Annenberg Ph.D. Alumni
2018
|
Student |
Dissertation Chair |
Dissertation Title |
Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Conrad | Barbie Zelizer | Misguided Benevolence: How "Moments of Need" Came to Motivate American Journalism | Postdoctoral Fellow, American University |
| Yotam Ophir | Joseph N. Cappella | Spreading News: The Coverage of Epidemics by American Newspapers and Its Effects on Audiences - A Crisis Communication Approach | Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg Public Policy Center |
| Aaron Shapiro | Jessica Lingel | Design, Control, Predict: Cultural Politics in the Actually Existing Smart City | Lecturer, Annenberg School for Communication |
| Rosemary Clark-Parsons | Guobin Yang | Doing it Ourselves: The Networked Practices of Feminist Media Activism | Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg School for Communication |
| Tim Libert | Victor Pickard | Track the Planet: A Web-Scale Analysis of How Online Behavioral Advertising Violates Social Norms | Special Faculty Instructor Privacy Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University |
| Christopher Cimaglio | Michael X. Delli Carpini | Contested Majority: The Representation of the White Working Class in US Politics from the 1930s to the 1990s | Postdoctoral Fellow, Carthage College |
| Alex T. Williams | Victor Pickard | Profits Over Principles: Redlining in the Newspaper Industry | Senior Manager, Comcast Cable |
| Emily Ladue | John L. Jackson, Jr. | Durham's Self-Help and the Financialization of the Bull City: Development without Displacement? Or Displacement without Development? | Adjunct Instructor, Duke University |
| Dror Walter | Michael X. Delli Carpini | Exploring Thematic Diversity in News Coverage and Social Media Activity of Political Candidates Using Unsupervised Machine Learning | Assistant Professor, Georgia State University |
| Joshua Becker | Damon Centola | The Network Dynamics of Social Influence in the Wisdom of Crowds | Postdoctoral Fellow, Keller Graduate School of Management |
| Corrina Laughlin | John L. Jackson, Jr. | What God Gave to Us: Digital Habitus and the Shifting Social Imaginary of American Evangelicalism | Instructor, Loyola Marymount University |
| Elena Maris | John L. Jackson, Jr. | Desperately Seeking the Producer: Audiences, Identity, and the Margins of the Internet | Postdoctoral Fellow, Microsoft Research |
| Kevin Gotkin | John L. Jackson, Jr. | The Marathon and on: Disability, Endurance, Aspiration | Visiting Assistant Professor, New York University |
| Lyndsey Beutin | John L. Jackson, Jr. | Trafficking in Anti-Blackness: The Political Stakes of "Modern Day Slavery" Discourse in Global Campaigns to End Human Trafficking | Visiting Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Oberlin College |
| Eleanor Marchant | John L. Jackson, Jr. | Anyone Anywhere: Narrating African Innovation in a Global Community of Practice | Postdoctoral Fellow, Oxford University |
| Jonathan Pace | Sharrona H. Pearl | Internet Markets: Exchange Relations on Craigslist, eBay, and Silk Road | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University |
| Christin Scholz | Emily Falk | Neural and Psychological Bases of Health News Sharing | Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam |
| Elissa Kranzler | Robert C. Hornik | From Exposure to Effects: Examining the Cognitive Processes Underlying Effects of "The Real Cost" Youth-Targeted Anti-Smoking Media Campaign | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania |
| Rosie Bae | Joseph N. Cappella | Selective Exposure to Misleading Information in the New Media Environment by at-Risk Youth: A Study of Pro-Smoking Youtube Videos |
2017
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Daniller | Diana C. Mutz | Politics as Sport: The Effects of Partisan Media on Perceptions of Electoral Integrity | Gerbner Postdoctoral Fellow, Annenberg School for Communication |
| Stella Lee | Robert C. Hornik | The Message as a Seed: Predicting the Diffusion of Anti-Smoking Arguments from Message Construal | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
| Jin Woo Kim | Michael X. Delli Carpini | Assessing Civic Competence Against the Normative Benchmark of Considered Opinions | Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College |
| Devon Brackbill | Damon Centola | The Network Structure of Collective Innovation | Data Scientist, Facebook |
| Rowan Howard-Williams | Marwan M. Kraidy | A World of Our Own: Climate Change Advocacy in the Anthropocene | Communications Strategy Advisor, Global Diversity Foundation |
| Jiaying Liu | Robert C. Hornik | Effects of Media Exposure on Descriptive Social Norm Perception Formation: Experimental and Observational Studies of Why and How Repeated Exposure Matters | Assistant Professor, University of Georgia |
| Kate Zambon | Marwan M. Kraidy | Integration: The Cultural Politics of Migration and Nation in the New German Public | Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire, Durham |
| Deepti Chittamuru | John B. Jemmott, III | Persuasive Technologies in HIV Prevention: A Structural Intervention for African American Young Adults | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Pennsylvania |
| Christopher Cascio | Emily Falk | The Neural Mechanisms of Conformity across Socioeconomic Status and Development | Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin |
| Doron Taussig | Michael X. Delli Carpini | The Meaning of Merit: The American Idea of What We Have Earned, What We Deserve, and Whether We Got Lucky | Visiting Assistant Professor, Ursinus College |
2016
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jasmine Salters | John L. Jackson, Jr. | Touching Paranoia: A Black Feminist Autoethnography on Race, Desire, and Erotic Massage | Mellon ACLS Post-Doctoral Content Strategist, ACLS |
| Sara Mourad | Marwan M. Kraidy | The Boundaries of the Public: Mediating Sex in Postwar Lebanon | Assistant Professor, American University of Beruit |
| Shane Mannis | Robert C. Hornik | Constructing the Exercising Self: Social Media Indentity Work and Exercise Behavior | Senior Researcher, Fors Marsh Group |
| Danielle Naugle | Robert C. Hornik | The Evaluation of a Mass Media Campaign to Promote Exclusive Breastfeeding in Vietnam | Research & Evaluation Officer, Johns Hopkins University |
| Omar Alghazzi | Marwan M. Kraidy | Communicating History: The Mnemonic Battles of the 2011 Arab Uprisings | Assistant Professor, London School of Economics |
| Holli Seitz | Joseph N. Cappella | Mammography Exemplars in Online News Commentary: Prevalence of Exemplars, Effects on Risk Perceptions and Mammography Intentions, and Mechanisms of Action | Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University |
| Laura Silver | Diana C. Mutz | China in the Media: Effects on American Opinion | Senior Researcher, Pew Research Center |
| Rui Shi | Joseph N. Cappella | Viewer-Generated Comments to Online Health Policy News: Content, Dynamics, and Influence | Assistant Professor, Rowan University |
| Michelle Jeong | Robert C. Hornik | Sharing in the Context of Tobacco and E-Cigarette Communication: Determinants, Consequences, and Contingent Effects | Assistant Professor, Rutgers University |
| Sun-Ha Hong | Carolyn Marvin | Data Epistemologies/Surveillance and Uncertainty | Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University |
| Alexandra Sastre | Marwan M. Kraidy | Towards a Radical Body Positive: Reading the Online Body Positive Movement | Senior Communications and Marketing Associate, Swarthmore College |
| Yoel Roth | Sharrona H. Pearl | Gay Data | Head of Site Integrity, Twitter |
| Dina Shapiro-Luft | Joseph N. Cappella | Smoking-Related Self-Concepts and Value Expressive Messages: Effects on the Determinants of Smoking Cessation | Manager, UJA-Federation of New York |
