quality Press and European Integration: Social Communication and Commercialism in Slovenian and German Newspapers |
Spring, 2004 |
James Schwoch |
| Murphy, Todd Edward |
Surface-Level and Deep-Level Diversity as Determinants of Perceived Processes in Long-Term Problem-Solving Groups |
Spring, 2004 |
Paul H. Arntson |
| Nelesen, Joseph James |
Diversity of Exposure on the World Wide Web |
Spring, 2004 |
James Webster |
| Plenge, Nicole Elise |
The Commodification of Professional-Client Interactions: Understanding the Resources Clients Need and Value from Professionals in Light of Individual Differences and Situational Constraints |
Spring, 2004 |
Michael E. Roloff |
| Sun, Chuan |
Multilingual Internet Root: A Study of the Internationalization of the Domain Name System, Internet Governance, and Selected Policy Issues |
Spring, 2004 |
James Schwoch |
| Waite, Courtney A |
Intractable Interpersonal Conflicts |
Fall, 2004 |
Michael E. Roloff |
| Fitzmier, Daniel J |
The Role of Maxims and Memory in Isocrates' Pedagogy |
Fall, 2005 |
Michael C. Leff |
| Harsin, Jayson P. |
Two Episodes in the American Discourse of Economic Rights: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan |
Fall, 2005 |
Dilip P. Gaonkar |
| Herman, Andrew P. |
Social Capital and Communication: A Case Study of Two Urban Community Networks |
Spring, 2005 |
James S. Ettema |
| Kaplan, Michael Alan |
Friendship and Citizenship in the Liberal Imaginary |
Spring, 2005 |
Dilip P. Gaonkar |
| Li, Shu |
Strategic Emotion in Negotiation: The Use and Consequences of Positive and Negative Emotions |
Fall, 2005 |
Michael E. Roloff |
| McCoy, Mary |
The Media in Democratic Transitions: Institutionalizing Uncertainty in Post-Suharto Indonesia |
Spring, 2005 |
James S. Ettema |
| Weisberg, Daniel J |
Wrestling with the Audience: Fan Culture on the Internet |
Spring, 2005 |
James G. Webster |
| Drury, Meghann Louise |
Reacting to Change: The Effects of Power and Change Impact on Framing Biases, Risky Decisions, and Communication |
Spring, 2006 |
Michael Elwood Roloff |
| Fonner, Kathryn Lynne |
Social Presence: Bridging the Divide Between Teleworking and Office-Based Employees' Work Experiences |
Fall, 2006 |
Michael E. Roloff |
| Gardner, Christine Joy |
Choosing to Wait: Rhetorical Agency as Persuasion in the Evangelical Sexual Abstinence Movement in the United States and Africa |
Spring, 2006 |
David Zarefsky |
| Harris, Leslie Joyce |
Gender and Family in Legal Change: The Rhetoric of Child Custody Law in Illinois Courts, 1849-1899 |
Fall, 2006 |
David H. Zarefsky |
| Hinnant, Amanda Louise |
Mass-Mediated Health Reporting: An Investigation into the Production of Magazine Health Content |
Fall, 2006 |
James S. Ettema |
| Kamrath, Christopher James |
Minor Figures, Haunting Politics: The Rhetorical Life and Afterlife of Randolph Bourne and John Reed |
Spring, 2006 |
Dilip P. Gaonkar |
| Lundberg, Christian Oscar |
Evangelical Economies of Violence and the Politics of Imaginary Publics |
Spring, 2006 |
Dilip P. Gaonkar |
| Malis, Rachel Sarah |
Serial Arguing in Relationships: Implications for Individuals' Well-Being |
Fall, 2006 |
Michael Elwood Roloff |
| McMullen, Patrick |
Undue Influence: The Impact of Psychological Interrogation Tactics on Juvenile Suspects |
Fall, 2006 |
Michael E. Roloff |
| Olison, Willona O |
Perceived Fairness, Voice, and Satisfaction in Organizations with Voluntary Membership |
Fall, 2006 |
Michael E. Roloff |
| Oosterhoff, Ronda Lynn |
A Test of Strictness and Marketing upon Church Growth and Health |
Fall, 2006 |
Peter V. Miller |
| Sattell, Susan Sandra |
The Rhetoric of Risk: Institutional Controversies over Agricultural Biotechnology |
Spring, 2006 |
G. Thomas Goodnight |
| Swartzman, Arlene Levin |
