Ph.D. Recipients
2000-2009 | 1990-1999 | 1984-1989
Graduate |
Current Position |
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| 2009 | Erica Lamm, "Civic Engagement Development in Communication Students: A Case Study" (A. Wolvin, advisor) | |
| 2009 | Hongmei Shen, "Organization-Employee Relationship Model: A Two-Sided Story" (E.L. Toth, advisor) | Assistant Professor, School of Journalism & Media Studies, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA |
| 2009 | Brian G. Smith, "Integrating Strategic Relationship Management: Evaluating Public Relations as Relationship Management in Integrated Communication" (E.L. Toth, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Houston, Houston, TX |
| 2009 | Bjørn F. Stillion Southard, "The Rhetorical Origins of African Colonization in the United States" (J.F. Klumpp, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR |
| 2009 | Ai Zhang, "Public Relations Education in the 21st Century: An Exploratory Study of Public Relations Education in China" (E.L. Toth, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Richard Stockton College, Pomona, NJ |
| 2008 | Michael A. Chambers, "Traditional Values and Progressive Desires: Tensions of Identity in the Rhetoric of the Granger Movement in Illinois, 1870-75" (J.F. Klumpp, advisor) | Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Arts, Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH |
| 2008 | Bing Han,
"A Cross-Cultural Study of the Effect of Empathy on the Moral Judgment of Distributive Justice Principles: Need Versus Equity" (D.A. Cai, advisor) |
Assistant Professor, Department of Communications, University of South Carolina-Aiken, Aiken, SC |
| 2008 | A. Michele Mason, "Nannie H. Burroughs' Rhetorical Leadership During the Inter-War Period" (R. Gaines, advisor) | |
| 2008 | Nance McCown, "The Roles of Internal Public Relations, Leadership Style, and Workplace Spirituality in Building Leader-Employee Relationships and Facilitating Relational Outcomes" (L. Aldoory, advisor) |
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Messiah College, Grantham, PA |
| 2008 | Belinda Stillion Southard, "The National Woman's Party's Militant Campaign for Woman Suffrage, 1913-1920: Asserting Citizenship Rights through Political Mimesis" (S.J. Parry-Giles, advisor) | Lecturer, Department of Communication, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR |
| 2008 | Jennifer Vardeman, "How Teen Girls and Parents Make Meaning of a Cervical Cancer Vaccine Campaign through Social Politics, Empowerment, Everyday Difference, and Tensions about Sexual Health: Toward a Feminist, Multicultural Critique of Health Communication" (L. Aldoory, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Houston, Houston, TX |
| 2008 | Xiaoying Xie, "A Roles Approach to Conflict Strategies: Modeling the Effects of Self- and Other-Role Enactment on Conflict Strategies through Goals and Emotion" (D.A. Cai, advisor) |
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, California State University, Sacramento, CA |
| 2007 | Daniel A. Cronin, "Computer Mediated Communication and Negotiation: Effects of Media and Power on Relationship Development" (D.A. Cai, advisor) | Director, Finance & Personnel, Columbian College of Arts & Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC |
| 2007 | Tiffany Derville, "Relationship Management and Member Retention: A Case Study of an Advocacy Organization" (L. Aldoory, advisor) | Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR |
| 2007 | Michael Phillips-Anderson, "A Theory of Rhetorical Humor in American Public Discourse" (R. Gaines, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Monmouth University, W. Long Branch, NJ |
| 2007 | Natalie T. J. Tindall, "Diversity, the Achievement of Power, and the Public Relations Function" (L. Aldoory, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
| 2006 | Jason Black, "Jacksonian Rhetoric, American Nationalism, and the Construction of American Indian Identity" (S.J. Parry-Giles, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL |
