Dissertation and Thesis Titles
| Name | Title | Year | PhD or MA |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sell Yourself: Building a Foundational Structure Around an Institution's Position in the College Application Process | 2018 | PhD | |
| Enriching or Depleting: An Investigation of Communication and Behavior Within the Family Business | 2008 | PhD | |
| Volatile Congregations: Crisis Sensemaking in a Southern Baptist Church | 2013 | PhD | |
| Creating Meaning in Organizational Change: A Case in Higher Education | 2005 | PhD | |
| Harmonies of Dissent: The Role of Speech Acts and Necropolitics in the Music of the 1979 Nicaraguan Revolution | 2023 | PhD | |
| Virtual Touch: Embodied Experiences of (dis)Embodied Intimacy in Mediatized Performance | 2020 | PhD | |
| A Comparison of Dominance and Affiliation Ratings Based on Emotional State, Sex, and Status | 2006 | MA | |
| Under Construction: Recollecting the Museum of the Moving Image | 2009 | PhD | |
| Walden Pond and the Performative Touristic Gaze | 2008 | MA | |
| AMD&ART: Performativity and Participation in Ecological Remediation | 2012 | PhD | |
| Equipment for Dying: A Dramatistic Critique of Heroism and the Crises Assaulting Returning Soldiers | 2015 | PhD | |
| The Discipline and Disciplining of Margaret Sanger: US Birth Control Rhetoric in the Early Twentieth Century | 2004 | PhD | |
| Narrative Infidelity and White Resentment in the Rhetorical Mobilization of the Anti-CRT Movement | 2023 | MA | |
| China's 20th Century Sophist: Analysis of Hu Shi's Ethics, Logic, and Pragmatism | 2012 | PhD | |
| The Repertoire of Understanding: The Linguistic Patterning of Repetition and Alignment within Supportive Conversations | 2016 | PhD | |
| Stigma and Social Support: Experiences on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) | 2021 | PhD | |
| When We Break Bread Together: Perceptions of Consensus Amongst Queer Organizers |
2013 |
MA | |
| Audiating the LSU Drumline: An Ethnographic Performance | 2004 | MA | |
| Cuir Latinidades: Decolonial Explorations of Cuir Borders of Identity and Relationality | 2024 | PhD | |
| The White Bicycle: Performance, Installation Art, and Activism in Ghost Bike Memorials | 2017 | PhD | |
| Toward a New Understanding of Wisdom: The Role of Communication on Perceptions of Wisdom | 2007 | PhD | |
| When Shakespeare Meets Al Gore: Imagined Interactions, Communication Competence, and Immediacy in Traditional and Online-Based Distance Education | 2008 | PhD | |
| My Favorite Murder as Discursive Performance | 2022 | PhD | |
| Teacher Matters: Teacher Normative Influence and Student Persistence in College | 2014 | PhD | |
| Performing Toilets: Putting Matter Into Place | 2011 | PhD | |
| Paul Tillich's Communication Theology and the Rhetoric of Existentialism | 2014 | MA | |
| Two Communication Approaches to Explaining Interpersonal Sibling Differences: Interpersonal Conflict Causing Sibling Deidentification and Media Use Cultivating Family Communication Orientation | 2020 | PhD | |
| One Rhizome, Two Unstoppable Blossoms: Environmental Communication and Ecological Rhetoric | 2008 | PhD | |
| When the Saints Go Marching In: An Ethnography of Volunteer Tourism in Post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans | 2011 | PhD | |
| A House Performs | 2008 | PhD | |
| From Guerrilla Theater to Media Warfare Abbie Hoffman's Riotous Revolution in America: A Myth | 2003 | MA | |
| Communicating While Stimulated: The Effects of Sensory-Processing Sensitivity on Behavior and Relationships | 2012 | PhD | |
| A Rhetoric of Existentialism | 2008 | PhD | |
| Masada Performances: The Contested Identities of Touristic Spaces | 2013 | PhD | |
| Performing Folk Punk: Agonistic Performances of Intersectionality | 2013 | PhD | |
| Baton Rouge SLAM!: An Obituary for Summer 2016: A Critical Performance Ethnography of Eclectic Truth Poetry Slam | 2020 | PhD | |
| The Rhetorical Myth of the Athlete as a Moral Hero: The Implications of Steroids in Sport and the Threatened Myth | 2008 | PhD | |
| Black Feminist Counterpublic Pedagogy: A Study of Digital Black Feminism and its Pedagogical Possibilities | 2024 | PhD | |
| Mapping a Beat Repertoire: Recovering Everyday Life Performances of the Women of the Beat Generation | 2017 | PhD | |
| What Every New Coach Should Know: Analysis of Coaches' Goals for Organizational Entry/Assimilation, through the Goals-Plans-Action Theory and Socioemotional Selectivity Theory | 2016 | MA | |
| Performing Nostalgia: Body, Memory, and the Aesthetics of Past-Home | 2012 | PhD | |
