PhD Recipients: 2000-
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Year
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Graduate
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Current Position
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| 2018 | Megan Fitzmaurice, "Commemorative Activism: Tracing Black Nationalism Through Contemporary Campaigns to Memorialize U.S. Slavery, 1991-2017," (S. Parry-Giles, advisor) | |
| 2018 | Josie Deanna Ganzermiller, "Creative Persuasion: Enhancing Well-being and Self-efficacy through Theatrical Performance," (S. Khamis & L. Waks, co-advisors) | |
| 2018 | Zexin Ma, "Persuasive Effects of Narratives in Immersive Mediated Environments," (X. Nan, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication & Journalism, Oakland University, Rochester, MI |
| 2018 | Annie Laurie Nichols, "No Tangle so Hopeless: Toward a Relational Cluster Analysis," (D.S. Pfister, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA |
| 2018 | Tyler Page, "Measuring a World in Crisis: A New Model of Reputation Repair," (B.F. Liu, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS |
| 2018 | Timothy S. Penn, "Cultivating #Cupfusion: An Exploration of the Unintended Consequences of Communication in a Public Relations Campaign," (E.L. Toth, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Mass Communication & Communication Studies, Towson University, Towson, MD |
| 2018 | Sifan Xu, "An Identity-Based Approach to Organization-Public Relationships and Interactions," (E. Sommerfeldt, advisor) | Assistant Professor, School of Advertising & Public Relations, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN |
| 2018 | Mengqi Zhan, "Cultural Diversity in Project Teams: Unpacking How and When Cultural Diversity Affects Collective Importance," (D. Hample, advisor) | |
| 2017 | James G. Gilmore V, "I Love to Tell the Stor(ies): Narrative Constructions in the Christian Right" (T. Parry-Giles, advisor) | Principal/Senior Researcher-Analyst, Dewey Square Group, Washington, DC |
| 2017 | Irina Iles, "Improving Chronic Illness Medication Adherence: A Counter-Factual Thinking Based Model of Persuasive Communication" (X. Nan, advisor) | Cancer Prevention Fellow, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD |
| 2017 | Jessica Lu, "Reckoning with Freedom: Legacies of Exclusion, Dehumanization, and Black Resistance in the Rhetoric of the Freedmen's Bureau" (S. Parry-Giles, advisor) | Post-Doctoral Associate, African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities, University of Maryland, College Park, MD |
| 2017 | Thomas McCloskey, "Cold War II: Ukrainian Sovereignty and Identity" (S. Parry-Giles, advisor) | Post-Doctoral Researcher, Graduate School Writing Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD |
| 2017 | Jade Olson, "The Rhetoric of Eco-Revolutionary Activism: Constructing the Earth Liberation Front" (J.F. Klumpp, advisor) | Professional Track Faculty, Department of Communication, University of Maryland, College Park, MD |
| 2017 | Yvonne Slosarski, "Freedom from the Market: Antagonistic Disruptions of Neoliberal Capitalism" (K.L. Maddux, advisor) | Interim Associate Director, Honors Humanities, University of Maryland, College Park, MD |
| 2017 | Meridith I. Styer, "Inventing and Delivering the Woman Citizen: Susan B. Anthony's Extemporaneous Speaking as a Performance of Citizenship in Service of Woman Suffrage" (K.L. Maddux, advisor) | Professional Track Faculty, Department of Communication, University of Maryland, College Park, MD |
| 2017 | Ning Xie, "Feelings Matter: Emotions and Relationship Management Pre- and Post-Crisis" (E.L. Toth, advisor) | |
| 2017 | Bo Yang, "Impact of Web Content Feedback System on the Effectiveness of Health Promotion Messages on YouTube: A Norms-Based Inquiry" (X. Nan, advisor) | |
| 2017 | Xinyan Zhao, "Testing a Dual Path Framework of the Boomerang Effect: Proattitudinal versus Counterattitudinal Messages" (E.L. Fink, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University |
| 2016 | Julia Daisy Fraustino, "Flooded with Information from Social Media: Effects of Disaster Information Source and Visuals on Viewers’ Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Responses" (B.F. Liu, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Reed College of Media, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV |
| 2016 | Elizabeth Gardner, "The Child Labor Movement's Night Messenger Service Campaign: Rights and Reform in the Progressive Era" (S.J. Parry-Giles, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA |
| 2016 | Sean Luechtefeld, "Petitioning in Boots: Motivation & Mobilization in the Rhetoric of Coxey's Army, 1894" (J.F. Klumpp & A. Wolvin, advisors) | Associate Director, Communications, Committee for Enterprise Development, Washington, DC |
| 2016 | Liang Ma, "When Love Becomes Hate (?): The Interplay Between Consumer-Brand Relationships and Crisis Situations" (E.L. Toth, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Strategic Communication, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX |
| 2016 | Stephanie Madden, "The Issue with Issues Management: An Engagement Approach to Integrate Gender and Emotion into Issues Management" (E. Sommerfeldt, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA |
| 2016 | Michael J. Steudeman, "The Educational Imaginary in Radical Reconstruction: Congressional Public Policy Rhetoric and American Federalism, 1862-1872" (T. Parry-Giles, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Arts & Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA |
| 2015 | Jennifer S. Bourne, "Overcoming Intercultural Challenges in Interpreting: A Case-Study on Chinese-English Conference Interpreting" (A. Wolvin, advisor) | Program Manager, Berggruen Institute Philosophy and Culture Center, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2014 | M. Karen Walker, "Rhetorical Work in Soft Power Diplomacy: The U.S-India 123 Agreement and a Relationship Transformed" (J.F. Klumpp, advisor) | Strategic Communications Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton, Washington, DC |
| 2014 | Neil Mansharamani, "An Analysis of Presidential Campaigns of Sitting and Former Vice Presidents: So Close and Yet So Far" (K. Kendall & J.F. Klumpp, advisors) | Speechwriter, Federal Aviation Administration, Washington, DC |
| 2014 | Benjamin Krueger, "A Dissident Blue Blood: Reverend William Sloane Coffin and the Vietnam Antiwar Movement" (R. Gaines, advisor) | Lecturer, Department of Communication, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ |
| 2014 | Rowena Kirby-Straker, "Scene Matters: Strategic Use of Similarity and Framing in Narrative Risk Communication" (D. Hample, advisor) | Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Communication, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC |
| 2014 | Jarim Kim, "The Impact of Consideration of Future Consequences and Temporal Framing on Acceptance of the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine" (X. Nan, advisor) | Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2014 | Melissa Janoske, "Building Online Communities after Crises: Two Case Studies" (B.F. Liu, advisor) | Assistant Professor, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN |
| 2014 | Kelly Daily, "Explicating Partisans’ Responses to Balanced News Coverage of Health Policies" (X. Nan, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, LaSalle University, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2014 | Susan Allen, "Putting Out Fires: How Communication Professionals Understand and Practice Conflict Resolution" (E.L. Toth, advisor) | Assistant Director, Advanced Academic Program in Communication, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC |
| 2013 | Rowena Lyn Briones, "Examining the Get Yourself Tested Campaign: How Online Information Seeking and Sexual Health Perceptions Influence Efficacy and Communicative Action" (L. Aldoory, advisor) | Copywriter, Vectorworks, Inc., Columbia, MD |
| 2013 | Steven D. Cohen, "Listening to Student Voices: A Case Study on the Basic Communication Course" (A.D. Wolvin, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD |
| 2013 | Theresa Donofrio, "Genocide Rhetorics in U.S. Popular Culture: Anxiety, Agency, and Authority" (S.J. Parry-Giles, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA |
| 2013 | Lindsay Hayes, "Congressional Widowhood and Gubernatorial Surrogacy: A Rhetorical History of Women's Distinct Paths to Public Office" (S.J. Parry-Giles, advisor) | |
| 2013 | Leysan Khakimova, "An Exploratory Study of the Meaning of Public Diplomacy: A Network Approach" (E.L. Toth, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
| 2013 | Tiffany Lewis, "Boosting the American Mythic West and U.S. Woman Suffrage: Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain Women's Public Discourse at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" (K.L. Maddux, advisor) | Assistant Professor, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, City University of New York, New York, NY |
| 2013 | Ling Na, "Health, Multiculturalism, and Social Integration" (D.J. Hample, advisor) | Senior Analyst, Canadian Institute for Health Information, Ottawa, ON, Canada |
| 2013 | Sejal Patel, "An Extension of the Risk Perception Attitude (RPA) Framework: Examining the Relationships between Thinking Style, Locus of Control, Anxiety, and Information Seeking" (M.M. Turner & A.D. Wolvin, advisors) | |
| 2013 | Adam Richards, "Survival of the Persuasible: An Evolutionary Approach to Interpersonal Influence" (D. Hample, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX |
| 2013 | Paula Weissman, "Where Does News About Prescription Drugs Come From?: Exploring How Organizations Built and Framed the National News Media Agenda for Hormone Therapy from 1995 to 2011" (L. Aldoory, advisor) | Assistant Director, MA Program in Communication, Advanced Academic Programs, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC |
| 2012 | Vanessa Boudewyns, "A Meta-Analytical Test of Perceived Behavioral Control Interactions in the Theory of Planned Behavior" (E.L. Fink, advisor) | Public Health Research Analyst, RTI International, Washington, DC |
| 2012 | Sabine Chai, "The Influence of Power on Negotiation Processes" (D.A. Cai & E.L. Fink, advisors) | Instructor, Department of Communication, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY |
| 2012 | Ioana A. Cionea, "A Dual Perspective on the Management of Relational Transgressions in Romantic Relationships" (E.L. Fink & D.J. Hample, advisors) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
| 2012 | Alyssa Samek, "Crafting Queer Identity, Building Coalitions, and Envisioning Liberation at the Intersections: A Rhetorical Analysis of 1970s Lesbian-Feminist Discourse" (S.J. Parry-Giles, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, California State University-Fullerton, Fullerton, CA |