| Jingwen Zhang | John B. Jemmott, III | Networked Social Influence: Online Social Network Physical Activity Interventions for Young Adults | Assistant Professor, University of California Davis |
| Minji Kim | Joseph N. Cappella | When Similarity Strikes Back: The Positive and Negative Role of Character- Audience Similarity in Anti-Smoking Campaigns | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California San Francisco |
| Sandra Ristovska | Barbie Zelizer | Human Rights Through the Lens: A Study of the Institutionalization and Professionalization of Video Activism | Assistant Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder |
| Debora Lui | Carolyn Marvin | Situating the 'Maker Movement': Tracing the Implementation of an Educational Trend Within Public Libraries | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania |
| Deborah Lubken | Carolyn Marvin | How Church Bells Fell Silent: The Decline of Tower Bell Practices in Post-Revolutionary America | |
| Gretta Blackwell | John L. Jackson, Jr. | The Birth of a Princess: Boughetto, Popular Media, and the Shifting Boundaries of Black Middle-Class Feminity |
2015
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Felicity Duncan | Michael X. Delli Carpini | Collective Action and Digital Information Communication Technologies: The Search for Explanatory Models of Social Movement Organizations' Propensity to Use DICTs in Developed Democracies | Editor, BizNews.com |
| Katherine Wong | Marwan M. Kraidy | Harnessing Hollywood Hype: Film Marketing Meets the Challenges and Opportunities of the 21st Century | Research Consultant, Common Sense Media |
| Kyung Lee | Barbie Zelizer | The Rise of Brand Journalism: Understanding the Discursive Dimensions of Collectivity in the Age of Convergence | Data and Evaluation Manager, Fairfax County Government |
| Rosemary Avance | Carolyn Marvin | Constructing Religion in the Digital Age: The Internet and Modern Mormon Identities | Research Director, Moore DM Group |
| Rocio Nunez | John L. Jackson, Jr. | Woman with a Movie Camera: The Dearth of Women Filmmakers in Contemporary Hollywood | Associate Editor, The New Pioneer Magazine |
2014
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timothy Fallis | John L. Jackson, Jr. | Pro-Christian Humor and the Online Carnival | Assistant Professor and M.A. Program Chair, Hawaii Pacific University |
| Le Han | Barbie Zelizer | Micro-Blogging Contesting Modernities: Producing and Remembering Public Events in Contemporary Chinese Social Media Platforms | Assistant Professor, Michigan State University |
| Derek Blackwell | Carolyn Marvin | Digital Disruption: An Exploratory Study of Trust, Infidelity, & Relational Transgressions in the Digital Age | Assistant Professor, Prairie View A&M University |
| Hyun Kim | Joseph N. Cappella | Attractability and Virality: The Role of Message Features and Social Influence in Health News Diffusion | Assistant Professor, Seoul National University |
| Piotr Szpunar | Barbie Zelizer | Homegrown Terrorist, Networked Citizen, Double: Identity, Belonging and Citizenship in an Age of Limitless Conflict | Assistant Professor, University of Albany (SUNY) |
| Tara Liss-Marino | Sharrona H. Pearl | Sell (It) Yourself: Marketing Pleasure in Digital DIY | Associate Director for Student Communication, University of Michigan |
| Nora Draper | Joseph Turow | Reputation Inc.: The Industrialization of Digital Self-Presentation and Online Privacy | Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire, Durham |
2013
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Susan Haas | Carolyn Marvin | Communities of Journalists and Journalism Practice at Radio Free Europe during the Cold War (1950-1995) | Lecturer, Annenberg School for Communication |
| Andrew Crocco | Carolyn Marvin | The Mobocratic City: Race, Space and Citizenship in Nineteenth Century Philadelphia | Director, Insight and Analytics, Wealthfront, Inc. |
| Emily Thorson | Diana C. Mutz | Belief Echoes: The Persistent Effects of Corrected Misinformation | Assistant Professor Political Science, Syracuse University |
| Khadijah White | John L. Jackson, Jr. | Raising the Volume: Media and the Rise of the 21st Century Tea Party | Assistant Professor, Rutgers University |
| Matthew Lapierre | Joseph N. Cappella | Development and Persuasion Processing: An Investigation of Children's Advertising Susceptibility and Understanding | Assistant Professor, Arizona State University Main (Tempe) |
| Ryan Paquin | Joseph N. Cappella | Customizing Message Content to Facilitate Decisions About Participating in Genomics Research: A Reasoned Action Approach | Research Public Health Analyst, RTI International |
| Kara Liebeskind | Joseph N. Cappella | Parental Mediation from Looney Tunes to Angry Birds: Examining How Parents are Dealing with the Content-Specific Issues of Old Media and the Unique Challenges of New Media | Insights Guru/Manager, Smarty Pants |
| Alison Perelman | Katherine E. Sender | Political Appetites: Food as Rhetoric in American Politics | Executive Director, Philadelphia 3.0 |
| Christopher Ali | Marwan M. Kraidy | Where is Here? An Analysis of Localism in Media Policy in Three Western Democracies | Assistant Professor Media Studies, University of Virginia |
| Elizabeth Roodhouse | Michael X. Delli Carpini | Buying In: Socially Conscious Consumption and the Architecture of Choice | Senior Director, Analytics, Blue Apron |
| Andy Tan | Robert C. Hornik | Cancer-Related Direct-to-Consumer Advertising - A Study of Its Antecedents, Influence on Patient Information Seeking Behaviors, and Contingent Effects | Assistant Professor, Harvard University School of Public Health |
| Angel Bourgoin | Robert C. Hornik | The Use of the Internet for Alternative Views on Health | Senior Researcher, John Snow, Inc. (JSI) |
| Susan Mello | Robert C. Hornik | Toxic? The Nature and Effects of Mothers' Exposure to Pediatric Environmental Health Information in the Media | Assistant Professor of Communication, Northeastern University |
| Sarah Parvanta | Robert C. Hornik | Understanding Socioeconomic Disparities in Responsiveness to Belief Strategies for Smoking Cessation Messages | Research Public Health Analyst, RTI International |
2012
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brittany Griebling | Carolyn Marvin | The Casualization of Intimacy: Consensual Non-Monogamy and the New Sexual Ethics | Instructor, Temple University |
| Susanna Dilliplane | Diana C. Mutz | The Impact of Partisan News Exposure on American Public Opinion and Behavior: Evidence from the 2008 Presidential Election | Deputy Director, Aspen Institute |
| Heidi Khaled | John L. Jackson, Jr. | The Politics of Fashion in American Consumer Culture | Senior Qualitative Analyst, Magid |
| Aymar Jean Christian | Katherine E. Sender | Off the Line: Independent Television and the Pitch to Reinvent Hollywood | Assistant Professor, Northwestern University |
| Lauren Sessions-Goulet | Keith N. Hampton | Friends in All the Right Places: Social Resources and Geography in the Age of Social Network Sites | Director, TripAdvisor |
| Lauren Kogen | Marwan M. Kraidy | Suffering Through the News: How the American News Media Cover Hunger in Africa and at Home | Assistant Professor, Temple University |
| Jeffrey Gottfried | Michael X. Delli Carpini | Get a Cue Already! How Election Campaigns Matter in Different Informational Environments | Senior Researcher, Pew Research Center |
| Anne Arnold | Michael X. Delli Carpini | Political Sophistication, Deliberation, and the Structure of Opinions about Public Issues | Senior Operations Officer, World Bank |
| Sarah Vaala | Robert C. Hornik | Mothers' Cognitions and Structural Life Circumstances as Predictors of Infants' and Toddlers' Television and Video Exposure | Assistant Professor, High Point University |
2011
