Completed Dissertation/Thesis Titles

• Wm. R. "Buddy" Avila (2021)
Representations of HIV/AIDS in Popular American Comic Books, 1981-1996
Advisor: Jeffery Allen Brown

• Alissa Butler (2021)
The Pleasure in Paradox: The Negotiation Between Acency and Admiration in the Disney Fan Community 
Advisor: Radhika Gajjala

• Emily Edwards (2021)
Never the Twain Shall Meet?: Arab and Muslim Immigration and Far-Right Reactions to Race, Nation, and Culture.
Advisor: Radhika Gajjala

• Jacqueline Hudson (2021)
I'm Every (Black Women: Negotiating Intersectionality in the Music Industry)
Advisor: Katherine Meizel

• Michail-Chrysovalantis Markodimitrakis (2021)
Living in The European Borderlands Representation, Humanitarian Work, and Integration in Times Of "Crises" in Greece
Advisor: Susana Peña

• Mariia Sprinina (2021)
Queer sensibility as an aesthetic of inclusion: How non-demographic designers are challenging fashion norms
Advisor: Jolie Sheffer

• Thi Hai Ly Tran (2021)
Sojourners in the Country of Freedom and Opportunity: The Experiences of Vietnamese Women with Non-immigrant Dependend Spouse Visas in the United States
Advisor: Alberto González

• Joanna Line (2021)
Challenging the Leadership Narrative in Sport: An Exploration of NCAA Division I Women Student-Athletes Understandings of Leadership
Advisor: Vikki Krane

• April Braden (2020)
Urban Suburb: How The Built Environment Influences Class Identity
Advisor: Tim Messer-Kruse
Current Position: Professor of History, North Lake College, Irving, TX   

• David Stephens (2020)
Making Profit, Making Play: Corporate Social Media Branding in the Era of Late Capitalism
Advisor: Radhika Gajjala
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Communication and Film, University of Memphis   

• Britt Rhuart (2020)
Hippie Films, Hippiesploitation, and the Emerging Counterculture, 1955-1970
Advisor: Cynthia Baron
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• Elizabeth Brownlow (2020)
Am I a Bad Feminist? Moments of Reflection and Negotiation in Contemporary Feminist Identity
Advisor: Sandra Faulkner
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• Bincy Abdul-Samad (2020)
Civilizational Memory: The Transformation of Palmyra as a Cultural Patrimony of The West
Advisor: Sri Menon
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• Aju James (2020)
Spaces of laughter: Stand-up comedy in Mumbai as a site of struggle over globalization and national identity
Advisor: Clayton Rosati
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• Tiffany Knoell (2020)
"So You Want To Be A Retronaut?": History and Temporal Tourism
Advisor: Jeremy Wallach
Current Position: Assistant Teaching Professor, Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University

• Kathleen Kollman (2020)
If She Were President: Fictional Representations of Female U.S. Presidents in Film, Television, and Literature in the Twentieth Century
Advisor: Kim Coates
Current Position: Lecturer; The Ohio State University-Wooster campus

• Sylvio Lynch (2020)
Morality and Aspiration: Some Conditions of Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms
Advisor: Rebecca Mancuso
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• Tessa Pyles (2020)
Confined: Motherhood in Twenty-First Century American Film
Advisor: Tim Messer-Kruse
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• Johni Amos (2019)
"I Can Do Whatever the Hell I Want”: Female Tattoo Artists, Their Experiences, and Identity Creation
Advisor: Lesa Lockford
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• Jamie Clements (2019)
Dungeons & Discourse: Intersectional Identities in Dungeons & Dragons
Advisor: Tim Messer-Kruse
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• Cori Healy (2019)
A King of Time and Motion: Richard Pryor and the Evolution of Modern Stand-Up Comedy
Advisor: Cynthia Baron
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• Starlit Hill (2019)
Performing Gender and Authority: Juvenile Corrections Officers' Self-Perceptions and Strategies at Work
Advisor: Jorge Chavez/Lisa Hanasono
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• Lauren O'Connor (2019)
Trusty Teens: Reading American Adolescence through the Superhero Sidekick
Advisor: Jeff Brown
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• Shane Snyder (2019)
Dictating the Terms: GamerGate, Democracy, and (In)Equality on Reddit
Advisor: Radhika Gajjala
Current Position: Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship, Georgia Tech

