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Recent Graduate Student Accolades
Angela (DeLong) Bryne (M.A. 2009) named PR Rookie of the Year
by Ragan's PR Daily - October 2012
Ajay Ojay (M.A. 2000) receives Outstanding Alumni award - April 2012
Distinguished Graduate Student
2012 – Pauline Matthey
2011 – Dustin Smith
2010 – Kendra McClure
Thesis Awards
Tasha Rennels - 2010 Award for Excellence for the College of Arts and Humanities, Taking out the trash: Critiquing the equipment for living of white trash films
King-Mertz Research/Creative Activity Awards
Brandon Hensley - 2011 Distinguished Research/Creative Activity Award, Body billboards and brand colonization: Embodied corporate advertising in postmodern branding culture.
Melissa Territo – 2010 Award of Excellence for the College of Arts and Humanities, , Hidden in the shadows: A qualitative analysis of the “impossible” possibility: Male rape.
Research/Creative Activity Grants
Nora Swalls - 2010, Clark County Ready, Set, Grow! Workshop
Williams Travel Grant Award Winners
2011-2012 Academic Year
Catherine Bocke: Using metaphors to connect communication theory, understanding, and practice. Panel presented at the Central States Communication Association Annual Conference, Cleveland, OH.
Daniel Douglas: Horton heard a Who, can you? Voices from GTAs on the basic course. Paper presented at the National Communication Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA.
Daniel Douglas: Using metaphors to connect communication theory, understanding, and practice. Panel presented at the Central States Communication Association Annual Conference, Cleveland, OH.
Pauline Matthey: Teaching speech with an accent: The challenges only “aliens” understand. Paper presented at the Illinois Speech and Theatre Association Conference, Normal, IL.
Pauline Matthey: Wait, you want me to teach?!: Confessions and strategies from GTAs negotiating pedagogical voice in the basic course. Paper presented at the National Communication Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA.
Pauline Matthey: Using metaphors to connect communication theory, understanding, and practice. Panel presented at the Central States Communication Association Annual Conference, Cleveland, OH.
Jessica McDonald: Classless advertising: Re-representing the working class through critical engagement with contemporary advertising. Paper presented at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association annual conference, Boston, MA.
Christopher Wagner: Using metaphors to connect communication theory, understanding, and practice. Panel presented at the Central States Communication Association Annual Conference, Cleveland, OH.
2010-2011 Academic Year
Dustin Smith: “I love you man…no homo” a new kind of bromance: An analysis of narratives from heterosexual-homosexual male friendships. Paper presented at the New Voices, New Perspectives conference, Denton, TX.
Dustin Smith: Queering primetime. Paper presented at the Central States Communication Association Annual Conference, Milwaukee, WI.
2009-2010 Academic Year
Amanda Fountain: Are we still friends? Maintaining long distance friendships. Paper presented at the 79th Annual Florida Communication Association Conference, Orlando, FL.
Amanda Fountain: Not so sweet tweets: Twitter for effective public relations practices. Paper presented at the Central States Communication Association Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH.
Brandon Hensley: Constructing postmodern bodies: Performative embodiment and hegemonic masculinity in gym structure. Paper presented at the 79th Annual Florida Communication Association Conference, Orlando, FL.
Brandon Hensley: New age, old disclosure: National Geographic, orientalism, and coverage of Afghanistan in the 21st century. Paper presented at the Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO.
Brandon Hensley: Up your ante: New ways to deal with old problems. Panel presentation at the Basic Course Director’s Conference, Las Vegas, NV.
Ramey Strong: In the eye of the beholder: An ethnographic view of teacher immediacy and it s effects on student learning and classroom culture. Paper presented at the 79th Annual Florida Communication Association Conference, Orlando, FL.
Melissa Territo: Hidden in the shadows: A qualitative analysis of the “impossible” possibility: Male rape. Paper presented at the Central States Communication Association Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH.
Kendra McClure: Miracle or myth? A qualitative study of the communication strategies used to promote and oppose clean coal technology. Paper presented at the Central States Communication Association Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH.
Kendra McClure: Who’s getting schooled? A critical examination of an entertainment-education intervention. Paper presented at the Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO.
Kendra McClure: Spare me your white girl cultural divide love: Evidence of subaltern marginalization in Grey’s Anatomy. Paper presented at the Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO.
Nora Swalls: The wheels on the bus go round making connections more profound: A rural transit system and the passenger’(s) extension to community building. Paper presented at the Central States Communication Association Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH.
Zachary Thuring: Don’t touch me faggot! Touch avoidance and verbal aggression as indicators of homonegative attitudes. Paper presented at the Central States Communication Association Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH.
Zachary Thuring: Hegemonic masculinity in the Boy Scouts of America. Paper presented at the Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO.