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keren Tenenboim Weinblatt | Barbie Zelizer | Journalism's Missing Links: Kidnapping and Captivity Coverage Around the World | Senior Lecturer (Assoc. Prof), Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Joel Penney | Barbie Zelizer | Body Screen/Body Politic: The Uses of Political T-Shirts in the Digital Age | Associate Professor, Montclair State University |
| Oren Livio | Carolyn Marvin | The Right to Represent: Negotiating the Meaning of Military Service in Israel | Assistant Professor/Lecturer, Haifa University |
| Christopher Finlay | Carolyn Marvin | Between Leverage and Legacy: Producing the 2012 London Olympics in a Global New Media Environment | Associate Professor, Loyola Marymount University |
| Alyssa Klein (Hersh) | Joseph N. Cappella | Social Support Online: Testing the Effects of Highly Person-Centered Messages in Breast Cancer Support Groups | Vice President, iMarketResearch |
| Ashley Sanders-Jackson | Joseph N. Cappella | Narrative as Structure | Assistant Professor, Michigan State University |
| Peter Busse | Joseph N. Cappella | Normative Appeals: Understanding the Effect of Normative Messages on the Formation of Intentions to get Tested for HIV Among Latinos in the United States | Associate Professor, Universidad de Lima |
| Cabral Bigman-Galimore | Joseph N. Cappella | Social Comparison Framing: Examining the Effects of Racial Health Disparities Risk Information | Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign |
| Young Baek | Joseph N. Cappella | The Impact of Deliberation on Social and Semantic Networks: Citizens' Mental Models of Bioethical Issues in Genetics Using Automated Textual Analysis | Associate Professor, Yonsei University |
| Brooke Erin Duffy | Joseph Turow | Magazines...Without the Magazine: Remaking Boundaries in an Era of Media Convergence | Assistant Professor, Cornell University |
| Sonho Kim | Klaus Krippendorff | The Voice on Paper: A Dialogic Critique of Public Opinion Polling | Senior Researcher, Korea Press Foundation |
| Mario Rodriguez | Paul Messaris | Paranoid Androids: Facebook Privacy, Online Reputation, and Employment Concerns of College Seniors | |
| Lourdes Martinez | Robert C. Hornik | Anticipated Regret and the Formation of Behavioral Intention: Implications for the Design of Persuasive Health Messages | Assistant Professor, San Diego State University |
2010
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Serazio | Barbie Zelizer | Your Ad Here: The Cool Sell of Guerrilla Marketing | Assistant Professor, Boston College |
| Lokman Tsui | Barbie Zelizer | A Journalism of Hospitality | Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication |
| Daniel Berger | Barbie Zelizer | "We Are the Revolutionaries": Visibility, Protest and Racial Formation in 1970s Prison Radicalism | Associate Professor, University of Washington, Bothell |
| Jessica Piotrowski | Deborah L. Linebarger | Evaluating Preschoolers' Comprehension of Educational Television: The Role of Viewer Characteristics, Stimuli Features, and Contextual Expectations | Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam |
| Deborah Wainwright | Deborah L. Linebarger | Television as Parenting Tool: The Role of Parental Efficacy, Attitude, and Television Use in Parenting in Children's Television Exposure | Producer/Director, Young Minds Entertainment |
| Russell Tisinger | Diana C. Mutz | The Influence of Television Fiction on Political Attitudes | Senior Researcher, L&M Policy Research |
| Seth Goldman | Diana C. Mutz | Effects of the 2008 Obama Presidential Campaign on White Racial Prejudice | Honors Assistant Professor of Communication, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Xiaoxia Cao | Diana C. Mutz | Pathways to Eliciting Aid: The Effects of Visual Representations of Human Suffering on Empathy and Help for People in Need | Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee |
| Riley Snorton | John L. Jackson, Jr. | Tapped in the [Epistemological] Closet: Black Sexuality and the Popular Imagination | Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago |
| Jean Brechman | Joseph N. Cappella | Narrative "Flow": A Model of Narrative Processing and its Impact on Information Processing, Knowledge Acquisition and Persuasion | Associate Professor, The College of New Jersey |
| Shawnika Hull | Joseph N. Cappella | Risky Business: An Examination of the Relationship between Message Frame, Risk Perceptions and Intentions to Seek HIV-Antibody Testing | Assistant Professor, George Washington University |
| Adrienne Shaw | Katherine E. Sender | Identity, Identification and Media Representation in Video Game Play: An Audience Reception Study | Associate Professor, Temple University |
| Bruce Hardy | Michael X. Delli Carpini | A Communication Model of the Impact of Presidential Candidate Character Traits on Vote Preference | Assistant Professor, Temple University |
| Moira O'keeffe | Paul Messaris | Media and the Making of Scientists | Associate Professor, Bellarmine University |
| Brenda Curtis | Paul Messaris | Examining the Mechanisms of Tailoring: Extending the Integrative Model of Behavioral Prediction | Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania |
| A. Susana Ramirez | Robert C. Hornik | Communicating Cancer Prevention Information to U.S. Latinos: The Moderating Role of Acculturation | Assistant Professor of Public Health, University of California Merced |
| Nehama Lewis-Persky | Robert C. Hornik | Keeping Children Healthy: How the Effects of Normative Messages on Parent Intentions Vary With Social Normative Beliefs and Personality | Senior Lecturer (Assoc. Prof), University of Haifa |
| Rebekah Nagler | Robert C. Hornik | Steady Diet of Confusion: Contradictory Nutrition Messages in the Public Information Environment | Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota |
2009
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jasmine Cobb | John L. Jackson, Jr. | Racing the Trans-Atlantic Parlor: Picturing Freedom in the Early Nineteenth Century | Bacca Foundation Associate Professor, Duke University |
| Jocelyn Landau | Joseph N. Cappella | Effects of Messages About Genetics, Race, and Health on Public Opinion About Personalized Medicine and Health Policy | UX/User Research Manager, Yelp |
| Nadine Gabbadon | Joseph Turow | Reconstructing Age by Redefining Boundaries: Women's Service Magazines and the 50+ Market | Assistant Dean for College Advising, University of Pennsylvania |
| Mary Bock | Klaus Krippendorff | One Man Band: The Process and Product of Video Journalism | Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin |
| Kenneth Winneg | Michael X. Delli Carpini | Online Political Participation in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election: Mobilizing or Reinforcing? | Managing Director of Survey Research, Annenberg Public Policy Center |
| Billy Herman | Michael X. Delli Carpini | The Battle Over Digital Rights Management: A Multi-Method Study of the Politics of Copyright Management Technologies | Associate Dean, Metro State University |
| Kenneth Farrall | Michael X. Delli Carpini | Suspect Until Proven Guilty: A Problematization of State Dossier Systems via Two Case Studies: The United States and China | Project Manager and Business Developer, MTM Linguasoft |
| Jason Tocci | Paul Messaris | Geek Cultures: Media and Identity in the Digital Age | Community Manager, VirZOOM, Inc |
| Chul-Joo Lee | Robert C. Hornik | Media, Social Capital, and Health Information Diffusion: A Multilevel Approach | Associate Professor, Seoul National University |
| Robin Stevens | Robert C. Hornik | Aids in Black & White: The Influence of News Coverage of HIV/AIDS on HIV/AIDS Testing among African Americans and White Americans, 19932007 | Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania |
| Kimberly Woolf | Robert C. Hornik | Children, Parents and Prosocial Television for Children: Accounting for Viewing and Looking for Effects | Lecturer and Director of Graduate Student Professional Development, Annenberg School for Communication |