| 2006 | Lisa M. Corrigan, "Reimagining Black Power: Prison Manifestos and the Strategies of Regeneration in the Rewriting of Black Identity, 1969-2002" (S.J. Parry-Giles, Advisor) | Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR |
| 2006 | Amy Heyse, "Teachers of the Lost Cause: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Rhetoric of Their Catechisms" (J.F. Klumpp, advisor) | Assistant Professor, California State University, Long Beach |
| 2006 | Anna Karavanov, "Social Factors Affecting Entrapment Bias: Face Concerns and Personal Networks" (D.A. Cai, advisor) | AJR, Inc. |
| 2006 | Jeong-Nam Kim, "Communicant Activeness, Cognitive Entrepreneurship, and a Situational Theory of Problem Solving" (J.E. Grunig, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN |
| 2006 | Lan Ni, "Exploring the Value of Public Relations in Strategy Implementation: Employee Relations in the Globalization Process" (J.E. Grunig, advisor) | Assistant Professor, University of Houston, Houston, TX |
| 2006 | Brecken Swartz, "Media Flavor: A Grounded Analysis of Communication Values Across Cultures" (D.A. Cai, advisor) | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, MD |
| 2006 | Leah Simone Tuite, "Public Relations in a Jolted Political Environment: An Exploratory Study of Boundary-Spanning Government Relations Professionals in Maryland" (L.A. Grunig, advisor) | Adjunct Professor, UMUC & Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY |
| 2006 | Qi Wang, "Linking Goals to Avoidance in Interpersonal Conflict Situations: A Cognitive Approach" (D.A. Cai & E.L. Fink, advisors) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2005 | Yi-Ru Regina Chen, "Effective Government Affairs in an Era of Marketization: Issues Management, Business Lobbying, and the Management of Government Relations in China" (L.A. Grunig, advisor) | Assistant Professor, University of Macao |
| 2005 | Hyo-Sook Kim, "Organizational Structure and Internal Communication as Antecedents of Employee-Organization Relationships in the Context of Organizational Justice: A Multilevel Analysis" (J.E. Grunig, advisor) | Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, San José State University, San Jose, CA |
| 2005 | John Patrick Philbin, II, "Strategic Decision-Making, Group Behavior, and Public Relations Strategies" (J.E. Grunig, advisor) | Anteon Company, Fairfax, VA |
| 2005 | Mark Van Dyke, "Toward a Theory of Just Communication: A Case Study of NATO, Multinational Public Relations, and Ethical Management of International Conflict" (J.E. Grunig, advisor) | Associate Professor, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY |
| 2005 | Sung-Un Yang, "The Effects of Organization-Public Relationships on Organizational Reputation from the Perspective of Publics" (J.E. Grunig, advisor) | Assistant Professor, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY |
| 2005 | Seong-Hun Yun, "Toward Theory Building for Comparative Public Diplomacy from the Perspectives of Public Relations and International Relations: A Macro-Comparative Study of Embassies in Washington, D.C." (J.E. Grunig, advisor) | Assistant Professor, A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS |
| 2004 | Lisa Burns, "First Ladies as Political Women: Press Framing of Presidential Wives, 1900-2001" (S.J. Parry-Giles, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT |
| 2004 | Sungeun Chung, "The Cognitive Dynamics of Beliefs: The Role of Discrepancy, Credibility, and Involvement on Microprocesses of Judgment" (E.L. Fink, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL |
| 2004 | Laura Janusik, "Researching Listening from the Inside Out: The Relationship between Conversational Listening Span and Perceived Communicative Competence" (A.D. Wolvin, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO |
| 2004 | Yunna Rhee, "Confucian Culture and Excellent Public Relations: A Study of Generic Principles and Specific Applications in South Korean Public Relations Practice" (J.E. Grunig, advisor) | |
| 2004 | Minjung Sung, "Toward a Model of Strategic Management of Public Relations: Scenario Building from a Public Relations Perspective" (L.A. Grunig, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Baruch College, CUNY, New York, NY |
