Dissertation and Thesis Titles
| Name | Title | Year | PhD or MA |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adams, Brock Thomas | Sell Yourself: Building a Foundational Structure Around an Institution's Position in the College Application Process | 2018 | PhD |
| Banner, Joyceia Marie | Enriching or Depleting: An Investigation of Communication and Behavior Within the Family Business | 2008 | PhD |
| Bannon, Brandon Douglas | Volatile Congregations: Crisis Sensemaking in a Southern Baptist Church | 2013 | PhD |
| Barnett, Kathleen | Creating Meaning in Organizational Change: A Case in Higher Education | 2005 | PhD |
| Bendana-Rivas, Elvis J. | Harmonies of Dissent: The Role of Speech Acts and Necropolitics in the Music of the 1979 Nicaraguan Revolution | 2023 | PhD |
| Bennett, Naomi Petrea | Virtual Touch: Embodied Experiences of (dis)Embodied Intimacy in Mediatized Performance | 2020 | PhD |
| Bernardi, Jennifer | A Comparison of Dominance and Affiliation Ratings Based on Emotional State, Sex, and Status | 2006 | MA |
| Betancourt, Andrée Elise Comiskey | Under Construction: Recollecting the Museum of the Moving Image | 2009 | PhD |
| Bono, Daniel Christopher | Walden Pond and the Performative Touristic Gaze | 2008 | MA |
| Brisini, Travis Paine | AMD&ART: Performativity and Participation in Ecological Remediation | 2012 | PhD |
| Broussard, Johanna | Equipment for Dying: A Dramatistic Critique of Heroism and the Crises Assaulting Returning Soldiers | 2015 | PhD |
| Buerkle, C. Wesley | The Discipline and Disciplining of Margaret Sanger: US Birth Control Rhetoric in the Early Twentieth Century | 2004 | PhD |
| Burns, Julien | Narrative Infidelity and White Resentment in the Rhetorical Mobilization of the Anti-CRT Movement | 2023 | MA |
| Butterfield, Rya | China's 20th Century Sophist: Analysis of Hu Shi's Ethics, Logic, and Pragmatism | 2012 | PhD |
| Cannava, Kaitlin Emily | The Repertoire of Understanding: The Linguistic Patterning of Repetition and Alignment within Supportive Conversations | 2016 | PhD |
| Carper, Laura | Stigma and Social Support: Experiences on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) | 2021 | PhD |
| Caswell, David M. | When We Break Bread Together: Perceptions of Consensus Amongst Queer Organizers |
2013 |
MA |
| Causey, Andrew Michael | Audiating the LSU Drumline: An Ethnographic Performance | 2004 | MA |
| Colin, Stephanie | Cuir Latinidades: Decolonial Explorations of Cuir Borders of Identity and Relationality | 2024 | PhD |
| Constantini, Nicole Marie | The White Bicycle: Performance, Installation Art, and Activism in Ghost Bike Memorials | 2017 | PhD |
| Croghan, Jon M. | Toward a New Understanding of Wisdom: The Role of Communication on Perceptions of Wisdom | 2007 | PhD |
| Croghan, Tammy L. | When Shakespeare Meets Al Gore: Imagined Interactions, Communication Competence, and Immediacy in Traditional and Online-Based Distance Education | 2008 | PhD |
| Dawson, Taylor | My Favorite Murder as Discursive Performance | 2022 | PhD |
| Denham, Jonathan Paul | Teacher Matters: Teacher Normative Influence and Student Persistence in College | 2014 | PhD |
| Dick McGeough, Danielle | Performing Toilets: Putting Matter Into Place | 2011 | PhD |
| Earle, Elizabeth | Paul Tillich's Communication Theology and the Rhetoric of Existentialism | 2014 | MA |
| Eldredge, Judson Holloway | Two Communication Approaches to Explaining Interpersonal Sibling Differences: Interpersonal Conflict Causing Sibling Deidentification and Media Use Cultivating Family Communication Orientation | 2020 | PhD |
| Ells, Kevin James | One Rhizome, Two Unstoppable Blossoms: Environmental Communication and Ecological Rhetoric | 2008 | PhD |
| Erdely, Jennifer Lea | When the Saints Go Marching In: An Ethnography of Volunteer Tourism in Post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans | 2011 | PhD |
| Flanagan, Lisa | A House Performs | 2008 | PhD |
| France, Jr., Bruce Eric | From Guerrilla Theater to Media Warfare Abbie Hoffman's Riotous Revolution in America: A Myth | 2003 | MA |