| Magdalena Wojcieszak | Vincent Price | When Deliberation Divides: How People With Strong Views Respond to Political Disagreement | Associate Professor, University of California Davis |
2008
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Josh Lauer | Carolyn Marvin | The Good Consumer: Credit Reporting and the Invention of Financial Identity in the United States, 1840-1940 | Associate Professor, University of New Hampshire, Durham |
| Min Shim | Joseph N. Cappella | Self-Disclosure in Online Support Groups: The Patterns of Disclosure and Their Potential Health Benefits for Women with Breast Cancer | Associate Professor, Inha University, South Korea |
| Sehoon Jeong | Joseph N. Cappella | Attributions and Racial Cues in News About Obesity: Effects on the Public's Attributions About Weight and Opinions About Health Policies | Associate Professor, Korea University |
| John Campbell | Larry P. Gross | Virtually Home: The Commodification of Community in Cyberspace | Self-employed, Independent scholar |
| Lee Shaker | Michael X. Delli Carpini | Media, Choice, & Citizens' Local Political Knowledge, Attitudes, & Behavior | Associate Professor, Portland State University |
| Eran Ben-Porath | Michael X. Delli Carpini | Codes of Professionalism; Norms of Conversation: How Political Interviews Shape Public Attitudes toward Journalists | EVP, Public Opinion Research, Social Science Research Solutions |
| Mihaela Popescu | Oscar Gandy | Keeping it Dirty: Defining and Redefining Obscenity in American Judicial Discourse, 1873-2007 | Associate Professor, Cal State San Bernadino University |
| Paul Falzone | Paul Messaris | Documentary for Change | Director, Peripheral Vision International |
| Carlin Barmada | Robert C. Hornik | The Influence of Individual and Message Characteristics on Anti-Drug AD Evaluations | Provider Engagement Specialist, Children's National Medical Center |
| Weiyu Zhang | Vincent Price | Deliberation and the Disempowered: Attendance, Experience and Influence | Associate Professor, National University of Singapore |
| Lauren Feldman | Vincent Price | To Opine or Not to Opine: The Consequences of Opinionated News for Political Information Processing, Attitudes, and Knowledge | Associate Professor, Rutgers University |
2007
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jody Madeira | Barbie Zelizer | Ties Out of Bloodshed: Collective Memory, Cultural Trauma, and the Prosecution and Execution of Timothy McVeigh | Professor of Law and Louis F. Neizer Faculty Fellow, Indiana University Bloomington |
| Kimberly Meltzer | Barbie Zelizer | Irreconcilable Differences: An Analysis of Television's Difficult Marriage with Journalism as seen Through the Roles of Its Anchors, 1950-2006 | Associate Professor and Co-Chair, Marymount University |
| Matthew Carlson | Barbie Zelizer | On the Condition of Anonymity: Unnamed Sources and Journalistic Authority | Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
| Lee Humphreys | Carolyn Marvin | Mobile Sociality and Spatial Practice: A Qualitative Fieldstudy of New Social Networking Technologies | Associate Professor, Cornell University |
| Jatin Atre | Elihu Katz | Choice Under Conditions of Abundance: The Behavior of Television Audiences | Senior Vice President, Applied Predictive Technologies |
| Yahui Kang | Joseph N. Cappella | The Effects of Smoking Cues in Anti-Smoking Public Service Announcements on Smoking Urge, Message Processing and Intention to Quit Smoking | Vice President, Gerson Lehrman Group |
| Dannagal Young | Joseph N. Cappella | Two Presidential Candidates Walk into a Bar. Late-Night Political Humor: Cognitive Processes, Political Consequences and Normative Implications | Associate Professor, University of Delaware |
| Lemi Baruh | Oscar Gandy | The Guilty Pleasure of Watching Like Big Brother: Privacy Attitudes, Voyeurism and Reality Programs | Associate Professor and Associate Dean, KOC University - Istanbul, Turkey |
| Zhan Li | Oscar Gandy | Media Performance and Global Policy Making: A Comparative Study of Press Coverage on Global Warming | Associate Professor, Xiamen University |
| Rohitashy Chattopadhyay | Paul Messaris | Cultural Influences on Indian Television Commercials: A Qualitative Analysis | Culture Cushion |
| Bridget Kelly | Robert C. Hornik | Effects of Benefit-Target Framing on Intentions to Engage in Avian Flu Vaccination and Other Health Behaviors | Public Health Research Scientist, RTI International |
| Lela Jacobsohn | Robert C. Hornik | Explaining the Boomerang Effects of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign | Public Health Communication and Behavior Change Consultant, Self Employed |
| Ariel Chernin | Robert C. Hornik | The Relationship Between Children's Knowledge of Persuasive Intent and Persuasion: The Case of Televised Food Marketing | Research Lead, Shopify |
| Kelli Maxwell (Lammie) | Vincent Price | The (Not-So) "Powerless Elite". Celebrity Endorsements of Political Candidates | Dean of Student Development, Community College of Allegheny County South Campus |
2006
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ji Hoon Park | Barbie Zelizer | Race on Reality TV: How the Genre Mediates Textual Construction and Audience Reading of Race | Professor, Korea University |
| Bethany Klein | Barbie Zelizer | As Heard on TV: A Critical Cultural Analysis of Popular Music in Advertising | Professor of Media and Communication, University of Leeds |
| Jennifer Horner | Carolyn Marvin | Blood and Ballots: Military Voting and Political Communication in the Union Army During the United States Civil War, 1861-1865 | Manager & Partner Liason, MTM Linguasoft |
| Kate Kenski | Kathleen Hall Jamieson | The Gender Gap in Political Knowledge: Do Women Know Less Than Men About Politics? | Associate Professor, University of Arizona |
| Rosa Martey | Oscar Gandy | Managing Gender in Online Spaces: Gender Role Flexibility and Women's Internet Job Searches | Associate Professor, Colorado State University |
| Jeffery Niederdeppe | Robert C. Hornik | Contingent Effects of Cancer News Coverage on Sought and Scanned Information Exposure | Associate Professor, Cornell University |
| Vani Henderson | Robert C. Hornik | Investigating TV Viewing and Overweight in Pre-Adolescent and Adolescent Girls | Head of UX Research, Google |
| Eun-Kyung Na | Vincent Price | The Effect of Internet Use on Social Network Heterogeneity and Civic Culture: Trust, Tolerance, and Participation | Associate Professor, Kookmin University |
| Natalie Stroud | Vincent Price | Selective Exposure to Partisan Information | Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin |
| Clarissa David | Vincent Price | Learning Political Information From the News: A Closer Look at the Role of Motivation | Professor, University of the Philippines |
2005
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andrea Duff Wagner | Carolyn Marvin | Life-Writing of Alzheimer's Disease and Quadriplegia: On the Cusp of the Illness Chaos Story | Writer, Education Advisory Board |
| Xiaoquan Zhao | Joseph N. Cappella | Ambivalence in Adolescents' Attitudes Toward Marijuana Use: Its Influence on the Intention, Behavior, and the Processing of Anti-Drug Messages | Associate Professor, George Mason University |
| Amy Branner | Larry P. Gross | Is Being There Necessary? Deriving Community Identity in Haines, Alaska | Director of Technology and Organizational Impact, Coaching Corps |
| Tina Huey | Larry P. Gross | The Legitimization of Knowledge in Discourse About Genetically Modified Food | Independent Consultant, Self-Employed |
| Masaki Hidaka | Vincent Price | Issue Publics and the Internet: How Interested Individuals Use the Net | Lecturer, Centers for Academic Programs |
2004