| 2012 | Stephen Underhill, "J. Edgar Hoover and the Rhetorical Rise of the FBI: The Public Campaigns against Vermin, the Fifth Column, and Red Fascism" (S.J. Parry-Giles, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Marshall University, Huntington, WV |
| 2012 | Jill Cornelius Underhill, "Examining the Effects of Hope and Fear Appeals on Cognitive Processing" (T. Parry-Giles & M.M. Turner, advisors) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Marshall University, Huntington, WV |
| 2012 | Abbey Blake Levenshus, "The Social Coast Guard: An Ethnographic Examination of the Intersection of Risk Communication, Social Media, and Goverment Public Relations" (B.F.Liu, advisor) |
Assistant Professor, College of Communication, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN |
| 2012 | Ahnlee Jang, "Exploration of Communicative Social Capital, Civic and Political Engagement of the Korean Diaspora" (E.L. Toth, advisor) | Assistant Professor, School of Advertising and Public Relations, Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2012 | Lin Zhu, "A Longitudinal Study of Person-Culture Fit: Convergence of Mental Models" (M. Liu, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Boston, MA |
| 2012 | Deepa Anagondahalli, "Predicting Psychological Ripple Effects of Crisis Communication: Investigating the Joint Effects of Message and Message Receiver Attributes" (B.F.Liu & M.M. Turner, advisors) | |
| 2012 | Beth Sundstrom, "Women's Voices: Integrating Diffusion of Innovations Theory with Social Marketing to Understand Women's Health" (L. Aldoory, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC |
| 2012 | Mara Hobler, "Situating Organizational Participation, Discourse, and Development at Two Key Global Maternal Health Conferences: A Critical-Cultural Analysis" (L. Aldoory, advisor) |
Dissemination and Implementation Program Lead, Surgical Outcomes Research Center, Seattle, WA
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| 2011 | Lucinda L. Austin, "Rural Women’s Meaning Making of Empowerment and Health: Exploring the Dimensions of and Factors that Affect Empowerment" (L. Aldoory, advisor) | Assistant Professor, School of Media & Journalism, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC |
| 2011 | Timothy Barney, "(Re)Placing America: Cold War Mapping and the Mediation of International Space" (T. Parry-Giles, advisor) | Associate Professor, Department of Rhetoric & Communication Studies, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA |
| 2011 | Heather Epkins, "Media Framing of Terrorism: Views of 'Front Lines' National Security Prestige Press" (L. Aldoory, advisor) | Director of Communications, Office of the Anne Arundel County State's Attorney, Annapolis, MD |
| 2011 | Sarah Evans, "Nuclear Reactions: Advancing a Theory of Risk Communication through an Experimental Test of the Relationships among Message-Induced Emotions, the Dimensions of the Psychometric Paradigm, the Operationalization of Expertise, and Expert and Lay Person Risk Assessments" (M.M. Turner, advisor) | Senior Research Associate, Fors Marsh Group, Arlington, VA |
| 2011 | Art Herbig, "The Textualization of Pat Tillman: Understanding the Relationships between Person, Discourse, and Ideology" (R. Gaines, advisor) | Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Indiana University-Purdue University, Forth Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN |
| 2011 | Christine Skubisz, "Toward a Theory of Risk Information Processing: The Mediating Effects of Reaction Time, Clarity, Affect, and Vividness" (M.M. Turner, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Science & Disorders, Emerson College, Boston, MA |
| 2010 | Martha Kelly Carr, "Rhetorical Contingency and Affirmative Action: The Paths to Diversity in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke" (T. Parry-Giles, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL |
| 2010 | Katie Reynolds Place, "A Qualitative Examination of Gender and Power in Public Relations" (E.L. Toth, advisor) | Associate Professor, Department of Strategic Communication, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT |
| 2009 | Elena Bessarabova, "The Dynamics of Reactance and Cognitive Structure" (E.L. Fink & M.M. Turner, advisors) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
| 2009 | Hua Jiang, "A Model of Work-Life Conflict and Quality of Employee-Organization Relationships: Transformational Leadership, Procedural Justice, and Family-Supportive Workplace Initiatives" (L. Aldoory, advisor) | Associate Professor, Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY |
| 2009 | Erica Lamm, "Civic Engagement Development in Communication Students: A Case Study" (A. Wolvin, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of English, Communication, and Theatre, Concordia University, Seward, NE |
| 2009 | Yi Luo, "Public Relations and Sensemaking during Organizational Change in Multinational Organizations in China" (E.L. Toth, advisor) | Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ |
| 2009 | Hongmei Shen, "Organization-Employee Relationship Model: A Two-Sided Story" (E.L. Toth, advisor) | Associate 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, Brian Lamb School of Communication, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN |
| 2009 | Bjørn F. Stillion Southard, "The Rhetorical Origins of African Colonization in the United States" (J.F. Klumpp, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, GA |
| 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) | Professional Track Faculty, Department of English, University of Maryland, College Park, MD |
| 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) | Associate Professor & Chair, 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) | Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, GA |
| 2008 | Jennifer Vardeman-Winter, "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) | Associate Professor, Jack J. Valenti School 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) |
Coordinator in Business Communication, Faculty of Business & Economics, The University of Hong Kong |
| 2007 | Daniel A. Cronin, "Computer Mediated Communication and Negotiation: Effects of Media and Power on Relationship Development" (D.A. Cai, advisor) | Senior Associate Dean, Kreiger School of Art, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD |
| 2007 | Tiffany Derville, "Relationship Management and Member Retention: A Case Study of an Advocacy Organization" (L. Aldoory, advisor) | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Charlotte, NC |
| 2007 | Michael Phillips-Anderson, "A Theory of Rhetorical Humor in American Public Discourse" (R. Gaines, advisor) | Associate 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) | Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Communication, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX |
| 2006 | Jason Black, "Jacksonian Rhetoric, American Nationalism, and the Construction of American Indian Identity" (S.J. Parry-Giles, advisor) | Professor and Chair, Department of Communication, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Charlotte, NC |
| 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) | Associate Professor & Director of the Gender Studies Program, Department of Communication, 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) | Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, 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) | Professor, Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
| 2006 | Lan Ni, "Exploring the Value of Public Relations in Strategy Implementation: Employee Relations in the Globalization Process" (J.E. Grunig, advisor) | Associate Professor, Jack J. Valenti School of Communication, University of Houston, Houston, TX |
| 2006 | Brecken Swartz, "Media Flavor: A Grounded Analysis of Communication Values Across Cultures" (D.A. Cai, advisor) | Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Curry College, Milton, MA |
| 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) | Associate 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, Hong Kong Baptist University |
| 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) | |
| 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, Department of Communication, 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) | Associate Professor, School of Journalism, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN |
| 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) | |
| 2004 | Lisa Burns, "First Ladies as Political Women: Press Framing of Presidential Wives, 1900-2001" (S.J. Parry-Giles, advisor) | Professor & Chair, Department of Media Studies, 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) | Associate Professor, Department of Mass Communication & Journalism, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2004 | Laura Janusik, "Researching Listening from the Inside Out: The Relationship between Conversational Listening Span and Perceived Communicative Competence" (A.D. Wolvin, advisor) | Associate Professor & McGee Chair of Communication, 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) | School of Mass Communication, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea |
| 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) | Professor & Program Director, Doctor of Management Programs, The Graduate School, 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) | Deceased |
| 2002 | Chun-ju Flora Hung-Baesecke, "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) | Senior Lecturer, Business School, Massey University, New Zealand |
| 2002 | Camilla Kari, "Rhetorical Trajectory: The Emerging Public Nature of the Joint Pastoral Letters of the American Catholic Bishops" (R.N. Gaines, advisor) | |
| 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) | Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, 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) | Associate Professor, Department of Communication and the Arts, 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) | Professor, Department of Communication, Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY |
| 2001 | Robert Sullivan, "Isocrates and the Forms of Rhetorical Discourse" (R.N. Gaines, advisor) | Associate Professor of Speech Communication/ School of Humanities & Sciences Honors Program Director, 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) | 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) | Associate Professor, School of Journalism & Mass Communications, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC |
| 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, Department of Organizational Sciences and Communication, George Washington University, Washington, DC |
