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SSCA 2017
87th Annual Convention
Southern States Communication Association
27th Annual Theodore Clevenger Jr.
Undergraduate Honors Conference
April 5-9, 2017
The Hyatt Regency
Greenville, South Carolina
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GRADUATE PROGRAM AREAS:
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ASSISTANTSHIPS:
n Communication Training &
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n Interpersonal Communication
n Instructional Communication
n Organizational Communication
n Rhetorical Studies
n Teaching Fundamentals of Human
Communication
n Working in the Communication Lab
n Assisting the Basic Course Director
n Assisting the Director of Forensics
texas state COmmuniCatiOn studies graduate faCulty
Roseann M. Mandziuk,
Ph.D.
Interim Department Chair
Rhetorical & Media Criticism
Rhetorical Theory
Feminist Studies
Ann E. Burnette, Ph.D.
Rhetorical Criticism
Political Communication
American Public Address
Stephanie Dailey, Ph.D.
Rebekah L. Fox, Ph.D.
Rhetorical Methods
Rhetorical Theory
Organizational Rhetoric
Sean Horan, Ph.D.
Small Group Communication
Communication Training
Instructional Communication
Organizational Communication
Communication Technologies
in the Workplace
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Organizational
Communication
Interpersonal
Communication
Tricia Burke, Ph.D.
Cathy Fleuriet, Ph.D.
Marian L. Houser, Ph.D.
Steven A. Beebe, Ph.D.
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Interpersonal Communication
Research Methods
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Interpersonal Communication
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Miriam Sobre-Denton,
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Gender Studies
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Texas State University 601 University Drive, San Marcos, TX 78666-4616 phone: 512-245-2165
http://www.commstudies.txstate.edu/academic-programs/graduate.html
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Ph.D.
Health Communication
Organizational
Communication
M. Lee Williams,
Ph.D.
Organizational
Communication
Persuasion Theory
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Official Journal of the Southern States Communication Association
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87th Annual Convention
Southern States Communication Association
27th Annual Theodore Clevenger Jr.
Undergraduate Honors Conference
April 5-9, 2017
• The Hyatt Regency • Greenville, South Carolina
COMMUNICATION AND INNOVATION
PRESIDENT: Roseann Mandziuk, Texas State University
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT: Victoria Gallagher, North Carolina State University
SECOND VICE PRESIDENT: Jason Munsell, Columbia College, SC
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Jerold L. Hale, College of Charleston
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
UHC Welcome and Acknowledgements. . . . . . 8
Hotel Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Registration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Exhibit Schedule. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Division & Interest Group Programs Index. . . 12
Business Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Wednesday Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Thursday Sessions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Friday Sessions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Saturday Sessions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Sunday Sessions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Association Officers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Representatives to NCA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Committees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Divisions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Interest Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Charter Members. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Executive Directors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
SCJ Editors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
SSCA Presidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Award Recipients. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Past Conventions and Hotels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Life Members. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Patron Members. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Emeritus Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Institutional Members. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Constitution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Advertiser Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Index of Participants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
2017 Call for Papers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
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Cover photos (left to right, top to bottom): Bell tower by Matt Bateman/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Greenville SC Downtown Riverwalk Panoramic View by Matthew Rings/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Old Greenville County Courthouse by Nicolas Henderson/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0,
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College of
Liberal Arts &
Communication
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Join Development
the more than 14,000 other Arkansas State students
Economic
earning bachelor, master’s & Ph.D. degrees in Jonesboro.
• Art & Design
• Communication
• Criminology, Sociology and Geography
• English, Philosophy and World Languages
• Heritage Studies
• History
• Media
• Music
• Political Science
• Theatre
Special Congratulations to A-State’s Scott Anderson
who won a top paper award and is on a panel called
“Top papers in Rhetoric and Public Address” to present
“Irony in Charleston: “Barack Obama’s Eulogy for
Clementa C. Pinckney, June 26, 2015”
for more information: Dean’s Office
College of Liberal Arts & Communication
P.O. Box 1150 State University, AR 72467-1150
870-972-3973 fax: 870-972-3976
email: [email protected]
Delta Center for
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AState.edu
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Congratulations to
Dr. Victoria J. Gallagher,
SSCA First Vice President and
2017 Convention Planner
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colleagues in the Department of
Communication, Dr. Gallagher inspires
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Welcome to the 87th Annual SSCA Convention
Welcome to Greenville, South Carolina.
What a pleasure to welcome you to Greenville, SC, a city historically tied to innovations in industry, and more recently, to innovations in
environmental restoration, urban planning, cultural development, and medicine. Once called the Textile Capital of the World, Greenville is now
the American headquarters for a variety of automotive and technology-based enterprises. It is also an enjoyable, walk-able city that has received
recognition for its environmental recovery project, “Falls Park on the Reedy” (a Top 10 Best Park in the US) and for its amazing downtown (Top 10
America’s Best Main Streets in O Magazine). Greenville thus provides a felicitous location for SSCA and for our convention theme, “Communication
and Innovation.” It is a setting that is full of vitality and possibilities. Thank you for joining us as we GO GREENVILLE.
Our convention features 192 panels and sessions that address all aspects of communication and innovation. As you consider the many offerings
available during the convention, I want to draw your attention to several panels that feature the city of Greenville and/or the conference hotel
including, “Communicating Greenville as Innovative Space: From Southern to Global Village” (2312), hosted by our colleagues from Furman
University on Thursday morning. This panel and tour promises to provide conference attendees with a fulsome introduction to the convention
city. A companion panel scheduled for Friday around noon explores Greenville as a “Communicative City” case study (3301) and features urban
communication scholars in conversation with local Greenville leaders and activists. On Saturday, our colleagues from Greenville Technical College
will put on an original, site specific performance titled, “Too Perfect?: The Cyborg Who Schooled Me” (4102) to further engage us in our convention
location. And on Sunday morning, an art/performance installation titled “Afterlife” will be available all morning long at the hotel for viewing/
experiencing. These programs feature not only innovative approaches to communication research and pedagogy but also, innovations in the
types of panels we feature during our conventions. I hope you will join us for one or more of these site-specific programs.
Of special note are the Vice President Spotlight Panels scheduled for Thursday (2701) and Friday (3601). On Thursday, we host Dr. Rhondda
Robinson Thomas, a faculty member at Clemson University whose research on commemoration, race, and place is the focus of a conversation
between Dr. Thomas and SSCA members Drs. Jason Black, Carole Blair and Cynthia Nixon. And on Friday, Michael McCurry, Distinguished Professor
of Public Theology at Wesley Seminary, head of the presidential debate commission, and former White House Press Secretary to President Bill
Clinton, joins us for a conversation about communication and innovations in presidential campaigns. Both of these special panels are scheduled
late in the day with few if any other panels programmed against them and, conveniently, right before our opening reception and business
meetings respectively so…BE THERE. You won’t want to miss them!
Additional special events include the SSCA Awards Luncheon on Saturday (4401) featuring our convention keynote speaker, Dr. Michael Waltman.
Mike’s book and continuing scholarship on hate speech is particularly significant at this moment in our cultural and political history. Mike
will address the role of innovations in communication technology, research and pedagogy that may help us to more productively and civilly
communicate in our lives, in our classrooms and in our institutions. Given the significant changes in our disciplines and sub-disciplines, our
institutions, and our communities, let alone the shifts in how and where we do our scholarly and pedagogical work, it is more important than even
to take the time to be together, to rejoice with and to congratulate our colleagues for their fine work and contributions. Please make every effort to
join us for this important event in the life of our SSCA community.
