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Salwa Kazi��

Dissertation: Fugitive Ontologies: Caste, Race and Slavery in the Making of Kokan��

• Advisor: Omedi Ochieng, PhD

Sean Charles Kenney��

Dissertation:Queering Relations: Orienting to Bureaucracy in DEI work

• Advisor: Karen Ashcraft, PhD

Dustin Martinez��

Dissertation:Penetrating Rhetorical Studies by Listening to Joteríaness and (Re)Claiming the Fullness of Being Brown��

• Advisor: Lisa Flores, PhD

Nancy Maingi Ngwu��

Dissertation:African Feminist Decolonial Organizing: Organizational Hybridity and Communicative Motility in the Global North��

• Advisor: Karen Ashcraft, PhD

Danielle Rae Soibelman

Dissertation:“You Have a Hammer,I’m a Nail:” A Settler-Authoritarian Assemblage and Its Dissenter��

• Advisor: Joëlle Cruz, PhD

Mikayla Gabrielle Torres

Dissertation:The Historical Threads of Displacement and Devastation in Los Angeles��

• Advisor: Lisa Flores,PhD

Toma Serban Peiu��

Dissertation: Blissful Displacement: Migrant Imaginarie from 21st Century Central Eurasia

• Advisor: Reece Auguiste, PhD

Naharin Shech��

Dissertation: You’re Being Irrational: An Inquiry Into Internal Disquietudes��

• Advisor: Teri Rueb, PhD

Cordylia Brook Vann

Dissertation: Resonant Bodies: A Queer Sonic Method for Embodied Listening Across Media and Data��

• Advisor: Betsey Biggs, PhD

Naim Mohammed Ibrahim Aburaddi��

Dissertation:Immersive Return: Virtual Reality as a Decolonial Tool for Embodied Memory, Presence and Future Imagination��

• Advisor: Nabil Echchaibi, PhD

Nihal Alaqabawy

Dissertation:Student Journalists as Critical Change Agents: A Slower But Deeper Epistemology of News Work

• Advisor: Michael McDevitt, PhD

Sara Alatmi��

Dissertation: A.I. Revolution in Saudi Arabian Public Relations Practices: Does A.I. Need Decolonization?��

• Advisor: Kay Weaver, PhD

Talia Aygun��

Dissertation: No Place to Go: The Prosody of Grief in Digital Media as a New Poetics of Death

• Advisor: Stewart Hoover, PhD

Ashley Whitney Carter��

Dissertation: Off the Sidelines, Into the News: Queer Identity and the Emotional Labor of LGBTQ+ Advocacy in Sports Journalism

• Advisor: Patrick Ferrucci, PhD

Julie Renee Estlick��

Dissertation: Material Memory: Fashion, Feminism and Rosie’s Boiler Suit��

• Advisor: Rick Stevens, PhD

Katherine Elizabeth Friedel��

Dissertation: Love in the Time of Algorithms: A Social Cognitive Perspective of Dating Apps and User Well-Being

• Advisor: Erin Willis, PhD

Iris Gamber Ghatak��

Dissertation: Lady Lazarus Redux: A Socio-Ontology of Livestreamed Suicide

• Advisor: Joshua Shepperd, PhD

Kyle Harris��

Dissertation: The Dialectical Tensions of Neoliberal Narratives and Field Logic in Public Relations A.I. Practices.

• Advisor: Burton St. John, PhD

Debora Correa Martini-Stolzle��

Dissertation: Displacing Pornography: Porn Studies, Addiction and Digital Habits in Brazil

• Advisor: Colette Perold, PhD

Success Nosakhare Osayi��

Dissertation: A Comprehensive Study of the Role of Journalists’ Agency in the Mediated Public Diplomacy Process

• Advisor: Michael McDevitt, PhD

Pulung Setiosuci Perbawani��

Dissertation: Examining Political Attitudes of Indonesian First-Time Voters

• Advisor: Toby Hopp, PhD

Kayli Plotner��

Dissertation: The Non-Newsroom: An Ethnographic Case Study of Organizational Culture Inside a Digitally Native Nonprofit News Outlet

• Advisor: Patrick Ferrucci, PhD

Nandi Toure Pointer��

Dissertation: Exit to Entry: Black Expats and Teaching English Abroad as Fugitive, Liberatory Praxis

• Advisor: Sandra Ristovska, PhD

Nicola Jana Redl��

Dissertation: The Fourth Wall: Understanding the Role of Strategic Transparency in Audience Perceptions and Willingness to Pay for Investigative Journalism

• Advisor: Michael McDevitt, PhD

Luz Aida Ruiz Martinez��

Dissertation: The Decolonial Soundings of Ñuu Savi, Maya and Lenca Women’s Community Radio: Indigenous Feminist Interventions and Media Autonomy in Mesoamerica

• Advisor: Nabil Echchaibi, PhD

Andrew Peter Sturt��

Dissertation: Punting the Football Down the Racetrack: A Boundary-Work Analysis of Sports Journalism in a Hybrid Media Era

• Advisor: Patrick Ferrucci, PhD

Joel William Thurman��

Dissertation: Making Heroes: DC Comics, Child Welfare and the Construction of the Orphan in American Culture

• Advisor: Lori Emerson, PhD

Mushfique Wadud��

Dissertation: Exploiting the Climate Crisis: Freelance Labor Precarity and Global Inequality in Climate Journalism

• Advisor: Patrick Ferrucci, PhD

Tajanae Harris��

Dissertation:Once and Future Ghosts: Legacy, Data and the Socio-Technical Organization of Environmental Justice Activism in Today’s West Dallas��

• Advisor: Leysia Palen, PhD

Laurie Hannah Lawson

Dissertation:Digital Memory Infrastructures Revealed Through Remembering the Arab Spring Across Languages

• Advisor: Brian Keegan, PhD

Erin Marie Robinson��

Dissertation: From Standing Apart to Standing Together: The Social (Re)Organization of Biological Field Stations Through Computer-Supported Cooperative Work��

• Advisor: Leysia Palen, PhD

Katy Weathington��

Dissertation: Queer Technology: Reimagining Design for Queer Critique

• Advisor: Jed Brubaker, PhD

Tian Xu��

Dissertation: Designing Novel Expression Technology for People with Mental Health Conditions��

• Advisor: Stephen Voida, PhD

Jonathan Bradley Gallagher��

Dissertation: Making with Movement

• Advisor: Joel Swanson, MFA

Ian Hatcher��

Dissertation: Promissory Art: Deploying Corporate A.I. Rhetoric in Parafictional Performance��

• Advisor: Joel Swanson, MFA

Darija Medic��

Dissertation: Confronting Deceptive Design Patterns of Toxic Personalization Through Speculative Reenactment��

• Advisor: Lori Emerson, PhD