Recommended theses and research projects:
You can easily find a list of all the Communication Studies theses by:
going to Rod Library main page
search for "Theses and Dissertations @ UNI"
click on subject "Communication"
Rhetorical/Critical Studies
Millie Njezic
Visualizing belonging: Deliberation and identification in the Vestavia Hills mascot controversy, Scott Neil Bredman, UNI ScholarWorks 2016-07-01T07:00:00Z
From meme to memegraph: The curious case of Pepe the Frog and white nationalism, Ismael Quinones Valdivia, UNI ScholarWorks2019-01-01T08:00:00Z
Analyzing Rana Plaza crisis discourse from a postcolonial perspective: Implications for identity and crisis communication studies, Mir Ashfaquzzaman, UNI ScholarWorks 2017-01-01T08:00:00Z
Transcending the "freaked-out nun" persona: Apologia, anger, and affect in Hillary Clinton's Benghazi testimony, Alexandria Chase, UNI Special Collections.
On body dumps: The rhetorics of corporeal narcoterrorism. Evan M. Schares, UNI Special Collections.
Beware of tres-passing: The colonization of gay men, Brett N. Billman, LD2585 .B59
Rhetorical analysis of interactive texts: Okinawa war memorial and presidential speech, Takayuki Kato, LD2585 .K195
"Second class families": Media portrayal of adoption in America, Jennifer Ellen Struve, LD2585 .S9285
From heteronormative to strategic ambiguity: Crafting a scholarly sexual persona, LD2585 .H2962Kelsey Harr
Give 'em hill : the fighter persona in Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, LD2585 .B9276 Rebecca Buel
Framed: Youth conceptions of citizenship, LD2585 .F2295 Jennifer Lea Farrell
Let the ego soar: Stephen Colbert and performative irony, LD2585 .M1442 Ryan Erik McGeough
A rhetorical analysis of the discourse announcing the establishment of the Office of Global Communications: An examination of U.S. propaganda after 9/11, Alexander V. Laskin, LD2585 .L337
Creative Projects
Dancing my adoptive identity: An autoethnographic analysis of adoption narratives and performance of identity. Montana Smith
Identifiable marks, Brian Samuel Davis, LD2585.D256
Bodies in battle: Narratives of opposing forces in the experiences, emotions, and interactions of women with eating disorders, Laura Lee Sohl, LD2585 .S68
Bible beater/bra burner: Liminal experiences of Christian & feminist identity, Jennifer Lynn Freitag, LD2585 .F8667 UNI Spec Coll Arch 11/00/01
Telling my way home: Family, narratives, and the performance of identities, Danielle Dick McGeough, LD2585 .M144
Repetition, presence and lucky dragon no. 5 LD2585 .P878 Benjamin Daniel Powell
Quantitative/Qualitative Projects
"But I'm still their dad": Exploring the negotiation of familial roles among stepfathers. Nathaniel C. Parrish, UNI Special Collections.
Where loyalties lie: A study of workplace dissent through the lens of loyalty. Katelyn Santy, UNI Special Collections.
Significance of the general public for public relations: A study of the blogosphere's impact on the October 2006 Edelman/Wal-Mart crisis, Sergei Golitsinski, LD2585 .P962
Dimensions of social support: Cardiac patients and their spouses, Nichole Louise Egbert, LD2585 .E28
Self-talk and right livelihood: A conscious choice, Colleen M. Klatt, LD2585 .K62
Classroom communication behaviors and individual beliefs: An ethnographic case study, Paula M. Lovell, LD2585.L89
Surviving Katrina: A qualitative narrative inquiry, Farren Keith Clark, LD2585 .C593
Street trafficking on Thai women: A qualitative study of internet dating and sex tourism, Dussadee Oeawpanich, LD2585 .O29
The role of parasocial interaction in interpersonal relational perceptions, behaviors, and development: An exploration of viewers' friendships on both sides of the television screen, Charles Edward Soukup, LD2585 .S718
Alternative health care practitioners (healers) and their patients in rural Iowa, Sherry L. Nuss, LD2585 .N98
How can I tell you how smart I am: East Indian and Pakistani students in the U.S. high school classroom, Archana A. Pathak, LD2585 .P295
Research papers:
Ryan Courtney
Raquyah Almuzayn
"An organization in change: How leadership maintained trust during organizational upheaval," Nevin Nolte.
"Media coverage of university program closures: Dialectics between administration and faculty," Nicole Brennan.
"Harnessing the powr of repatriate narratives," Sandra Filllema.
"You are not what we’re talking about here," Jade Horning (creative project).
"The Other Baby Story: A Pregnancy, Birth, Motherhood Counter-Narrative," Jenn Supple (creative project)
"Staging Purity: Purity Balls and Virginity Pledges as the Performance of Female Subjection," Amanda Freking Nolte (performance studies)
"Communication Assessment for Cedar Valley Hospice," Kathleen A. Minette (org comm)
"Interpersonal Conflict and Role Conflict Between Nurses and Physicians in Critical Care," Kathryn Rue (interpersonal)
"Aged to perfection: Perceptions of adult students at the community college level," SethAnne Degabrielle