Name Title, Place Dissertation Advisor Year Graduate Alumni Career Outcomes Kaitlyn Haynal Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Maine’s Department of Communication and Journalism Civic Spaces: Rhetoric of Pittsburgh's Parks System Paul Johnson, Johanna Hartelius 2020 Tomonori Teraoka Visiting Scholar at National Taiwan University, College of Law The Art of Constitutional Legitimation: A Genealogy of Modern Japanese Political Thought Olga Kuchinskaya, Ricky Law 2020 Hillary Ash Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh Defining a Crisis: The Rhetorical Exclusion of Women in the United States Aids Epidemic, 1982-1993 Lester Olson 2020 Piper Corp Part time faculty, Baruch College Seeing Together, Seeing for Ourselves: John Locke’s Search for Common Ground in Natural Historical Inquiry Lester Olson 2020 Chloe Hansen Adjunct Instructor, Alfred State College of Technology Dying is not easy, but it needn't be this hard: Contemporary narratives of good and bad deaths Olga Kuchinskaya 2020 Nicholas Stefanski Assistant Professor, Alfred State College of Technology Why not pitch the whole enterprise at the highest level possible?: Speculative Radicalism and the Planetary Topics Brent Malin 2020 Birney Young Visiting Assistant Professor of Communications, University of Pittsburgh Bradford A Compelling Case for Beauty: The Sophistic Alignment of Rhetoric with Aesthetic Power David Marshall 2020 Curry Chandler Visting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh Dumb Cities: Spatial Media, Urban Communication, and the Right to the Smart City Brent Malin 2020 Amber Kelsie Assistant Professor/Associate Debate Coach, Wake Forest University ‘I Know Who You Are’: Antiblackness in the Speculative Rhetorics of Genetic Genealogy Brent Malin 2020 Timothy Barr Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, Northeastern University Without Apparent Occasion: Melancholy and the Problem of Motive in Baroque England. David Marshall 2019 Tyler Brunette Lecturer in Communication at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh A (Subaltern) Space of Their Own: Public Space, Middle-Class Childhood, and Mass Media in Late Capitalism. Ronald Zboray 2019 Larissa Brian Assistant Teaching Professor, Penn State University Undoing the Scene of Sex: Affirmative Consent and the Limits of Recognition in Law's Imaginary Lester Olson 2019 Emily Herrington Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh Conceptions of "Success": The Ethics and Rhetoric of Hand Transplantation. Olga Kuchinskaya 2019 Olga Blackledge Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh Animated States: The Politics, Aesthetics, and Technology of Soviet and German Cel Animation, 1930-1940 Ronald Zboray 2018 Ellen Defossez Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Writing and Public Discourse at Whitman College Ambiguity, Temporality, and Agency in Online Health Communities for Dysthymia Brent Malin 2018 Donica O'Malley Postdoctoral Teaching Associate, Northeastern University From Redhead to Ginger: Othering Whiteness in New Media Ronald Zboray 2018 Sydney Pasquinelli Director of Debate, Stanford National Forensic Institute The lesser-evils paradigm for imagining Islam: U.S. executive branch (re)framing of Islam in the early Cold War era of racialized empire-building. Gordon Mitchell 2018 Dominique Johnson Equitable Design & Culture Strategist Capacity Builder, Keyframe Illumination Partners Beyond Bare Life: Onto-epistemic Archives, Precarity, and the Praxis of Being Human Ronald Zboray 2017 Katie Kavanaugh O'neill Part time Instructor, University of Pittsburgh Mobtown Memories: Towards a People's History of Violence in Baltimore Ronald Zboray 2017 Emily Crosby Assistant Professor, University of Mary Washington Feminine Twang: Rhetorical Strategies of Country Music's Legendary Second Wave Women Lester Olson 2017 Nicholas Maradin Instructor of Communication Arts, Washington & Jefferson College Human by Design: Bodily Prosthetics and the Rhetoric of Science Fiction Cool Brenton Malin 2017 Taylor Hahn Assistant Director, Johns Hopkins Advanced Academic Programs Teaching What Matters: A Rhetorical Analysis of Arguments on Liberal Arts Education at the University of Texas-Austin Gordon Mitchell 2016 Ashley Hall Assistant Professor, Illinois State University Theorizing Rival Rhetorics of Black Maternities: Imaginging (Re)Productive LIfe in Social Death Shanara Reid-Brinkley and Brenton Malin 2016 Marie- Odile Hobeika Post doctoral fellowship, Northeastern University Recovered Beginnings: Rhetoric's Disaffiliation from Homer John Poulakos 2016 Martin Marinos Assistant Professor in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State University From Socialist Humanism to Neoliberal Populism: Two Regimes of Media in Late and Post-Socialist Europe Brenton Malin 2016 Alexandra Klaren Associate Professor of Practice, Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University Invisible to the Eye: Rhetorics of Ethical Emotionality in Fred Rogers' Neighborhood Ronald Zboray 2016 Brita Anderson Stoneman Lecture in Rhetoric and Public Address, Hillsdale College The Charm of Rhetoric: George Santayana and The Aesthetics of Rhetoric John Poulakos 2016 Susan Wieczorek Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh Johnstown An Exploratory Study of Physician/Patient Electronic Messaging within Secured Health Portals Brenton Malin 2016 David Landes Visiting Senior Lecturer, New York University (via NYU Shanghai) Assistant Professor & Director of the Communication Skills Program, American University of Beirut The Attention Situation: A Rhetorical Theory of Attention for Mediated Communication Brenton Malin 2015 Brent Saindon Assistant Professor, Mercy College Reconfiguring Absence: Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum in Berlin and the Rhetorical Negotiation of Cultural Display Lester Olson 2015 Joseph Sery Assistant Professor, Christopher Newport University Models of Judgment: Rhetoric and the Public Philosophies of Law John Lyne 2015 Sarah Bishop Associate Professor, Baruch College, University of New York “It's Just What We Saw In The Movie”: Refugees Encounter U.S. Media Ronald Zboray 2014 George Gittinger Assistant Professor, Northwest Vista College The Drama of Bioterror: Paranoia and the Rhetoric of Defense John Lyne 2014 Allison Hahn Assistant Professor, Baruch College, University of New York Argumentation and Identity in Maasai and Mongolian Land Disputes Gordon Mitchell 2014 John Jasso Chair of the Communications Department, Ave Maria University Psychagogia: A Study In The Platonic Tradition Of Rhetoric From Antiquity Through The Middle Ages John Poulakos 2014 Takuzo Konishi Associate Professor, Showa Women's University Dissociation in Reasoning and Argumentation Gordon Mitchell 2014 Gabriela Nunez Ordinary (Associate) Professor, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru Reading Jose Maria Arguedas' letters. Building Communication Bridges In Mid-twentieth Century Peruvian Society Ronald Zboray 2014 Ethan Stoneman Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Public Address, Hillsdale College Securing the State: Political Legitimacy and the Rhetoric of Negative Aesthetics John Poulakos 2014 Candi Carter-Olson Associate Professor, Utah State University “Try to Lift Someone Else As We Climb”: 120 Years of the Women’s Press Club of Pittsburgh and the Women’s Movement Ronald Zboray 2013 Eric English Part-time lecturer, School of Communication, Rutgers University “Constituting Conservatism: The Goldwater/Paul Analog” John Lyne 2013 Liangyu Fu Chinese Librarian and faculty associate at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan Found in Translation: Western Science Books, Maps, and Music In China 1860s-1920s Ronald Zboray 2013 Jessica Ghilani Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh Greensburg Selling Soldiering to Consumers: Advertising, Media, and the Volunteer Army Ronald Zboray 2013 Catherine Morrison Lecturer, University of Rhode Island Being, Rhetorical: Aristotle, Heidegger and the Temporal Ontology of Rhetoric John Poulakos 2013 Michael Vicaro Associate Professor, Penn State Greater Allegheny The Subject of Torture: Rhetorical Investigations of Detention and Interrogation Policy in the Global War on Terrorism John Poulakos 2013 Matthew Brigham Assistant, James Madison University Overpopulation or Over Population? A Burkean Analysis of Transformations and Continuities in the Rhetoric of “Human Population Growth” at the United Nations (1974-2004) Gordon Mitchell 2012 Christopher House Associate Professor, Ithaca College Rhetoric of the Black Church: Sex, Religion, and HIV/AIDS Across the African Diaspora Ronald Zboray 2012 Joseph Packer Professor, Central Michigan