The Geography of Hope: Definition, Discourse, and the Imaginary in Chicago's Parks: 1889-1909 |
Spring, 2006 |
Thomas Goodnight |
| Swift, Christopher Noel |
Listening to Zarathustra: Friedrich Nietzsche and Rhetoric |
Fall, 2006 |
Michael C. Leff, Dilip P. Gaonkar |
| Utley, Ebony A. |
Transcendence: The Rhetorical Functions of the Gangsta Rapper's God |
Spring, 2006 |
Dwight A. McBride |
| Benacka, Elizabeth A |
Laughing in the Face of Tragedy: Topical Humor in the United States One Year After 9/11 |
Spring, 2007 |
David H. Zarefsky |
| Brown, Lori Ann |
Extra-Role Time Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Expectations for Reciprocity and Burnout: Protential Organizational Influence via Organizational Support and Psychological Contract Fulfillment |
Spring, 2007 |
Michael Elwood Roloff |
| Erickson, Robin Adair |
Here Today but What about Tomorrow? Reducing the Attrition of Downsizing Survivors by Increasing Their Organizational Commitment |
Spring, 2007 |
Michael E. Roloff |
| Moskowitz, David Andrew |
HIV Restitution: Using Vengeance to Explain Nondisclosure and Transmission to Others |
Spring, 2007 |
Michael E. Roloff |
| Yuan, Jingyan |
The New Multichannel Media Environment in China: Diversity of Exposure in Television Viewing |
Spring, 2007 |
James G. Webster |
| Learning Disabilities |
| Gillespie, Helene M |
Component Handwriting Skills among Early Elementary Children with Average and Below Average Printing Ability |
Spring, 2003 |
Doris J. Johnson |
| Bradley, Kathleen |
The Role of School, Family, and Individual Factors in the Academic Success of Middle School Students at Three Achievement Levels and of Special Education Students with Mild Disabilities |
Spring, 2004 |
Steven G. Zecker, C. Addison Stone |
| Terry, Nicole Patton |
An Investigation of Early Linguistic Awareness and Spelling Ability among African American English and Standard American English Speakers |
Fall, 2004 |
Doris J. Johnson |
| Conlin, Kristina |
A Study of Interpretive Reading and Reasoning Skills Among High School Students With and Without Learning Disabilities |
Fall, 2005 |
Steven G. Zecker |
| Gudbrandsen, Beth Hodgen |
The Effect of Tutoring and Metacognition on 5th and 6th grade Students' Reading Strategies, Reading Comprehension and Attitude Toward Reading |
Fall, 2005 |
Joanne F. Carlisle |
| Kleiner, Jordi |
Parental Assistance during Homework Interactions: The Roles of Scaffolding and Parents' Awareness of Their Children's Skill Levels |
Spring, 2005 |
C. Addison Stone and Doris J. Johnson |
| Performance Studies |
| Anderson, Nancy Lynn |
Cultural Performance Corporate Style: An Ethnographic Study on Employee Experiences with Change Management at Topflight |
Fall, 2003 |
Carol Simpson Stern |
| Moss, Shondrika Lanise |
Ah'd Save De Text For You: Exploring Zora Neale Hurston's Characteristics of Negro Expression |
Spring, 2003 |
Margaret T. Drewal |
| Srinivasan, Priya |
Performing Indian Dance in America: Interrogating Modernity, Tradition and the Myth of Cultural Purity |
Fall, 2003 |
Margaret Thompson Drewal |
| Webb, Barbara Lynne |
"The Real Character of the Negro on the Stage": African-American Theatre as Risk and Possibility, 1890-1908 |
Spring, 2003 |
M. Thompson Drewal |
| Jones, Bronwyn K. |
Performing Psychopathology: Crime Scene Photography, Forensic Aesthetics, and Performative Knowledge in the Contemporary Serial Killer Narrative |
Spring, 2004 |
Margaret T. Drewal |
| Alexander, Renee Jacqueline |
Art as Survival: The Congo Tradition of Portobelo, Panama |
Fall, 2005 |
E. Patrick Johnson |
| Campbell, Michelle |
My Life as Mick Mounter: Performing Genders with the Chicago Kings |
Fall, 2005 |
E. Patrick Johnson |
| Onoda, Natsu |
Tezuka Osamu: An Intertextual History of Comics in Post-World War II Japan |
