2023

Brianna Avalos 
Dissertation: Exploring Relational Dissolution Behavoirs within Friendships
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Laura Guerrero
Committee: Liesel Sharabi; Amanda Tachine 
Position: Faculty Associate, ASU

Angela Labador
Dissertation: Philippine Sea Theorizing: Activism, Communication, and Performance
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Lor/etta LeMaster
Committee: Heewon Kim 
Position: Instructor, ASU

Cary López
Dissertation: How Teams Navigate the Ebbs and Flows of Hope in Organizational Life
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Sarah J. Tracy
Committee: Vince Waldron (West); Elissa Adame; Blake Ashforth (Mgmt);Alaina Zanin
Position: Co-founder and CEO, Design Convo

2022

Reslie Cortés
Dissertation: Mujeres del Recetario Nacional: Stories of Women's Cultural Stewardship in the Puerto Rican Kitchen
Co-Chairs of Dissertation Committee: Manu Avilés-Santiago; Amira de la Garza
Committee: Loretta LeMaster
Position: Assistant Professor, James Madison University

Callie Graham 
Dissertation: Demystifying Toxic Romantic Relationships: Identifying Behaviors and Post-Breakup Outcomes
Chair of Dissertation Committee:  Laura Guerrero
Committee: Jess Alberts,  Ashley Randall 
Position: 

Allison Hawn
Dissertation: Indelibly Drawn Together: How Tattoo Artists Can Help Redefine and Rediscover the Meanings of Art, Communication, and Community
Chair of Dissertation Committee:  Lindsey Mean
Committee: Laura Guerrero, Corine Schleif 
Position: Public Scholar, Phoenix College 

Mary Kiura
Dissertation: Toward reconceptualizing constructive employee voice: Understanding the process of voicing in the renewable energy industry in Kenya
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Heewon Kim
Committee: Ryan Bisel, Paul Mongeau and Vince Waldron
Position: Assistant Professor, Purdue University, Ft. Wayne 

Rebecca Leach
Dissertation: Collective Compassion: How Structures and Agency Influence Individual, Group, and Organizational Compassion in Healthcare Organizations
Co-Chairs of Dissertation Committee: Elissa Adame, Sarah Tracy and Alaina Zanin
Committee: Heather Canary
Position: Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas

Laura Martinez
Dissertation: Circus Hurts: Exploring the Occupational Identification and Socialization of Pain Work of Aerial Acrobats
Co-Chairs of Dissertation Committee: Sarah J. Tracy, Alaina Zanin 
Committee: Boris Brummans
Position: Assistant Professor, University of Las Vegas, Las Vegas 


Lucy Niess 
Dissertation: Why Can't You Have Both?: Theorizing Compulsive Monogamy and its Influences upon Polyamorous Identities
Co-Chairs of Dissertation Committee: Laura Guerrero, Loretta LeMaster
Committee: Eric Margolis
Position: Associate User Experience Researcher, Epic Games 

2021

Anna Marie Campbell
Dissertation: Expanding the Boundaries: Using Communication Privacy Management Theory to Explore the Disclosure of the Diagnosis of a Chronic Illness by Pediatric Healthcare Providers and Parents to Adolescent Patients
Co-Chairs of Dissertation Committee: Jess Alberts and Paul Mongeau
Position: Campbell Grants & Consulting, L.L.C.

Ian Derk
Dissertation: A New Kind of Community Belonging and Community Formation through Community Radio in South Phoenix
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Pauline Cheong
Position: Lecturer, ASU


Anna Hommadova Lu 
Dissertation: Nonverbal Immediacy and Similarity Effects on Initial Intercultural Interaction: First Impressions of U.S. and Middle Eastern Students
Co-Chairs of Dissertation Committee: Laura Guererro, Judith Martin
Committee: Stephen Carradini

Position: Assistant Professor, Sam Houston State University

Lauren Mark
Dissertation: Bringing Asian Epistemologies to Western Contexts: A Relational Approach in Times of Crisis
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Sarah Amira de la Garza
Committee: Loretta LeMaster, Gregory Wise, David Carlson
Position: Assistant Professor of Communication and Culture, SUNY New Paltz

Corey Reutlinger
Dissertation: Towards a game theoretic analysis for the study of disability microaggressions as a communicative phenomenon

Chair of Dissertation Committee: Sarah Amira de la Garza
Committee: Jess Alberts, Nicolas Lanchier, and James Cherney

Position: Instructor, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, ASU

Tyler Rife
Dissertation: Here Comes the Sun!: Toward a Critical Ecological Rhetoric for the Anthropocene
Co-Chairs of Dissertation Committee: Loretta LeMaster, Daniel Brouwer
Committee: Greg Wise, Kevin McHugh
Position: Assistant Professor, St. Lawrence University