| Gearhart, Christopher Charles | Communicating While Stimulated: The Effects of Sensory-Processing Sensitivity on Behavior and Relationships | 2012 | PhD |
| Gershberg, Zachary | A Rhetoric of Existentialism | 2008 | PhD |
| Gratch, Ariel | Masada Performances: The Contested Identities of Touristic Spaces | 2013 | PhD |
| Haas, Benjamin D. | Performing Folk Punk: Agonistic Performances of Intersectionality | 2013 | PhD |
| Hamzehee, Joshua | Baton Rouge SLAM!: An Obituary for Summer 2016: A Critical Performance Ethnography of Eclectic Truth Poetry Slam | 2020 | PhD |
| Hartman, Karen L. | The Rhetorical Myth of the Athlete as a Moral Hero: The Implications of Steroids in Sport and the Threatened Myth | 2008 | PhD |
| Hatchett, Alexandria N. | Black Feminist Counterpublic Pedagogy: A Study of Digital Black Feminism and its Pedagogical Possibilities | 2024 | PhD |
| Heath, Stephanie Patricia | Mapping a Beat Repertoire: Recovering Everyday Life Performances of the Women of the Beat Generation | 2017 | PhD |
| Hughes, Destini J'ne | What Every New Coach Should Know: Analysis of Coaches' Goals for Organizational Entry/Assimilation, through the Goals-Plans-Action Theory and Socioemotional Selectivity Theory | 2016 | MA |
| Huell, Jade C. | Performing Nostalgia: Body, Memory, and the Aesthetics of Past-Home | 2012 | PhD |
| Hunter, Ethan | Performance Matters: An Empirical Study of the Student Learning Outcomes from an Oral Interpretation Course | 2025 | PhD |
| Hyepock, Mary | It’s Britney, Bitch, | 2024 | PhD |
| Jackson, Sarah Kathryn | Typewriters Typing Typist: A Performance History | 2009 | MA |
| Jackson, Sarah Kathryn | Performing Joseph Cornell's Chronotopes of Assemblage | 2014 | PhD |
| Jenkins, Kerry | Efficacy of Genres in Training Videos for Emergency First Responders | 2011 | MA |
| Jones, Andrew Cessna | "I Listen to Their Story, They Listen to My Comments, and Then I Pocket My Fee:" Sherlock Holmes as Rhetorical Equipment for Living | 2016 | PhD |
| Keaton, Shaughan Alan | Sport Team Fandom, Arousal, and Communication: A Multimethod Comparison of Sport Team Identification with Psychological, Cognitive, Behavioral, Affective, and Physiological Measures | 2013 | PhD |
| Kennerly, Rebecca Marie | Cultural Performance of Roadside Shrines: A Poststructural Postmodern Ethnography | 2005 | PhD |
| Kice, Brent C. | From the Mountains to the Podium: The Rhetoric of Fidel Castro | 2008 | PhD |
| Kitchens, Melanie A. | A Performance Genealogy of "Etchings of Debutantes" | 2004 | MA |
| Kitchens, Melanie A. | Performing Photographs: Memory, History, and Display | 2008 | PhD |
| Kizer, Ariel L. | YOU’RE LOOKING VERY SHANE TODAY: RHETORICAL FIELD METHODS & THE MATERIALITY OF QUEER MEDIATED REPRESENTATION FOR SAPPHIC WOMEN | 2024 | PhD |
| Langner, Gregory | Modes of Cartoon Corporeal Performance | 2019 | PhD |
| LeBlanc III, Hanson Paul | Student Perceptions of Rules for Classroom Interaction | 1992 | MA |
| LeBret, John | Writing William Burroughs, Performing the Archive | 2011 | PhD |
| Leighton, Corey Elizabeth | Strutting It Up Through Histories: A Performance Genealogy of the Philadelphia Mummers Parade | 2009 | PhD |
| Leslie, Julia Morgan | Thoreau's Melancholia, Walden's Friendship, and Queer Agency | 2017 | PhD |
| Lipscomb III, William P. | The Operational Aesthetic in the Performance of Professional Wrestling | 2005 | MA |
| Mapp, Christopher Michael | The Relationship between Forgiveness, Imagined Interactions, Empathy and Relational Satisfaction among Long-Distance Romantic Couples | 2013 | PhD |
| Maddex, Matthew | Raptivism: the Act of Hip Hop’s Counterpublic Sphere Forming into a Social Movement to Seize its Political Opportunities | 2014 | PhD |
| Mcelearney, Patrick | A Narrative and Performative Methodology for Understanding Adolescent Cancer Stories | 2018 | PhD |
| McDonald, Bonny | After Images: Using Augusto Boal's Image Theatre to Balance Artistry, Analysis, and Activism in the Performance Composition Process | 2016 | PhD |