Spring, 2005 |
Tracy C. Davis |
| Partridge, Amy Ruth |
Public Health for the People: The Use of Exhibition and Performance to Stage the "Sanitary Idea" in Victorian Britain |
Spring, 2005 |
Tracy C. Davis |
| Szeman-Ureche, Ioana |
Performing for Europe at its borders: Gender, Nation and the Roma Minority in Post-communist Romania |
Spring, 2005 |
Margaret T. Drewal |
| Braggs, Rashida Kamilah |
"American Jazz": Traversing Race and Nation in Postwar France |
Spring, 2006 |
E. Patrick Johnson |
| Karamitsos, Stephanie Ann |
The Art of Janine Antoni: Labor, Gender and the Object of Performance |
Spring, 2006 |
Mary A. Zimmerman |
| Mohammed, Mohammed Hamid |
Imagining and Performing Habasha Identity: The Ethiopian Diaspora in the Area of Washington, D.C. |
Spring, 2006 |
Margaret T. Drewal |
| Parkins, Lisa Tatiana |
Representing "The Marquise of O--": Disruptions and Subjectivity |
Fall, 2006 |
Carol Simpson Stern |
| Pena, Elaine Adah |
Making Space Sacred: Devotional Capital, Political Economy, and the Transnational Expansion of the Cult of la Virgen de Guadalupe |
Spring, 2006 |
Micaela Di Leonardo |
| Afary, Kamran |
Performance-Conscious Activism and Activist-Conscious Performance as Discourse in the Aftermath of the Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992 |
Spring, 2007 |
Margaret T. Drewal |
| Day, Amber |
Prankly Speaking:Performative Satire and Political Dialogue |
Spring, 2007 |
Susan A. Manning |
| McCune, Jeffrey Quinn |
Doin' the Down Low, Remixin' the Closet: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Sexual Passing |
Spring, 2007 |
E. Patrick Johnson |
| Farley, Kathryn T. |
Teaching Performance in the Digital Age: Computerized Technologies, Improvisational Play Techniques and Interactive Learning Processes |
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Margaret A Drewal |
| Radio/Television/Film |
| McEwan, Paul Alexander |
Knowledge and the Limits of Postmodernism: Social Constructionism in Film and Media Studies |
Fall, 2003 |
Mimi White |
| Muhammad, Fatimah Nadiyah |
Hip-Hop Culture's Impact on Young Black Women's Identity |
Fall, 2003 |
Chuck Kleinhans |
| Seo, Hyeonseok |
The Shock of Boredom: The Aesthetics of Absence, Futility, and Bliss in Moving Images |
Fall, 2003 |
Chuck Kleinhans |
| Douglas, Andrew Jeffrey |
The B.M.O.C. -- Big Men On Celluloid: Images of Masculine Obesity in Popular American Film and Television |
Spring, 2005 |
Mimi B. White |
| Kerins, Mark Edward |
Rethinking Film for the Digital Sound Age |
Fall, 2005 |
Chuck Kleinhans |
| Knapp, Laurence Freston |
Brian De Palma: Authorship as Survival |
Spring, 2005 |
Miriam B. White |
| Malitsky, Joshua S |
Post-Revolution Non-Fiction Film: Building the Soviet and Cuban Nations |
Fall, 2005 |
Mimi B. White |
| Menon-Broker, Aditi N. |
A Hall of Mirrors: Repetition and Recycling in Hindi Commercial Cinema |
Spring, 2005 |
Chuck Kleinhans |
| Lewis, Leslie Anne |
Trading in Withered Flesh: Mummies, Movies and Modernity |
Spring, 2006 |
Scott Curtis |
| Ugrina, Luciana |
Spectacular Transformations: Sexual Difference, Feminist Theory, and Popular Cinematic Representation |
Spring, 2006 |
Mimi B. White |
| Wang, Ting |
Global Hollywood and China's Filmed Entertainment Industry |
Fall, 2006 |
Chuck Kleinhans |
| Heitner, Deborah B |
Black Power TV: A Cultural History of Black Public Affairs Television 1968-1980 |
Spring, 2007 |
Martha Biondi, James Schwoch |
| Robinson, Linda Ann |
Far From Simple: Nostalgia for America's Turn-of-the-Century Small Town in Film and Television 1940 - 1963 |
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Miriam B White |
| Speech & Language Pathology |
| Capone, Nina Christine |
