College of Liberal Arts

180 Wesbrook Hall
77 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-624-3445
Fax: 612-624-3617
E-mail: writ@umn.edu

Alumni

M.S. in Scientific and Technical Communication

Some of our recent graduates include:

  • Paul Anheier
    Ph.D. Student
    RSTC, University of Minnesota

  • Daniel Barthel
  • Ellen Dodds
  • Christine Douglas
  • Sabina Dhungana
  • Stacy Eichenlaub
  • Heather Haley
  • Ashley Lewis
  • Ben Neeser
    Acadademic & Distributed Computing Services, University of Minnesota
  • Jim Oliver
    Instructional Technology Coordinator
    College of Saint Catherine
  • Heidi Presteen
  • Jennifer Shultz

M.A. in Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication

Some of our recent graduates include:

  • Michael Banker
  • Linda Clemens
    Ph.D. Student
    RSTC, University of Minnesota
  • Marnie Henderson
    Ph.D. Student
    RSTC, University of Minnesota
  • Kristin Hines
  • Bethany Iverson
  • Jeremy Miner
    Grants Coordinator
    St. Norberts College, Green Bay, WI
  • Ray Narveson
    Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota
    Capella University, Faculty
  • Jenifer Northwick
    Medtronic
  • Zoe Nyssa
    Ph.D. Student
    RSTC, University of Minnesota
  • Greg Schneider
    Ph.D. Student
    RSTC, University of Minnesota
  • Marvin Taylor
    Ph.D. Student
    Geography, University of Minnesota
  • Erin Wais
    Ph.D. Student
    RSTC, University of Minnesota
  • Bret Werner
    Ph.D. Student
    RSTC, University of Minnesota

Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication

Our graduates include:

  • Smiljana Antonijevic
    University of Belgrade
    Dissertation: "Rhetoric, Culture, and Avatars: A Microethnographic Analysis of Nonverbal Communication in Multiuser, 3D Virtual Environments"
  • Kelly Ball-Stahl
    Associate Director of Sponsored Programs
    St. Norbert College
    Dissertation: "Environmental Values in American Popular-Culture Narratives"
  • David Beard
    Assistant Professor
    University of Minnesota-Duluth
    Dissertation: "Douglas Walton, Informal Logic, and the Uses of the New Dialectic for the Rhetoric of Inquiry"
  • Cristina Hanganu-Bresch
    Dissertation:
  • Lenna Constantinides
    Assistant Professor
    Mercer College
    Dissertation: "A Pragmatics of Power Using Jurgen Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action"
  • Ruth Cronje
    Assistant Professor
    University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    Dissertation: "Communicative Rationality and the Future of Science"
  • Andreea Ritivoi Deciu
    Assistant Professor
    Carnegie Mellon University
    Dissertation: "The Debate between Rene Descartes and Pierre de Fermat: A Pragma-Dialectical Analysis"
  • T. Kenny Fountain
    Case Western Reserve
    Dissertation:
  • Timothy Giles
    Assistant Professor
    Georgia Southern
    Dissertation: "The Role of Metaphor in the Technical Communication Classroom "
  • Gretchen Haas
    Assistant Professor
    Minnesota State University
    Dissertation: "New Tools, New Politics? A Rhetorical Analysis of the Minnesota Fourth Congressional District Campaign Web Sites"
  • Brent Heffron
    Dissertation:
  • Connie Kampf
    Lecturer
    Aarhus School of Business , Denmark
    Dissertation: "Kumeyaay Online: Dimensions of Rhetoric and Culture in the Kumeyaay Web Presence"
  • Amy Koerber
    Assistant Professor
    Texas Tech University
    Dissertation: "U.S. Breastfeeding Education and Promotion, 1978-99: A Feminist Rhetorical Analysis"
  • Kari Kruempel
    Lockheed-Martin
    Dissertation: "Distance Working: A Rhetorical Analysis of Engineering Email Collaboration"
  • Paula Lentz
    Senior Lecturer
    University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
    Dissertation: "Positioning and Identity in the Small-Story Narratives of RN-to- BSN Students in an Online BSN Management and Leadership Course"
  • Gail Lippincott
    Permanent Instructor
    Central FLA
    Dissertation: "Ellen Swallow Richards: Rhetorical Strategies of a Nineteenth-Century Technical Communicator"
  • Mariana Mendez
    Assistant Professor
    St. John's University, New York
    Dissertation: "Maintaining and Enhancing Political Power via the Mass Media: The Rhetoric of H.R. Chavez, President of Venezuela"
  • Salma Monani
    Dissertation:
  • Sara Newman
    Associate Professor
    Kent State University
    Dissertation: "Aristotle's Metaphorical Theory and Practice: A Comprehensive View"
  • Dave Norton
    Vice President
    Yamamoto-Moss
    Dissertation: "The Strategic Technical Communicator: A Critical Action Inquiry of Information Architecture"
  • Jennifer Novak
    Lecturer
    University of Denver
    Disertation: "Rhetoric, Medicine, and the Impact of Technologies on Subjects and Statements"
  • Amy Patrick
    Assistant Professor
    Western Illinois University
    Dissertation: "Apocalyptic or Precautionary? Revisioning Texts in Environmental Literature"
  • Joan Pougiales
    Dissertation: "Little Ethiopia : The Colonization of a Multicultural American Workplace"
  • Amy Propen
    Assistant Professor
    York College, York, PA
    Dissertation: "The Map, the Mill, and the Memorial: A Rhetorical Study of the Visual and Material"
  • Sam Racine
    Usability Manager
    Unisys
    Dissertation:"Changing (Inter) Faces: A Genre Analysis of Catalogues from Sears, Robuck to Amazon.com"
  • Clancy Ratliff
    Assistant Professor
    East Carolina University
    Dissertation: "'Where Are the Women?' Rhetoric and Gender in Weblog Discourse"
  • Jessica Reyman
    Assistant Professor
    Northern Illinois University
    Dissertation: "Rhetoric, Law, and the Regulation of Intellectual Property on Peer-to-Peer Networks: The Case of MGM Studios v. Grokster"
  • Tori Sadler
    Assistant Professor
    Metro State University
    Dissertation: "Rhetoric, Technology, and the Military: The Death of a 'Top Gun'"
  • Kirk St. Amant
    Assistant Professor
    Texas Tech University
    Dissertation: "Culture, Conflict, and Cyberspace: A Case Study of EU-US Negotiations Over the EU Data Protection Directive and the US Safe Harbor Principles"
  • Matthew Segaard
    Chief Academic Officer
    Rasmussen College
    Dissertation : "Creating and Evaluating an Interdisciplinary Writing Program: A Case Study"
  • Doreen Starke-Meyerring
    Assistant Professor
    McGill University
    Dissertation: "Re-Visioning Higher Education on the Internet: A Cross Cultural Rhetorical Study of Higher Education Policy in Germany and in the United States"
  • Aimee Whiteside
    Research and Evaluation Consultant
    Digital Media Center, University of Minnesota
    Dissertation: "Exploring Social Presence in Communities of Practice within a Hybrid Learning Environment: A Longitudinal Examination of Two Case Studies within the School Technology Leadership Graduate-Level Certificate Program"
  • Wendy Winn
    Assistant Professor
    Appalachian State University
    Dissertation: "Visualizing Science: A Semiotic Analysis of Visual Representations in Ornithology Journals, 1859 - 2003"