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claire Wardle | Barbie Zelizer | Monsters and Angels: A Comparison of Broadsheet and Tabloid Press Coverage of Child Murders from the US and UK, 19302000 | Executive Director, First Draft |
| Oren Meyers | Barbie Zelizer | Israeli Journalists as an Interpretive Memory Community: The Case Study of Haolam Hazeh | Senior Lecturer, University of Haifa |
| Emily West | Carolyn Marvin | Greeting Cards: Individuality and Authenticity in Mass Culture | Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Mariaelena Bartesaghi | Klaus Krippendorff | Explanatory Paths, Therapeutic Directions, Conversational Destinations: Accountability and Authority in Therapeutic Interaction | Assistant Professor, University of South Florida |
| David Gudelunas | Larry P. Gross | Confidential to America: Newspaper Advice Columns and Sexual Education | Dean and Professor of Communication, University of Tampa |
| Nancy Duda | Oscar Gandy | The Intersection of Privacy Concern and Trust: Beliefs of Privacy Orientation Groups | Senior Survey Researcher, Mathematica Policy Research Inc. |
| Melinda Schwenk-Borrell | Paul Messaris | Selling Democracy: The U.S. Information Agency's Portrayal of American Race Relations, 1953-1976 | Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland University College |
| Anca Romantan | Robert C. Hornik | A Longitudinal Model of Social Amplification of Commercial Aviation Risks: Exploring U.S. News Media Attention to Fatal Accidents and Media Effects on Air Travel Behavior, 1978-2001 | |
| Lilach Nir | Vincent Price | What We Think Others Think: A Motivated Reasoning Model of Public Opinion Perception and Expression | Associate Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
2003
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Huxford | Barbie Zelizer | It's the End of the World as We Know It: Journalism and the Prediction of Catastrophe | Associate Professor, Illinois State University |
| Kelli D'apice | Joseph Turow | Media Dependent Regulators: Media's Reported Impact in the Regulatory Environment and Related Implications for Agency Practices and Policymaking |
2002
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| M. Louise Woodstock | Barbie Zelizer | Cure without Communication: Self-Help Books and Popular Notions of Self Communication, 1860-2000 | Associate Professor, Ursinus College |
| Mark Brewin | Elihu Katz | The History of Election Day in Philadelphia: A Study In American Political Ritual | Associate Professor, University of Tulsa |
| Yariv Tsfati | Joseph N. Cappella | The Consequences of Mistrust in the News Media: Media Skepticism as a Moderator in Media Effects and as a Factor Influencing News Media Exposure | Professor and Department Chair, University of Haifa |
| Brian Southwell | Robert C. Hornik | Mass Media and Memory Traces: Multilevel Explanation of Encoded Exposure to Television Content | Senior Research Scientist, RTI International |
| David Dutwin | Vincent Price | Can People Talk Politics? A Study of Deliberative Democracy | Executive Vice President and Chief Methodologist, Social Science Research Solutions |
| Jennifer Stromer-Galley | Vincent Price | New Voices in the Public Sphere: Political Conversation in the Internet Age | Professor, Syracuse University |
2001
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michele Strano | Carolyn Marvin | As Time Goes By: Ritualized Remembering Through Wedding Photography | Associate Professor, Bridgewater State College |
| Jessica Fishman | Carolyn Marvin | Documenting Death: Photojournalism and Spectacles of the Morbid in the Tabloid and Elite Newspaper | Co-Director Outcomes Measurement Methods, University of Pennsylvania |
| Marc Ostfield | Carolyn Marvin | Attack, Pain, and Danger in Group Life: Thrown to the Wolves | Acting Director at FSI, US Department of State |
| Courtney Bennett | Joseph N. Cappella | Evaluations and Emotion: Influencing Public Health Policy References Via Facial Effect | Philanthropic Advisor, Saint Mary's College, CA |
| Alice Hall | Joseph N. Cappella | Factors Shaping the Effects of Visual Media Texts on Viewer Understandings | Associate Professor, University of Missouri Saint Louis |
| James Devitt | Kathleen Hall Jamieson | Whose News? How Television News Fails Political Discourse | Senior Public Affairs Officer/Faculty, Columbia University in the City of New York |
| Erika Falk | Kathleen Hall Jamieson | Women, Press, and The Presidency | Program Director, Israel Institute |
| David Park | Larry P. Gross | Putting the World on the Couch: Cultural Authority as a Dimension of Mid-20th Century Popular Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis | Professor, Lake Forest College |
| Susan Sherr | Paul Messaris | Visual Representation and the Prediction of Emotion | Vice President of Demographic and Policy Research, Social Science Research Solutions |
| Jo Stryker | Robert C. Hornik | A Longitudinal Analysis Of The Effects Of News Media Messages On Health Behaviors | Chief of Research and Evaluation, Center for Disease Control, National Center for Health Statistics |
| Eric Zimmer | Vincent Price | For To All Those Who Have, More Will Be Given: The Matthew Effect, Nonprofit Organizations, And The Adoption Of Internet Technologies | Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame |
2000
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gangheong Lee | Joseph N. Cappella | Information Environment, Cognitive Appraisal, and Discrete Emotions in Citizens' Political Evaluation and Behavior: The 1996 U.S. Presidential Campaigns | Professor, Daegu University |
| Stacy Davis Graebner | Joseph N. Cappella | The Role of Discrete in Advertising Context Effects | Market Research Consultant, Self-Employed |
| Paul Waldman | Kathleen Hall Jamieson | Deliberation in Practice: Deliberative Theory, News Media, and Political Conversation | Contributing Editor and Columnist, The Prospect |
| Nicole Keating | Klaus Krippendorff | May the Best History Win: Documentary Production and The Politics of Historical Representation Amidst the Downsizing of the National Endowment for the Humanities | Associate Professor, Woodbury University |
| Marsha Siefert | Larry P. Gross | Mediating Opera for America: Magazine Biographies, Opera Singers and National Identity | Associate Professor, Central European University |
| Isabel Molina Guzman | Larry P. Gross | Culture Wars In The Classroom: A Discursive Analysis of Conflict in Two Public School Districts | Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign |
| A. Joseph Borrell | Oscar Gandy | Alcohol Advertising Over the Public Airwaves: A Study Of Radio Station Managers' clearance of Alcohol Related Advertisements | Dean of Academic Affairs, Hillsborough Community College |
| John Sullivan | Oscar Gandy | Constructing the Cable Television Market in Latin America: A Structurational Approach to Organizational Knowledge in U.S. Cable Networks | Professor, Muhlenberg College |
| Kimberly Maxwell | Robert C. Hornik | Do Friends Matter?: The Role of Peer Influence on Adolescent Risk Behavior | VP Consumer Insights & Analytics, NBC Universal |
| Itzhak Yanovitzky | Robert C. Hornik | Mass Media, Social Control, and Health Behavior Change: A Longitudinal Analysis Of Media Effects On Drunk-Driving Behavior, 1978-1995 | Associate Professor, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick Campus |
| Richard Wray | Robert C. Hornik | Alternative Explanations: Examining Exposure Recall, Selective Perception, and Response Bias In the Evaluation Of A Domestic Violence Prevention Radio Campaign | Professor and Dept. Chair Behavioral Science, Saint Louis University |
1999
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sean Aday | Kathleen Hall Jamieson | Public Journalism and the Power of The Press: Exploring The Framesetting Effects Of The News | Associate Professor, George Washington University |
