Placement of 2002-2006 Doctoral Degree Recipients
Kevin J. Ayotte, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Communication Faculty, California State University,
Fresno. Dissertation: “The Rhetoric of Terror: The Threat of
Weapons of Mass Destruction in American Foreign Policy Discourse”
(2003). Advisor: John Poulakos.
Thomas W. Baggerman, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Communication, Capital University.
Dissertation: "Structurally Unsound: The Changing State of Local
Television" (2006). Advisor: Carol Stabile, now University of
Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Michael Bannon, lecturer, University of Pittsburgh.
Dissertation: "The Battle of Deer Creek Crossing: A Case Study of
Rhetorical Exigence and Environmental Controversy" (2006). Advisor:
Gordon Mitchell
Michael William Barberich. Visiting Faculty, SUNY Albany.
Dissertation: "From the Frontier to the Fireside: Rhetoric and Public
Memory in the Depression and the War" (2004). Advisor: John Poulakos.
Jody Baker, Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh.
Dissertation: “Landscapes: Nature, Culture, and the Production of
Space” (2003). Advisor: Carol Stabile, now University of
Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Peter K. Bsumek, Director of Debate, School of Communication Studies, James Madison University ,
Harrisonburg, VA. Dissertation: “Conservation Biology, Post
Modern Theory & Rhetoric in ‘The Great New Wilderness Debate'
: A Case Study in Environmental Rhetoric, the Rhetoric of Science &
Public Argument” (2003). Advisor: John Poulakos.
Alice Elizabeth Crawford.
Dissertation: “The City in the Future Perfect: Information
Technology, Utopianism, and Urban Life” (2003). Advisor: Carol
Stabile, now University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Guillermo Caliendo, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Department of Communication Studies, Hofstra University.
Dissertation: “Mediated Memory: Political Assassinations &
the Dialectics of Social Recollection” (2003). Advisor: Robin
Means Coleman, now University of Michigan.
Nathan Crick, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Communication, Louisiana State University. Dissertation: "John Dewey on the Art of Communication" (2005). Advisor: John Poulakos.
Robert C. Danisch, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Concordia University
(Montreal). Dissertation: "Making an American Democracy: Pragmatism and
the Necessity of Rhetoric" (2004). Advisor: John Poulakos.
Aimee-Marie Dorsten, Tenure-Track Faculty Position, Wilson College
(Chambersburg, PA). Dr. Dorsten (2006) will be joining the
English Department at Wilson, and is looking forward to developing
their Mass Communication program by cultivating a global media
perspective. She will also be the advisor for the Billboard,
Wilson's college newspaper.
Jennifer Friedlander, The Edgar E. and
Elizabeth S. Pankey Professor of Media Studies and Assistant Professor
of Art and Art History (tenure track), Media Studies, Pomona College ,
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA. Dissertation: “How
Should A Woman Look?: Film Theory, Photography & Spectatorship"
(2003). Advisor: John Lyne.
Zachary Furness. Dissertation: "Put the Fun
Between your Legs!: The Politics and Counterculture of the Bicycle"
(2006). Advisor: Jonathan Sterne, now McGill University.
John Gillette, Dissertation: "A Rhetorical
Analysis of the Campesinos Sin Tierra Struggle for Land Reform in
Paragray" (2005). Advisor: Gordon Mitchell.
Kelly Happe, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Communication, Northern Illinois University ,
DeKalb IL. Dissertation: “Genomics and the Social Order:
Rhetoric, Media, and the Case of Breast Cancer" (2003). Advisor: Carol
Stabile, now University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
Mark Lowery Harrison, Dissertation: "The Extraterrestrial in US Culture" (2006). Advisor: Carol Stabile, now University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
Lisa Keranen , Assistant Professor (tenure track), Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder . Dissertation: " The Rhetoric of Self-Defense: Rhetoric, Politics, and Personae in the Bernard Fisher Breast Cancer Controversy” (2003). Advisor: John Lyne.
Allen R. Larson, Lecturer, Assistant Professor of Communication (tenure track), Pennsylvania State University, New Kensington
(offer). Dissertation: “Alienated Affections: Stardom, Work, and
Identity in United States Twentieth-Century Culture” (2003).
Co-Advisors: Danae Clark and Jane Feuer, Professor of English and
Adjunct in Communication.
Junya Morooka, Department of English, Kanagawa University
(Japan). Dissertation: "The Rhetoric of the Foreign Worker PRoblem in
Contemporary Japan" (2006). Advisor: Peter Simonson, now University of
Colorado.
Jessica Joanne Mudry, Assistant Professor (tenure track),General Studies Unit, Concordia University
(Montreal). Dissertation: "An Appetite for Numbers: Quality, Quantity,
and American Food" (2004). Advisor: Joan Leach, now University of
Queensland, Australia.
Mark Porrovecchio, Assistant Professor and Director of Debate (tenure track), Oregon State University.
Dissertation: "F.C.S. Schiller and the Style of Pragmatic Humanism"
(2006). Advisor: Peter Simonson, now University of Colorado.
Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Assistant Professor of Communication (tenure-track), University of Cincinnati .
Dissertation: “Anytime, Anywhere: Technomadic Work and Gender in
the New Economy" (2003). Advisor: Carol Stabile, now University of
Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
Maxwell Schnurer, Lecturer and Debate Coach, Marist College ,
Poughkeepsie, NY. Dissertation: “Conscious Rebellion: A
Rhetorical Analysis of Political Cross-Fertilization in the Animal
Rights Movement” (2002). Advisor: Gordon Mitchell.
Michelle Silva, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Communication, Saginaw State University.
Dissertation: "Digital Alchemy: Matter and Metamorphosis in
Contemporary Digital Animation and Interface Design" (2006). Advisor:
Jonathan Sterne, now McGill University.
Karen Taylor, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Communication, Tulane University ,
New Orleans. Dissertation: “Identifying the Traitor Among Us: The
Rhetoric of Espionage & Secrecy” (2003). Advisor: John Lyne.
Amos A. Tevelow, Communication Analyst, U.S. Government Accountability Office. Dissertation: "Liberalism and Neo liberalism: A History of American Think Tanks" (2006). Advisor: John Lyne.
Vanda Thorne, Faculty, New York University Study Abroad Program in Prague.
Dissertation: "Ideologies and Realities of the Masses in Communist
Czechoslovakia" (2005). Advisor: Jonathan Sterne, now McGill University.
Ron Von Burg, Assistant Professor (tenure track), Communication Studies, Christopher Newport University. "The Cinematic Turn in Public Discussions of Science" (2005). Advisor: Gordon Mitchell.
Weiming Yao, Assistant Professor of Communication (tenure track), Illinois College . Dissertation: "Falun Gong Rhetoric and Chinese Religious Traditions" (2004). Advisor: John Lyne.
For more information , contact:
Dr. Ronald J. Zboray
Director of Graduate Studies
Associate Professor of Communication & History
Department of Communication
1117 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh PA 15260
Tel. 412.624.6969
E-mail: zboray@pitt.edu.