• Steven Bellavia (2018)
Building Cold War Warriors: Socialization of the Final Cold War Generation
Advisor: Andrew M. Schocket
Current Position: Instructor, Social Sciences, Emporia State University

• Robert Joseph (2018)
Playing the Big Easy: A History of New Orleans in Film and Television
Advisor: Cynthia Baron
Current Position: Lecturer, College of Arts and Sciences: Communication, Univeristy of Dayton

• Joanna Murphy (2018)
Living the Fat Body: Women's Experiences and Relationships with Their Bodies and Popular Culture
Advisor: Lesa Lockford
Current Position: Assistant Director, Women’s & Inclusion Programs, Office of Social Justice, Inclusion & Conflict Resolution, Rowan University

• Xinxin Jiang (2018)
Whose Voice?: A Critical Analysis of Identity, Media, and Popular Music in The Voice of China
Advisor: Alberto Gonzalez
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• Daniel Elkan (2017)
The Colonia Next Door: Puerto Ricans in the Harlem Community, 1917-1948
Advisor: Susana Peña
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• Elliot Director (2017)
Something Queer in His Make-up: Genderbending, Omegaverses, and Fandom's Discontents
Advisor: Susana Peña
Current Position: LGBTQ Community Coordinator, Oberlein College

• Ying-Bei Eldridge (2017)
Between Feminism and Femininity: Shifting Cultural Representations of Girlhood in the 1960s
Advisor: Jolie Sheffer
Current Position: ESL Language Instructor, ELS Language Centers at BGSU

• Zachary Sands (2017)
Film Comedy and the American Dream
Advisor: Tim Messer-Kruse
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• Csenge Zalka (2017)
Collaborative Storytelling 2.0: A Framework for Studying Forum-based Role-playing games
Co-Advisors: Radhika Gajjala; Kristine Blair
Current Position: Full-time Storyteller in Hungary

• Stephanie Salerno (2016)
True Loves, Dark Nights: Queer Performativity and Grieving Through Music in the Work of Rufus Wainwright
Advisor: Jeremy Wallach
Current Position: Assistant Director of Outreach and Engagement, Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University

• Christopher Wagenheim (2016)
Male Bodies On-Screen: Spectacle, Affect, and the Most Popular Action Adventure Films in the 1980s
Advisor: Theodore Rippey
Current Position: National Endowment of the Humanities Visiting Assistant Professor at Hartwick College in Oneonta NY

• Tori Arthur (2016)
"The Reimagined Paradise: African Immigrants in the United States, Nollywood Film, and the Digital Remediation of 'Home' "
Advisor: Radhika Gajjala
Current Position: Fellow of Ethnic Studies, Lawrence University

• Michael Hale (2015)
"New Deal To New Majority: SDS’s Failure to Realign the Largest Political Coalition in the 20th Century"
Advisor: Clayton Rosati
Current Position: Instructor of English at Santa Rosa Junior College

• Mallory Jagodzinski (2015)
"Love is (Color) Blind: Historical Romance Fiction and Interracial Relationships in the Twenty-First Century"
Advisor: Jolie Sheffer
Current Position: Assistant Director of Alumni Relations, Indiana University South Bend

• Lisa Kaplan (2015)
""Introducing America to Americans": FSA Photography and the Construction of Racialized and Gendered Citizens"
Advisor: Susana Peña
Current Position: Assistant Professor for CORE - first year curriculum, Adrian College

• Aisha McGriff (2015)
"Healthy Bodies Matter: Analysis of the Disclosure of Race and Health Care on WebMD.com"
Advisor: Radhika Gajjala
Current Position: Senior Instructional Developer, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

• Nicole Reamer (2015)
""I Don't Take Kindly To Your Invasion of This Fine Gaming Culture”: Gender, Emotion, and Power in Digital Gaming Spaces as Demonstrated Through Dead Island"
Advisor: Radhika Gajjala
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Media and Communication, University of Arkansas

• Wonda Baugh (2015)
"An Autoethnographic Exploration Into Bipolar Depression and Social Support As A Factor Of Resilience"
Advisor: Sandra Faulkner
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• Johnanna Ganz (2015)
"Contested Titles: Gendered Violence Victim Advocacy and Negotiating Occupational Stigma in Social Interactions"
Advisor: Sandra Faulkner
Current Position: SVJI Collaboration Specialist/Rural Technical Assistance Project Coordinator at Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault

