Doctoral Graduates

Ph.D. Graduates

Interdisciplinary Program in Communication

Dissertation Titles

Armijo, Lisa M.: “The Search for Space and Dignity: Using Participatory Action Research to Explore

Boundary Management Among Homeless Individuals” - December 2002 - Co-Chairs: Laura Guerrero, Sandra Petronio

Bachman, Guy F.: “An Expectancy Violations Analysis of Factors Affecting Relational Outcomes and

Communicative Responses Following Hurtful Events in Dating Relationships” - July 2002 - Chair, Laura Guerrero

Baker, Joyce M.: “Social Support and Academic Persistence: A Test of the Optimal-Matching Model”

- December 1996 - Co-Chairs: M. Cristina Gonzalez, Katherine Miller

Baldwin, John R.: "European-Americans' Perceptions of 'Race' and 'Racist' Communication: An

Interpretive (and Critical) Study” - November 1994 - Chair, Michael Hecht

Birkholt, Marty J.: “The Effects of an Optimal Match Between Nurse Communication of Support and

Patient Stress” - January 2003 - Chair, Jess Alberts

Bradford, Lisa: "A Cross-Cultural Study of Strategic Embarrassment in Adolescent Socialization" -

May 1993 - Chair, Sandra Petronio

Campbell, Belinda Beth: “Shattered Futures, Mended Lives: The Ritualized Mourning of

Mothers of Stillborn Babies” - December 2000 - Chair, Kristin B. Valentine

Canary, Heather: “The Communicative Creation of Policy Knowledge: A Structurating-Activity

Approach” – June 2007 – Chair, Robert D. McPhee

Chavez, Karma: “Coalitional Politics and Confronting the Constructions of Queers and Migrants in

the State of Arizona” – December 2007 – Chair, Amira De la Garza

Chen, Hsueh Hua: “Imagining the Other: The Construction of Whiteness in Taiwan” – May 2006 –

Co-Chairs, Thomas Nakayama and Judith Martin

Chitgopekar, Anuradha S.: “Communal and Personal Identity Structuration: An Examination of

Asian-Indian Marathi Identity” – May 2007 – Chair, Robert D. McPhee

Co, Raymond F.: “Understanding the Politics of Innovation: Toward a Social Movement Theory

for Innovation and Change in Organizations” - February 1998 - Co-Chairs:

A. Cheree Carlson, Charles Bantz

Cole, Mark A.: "Interpersonal Conflict Communication in Japanese Cultural Contexts" - June 1996

- Chair, Judith Martin

Davis, Kristin L.: “The Transcendent Nature of Conflict in Romantic Relationships:

How Empowerment and Recognition Transform Dialogue” – August 2006 – Chair, Daniel J. Canary

DeTurk, Sara D.: “The Meaning of Diversity and Dialogue for Participants of a Community

Intergroup Dialogue Program” - December 2003 - Co-Chairs: Jacqueline Martinez, Benjamin Broome

Drzewiecka, Jolanta A.: “Immigrant Identity Formations: Between Cultures, Nations and Politics”

- December 1998 - Chair, Thomas Nakayama

Dybvig-Pawelko, Kristin: “Sexual Initiation Strategies: Explication and Validation of a Concept” –

May 2007 – Chair, Daniel J. Canary

Fox, Ragan C.: “The Rhetorical Construction of Identities: Gay Lives Performed Online”

– May 2006 – Chair, Linda Park-Fuller

Fujimoto, Etsuko: “Korean Adoptees Growing Up in White America: Negotiating Racial

and Cultural Identities” - May 2001 - Chair, Judith N. Martin

Ganesan, Puvana: “Blurring the Lines of Asianness and Whiteness: Exploring Biracial Identity in

the United States” - December 2003 - Co-Chairs: Benjamin Broome, Judith Martin

Gao, Ge: "A Dyadic Analysis of Romantic Relationships in China and the United States" -

November 1990 - Chair, Ronald Perry

Georgakopoulos (Jazayeri), Alexia S.: “A Cross-Cultural Examination of Immediacy and Teacher

Effectiveness” - March 2003 - Co-Chairs: Benjamin Broome, Laura Guerrero

Gneiting, Gary Layne: “Brigadoon Reborn: Forming and Performing Culture at the National

