Presenting CMCI's 2024 Graduates

Congratulations to the 852 CMCI graduates this year, who are receiving either their bachelor's, master's or doctoral degrees. View their names below.

Graduating with distinction: Please note that a carat (^) beside a student name symbolizes that the student is graduating with distinction. This designation recognizes students who earn a 3.75 GPA or higher over at least 60 hours of coursework. 

Graduating with honors: Students graduating with honors are noted by star symbols (*) in the list of graduates. To graduate with honors, the student must have completed an honors project demonstrating independent learning and intellectual insight that contributes to our understanding of media, communication or information. The work must demonstrate intellectual or creative ability as well as analytical skills worthy of the honors designation.

Summa Cum Laude (***)
3.9 GPA or above

Magna Cum Laude (**) 
3.7 to 3.89 GPA

Cum Laude (*)
3.5 to 3.69 GPA

Bachelor's Degrees

 
 
 
 
 
 

Master's Degrees

  • Alexandra Branscombe
 
 
 
 
  • Charlotte Elizabeth Rose Whittaker

Doctor of Philosophy Degrees

Brandon Matthew Daniels             

  • Dissertation: The Mediality of Teacher Strikes: Rhetoric and the US 2018-2019 Movement for Public Education                                     
  • Advisor: Ted Striphas, PhD

Joanne Christine Esch     

  • Dissertation: From Evidence-Based Practice to Engaged Inquiry: Cultivating Communicative Praxis in Community Service Organizing                                     
  • Advisor: Karen Ashcraft, PhD

Deepti Khedekar       

  • Dissertation: Communicating Precarity and Resistance Under Surveillance: Fragile Organizing in Private Online Groups                             
  • Advisor: Bryan Taylor, PhD

Blessed Efilo Ngoe         

  • Dissertation: Collaboration in Conflict: An Ethnographic Study of Oroko Family Meetings in Cameroon                                                         
  • Advisor: David Boromisza-Habashi, PhD  

Travis Ray Austin 

  • Dissertation: Songs of Consequence: The Alternative Spaces of Droning Figures
  • Advisor: Betsey Biggs, PhD

Minso Kim             

  • Dissertation: Naturoids: Practice-led Creative Research Combining Biophilic Design, Speculative Design and Traditional Korean Art Aesthetics
  • Advisor: Tara Knight, PhD

Joshua Westerman             

  • Dissertation: Resonance, Repetition and Memetic Intervention: Analyzing ‘I am sitting in a room’ with Alvin Lucier, Brad Troemel and Amalia Ulman in the Social Media Landscape
  • Advisor: Tara Knight, PhD

Shiva Mohammadi Darian

  • Dissertation: The Powers and Politics of Data Rhetoric
  • Advisor: Amy Voida, PhD

Shamika LaShawn Klassen

  • Dissertation: Black to the Future: How Black Women, Femmes and Nonbinary People Imagine the Future of Technology
  • Advisor: Casey Fiesler, PhD

Ellen Anne Simpson

  • Dissertation: Investigating Creative Labor(s): Sociotechnical Examinations of Creativity and Creative Labor in a Multi-Mediated, Platformed World
  • Advisor: Bryan Semaan, PhD

Madelyn L. Zander

  • Dissertation: Futuring the Cloud: An Ethnographic Study of Critical Data Center Infrastructure Growth, Environmental Threat and Community Risk
  • Advisor: Leysia Palen, PhD

Jonathan Bradley Gallagher

  • Dissertation: Making With Movement
  • Advisor: Joel Swanson, MFA

Biyi Wen

  • Dissertation: TextBox: An Intermedia History of Chinese Word Processing 
  • Advisor: Lori Emerson, PhD

Arthur Jonathan Bamford

  • Dissertation: New and Improved: Protestant Revivalism and the Origins of Modern American Advertising
  • Advisor: Stewart Hoover, PhD

Sima Rani Bhowmik 

  • Dissertation: Journalism Culture in Transition: Technology, Disruption and Organizational Culture in a Bangladesh Newsroom
  • Advisor: Patrick Ferrucci, PhD

Joshua Ross Foust

  • Dissertation: Play, Kill, Recruit: Esports and Strategic Communication in the US Army
  • Advisor: Jolene Fisher, PhD

Saima Absar Kazmi

  • Dissertation: How Does Psychological Distance in Advertising Facilitate Selective Moral Disengagement?
  • Advisor: Harsha Gangadharbatla, PhD

Marissa Ashley Lammon

  • Dissertation: Mor(t)ality: Animated Homicide as a Constituent of Moral Reasoning
  • Advisor: J. Richard Stevens, PhD

Emma Joy Lawrence

  • Dissertation: To Seek Newer Worlds: Mediating Reality in a Time of Plague
  • Advisor: Stewart Hoover, PhD

Anat Leshnick

  • Dissertation: Military Power in an Information Battlefield: Revisiting the Role of Images in Human Rights Contexts
  • Advisor: Sandra Ristovska, PhD

Shaylynn Lynch Lesinski

  • Dissertation: Moving Bodies: The Affective Capacities of Contemporary Female Action Heroes
  • Advisor: J. Richard Stevens, PhD

Matthew Dale Pickard

  • Dissertation: Unveiling Fancritics: Exploring Film Review Practices in an Emerging Cottage Industry of Criticism
  • Advisor: J. Richard Stevens, PhD

Luz Aida Ruiz Martinez

  • Dissertation: The Decolonial Soundings of Ñuu Savi, Maya and Lenca Women’s Community Radio: Indigenous Feminist Interventions and Media Autonomy in Mesoamerica
  • Advisor: Nabil Echchaibi, PhD

Kaitlyn Elayne Wright

  • Dissertation: The Heal Is Real: An Examination of the @breast_implant_illness Community on Instagram
  • Advisor: Tobias Hopp, PhD