There is so much more that this convention program has to offer, including the annual SSCA Town Hall Debate (4504), the 2017 Multi Media
Showcase (3602), an adaptation and staging of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s “The Little Prince” (4712), panels honoring the excellent work of
individual scholars (e.g., 4204, 4508), the President’s Spotlight Panel (4601) featuring a conversation on politics, civility and conscience…..and
much, much more!
Certainly, planning a convention like this is the work of many hands and minds. Thank you to all of the division and interest group planners, to
our SSCA Executive Director Jerry Hale, to Christine Ragusa, his able (and awesome) assistant at the College of Charleston, and to Janet Fisher of
ConferenceDirect for their assistance and support throughout the planning process. Thanks also to SSCA Second Vice President Jason Munsell
for planning an excellent slate of programs for the Clevenger Undergraduate Honors Conference and to President Roseann Mandziuk and Past
President Jean DeHart for their advice and support. Finally, no list of thanks would be complete without acknowledging the support of the
Department of Communication at North Carolina State University, especially my department head, Dr. Ken Zagacki, my research assistant (and
capable google drive buddy) Chandra Maldonado, and the Communication Department executive assistant, Laura Kelly. Without them, this
program would not have made it into its fully realized form.
So…its time to dig in! From the wonderful food available up and down Main Street, to the Greenville County Art Museum, from the Peace Center
for performing arts to the Greensboro Drive baseball stadium, from Falls Park on the Reedy to the wonderful hotel accommodations at the Hyatt,
Greenville – Yeah,That Greenville – has it all! Enjoy!
Victoria J. Gallagher, North Carolina State University
SSCA First Vice-President and 2017 Program Planner
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UHC Welcome and Acknowledgements
Dear Undergraduate Honors Conference Participants:
Welcome to the 27th annual Theodore Clevenger Jr. Undergraduate Honors Conference [UHC] and the 87th annual convention of the Southern States Communication Association [SSCA]. The
members of SSCA welcome you to the conference, and we look forward to your presentations. We are very proud of you and the work that you have done. All of you are Rock Stars; you are some of
the best undergraduate students in the country and you should be very proud of yourselves.
While you are at the conference we encourage you to really engage all aspects of this special occasion and attend panels not only sponsored by the UHC, but also SSCA panels by faculty scholars.
You don’t have to pay any extra fee if you want to go to the fancy faculty stuff; just go to whatever panel you want to go to. Further, we hope that you take this opportunity to meet other students,
network with faculty from other colleges and universities, and explore the very cool city of Greenville. Mainly, we hope you have fun. Enjoy yourselves! But don’t do anything stupid!!
There are three specific events you are invited (and expected) to attend (and all the cool kids will be there!): the Welcome Reception on Thursday evening (if you’re in town by then—a lot of
students are not in town and we understand), the UHC Breakfast on Saturday morning (You must be there!!! Do NOT sleep in!!), and the Osborn Reception on Saturday evening. I especially look
forward to meeting with you at the Saturday breakfast that begins our second day of UHC research presentations. That is the foremost time for all of us to gather to recognize you, your fellow UHC
participants, and your faculty mentors and to celebrate your selection as participants in the Undergraduate Honors Conference. There will also be graduate programs with tables there recruiting
you; so sort of like a graduate school fair! Further, at that special breakfast (again, Saturday morning!) we will call your name and you will get a certificate--If you ain’t there because you slept in;
well, it will be noticed. We will also announce the winner of the coveted Franklin Shirley Award. So, this breakfast is important. Be there. And enjoy the delightful grits.
Regarding awards, for the first time in the UHC’s history, we have designated the Top Paper Panels as Clevenger Panels and each student presenting on those panels have been designated as
Clevenger Scholars. This honors the student scholars as well as the legacy of Theodore Clevenger, Jr. We will make those announcements at the breakfast as well.
There are a few more things that are special about this conference. First, don’t be too nervous. You’ve done good work and we’re here to celebrate you! Second, the number of submissions exceeded
our expectations! Third, we expanded the number of reviewers this year by about +20%. I asked countless colleagues to review for the UHC for the first time and we have the most diverse pool
of reviewers in ages. Therefore, reviewers could focus on fewer submissions and offer (in most cases) more in-depth reviewer comments. Fourth, we continued to pilot our digital submissions by
adding performance submissions. We look forward to that innovative panel. Fifth, and again, You Rock!
I love SSCA. It’s a wonderful academic organization. My first SSCA was in 1994. It was in Norfolk, VA. I was a young punk. Now I’m an old punk. I hope you have fond memories of this experience.
This is a safe zone to present your research and a safe zone to be yourself. As cheesy as it sounds, SSCA has sort of become a family to me. Maybe it will be the same for you. Whatever the situation,
present your work well, listen well, make new friends, be safe, and have fun!
Finally (really finally), I offer wholehearted thanks to my faculty colleagues who served as reviewers for your UHC submissions this year. I’m astounded by their service. There’s no paycheck in this
work; only a strong passion for teaching and mentoring. Additionally, some of them have graciously volunteered to serve as respondents to your panels. Behold your respondents! They want you to
make your work even better!
Please join me in recognizing and thanking them:
Katie Anthony, University of Southern Mississippi
Bill Balthrop, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Wesley Buerkle, East Tennessee State University
Abby Brooks, Georgia Southern University
Ann Burnette, Texas State University
Joan Conners, Randolph-Macon College
Lisa Corrigan, University of Arkansas
Linda Crumley, Southern Adventist University
Jean DeHart, Appalachian State University
Renee Edwards, Louisiana State University
Joshua Gunn, University of Texas at Austin
Patricia Fancher, University of California, Santa Barbara
Lisa Flanagan, Xavier University of Louisiana
Sherry Ford, University of Montevallo
Beau Foutz, Alcorn University
Tom Frentz, University of Arkansas
J. Dean Farmer, Campbell University
Chris Geyerman, Georgia Southern University
Brian Gilchrist, Mount St. Mary’s University
Dan Grano, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Michelle Groover, Georgia Southern University
Trudy Hanson, West Texas A&M University
Janie Harden Fritz, Duquesne University
Sally Hardig, University of Montevallo
William Harlow, University Texas, Permian Basin
Casey B. Hart, Stephen F. Austin University
Bing Han, University of South Carolina, Aiken
Stephen Heidt, Florida Atlantic University
Jade C. Huell, Columbia College SC
Kristen Hungerford, Miami University of Ohio, Hamilton Campus
Brandon Inabinet, Furman University
Cynthia King, Furman University
Jennifer Kopfman, College of Charleston
Richard Leeman, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Melody Lehn, University of South Carolina
Bill Lipscomb, Troy University
Kyle Love, Columbia College SC
Kevin Marinelli, Davidson College
Nina-Jo Moore, Appalachian State University
Christi Moss, University of Memphis
David Nelson, Valdosta State University
Susan Opt, James Madison University
Mike Osborn, University of Memphis
Ray Ozley, University of Montevallo
Emily A. Paskewitz, University of Tennessee
Loretta Pecchioni, Louisiana State University
Jelena Petrovic, Stetson University
Richard Ranta, University of Memphis
Kellie W. Roberts, University of Florida
John Saunders, Central Arkansas University
Barry Smith, Mississippi University for Women
Thomas Socha, Old Dominion University
Belinda Stillion- Southard, University of Georgia
David Terry, Louisiana State University
Shaun Treat, Independent Scholar
Patrick G. Wheaton, Georgia Southern University
Danielle Williams, Georgia Gwinett College
Emily Winderman, North Carolina State University
Ken Zagacki, North Carolina State University
I wish you all my best for a wonderful conference. Please let me know if I can help in any way.