Storytelling Festival” - July 2002 - Chair, Kristin Valentine

Graham, S. Todd: “Inappropriate Humor During Interpersonal Interactions: An Analysis of

Contexts and Responses” - May 2000 - Chair, Jess Alberts

Gross, Michael A.: “Conflict Management Orientation, Interpersonal Competency, Verbal

Argumentativeness, and Verbal Aggressiveness” - April 1998 - Chair, Jess Alberts

Guzley, Ruth M.: "Toward a Unified Theory of Commitment: A Test of Brickman's Model" -

May 1991 - Chair, William Arnold

Halualani, Rona T.: “(Communicatively) Signifying Identity Positions By, For, and In the Name of

‘Hawaii-ans’: An Inter/Cultural Studies Research” - June 1998 - Co-Chairs:

Thomas Nakayama, David Goldberg

Hammers, Michele L.: “The Vagina Monologues: Staging Complex Questions about Rhetorical

Theory and Practice” - April 2004 - Chair, Daniel Brouwer

Harper, Anneliese M.: "The Impact of Immigration On Rural Guatemalan Women's Ways of

Speaking" - April 1996 - Co-Chairs: Judith Martin, Charles Braithwaite

Heisterkamp, Brian L.: “Neutrality as an Interactive Phenomenon in Community Mediation” -

April 2000 - Chair, Jess Alberts

Henson, Donna F.: “Verbal Rumination and Depression in Close Relationships:Explication and

Test of a Construct” - August 2003 - Chair, Daniel Canary

Herberger, Jeanne L.: “The Central Role of Objectification in the Experience of Menopause” -

April 2000 - Chair, Jess Alberts

Hibler, Kristin L.: “Dynamics of ‘Resistance’ to Multicultural Education: Discursive Practices of

Students and Instructors” - April 2000 - Chair, Judith Martin

Holling, Michelle A.: “Extending Critical Rhetoric and Feminist Theory: Rhetorical Constructions of

Chicana Subject/ivity, Identity and Agency” - February 2000 - Co-Chairs:

A. Cheree Carlson, Lisa Flores

Hsiung, Daw-jing (Denise): “Sensemaking and Culture: Examination of Two Culturally Grounded

Theoretical Frameworks” - December 2003 - Chair, Judith Martin

Ishida, Kaori: “Cross-Cultural Adaptation Reconceptualized: A Phenomenological Study of

Intercultural Identity” – August 2005 – Chair, Jacqueline Martinez

Iverson, Joel O.: “Knowing Volunteers Through Communities of Practice” - October, 2003 -

Chair, Robert McPhee

Jacobsen, Janet L.: “Miscommunication in Male/Female Conversations” – December 2005 –

Co-Chairs, Paul Mongeau and Susan Messman

Jones, Susanne M.: “Nonverbal Immediacy and Verbal Comforting in the Social Support Process”

- May 2000 - Chair, Laura Guerrero

Joraanstad, Pamela: "Innovational Theory Examined Through An Analysis of the Term Limitation

Movement" - April 1992 - Chair, Rolf Wigand

Kanata, Tamie: “‘I Don’t See Color - We’re All Just Human Beings’: Phenomenology of Students’

Online Discourses on Race, Ethnicity and Prejudice” - May 2003 - Chair:

Jacqueline Martinez

Kellar-Guenther, Yvonne: "Reality Check: Why Are Young Hetero-sexuals Choosing Not To 'Know Your Partner'?" - July 1995 - Co-Chairs: Jess Alberts, F. Scott Christopher

Kilgard, Susan C.: “Identification and Formal Organizational Communication: Exploring Links

Between Messages and Membership” - April 1999 - Chair, William Arnold

Kristjansdottir, Erla S.: “Invisibility Dreaded and Desired: Phenomenological Inquiry of Sojourners’

Cross-Cultural Adaptation” - May, 2003 - Co-Chairs: Judith Martin,

Jacqueline Martinez

Krizek, Robert L.: "The Ethnography of Events: A Narrative Analysis of Non-Routine

Public Events" - May 1995 - Chair, Charles Bantz

Kuhn, Timothy R.: “The Complex Process of Planned Organizational Change: Developing a Model

of Knowledge, Activity, and Communication Networks” - July 2000 - Chair, Steven Corman

Kussman, Ellen D.: "Confrontation in Cairo: U.S. American Sojourners' Perceptions of Problematic

