Dissertations | Department of Communication at USF

department of communication — dissertations

The following dissertations were completed toward the attainment of the Doctor of Philosophy degree in the Department of Communication.

2008
Gary Carson. Time Bending: Temporal Malleability and Organizational Response in Crisis Situations

Linda Levitt. Hollywood Forever: Culture, Celebrity, and the Cemetery

Jeanine Minge, Cob Building: Movements and Moments of Survival

2007
Cara Mackie. Achieving Sobriety: A Narrative Investigation of Women, Identity, and Relationships.

Matt Brooks. Friendships Between Men: Masculinity as as Relational Experience.

Beth Eschenfelder. Interagency Collaboration and Communication: Funders and Service Providers Working Together to Create a Management Service Organization.

Patrick Cannon. Communication for Planetary Transformation and the Drag of Public Conversations: The Case of Landmark Education Corporation.

Shirlan Williams. Graduate Students/Mothers Negotiating Academia and Family Life: Discourses, Experiences, and Alternatives.

Sandy Cooper. Making Sense of Complex Failure: The Case of 9/11.

Adi Thelen. Narrative Efforts at Social Redemption by People with AIDS/HIV.

2006
Wang, Zhong (June). Inside and Outside Multinational Corporations: Evolutional Identities of Researcher and Researched.

Vangelis, Linda. Communicating Change: An Ethnography of Women's Sensemaking on Hormone Replacement Therapies, Menopause, and the Women's Health Initiative.

2005
Malcolm, Nigel. One More River to Cross: The Therapeutic Rhetoric of Race and the Post-Civil Rights Era.

Moreman, Shane. Performativity and the Latina/o-White Hybrid Identity: Performing the Textual Self.

Davis, Christine. A Future With Hope: The Social Construction of Hope, Help, and Dialogic Reconciliation in a Community Children’s Mental Health System of Care.

Gao, Hongmei. The Invisible Handshake: Interpreting the Job-Seeking Communication of Foreign-Born Chinese in the U.S.

Walker, Deborah. Motive and Identity in the Narratives of Community Service Volunteers.

Curry, Elizabeth. Communicating Collaboration and Empowerment: A Research Novel of Relationships with Domestic Violence Workers.

Reffue, John. A Rhetoric of Sports Talk Radio.

2004
Asmuth, Margaret (Vi). Developing and Sustaining Interpersonal Relationships Between Certified Nursing Assistants and Residents in Long-Term Care Facilities.

Kodish, Slavica. Trust Unbound: The Meaning of Trusting Organizational Relationships.

Shouse, Eric. Outlaw heroes and road warriors: Standup comedy and the quest for fame.

2003
Baglia, William J. Building masculinity: Viagra and the performance of sexual health.

Bean, Cynthia. Framing and sensemaking in organizational change: The experience of nomadic work.

George, Joan. Flat chests and crossed eyes: Scrutinizing minor bodily stigma through the lens of cosmetic surgery.

Hemmat, Allen. Transformation aspects of culturally distant mystical and religious texts.

Kreisher, Robert. Developing organizational development: Alienation and organizing in the age of information.

Leoutsakas, Dennis. The orphan tales: Real and imagined stories of parental loss.

2002
Arrington, Michael. Recreating ourselves: Stigma, identity changes, and narrative reconstruction among prostate cancer survivors.

Foster, Elissa. Intimate strangers: Relational communication between hospice volunteers and patients.

Goodier, Bethany. Sustaining the spirit: Creating a sanctuary for living, working, and healing.

Kohl, Virginia. From arm-chair philosophy to social agency: A case study in participatory action research with the humanities of Florida.

Ostrenko, Margaret. Learning conversations at a marine science center.

2001
Cox, Dennis E. "Smile honey, our church is watching": Identity and role conflict in the pastoral marriage.

Ellingson, Laura J. Communicating across disciplines: A feminist ethnography collaboration on a geriatric oncology team.

Frame, Melissa J. Blind spots: The stigmatizing experiences of being invisibly visually impaired.

Golombisky, Kimberly D. Unexcused absences: Education discourses on women's sport, student-on-student sexual harassment, and gender equity advocacy.

Gregory, Kimberly Weller. Don't sweat the small stuff: Employee identity in the new economy.

Hirschmann, Krista. Fidelity and fecundity: The performance of sex communication between parents and children and patients and physicians.

Makagon, Daniel. When the ball drops: Disrupting Times Square's fantasy.

Perry, Judith L. Sibling relationships and care of parents: Deconstructing memoirs and personal narratives.

Singh, G'han. Romancing the tar baby: Performance, representation and the emotional economy of cross-racial sex.

Strauman, Elena. The doctor's stories: A narrative analysis of physicians in the news.

Woodward, Thomas. Aroused from dogmatic slumber: A rhetorical history of the intelligent design movement.

2000
Andrews-Crotwell, Linda. The Hillsborough River Greenways Task Force: An ethnographic study of collaboration for the love of a river.

Berger, Leigh. Messianic Judaism: Searching the spirit.

Rand, Honey. In the public interest: A story of conflict, communication, and change in Tampa Bay's water wars.

1999
Laine-Timmerman, Linda E. Living the mystery: The emotional experience of floor nursing.

Winn, John Emmett. Negotiating class through contemporary Hollywood cinema.

1998
Austin, Deborah. Understanding close relationships among African Americans in the context of the Million Man March.

French, Daniel B. Through the eyes of the comic mask: An ethnographic exploration of the identity of a stand-up comedian.

Jago, Barbara J. Ambivalence and agency: Women's narratives of father-absence.

Jones, Janna. The downtown picture palace: The significance of place, memory and cinema.

Murphy, Alexandra G. Managing "nowhere": The changing organizational performance of air travel.

Pupchek, Leanne. Home and native land: Imagining "Canada" in the style of indigenous art.

Tillman-Healy, Lisa. Life projects: A narrative ethnography of gay-straight friendship.

1997
Cherry, Keith P. Ain't no grave deep enough: An ethnographic study of a residential facility for homeless people with AIDS.

Grant, Charles Henry III. Physician-patient communication in accrual to trial interviews.

Sells, Laura. Toward a feminist critical rhetoric: Subjectivity, performance, and the body in feminist public address.

1996
Olive, Tonja E. Cultural and collective stories of health and illness: An analysis of women's stories and media representations of breast cancer.

Simpson, Timothy A. Contesting community: Memory, place, and culture in Ybor City, Florida.

1995
Kiesinger, Christine. Anorexic and bulimic lives: Making sense of food and eating.

Moberg, Virgil B. Foreign correspondent films: A form for knowing.

Peterson, Lori W. The influence of sharing a semantic link on social support in work relationships at a hospital.