Dr. Jason B. Munsell, Professor of Communication, Columbia College, SC
Second Vice President of SSCA and Theodore Clevenger, Jr. Undergraduate Honors Conference Planner
Second VP letter
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The Hyatt Regency
Floor Plan
First Floor
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The Hyatt Regency
Floor Plan
Second Floor
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Registration Hours
Registration may be found first floor, lobby level, Meeting Planner space
Wednesday, April 5 . . . . . . . .3:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Thursday, April 6 . . . . . . . . . .7:30 am – 4:00 pm
Friday, April 7 . . . . . . . . . . . .7:30 am – 4:00 pm
Saturday April 8 . . . . . . . . . . 8:00 am – 3:00 pm
Exhibit Schedule
Please visit our exhibitors; we value their presence and support for SSCA.
Thursday April 6 . . . . . . . . . .12:00 noon – 5:00 pm
Friday, April 7 . . . . . . . . . . . .10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday, April 8 . . . . . . . . . .9:00 am – 12:00 noon
Programs and Business Meetings by Sponsor
(Bold Numbers = Division or Interest Group Business Meeting)
Applied Communication Division:
2205, 2207, 2305, 2405, 2605, 2701,
3206, 3301, 3506, 4106, 4205, 4305,
4507, 4704, 5207
Association for Communication
Administration Interest Group:
3710, 2701
Communication Theory Division:
2211, 3305, 3402, 3502, 3509, 4204
Community College Division:
2308, 3406, 4103, 4202, 4302, 4308,
4503, 4709, 5203
Ethnography Interest Group:
2407, 3209, 4110, 4506, 4701
Freedom of Speech Division:
2602, 2610, 3304, 4111, 4210, 4306,
4707
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Gender Studies Division:
2306, 2310, 2410, 2507, 2608, 4303,
4702, 5209
GIFTS (Great Ideas for Teaching
Students):
4103, 4202, 4302, 4503
Instructional Development Division:
2212, 2311, 2412, 2509, 2512, 2611,
3310, 3401, 3508, 3706, 4201, 4509
Intercultural Communication Division:
2206, 2406, 2506, 2606, 2609, 3204,
3308, 3404, 3507, 4109, 4209, 4705,
5208
Interpersonal Communication
Division:
2208, 2307, 2408, 3307, 4107, 4208,
4510, 4710
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Kenneth Burke Society Interest
Group:
3202, 3601, 3701, 4309
Language and Social Interaction
Division:
3203, 3707, 4304, 4505, 5106
Mass Communication Division:
2209, 2210, 2504, 2603, 3306, 4711,
5104, 5206
Performance Studies Division:
2201, 2301, 2401, 2501, 2601, 3201,
3303, 3501, 3703, 4102, 4301, 4712,
5103,5202, 5301
Philosophy and Ethics of
Communication Interest Group:
2302, 2502, 2602, 2701, 3207,3601,
3704, 5204
Political Communication Division:
2204, 2304, 2701, 3211, 3311, 3409,
3505, 3601, 3705, 4112
Popular Communication Division:
2203, 2303, 2403, 2503,2701, 3314,
3503, 3601, 3702, 4104, 4203, 5205
Southern States Communication
Association:
1101 (Administrative Committee),
1201, 2101 (Executive Council), 2801
(Welcome Reception), 3101 (SSCA
Breakfast Business Meeting), 3302 (Past
Presidents’ Luncheon), 3511 (NCA), 4101
(UHC Breakfast), 4401 (SSCA Annual
Awards Luncheon), 4611 (Planning
meeting) 4801 (Osborn Reception)
5101 (Nominating Committee), 5102
(Convention Planning Meeting), 5201
(Committee on Committees Meeting),
5203 (Time and Place Committee),
States Advisory Council Interest
Group:
4602, 4708
Theodore Clevenger, Jr.
Undergraduate Honors Conference of
SSCA (Second Vice President):
3212, 3213, 3313, 3314, 3410, 3411,
3512, 3513, 4101, 4211,4212, 4311,
4312, 4501,4512, 4603, 4604
Vice President Spotlight Panels:
2701, 3301, 3601
President’s Panel:
4601
Public Relations Division:
2508, 2604, 3210, 3708, 4310, 5105
Rhetoric and Public Address Division:
2305, 2309, 2312, 2510,2607,2701,3205,
3208,3309, 3312,3405, 3408, 3504, 3601,
4105, 4207, 4307,4508, 4703, 5210
Southern Argumentation and
Forensics Division:
2409, 2511, 3407,3510, 3601,4504, 4706
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Division and Interest Group Business Meetings
American Society for the History of
Rhetoric Interest Group
3709
Language and Social Interaction
Division
3707
Applied Communication Division
4704
Mass Communication Division
4711
Association for Communication
Administration Interest Group
3710
Performance Studies Division
3703
Communication Theory Division
3509
Philosophy and Ethics of
Communication Interest Group
3704
Community College Division
4709
Political Communication Division
3705
Ethnography Interest Group
4701
Popular Communication Division
3702
Freedom of Speech Division
4707
Public Relations Division
3708
Gender Studies Division
4702
Rhetoric and Public Address Division
4703
Instructional Development Division
3706
Southern Argumentation and
Forensics Division
4706
Intercultural Communication Division
4705
Interpersonal Communication
Division
4710
States Advisory Council Interest
Group
4708
Kenneth Burke Society Interest Group
3701
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The College of Charleston thanks
Dean Jerry Hale for his service
as SSCA Executive Director.
The Department of Communication
at the College of Charleston offers
undergraduate and graduate programs
that develop leaders prepared for a constantly changing and challenging information era.
• Distinctive integrated curriculum
• Personalized education and high impact
student experiences
• Professional immersion opportunities,
community-based research teams, and
creative independent-study projects
• Nationally recognized Advisory Council
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Jenifer Kopfman, PhD
Chair, Department of Communication
[email protected]
843.953.7017
communication.cofc.edu
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Mark Gring, Ph.D.
Amy Heuman, Ph.D.
Patrick Hughes, Ph.D.
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LeAnne Lagasse, M.A.
Catherine Langford, Ph.D.
Gordana Lazić, Ph.D.
Luke LeFebvre, Ph.D.
Bolanle Olaniran, Ph.D.
Brian L. Ott, Ph.D.
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David Roach, Ph.D.
Jenna Shimkowski, Ph.D.
