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Recently Earned Ph.D. Degrees

Satoshi Moriizumi
Graduated: May 2012
Dissertation: Social support seeking processes in Japan and the United States: A multi-layered approach.
Employment: Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan

Brandi Lawless
Graduated: May 2012
Dissertation: Ending poverty? Critical interrogations of class subjectivities, agency, and ideologies in discursive and embodied texts from a US nonprofit.
Employment: University of San Francisco

Claudia Anguiano
Graduated: May 2011
Dissertation: Undocumented, unapologetic, and unafraid: Analyzing the discursive strategies of the DREAMer immigrant youth movement.
Employment: Dartmouth College

Divya Sreenivas
Graduated: December 2010
Dissertation: Structure of Narratives: Applying Propp's folktale morphology to entertainment-education films

Lorenda Belone
Graduated: August 2010
Dissertation: An examination of communicative dialectical tensions and paradoxes encountered by Native American researchers in the field and in the academy
Employment: UNM Department of Family and Community Medicine

Yea-Wen Chen
Graduated: August, 2010
Dissertation: Negotiating intersecting cultural identities, dialectical tensions, and status relationships: Intercultural relationships in two nonprofit organizations in the Southwest
Employment: Ohio University

Jennifer Sandoval
Graduated: August 2010.
Dissertation: Labor pains: An exploration into the complex roles of identity, the body, and policy in surrogacy discourses in India
Employment: University of Central Florida after a year at California State University Stanislaus

Elizabeth Dickinson
Graduated: May 2010
Dissertation: Constructing, consuming, and complicating the human-nature binary: Communication practices in forest environmental education
Employment: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Marianne Leonardi
Graduated: May 2010
Dissertation: Narrative as self performance: The rhetorical construction of identities on Facebook profiles
Employment: Portland State University

Hannah Oliha
Graduated: May 2010
Dissertation: Discourses of diversity: Negotiating the boundaries for equality, inclusion, and through the discourse of socially situated subjects
Employment: West Texas A & M University

Abdissa Zerai
Graduated: May 2010
Dissertation: U.S. press representation of the southern Sudanese Civil War, 1983-2005
Employment: Instructor, UNM C&J department

Holly Siebert Kawakami
Graduated: December 2009
Dissertation: A history and development of the intercultural communication field in Japan (1950-Present)

Martina Myers
Graduated: December 2009
Dissertation: Institutional Ethnography: How Tenured Academic Women Talk About Success
Employment: New Mexico State University

Christopher Brown
Graduated: December 2009
Dissertation: White bodies, black gaze: Constructions of white masculinity in white-male elite discourses on leadership and diversity
Employment: Two-year postdoctoral research fellowship, Ohio State University

Bhavana Upadhyaya
Graduated: December 2009
Dissertation: Amma’s daughters: A transmodern study of personal, gender, cultural, and religious identities amongst women in the Amma community in United States
Employment: Central New Mexico Community College

Courtney Fletcher
Graduated: August 2009
Dissertation: Negotiating face and conflict in romantic relationships: A cross-cultural comparison of Uganda and Ethiopia
Employment: University of Portland

Jessica Crespo
Graduated: May 2009
Employment: Clarion University

Kris Kirschbaum
Graduated: August 2008
Dissertation: Conflict in the operating room: How physician status influences face negotiation
Employment: East Carolina University

Adolfo Garcia
Graduated: May 2008
Employment: University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

Melissa Curtin
Graduated: December 2007
Dissertation: Language ideologies on display: Local, regional & (trans)national identities in Taipei’s linguistic landscape.
Employment: University of California, Santa Barbara.