| McDonald II, Charles Austin | The Devil Made Her Do It: Three Horror Film Case Studies in the Exorcism Subgenre | 2014 | PhD |
| McGeough, Ryan Erik | The American Counter-Monumental Tradition: Renegotiating Memory and the Evolution of American Sacred Space | 2011 | PhD |
| Michalik, Lyndsay Erin | 'Post Your Version Here!' Performances in/of Online, Noncommercial, Video-to-Video Adaptations | 2014 | PhD |
| Mitchell, Joseph C | Effects of Gender Role on the Judgment of Masculine Signs | 2005 | PhD |
| Moe, Bryan | Rhetoric and Food: The Rise of the Food Truck Movement | 2015 | PhD |
| Moran, Taylor Catherine | Rhetorics of Rebuke in the Sub-veillance Meme Genre | 2021 | PhD |
| Moss, Christina L. | Re-Conceptualizing Southern Rhetoric: A Meta-Critical Pespective | 2005 | PhD |
| Mudd, Derek | Staging the Voice: Towards a Critical Vocal Performance Pedagogy | 2014 | PhD |
| Mungin, Douglas | There’s a Skid Row Everywhere, and This is Just the Headquarters: Impacts of Urban Revitalization Policies in the Homeless Community of Skid Row | 2016 | PhD |
| Nasser, Khaled | “Do It for Me, My Dear:” Structuration and Relational Dialectics among Mother-Daughter Dyads in Lebanese Arranged Marriages | 2010 | PhD |
| Nelson, Katie | Intimate Rhetorics of Networked Motherhood | 2021 | PhD |
| Nemetz, Lois B. | A Study of Communication in Baby Boomers' Romantic Relationships and the Effects of their Children's Communication about the Relationships | 2010 | PhD |
| Oliver, Laura D. | The Black Performer's Toolbox: A Critical Authoethnography | 2023 | PhD |
| Osmanovic Vukelic, Sanela | Questing with Grandma: Building Closer Families Through Intergenerational Video Gaming | 2017 | PhD |
| Overton, Barbara Cook | Examining Electronic Medical Records System Adoption and Implications for Emergency Medicine Practice and Providers | 2015 | PhD |
| Parson, Margaret Alice | "Will God Forgive Us?": Christianity and the Climate Crisis in Auteur Cinema | 2021 | PhD |
| Pearsall, Josiah W. | Partnering with Objects: Unsettling the Human in Contemporary Performance | 2025 | PhD |
| Pence, Michelle Elaine | Causes and Consequences of Conflict: Exploring the Influence of Honor-Based Norms and Values on the Experience of Intimate Partner Violence in the United States | 2013 | PhD |
| Pippin, Roger L | The Discursive Practices of Chemical Discipline | 2006 | MA |
| Porter, Marcus Allen | Third-Party Imagined Interactions: Expanding Imagined Interactions as False Memories in Understanding Interactions | 2009 | PhD |
| Powell, Benjamin Daniel | Processes and/of Performance: Difference, Memory, and Experimentation. | 2008 | PhD |
| Pye, David A. | The National D-Day Museum as Mystory Praxis | 2004 | MA |
| Rasner, Ryan D. | Communication Observation in Interpersonal Relationships: Development and Validation of the Communication Observation Measure | 2020 | PhD |
| Ray, Colter | The Social Support Experiences of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Adults | 2023 | MA |
| Rester, Carolyn Hornsby | The Effects of Sex and Context on Students' Interpretation of Teachers' High Immediacy Messages | 2005 | PhD |
| Rhodes, Gretchen Stein | Method and Madness at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | 2010 | PhD |
| Rhodes, Joseph E | Reinhold Niebuhr's Ethics of Rhetoric | 2012 | PhD |
| Riccardi, Rebecca M. | Family Communication Patterns During Emerging Adulthood: An Investigation of Parent-Child Communication About Vaccine Decisions | 2023 | PhD |
| Robvais, Raquel M | To Speak as a Human, a Modern and as an American: Blues Rhetoric in Cornel West's Prophetic Pragmatism | 2013 | MA |
| Robvais, Raquel M | The Rhetoric of Sickle Cell Anemia | 2019 | PhD |
| Rold, Michael Francis | The Twin Taboos of Discussing Religion and Politics: A Study of Six "Basic" Emotions and Interpersonal Relationships in Response to Rick Perry's "Strong" | 2014 | PhD |
| Ruffino, Annamaria | Uncomfortable Performances: Discovering a Subversive Scenario for Rape Discourse | 2007 | MA |