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Wednesday
COMMUNICATION AND INNOVATION
DAY 1
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
1101
Wednesday • 2:00 pm-3:45 pm
Room: Regency C
Administrative Committee Meeting
Sponsor: Southern States Communication
Association
Presiding: Roseann Mandziuk, President
Participants:
Victoria Gallagher, First Vice President
Jason Munsell, Second Vice President
Jean DeHart, Immediate Past President
Jerold L. Hale, Executive Director
Jennifer Mize Smith, Marketing Director
Leroy Dorsey, SCJ Editor
Shawn Long, Finance Committee Chair
Carl Cates, Immediate Past Executive Director
1201
Wednesday • 4:00 pm-6:45 pm
Room: Regency C
Executive Council Meeting, Part 1
Sponsor: Southern States Communication
Association
Presiding: Roseann Mandziuk, President
Participants:
Victoria Gallagher, First Vice President
Jason Munsell, Second Vice President
Jean DeHart, Immediate Past President
Jerold L. Hale, Executive Director
Jennifer Mize Smith, Marketing Director
Leroy Dorsey, SCJ Editor
Shawn Long, Finance Committee Chair
Carl Cates, Immediate Past Executive Director
Raymond Ozley, Applied Communication Chair
Shaughn Keaton, Communication Theory Chair
Nakia Welch, Community College Chair
David Dewberry, Freedom of Speech Chair
Leland G. Spencer, Gender Studies Chair
Linda Pysher Jurczak, Instructional Development
Chair
Mary Grace Antony, Intercultural Communication
Chair
Carrie L. West, Interpersonal Communication Chair
Craig O. Stewart, Language and Social Interaction
Chair
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Melissa M. Smith, Mass Communication Chair
Brianne Waychoff, Performance Studies Chair
Darrell Roe, Political Communication Chair
Dave R. Nelson, Popular Communication Chair
Christopher J. McCollough, Public Relations Chair
Meredith Bagley, Rhetoric and Public Address Chair
Kevin Bryant, Southern Argumentation and Forensics
Chair
Cole Franklin, Association for Communication
Administrators Chair
Melody Lehn, American Society for the History of
Rhetoric Chair
Deborah Cunningham Breede, Ethnography Chair
Ryan McGeough, Kenneth Burke Society Chair
Molly Stoltz, Philosophy and Ethics of Communication
Chair
John H. Saunders, States Association Chair
Jennifer Edwards, Constitution Committee Chair
Kandi L. Walker, Publications Committee Chair
Melissa M. Smith, Finance Committee Chair
Verlaine McDonald, Resolutions Committee Chair
Greg G. Armfield, Time and Place Committee Chair
Sherry Ford, Resource Development Committee Chair
Kristy Cates, SSCA K-12 Representative to NCA
Brad Bailey, SSCA Community College Representative
to NCA
Linda Pysher Jurczak, SSCA 4 Year College/University
Representative to NCA
Mary Stuckey, NCA Nominating Committee
Representative
Shanshan Lou, NCA Spectra Representative
DAY 2
Thursday, April 6, 2017
2101
Thursday • 8:00 am-9:15 am
Room: Regency C
Executive Council Meeting, Part 2
Sponsor: Southern States Communication
Association
Presiding: Roseann Mandziuk, President
Participants:
Victoria Gallagher, First Vice President
Jason Munsell, Second Vice President
Jean DeHart, Immediate Past President
Jerold L. Hale, Executive Director
Jennifer Mize Smith, Marketing Director
Leroy Dorsey, SCJ Editor
Shawn Long, Finance Committee Chair
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2201
Thursday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Think Tank at NOMA-AV
The Stranger Things Video Mash-Up
Symphony
Sponsor: Performance Studies Division
Chair: Joey Watson, Georgia Southwestern University
Panelists:
Joey Watson, Georgia Southwestern University
Imani Bennett, Georgia Southwestern University
Caylin McCubbin, Georgia Southwestern University
Darlene Brock, Georgia Southwestern University
DJ Dupree, Georgia Southwestern University
Respondent: Rebecca Walker, Southern Illinois
University
This panel weaves together five central themes from the process
of “vidding.” Using the Netflix original series Stranger Things (2016)
as the primary source text, various artifacts from the show (bodies,
camera angles, props, costumes, characters, dialogue, music, etc.)
have been identified as relays for mash-up/vidding performance
construction. Panelists address the power of nostalgia and authenticity, the ramifications of convergent/emergent media technologies, the limitations of storytelling, the relationship(s) between
vidding and corporeal bodies, and the concept(s) of ownership in
viding. The final performer will create a live mix/vid of the four performances that precede it as a symphonic movement.
Thursday
Carl Cates, Immediate Past Executive Director
Raymond Ozley, Applied Communication Chair
Shaughn Keaton, Communication Theory Chair
Nakia Welch, Community College Chair
David Dewberry, Freedom of Speech Chair
Leland G. Spencer, Gender Studies Chair
Linda Pysher Jurczak, Instructional Development
Chair
Mary Grace Antony, Intercultural Communication
Chair
Carrie L. West, Interpersonal Communication Chair
Craig O. Stewart, Language and Social Interaction
Chair
Melissa M. Smith, Mass Communication Chair
Brianne Waychoff, Performance Studies Chair
Darrell Roe, Political Communication Chair
Dave R. Nelson, Popular Communication Chair
Christopher J. McCollough, Public Relations Chair
Meredith Bagley, Rhetoric and Public Address Chair
Kevin Bryant, Southern Argumentation and Forensics
Chair
Cole Franklin, Association for Communication
Administrators Chair
Melody Lehn, American Society for the History of
Rhetoric Chair
Deborah Cunningham Breede, Ethnography Chair
Ryan McGeough, Kenneth Burke Society Chair
Molly Stoltz, Philosophy and Ethics of Communication
Chair
John H. Saunders, States Association Chair
Jennifer Edwards, Constitution Committee Chair
Kandi L. Walker, Publications Committee Chair
Melissa M. Smith, Finance Committee Chair
Verlaine McDonald, Resolutions Committee Chair
Greg G. Armfield, Time and Place Committee Chair
Sherry Ford, Resource Development Committee Chair
Kristy Cates, SSCA K-12 Representative to NCA
Brad Bailey, SSCA Community College Representative
to NCA
Linda Pysher Jurczak, SSCA 4 Year College/University
Representative to NCA
Mary Stuckey, NCA Nominating Committee
Representative
Shanshan Lou, NCA Spectra Representative
2202
Thursday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Studio 220@NOMA B and C
Innovative Program Development
Models: Supporting Faculty Research,
Teaching, and Service While Advancing
University Missions
Sponsor: Association of College Administrators
Chair: Danna M. Gibson, Columbus State University
NPACE: Addressing 21st Century Institutional Demands
through Creative Outreach Models
Danna M. Gibson, Columbus State University Service Learning: Cultivating Opportunities for Faculty,
Students, and Academic Programs
Christopher J. McCollough, Columbus State
University
Experiential Learning and Entry-Level Communicators:
An Employer’s Perspective
Marion Scott, Columbus Regional Health
Spurring Economic Development and Advancing the
University Mission: Assessing the Impact of Experiential
Learning and Community Storefront Centers across
Academic Programs and in the Region
Richard L. Baxter, Columbus State University
Expanding the Classroom to Include University
Partnerships to Offer Graduate Communication
Curriculum
David R. Nelson, Valdosta State University
Increasing Self-Efficacy of Students in the First-Year
Seminar: A Case Study
Trudy Hanson, West Texas A&M University
Kristina Drumheller, West Texas A&M University
Nicholas Gerlich, West Texas A&M University
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Thursday
COMMUNICATION AND INNOVATION
It’s More than Just a Paycheck: Changing Practices to
Improve the Lives of Adjunct Instructors
Mary Carver,
University of Central Oklahoma
Rozilyn Miller, University of Central Oklahoma
Christy Vincent, University of Central Oklahoma
2203
Thursday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Regency D-E AV
A Eulogy for the Grammar of Gender: An
Examination of Gender Fluidity through
Popular Media and Performance
Sponsor: Popular Communication
Chair: Jacob Abraham, University of South Florida
Emcee
Jacob Abraham, University of South Florida
In Praise of Respectability
Alisha Menzies, University of Tampa
Disappearing Gender
Amanda LeBlanc, University of South Florida
Forwarding the Monster: A Queer Phenomenology of
the Grammar of Gender
Sam(ira) Obeid, ANYTOWN Coordinator,
Community Tampa Bay
Respondent: Mary Dickman, University of
Massachusetts Amherst
2204
Thursday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Regency F
Communication and Innovation:
Assessing Presidential Debate in the
Digital Age
Sponsor: Political Communication Division
Chair: Stephen J. Heidt, Florida Atlantic University
Attacks v. Acclaims and Issues v. Images in the 2016
Presidential General Election Debates: A Functional
Theory Analysis
Patrick G. Wheaton, Georgia Southern University
Trumpian Presidential Politics in the Post-Cold War:
Vladimir Putin’s Presence in NBC’s Military Town Hall
Hays Watson, University of Georgia
Moderators in the 2016 Presidential Debates: Referees
or Partisan Advocates?