Kevin Shufford
Dissertation: 
Fitness Clients’ Experiences of Self-Expansion by Working with a Certified Personal Trainer
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Bradley Adame
Position: Residential Faculty at Glendale Community College


Cristopher Tietsort
Dissertation: Compassionate leadership at work: Cultivating compassion by reducing uncertainty, emphasizing personal well-being, and aligning compassionate actions
Chairs of Dissertation Committee: Elissa Adame, Sarah Tracy
Position: Assistant Professor, University of Denver

Rikki Tremblay
Dissertation: The Fermentation Orientation: Cultivating a Microbial Methodology of Creative Inquiry!
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Sarah Amira de la Garza
Committee: Loretta LeMaster, Irena Praitis
Position: Instructor, ASU


Ashley Wheeler
Dissertation: Remembering a Nation’s Historic Property: Ambiguities, Opportunities, and Poetries in the National Historic Preservation Act
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Daniel Brouwer 
Position: Historic Trails Fellow, American Conservation Experience

2020

Kelsey Abele
Dissertation: The Man in the High Castle or the History that Never Happened: The Conflation of Alternative History, Memory, and Ideology
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Daniel Brouwer
Committee: Cheree Carlson, Ana Hedberg Olenina
Position: Assistant Professor and Director of Forensics, West Texas A & M Univerisity


Bhoomika Bhagchandani
Dissertation: The Effects of a Visual Disability on Marital Relationships
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Jeffrey W. Kassing
Position: UX Researcher, Accessibility, Amazon Web Services 

 

Catalina Cayetano
Dissertation: Dialogic Cultural Relationships of Expertise, Knowledge, (Inter)dependence and Power Within the Acculturating Family: Exploring the Technolinguistic Brokering Experiences of Adolescents and Their Immigrant Non-English Speaking Mothers
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Pauline Cheong
Committee: Jonathan Pettigrew, Mary Romero, YoungJu Shin
Position: Director of Learning Enterprise (LE) and Community Engagement, ASU


Katrina Hanna
Dissertation: Neoliberal Dis/Investments at a Charter School Teaching the Whole Child
Chairs of Dissertation Committee: Daniel Brouwer, Aaron Hess
Committee: Jeanne Powers
Position: Assistant Professor, California State University, Long Beach


Robert Razzante

Dissertation:  Communicatively Co-Constituting Pathways of an Inclusive Workplace: A Participant-Driven Methodology
Chairs of Dissertation Committee: Benjamin Broome, Sarah Tracy
Committee: Devika Chawla, Michael Hogan
Position: Faculty Associate, ASU


Michael Tristano, Jr.
Dissertation: After the 49: Pulse's Performative Afterlife
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Daniel Brouwer
Committee: Marlon Bailey, Lor/etta LeMaster, Marivel Danielson
Position: Assistant Professor, Towson University


Nikki Truscelli 
Dissertation: Couples' Conflict through an Attachment Lens: A Brief, Theory-Driven Writing Intervention
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Paul Mongeau
Committee: Laura Guerrero, Ashley Randall
Position: Lecturer, UC Santa Barbara 


Erin Zamora
Dissertation: Buried Under Dodger Blue: Racial Rhetorical Criticism, Public Memory, and Fernandomania
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Daniel Brouwer
Committee: Ersula Ore, Lindsey Mean
Position: Lecturer, California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

2019

Matthew Donovan
Dissertation: Pop-up hacktivism: A case study of organizational, pharmaceutical, and biohacker narratives
Innovation Development Manager and Strategist, MedImpact Healthcare

Chair of Dissertation Committee: Sarah Tracy
Committee: Alexander 
Halavais, Heewon Kim, Majia Nadesan
Position: MedImpact Healthcare Systems

Brandon Ferderer
Dissertation: "Tumbling through Space in a Gold Box": Reconceptualizing New Communication Technologies as Atmospheric
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Daniel Brouwer
Committee: Aaron Hess, Kevin McHugh
Position: Instructor, Arizona State University


Rosalie Fisher
Dissertation: Film and Emotional Contagion: Audiencing, Witnessing, and Performing the Lingua Franca of Compassion
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Eric Margolis
Committee: Benjamin Broome, Clark Olson

Position: Instructor, Arizona State University


Sarah Jones
Dissertation: Breast/milk as (In)visible Currency: Alternative Organizing, Inequality Regimes, and Corporeal Commodification in the Milk Banking Industry
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Sarah Tracy
Committee: Daniel Brouwer, Laura Ellingson

Position: Assistant Professor, Ohio University


Karlee Posteher
Dissertation: Winning the recruiting game: The student-athlete perspective
Co-Chairs of Dissertation Committee: Paul Mongeau, Jeffrey Kassing
Committee: Naomi Mandel

Position: Assistant Professor, California State University, Monterey


Summer Preston
Dissertation: Bearing the Weight of Healthism: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Women's Health, Fitness & Body Image in the Gym

