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Alumni
Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication
Our graduates include:
| Name & Current Position | Dissertation |
|---|---|
| Paul Anheier Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin-Stout |
Dissertation: "Stasis, Change, and Pedagogic Struggle in the Teaching of Technical Writing: A Cultural Study of Houp and Pearsall's Reporting Technical Information." Advisor: Bernadette Longo 2012 |
| Smiljana Antonijevic Assistant Professor Roskilde University |
Dissertation: “Rhetoric, Culture, and Avatars: A Microethnographic Analysis of Nonverbal Communication in Multiuser, 3D Virtual Environments” Advisor: Laura J. Gurak 2008 |
| Anthony Arrigo Assistant Professor UMass, Dartmouth |
Dissertation: "Imaging the Dam: The Visual Rhetoric of Hoover (Boulder) Dam in Popular and Public Print Media, 1920-1975" Advisor: Richard Graff 2009 |
| Kelly Ball-Stahl Grant Writer Northeast Wisconsin Technical College |
Dissertation: “Environmental Values in American Popular-Culture Narratives” Advisor: Daniel J. Philppon 2005 |
| Robert Baron Assistant Professor Austin Peay State University |
Dissertation: “Pressures On Play: Rhetoric, Virtual Environments, and The Design of Experience in Virtual World Computer Games” Advisor: John Logie 2012 |
| David Beard Associate Professor University of Minnesota-Duluth |
Dissertation: “Douglas Walton, Informal Logic, and the Uses of the New Dialectic for the Rhetoric of Inquiry” Advisor: Arthur E. Walzer 2002 |
| Roopa Sukumaran Berzins Associate Academic Advisor University of Minnesota |
Dissertation: "'Stagecoach Island': Persuasive Lessons in Consumption in the Virtual World" Advisor: Bernadette Longo 2011 |
| Grace Coggio Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin-River Falls |
Dissertation: "Agency, Socio-Cultural Context, and the Role of the Technical Communicator During IT Adoption: A Case Study in Innovation Diffusion Across Cultures" Advisor: Bernadette Longo 2010 |
| Lenna Constantinides Copy Editor for electronic testing software |
Dissertation: “A Pragmatics of Power Using Jurgen Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action” Advisor: Alan G. Gross 2005 |
| Ruth Cronje Associate Professor University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire |
Dissertation: “Communicative Rationality and the Future of Science” Advisor: Alan G. Gross 2000 |
| T. Kenny Fountain Assistant Professor Case Western Reserve |
Dissertation: “'A Matter of Perception': Rhetoric, Embodiment, and Visual Practices of Anatomy Laboratory Education” Doctoral Dissertation Fellow
Advisor: Mary Lay Schuster 2008 |
| Timothy Giles Associate Professor Georgia Southern |
Dissertation: “The Role of Metaphor in the Technical Communication Classroom ” Advisor: Victoria Mikelonis 2004 |
| Cristina Hanganu-Bresch Assistant Professor University of the Sciences, Philadelphia |
Dissertation: “Faces of Depression: A Study of Antidepressant Advertisements in the American and British Journals of Psychiatry, 1960-2004” Advisor: Arthur E. Walzer 2008 |
| Brent Heffron Faculty Century College |
Dissertation: “The Psychology Novel: Polyphony in William James's Principles of Psychology” Advisor: Arthur E. Walzer 2008 |
| Brenda Hudson Senior Medical Writer Medtronic |
Dissertation: "'Democratizing' Clinical Research? Efficiency and Inclusiveness in an Electronic Primary Care Research Network" Advisor: Carol Berkenkotter 2010 |
| Elizabeth Kalbfleisch Instructor Virginia Military Institute |
Dissertation: "Beyond the Tradition: British Rhetoric and Modernity, 1756-1783" Advisor: Robert L. Brown 2011 |
| Constance Kampf Associate Professor Businesss & Social Sciences Aarhus University, Denmark |
Dissertation: “Kumeyaay Online: Dimensions of Rhetoric and Culture in the Kumeyaay Web Presence” Advisor: Victoria Mikelonis 2005 |
| Matthew Kaplan |
Dissertation:
"
Greening the Gamescape: How Virtual Game Worlds Can Represent Real-World Environmental Values" Advisor: Dan Philippon 2010 |
| Krista Kennedy Assistant Professor Syracuse University |
Dissertation: "Textual Curators and Writing Machines: Authorial Agency in Encyclopedias, Print to Digital" Advisors: Laura Gurak & John Logie 2009 |
| Dave Kmiec Instructor University of Delaware |
Dissertation: "Displacement and equilibrium: A cultural history of engineering in America before its golden age" Advisor: Bernadette Longo 2012 |
| Amy Koerber Associate Professor Texas Tech University |
Dissertation: “U.S. Breastfeeding Education and Promotion, 1978-99: A Feminist Rhetorical Analysis” Advisor: Mary Lay Schuster 2002 |
| Kari Kruempel Lockheed-Martin |
Dissertation: “Distance Working: A Rhetorical Analysis of Engineering Email Collaboration” Advisor: Laura J. Gurak 2004 |
| Paula Lentz Senior Lecturer University of Wisconsin-Eau Clair |
Dissertation: “Positioning and Identity in the Small-Story Narratives of RN-to- BSN Students in an Online BSN Management and Leadership Course” Advisor: Carol Berkenkotter 2007 |
| Gail Lippincott Permanent Instructor Central FLA |
Dissertation: “Ellen Swallow Richards: Rhetorical Strategies of a Nineteenth-Century Technical Communicator” Advisor: Mary Lay Schuster 1999 |
| Olga Menagarishvili Instructor, Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellows Georgia Institute of Technology |
Dissertation: "Dictionaries of Science as Participants in Scientific Knowledge Economy" Advisor: Bernadette Longo 2012 |
| 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” Advisor: Victoria Mikelonis 2006 |
| Salma Monani Assistant Professor Gettysburg College |
Dissertation: “Nature Films and the Challenge of Just Sustainability” Advisor: Daniel J. Philippon 2008 |
| Sara Newman Associate Professor Kent State University |
Dissertation: “Aristotle's Metaphorical Theory and Practice: A Comprehensive View” Advisor: Alan G. Gross 1998 |
| Dave Norton Principal Stone Mantel |
Dissertation: “The Strategic Technical Communicator: A Critical Action Inquiry of Information Architecture” Advisor: Billie J. Wahlstrom 2001 |
| Jennifer Novak Lecturer University of Denver |
Disertation: “Rhetoric, Medicine, and the Impact of Technologies on Subjects and Statements” Advisor: Mary Lay Schuster 2007 |
| Amy Patrick Mossman Assistant Professor Western Illinois University |
Dissertation: “Apocalyptic or Precautionary? Revisioning Texts in Environmental Literature” Doctoral Dissertation Fellow
Advisor: Daniel J. Philippon 2006 |
| Gretchen (Haas) Perbix Assistant Professor Minnesota State University |
Dissertation: “Subject
to the System: The Rhetorical
Constitution of Good Internet Citizenship in the 2004 U.S.