| Performance Matters: An Empirical Study of the Student Learning Outcomes from an Oral Interpretation Course | 2025 | PhD | |
| It鈥檚 Britney, Bitch, | 2024 | PhD | |
| Typewriters Typing Typist: A Performance History | 2009 | MA | |
| Performing Joseph Cornell's Chronotopes of Assemblage | 2014 | PhD | |
| Efficacy of Genres in Training Videos for Emergency First Responders | 2011 | MA | |
| "I Listen to Their Story, They Listen to My Comments, and Then I Pocket My Fee:" Sherlock Holmes as Rhetorical Equipment for Living | 2016 | PhD | |
| Sport Team Fandom, Arousal, and Communication: A Multimethod Comparison of Sport Team Identification with Psychological, Cognitive, Behavioral, Affective, and Physiological Measures | 2013 | PhD | |
| Cultural Performance of Roadside Shrines: A Poststructural Postmodern Ethnography | 2005 | PhD | |
| From the Mountains to the Podium: The Rhetoric of Fidel Castro | 2008 | PhD | |
| A Performance Genealogy of "Etchings of Debutantes" | 2004 | MA | |
| Performing Photographs: Memory, History, and Display | 2008 | PhD | |
| YOU鈥橰E LOOKING VERY SHANE TODAY: RHETORICAL FIELD METHODS & THE MATERIALITY OF QUEER MEDIATED REPRESENTATION FOR SAPPHIC WOMEN | 2024 | PhD | |
| Modes of Cartoon Corporeal Performance | 2019 | PhD | |
| Student Perceptions of Rules for Classroom Interaction | 1992 | MA | |
| Writing William Burroughs, Performing the Archive | 2011 | PhD | |
| Strutting It Up Through Histories: A Performance Genealogy of the Philadelphia Mummers Parade | 2009 | PhD | |
| Thoreau's Melancholia, Walden's Friendship, and Queer Agency | 2017 | PhD | |
| The Operational Aesthetic in the Performance of Professional Wrestling | 2005 | MA | |
| The Relationship between Forgiveness, Imagined Interactions, Empathy and Relational Satisfaction among Long-Distance Romantic Couples | 2013 | PhD | |
| Raptivism: the Act of Hip Hop鈥檚 Counterpublic Sphere Forming into a Social Movement to Seize its Political Opportunities | 2014 | PhD | |
| A Narrative and Performative Methodology for Understanding Adolescent Cancer Stories | 2018 | PhD | |
| After Images: Using Augusto Boal's Image Theatre to Balance Artistry, Analysis, and Activism in the Performance Composition Process | 2016 | PhD | |
| The Devil Made Her Do It: Three Horror Film Case Studies in the Exorcism Subgenre | 2014 | PhD | |
| The American Counter-Monumental Tradition: Renegotiating Memory and the Evolution of American Sacred Space | 2011 | PhD | |
| 'Post Your Version Here!' Performances in/of Online, Noncommercial, Video-to-Video Adaptations | 2014 | PhD | |
| Effects of Gender Role on the Judgment of Masculine Signs | 2005 | PhD | |
| Rhetoric and Food: The Rise of the Food Truck Movement | 2015 | PhD | |
| Rhetorics of Rebuke in the Sub-veillance Meme Genre | 2021 | PhD | |
| Re-Conceptualizing Southern Rhetoric: A Meta-Critical Pespective | 2005 | PhD | |
| Staging the Voice: Towards a Critical Vocal Performance Pedagogy | 2014 | PhD | |
| There鈥檚 a Skid Row Everywhere, and This is Just the Headquarters: Impacts of Urban Revitalization Policies in the Homeless Community of Skid Row | 2016 | PhD | |
| 鈥淒o It for Me, My Dear:鈥� Structuration and Relational Dialectics among Mother-Daughter Dyads in Lebanese Arranged Marriages | 2010 | PhD | |
| Intimate Rhetorics of Networked Motherhood | 2021 | PhD | |
| A Study of Communication in Baby Boomers' Romantic Relationships and the Effects of their Children's Communication about the Relationships | 2010 | PhD | |
| The Black Performer's Toolbox: A Critical Authoethnography | 2023 | PhD | |
| Questing with Grandma: Building Closer Families Through Intergenerational Video Gaming | 2017 | PhD | |
| Examining Electronic Medical Records System Adoption and Implications for Emergency Medicine Practice and Providers | 2015 | PhD | |
| "Will God Forgive Us?": Christianity and the Climate Crisis in Auteur Cinema | 2021 | PhD | |
| Partnering with Objects: Unsettling the Human in Contemporary Performance | 2025 | PhD | |
| Causes and Consequences of Conflict: Exploring the Influence of Honor-Based Norms and Values on the Experience of Intimate Partner Violence in the United States | 2013 | PhD | |
| The Discursive Practices of Chemical Discipline | 2006 | MA | |
| Third-Party Imagined Interactions: Expanding Imagined Interactions as False Memories in Understanding Interactions | 2009 | PhD | |
| Processes and/of Performance: Difference, Memory, and Experimentation. | 2008 | PhD | |
| The National D-Day Museum as Mystory Praxis | 2004 | MA | |
