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Job Placement

2003
Kerrie Farkas
Director: Chris Haas
Diss Title: Deliveratice Rhetoric in the Civic Arena: A Taxonomy of Discourse in a Local City Government

2004
Hunter Stephenson
Director: Stephen P. Witte
Diss Title: Kairos, Production, and Writing

2006
Kenneth Marunowski
Director: Chris Haas
Diss Title: The Euro: An Ethnography of Inscription and Incorporation

Kathryn Weiss
Director: Ackerman
Diss Title: Reconceiving Material Rhetoric: Literacy Beyond Language at Kent State's May 4 Memorial

2007
David Overby
Director: Chris Haas
Diss Title: Verifying Web-Based Information: Investigating Professional Communicator's Online

2008
Jeffrey Perry
Director: Brian Huot
Diss Title: Institutional Cunning: Writing Assessment as Social Reproduction

2009
Lewis Caccia, Jr.
Director: Sara Newman
Diss Title: Risk Communication in the Workplace: An Analysis of Communications Toolkits as Rhetoric Practice

Christa Teston
Director: Chris Haas
Diss Title: Deliberative Decision-Making in One Medical Workplace Setting

Chad Wickman
Director: Chris Haas
Diss Title: Displays of Knowledge: Text Production and Medial Reproduction in Scientific Practice

2010
Emily Wierszewski
Director: Ray Craig
Diss Title: A Readerly Eye: Teachers Reading Student Multimodal Texts

Dirk Remley
Director: Brian Huot
Diss Title: This Community's Literacy has been Sponsored by...: An Historical Case Study of the Literate Impact of the Boomtown Arsenal on the Community of Fieldview, Ohio from 1940-1960

2011
Sigrid Streit
Director: Sara Newman
Diss Title: Gesture and Rhetorical Delivery: The Transmission of Knowledge in Complex Situations

John Oddo
Director: Chris Haas
Diss Title: Traversing the 24-Hour News Cycle: A Busy Day in the Rhetorical Life of a Political Speech

Patrick Thomas
Director: Brian Huot
Diss Title: A Discourse-Based Analysis of Literacy Sponsorship in New Media: The Case of Military Blogs

Elizabeth Tomlinson
Director: Sara Newman
Diss Title: Conceptualizing Audience in Digital Invention

Jillian Hill

Director: Ray Craig
Diss Title: Collaborative writing activities at Midwest Utility

2012
Courtney Werner
Director: Pamela Takayoshi
Diss Title: Disciplining New Media: Rhetoric and Composition's Disciplinary Development through the Case of New Media 2000-2010

Nicole Caswell
Director: Brian Huot
Diss Title: Reconstruction Emotion: Understanding the Relationship between Teachers' Emotions and Teachers' Response Practices

Holly Wells
Director: Sara Newman
Diss Title: Picture a Scientist: A Visual Rhetoric Approach to the Problem of Gender Disparity in Stem Fields

Jennifer Cunningham
Director: Brian Huot
Diss Title: "jus showin sum luv 2 yo page!": The Features, Functions, and Implications of Digital African American Language

Diana Awad Scrocco
Director: Sara Newman
Diss Title: An Examination of the Literate Practices of Resident Physicians and Attending Physician Preceptors in a Residential-Run Internal Medicine Clinic

Jill Hawkins
Director: Pam Takayoshi
Diss Title: Sounds Write: Embracing Multimodal Texts as Literate Composition

Melissa Selby
Director: Ray Craig
Diss Title: Expanding the Definition of Multimodality: Identifying Key Processes in Students' Designing