Enhancing Toddlers' Storage and Retrieval of Object Labels through Gesture |
Spring, 2003 |
Karla K. McGregor |
| Drane, Denise Louise |
Breast Feeding and Specific Language Impairment |
Fall, 2003 |
Jeri A. Logemann |
| Tessler, Chani Karen |
The Role of Afferent Feedback in Learning of Pitch Control |
Spring, 2003 |
Charles R. Larson |
| Bauer, Jay Joseph |
Task Dependent Modulation of Voice F Responses Elicited By Perturbations in Pitch of Auditory Feedback During English Speech and Sustained Vowels |
Fall, 2004 |
Charles R. Larson |
| Shah, Yasmeen F. |
Production of Verb Inflections in Agrammatic Aphasia |
Spring, 2004 |
Cynthia K. Thompson |
| Xu, Xueqing |
Consonant Perturbation and Tone Restoration in Mandarin |
Fall, 2004 |
Yi Xu |
| Kleinjan, Kara Jean |
Effects of Repeated Swallows and Varied Bolus Characteristics in Healthy Young and Elderly Subjects |
Spring, 2005 |
Jerilyn A. Logemann |
| Leydon, Ciara |
Stimulating Chloride Ion Fluxes Across Vocal Fold Epithelium |
Fall, 2005 |
Kimberly V. Fisher |
| Mendell, Dorie A. |
Temporal Coordination of Motor Events During the Oropharyngeal Swallow |
Spring, 2005 |
Jerilyn A. Logemann |
| Reilly, Renee M. |
Facilitation Effects in English and Spanish Vocabulary Learning by Early School-Age Children: A Study of Novice and Bilingual L2 Learners |
Spring, 2005 |
Karla K. McGregor |
| Sivasankar, Mahalakshmi L |
Vocal Fold Response to Luminal Ionic and Osmotic Perturbations |
Spring, 2005 |
Kimberly V. Fisher |
| Hashimoto, Naomi |
The Effects of Semantic and Phonological Relationships on Picture Word Naming in Aphasic Individuals |
Spring, 2006 |
Cynthia K. Thompson |
| Lodewyck, Danielle Nicoletta |
Regulation of Aquaporin Water Channels in Vocal Fold Epithelium |
Spring, 2006 |
Kimberly V. Fisher |
| Kaushanskaya, Margarita |
Linguistic and Cognitive Mechanisms in Foreign Vocabulary Acquisition |
Spring, 2007 |
Viorica Marian |
| Theatre & Drama |
| Delmenico, Lesley M. |
Dramas in Darwin: Postcolonial Performances and Historical Contestations in Australasian Border Country |
Fall, 2003 |
Dwight Conquergood |
| McConnell, Lauren Beth |
Gray Zones and Black Holes: The Effects of Normalization Censorship on Czech Playwriting |
Fall, 2004 |
Susan B. Manning |
| Roxworthy, Emily E |
Home Front Spectacles: The Theatrical Strategies of Japanese American Evacuation |
Spring, 2004 |
Dwight Conquergood |
| Kim, Suk-Young |
Revolutionizing the Family: A Comparative Study on the Filmed Propaganda Performances of the People's Republic of China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea 1966-1976 |
Spring, 2005 |
Chuck Kleinhans |
| Moeschen, Sheila |
Benevolent Actors and Charitable 'Objects': Physical Disability and the Theatricality of Charity in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century America |
Spring, 2005 |
Tracy C. Davis |
| Zenenga, Praise |
Learning Through Performance: Community Theatre as a Tool for Nonformal Education in Postindependence Zimbabwe |
Spring, 2005 |
Sandra L. Richards |
| Korol, Kimberly Ann |
Modern Carnival: Performer and Patron Interaction and Immersion at the Maryland Renaissance Festival |
Spring, 2006 |
Tracy C. Davis |
| Rossen Pavkovic, Rebecca Leigh |
Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance |
Spring, 2006 |
Susan Manning |
| Scott, Shelly Renee |
Theorizing Performances of the Human-Animal Relationship |
Spring, 2006 |
Tracy C. Davis |
| White, Ann Eleanor Folino |
"Paradox of Want amid Plenty": Aesthetics of New Deal Food Rights Performances |
Spring, 2007 |
Tracy Cecile Davis |
| Robinson, Karima Atiy |
Stages of Liberation: Ritual, Nationalism and Women's Cultural Production in Jamaica's Pre-Independence Era |
Fall, 2007 |
Sandra L. Richards |
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