Recent Dissertation and Thesis Titles

ALCAZAR, Victoria. "I Tell You These Stories? “Women's Storytelling as Embodied Knowledge Production.” (2022)

ALVAREZ, Mike. “The Suicidal Self in Cyberspace: Co-Creating Meaning and Community through Online Discourse.” (2019)

ALHAYEK, Katty. “Syrian Online Spaces of Possibilities: Alternative and Activist Media for Dialogue and Reconciliation.” (2021)

BARUCH BLANCO, Maria Felicitas. “Transnational Fandom and New Forms of Cultural Flows: Digital Media Practices and the Transformation of Global TV Drama.” (2021)

BLACK, Gregory. “Military-Themed Video Games and the Cultivation of Related Beliefs and Attitudes in Young Adult Males.” (2020)

BORDINO, Alex. “Reconstructing the Present/Past: Antimodernism and Early Film Reenactments.” (2021)

BRIGGS, Rachel R. “Narratives of Queerness: Queer Worldmaking (in) the Classroom with Undergraduate Students.” (2019)

CHO, Sarah. “Negotiating Identities in a Korean American-Owned Beauty Supply Store.” (2020)

DINERSTEIN, Anton. “The People Who "Burn": "Communication," Unity, and Change in Belarusian Discourse on Public Creativity.” (2020)

GRIMSHAW, Eean. "Native America Speaks: Blackfeet Communication and Culture in Glacier National Park." (2022)

HAN, Woori. “Sticky Cultural Activism: Mediated Feeling and Reconfigured Citizenship in Transnational Korean LGBTQ Organizing.” (2021)

HERNANZEZ-OJEDA, Carmen. “The Coyolxauhqui Process of a Scholar Unbecoming an Enemy of Youth: A Performative, Embodied, Self-Decolonizing Story of Transformation and Hope.” (2019)

KEPES, Gyuri, “Framing the Crisis on the Merrimac Valley: The Opioid Epidemic, White Despair, and Authoritarian Populism on the New England Borderlands.” (2019)

KIM, Dasol. “Asian American Women on YouTube: Race, Gender, and Beauty on the Transnational Digital Platform.” (2021)

LEE, Eunbi. " Performing Transnational Erotic Activism: Survival, Thriving, and Solidarity in Asian and Migrant Massage/Sex Workers." (2023)

LEE, Jung Yup. “Nation Branding, National Prestige, and the Social Imaginaries of an Advanced Nation in South Korea.” (2020)

McCAULEY, Brendan. "Connecting Studio Arts Labor: Performing Production and Resisting Separation." (2023)

MEDDEN, Stephanie Aragao. “Rights, Recognition, and Changing Borders: Latin American Activism in Post-Brexit Britain.” (2019)

MIYOSE, Colby. “Aloha Media: Negotiating Kanaka Maoli Representation and Identity in Television, Film and Music.” (2021)

MORTENSEN, Taliah. "LGBTQ+ Divergent Paths in Utah: Identity and Space-making Practices in Queer and Religious Spaces." (2022)

MYERS, Brian. “Gaming for Life: Gaming Practices, Self-Care, and Thriving under Neoliberalism.” (2019)

NAYAR-JABLONKA, Kavita. "Productive Women: Gender, Sex, and Labor in the Digital Cultural Economy." (2022)

NIELSEN, EJ. “Framing Fanart.” (2024)

NIKOI, Nii Kotei. “Hiplife Music in Ghana: Postcolonial Performances of Modernity.” (2019) OLSON, Christine. “Makerspace Models and Organizational Policies for Technical Inclusion.” (2020)

OWENS, James. "Race-Making and Land-Taking: Uncovering Policing in the Constitution of Racial Capitalism and Settler Colonialism." (2023)

PARKER, Alina. "Russia-My History": The Amazing Transformations of a History Exhibit in Post- Crimean Russia." (2022)

PRINGLE, Wendy. “A Better Country to Die in: Self-Determination, Drugs, and the Limits of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada.” (2019)

REIJVEN, Menno. "I Want You to Defend That! "The Argumentative Structure of U. S. A. Presidential Debates." (2022)

RODRIGUEZ, Fernando. “Television and Perceived Control: A Longitudinal Study of the Cultivation of Powerlessness Among Millennial Adolescent.” (2019)

SHARLING, Tenzin. "Caring for Human, Climate, and Planetary Well-Being: the Dalai Lama's Rhetoric of Human Values and Environmental Ethics”. (2023)

SHAVIT, Nimrod. “The Communication of Economic Rationality in Voluntary Corporations.” (2020)

SIBII, Razvan. “You Can Be A Good Romanian, But Not A Romanian”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Romanian History Textbook Narrative.” (2019)

SWERZENSKI, James D. "Enacting a Critical Media Production Pedagogy." (2022)

TORTOLANI, Erica. “Bitten by the Demon of Cinema: An Examination of Women-Made Horror.” (2021)

TWISHIME, Porntip. " PLOY: An Immigrant Daughter's Archival Survival Strategy" (2023)

WARREN, Stephen. “Stick to Sports": Fan Moral Reasoning Strategies and Subsequent Psychological Well-Being in Response to an Athlete's Controversial Political Associations.” (2021)

YIN, Siyuan. “Gender, Class, and Mediated Labor Activism, in Globalizing China.” (2019)

YOO, Danbi. " Reconfiguring Digital Citizenship: Civic Hacking, Data Activism, and Democracy Platforms in South Korea." (2023)