Edward Panetta, University of Georgia
Unfit to serve as President: Innovating political rhetoric
on health in the 2016 Presidential debates
Logan Gramzinski, University of Georgia
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Respondent: Jefferson Walker, University of
Alabama at Birmingham
2205
Thursday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Regency G
But Really… How Important is Culture?
Understanding Communication in
Various Cultural Contexts
Sponsor: Applied Communication Division
Chair: Brian Perna, The University of Southern Mississippi
Communication and Integration: Intercultural
Communication in Crisis Contexts
Andrew S. Pyle, Clemson University
Exploring Communicative Strategies Used in Racial
Discrimination Complaints through Co-Cultural Theory
Leslie Rodriguez, Angelo State University
At the Intersections: Evaluation of the Communication
Challenges experienced during Kentucky Wine
Production
Ben Triana, University of South Carolina—Aiken
Chinese Male Adolescents Resisting Cigarettes
from Peers: Tactics, Perceptions, and Contextual
Characteristics
Vivian C. Sheer, Hong Kong Baptist University
Chang Mao, Ohio State University
Jay Chang, Hong Kong Baptist University
Respondent: John Nicholson, Mississippi State
University
2206
Thursday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Regency H
Deconstructing Food as an Intercultural
Artifact
Sponsor: Intercultural Communication Division
Chair: Mark Ward Sr., University of Houston-Victoria
Marinate, Masticate, Contemplate: Using Mindfulness
to Savor Food
Mary Grace Antony, Schreiner University
Food as a Gateway to Intercultural Learning
Mary M. Meares, University of Alabama
From Arroz con Pollo and Goulash to Homemade
Apple Pie: The Importance of Food Rituals in the
Performance of Cultural Identity
Amy N. Heuman, Texas Tech University
‘More Sweet Tea?’: Family Identity Negotiation and
Maintenance in the South
Tina Harris, University of Georgia
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As a cultural artifact, food encompasses the seemingly disparate
realms of biological utility, social status, religious doctrine, political
engagement, ethnic performativity, civic engagement, and environmental stewardship. These factors, among others, underscore the
fact that food – including its cultivation, preparation, and consumption – underscores and embodies the quintessential essence of cultural identity. Notable scholarship has engaged the manner in which
mediated representations of food can propagate problematic ideologies (Shugart, 2008; Swenson, 2009), the ways in which food can
be harnessed to resist public health agendas (Phillipov, 2013), and individual performative resistance to and through food (Cooks, 2009).
2207
Pavica Sheldon, University of Alabama, Huntsville
James Adam Lessley, University of Alabama,
Huntsville
Emerging Adults’ Use of Relational Maintenance
Behaviors Associated with Perceived Felt Obligation
Mary E. Donato, West Virginia University
Scott A. Myers, West Virginia University
Gelotophobia, Gelotophilia, Katagelasticism, and Pride:
Do Authentic and Hubristic Pride Influence Your Sense
of Humor?
Jenna Dunlap, Western Illinois University
Jessica Hample, Western Illinois University
Nathan Miczo, Western Illinois University
Happily Never After: An Analysis of Romanticized
Violence in Twilight Fanfiction
Mary-Kate Hovanic, Christopher Newport University
Thursday
Eat, Drink, and Feel Who I am
Eun Young Lee, Florida Gulf Coast University
‘Here, You MUST have Some More:’ Food, Hospitality,
and Cultural Identity
Nurhayat Bilge, Florida International University
Respondent: Timothy Worley, Murray State University
Thursday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Red Bud A
How to Publish Your Research: Getting to
Print
Sponsor: Applied Communication Division
Chair: Kandi L. Walker, University of Louisville
Monitoring and tracking the manuscript through the
review process
Lynne M. Webb, Florida International University
Following up on the manuscript under long-term review.
Ken Cissna, University of South Florida
Responding to reviewers’ comments
Joy L. Hart, University of Louisville
Deciding when and how to move on to the next
journal
Frances E. Brandau, Sam Houston State University
Inventive publication outlets: Beyond the journals
Marceline Thompson Hayes, Arkansas State
University
This “how to” panel will proceed round-table style with brief remarks
from the panelists followed by comments across the panel as well as
an extensive question-and-answer session with the audience.
2209
Thursday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Red Bud C
How Individuals Use Media to Foster
Communities and Discussions
Sponsor: Mass Communication Division
Chair: Melissa M. Smith, Mississippi University for
Women
Tweeting Through the Game Day Experience
Steven Young, University of Southern Mississippi
Religion and New Media: A Uses and Gratifications
Approach
Amanda Jo Ratcliff, Tyler Junior College
Josh McCarty, Regent University
Matt Ritter, High Point University
A Content Analysis on Weibo Reposts of Social Issues
Zhou Shan, University of Alabama
Explore Search Engine Ethics: A Case Study of Baidu
Shanshan Lou and Jiangxue Han, Appalachian
State University
Respondent: William F. Harlow, University of Texas
of the Permian Basin
2208
Thursday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Red Bud B
2210
Interpreting Difficult Interpersonal
Messages
Thursday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Dogwood
Sponsor: Interpersonal Communication Division
Chair: Terry M. Thibodeaux, Sam Houston State
University
Innovation, Renovation, and Endurance:
The Lasting Appeal of Major Mediated
Fandoms
A Typology of Hurtful Events and the Use of
Forgiveness Strategies in Marital and Dating
Relationships
Chair: Brian C. Brantley, Texas A&M University-San
Antonio
Sponsor: Mass Communication Division
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Thursday
COMMUNICATION AND INNOVATION
Participants:
Lauren Reichart Smith, Indiana University
Kenny D. Smith, Indiana University
Brian C. Brantley, Texas A&M University-San Antonio
Van T. Roberts, Mississippi University for Women
Barry P. Smith, Mississippi University for Women
Star Wars, Star Trek, and Doctor Who – these are science fiction
franchises that have lasted for decades with enduring appeals for
several generations of fans. This panel explores how these and other media franchises (James Bond, superheroes, etc.) have managed
to maintain, grow, and develop consecutive generations of fans by
communicating stories with timeless appeal while innovating in
the presentation of these stories.
2211
Thursday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Magnolia
A Roundtable on Advances in
Interpersonal Communication Theory
Sponsor: Communication Theory Division
Chair: Michael R. Kotowski, University of Tennessee
Panelists:
Timothy Levine, University of Alabama, Birmingham
Steven McCornack, University of Alabama Birmingham
Jennifer Samp, University of Georgia
Panelists will discuss innovations in interpersonal communication
theory and research. Audience participation encouraged.
