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Amelia Ayers | ayers@tempest.coedu.usf.edu MA student: Systems thinking, health, organizational Korrie Bauman | kbauman@mail.usf.edu PhD student: ethnography, gender, performance, LGBT Studies, and Queer Theory CIS 3015 Rachel Binns | rbinns@mail.usf.edu PhD student: interpersonal relationships, autoethnography, sports communication 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 Robin M. Boylorn | rboylorn@mail.usf.edu Doctoral candidate Dissertation Title: Southern Black Women: Their Lived Realities Dissertation Chair: Carolyn Ellis Areas of Interest: Race, class, and gender; feminist studies; interpersonal communication; qualitative methods (ethnography, autoethnography, and interviewing); Performance (and performative writing), creative nonfiction, creative writing, and African American communities. Kristy L. Byrd | kbyrd@vcu.edu Doctoral Candidate: cultural studies, cinematic culture, reception studies My dissertation is an ethnographic study of contemporary drive-in theaters in central Florida. Contact info: Kristy L. Byrd Assistant Professor, Focused Inquiry University College Virginia Commonwealth University Harris Hall, Room 5129 P.O. Box 842015 Richmond, VA 23284 Phone: 804-827-8249 Fax: 804-827-1393 Sara Dykins Callahan | sdykins@gmail.com Doctoral Candidate: performance studies, critical cultural studies, popular culture, identity, space/place My dissertation is an interdisciplinary endeavor focusing on performances of faith inside the interstices of popular culture, tourism, and religiosity. Through its physical and conceptual construction, the Holy Land Experience in Orlando, Florida (a self-proclaimed living-history museum that includes animatronic Bible characters and musical dramas) enacts and embodies narratives of Christianity and Messianic Judaism. Visitors to the park join the performances, blurring the distinctions between spectators and actors. The question that drives this investigation is, How do visitors to the HLE perform their religion and spirituality – how do they perform their religious identities – within an already performative space that confounds traditional relationships between sacred and profane? Recent developments in American culture and international policy necessitate informed conversations among academics and non-academics regarding the motivations and lived-experiences of religiously-minded people. This research contributes to a growing body of work committed to furthering democratic, critical, and ethical dialog with the intention of improving human relationships and helping to create a more humane world. I have employed ethnographic methods, including face-to-face interviews, textual analysis, and participant observation. Laura A. DeRuvo | lauraderuvo@msn.com MA Student: Hospice and Palliative Care; Patient, Family and Staff Support. Liz Edgecomb | liz_edgecomb@hotmail.com Doctoral candidate: cultural studies, performance, consumer culture CIS 3068 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 Ardis Hanson | hanson@fmhi.usf.edu PhD student: discourse of public policy; structure, agency, and identity in public sector mental health MHC 1738, 813.974.6428 Ardis Hanson Director, Research Library The Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute The University of South Florida 13301 Bruce B. Downs Blvd. Tampa, FL 33612 Meagan Hautala | mhautala@mail.usf.edu PhD Student: Health Communication, Organizational Communication CIS 3029 Carly Gieseler | cgiesele@mail.usf.edu PhD student: critical studies, media representation, spectatorship in culture CIS 3070 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 Tammy Jeffries | tjeffrie@mail.usf.edu PhD student: cultural studies, pedagogy, performance My research stems from my life experiences as a student of color seeking an education in diversity. In my dissertation, I examine interpersonal communication textbooks for past and current pedagogical constructions of diversity using a combination of both reflexive and content analysis methods. Brian Johnston | bjohnst2@mail.usf.edu | website Doctoral candidate: cultural studies, rhetoric Amina Iraqi| airaqi@mail.usf.edu MA student: Language, Culture and Organizational Communication Fulbright scholar I am currently working on a thesis that would define what communication means for the United Nations' Arabic Translation Service (ATS). Given that Arabic is a very rich language, the term communication gets translated into Arabic in different ways depending on the context in which it occurs. I am studying the multiplicity of these occurrences in UN documents, and looking at how this difference in translating the term communication might very well reflect the specific culture of this part of the organization. I got inspired with this idea of research during my summer 2008 internship at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Yvonne Michelle Kline | ykline@mail.usf.edu Doctoral Candidate : paranormal communication, performance, suicide and "negative" emotions CIS 3017 David H. Lee | dhlee@mail.usf.edu PhD student: philosophy of communication, interpersonal communication, cultural studies CIS 3067 Sarah McGhee | stmcghee@mail.usf.edu PhD Student: Interpersonal Communication, Organizational Communication, Critical Ethnography, Dialogue, Race and Gender Studies CIS 3027 Chris J. Patti | cpatti@mail.usf.edu PhD Student: ethnography, rhetorical criticism, cancer/death and dying CIS 3067 Steve Phalen | spatrickp@gmail.com MA Student: ethnographic methods, cultural studies, performance CIS 3021 Huikyong Pang | hpang@mail.usf.edu PhD student: cultural studies Roger Pippin | rpippin@mail.usf.edu PhD student Gina Marie Rathbun | ginarathbun@verizon.net MA student: narrative, health communication, patient/physician discourse CIS 3065 Emily Ryalls | eryalls@mail.usf.edu PhD Student: Critical Cultural Media Studies; Popular Culture (Film, Reality TV, Music) Dana Schowalter | dschowal@mail.usf.edu MA Student: Feminist Theory, Postfeminism, Political Rhetoric, Marital Naming Issues CIS 3021 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 Candidate: Critical/Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Performance Studies, Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, Gender Studies, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Religious Identity, and Jewish Studies CIS 3029 Jillian A. Tullis Owen | jtulliso@mail.usf.edu PhD Candidate: Health Communication (Communication at the End-of-Life; Spirituality in Health Care); Organizational Communication (Teams in Action); Interpersonal Communication; Ethnographic and Interview Methods. David Steinweg | dsteinwe@mail.usf.edu PhD student: media studies, communication theory CIS 3068 Chelsea Tanner | cetanner@mail.usf.edu MA Student: Queer Theory, Performance Studies, Feminist Theory CIS 3017 Jessica Voss | jlvoss@mail.usf.edu MA.Student: Organizational Communication, Action Research CIS 3097 |