| Communication Observation in Interpersonal Relationships: Development and Validation of the Communication Observation Measure | 2020 | PhD | |
| The Social Support Experiences of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Adults | 2023 | MA | |
| The Effects of Sex and Context on Students' Interpretation of Teachers' High Immediacy Messages | 2005 | PhD | |
| Method and Madness at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | 2010 | PhD | |
| Reinhold Niebuhr's Ethics of Rhetoric | 2012 | PhD | |
| Family Communication Patterns During Emerging Adulthood: An Investigation of Parent-Child Communication About Vaccine Decisions | 2023 | PhD | |
| To Speak as a Human, a Modern and as an American: Blues Rhetoric in Cornel West's Prophetic Pragmatism | 2013 | MA | |
| The Rhetoric of Sickle Cell Anemia | 2019 | PhD | |
| The Twin Taboos of Discussing Religion and Politics: A Study of Six "Basic" Emotions and Interpersonal Relationships in Response to Rick Perry's "Strong" | 2014 | PhD | |
| Uncomfortable Performances: Discovering a Subversive Scenario for Rape Discourse | 2007 | MA | |
| Verbal and Nonverbal Immediacy: Sex Differences and International Teaching Assistants | 2005 | PhD | |
| Theater of the Obsessed | 2020 | PhD | |
| The Voice Of Honor: Centering An Indigenous Ethic Of Protocol In U.S. Rhetorical Studies | 2020 | MA | |
| In Knowledge We Trust(ed): A Case Study in Abolition Theatre | 2023 | PhD | |
| An Archive of Pain: In Queer Suicide's Cultural Wake | 2019 | PhD | |
| Ties That Bind: Black Familyness and the Politics of Contingent Coalitions | 2020 | PhD | |
| Similarities and Differences in Self-Disclosure and Friendship Development between Face-to-Face Communication and Facebook | 2010 | PhD | |
| If We're "Over," Is It Really Over?: How Past Romantic Relationships Impact Subsequent Relationships | 2019 | PhD | |
| Performing Selfhoods in U.S. Rituals of Private and Public Spheres | 2011 | PhD | |
| Mark Twain, James Thurber, and David Sedaris: American Literary Humorists | 2015 | PhD | |
| The Choreo-Story Workshops: Devising Body Narratives | 2020 | PhD | |
| Methodological Lagniappe: A Walk in Representations of the Red Stick Farmers Market | 2007 | MA | |
| Dance Dance Attribution: Exploring the Relationship between Dance and Attractiveness in Initial Perceptions | 2009 | MA | |
| This House Would Ethically Engage: A Critical Examination of Competitor and Coach Leadership in National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA) Debate | 2008 | PhD | |
| The Rhetorical Strategies of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza | 2013 | PhD | |
| Spalding Gray and the Slippery Slope of Confessional Performance | 2005 | MA | |
| THE USER-MADE NATION: (RE)NEGOTIATING AND (RE)IMAGINING SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONALISM ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS | 2024 | PhD | |
| The Myth of Charismatic Leadership and Rhetoric of Crypto-Charismatic Membership | 2004 | PhD | |
| Jack Kerouac's Spontaneous Prose: A Performance Genealogy of the Fiction | 2006 | PhD | |
| A Critical Ethnography of The Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville, Louisiana with Ruminations on Hauntology | 2012 | PhD | |
| Advice in Troubles Talk Conversations Between Strangers: The Role of Problem Seriousness and the Impact of Advice on Helper Supportiveness and the Desire for Future Interactions | 2012 | MA | |
| Relational Effects of Person-Centered Comfort | 2016 | PhD | |
| An Ethnography of "Hang It Out To Dry" | 2009 | PhD | |
| Eight is Not Enough: A Historical, Cultural, and Philosophical Analysis of the Flash Mob | 2011 | PhD | |
| Screening TED: A rhetorical analysis of the intersections of rhetoric, digital media, and pedagogy | 2014 | PhD | |
| Composing a Method: 脡criture F茅minine as Performance Practice | 2012 | PhD | |
| Women's Interracial Friendships: Cultivating Coalitional Possibilities Across Difference Through Dialogue | 2023 | PhD | |
| Detecting deception: The diagnostic utility of unanticipated questions | 2017 | MA | |
| Get in Your Posse: An Exploratory Study of Semester-Long Small Groups in Public Speaking Courses | 2019 | PhD | |
| Relational Red Flags: Detecting Undesirable Qualities in Initial Romantic Encounters | 2016 | PhD | |
| Regarding Suicide: A Textually Informed Rhetorical and Psychoanalytic Construct of the State of Disconstituency, Disconstitutive Rhetoric, and the Disconstituent as Related to the Constitutive Rhetorical Structure of the Vanishing Subject | 2015 | PhD |