Chair of Dissertation Committee: Linda Lederman
Committee: Olga Davis, Mary Margaret Fonow

Position: Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Denver

Elaina Steiner 
Dissertation: A Worldview MAP Approach to Intercultural Competence in a Multinational Organization in Europe and Japan
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Steve Corman
Committee: Heewon Kim, Takeyuki Tysuda
Position: Research Specialist, PRN, ASU


Nandita Sabnis

Dissertation: Mediated Transnational Communication: Digital Technology Use and Transnational Communication Practices of Resettled Refugees
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Pauline Cheong
Committee: Elissa Adame, Takeyuki Tsuda
Position: Sr. UX Researcher, USAA Contract


Sophia Town
Dissertation: Mindful Dis/engagement': Extending the Constitutive View of Orgnaizational Paradox by Exploring Leaders' Mindfulness, Discursive Consciousness, and More-Than Responses
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Sarah Tracy
Committee: Elissa Adame, Boris Brummans, Gail Fairhurst, Don Lange
Position: Assistant Professor, Fordham University


2018 

Carlos Flores
Dissertation: Young at Heart: Advocating a Rhetorical Theory for Youth in the Public Sphere
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Daniel Brouwer
Committee: Elenore Long
Position: Assistant Professor in Residence, University of Nevada, Las Vegas


Qingqing Hu
Dissertation: Cultural Values, Connection, and Participatory Cultural Divide: Chinese Generation Cohort Differences in Adoption and Use of WeChat
Chair of Dissertation: Pauline Cheong
Committee: Robert Shuter, Karen Mossberger
Position: Faculty, Northwest University in Xi'An, China


Jessica Kamrath
Dissertation: The Social Construction and Reciprocity of Resilience: An Empirical Investigation of an Organizational Context
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Sarah J. Tracy
Committee: Elissa Adame, Scott Cloutier, Vincent Waldron
Position:
Assistant Professor, California State University, Fullerton


Yanqin Liu
Dissertation: Exploring Factors Influencing Chinese American Older Adults' Intentions to Plan for End-of-Life Care
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Anthony Roberto
Committee: Paul Mongeau, Marilyn Thompson
Position: Research Scientist, North Mountain Consulting Group, LLC


Bailey Oliver
Dissertation: Blended Family Resilience: Communication Practices in Positive Adult Half Sibling Relationships
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Jess Alberts
Committee: Ashley Randall, Vincent Waldron

Position: Assistant Professor, The University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Colter Ray
Dissertation: Effects of Message Planning on Support Message Effectiveness, Nonverbal Behaviors, and Supporter Stress and Anxiety
Chairs of Dissertation Committee: Benjamin Broome, Sarah Tracy
Committee: Ashley Randall

Position: Director of the Human Communication Laboratory,
San Diego State University


James Stein
Dissertation: Incorporating Social Network Variables into Relational Turbulence Theory: Popping the Dyadic Bubble
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Paul Mongeau
Committee: Laura Guerrero, Larry Dumka

Position: Assistant Professor, Interpersonal Curriculum Director, Dixie State University

Alaina Veluscek
Dissertation: Military Couples' Communication During Deployment: A Proposed Expansion of Affection Exchange Theory
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Laura 
Guerrero
Committee: Jess Albert, Jennifer Brougham
Position: Lecturer, Mississippi State University

2017

Versha Anderson
Dissertation: Understanding Intercultural Transitions and Migrant-Host Relationships: How Empathy, Social Support, and Intercultural Competency Facilitate Positive Intercultural Interactions Between German Citizens and Refugees
Chairs of Dissertation Committee: Jess Alberts, Benjamin Broome
Committee: Judith Martin, Kazuma Matoba
Position: Paradise Valley Community College


Luke Brenneman
Dissertation: You Had to Be There: Extending Intergroup Contact Theory to Positive Contexts through a Participant-Centered Analysis of Fans' Experiences at the Olympics
Chairs of Dissertation Committee: Jess Alberts, Benjamin Broome
Committee: Dikaia Chatziefstathiou, Judith Martin 
Position: Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Global Sports Institute, ASU


Yashu Chen
Dissertation: Civic Engagement within China: Explore the Influence of Social Network Sites Use, Media Exposure, Internet Censorship, Political Attitudes and Social Capital
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Pauline Cheong
Committee: Laura Guerrero, Steven Neuberg
Position: Lecturer, California State University, San Marcos


Matthew Nolen
Dissertation: The Theory of Narrative Conflict
Chair of Dissertation Committee: Steven Corman
Committee: Bradley Adame,  Denis Simon
Position: Lead Instructor, Grand Canyon University


Lisa van Raalte
Dissertation: The Influence of Cuddling on Relational Health for Cohabitating Couples
Chairs of Dissertation Committee: Kory Floyd, Paul Mongeau

Committee: Mary Burleson
Position: Assistant Professor, Sam Houston State University