Presidential Campaign” Advisor: Laura J. Gurak 2006 |
| Joan Pougiales ESL Teacher Grow English |
Dissertation: “Little Ethiopia : The Colonization of a Multicultural American Workplace” Advisor: Robert L. Brown Jr. 2004 |
| Amy Propen Assistant Professor York College, York, PA |
Dissertation: “The Map, the Mill, and the Memorial: A Rhetorical Study of the Visual and Material” Advisor: Mary Lay Schuster 2007 |
| Sam Racine Director of Global Client Experience Unisys |
Dissertation: “Changing (Inter) Faces: A Genre Analysis of Catalogues from Sears, Robuck to Amazon.com” Doctoral Dissertation Fellow
Advisor: Laura J. Gurak 2002 |
| Clancy Ratliff Assistant Professor Director of First-Year Writing University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
Dissertation: “'Where Are the Women?' Rhetoric and Gender in Weblog Discourse” Doctoral Dissertation Fellow
Advisor: Mary Lay Schuster 2006 |
| Merry Rendahl Assistant Professor University of Minnesota-Duluth |
Dissertation: "Moving First Year Writing Online: Applying Social Cognitive Theory to an Exploration of Student Study Habits and Interactions--Two Case Studies" Advisor: Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch, Advisor 2010 |
| Jessica Reyman Associate 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” Advisor: Laura J. Gurak 2006 |
| Andreea Deciu Ritivoi Associate Professor Carnegie Mellon University |
Dissertation: “The Debate between Rene Descartes and Pierre de Fermat: A Pragma-Dialectical Analysis” Advisor: Alan G. Gross 1997 |
| Tori Sadler Assistant Professor Metro State University |
Dissertation: “Rhetoric, Technology, and the Military: The Death of a 'Top Gun'” Advisors: Carol Berkenkotter & Mary Lay Schuster 2003 |
| Greg Schneider Assistant Professor Kettering University |
Dissertation: "Science in the Science Museum: Representing Science for the Public" Advisor: Arthur Walzer 2009 |
| Chris Scruton Director of Academic Technology for Faculty Education University of Minnesota |
Dissertation: "The Rhetorical Potential of Images in Popular Accounts of Historical Events" Advisor: Billie Wahlstrom 2010 |
| Kirk St. Amant Professor East Carolina 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” Advisor: Laura J. Gurak 2002 |
| Matthew Segaard Chief Academic Officer Rasmussen College |
Dissertation : Title Suppressed Advisor: Earl McDowell 2004 |
| Doreen Starke-Meyerring Associate 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” Advisors: Ann Hill Duin & Victoria Mikelonis 2003 |
| Kimberly Thomas-Pollei Lecturer University of Minnesota |
Dissertation: "Shaping a Discipline: Science and Medical Education Reform in Britain, 1770-1858" Advisor: Richard Graff 2012 |
| Maggie VanNorman Sr. Organizational Learning Specialist Park Nicollet Health Services |
Dissertation: "
Body Burden and Newborn Cord Blood: A Case Study in Material Rhetoric" Advisor: Mary Schuster 2011 |
| Erin Wais-Hennen Assistant Professor Lindsey Wilson College |
Dissertation: "A Textual Analysis of the American Journal of Chinese Medicine: From Spirituality to Science" Advisors: Carol Berkenkotter & Art Walzer 2009 |
| Brett Werner Assistant Professor University of Illinois Springfield |
Dissertation: "Pragmatic Ecocriticism and Equipments for Living" Advisor: Dan Philippon 2009 |
| Matthew Williams Faculty Inver Hills Community College |
Dissertation: “Bartleby Goes to College: A Pragmatist Critique of Writing in Schools” Advisor: Tom Reynolds 2012 |
| Aimee Whiteside Assistant Professor University of Tampa |
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” Advisor: Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch 2007 |
| Wendy Winn Assistant Professor Appalachian State University |
Dissertation: “Visualizing Science: A Semiotic Analysis of Visual Representations in Ornithology Journals, 1859 - 2003” Advisor: Alan G. Gross 2006 |
| Christopher Scott Wyatt Adjunct Professor Tepper School of Business Carnegie Mellon University |
Dissertation:
"Online Pedagogy: Designing Writing Courses for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders" Advisor: Laura Gurak 2010 |