University “Because We Are Alone...”Arguments for Humans as the Universe’s Only Intelligent Life Form From Ancient Philosophers to Today’s Scientists Ronald Zboray 2012 John Rief Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Debate, Metropolitan State University of Denver Searching for the Good Life: Rhetoric, Medicine, and the Shaping of Lifestyle Gordon Mitchell 2012 Thomas Dunn Associate Professor, Colorado State University Queerly Remembered: Tactical and Strategic Rhetorics for Representing the GLBTQ past Lester Olson 2011 Heather Fisher N/A "Mythologizing Charles Van Doren: the 1950s, the Media, and the Making of Cultural Memory Carole Stabile/Jane Feuer 2011 Carlton Gholz Director, Detroit Sound Conservancy "Where The Mix Is Perfect": Voices From The Post-Motown Soundscape Ronald Zboray 2011 David Helwich Director of Debate, University of Minnesota “Nuclear Weapons After the Cold War: Change and Continuity in Public Discourses" Gordon Mitchell 2011 David Seitz Assistant Professor, Penn State Mont Alto Grave Negotiations: The Rhetorical Foundations of American World War I Cemeteries in Europe Ronald Zboray 2011 Autumn Boyer Lecturer in Communications, University of Colorado - Denver “Lifting ‘the Long Shadow’:Kategoria and Apologia in the Legacy of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Gordon Mitchell 2010 Michelle Gibbons Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire Made Up Minds: Rhetorical Invention and the Thinking Self in Public Culture John Lyne 2010 Michelle Kennerly Associate Professor, Penn State University “Editorial Bodies in Ancient Roman Rhetorical Culture” John Lyne 2010 Carly Woods Assistant Professor, University of Maryland in College Park Women Debating Society: Negotiating Difference in Historical Argument Cultures Gordon Mitchell 2010 Qian Zhang Assistant Professor, US Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School From Hollywood to Shanghai: American Silent Films in China Ronald Zboray 2010 Christine Feldman Cultural Sociology/Associate Professor, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Brisbane, Australia "'We are the Mods': A Transnational History of a Youth Subculture" Ronald Zboray 2009 Steve Llano Associate Professor and Director of Debate, St. John University Beating Rhetoric:Rhetorical Theory in the Beat Generation Ronald Zboray 2009 Damien Pfister Associate Professor, University of Maryland Toward a Grammar of the Blogosphere: Rhetoric and Attention in the Networked Imaginary Gordon Mitchell 2009 Hugh Curnutt Assistant Professor, Montclair State University Remodeling TV Talent: Participation and Performance in MTV's Real World Franchise Henry Krips 2008 Erica Molloseau Director of the Columbus and Cincinnati region for Venture for America Exhibiting Racism: The Cultural Politics of Lynching Photography Re-Presentations Ronald Zboray 2008 Ian Reyes Associate Professor, University of Rhode Island Sound, Technology, and Interpretation in Subcultures of Heavy Music Production Henry Krips 2008 Alessandra Beasley Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Wake Forest University Caught Between History and Imagination: The Arguments for Post-National European Union Citizenship Gordon Mitchell 2007 Thomas Baggerman Associate Professor, Point Park University Structurally Unsound:The Changing State of Local Television Carole Stabile 2006 Michael Bannon Lecturer and Director of Oral Comm Lab, University of Pittsburgh The Battle of Deer Creek Crossing: A case Study of Rhetorical Eigence and Environmental Controversy Thomas Kane 2006 Aimee Dorsten Assistant Professor, Point Park University Don't Keep It Private! The Political Economy of Digital Media Innovation in Developing Countries Carole Stabile 2006 Mark Harrison Lecturer, Indiana University Bloomington The Extraterrestrial in US Culture Carole Stabile 2006 Junya Morooka Academic Research Staff, Rikkyo University The Rhetoric of Foreign Worker Problem in Contemporary Japan Peter Simonson 2006 Mark Porrovecchio Associate Professor, Oregon State University F.C.S Schiller and the Style of Pragmatic Humanism Peter Simonson 2006 Marcus Paroske Associate Professor, University of Michigan- Flint The Rhetoric of AIDS Policy in South Africa John Lyne 2006 Amos Tevelow Assistant Professor, Ithaca College From Corporate Liberalism To Neoliberalism A History Of Think Tanks In America John Lyne 2006