Anchalee Ngampornchai
Graduated: December 2007
Dissertation: Rhetorical construction of Thailand: A comparative analysis of travel media representation
Employment: Florida State University, Tallahassee Community College

Doris Fields
Graduated: August 2007
Employment: Retired, independent consultant

Amie Kincaid
Graduated: August 2007
Employment: University of Illinois, Springfield

Ashley Grisso
Graduated: August 2007
Dissertation: Ritualized media use among middle-school-aged girls: Forming and informing female identity
Employment: Adjunct, Women Studies Program and C&J Department at UNM. Santa Fe business offers workshops for girls and women moving from one life phase to another.

Matthew Petrunia
Graduated: August 2007
Dissertation: The search for generic possibility in supernatural discourse: Creating space for believers in a skeptical world
Employment: Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City.

Jaime Chavez
Graduated: May 2007
Dissertation: I laughed until it hurt: Representing culture and cultural identity in the media: A discursive exploration of humorous Latino popular culture artifacts

Ruben Ramirez
Graduated: May 2007
Dissertation: Capitalism, independent media making, and articulation: A case study of the Puerto Rico underground

Elizabeth Root
Graduated: May 2007
Dissertation: How the ideology of English influences classroom interactions in South Korea: Insights from personal narratives
Employment: Oregon State University

Recently Earned M.A. Degrees

Angela (Qingjing) Xu
Graduated: May 2012
Thesis: "I have to be everything": Voices of international working mothers: Negotiating work-life balance in the United States.
Employment: Executive Vice President, Recruitment and Organizational Development - Asia, for Education First. Based out of Boston, Mass.

LaRae Tronstad
Graduated: May 2012
Thesis: "And now I'm here": An ethnography of communication about "asking for help" practices at a homeless shelter.
Placement: Doctoral student, University of Texas at Austin

Carolina Ramos
Graduated: May 2011
Thesis: Borders, bridges, and beer: Performances of cultural identities in the Washington Birthday Celebration.
Placement: Doctoral student, University of Texas at San Antonio

Marleah Dean
Graduated: May 2011
Thesis: "It's Like a Giant Game of Telephone": Physicians' Perceptions of Effective Communication in the Emergency Department Context.
Placement: Doctoral student, University of Texas at Austin

Kenneth Lythgoe
Graduated: August 2011
Thesis: Over and Under the Rainbow: A (Queer) Rhetorical Analysis of the Rainbow Sash Movement and Rainbow Sash Alliance
Placement: Doctoral student, University of Wisconsin Madison

Nicole Abeyta
Graduated: May 2010
Thesis: Hispanics’ communication experience in the organizational setting

Bodi Li
Graduated: May 2010
Thesis: The effects of electronic word-of-mouth: An exploratory study

Carrie Niesen
Graduated: July 2010
Thesis: Navigating reentry shock: The use of communication as a facilitative tool
Employment: Instructor, Winona State University

Liesel Sharabi
Graduated: May 2010
Thesis: Why can’t we be friends? Examining the influence of social network profiles on initial interactions.

Laura Burton
Graduated: May 2009
Thesis: Facing defacement: Factors influencing indigenous patients in provider-patient communication in Baja Verapaz, Guatamala
Employment: Instructor, UNM C&J department

Marne Austin
Graduated: May 2008
Thesis: The discourse of feminism among graduate students at the University of New Mexico
Placement: Doctoral student, Bowling Green State University

Hiromi Takahashi
Graduated: May 2008
Thesis: Planting the seeds of surreality, cultivating the dynamism of a nation: Winston Miranda and the rhetoric of resilience in post-revolutionary Nicaraguan art
Employment: Zhengzhou Foreign Language School in Henan, China

Jennifer Caswell
Graduated: May 2007
Thesis: Identification rhetoric of a megachurch and how that rhetoric is mirrored in member talk

Myra Luna Lucero
Graduated: December 2007
Thesis: Community social movement rhetoric: ‘Unidad’ and ‘poder’ in letter writing

Benjamin Mabe
Graduated: December 2007
Thesis: Media culture and the construction of relationship "prizes" in reality TV romance games: A critical discourse analysis
Placement: Doctoral student, University of New Mexico

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