| 2003 | Leslie Dinauer, "Attitude and Belief Change in Explicit and Implicit Concept Hierarchies: A Comparison of Two Models of Inter-Attitudinal Structure" (E.L. Fink, advisor) | Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Maryland, University College |
| 2003 | Linda Hagan, "Strategic Public Relations, Relationships, and Reputation: A Case Study of the Audi 5000 Safety Recall in the United States" (L.A. Grunig, advisor) | Visiting Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI |
| 2002 | Cecilia Cabanero-Verzosa, "Determinants of Behavioral Intention in Developing Country Organizations" (D.A. Cai, advisor) | Senior Development Communication and Capacity-building Officer, World Bank |
| 2002 | Nathaniel I. Cordova, "Turning Political: Constituting the Puerto Rican Jibaro as a Political Actor, 1938-1940" (J.F. Klumpp, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Willamette University, Salem, OR |
| 2002 | Chun-ju Flora Hung, "The Interplays of Relationship Types, Relationship Cultivation, and Relationship Outcomes: How Multinational and Taiwanese Companies Practice Public Relations and Organization Public Relationship Management in China" (J.E. Grunig, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University |
| 2002 | Camilla Kari, "Rhetorical Trajectory: The Emerging Public Nature of the Joint Pastoral Letters of the American Catholic Bishops" (R.N. Gaines, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Penn State University at Schuylkill |
| 2002 | Cynthia P. King, "History Writing as Social Resistance in the Rhetoric of Nineteenth Century African Americans: Arguments and Depictions in the Historical Narratives of William Wells Brown, and George Washington Williams" (R.N. Gaines, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Furman University, Greenville, SC |
| 2001 | James J. Kimble, "Mobilizing the Home Front: War Bonds, Morale, and the U.S. Treasury's Domestic Propaganda Campaigh, 1942-1945" (S.J. Parry-Giles, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ |
| 2001 | Paul B. Stewart, "Early American Petitioning (1789-1828), Public Life and the Public Sphere" (J.F. Klumpp, advisor) | Associate Professor, Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY |
| 2001 | Robert Sullivan, "Isocrates and the Forms of Rhetorical Discourse" (R.N. Gaines, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Ithaca College, NY |
| 2000 | Diane Blair, "Performing the First Lady: The Rhetoric of Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933-1945" (S.J. Parry-Giles & M.M. Watson, advisors) | Associate Professor, Department of Communication, California State University, Fresno |
| 2000 | Shannon Bowen, "A Theory of Ethical Issues Management: Contributions of Deontology to Public Relations Ethics and Decision Making" (L.A. Grunig, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Maryland, College Park, MD |
| 2000 | Lisa Gring-Pemble, "Constructing Welfare as We Know It: A Rhetorical Analysis of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act" (S.J. Parry-Giles & M.M. Watson, advisors) | Associate Professor, New Century College, George Mason University, VA |
| 2000 | Jean Miller, "The Melting Pot Metaphor: Immigration and Identity in Early Twentieth Century American Discourse" (J.F. Klumpp, advisor) | Assistant Professor, George Washington University, Washington, DC |
Year |
Graduate |
Current Position |
| 1999 | Daniel O. Buehler, "Ideograph and Controversy: A Rhetorical History on the Negotiation of the National Park Concept" (M.M. Watson, advisor) | Social Studies Coordinator, Sky Vista Middle School |
| 1999 | Theresa Croy, "Cultural Memory and the Responseds to the Town Hall Meeting in the 1992 Presidential Debates" (J.F. Klumpp, advisor) | Colorado School Liaison, SchoolStart, Ft. Collins, CO |
| 1999 | John McGrath, "Situational Theory and the Formation of Publics as an Effect of Health Communication Campaigns: An Exploratory Study" (J.E. Grunig, advisor) | Branch Chief, Public Information & Communications Branch, National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, National Institutes of Health |
