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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 |