2212
Thursday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Gardenia
Top Paper Panel: Innovations in
Pedagogy, Practice, Program Assessment
and Student Outcomes
Sponsor: Instructional Development Division
Chair: Michelle E. Garland, University of South
Carolina Upstate
Social Media Usability and Communication Overload in
the College Classroom: Examining #AffectiveLearning
Marjorie M. Buckner, Texas Tech University
Renee Kaufmann, University of Kentucky
Investigating Hidden Diversity in Classroom
Management: African American and White Faculty
Perceptions of Teacher-Student Interaction in an HBCU
Fang-Yi Flora Wei, Clark Atlanta University
Katherine Grace Hendrix, University of Memphis
Communication Center Effectiveness: The Impact of
Tutoring on Speech Performance
Alyssa Davis, Clemson University
Darren L. Linvill, Clemson University
Melissa E. Jacobs, Clemson University
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Accounting for Students’ Classroom Effort and Agency:
The Development of the Classroom Behavioral
Engagement Instrument **
Nicholas T. Tatum, University of Kentucky
T. Kody Frey, University of Kentucky
Anna-Carrie Beck, University of Kentucky
An Innovative Approach to Program Assessment:
Turning Points in the Communication Studies Major*
Tiffany R. Wang, University of Montevallo
Raymond R. Ozley, University of Montevallo
Sherry G. Ford, University of Montevallo
Sally Bennett Hardig, University of Montevallo
Rebecca B. Leach, Texas Christian University
Respondent: Stephanie Kelly, North Carolina A & T
State University
* Top Paper
** Top Student Paper
2301
Thursday • 11:00 am -12:15 pm
Room: Think Tank@NOMA AV
Breakfast of Champions: Taylorism,
Masochism and Academic Labor
Sponsor: Performance Studies Division
Chair: Ryan McGeough, University of Northern Iowa
Participants:
David Terry, Louisiana State University
Ariel Gratch, Georgia College & State University
Lyndsay Michalik Gratch, Georgia Gwinett College
Jennifer L. Erdely, Prairie View A&M University
Ryan McGeough, University of Northern Iowa
Jason Munsell, Columbia College
This very-serious performance panel focuses on the professionalism of academic labor. Panelists explore the often dehumanizing
(and sometimes hidden) types of labor required of graduate students and faculty members at various points throughout our academic careers. We offer very-serious reflections on the absurd ways
in which scholarship and teaching are converted to productivity
and customer satisfaction.
2302
Thursday • 11:00 am -12:15 pm
Room: Studio 220@NOMA B and C
Philosophy of Communication and
Inquiry into Innovation and the Rhetoric
of Progress
Sponsor: Philosophy and Ethics of Communication
Interest Group
Chair: James R. Pickett, Flagler College
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2303
Thursday • 11:00 am -12:15 pm
Room: Regency D-E AV
Gender, Race, and Religion on
Contemporary Television
Sponsor: Popular Communication
Chair: Phillip Poe, Mississippi State University
“I’m a Good Christian Woman Who’s Standing Here
Trying not to Cuss Your Ass Out”: Examining Religion
on Tyler Perry’s The Haves and Have Nots
Danielle E. Williams, Georgia Gwinnett College
Representations of African American Women on The
Biggest Loser: Neoliberalism and the Strong Black Woman
Steve Herro, College of Southern Nevada
Discourses of Horror TV: Kolchak, Twin Peaks, and the
Supernatural Drama
Andrew F. Herrmann, East Tennessee State
University
Dramatic Convenient Loss: Miscarriage on Grey’s
Anatomy
Jennifer B. Gray, Appalachian State University
A Return to Feminism: Mad Men, Betty(s), and a
Convergence of Waves
Aya Farhat, Baylor University
Respondent: Alisha Menzies, University of Tampa
2304
Thursday • 11:00 am -12:15 pm
Room: Regency F
Innovative Campaign Rhetoric in the Face
of Novel Political Exigencies: The 2016
Presidential Election
Sponsor: Political Communication Division
Chair: Patrick G. Wheaton, Georgia Southern
University
Sanders and the Apologetic Endorsement: Factions
and Unity at the 2016 DNC
Benjamin Clancy, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Bold-Speaking as Inventional Resource in the 2016
Presidential Election
Blake Faulkner, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
A New Protector for the American Family? A
Metaphoric and Narrative Analysis of Hillary Clinton’s
2016 Campaign Announcement Speech
Matthew Winn, Texas State University, San Marcos
Playing the Trump Card: Trump’s Narrative about
America Overpower His Factual Inaccuracies
George Fitzpatrick, Texas State University
2305
Thursday • 11:00 am -12:15 pm
Room: Regency G
Thursday
Conjoined God-Terms: Innovation as Progress/
Imagination
Richard Thames, Duquesne University
The “Progress” for Which Thomas S. Szasz Argued
Richard Vatz, Towson University
Against “Progress”: Christopher Lasch and the Political
Economy of Civic Virtue
James R. Pickett, Flagler College
The Rhetoric and Communication of
Innovation
Sponsor: Applied Communication Division; Rhetoric
and Public Address
Chair: Mary Beth Asbury, Middle Tennessee State
University
Innovation Capital in Higher Education: From Top
Down to Across the Classroom
Lisa Fall, Pellissippi State Community College
Golden Rule’ Jones as Innovator of Social Change
Donald B. Simmons, Asbury University
Exploring the Rhetoric of Athletes and Sports Teams as
Change Agents Influencing Social Change
Greg G. Armfield, New Mexico State University
William Hoffman, University of Kansas
Impacting Innovation with Intent: Exploring
Communication and Leadership as the Great
Inspiration
Abby M. Brooks, Georgia Southern University
Imagining a world without innovation is challenging indeed. As
a matter of fact, we think it normal that the world changes; that
something old is replaced by something new. The proposed Rhetoric of Innovation panel addresses the ways rhetoric of innovation
has changed the world and with what effect. Our interest, then,
lies in understanding rhetorical practice with innovation being the
driving force. We see, in various rhetorical contexts, that innovation
invites shared values and a commitment to creating opportunity.
Rhetorical outcomes reveal individuals being more interconnected, empowering each other.
2306
Thursday • 11:00 am -12:15 pm
Room: Red Bud A
The Value of Forging Women-Centered
Spaces for Women in the Academy
Sponsor: Gender Studies Division
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COMMUNICATION AND INNOVATION
Thursday
Chair: Amy N. Heuman, Texas Tech University
From Pen and Paper to Academic Press: The Importance
of Women-Centered Circles for Academic Writing and
Research
Amy N. Heuman, Texas Tech University
Building a Bright Future Among a Community of
Women: Experiences of a First Year Faculty Member
Marjorie Buckner, Texas Tech University
Getting to Tenure, to Associate, and Ultimately to Full
Professor
Lynne Webb, Florida International University
Creating A Home Space for Women on Tenure Track
While Negotiating My Own Status as Pre-Tenure (Wo)
Mentor
Carolina Rosas Webber, University of South
Carolina, Upstate
The Rocky Mountain Writers as a Women-Centered
Space
Amy Koerber, Texas Tech University
Inspiration & Perspiration: Women-Centered Fitness as
Supportive Spaces for Female Academics
Mary Grace Antony, Schreiner University
2307
Thursday • 11:00 am-12:15 pm
Room: Red Bud B
Health and Hope in Interpersonal
Relationships
Sponsor: Interpersonal Communication Division
Chair: Abby Brooks, Georgia Southern State
University
Transitions from Higher Education and Employment–
Seeking: Exploring Hope Theory through Expressions
of Goals and Plans of Emerging Adults
Gary A. Beck, Old Dominion University
Joshua Pederson, University of Alabama
Patient-Provider Interactions: Person Centered
Approaches to Patient Diversity
Hannah Allison Watts, University of South
Carolina Medical School-Greenville
Patricia Amason, University of Arkansas
Ambiguous and Disapproving Communication as it
Relates to Adolescent Substance Abuse
Jamie Osborn, University of Tennessee
Nancy Buerkel-Rothfuss, Central Michigan
University
Michael Kotowski, University of Tennessee
Shared Decision Making and Ovarian Cancer Care:
Opportunities for Improved Health Outcomes
Dinah Tetteh, Arkansas State University
Respondent: Robert J. Green, Stephen F. Austin
State University
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2308
Thursday • 11:00 am-12:15 pm
Room: Red Bud C
Raindrops on Roses…Revisited!:
Innovation of Teaching Theories at its
Best!
Sponsor: Community College Division
Chair: Dena Horne, Sam Houston State University
Panelists:
Jean DeHart, Appalacian State University
Todd Goen, Christopher Newport University
Monette Callaway, Hinds Community College
Richard Bello, Sam Houston State University
Stephanie Coopman, San Jose State University
Frances E. Brandau, Sam Houston State University
David R. Nelson, Valdosta State University
S. Brad Bailey, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community
College
This roundtable continues discussion that began at SSCA-Norfolk and continued at SSCA-Memphis and many after that. Part
IV offers an engaging and refreshing presentation of how communication professors have taken communication theories and
designed innovated strategies for the classroom. Each scholar
will open discussion on one of their favorite communication theories in an attempt to provide a glimpse into one of the hardest
to define terms of today: communication. “My Favorite Communication Theory IV” invites participants and audience members to
examine said theories, how they are approached in the classroom
and how students react to them in the classroom. Good Times
Await You!
2309
Thursday • 11:00 am-12:15 pm
Room: Dogwood
What’s ‘the Body’ Anyhow? : ReInnovating Embodiment as Visual
Rhetoric
Sponsor: Rhetoric and Public Address Division
Chair: Jason Edward Black. University of North
Carolina, Charlotte
Laboring Bodies Beyond Representation in UserGenerated Videos of Urban Agriculture
Dustin A. Greenwalt, Pennsylvania State
University
Techno-Body on the Electric Frontier: Revisiting the
Cyborg Body
Heather Suzanne Woods, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Sight of the Sovereign Body: Body-Mounted Police
Cameras and the Decline of Symbolic Efficiency
Alex McVey, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill
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This panel draws its focus from the following questions: When rhetorical scholars invoke “the body,” what exigencies or ethical dilemmas do they implicitly reference or critique? If at all, what is
revolutionary about “the body” as an object of inquiry? In what
ways do certain theoretical descriptions of “the body” place communication scholars today at loggerheads with humanistic and/
or STEM traditions of scholarship? Each presenter will offer a brief
exposition and/or case study to inflect their understanding of the
relationship between “the body” and public contexts of technological, communicative innovation.
2310
Thursday • 11:00 am-12:15 pm
Room: Magnolia
Feminist Perspectives, Purposes, and
Practices in the Archives: An Interactive
Roundtable Discussion
Sponsor: Gender Studies Division
Chair: Melody Lehn, University of South Carolina,
Extended University
Panelists:
Melody Lehn, University of South Carolina, Extended
University
Camille Lewis, Independent Scholar
Sandra J. Sarkela, University of Memphis
Caroline E. Sawyer, University of South Carolina,
Beaufort
Sarah Mayberry Scott, Arkansas State University
Lori Stallings, University of Memphis
In a roundtable format, presenters consider how feminist perspectives, purposes, and practices inform and complicate archival research on women. As feminist critics with varying levels of archival
experience, presenters will explain a current research project and
deliver a response to three organizing questions based on that
project, followed by discussion.
2311
Thursday • 11:00 am-12:15 pm
Room: Gardenia
Innovative Ways to Make the Most of
the Classroom Experience: Culture,
Curriculum, and Public Speaking Contexts
Sponsor: Instructional Development Division
Chair: Scott Christen, Tennessee Technological
University
Romans… in Space! Using Serious Games on the
Advanced Public Speaking Classroom
Edgar D. Johnson III, Augusta University
An Evaluation of High Impact Learning Practices:
Student Reflections about Student Learning in
Communication Studies
Trudy L. Hanson, West Texas A&M University
Carolyn Baum, West Texas A&M University
Transforming the Capstone: Transformative Learning
as a Pedagogical Framework and Vehicle for Ethical
Reflection in the Capstone Course
Michael G. Strawser, Bellarmine University
Exploring Students’ Mindsets, Beliefs, and Attitudes
about Public Speaking
Craig O. Stewart, University of Memphis
John R. McConnell, III, Austin Peay State University
Lori Stallings, University of Memphis
Rod D. Roscoe, Arizona State University –
Polytechnic Campus
A World at Your Doorstep: Innovative Globalizing
Initiatives at a Small Liberal Arts University
Mary Grace Antony, Schreiner University
Sonja Land, Schreiner University
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The Body as Drive: The Subtraction of Biology from
Embodiment in Zero Days (2016) and Eye in the Sky
(2015)
Atilla Hallsby, North Carolina State University
Respondent: Linda Pysher Jurczak, Valdosta State
University
2312
Thursday • 11:00 am-12:15 pm
Regency H
Communicating Greenville as Innovative
Space: From Southern to Global Village
Sponsor: Rhetoric and Public Address
Greenville’s reputation is put to critical interrogation by a panel of
local faculty who use the city daily for research and teaching. Scholars evaluate the narratives of Greenville’s transition from small textile village to global hub by leading a tour of sites along Main Street.
Chair: Brandon Inabinet, Furman University
Focus: Greenville News decline in the face of the
Internet and conservative talk radio
John Armstrong, Furman University
Focus: Max Heller and City Hall as “Bipartisan” Space
Glen Halva-Nebauer, Furman University
Focus: Springwood Cemetery and the remembrance of
regional Confederate history
Cynthia King, Furman University
Focus: Sterling High School statue and Civil Rights in
Greenville memory
Steve O’Neill, Furman University
Focus: Textile dyes and geology in the Reedy River
Bill Ranson, Furman University
Focus: Mill villages as financial landscape
Steve Richardson, Furman University
Focus: Willie Earle Lynching and the sociology of
remembrance/forgetting
Claire Whitlinger, Furman University
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Focus: Furman and Clemson University as community
innovation partners
Mike Winiski, Furman University
2401
Thursday • 12:30 pm-1:45 pm
Room: Room: Think Tank@NOMA AV
Working through the Vagenda: Feminist
Communication and Innovation
Sponsor: Performance Studies Division
Co-Chairs:
Brianne Waychoff, Borough of Manhattan
Community College, CUNY
Rebecca Walker, Southern Illinois University
Panelists:
Emily Graves, Louisiana State University
Jade C. Huell, Columbia College, Columbia, SC
Sarah K. Jackson, Southern University at New Orleans
Danielle Dick McGeough, University of Northern
Iowa
Lyndsay Michalik Gratch, Georgia Gwinnett College
Holley Vaughn, University of North Texas
Rebecca Walker, Southern Illinois University
Brianne Waychoff, Borough of Manhattan
Community College, CUNY
Recently, a meme surfaced on the Internet containing a startling
image from a few years ago – a lettered sign for a Maine gunsmith
stating, “Beware The Beast: Hildabeast Clinton and Its Vagenda of
Manocide” (sic). In this panel, we reclaim the term “vagenda” from
those intent on using it as an insult, and explore the various ways in
which innovative feminist discourse contributes to the national political (and academic) conversation. Each performance represents a
specific genre of feminist praxis (for example, a diatribe, a personal
narrative, a silent body-based performance, a dance, a mixed media
piece, poetry, prose, etc.). Join us as we work through our vagenda.