• Lance Gibbs (2015)
"It's not just about giving them money": Cultural Representations of Father Involvement Among Black West Indian Immigrants in the United States of America
Advisor: Vibha Bhalla
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Southern Maine

• Christine Lezotte (2015)
“Have You Heard the One About the Woman Driver? Chicks, Muscle, Pickups, and the Reimagining of the Woman Behind the Wheel”
Advisor: Susana Peña
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• Deborah Ribera (2015)
“(Re)Presentation: An Affective Exploration of Ethnographic Documentary Film Production”
Advisor: Radhika Gajjala
Current Position: Assistant Professor for Special Education and Counseling - EDSC Charter College of Education, California Sstate University; Founder and CEO, Beyond the Block

• Genesis Downey (2015)
“Constructing Elysium and Playing Ugly: Methods of Intimacy in Fantasy Role-Playing Game Communities”
Advisor: Radhika Gajjala
Current Position: Professor of English, Owens Community College

• Clare Lemke (2015)
“Thinking Otherwise: Exploring Narratives of Women who Shifted from a Heterosexual to a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer, and/or Unlabeled Identity”
Advisor: Bill Albertini
Current Position: Assistant Director, Center for LGBTQIA+ Student Success, Iowa State University

• Mallory Mann (2015)
“Squeezing In: Exploring Female Athletes' Body Perceptions”
Advisor: Vikki Krane
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Kinesiology, Pacific Lutheran University

• Katharine Schaab (2015)
“Threatening Immigrants: Cultural Depictions of Undocumented Mexican Immigrants in Contemporary US America”
Advisor: Jolie Sheffer
Current Position: Faculty, Integrated Studies Program, Univeristy of North Dakota

• Heather Sloane (2015)
“Poverty and the Art of Medicine: Barriers to Empathy in Medical Education”
Advisor: Andrew M. Schocket
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Social Work, University of Toledo

• Elisabeth Woronzoff-Dashkoff (2014)
“Playing for their Share: A History of Creative Tradeswomen in Eighteenth Century Virginia”
Advisor: Andrew M. Schocket
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• Keisha Hicks (2014)
“Sumptuous Soul: The Music of Donny Hathaway Everything is Everything Donny Hathaway, 1970”
Advisor: Angela Nelson
Current Position: Academic Advisor, McNair Scholars Program, University of California-Berkeley

• Adriane Thompson-Bradshaw (2014)
“The Impact of Race on Perceptions of Authenticity in the Delivery and Reception of African American Gospel Music”
Advisor: Radhika Gajjala
Current Position: Vice President for Student Affairs & Dean of Students, Ohio Northern University

• Melinda Lewis (2014)
"That's What She Said": Politics, Transgression, and Women's Humor in Contemporary American Television"
Advisor: Ellen Berry
Current Position: Assoc Dir, Marketing & Media; Center for Cultural Outreach, Drexel University; Managing Editor, The Smart Set

• William Emerson (2014)
“Mechanics and The Essence of Technology”
Advisor: Ellen Berry
Current Position: Director, Student Success Initiatives, Michigan Association of State Universities

• Katherine Barak (2014)
“Spinsters, Old Maids, and Cat Ladies: A Case Study in Containment Strategies”
Advisor: Ellen Berry
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• Abigail Van Vlerah (2013)
Dissertation: “Women's Participation in Endurance Motorcycle Challenges”
Advisor: Vikki Krane
Current Position: Dean of Students, Long Island University

• Justine Lutzel (2013)
“Madness as a Way of Life: Space, Politics, and the Uncanny in Fiction and Social Movements”
Advisor: Ellen Berry
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• Arundhati Ghosh (2013)
“From Holmes to Sherlock: Confession, Surveillance, and the Detective”
Advisor: Ellen Berry
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• Adrian Bautista (2013)
“Vatos Sagrados: Exploring Northern Ohio's Religious Borderlands”
Advisor: Susana Peña
Current Position: Associate Dean of Campus Life, Oberlin College

• Sudipto Sanyal (2013)
“An Uncertain Poetics of the Intoxicated Narrative: Drugs, Detection, Denouement”
Advisor: Ellen Berry
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• Christian Remse (2013)
“Vodou and the U.S. Counterculture”
Advisor: Maisha Wester
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• An Nguyen (2013)
“Luggage to America: Vietnamese Intellectual and Entrepreneurial Immigrants in the New Millennium”
Advisor: Sridevi Menon
Current Position: Clinical Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies, DELPS, University of Houston