| 1999 | Noemi Marin, "Rhetorical Readings on Exile and Identity in Eastern and Central Europe: Konrad, Codrescu, and Drakulic" (J.F. Klumpp, advisor) | Associate Professor, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL |
| 1999 | Holly A. Massett, "The Effects of Culture and Other-Orientation on Personal Communication Networks and Behavioral Intentions: A Comparison Between the United States and Mexico" (E.L. Fink, advisor) |
Chief, Operations Research Office, National Cancer Institute, NIH |
| 1999 | Leah E. Ritchie, "Supporting Organizational Learning Through Communication Behaviors: The Effects of Superior/Subordinate Communication Satisfaction and Organizational Defensive Routines on Perceived Support for Double-Loop Learning" (D.A. Cai, advisor) | Associate Professor, Salem State College, Salem, MA |
| 1999 | Shelly Stein, "Uncovering Listening Strategies: Protocol Analysis as a Means to Investigate Student Listening in the Basic Communication Course" (A.D. Wolvin, advisor) | Adjunct Faculty Member, University of Maryland-University College |
| 1999 | Mary Anne Trasciatti, "Arguing Americanization: The Rhetoric of Native-Born Americans and Italian Immigrants, 1990-1930" (E.L. Fink & M.M. Watson, advisors) | Associate Professor, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY |
| 1999 | Mary Lynn Umberger, "The Buffalo Commons: An Ethnographic Case Study of Proposed Change" (J.F. Klumpp, advisor) | Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, NE |
| 1998 | Anders R. Lunt, "The Reinvention of Preaching: A Study of Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century English Preaching Theories" (R.N. Gaines, advisor) | Senior Pastor, Glen Mar United Methodist Church, Ellicott City, MD |
| 1998 | Lisa Anne Perry, "Legal Rhetoric Books in England, 1600-1700" (R.N. Gaines, advisor) | Legal Consultant, Raleigh, NC |
| 1997 | Allyson Adrian, "Fuzzy Models of the Relationships among Communication Satisfaction Factors and Organizational Commitment in Three Australian Organizations" (R.L. Falcione, advisor) | Adjunct Assistant Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, Washington, DC |
| 1997 | Madeline Derbyshire, "Living, Energetic Beings': The Rhetorical Constitution of Woman's Rights Advocates" (M.M. Watson, advisor) | Associate Professor & Chair, Department of Communication Studies, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI |
| 1997 | Shuming Lu, "Intercultural Small Talk: An Ethnographic Analysis of Interactions among Chinese and Americans" (R.N. Gaines, advisor) | Associate Professor, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY |
| 1997 | Joseph Ross, "Child's Play: An Investigation of Father to Son Messages and the World of Youth Athletics" (A.D. Wolvin, advisor) | Lecturer and the Director of the Program in Organizational Leadership & Communication, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY |
| 1996 | Susan McGreevey Hubbard, "Cognitive Oscillation During the Social Inference Process: The Roles of Cognition and Motivation" (E.L. Fink, advisor) | |
| 1996 | Gary S. Selby, "Apocalyptic and Rhetoric in the Epistles of the New Testament" (R.N. Gaines, advisor) | Associate Professor, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA |
| 1995 | Lucy Lind Hogan, "The Overthrow of the Monopoly of the Pulpit: A Longitudinal Case Study of the Cultural Conversation Advocating the Preaching and Ordination of Women in American Methodism 1859-1924" (M.M. Watson, advisor) | Professor, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC |
| 1994 | Jeanine Barr, "Perceived and Received Support in a Therapeutic Situation" (V.S. Freimuth, advisor) | Deceased |
| 1993 | Shih-Shin Chen, "A Convergence Model of Communication and Organizational Climate: A Galileo Study" (E.L. Fink, advisor) | Associate Professor, Department of Health Care Management at National Taipei College of Nursing |
| 1993 | Mei-Ling Wang, "The Cognitive Effects of Stereotype Modification" (E.L. Fink, advisor) | Associate Professor, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1992 | Wendy Zababa Ford, "Analysis of the Cashier-Customer Interaction, Predictors and Outcomes: Evaluation of Alternative Structural Equation Models" (R.L. Falcione, advisor) | |