| David Gleason | Larry P. Gross | Becoming Dominant: Shifting Control and the Creation of Culture in Provincetown, MA | SVP, Research E! And Esquire Networks, NBC Universal |
1998
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robin Nabi | Joseph N. Cappella | Reasoning Through Emotion: An Explication and Test of a Cognitive-Functional Model for the Effects of Discrete Negative Emotions on Information Processing, Attitude Change, and Recall | Professor, University of California Santa Barbara |
| David Phillips | Oscar Gandy | Digital Cash and the Surveillance Society: Negotiating Identification in New Consumer Payment systems | Associate Professor, University of Toronto |
| Linus Abraham | Paul Messaris | Subtle Manifestations of Prejudice: Implicit Visual Constructions of Black Pathology | Rector, National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) |
| Sarah Sayeed | Robert C. Hornik | Characteristics of Parent-Child Communication and its Relationship to Adolescents' Exposure to and Understanding of Televised Sexuality | Senior Advisor, New York City Mayor's Office |
| Emory Woodard IV | Robert C. Hornik | By All Means!: A Multi-Method Investigation of the Relationship between Television, Consumerism, and Criminal Behavior | Associate Professor, Villanova University |
1997
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ramona Lyons | Carolyn Marvin | Speakers For The Dead and the Social Construction of Medicolegal Deathwork | Cultural Insights and Commercial Semiotics Consultant, Code. |
| Rona Buchalter | Carolyn Marvin | Good Neighbors: The Social Negotiation of Place | Director of Refugee Resettlement, Programming and Planning, HIAS Pennsylvania |
| Linda Browning (Delana) | Carolyn Marvin | More Than Just Appearances: Cosmetic Practices and the Cultural Construction of Gender | Quality Improvement Manager, Northern Virginia AHEC |
| Joohoan Kim | Elihu Katz | On the Interactions of News Media, Interpersonal Communication, Opinion Formation, and Participation: Deliberative Democracy and the Public Sphere | Professor and Dean, Yonsei University |
| June Rhee | Joseph N. Cappella | Framing the Health Care Reform Campaign of 1993-94: News Frame, Interpretation, and Public Opinion Change. | Professor, Seoul National University |
| Cindy Wong | Larry P. Gross | Communities Through the Lens: Grassroots Video in Philadelphia as Alternative Communicative Practice | Professor, City University of New York College of Staten Island |
| Katharina Kopp | Oscar Gandy | The Role of Private Philanthropic Foundations in Communications Policy Making Defining the 'Public Interest' - The Ford and Markle Foundations' Influence on Policy Making at the Federal Communications Commission | Deputy Director, Director of Policy, Center for Digital Democracy |
| Bernadette Barker-Plummer | Oscar Gandy | News as a Political Resource: A Case Study of the Media Strategies and Media Representation of the National Organization for Women, 1966-1980 | Professor, University of San Francisco |
| Andrew Maxfield | Robert C. Hornik | Behavioral Planning and the Cognitive Antecedents to Behavior: An Experiment Over the Internet Concerning Physical Activity | Vice President, Harstad Strategic Research |
1996
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chien Lei | Charles R. Wright | Political Orientations and the Influences of Cohort Membership and Time: Patterns of Change in Tolerance, Confidence, and the Strength of Party Affiliation | Board Director, ETTV |
| Darin Klein | Joseph N. Cappella | Accuracy and Distortion in Judgment and Recall of Political Discourse | Vice President, Penn Schoen Berland |
| Shinichi Saito | Joseph N. Cappella | The Image of the Partner: Television's Contribution to Japanese Perceptions of America | Professor, Tokyo Woman's Christian University |
| William Mikulak | Paul Messaris | How Cartoons Become Art: Exhibitions and Sales of Animation Art as Communication of Aesthetic Value | Senior News Editor, Business Wire |
1995
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elvira Arcenas | Carolyn Marvin | Communication In the Making of Academic Communication | CEO, ThinkActPeace Foundation |
| Charles Mcclure | Klaus Krippendorff | How Brand Names Brand Societies: A Comparative Study of Brand Names Registered in Selected English-Speaking Countries, 1870-1980 | Vice President and Secretary (retired), AquaLux Corp. |
| Clement So | Klaus Krippendorff | Mapping the Intellectual Landscape of Communication Studies: An Evaluation of its Disciplinary Status | Professor and Associate Dean, Faculty of Social Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Catherine Preston | Larry P. Gross | In Retrospect: The Construction and Communication of a Nationalvisual Memory | Associate Professor, Film Studies Undergraduate Program Coordinator, University of Kansas Main Campus |
| Wendy Mansfield | Oscar Gandy | Strategic Communication in the Public Policy Process: The Case of Electronic Monitoring of Employees | Vice President, Research Development, GfK Group |
| Jisuk Woo | Oscar Gandy | Structural Continuity and Transformations of the U.S. Copyright Law with Regard to Computer Programs: Actors' Communicative Interactions Through the Use of Structural Rules and Resources | Professor, Seoul National University |
| Lynne Edwards | Oscar Gandy | The Relationship Between Values, Commitment, and Television Program Preferences Among Young Black Women | Professor and Chair, Ursinus College |
| Christopher Koepke | Robert C. Hornik | The Role of Communication in Childhood Vaccinations | Director, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services |
| Fatos Goksen | Robert C. Hornik | The Role of Social Support and Social Influence in Maternal Infant Feeding Behavior: Examination of Social Support as a Multifaceted Concept | Associate Professor and Vice Dean, KOC University - Istanbul, Turkey |
| Yoshimi Nishino | Robert C. Hornik | Conversation About Aids and the Media Environment In Thailand: Mass Media Roles In Context Building and Content Providing for Interpersonal Discourse | Chief of Social Policy and Governance, UNICEF |
1994
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Drew | Carolyn Marvin | Where the People are the Real Stars: An Ethnography of Karaoke Bars in Philadelphia | Associate Professor, Saginaw Valley State University |
| Amy Sarch | Carolyn Marvin | Dirty Discourse: Birth Control Advertising in the 1920s and 1930s | Associate VP for Academic Affairs & Director of General Education, Shenandoah University |
| R. Brian Attig | Joseph N. Cappella | Using Visuals to Teach Text Material: The Influence of Emotional Intensity and Encoding Instructions on the Ability of Television Public Service Messages to Produce a Learning Effect for Informationally Nonredundant Text | Principal, IQVIA |
| Moira Marie McLoughlin | Larry P. Gross | Culture Under Glass: First Nation in Canadian Museums | |
| Eugene Michaud | Larry P. Gross | Left Out: American Leftists and American Media | |
| Eleanor Novek | Oscar Gandy | Newmaking, Knowledge Construction, and Self-determination: A Community Newspaper as an Empowerment Strategy for African American High School Students | Professor, Monmouth University |
| Mary (Bessie) Lee Lawton | Oscar Gandy | More than Protest: Communication and the Political 'Capacitation' of Philippine Health Non-Governmental Organizations | Associate Professor, West Chester University |
| Zhong Zheng | Robert C. Hornik | Social Influence as a Component of Contextual Effects: A Study of Diarrheal Treatment in Zaire | Retired, Allergan |
1993
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jelena Grcic Polic | Oscar Gandy | HDVT Policy Formation in the United States: The Federal Communications Commissions's Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service, 1987-1991 | Consul General, Consulate General of Croatia |
1992