Communication with Egyptians" - October 1994 - Chair, Judith Martin

Langan, Emily J.: “A Friend Like You: Attachment and Maintenance Strategies in Young Adult

Friendships” - December 2001 - Chair, Melanie Trost

Larkey, Linda K.: "The Development and Validation of the Workforce Diversity Questionnaire:

An Instrument to Assess Interactions in Diverse Workgroups" - July 1993 - Chair, Katherine Miller

Leclerc, Denis: “A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Perceived Communication Competence: Tour Guides

in the Tourism Context” - April 1999 - Chair, Judith Martin

LeGreco, Marianne: “Consuming Policy: Organizing School Meal Programs to Promote

Healthy Eating Practices” – August 2007 – Chair, Angela Trethewey

Lewis, Andrea P.: “Communicating Lesbian Identity: A Critical Analysis of Popular Culture

Representations and Police Officer Narratives” – August 2006 – Chair,

Daniel Brouwer

Limpapath, Pimurai: "Self-Monitoring and Monitor Use in Second Language Acquisition: Perceived

Communication Apprehension and Satisfaction" - May 1994 - Chair, William Arnold

Lindemann, Kurt: “Living Out of Bounds, Pushing Toward Normalcy: (Auto)Ethnographic

Performances of Disability and Masculinity in Wheelchair Rugby” – August 2006 – Co-chairs: Linda Park-Fuller, Sarah Tracy

Lindsley, Sheryl L.: "Problematic Communication: An Intercultural Study of Communication

Competency in Organizational Settings" - May 1995 - Chair, Michael Hecht

Lutgen-Sandvik, Pamela E.: “Water Smoothing Stones: Subordinate Resistance to Workplace

Bullying” – August 2005 – Chair, Sarah Tracy

Maday, Renee: “Metaphors of Aging” – May 2007 – Chair, William Arnold

Mattson, Marifran: "Reconceptualizing Communication Cues to Action in the Health Belief Model:

HIV Test Counseling" - December 1995 - Chair, Katherine Miller

McClelland, Melinda L.: “Diversity: Enriching Possibilities in Communicating and Organizing” -

May 1998 - Co-Chairs: M. Cristina Gonzalez, Charles Bantz

McDaniel, Edwin R.: “Japanese Negotiating Practices: Low-Context Communication in a High-Context Culture” - April 2000 - Co-Chairs: Judith Martin, Charles Bantz

McDaniel, Susan G.: “‘It’s Bedlam in This House!’ Investigating Subjective Experiences of Family

Communication During Holiday Celebrations” - November 1998 - Co-Chairs:

Sandra Petronio, F. Scott Christopher

Mendoza, Susanah Lily: “Between the Homeland and the Diaspora: The Politics of Theorizing

Filipino and Filipino American Identities” - May 2000 - Co-Chairs: Judith Martin,

David Foster

Meyer, Christine M.: "There's No Place Like ... Home?: A Communication of Identity Among Former

Military Dependents" - July 1995 - Chair, M. Cristina Gonzalez

Mikkelson, Alan: “Differential Solicitude of Social Support in Different Types of Adult Sibling

Relationships” – August 2006 – Chair, Kory Floyd

Miller, Michelle: "Daughters, Mothers, and Grandmothers: An Ethnography of Intergenerational

Communication, Nonfatal Suicide, and Gender" - June 1995 - Chair, Michael Hecht

Moon, Dreama G.: “Deconstructing the ‘Intra/Inter’ Divide: Toward a Critical Inter/Cultural

Communication Practice” - September 1997 - Co-Chairs: Thomas Nakayama,

Michael Hecht

Morr, Mary Claire: “Private Disclosure in a Family Membership Transition: In-Laws’ Disclosure to

Newlyweds” - June 2002 - Co-Chairs: Sandra Petronio, Daniel Canary

Munoz-Carmona, Fernando A.: “The Role of Communication in the Construction of Volcanic Risk

in Pasto, Colombia” - December 1999 - Chair, Sandra Petronio

Myers, Karen Kroman: “Organizational Knowledge and Assimilation in High Reliability

