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Tony E. Adams | tony.e.adams@gmail.com Doctoral candidate: interpersonal communication, queer theory, environmental rhetoric CIS 3017, 813.404.4838 Amelia Ayers | ayers@coedu.usf.edu MA student Julia Barnhill | jbarnhil@mail.usf.edu PhD student: family communication, death and dying CIS 3028, 813.974.2237 Barbara Bennington | barbara_bennington@hotmail.com PhD student: organizational communication, identity, professional ethics CIS 3065, 813.974.7508 Laura Bergeron | laura.m.bergeron@gmail.com MA student CIS 3029, 813.974.2009 Rachel Binns | rbinns@mail.usf.edu PhD student: interpersonal relationships, autoethnography, sports communication CIS 3047 My dissertation is an ethnographic and autoethnographic exploration of the relationships of players and their partners in the National Football League. Specifically, I have focused on reflexive sensemaking of identity formation for NFL wives with the Seattle Seahawks from 2004-2007. Daniel Blaeuer | dblaeuer@mail.usf.edu PhD student CIS 3069, 813.974.5710 Beverly McClay Borawski | borawski@mail.usf.edu Doctoral candidate: interpersonal communication, family communication, public speaking. For my dissertation, I plan to study interpersonal communication and adversarial growth in natural disaster survivors with a case study of hurricane survivors. Robin M. Boylorn | rboylorn@mail.usf.edu Doctoral candidate: autoethnography, Black women’s studies, creative writing CIS 3065, 813.974.7508 My dissertation project investigates the everyday lived experiences of rural black women in a community located in central North Carolina. I want to understand how these women live meaningful lives and how they communicate their lives (to each other, to outsiders, and to themselves). This ethnographic study will allow rural black women to “tell their own lives,” in their own words. The manuscript will be a collaboration of voices and experiences that layers my story as a rural black woman scholar with theirs. The dissertation will be written in the form of a novel, utilizing creative writing techniques. Tim Burke | tjburke@mail.usf.edu PhD student CIS 3067, 813.974.8378 Sara Dykins Callahan | sdykins@mail.usf.edu Doctoral candidate CIS 3070, 813.974.9098 Wren Colker | wrenATusf@aol.com Doctoral candidate: interpersonal, family, grief and loss CIS 3066, 813.974.2282 My dissertation research deals with family secrets and the transformation of the family once the silence is broken and the secrets revealed. Since my mother died twenty-eight years ago and my father remarried, I have been living in the space between two mothers. Through interviews and therapeutic sessions, I will explore the communication challenges of my own story and those of others in similar situations. Angela M. Day | amday@mail.usf.edu Doctoral candidate Liz Edgecomb | liz_edgecomb@hotmail.com Doctoral candidate: cultural studies, performance, consumer culture CIS 3068, 813.974.4705 My dissertation title is Nike, Hilfiger, and None of the Above: Poor, Inner-City Teenage Identity and Consumer Culture. Teens in contemporary U.S. society are, like the rest of us, consumers and engage in consumer culture to create identities. Often considered to be hedonistic, shortsighted, and selfish in their consumer desires and actions, this label is exacerbated when teens are poor and/or African American. Despite the proliferation of negative images of poor, urban African-American teens in the media, little research has been done to discover how they understand their identities in relation to consumption. Through various ethnographic methods, my work attempts to document the ways that these teens themselves understand their identities and the resources and constraints of the consumer system. Eric Paul Engel | e@ketchcom.net | website PhD student: organizational communication, communication theory, interpersonal communication Carolina Fernandez | crferna3@mail.usf.edu MA student: political communication, rhetoric, cultural studies CIS 3028 Colin A. Forde | cforde@mail.usf.edu PhD student: health communication Cathie Gharing | cgharing@hotmail.com MA student: autoethnography, ethnography, narrative Carly Gieseler | cgiesele@mail.usf.edu PhD student: critical studies, media representation, spectatorship in culture CIS 3070, 813.974.9098 Bob Gonzalez | bobgon@tampabay.rr.com | website Doctoral candidate: performance, organizational communication, collaborative creativity Research project: Collaborative creativity. I am studying the storying and languaging of the collaborative creative process in film through the analysis of making-of documentaries (MODs) included in extras of DVD releases of motion pictures. Antoine Hardy | ahardy@mail.usf.edu PhD student CIS 3018, 813.974.7511 Andrew F. Herrmann | afherrma@mail.usf.edu Doctoral candidate: organizational communication, employee sensemaking, economic discourse CIS 3015, 813.974.7415 In my dissertation, I seek to better understand the process of personal sensemaking among new tenure-track Assistant Professors in the discipline of communication. For newcomers to any organization, including academia, one of the primary processes is the need to make sense of a new situation, a new organizational culture, and one’s place in that culture. This is particularly important during transition phases and turning points that affect an individual’s identity. My goal is to focus on lived, concrete, and detailed experiences by exploring narrative sensemaking during career turning points, when academics transition being from doctoral students to occupying tenure-track positions. Tammy Jeffries | tjeffrie@mail.usf.edu PhD student: cultural studies, pedagogy, performance Brian Johnston | bjohnst2@mail.usf.edu | website Doctoral candidate: cultural studies, rhetoric CIS 3067, 813.974.2145 Wendy Adams King | waking@helios.acomp.usf.edu Doctoral candidate CIS 3017 Yvonne Michelle Kline | ykline@mail.usf.edu PhD student CIS 3017 David H. Lee | dhlee@mail.usf.edu PhD student: philosophy of communication, interpersonal communication, cultural studies CIS 3067, 813.974.8378 Linda Levitt | llevitt@mail.usf.edu Doctoral candidate: cultural memory, media studies, cultural studies CIS 3068, 813.974.4705 Sarah McGhee | stmcghee@mail.usf.edu PhD student CIS 3027 Michael Nicholas | mnichol4@mail.usf.edu MA student: interpersonal communication CIS 3070, 813.974.9098 Huikyong Pang | hpang@mail.usf.edu PhD student: cultural studies Roger Pippin | rpippin@mail.usf.edu PhD student CIS 3027 Amy Plamondon | amyplam@gmail.com MA student Mary Poole | mary_c_poole@hotmail.com Doctoral candidate: health communication, aging, gender CIS 3069, 813.974.5710 Gina Marie Rathbun | ginarathbun@verizon.net MA student: narrative, health communication, patient/physician discourse CIS 3065, 813.974.7508 Steven Schoen | sschoen@mail.usf.edu | website PhD student: cultural studies, media studies, rhetoric of belief CIS 3104 (Mass Communications) Rachel Silverman | rsilverm@mail.usf.edu PhD student: media studies/pop culture, religion/race and gender CIS 3029, 813.974.2009 Gregory V. Smith | gsmith13@mail.usf.edu Doctoral candidate: rhetoric and theory, cultural studies, travel and tourism CIS 3028 David Steele | dfsteele@lakeland.usf.edu PhD student: organizational communication, political communication, systems Jillian A. Tullis Owen | jtulliso@mail.usf.edu PhD student: health communication, death and dying CIS 3066, 813.974.2282 Elissa Wilds | ewilds@mail.usf.edu MA student Sandy Zhang | xzhang2@mail.usf.edu PhD student: organizational communication |