• Cassandra Jones (2013)
“FutureBodies: Octavia Butler as a Post-Colonial Cyborg Theorist”
Advisor: Rhadika Gajjala
Current Position: Director and Assistant Professor, African American Studies, University of South Carolina Upstate

• Angela Fitzpatrick (2013)
“Women of Ill Fame: Discourses of Prostitution and the American Dream in California, 1850 – 1890”
Advisor: Andrew Schocket
Current Position: Director, Women's Center, University of Cincinnati

• Edward Uszynski (2013)
“Implicit Religion and the Highly-Identified Sports Fan: An Ethnography of Cleveland Sports Fandom”
Advisor: Michael Butterworth
Current Position: Content Development and Website Coordinator, Athletes in Action

• Aprilfaye Manalang (2013)
“How Does Religion Shape Filipino Immigrants` Connection to the Public Sphere? Imagining a Different Self-Understanding of Modernity”
Advisors: Donald McQuarie/Rekha Mirchandani
Current Position: Assistant Professor, History and Interdisciplinary Studies, Norfolk State University

• Kristy Ganoe (2013)
“Mindful Movement as a Cure for Colonialism”
Advisor: Vikki Krane
Current Position: Faculty, Raclin School of the Arts, Indiana University South Bend

• Eric Weeks (2012)
“Memory and Meaning: Constructed Commemoration in a Nation's Capital City”
Advisor: Rebecca Mancuso
Current Position: Faculty, Canadian Studies, Bridgewater State University

• Bryan McGeary (2012)
“Houses, Hot Dogs, and 'Hoods: Place Branding and the Reconstruction of Identity in Rick Sebak's Pittsburgh Documentaries”
Advisor: Ellen Berry
Current Position: Subject Librarian for the Humanities, Ohio Univeristy Libraries

• Kelly MacDonald-Weeks (2012)
“Parrotheads, Cheeseburgers, and Paradise: Adult Music Fandom and Fan Practices”
Advisor: Rhadika Gajjala
Current Position: Visiting Lecturer, Sociology, Bridgewater State University

• Taghreed Abu Sarhran (2011)
“Voicing the Voiceless: Feminism and Contemporary Arab Muslim Women's Autobiographies”
Advisor: Ellen Berry
Current Position: Working in Domestic Violence crimes at the Police Department in Jordan

• Charlotte Louise Quinney (2011)
“(DIS)ARTICULATING THE FRONTIER BODY: ARTIFACTS, APPENDAGES, AND SPECTRES IN THE DISCOURSE OF THE AMERICAN WEST”
Advisor: Ellen Berry
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• Martin Otto Zimmann (2011)
”A Place Apart: The Role of Nostalgia in a Detached Community”
Advisor: Scott Martin
Current Position: Major Gift Officer, Alumni/ae Relations, Adjunct Professor, United Lutheran Seminary

• Rachel Dean-Ruzicka (2011)
“Cosmopolitan Ethics and the Limits of Tolerance: Representing the Holocaust in Young Adult Literature”
Advisor: Beth Griech-Polelle
Current Position: Lecturer, School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Tech

• Phillip Cunningham (2011)
“”Well, It Is Because He’s Black”: A Critical Analysis of the Black President in Film and Television”
Advisor: Angela Nelson
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Media Studies, Quinnipiac University

• Chadwick Roberts (2011)
“Consuming Liberation: Playgirl and the Strategic Rhetoric of Sex Magazines for Women 1972-1985”
Advisor: Leigh Ann Wheeler
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• Joanne Joys (2011)
“The Wild Things”
Advisor: Montana Miller
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• Stefan Hall (2011)
“You’ve Seen the Movie, Now Play the Game”: Recoding the Cinematic in Digital Media and Virtual Culture
Advisor: Ronald Shields
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• Andrew Famiglietti (2011)
“Hackers, Cyborgs, and Wikipedians: The Political Economy and Cultural History of Wikipedia”
Advisor: Victoria Eckstrand
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• Kelly Watson (2010)
“I Laid my Hands on a Gorgeous Cannibal Woman”: Anthropophagy in the Imperial Imagination, 1492 – 1763
Advisor: Andrew Schocket
Current Position: Assistant Professor, History, Avila University

• Lloyd Vayo (2010)
“Silencio: The Spectral Voice and 9/11”
Advisor: Ellen Berry
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• Rosalind Sibielski (2010)
“What Are Little (Empowered) Girls Made Of?: The Discourse of Girl Power in Contemporary U.S. Popular Culture”
Advisor: Ellen Berry
Current Position: Assistant Professor, English and Film Studies, Rhode Island College.

