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Lingling Pan, MMC, successfully defends dissertation

Matthew Lombard — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:52:17 +0000

Lingling Pan, MMC, successfully defended her dissertation on April 23, 2012. The title of her dissertation is “Performance Evaluation, Communication Environment, and Decision Legitimacy: A Case in China.” The members of her dissertation examination committee were Thomas Jacobson (Chair), Kaibin Xu, Shanyang Zhao (Sociology) and Cornelius Pratt (Strategic Communication; outside reader). … Read more »

Tina Peterson, MMC, successfully defends dissertation

Matthew Lombard — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:31:11 +0000

Mass Media & Communication doctoral student Tina Peterson successfully defended her dissertation on March 22, 2012. The title of her dissertation is “Seeing, Believing & Cooking: Visual Communication, Food-Media Literacy, and Self Efficacy.” The members of her dissertation examination committee were Renee Hobbs (Chair), Michael Maynard, Andrew Mendelson and Krishnendu Ray (New York University; outside reader). Peterson will soon hold a full-time lecturer position in the new Program in Writing and Communication at Rice University, where she will teach writing-intensive topics courses on food studies and media studies. … Read more »

Satarupa Dasgupta, MMC, successfully defends dissertation

Matthew Lombard — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:49:13 +0000

Doctoral student Satarupa Dasgupta, MMC, successfully defended her dissertation on June 24, 2011. The title of her dissertation is “Communication and Community Mobilization, Anti-Trafficking and Legitimization, Participation and Empowerment: HIV/AIDS Intervention and the Sonagachi Project.” The members of her dissertation examination committee were Professor Nancy Morris (Chair), Professor Priscilla Murphy, Interim Dean Tom Jacobson and Professor Judith Goode (Department of Anthropology; outside reader). … Read more »

Jordan McClain, MMC, defends dissertation on media framing and Phish

Matthew Lombard — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:57:01 +0000

Jordan McClain, MMC, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on May 3, 2011. The title of his dissertation is “Media Framing as Brand Positioning: Analysis of Coverage Linking Phish to The Grateful Dead.” The members of his dissertation examination committee were Associate Professor Michael Maynard (Chair), Associate Professor Fabienne Darling-Wolf, Professor Cornelius Pratt and Paul D’Angelo (College of New Jersey; outside reader). … Read more »

Siobahn Stiles, MMC, defends her dissertation proposal

Matthew Lombard — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:55:10 +0000

Mass Media & Communication (MMC) doctoral student Siobahn Stiles successfully defended her dissertation proposal on April 19, 2011. The title of her dissertation is “Feminist Communicative Action: Examining the Role of ‘Being Heard’ in a Rehabilitation Program for Prostitutes.” The members of her dissertation advisory committee are Fabienne Darling-Wolf (Chair), Tom Jaccobson and Carolyn Kitch. … Read more »

Michael Schuyler, MMC, successfully defends his dissertation

Matthew Lombard — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:00:37 +0000

Michael T. Schuyler, MMC, successfully defended his dissertation on Nov. 29, 2010. The title of his dissertation is “Setting Up Camp: Identifying Camp Through Theme and Structure.” The members of his dissertation examination committee were Cornelius Pratt (Chair), John Lent, Paul Swann (Film and Media Arts Department) and Roberta Sloan (Theater Department; outside reader). … Read more »

Alina Hogea, MMC, successfully defends dissertation proposal

Matthew Lombard — Thu, 20 May 2010 19:11:03 +0000

Alina Hogea, MMC, who previously passed her preliminary examinations, successfully defended her dissertation proposal May 18, 2010. The title of her dissertation is “Collective Memory and National Identity in Post-Communist Romania: Representations of the Communist Past in Romanian Media and Romanian politics (1990 – 2009).” The members of her dissertation advisory committee are Professor Carolyn Kitch (Chair), Associate Dean Nancy Morris and Interim Dean Tom Jacobson. … Read more »

Lydia Reeves Timmins, MMC, successfully defends dissertation

Matthew Lombard — Thu, 20 May 2010 19:09:17 +0000

Lydia Reeves Timmins, MMC, has successfully defended her dissertation and earned her doctoral degree. The title of her dissertation is “Appealing to the Audience: How Local TV News Content Producers Learn About the Viewers.” The members of her dissertation examination committee were Associate Professor Matthew Lombard (Chair), Associate Professor Andrew Mendelson, Professor Edward Trayes (Journalism) and Professor Thomas Eveslage (Journalism; outside reader). … Read more »

MMC student Tina Peterson successfully defends dissertation proposal

Matthew Lombard — Mon, 10 May 2010 14:13:55 +0000

Tina Peterson, MMC, who previously passed her preliminary examinations, successfully defended her dissertation proposal on April 21, 2010. The title of her dissertation is “So You Think You Can Cook? Visual Communication in Food Media, Meaning-making and Cooking Self-efficacy.” The members of her dissertation advisory committee are Professor Renee Hobbs (Chair), Associate Professor Andrew Mendelson and Associate Professor Michael Maynard. … Read more »

MMC student Maria Oliveira successfully defends dissertation

Matthew Lombard — Mon, 10 May 2010 14:06:59 +0000

Maria Oliveira, MMC, successfully defended her dissertation on May 9, 2010. The title of her project is “Multicultural Environments and Their Challenges to Crisis Communication.” The members of her dissertation examination committee were Professor Priscilla Murphy (Chair), Associate Dean Nancy Morris, Professor Zizi Papacharissi (now at the University of Illiniois at Chicago), and Assistant Professor Kaibin Xu (Department of Strategic Communication, outside reader). … Read more »