Dissertations in Progress


  • Katherine Anderson ~ Celebrity Advocacy:  There's No Business but Show Business
  • Patrick Belanger ~ Negotiating Injustice:  Public Memory and Nationhood(s)
  • Omri Ceren ~ Even if They are Out to Get You:  The Non-Epistemic Dimensions of Conspiracy Rhetoric
  • Joyee Chatterjee ~ Producing Popular Culture:  Indian Television and Social Change
  • Paulina Chow-White ~ Creativity and the New Urban Imaginary:  Globalization and the (re)Configuration of Space, Governance and Everyday Life
  • Laura Farmer ~ A Grounded Theory Analysis of Leadership During Hurricane Katrina
  • Melissa Franke ~ Constraining Stories:  Four Narratives that Limit Options for U.S.-Cuba Relations
  • Ryan Gillespie ~ Moral Reasoning and Normative Judgment in Cosmopolitan Democracy
  • Laura (Farmer) Hawkins ~ Hurricane Katrina: A Grounded Theory Analysis of what Leadership Means to Leaders
  • Shawna Kelly ~ Running with Newbies:  Understanding Affordances of the Internet through the Eyes of Second-Generation Gamers
  • Charlotte Lapsansky ~ Communicating Women's Rights in India in the Mobile for Development Era:  Historical Perspective and New Trajectories
  • Jingfang Liu ~ The Emergence of "Green" Information Technology (Green IT):  The Uses of ICTs for Corporate and Social Environmental Sustainability
  • Drew Margolin ~ The Evolutionary Dynamics of Social and Semantic Networks in Epistemic Communities
  • Russell Newman ~ A Social History of Network Neutrality and the Comcast/NBC Merger:  Emergent Crises in Telecommunications Policy Activism
  • Katherine Ognyanova ~ Topical Networks:  Modeling the Issue Agenda of News Media Outlet Commjunities
  • Courtney Schultz Pade ~ Yours is Mine, But is Mine Yours?  Exploring Social Exchange Relationships in Transactive Memory Systems
  • Katherine Pieper ~ Children and the News:  The Impact of Graphic Visuals and Age of the Victim on Fright Responses
  • Steven Rafferty ~ Laughing With and At Race:  The Good, Bad, and Ugly of a Symbolic Regime in American Popular Culture
  • Stephen Robertson ~ The Rhetoric of Public Risk Perception and Controversy Surrounding Everyday, Low-level Radiation Technology
  • Janel Schuh ~ The Social Functions of Celebrity Gossip Among Adolescent Girls
  • Adam Symonds ~ At the Game or in the Basement:  Baseball Blogs and Fan Culture
  • Diana Winkelman ~ Emerging Network Frames in Relief Movements:  An Analysis of New Media's Role in Haiti's 2010 Earthquake Response
  • Li Xiong ~ The Social Meaning of Geocoding and Sharing:  "Location Awareness in Online Communities"
  • Mei Zhou ~ Evolving Definition of Falun Gong