• Neil Shepard (2010)
“Rewiring Difference and Disability: Narratives of Asperger's Syndrome in the Twenty-First Century”
Advisor: Vivian Patraka
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• Rebekah Burchfield (2010)
“Pressed between the Pages of My Mind: Tangibility, Performance, and Technology in Archival Popular Music Research”
Advisor: William Schurk
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• Mark Bernard (2010)
“Selling the Splat Pack: The DVD Revolution and the American Horror Film”
Advisor: Cynthia Baron
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• Christian Pralea (2010)
“A Hermeneutical Ontology of Cyberspace”
Advisor: Rekha Mirchandani
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• David Moody (2010)
“Political Melodies in the Pews?: Is Black Christian Rap the New Voice of Black Liberation Theology?”
Advisor: Angela Nelson
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, State University of New York at Oswego

• Erika Kubik (2009)
“From Girlfriend to Gamer: Negotiating Place in the Hardcore/Casual Divide of Online Video Game Communities”
Advisor: Radhika Gajjala
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• Robert Obey (2009)
”Say Hello to My Little Friend: De Palma's Scarface, Cinema Spectatorship, and the Hip Hop Gangsta as Urban Superhero”
Advisor: Donald McQuarie
Current Position: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Bowling Green State University Firelands

• Nathan Crook (2009)
“Foods That Matter: Constructing Place and Community at Food Festivals in Northwest Ohio”
Advisor: Lucy M. Long
Current Position: Assistant Professor, English and Agricultural Communication, The Ohio State University ATI

• Joelle Ryan (2009)
“Reel Gender: Examining the Politics of Trans Images in Film and Media”
Advisor: Susana Peña
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• Michael Lupro (2009)
“Space Oddities for the Age of Space Tourism”
Advisor: Donald McQuarie
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University Studies-Academic Affairs, Portland State University

• Colin Helb (2009)
“Use and Influence of Amateur Musician Narratives In Film, 1981-2001”
Advisor: Jeremy Wallach
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Communications, Elizabethtown College

• Alissa Burger (2009)
“From 'The Wizard of Oz' to 'Wicked': Trajectory of American Myth”
Advisor: Ellen Berry
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• Marnie Pratt (2008)
“The L Word Menace: Envisioning Popular Culture as Political Tool”
Advisor: Ellen Berry
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• Christopher Johnston (2008)
“Performing Blackness at the Heart of Whiteness: The Life and Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat”
Advisor: Andrew Hershberger
Current Position: District Director of Academic Assessment / Associate Professor of English, Broward College, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

• Dellareese Higgs (2008)
“Behind the Smile: Negotiating and Transforming the Tourism-Imposed Identity of Bahamian Women”
Advisor: Radhika Gajjala
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• Rene Ayala (2021)
It Is in My DNA: Narratives of Race, Ethnicity, and Community in DNA Ancestry Testing Advertisements
Advisor: Susana Peña

• Kevin Higashikubo (2021)
Man with a Ghost: Randolph Bourne's Radical Cultural Idealism
Advisor: Jolie Sheffer

• Jon-Jama Scott (2021)
The Orgin of Ethnic Studies at Bowling Green State University: A Legacy of Black Scholar Activists
Advisor: Angela Nelson

• Caleb McMurphy (2020)

• Cheyanne Jeffries (2020)

• Amelia Amemate (2020)
Black Bodies, White Masks?: Straight Hair Culture and Natural Hair Politics Among Ghanaian Women
Advisor: Tim Messer-Kruse
Current Position: Enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Gender Studies at Cambridge University as a Gates Cambridge Scholar