| 1992 | Katherine Jankowski, "The Battle of Ideologies: A Struggle for Ownership in the Deaf Community" (J.F. Klumpp, advisor) | Dean, Clerc Center, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC |
| 1992 | Kitty Saylor, "Understanding the Nature of High-Risk Organizations: Application of a Qualitative Model of Organizational Structure, Technology, and Environment" (R.L. Falcione, advisor) | Unknown |
| 1990 | Walton Bishop, "Cognitive Cybernetics and Human Communication: The Regulatory Effects of Prior Knowledge" (E.L. Fink, advisor) | Deceased |
| 1990 | Maura Clancey, "The Political Knowledge, Participation, and Opinions of C-Span Viewers: An Exploratory Assessment of Mass Media Impact" (K.H. Jamieson, advisor) | Director of Client Services, Statistical Research, Inc., Westfield, NJ |
| 1990 | Sharon Hammond, "Issue Involvement and the Elaboration Likelihood Model: A Field Experiment Using Environmental Risk Messages" (E.L. Fink & V.S. Freimuth, advisors) | Retired |
| 1990 | Richard Leeman, "The Rhetoric of Counter-Terrorism: A Strategy of Response" (J.F. Klumpp, advisor) | Professor and Chair, Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina, Charlotte |
Year |
Graduate |
Current Position |
| 1989 | Kevin Dean, "A Rhetorical Biography of Jonathan Edwards: Beyond the Fiery Pits of Hell" (J.F. Klumpp, advisor) | Professor, Department of Communication Studies, West Chester University, West Chester, PA |
| 1987 | Jean DeWitt, "A Description of Functionally Based English as a Second Language Textbooks: Speech Act, Speech Event, and Speech Situation" (V.S. Freimuth, advisor) | Associate Professor, Department of Arts and Humanities, University of Houston-Downtown Center, TX |
| 1987 | Walter Gerson, "An Historical Analysis of a Social Marketing Program: The Communications in the Adoption of Seat Belt Usage Law" (V.S. Freimuth, advisor) | Adjunct Professor, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA |
| 1987 | Carol K. Winkler, "Argumentative Topoi in Presidential Responses to Hostage Situations: Truman to Reagan" (K.H. Jamieson, advisor) | Professor, Department of Communication, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA |
| 1986 | David S. Birdsell, "A Coordinated Approach to the Master Tropes" (K.H. Jamieson, advisor) | Professor and Executive Director of Academic Programs, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, City University of New York |
| 1986 | Diana Corley, "The Relationship of Channel and Message to Concepts in Multidimensional Space" (A.D. Wolvin, advisor) | Adjunct Professor, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO |
| 1986 | Shirley W. Maase, "Multidimensional Scaling Applied to the Cognitive Response to Humor" (E.L. Fink, advisor) | Professor of Speech, Chesapeake College, Wye Mills, MD |
| 1985 | Marin Allen, "The Guest-Host Archetype as a Rhetorical Constraint on the Modern American Presidency" (K.H. Jamieson, advisor) | Chief, Office of Health Communication and Public Liaison, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD |
| 1985 | Gwen Brown, "Transformation of Identity in Presidential Inaugural Addresses" (A.D. Wolvin, advisor) | Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Radford University, Radford, VA |
| 1985 | Brenda Burchett, "Transforming Eva Perón, from Eva Maria Ibarguren to Santa Evita: A Burkean Perspective" (A.D. Wolvin, advisor) | Unknown |
| 1985 | E. Joseph Lamp, "Predicting Levels of Satisfaction as a Consequence of Innovation Adoption" (V.S. Freimuth, advisor) | Professor, Department of Communications, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD |
| 1985 | Theresa Marron-Grodsky, "The Euclidean Character of Cognitive Space" (E.L. Fink, advisor) | Program Director, Marketing Track & Associate Professor, University of Maryland, University College |
| 1984 | Joseph David Pincus, "The Impact of Communication Satisfaction on Job Satisfaction and Job Performance: A Field Study of Hospital Nurses" (R.L. Falcione, advisor) | Adjunct Research Professor, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR |
