2023
Brianna Avalos
Dissertation: Exploring Relational Dissolution Behaviors 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
Elena 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