Organizations” – May 2005 – Co-Chairs, Robert McPhee and Angela Trethewey

Nelson, Katherine L.: “Reframing the Genesis and Maintenance of Codependence as a Relational

and Communicative Phenomenon” - May 1998 - Co-Chairs: Katherine Miller,

Jess Alberts

Núñez, Signe L.: "Written As If In Red Ink: Translating a Dialogue of Politics, Gender, and Ethnic

Identity" - July 1996 - Chair, Kristin Valentine

Patterson, Martha A.: "Performing the Intercultural Self: Culture As Intertext" - December 1994 -

Chair, Kristin Valentine

Rabby, Michael K.: “Commitment and Relational Maintenance in Online and Offline Romantic

Relationships” - May 2001 - Chair, Daniel Canary

Reeder, Heidi M.: "What Harry and Sally Didn't Tell You: The Subjective Experience of

Heterosexual Cross-Sex Friendship" - July 1996 - Chair, Michael Hecht

Rose, Heidi M.: "A Critical Methodology For Analyzing American Sign Language Literature" -

June 1992 - Chair, Kristin Valentine

Sass, James S.: “Emotional Labor as Cultural Performance in a Nonprofit Nursing Home” -

August 1997 - Co-Chairs: Charles Bantz, Katherine Miller

Scheibel, Dean F.: "Organizational Communication Cultures and the Social Worlds of Local Rock

Music" - April 1991 - Chair, Charles Bantz

Schmidt, Karen L.: "Exit, Voice, Loyalty, and Neglect: Responses to Dissatisfaction in Dating

Relationships" - July 1991 - Chair, Ronald Perry

Schuck, Raymond: “Dodging the Past: The Brooklyn Dodgers as Public Memory” – May 2006 –

Chair, Thomas Nakayama

Scott, Clifton W.: “The Discursive Organization of Risk and Safety: How Firefighters Manage

Occupational Hazards” – May 2005 – Chair, Angela Trethewey

Scott, Craig R.: "Organizational Identification and Group Decision Support Systems: A Situated

Action Theory of Identification Shifts" - July 1994 - Chair, Steven Corman

Shamrock, Jennifer L. “Constructing Collaboration, Collaborative Constructions: A Holocaust

Survivor, Her Interviewer, and Their Relationship” – December 2003 – Chair, Frederick C. Corey

Snider, Eric S.: "Associative Network Model of Message Production" - August 1996 - Co-Chairs:

James Stiff, Jess Alberts

Spellers, Regina E.: “Cornrows in Corporate America: Black Female Hair/Body Politics

and Socialization Experiences in Dominant Culture Workplace Organizations” -

December 2000 - Co-Chairs: Judith N. Martin, Michael L. Hecht

Stage, Christina W.: “An Examination of Organizational Communication Cultures in American

Subsidiaries Doing Business in Thailand” - November 1996 - Co-Chairs:

Charles Bantz, Judith Martin

Stoda, Mark J.: “Symbolically Seeking a Change of Mind: A Model For Comprehending,

Constructing, and Critiquing Persuasion” – August 2006 – Chair, Cheree Carlson

Voth, Melodee L.: “A Qualitative Analysis of the Development, Dissolution, and Impact of

Extramarital Affairs” – May 2005 – Chair, Jess Alberts

Vrooman, Steven S.: “Generic Negotiation: An Investigation of Audience Response in Romantic

X-Files Fan Fiction” - July 2000 - Chair, Thomas Nakayama

Walls, Celeste M.: “Influence in Organizations: Double Minority Influence in the Workplace” -

April 1998 - Chair, Charles Bantz

White, Leah E.: “Life? Or Theater?: A Text of Incongruity and Fragmented Subjectivity” -

December 1997 - Chair, Frederick Corey

Williams, Jeannette L.: “De-Legitimizing the Liberal Scapegoat Through Comedy: Reconstructing

the Strategic Victimage in Rush Limbaugh’s Rhetoric” - July 1999 - Chair,

A. Cheree Carlson

Wong, Kathleen: “Emotional Labor of Diversity Work: Women of Color Faculty in Predominantly

White Institutions” – December 2007 – Chair, Judith N. Martin

Yoshimura, Christina G: “Communicative Responses To the Work/Family Tension” – August 2004

– Chair, Kory Floyd

Yoshimura, Stephen M.: “An Evolutionary Approach to Communicating Vengeance in Romantic

Relationships” - June 2002 - Co-Chairs: Melanie Trost, Daniel Canary