Ph.D. candidate – Communication,
Annenberg School for Communication
M.A., 2010 – Communication,
Annenberg School for Communication
B.A., 2006 – Communication, English Minor, The University of Tulsa
Rosemary Avance is a fourth year
doctoral candidate and Fontaine fellow, whose research focuses on the
intersection of new media, religion, and modernity. She is specifically interested in the
intersection of personal and institutional religious narratives, the
performance of religious identity online, and processes of institutional
meaning-making viewed through an interpretive cultural studies framework. Ms.
Avance has focused her academic attention on the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints, publishing an article on Mormon conceptions of modesty and
cosmology in the Journal of Religion and Society. Ms. Avance graduated magna cum laude
from the University of Tulsa in '06, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the
National Indian Honor Society.
Books, publications, and other work