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First NameFirst-Year Writing Teachers’ Emotions and Grammar Instruction: A Mixed Methods Study Committee
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YEARNAMEDISSERTATION TITLEDISSERTATION COMMITTEE
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2012Kerry DirkTransfer and Faculty Writing Knowledge:
An Activity Theory Analysis		Powell, Rude, George, Carter-Tod
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2012Brian GoganA Case for Rhetorical Method: Criticism, Theory, and the Exchange of Jean BaudrillardHausman, Heilker, Pender, Powell
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2012Jennifer GroulingDisciplinary Participation and Genre Acquisition of Graduate Teaching Assistants in CompositionPowell, Belanger, Carter-Tod, George, Rude
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2012Megan ONeilFrom Reflection to Reflexivity: Challenging Students’ Conceptions of Writing, Self, and
Society in the Community Writing Classroom		Powell, Belanger, Collier, Dubinsky
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2013Cynthia FieldsEpidiectic Space: Memory, Tourism, and Inventing the American Civil WarPowell, Belanger, Hausman, Heilker
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2013Ashley PatriarcaSafety at the Margins: A Rhetorical Analysis of Occupational Risk Communication in ConstructionEvia, Dubinsky, Rude, Warnick
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2014Elizabeth AnthonyThe Path to Translingual: A History of the Globalization of English in Composition StudiesHeilker, Dannenberg, Pender, Powell, Tardy
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2014Daniel Lawson"Like Their Lives Depended On It": The Role of Comics in Subverting Anti-Arab and Islamophobic DiscourseGeorge, Pender, Powell, Salaita
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2014Timothy LockridgeBeyond Invention: How Hackers Challenge Memory & Disrupt DeliveryGeorge , Evia, Fowler, Powell, Cynthia Selfe (external reader)
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2014Matthew SharpOrganizational Identity-Power in Practice: The Rhetorics of University IdentityRude, Belanger, Evia, Pender
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2014Lorin ShellenbergerTraining Bodies: Performances of Ethos in 21st Century SportswomenPowell, Hausman, Heilker, Kilkelly, Pender
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2015Franny HowesFrom Inclusion to Transformation: Decolonial Feminist Comix Methodology (With Handy Illustrations)Powell, Heilker, Dubinsky, Belanger, Malea Powell (external reader)
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2015Kathleen KerrA Study of the Plain Writing Act of 2010: Federal Agency, Writer, and User Appropriations of U.S. Plain Language PolicyPender, Evia, Hausman, Heilker
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2015Heidi LawrenceConscientious Object-ion: Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Medical ControversyHausman, Heilker, Pender, Rude
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2015Amy ReedRhetoric, Disability, and Prenatal Testing: Down Syndrome as an Object of DiscourseHausman, Heilker, Pender, Powell, Rude
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2015Maggie SabaWriting in a New Environment: Saudi ESL Students Learning Academic WritingCarter-Tod, George, Belanger, Fowler, Paredes
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2016Jessica BeckettNegotiating Expertise: The Strategies Writing Program Administrators use to Mediate Disciplinary and Institutional ValuesCarter-Tod, Hausman, Evia, Powell
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2016Scott KowalewskiSpecialized Online Publics and Rhetorical Ecologies: A Study of Civic Engagement in Natural Resource ManagementGeorge, Belanger, DeVoss, Fowler, Rude
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2016Becky MorrisonA Study of Writing Within Discipline Specific Support Centers: Expanding Our DefinitionsGeorge, Powell, Dubinsky, Warnick
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2016Molly ScanlonMultimodal Composition and the Rhetoric of Comics: A Study of Comics Teams in CollaborationGeorge, Powell, Pender, Vollmer
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2017Laura CollinsLocating Sex: The Rhetorical Contours of Transgender Anti-Discrimination LawHausman, Labuski, Powell, Pender
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2017Leonard GrantTraumatic Formations and Psychiatric Codifications: A Rhetorical History of PTSDHausman, Dubinsky, Pender, Sano-Franchini
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2017Phil HayekSeizing the Initiative: Rhetorical Implications of US Army DoctrineHausman, Dubinsky, Warnick, Sano-Franchini
