Dissertation Titles (students A - H)
Armijo, Lisa M.: “The Search for Space and Dignity: Using Participatory Action Research to Explore
Boundary Management Among Homeless Individuals” - December 2002 - Co-Chairs: Laura Guerrero, Sandra Petronio
Bachman, Guy F.: “An Expectancy Violations Analysis of Factors Affecting Relational Outcomes and Communicative Responses Following Hurtful Events in Dating Relationships” - July 2002 - Chair, Laura Guerrero
Baker, Joyce M.: “Social Support and Academic Persistence: A Test of the Optimal-Matching Model” - December 1996 - Co-Chairs: M. Cristina Gonzalez, Katherine Miller
Baldwin, John R.: "European-Americans' Perceptions of 'Race' and 'Racist' Communication: An Interpretive (and Critical) Study” - November 1994 - Chair, Michael Hecht
Birkholt, Marty J.: “The Effects of an Optimal Match Between Nurse Communication of Support and Patient Stress” - January 2003 - Chair, Jess Alberts
Bradford, Lisa: "A Cross-Cultural Study of Strategic Embarrassment in Adolescent Socialization" - May 1993 - Chair, Sandra Petronio
Campbell, Belinda Beth: “Shattered Futures, Mended Lives: The Ritualized Mourning of Mothers of Stillborn Babies” - December 2000 - Chair, Kristin B. Valentine
Canary, Heather: “The Communicative Creation of Policy Knowledge: A Structurating-Activity Approach” – June 2007 – Chair, Robert D. McPhee
Carey, Christopher: "Collaboration and Conflict: Exploring the Worldviews Within the Anti-Trafficking Community" - December 2008 - Chair, Benjamin Broome
Chavez, Karma: “Coalitional Politics and Confronting the Constructions of Queers and Migrants in the State of Arizona” – December 2007 – Chair, Amira De la Garza
Chen, Hsueh Hua: “Imagining the Other: The Construction of Whiteness in Taiwan” – May 2006 – Co-Chairs, Thomas Nakayama and Judith Martin
Chitgopekar, Anuradha S.: “Communal and Personal Identity Structuration: An Examination of Asian-Indian Marathi Identity” – May 2007 – Chair, Robert D. McPhee
Co, Raymond F.: “Understanding the Politics of Innovation: Toward a Social Movement Theory for Innovation and Change in Organizations” - February 1998 - Co-Chairs: A. Cheree Carlson, Charles Bantz
Cole, Mark A.: "Interpersonal Conflict Communication in Japanese Cultural Contexts" - June 1996 - Chair, Judith Martin
Davis, Kristin L.: “The Transcendent Nature of Conflict in Romantic Relationships: How Empowerment and Recognition Transform Dialogue” – August 2006 – Chair, Daniel J. Canary
DeTurk, Sara D.: “The Meaning of Diversity and Dialogue for Participants of a Community Intergroup Dialogue Program” - December 2003 - Co-Chairs: Jacqueline Martinez, Benjamin Broome
Drzewiecka, Jolanta A.: “Immigrant Identity Formations: Between Cultures, Nations and Politics”- December 1998 - Chair, Thomas Nakayama
Dybvig-Pawelko, Kristin: “Sexual Initiation Strategies: Explication and Validation of a Concept” – May 2007 – Chair, Daniel J. Canary
Fox, Ragan C.: “The Rhetorical Construction of Identities: Gay Lives Performed Online” – May 2006 – Chair, Linda Park-Fuller
Fujimoto, Etsuko: “Korean Adoptees Growing Up in White America: Negotiating Racial and Cultural Identities” - May 2001 - Chair, Judith N. Martin
Ganesan, Puvana: “Blurring the Lines of Asianness and Whiteness: Exploring Biracial Identity in the United States” - December 2003 - Co-Chairs: Benjamin Broome, Judith Martin
Gao, Ge: "A Dyadic Analysis of Romantic Relationships in China and the United States" - November 1990 - Chair, Ronald Perry
Georgakopoulos (Jazayeri), Alexia S.: “A Cross-Cultural Examination of Immediacy and Teacher Effectiveness” - March 2003 - Co-Chairs: Benjamin Broome, Laura Guerrero
Gneiting, Gary Layne: “Brigadoon Reborn: Forming and Performing Culture at the National Storytelling Festival” - July 2002 - Chair, Kristin Valentine
Graham, S. Todd: “Inappropriate Humor During Interpersonal Interactions: An Analysis of Contexts and Responses” - May 2000 - Chair, Jess Alberts
Gross, Michael A.: “Conflict Management Orientation, Interpersonal Competency, Verbal Argumentativeness, and Verbal Aggressiveness” - April 1998 - Chair, Jess Alberts
Guzley, Ruth M.: "Toward a Unified Theory of Commitment: A Test of Brickman's Model" - May 1991 - Chair, William Arnold
Halualani, Rona T.: “(Communicatively) Signifying Identity Positions By, For, and In the Name of ‘Hawaii-ans’: An Inter/Cultural Studies Research” - June 1998 - Co-Chairs: Thomas Nakayama, David Goldberg
Hammers, Michele L.: “The Vagina Monologues: Staging Complex Questions about Rhetorical Theory and Practice” - April 2004 - Chair, Daniel Brouwer
Harper, Anneliese M.: "The Impact of Immigration On Rural Guatemalan Women's Ways of Speaking" - April 1996 - Co-Chairs: Judith Martin, Charles Braithwaite
Heisterkamp, Brian L.: “Neutrality as an Interactive Phenomenon in Community Mediation” - April 2000 - Chair, Jess Alberts
Henson, Donna F.: “Verbal Rumination and Depression in Close Relationships:Explication and Test of a Construct” - August 2003 - Chair, Daniel Canary
Herberger, Jeanne L.: “The Central Role of Objectification in the Experience of Menopause” - April 2000 - Chair, Jess Alberts
Hibler, Kristin L.: “Dynamics of ‘Resistance’ to Multicultural Education: Discursive Practices of Students and Instructors” - April 2000 - Chair, Judith Martin
Holling, Michelle A.: “Extending Critical Rhetoric and Feminist Theory: Rhetorical Constructions of Chicana Subject/ivity, Identity and Agency” - February 2000 - Co-Chairs: A. Cheree Carlson, Lisa Flores
Hsiung, Daw-jing (Denise): “Sensemaking and Culture: Examination of Two Culturally Grounded Theoretical Frameworks” - December 2003 - Chair, Judith Martin
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