| Saechou, Tiwa | Verbal and Nonverbal Immediacy: Sex Differences and International Teaching Assistants | 2005 | PhD |
| Sampson, Cynthia | Theater of the Obsessed | 2020 | PhD |
| Sandras, Dakota | The Voice Of Honor: Centering An Indigenous Ethic Of Protocol In U.S. Rhetorical Studies | 2020 | MA |
| Saribal, Misty | In Knowledge We Trust(ed): A Case Study in Abolition Theatre | 2023 | PhD |
| Schares, Evan | An Archive of Pain: In Queer Suicide's Cultural Wake | 2019 | PhD |
| Self, Cordarrell | Ties That Bind: Black Familyness and the Politics of Contingent Coalitions | 2020 | PhD |
| Sheldon, Pavica | Similarities and Differences in Self-Disclosure and Friendship Development between Face-to-Face Communication and Facebook | 2010 | PhD |
| Shimek, Cassie Elizabeth | If We're "Over," Is It Really Over?: How Past Romantic Relationships Impact Subsequent Relationships | 2019 | PhD |
| Shkreli, Linda A. | Performing Selfhoods in U.S. Rituals of Private and Public Spheres | 2011 | PhD |
| Sills, Elizabeth | Mark Twain, James Thurber, and David Sedaris: American Literary Humorists | 2015 | PhD |
| Smith, Montana J. | The Choreo-Story Workshops: Devising Body Narratives | 2020 | PhD |
| Speed, Jesica Eileen | Methodological Lagniappe: A Walk in Representations of the Red Stick Farmers Market | 2007 | MA |
| St.Cyr, Kellie | Dance Dance Attribution: Exploring the Relationship between Dance and Attractiveness in Initial Perceptions | 2009 | MA |
| Swift, Crystal-Lane | This House Would Ethically Engage: A Critical Examination of Competitor and Coach Leadership in National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA) Debate | 2008 | PhD |
| Tarvin, David T. | The Rhetorical Strategies of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza | 2013 | PhD |
| Terry, David Price | Spalding Gray and the Slippery Slope of Confessional Performance | 2005 | MA |
| Theledi, Kholofelo M. K. | THE USER-MADE NATION: (RE)NEGOTIATING AND (RE)IMAGINING SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONALISM ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS | 2024 | PhD |
| Treat, Shaun Robert | The Myth of Charismatic Leadership and Rhetoric of Crypto-Charismatic Membership | 2004 | PhD |
| Trudeau, Justin Thomas | Jack Kerouac's Spontaneous Prose: A Performance Genealogy of the Fiction | 2006 | PhD |
| Vaughn, Holley Ann | A Critical Ethnography of The Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana with Ruminations on Hauntology | 2012 | PhD |
| Vickery, Andrea Jean | Advice in Troubles Talk Conversations Between Strangers: The Role of Problem Seriousness and the Impact of Advice on Helper Supportiveness and the Desire for Future Interactions | 2012 | MA |
| Vickery, Andrea Jean | Relational Effects of Person-Centered Comfort | 2016 | PhD |
| Vignes, Danielle Sears | An Ethnography of "Hang It Out To Dry" | 2009 | PhD |
| Walker, Rebecca | Eight is Not Enough: A Historical, Cultural, and Philosophical Analysis of the Flash Mob | 2011 | PhD |
| Watson, Joey | Screening TED: A rhetorical analysis of the intersections of rhetoric, digital media, and pedagogy | 2014 | PhD |
| Waychoff, Brianne | Composing a Method: Écriture Féminine as Performance Practice | 2012 | PhD |
| Wenk, Akie Fukushige | Women's Interracial Friendships: Cultivating Coalitional Possibilities Across Difference Through Dialogue | 2023 | PhD |
| Wilcox, Kassi M. | Detecting deception: The diagnostic utility of unanticipated questions | 2017 | MA |
| Whitaker, Rebekah Christine | Get in Your Posse: An Exploratory Study of Semester-Long Small Groups in Public Speaking Courses | 2019 | PhD |
| White, Richard | Relational Red Flags: Detecting Undesirable Qualities in Initial Romantic Encounters | 2016 | PhD |
| Womelsdorf, Charles Stowers | Regarding Suicide: A Textually Informed Rhetorical and Psychoanalytic Construct of the State of Disconstituency, Disconstitutive Rhetoric, and the Disconstituent as Related to the Constitutive Rhetorical Structure of the Vanishing Subject | 2015 | PhD |