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2017Tana SchiewerThe Nonprofit Mission Statement as Genre: Speech Acts, Social Facts, and EcologiesPender, Dubinsky, Evia, Warnick
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2018Prabin LamaAssessing the Impact of Writing Centers on Student WritingGeorge and Powell (co-chairs), Heilker, Dubinsky
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2019Katie GarahanDeliberation, Dissent, and Advocacy: A Rhetorical Study of Teachers’ Lived Experiences with Contemporary Education ReformPowell, Pender, Carter-Tod, Sano-Franchini, Commer
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2019Allison HutchisonAssessing the Feasibility of Online Writing Support for Technical Writing StudentsEvia, Carter-Tod, Paretti, Pender
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2019Janet HanksAppalachian Language in the Two-Year College Composition ClassroomPowell, Carmichael, Carter-Tod, Heilker
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2019Andrew KulakRhetoric Beyond the Digital/Physical Divide: The Internet and Digital and Physical HybridityPender, Lindgren, Powell, Sano-Franchini
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2020Brooke CovingtonSet in Stone: Rhetorical Performances in Virginia Tech’s April 16th MemorialPender, Powell, Mueller, Heilker
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Savannah Paige Murray
The Dam Fighters: Commons Environmental Rhetoric, Rhetorical Citizenship, and Local EthosPowell, Carter-Tod, Commer, Pender
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2020Kate NatishanStandards, Shame, and Outrage: A Rhetorical History of Sexual Assault and Policy Change in the U.S. MilitaryPowell, Dubinsky, Heilker, Sano-Franchini
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2021Cheyenne FranklinFirst-Year Writing Teachers’ Emotions and Grammar Instruction: A Mixed Methods StudySano-Franchini, Commer, Dubinsky, Mueller, Rifenburg (external reader)
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2021Jonathan AdamsIt Goes Without Saying: Infrastructure as Rhetorical Theory for Navigating Transition in Writing Program AdministrationDubinsky, Commer, Mueller, Powell
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2021Katherine Randall‘Should I Have Done More?’: Proxy Agency, Gathered Ethos, and Volunteer Responsibility in the Rhetoric of Health Resettlement for RefugeesPowell, Commer, Hausman, Hester, Pender
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2021Katie Beth BrooksReading, Writing, Rhetoric: A Rhetorically Emplaced Study of Writing Education in an Appalachian RegionCarter-Tod, Powell, Sano-Franchini, Commer, Satterwhite (external reader)
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2021Kelly ScarffBeyond Consensus: A Rhetorical Genre Analysis of the Mountain Valley Pipeline's 401 Public HearingsPender, Commer, Mueller, Lindgren
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2022Maggie FernandesMaking Sense of Digital Content Moderation from the MarginsSano-Franchini, Baniya, Lindgren, Powell
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2022Matthew HomerToward a Decolonial Haole RhetoricSano-Franchini, Lindgren, Mueller, Powell
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2022Atinut InthajakThriving in the Academy: Thai Students' Experiences and PerspectivesPowell, Baniya, Mueller, Sano-Franchini
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2022Julie MengertFrom Surviving to Metaviving: A New Rhetorical Formation in Metastatic Breast Cancer Patient DiscoursePender, Commer, Gerdes, Hester
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2023Amilia EvansPossibilities for Making Institutional Change: An Institutional Critique of Diversity Discourse at a Predominantly White InstitutionMueller, Craig, Evia, Lindgren, Maraj (external reader)
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2023Kat GrayWhite Memory and the (Counter)Stories We Might TellDubinsky, Cassinelli, Lindgren, Sano-Franchini, Webster
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2023Michelle WagnonBeyond the Tall, Tall Trees: Exploring Land and Digital Literacy in Rural AppalachiaLindgren, Gerdes, Powell, Weaver
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2024Priya GangulyInstitutional Global Maternal Nutrition Communication: Unblackboxing Rhetorical Power Dynamics in Transnational SpacesGerdes and Pender (co-chairs), Baniya, Webster
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2024Chloe RobertsonNavigating the Legal Constraints of Being a Nonimmigrant: A Study of the Technical Communication Challenges for International Graduate Students in the United StatesCommer, Lindgren, McComiskey, Pender, Rabbi
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