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gwenyth Jackaway | Carolyn Marvin | The Press Radio War, 1924-1937: A Battle to Defend the Professional, Institutional, and Political Power of the Press | Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Fordham University |
| Pamela Sankar | Carolyn Marvin | State Power and Record-Keeping: The History of Individualized Surveillance in the United States, 1790-1935 | Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania |
| Bernadette McNulty | Charles R. Wright | Homeless and Hopeless: Resignation in News Media Constructions of Homelessness as a Social Problem | Executive Director, Drexel University |
| Daniel Tate | Kathleen Hall Jamieson | Ideology And Ambiguity: Models Of Narrative Relationship Among Narrators, Narrative Situation and Addressed Audiences Of Woman's Magazine Fiction and Non-Fiction Published from 1910 to 1930 | Assistant Professor (retired), Muhlenberg College |
| Herminia Alfonso | Klaus Krippendorff | On the Logic of Socially Shared Inquiry: An Examination of Participatory Research And Related Development Efforts from a Communication Process Perspective | |
| Barry Dornfeld | Larry P. Gross | Interpretation, Authorship, and Cross-Cultural Representation: A Study of Childhood, a Public Television Documentary Series | Principal, CFAR Inc |
| Steven Leuthold | Larry P. Gross | Telling Our Own Story: The Aesthetic Expression of Collective Identity in Native American Documentary | Professor, Northern Michigan University |
| Krystyna Warchol | Larry P. Gross | The Market System of the Art World and New Art: Prices, Roles, and Careers in the 1980s | Guide and Instructor, Old City Arts Association |
| Nancy Morris | Larry P. Gross | National Identity Under Challenge: Puerto Rico in the Twentieth Century | Professor, Temple University |
| Bette Kauffman | Larry P. Gross | Woman Artist: Communicating Social Identity | Professor Emerita, University of Louisiana at Monroe |
| James Woods | Larry P. Gross | The Corporate Closet Managing Gay Identity On The Job | |
| Pablo Halpern | Oscar Gandy | Media Dependency and Political Perceptions in an Authoritarian Political System: The Case of Chile's Left | Director, Universidad de Los Andes |
1991
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diane Umble | Carolyn Marvin | The Coming of the Telephone to Plain Country: A Study of Amish and Mennonite Resistance in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania at the Turn of the Century | Dean (retired), Millersville University of Pennsylvania |
| Eva Illouz | Larry P. Gross | Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Introduction to a Political Economy of Love | Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Nikhil Sinha | Oscar Gandy | Choices and Consequences: A Cross-National Evaluation of TeleCommunication Policies in Developing Countries | CEO, GSV Labs |
| Karin Gwinn Wilkins | Oscar Gandy | Development Communication Interpretations in Organizational Contexts | Professor and Associate Dean, University of Texas at Austin |
| Derek Bouse | Paul Messaris | The Wilderness Documentary: Film, Video, and the Visual Rhetoric of American Environmentalism | Associate Professor of Communication Arts, American University of Technology |
| Jeffrey McDowell | Robert C. Hornik | The Relationship Between Quality of Access to Telecommunication and Communication Activity in Semi- Rural Areas of Thailand | IP-MC, LLC |
1990
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amy Jordan | Christine Bachen | The Role of Mass Media in the Family System: An Ethnographic Approach | Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers University |
| Victor Caldarola | Larry P. Gross | Reception as Cultural Experience: Visual Mass Media and Reception Practices in Outer Indonesia | Program Director, Comprehensive Sanction Center |
| Lois Silverman | Larry P. Gross | Of Us and Other Things: The Content and Functions of Talk by Adult Visitor Pairs in an Art and a History Museum | Independent Scholar and Consultant, Self-Employed |
| Barbie Zelizer | Larry P. Gross | Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination and the Establishment of Journalistic Authority | Professor of Communication, University of Pennsylvania |
| Lisa Henderson | Larry P. Gross | Cinematic Competence and Directorial Persona In Film School: A Study of Socialization and Cultural Production. | Dean, University of Western Ontario |
1989
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milton Mueller | Carolyn Marvin | The Telephone War: Interconnection, Competition, and Monopoly in the Making of Universal Telephone Service, 1884-1920 | Professor or Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Ann-Marie Nazzaro | Robert C. Hornik | The Knowledge Gap Hypothesis and Salience in the Context of Health Maintenance Organizations and the Elderly | Executive Director, Foundation for Women and Girls with Blood Disorders |
| Nina Ferencic | Robert C. Hornik | Communication and Development: Factors Affecting Knowledge and Behavior Change at the Individual and the Community Levels in Response to a Health Communication Project in Ecuador | Senior Regional Advisor on Adolescent Health/Dev & HIV/AIDS, UNICEF |
1988
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Wickenden | Klaus Krippendorff | The Collective Communication of Social Choice Messages | Principal, THW Consulting |
| Michael Willmorth | Larry P. Gross | The Representation of American English Dialects in Prime Time Network Television Dramatic Programs | Financial Data Analyst, Clearwater Research, Inc |
1987
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Julie Dobrow | George Gerbner | Ths Social and Cultural Implications of the VCR: How VCR Use Concentrates and Diversifies Viewing | Director, Communications and Media Studies Program, Tufts University |
| Michael Griffin | Larry P. Gross | Amateur Photography and Pictorial Aesthetics: Influences of Organization and Industry on Cultural Production | Visiting Professor, Macalester College |
| Nancy Rothschild | Larry P. Gross | Television and the Family Context: Cohesion, Control, and Cultivation | Independent Writing and Editing Professional, Self-Employed |
| Robert Hanke | Larry P. Gross | "Suddenly a Restaurant Town": An Inquiry into Public Culinary Culture and Communication | Contract Faculty, York University |
| Stephen Prince | Paul Messaris | Power, Pain, and Pleasure in Pornography: A Content Analysis of Pornographic Feature Films, 1972-1985 | Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
1986
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher Musello | Larry P. Gross | Family Houses and Social Identity: Communicational Perspectives on the Homes of Ridge County | Owner, Sight Works |
| Jane Jorgenson | Paul Messaris | The Family's Construction of the Concept of "Family" | Associate Professor, University of South Florida |
1985
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hannah Kliger (Peltz) | Charles R. Wright | Communication and Ethnic Community: The Case of Landsmanshaften | Professor, Pennsylvania State University Abington |
| Janet Seykora | George Gerbner | Television's Contribution to Public Understanding of Science: A Comparative View | Retired, News Corp. |
| Stewart Hoover | Larry P. Gross | The 700 Club as Religion and as Television: A Study of Reasons and Effects | Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder |
| Cathy Hall | Ray L. Birdwhistell | The Communication of Expertise During Rapid Organizational Change: An Ethnographic Case Study of a Bank Holding Company During Deregulation | Consultant (retired), Lea Hall, Ph.D. |
| Judith McDivitt | Robert C. Hornik | Constraints to Knowledge Gain and Behavior Change in Response to a Multi-Media Health Education Project in the Gambia, West-Africa | Director, Team Lead, Center for Disease Control, National Center for Health Statistics |
1984
