Congratulations to the Class of 2020!
This year, 651 students are receiving bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. The names of graduates will be read by faculty from each department, in alphabetical order by last name. Each video includes timestamps in the description to help you find your name and slide more quickly.
The names of our December undergraduate students were read by Internships and Careers Coordinator Christine Mahoney.
* Graduating with Honors
^ Graduating with Distinction
+ Outstanding Student Honoree
Read by Assistant Professor Jody Jahn
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Read by Associate Professor Lecia Barker and Assistant Professor Jed Brubaker
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Read by Associate Professor Angie Chuang
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Read by Associate Professor J. Richard Stevens
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Read by Instructor Pat Clark
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Read by Senior Instructor Melinda Cheval and Instructor Dawn Doty
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* Graduating with Honors
^ Graduating with Distinction
+ Outstanding Student Honoree
The names of master’s students were read by: Assistant Professor of Communication Jody Jahn, Associate Professor of Information Science Lecia Barker and Assistant Professor of Information Science Jed Brubaker, Associate Professor of Journalism Angie Chuang, Associate Professor of Media Studies Rick Stevens, and Associate Professor Elizabeth Skewes, Interim Chair of Advertising, Public Relation and Media Design.
Audra Kelly Barber
Advisor: Larry Frey
Michael Warren Cook
Advisor: Phaedra Pezzullo
Yessica Del Rincon
Advisor: Lisa Flores
Sean Kenney
Advisor: Karen Ashcraft
Rachel Kay Larsen
Advisor: Leah Sprain
Xiaolei Huang
Advisor: Michael Paul
Jialun Jiang
Advisor: Casey Fiesler
Giselle Carolina Cesin
Sara Lea Cottle
Alexandria Feltes
Rey-Lynn Dawn Little
Julia Medeiros
Eva Danayanti Rachim
Gregory Kyle Ramirez Hardy
Jenna Sampson
Alejandra Wilcox
Talia Aygun
Advisor: Michela Ardizzoni
Laura Daley
Advisor: Michela Ardizzoni
Mark Fairbrother
Advisor: Polly McLean
Heidi A Rogers
Advisor: Nathan Schneider
Ghanima (Gia) Almuaili
Caroline (Caro) Beresford-Wood
Yeon Choi
Yvonne Danyluck
Steven Douglas
Vanessa Frye
Mark Grundberg
Clayton Kenney
Minsuk Kim
Megan Kwiatkowski
David Michael II Laskowski
Nicole Lunt
Derek Livingston Palmer
Aitana Rothfeld
Joshua (Josh) Sheetz
Tess Hummon Stevens
Nicole Yie Jue Tang
Yangmin Zhang
Hanshu Zhou
Names and dissertation titles were read by: Andrew Calabrese, Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and Research; Karen Ashcraft, Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity; and Mark Amerika, Director of Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance.
Sarah Lindsey Beck
Dissertation: "Queer Everyday Life, Aesthetics, and Possibilities Within Spaces of Retreat"
Advisor: Pete Simonson
Nathan Henry Bedsole
Dissertation: "A Rhetorical Object Voice"
Advisor: Pete Simonson
Tajshen Geneva Campbell
Dissertation: "A State of Balanced Tensions: The Impact & Negotiation of Authority in the Ongoing Equilibrium of Collaboration"
Advisor: Matt Koschmann
Terrell Jake Dionne
Dissertation: "The Synecdochal Bison: Rhetorical Colonialism in an Age of Territorial Dispossession"
Advisor: Phaedra Pezzullo
Jeanette Elberta German
Dissertation: "From Showing up to Speaking out: Communication Characteristics, Experiences, and Practices of Activists and Mainstream Activist Groups"
Advisor: Larry Frey
Joe Edward Hatfield
Dissertation: "The Rhetorical Afterlife of Leelah Alcorn: A Trans* Hauntology"
Advisor: Ted Striphas
Danielle Michelle Hodge
Dissertation: "African American Identities and Communicative Practices in Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture: A Critical Race Discourse Analysis"
Advisor: Karen Tracy, Reiland Rabaka
Jared Kopczynski
Dissertation: "Communicating Value: Constructions of Value in a Startup Accelerator"
Advisor: Timothy Kuhn
Amanda Leigh Szabo-Huff
Dissertation: "Assembling a Startup Economy: How Communication Organizes Value in Startup Community"
Advisor: Ted Striphas
Ashlynn Daughton
Dissertation: "Advancing the Scope of Nontraditional Data Streams: Using Internet Data to Understand Human Behavior, Account for Bias and Improve Forecasting"
Advisor: Michael Paul
Elizabeth Rose Striegl
Dissertation: "Voluntary De-Convenience"
Advisor: Lori Emerson
Kevan Feshami
Dissertation: "'We Must Secure the Existence of Our People': Racial Imperilment Narratives and Affective Identity Production in White Nationalism's Mediated Networks"
Advisor: Nabil Echchaibi
Jamie Lee Kirtz
Dissertation: "Encoded Inequality: Hacking the Gender Bias in Technology"
Advisor: Nabil Echchaibi
Rachel Van Der Merwe
Dissertation: "We Are Not South African"
Advisor: Nabil Echchaibi
Tara Walker
Dissertation: "Ask Your Doctor About Chemical Imbalances: Mass-Communicating the Biomedical Model of Mental Illness Through Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors"
Advisor: Erin Willis
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