• Addison Kennedy (2020)
Producing Nature(s): A Qualitative Study of Wildlife Filmmaking
Advisor: Lara Lengel
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• Nicole Cordier (2019)
Aliens in our Own Bodies; Representations of Epilepsy in Young Adult Literature
Advisor: Jolie Sheffer
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• Kate Metcalf (2019)
Technophobia: Exploring Fearful Virtuality
Advisor: Clayton Rosati
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• Meg Roseland (2019)
The BGSU SICSIC Spirit Crew: Masked Performances of Campus Identity and Cultural Anxiety
Advisor: Jolie Sheffer
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• Tyler Wertsch (2019)
Recasting Narratives: Accessing Collective Memory of the Vietnam War in Modern Popular Media Texts
Advisor: Andrew M. Schocket
Current Position: PhD Student, American Culture Studies, BGSU

• Nick Clark (2018)
Darwin's Daikaiju: Representations of Dinosaurs in 20th Century Cinema
Advisor: Jeremy Wallach
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• Leda Hayes (2017)
"The Lost Boy"
Advisor: Becca Cragin
Current Position: PhD Student, American Culture Studies, BGSU

• Meriem Mechehoud (2016)
“U.S. Cultural Diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa: The Impact of the MEPI Program on Youth Political Involvement and Civic Engagement”
Advisor: Khani Begum
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• Cody Osterman (2016)
“The Day New York Forgot: The Legacy Of Trauma In Collective Memory As Seen Through A Study Of Evacuation Day”
Advisor: Andrew M. Schocket
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• Mary Maxfield (2016)
“The Safety Net: Troubling Safe Space as a Social Justice Aim”
Advisor: Becca Cragin
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• Erin Mulligan (2016)
“Hungry for Reassurance: Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Cultural Anxieties and the Diet Debate, 1890-1914”
Advisor: Timothy Messer-Kruse
Current Position: Program Coordinator for Education and Outreach, University of Cincinnati Women's Center

• Ludmila Polyakova (2016)
MA Plan II Exam
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• Daniel Williams (2016)
MA Plan II Exam
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• Joshua Catalano (2015)
“The Commemoration of Colonel Crawford and the Vilification of Simon Girty: How Politicians, Historians, and the Public Manipulate Memory”
Advisor: Andrew M. Schocket
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• Andrew Corbett (2015)
“Queering New Media: Connectivity in Imagined Communities on the Internet”
Advisor: Radhika Gajjala
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• Rebecca Jenkins (2015)
“Forgotten: Scioto County's Lost Black History”
Advisor: Nicole Jackson
Current Position: American Culture Studies PhD student at Bowling Green State University

• Kaitlyn Wauthier (2014)
“Real? Hell, Yes, It's Real. It's Mexico": Promoting a US National Imaginary in the Works of William Spratling and Katherine Anne Porter”
Advisor: Jolie Sheffer
Current Position: American Culture Studies PhD student at Bowling Green State University

• Yuan Shi (2014)
MA Plan II Exam
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• Nathan Micinski (2014)
“Simulated Sessions: Cannabis (Sub)culture, the Subcultural Repository, and Networked Mediation”
Advisor: Ellen Berry
Current Position: Development Coordinator at National MS Society, Alhambra, California

• Thomas Wexler (2013)
“Collective Expressions: The Barnes Foundation and Philadelphia”
Advisor: Andrew Hershberger
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• Anna Wiegenstein (2013)
MA Plan II Exam
Current Position: PhD student, English Program, Oklahoma State University

• Ann Weedon (2013)
“Tracking the Cougar: Performing the Over-Thirty-Five Single Woman In Everyday Life and Media Representations”
Advisor: Lesa Lockford
Current Position: American Culture Studies PhD student at Bowling Green State University

• Brock Webb (2013)
“This side of midnight: Recovering a queer politics of disco club culture”
Advisor: Susana Peña
Current Position: American Culture Studies PhD student at Bowling Green State University

• James Vlisides (2013)
“Rendering the Other: Ideologies of the Neo-Oriental in World of Warcraft”
Advisor: Radhika Gajjala
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• Babacar Faye (2012)
“POLITICAL SPONTANEITY AND SENEGALESE NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, Y'EN A MARRE AND M23: A RE-READING OF FRANTZ FANON 'THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH"
Advisor: Radhika Gajjala
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• Diana DePasquale (2012)
“Who Let YOU In Here? Social Class, Sitcoms and The New Normal”
Advisor: Ellen Berry
Current Position: American Culture Studies PhD student at Bowling Green State University

