2023-2025
2025
Kaylea Champion, “Social and Technical Sources of Risk in Sustaining Digital Infrastructure”
Laura Irwin, “Embodied Dialogic Love: How Restorative Justice Facilitators Perceive Power and Offer Meaningful Disruptions”
Charlie Kiene, “Identity, Legitimacy, and Voice: Understanding Rule Adoption, Compliance, and Evolution in Online Communities”
KC Lynch, “Elephant and Wild Rice: Bringing Rhetorics of Materiality into Judicial Spaces”
Luyue Ma, “Climate Disinformation Interventions: Negotiating Legitimacy in a Fractured Epistemological Landscape”
Polly Straub-Cook, “Who Are We to Argue? How Conservative Media Mobilize Identity in Science-Hostile Discourse”
Lando Tosaya, “Black Femme Cosplay: Navigating Identity, Creativity, and Cultural Representation in Fandom Spaces”
Hai, Wang, “Ties with Thais? Chinese Media Expats and China’s Soft Power Footprint in Thailand”
2024
Meagan Doll, “Beyond Believability: Factors Driving Media Trust in Uganda”
Erin Keoppen, “Fire Regimes: Rhetoric and the Local Climate Politics of Wildfire”
Josh Losoya, “The Mistranslation of Rhētorikē: Rereading 462b to 466a of Plato’s Gorgias”
Seonah Kim, “Politics of Tanning: Overdetermining Discourse on Skin Color, Race, and Gender in South Korea”
Kate Rich, “Future Talk: Imagining and (Mis)Using Artificial Intelligence in Human Communication”
Meshell Sturgis, “The Political Aesthetics of Black Girl Magic: Self-Representation in Alternative Media”
Abbie Shew, “When Experts Deny Science: The Rhetorical Performance of Malexpertise”
Jenny Lee, “Korean Women Go Global on Social Media: Representation, Algorithms, and Audiences in Transnational Content Creation”
Aparna Ghosh, “Pushing Journalism Boundaries: Understanding The Evolving Identities, Roles, And Professional Challenges Of Interactive Journalists”
Joe Whitt, “Mindfulness in Communication: Examining the Behavioral Trail of Mindfulness Practice”
2023
Benjamin Compton, “Self-Disclosure of Sexual Desires as a Decision-Making Process”
Devon Geary, “The Dynamics of Contact: Engaging Optimal Intergroup Conditions and Community Practices to Lead Interracial Conversations about Race”
Pranav Malhotra, “Bounded Social Media Places”
Brooke Wolfe, “I believe all of us together can raise my child: Understanding the Familial Network, Social Support Strategies, and Communicative Resilience of Single Black Mothers”
2021-2022
2022
Marcus Johnson: “A New Black Aesthetic and not A New Blackness: An Analysis of Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing”
Nieto Ruiz, Carolina (Harold) Building Connections, Building Obstacles: The Material Rhetorics of Connection and Disconnection at two US Border Parks
Snider, Madison (Foot) Building a “smart” campus with care: Contradictions and communication in infrastructuring
2021
Calderwood, Kevin J. (Domke) Framing and Source Credibility in American Political Discourse About Climate Change
Fritzen, Janny Fanyijing Wang. (Domke) The Images of Giant Corporations in 21st-Century American Politics
Kubler, Kyle F. (Powers) Full-time Side Hustle: The Position and Production of Fitness Influencers and Creators on Instagram
Neumann, Rico. (Moy) Identities that divide, identities that unite: News portrayals of intergroup encounters and their effects on outgroup orientations
Swan, Anna L. (Nishime) Ordinary Outsiders: Transnational Content Creation and the Reclamation of Agency by “Foreign” Women in South Korea
TeBlunthuis, Nate. (Hill) Ecology of Online Communities