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Aibel | Larry P. Gross | Art as Social Communication: The Ridge County Amateur Art World | President, Moderne Gallery |
| Catherine Kirkland | Larry P. Gross | For the Love of it: Women Writers and the Popular Romance | |
| David Graper | Paul Messaris | The Presentation of Computers and Computer Technology in Newspapers Directed Toward Different Social Groups | Software Developer, NFrasructure Technologies |
| Duncan Holaday | Ray L. Birdwhistell | Making Media Fit: Short-Term Adjustment to a New Communications Technology in a West Javanese Village | Founder, Dunc's Mill |
| Barbara Lynch | Ray L. Birdwhistell | Sacred Space: Spacial Communication Patterns in an Irish American and Slavic American Roman Catholic Parish | Retired, New Jersey Division of Mental Health |
1983
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dona Schwartz | Larry P. Gross | Camera Clubs and Fine Arts Photography: Distinguishing between Art and Amateur Activity | Professor, University of Calgary |
1982
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stuart Sigman | Ray L. Birdwhistell | Some Communicational Aspects of Patient Placement and Careers in Two Nursing Homes | Dean of System Wide Programs, Argosy University |
| Jane Gould Torous | Robert C. Hornik | A Theoretical Development and Empirical Test of Susceptibility to Media Effects | Principal, WAVA |
1981
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Josephine Holz | Charles R. Wright | Communication about the Skokie March: A Case Study in the Social Construction of Reality | Consultant, Holz Consulting |
| James Miller | George Gerbner | Office of Telecommunications Policy and Broadcast Issues: A Case Study of Media-Interaction | Professor, Hampshire College |
| Carla Sarett | Larry P. Gross | Socialization Patters and Children's Television and Film-Related Play | President (retired), Internet Research Group |
1980
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Wick | Barbara H. Smith | Theories of Reading: A Review and Analysis of American Research on Proficient Reading in its Social Context | Marketing & Research Consultant, Self-Employed |
| Michael Morgan | Larry P. Gross | Longitudinal Patterns of Television Viewing and Adolescent Role Socialization | Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| George Custen | Larry P. Gross | Film Talk: Viewers Responses to a Film aa a Socially Situated Event |
1979
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marilyn Jackson | Charles R. Wright | Mass Media Exposure and Individual Political Activity | Historical Interpreter (retired), Minnesota Historical Society |
| Douglas Goldschmidt | George Gerbner | Joint Goods, Public Goods and Telecommunications: A Case Study of the Alaska Telephone System | Psychotherapist, Psychological Healthcare PLLC |
| Leslie Rado | Larry P. Gross | Communication, Social Organization, and the Redefinition of Death: A Case Study of the Institutionalization of an Idea |
1978
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kusum Singh | George Gerbner | Gandhi and Mao as Communicators: A Comparative Study of Practice and Theory | Professor of Communications (retired), Saint Mary's College, CA |
| Daniel Schiller | George Gerbner | An Exploration of the Origins of Objectivity in American News Reporting | Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign |
| James Taylor | Klaus Krippendorff | A Method for the Recording of Data Analysis of Structure in Task Groups | Professor Emeritus, Universite de Montreal |
| Suzanne Jeffries-Fox | Larry P. Gross | Televisions's Contribution to Young People's Conceptions about Occupations |
Market Researcher, Self-Employed |
1977
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Licker | Sol Worth | The Role of the Recognition of Structure in Interaction and Communication | Professor and Dept. Chair, Oakland University |
| Linda Lannus | Charles R. Wright | The News Organization and News Operations at the Urban Press: A Sociological Analysis Based on Two Case Studies | Disability Evaluation Unit Rater, RETIRED, San Jose Worker's Compensation Board |
| Charles Goodwin | Klaus Krippendorff | Some Aspects of the Interaction of Speaker and Hearer in the Construction of the Turn at Talk in Natural Conversation | Professor, University of California Los Angeles |
| Susan Lou McDonald | Larry P. Gross | Learning about Crime: Conceptions of Crime as They Relate to Use of Television and Other Information Sources | President and CEO, National Analysts, Inc |
| Sari Thomas | Larry P. Gross | The Relationship Between Daytime Serials and Their Viewers | Professor and Chair (retired), Temple University |
1976
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joseph Turow | George Gerbner | Client Relationship and Mass Media Policy: A Comparative Case Study of Mass Market Production and Distribution in Children's Book Publishing | Professor, University of Pennsylvania |
| John Carey | Ray L. Birdwhistell | A Micro-Frame Analysis of the On-Camera/On-Mike Paralinguistic Behavior of Three Presidential Candidates | Professor, Fordham University |
1975
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nancy Signorielli | George Gerbner | Men and Women in Television Drama: The Use of Two Multivariate Techniques for Isolating Dimensions of Characterization | Professor Emerita, University of Delaware |
| Paul Messaris | Larry P. Gross | Interpersonal Styles and Film Training | Emeritus Professor, University of Pennsylvania |
| Eusebio Inocencio | William Melody | Differences in Perspective on Public Policy Issues: A Comparison of Federal, State, and Local Views on Broadband Cable Communications | Professor (retired), University of Maryland University College |
1974
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Chalfen | Sol Worth | Film as Visual Communication: A Sociovidistic Study in Filmmaking | Senior Scientist, Harvard University Medical School |
| Linda Shipley | Charles R. Wright | Communications Behavior of Persons Living in a Megalopolis: A Study of Mass Media Use and Interpersonal Communications of Commuters and Local Workers | Professor of Advertising, Chair of Kearns Research, University of Nebraska at Omaha |
| Mildred Harlow Downing | George Gerbner | The World of Day Time Television Serial Drama | |
| John Clippinger, Jr. | Klaus Krippendorff | A Discourse Speaking Program as a Preliminary Theory of Discourse and a Limited Theory of a Psychoanalytic Discourse | Co-Founder and Executive Director, ID3 (Institute for Innovation & Data Driven Design) |
| John Rossiter | Larry P. Gross | Children's Susceptibility to Television Advertising: A Behavioral Test of Cognition and Attitude | Research Professor of Marketing (retired), University of Wollongong |
1973
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Murphy | Larry P. Gross | Attributional and Inferential Strategies in the Interpretation of Visual Communications: A Developmental Study | Consultant (Marketing & Opinion Research), James P. Murphy & Co. |
1972
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heli Perrett | Charles R. Wright | Social Implications of Adult Literacy: A Study Among Migrant Women in Peru | Self-employed post retirement, Artist and Author |
| Judith Miller | Charles R. Wright | Conversations in Semi-Public Places: Study of Reported Communication Between Occupational Specialists and Their Clientele in a Metropolis | Professor of Psychology (retired) , Oberlin College |
| Lynn Waterhouse | Dell Hymes | Generic and Sociocultural Influence on Language Development | Professor, The College of New Jersey |
1969
| Student | Dissertation Chair | Dissertation Title | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolf Zillmann | Percy Tannenbaum | Emotion Arousal as a Factor in Communication-Mediated Aggressive Behavior | Dean Emeritus, University of Alabama at Birmingham |