• Giang Nguyen Dien (2012)
“9/11 and the Myth of National Unity”
Advisor: Andrew Schocket
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• Alexander Champlin (2012)
“Video Game Play and Apparatus”
Advisor: Radhika Gajjala
Current Position: PhD Student at University of California Santa Barbara

• Rebecca Testerman (2012)
“Desegregating the Future: A Study of African-American Participation in Science Fiction Conventions”
Advisor: Esther Clinton
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• Tiffany Knoell (2012)
“Animating America: Warner Bros. Animation During the Depression”
Advisor: Andrew Schocket
Current Position: Assistant Teaching Professor, Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University

• Mei Shang (2011)
“On “Not Asian Enough” – Textual Analysis of Cultural Representation of All-American Girl”
Advisor: Becca Cragin
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• Clare Lemke (2011)
“Femme Feelings: Mapping Affective Affinities between Femme and Third Wave Feminists”
Advisor: Bill Albertini
Current Position: Doctorate earned at Bowling Green State University

• Aaron Burnell (2011)
“Nobody's Darlings: Reading White Trash in Supernatural”
Advisor: Radhika Gajjala
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• Wisam Al Baldawi (2011)
“Translating Iraq: The “Unknown Soldiers” of the US Occupation of Iraq”
Advisor: Sridevi Menon
Current Position: Working for a non-profit organization in Tuscon, AZ helping to resettle Iraqi Refugees

• Khaled Esseissah (2010)
“The Increasing Conversion to Islam Since 9/11: A Study of White American Muslim Converts in Northwest Ohio”
Advisor: Lillian Ashcraft-Eason
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• Megan Adams (2011)
“Flicking the Bean on the Silver Screen: Women’s Masturbation as Self-Discovery and Subversion in American Cinema”
Advisor: Kim Coates
Current Position: PhD Student at Indiana University

• Charlotte Tidy (2010)
“The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army” and the Politics of Representation and Resistance”
Advisor: Ellen Gorsevski
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• Maria Kotchetkova (2010)
“Semiotic Approach to the Analysis of Interpersonal Communication in Modern Comedies”
Advisor: Ellen Gorsevski
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• Kevan Feshami (2010)
“That Blood is Real Because I Just Can’t Fake It”: Conceptualizing, Contextualizing, Marketing, and Delivering Gore in Herschell Gordon Lewis’s Blood Feast
Advisor: Maisha Wester
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• Jonathan Bartholomy (2010)
“Disability Studies is Absolutely Essential in a World Engulfed by Technology and Medicalization”
Advisor: Cynthia Baron
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• Adrienne Hill (2009)
“Spatial Awarishness: Queer Women and the Politics of Fat Embodiment”
Advisor: Ellen Berry
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• Tamara Serrano-Chandler (2009)
“Intersecting Identities: Race and Gender in a Quinceañera Fashion Show”
Advisor: Susana Peña
Current Position: Academic Advisor and Program Coordinator, Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan

• Melinda Lewis (2009)
“Renegotiating British Identity Through Comedy Television”
Advisor: Simon Morgan-Russell
Current Position: Instructor, Theatre and Film, Bowling Green State University

• Angela Crist (2009)
“South African Ubuntu Theory in Cross Cultural Community Development Practice: An Autoethnographic Exploration”
Advisor: Jane Rosser
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• Kristen Cooperkline (2009)
“Misconceptions Crumble: The Potential of Native-Controlled Theatre to Deconstruct Non-Native Americans' Perceptions of Native Peoples in the United States”
Advisor: Scott Magelssen
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• Jonathan Van Melle (2009)
“Locked In Time?: The Hariri Assassination and the Making of a Usable Past for Lebanon”
Advisor: Sridevi Menon
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• Beckett Warren (2008)
“Dawn of a New Apocalypse: Engagements with the Apocalyptic Imagination in 2012 and Primitivist Discourse”
Advisor: Cynthia Baron
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• Hajar Mafoodh (2008)
“Hijab in the Eyes of Little Muslim Women”
Advisors: Madeline Duntley and Donald McQuarie
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• Edwin Faulhaber (2008)
“Communicator Between Worlds: Björk Reaches Beyond the Binaries”
Advisor: Kimberly Coates
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• Erin Gentry (2008)
“Girls' Night Out: Female Graffiti Artists in a Gendered City”
Advisor: Amy Bingaman
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