2402
Thursday • 12:30 pm-1:45 pm
Room: Studio 220@NOMA B and C
Transitioning Between Roles of Faculty
and Administration
Sponsor: Association of Communication
Administrators
Chair: Todd Lee Goen, Christopher Newport Uniersity
Panelists:
Carl Cates, Arkansas State University
Sherry Ford, University of Montevallo
Robert (Bob) Frank, Longwood University – retired
Linda D. Manning, Christopher Newport University
Nina-Jo Moore, Appalachian State University
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2403
Thursday • 12:30 pm-1:45 pm
Room: Regency D-E AV
Hip Hop and America Will Never Be the Same
- The Music and Message of Kendrick Lamar
Sponsor: Popular Communication
Black Survival: Examining the Life, Lyrics and Lived
Experience of an Inner-City Youth
Marquese McFerguson, University of South Florida
Falling Victim to a Revolutionary Song: Kendrick Lamar
and the Rhetoric of Black Radicalism
Max W. Plumpton, University of South Florida
Sonic Social Justice: To Pimp a Butterfly’s Auditory
Critique of the Rationalized State
A.G. Hughes, University of Memphis
Will everything be Alright? The political-personal
dynamic in Kendrick Lamar’s 2016 Grammy Performance
Christina Blankenship, The University of North
Carolina, Greensboro
2404
Thursday • 12:30 pm-1:45 pm
Room: Regency F
Locating Rhetorical Invention in Southern
Stereotypes: NASCAR, Appalachian
Foodways, Small Town Museums, and
Festivals
Sponsor: American Society for the History of
Rhetoric Interest Group
Chair: Dan Grano, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
Blueberry Queens and Hot Tamales: The Epideictic
Function of Regional Festivals
Wendy Atkins-Sayre, University of Southern
Mississippi
Wreckers or Checkers?: Hegemonic and Emancipatory
Potential in NASCAR’s Culturally Revisionist Rhetoric
Jason Edward Black, University of North CarolinaCharlotte
Mom Cooked Beans and Cornbread: The CoConstitutive Relationship between Popular Memory
and Appalachian Identity
Ashli Quesinberry Stokes, University of North
Carolina-Charlotte
“You Get Black Belt in Your Soul:” Storytelling,
Remembrance, and Revision at the Kathryn Tucker
Windham Museum
Jefferson Walker, University of Alabama at
Birmingham
Respondent: Jean DeHart, Appalachian State University
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2405
Thursday • 12:30 pm-1:45 pm
Room: Regency G
Communication and Innovation as
Imperatives for Activism and for
Organizational Responses
Sponsor: Applied Communication Division
Chair: Chris Geyerman, Georgia Southern University
YouTube as Innovation in Activism: Analysis of Message
Sophistication in Reactions to the Gardasil 9 Vaccination
Pamela Bourland-Davis, Georgia Southern
University
Beom Jun Bae, Georgia Southern University
Beverly Graham, Georgia Southern University
Camille Broadway, Georgia Southern University
Melissa Carrion, Georgia Southern University
A Critical Analysis of Gardasil 9 Advertising
Beverly Graham, Georgia Southern University
Melissa Carrion, Georgia Southern University
Hospitable Innovation: The Travel Industry Launches
Various Strategic Communication Campaigns to
Illustrate its Support of Same Sex Marriage Law
Lisa Fall, Pellissippi State Community College
Public Relations and Policing the Police:
#BlackLivesMatter as Activism
Hazel Cole, West Georgia University
Teaching Activism during Conflict: How to Encourage
Dialog in a Space of Anger
Jenni Simon, University of North Carolina at
Greensboro
This panel will provide an opportunity to examine communication applied in a variety of contemporary activism-oriented issues
to examine the impact of messaging and contemporary communication as innovation. Ultimately, grassroots communication – with
some level of sophistication – continues to have an impact on issues and organizations. This panel concludes with suggestions for
addressing activist issues in the classroom.
Hip Hopping Across the Globe: Postcolonial Theory
and Hip Hop
Patrick D. Bennett, Midlands Technical College
Anxiety, Uncertainty, and Attitudes toward Refugees
from Syria
Mirjana Pantic, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Whitney L. Tipton, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville If She is That Big, She Can Cook: Comparison between
White and Black Young Adults
Pavica Sheldon, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Respondent: Yanrong (Yvonne) Chang, University
of Texas-Rio Grande Valley
2407
Thursday • 12:30 pm-1:45 pm
Room: Red Bud A
Narrative Approaches to Understanding
Cultural Scripts
Sponsor: Ethnography Interest Group
Chair: Elizabeth Stephens, Middle Tennessee State
University
Playing on the Margins: Communicating about Death
through Ghostly Play*
Christine S. Davis, University of North Carolina at
Charlotte
Deborah Cunningham Breede, Coastal Carolina
University
Mindful Dwelling, Socio-Structural Interdependence and
Nomadic Mutualism: Being In, With, and Through Place
Charlotte G. Burke, Bob Jones University
Austin D. Burke, University of Hawaii at Mānoa
Broken Promises: An Autoethnography of
Psychological Contract Breach and Organizational Exit
Andrew F. Herrmann, East Tennessee State University
Respondent: Elizabeth Stephens, Middle Tennessee
State University
2406
Thursday • 12:30 pm-1:45 pm
Room: Regency H
Intercultural Communication: A MultiFaceted Look at Issues of Real Life
* Top Paper
2408
Sponsor: Intercultural Communication Division
Thursday • 12:30 pm-1:45 pm
Room: Red Bud B
Chair: Terry M. Thibodeaux, Sam Houston State
University
Shared Perspectives on Finding
Perspective on the Tenure Track
Do #AllTweetsMatter? A Content Analysis of Tweets
Using the #AllLivesMatter Hashtag
Colleen Bartos, Virginia Tech
Maureen Lawrence-Kuether, Virginia Tech
Rich Polikoff, Virginia Tech
James D. Ivory, Virginia Tech
Sponsor: Interpersonal Communication Division
Chair: Carrie L. West, Schreiner University
Program Description:
This panel represents four different phases of the academic journey: a PhD candidate, two paths through Assistant Professorship,
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and a Full Professor. In response to the stresses present in academic
life at these various stages, the panelists will discuss the use of interconnectivity, application of interpersonal communication scholarship, and the use of innovative technologies, to construct a path
to resilience. Group discussion will address the challenges of balancing emotional, intellectual and creative energy while managing
the often overwhelming, sometimes narrow and sometimes nebulas definition of academic success.
Prana Chat: Bending Social Media to our Needs
Sally Hannay, Schreiner University
A Stitch Just in Time
Silke Feltz, Michigan Technological University
Decorating the Ivory Tower
Carrie L. West, Schreiner University
Reflections in Wellness
Kristen McAlexander, Reflections Wellness
Respondent: This will be an open discussion with the audience after brief presentations from the panelists. The goal of this panel is
to generate peer to peer discussion about experiences constructing
and maintaining resilience in Higher Ed. Panelists will share methods and strategies to do more than survive academic challenges, but
thrive and support each other through application of interpersonal
communication scholarship, interconnectivity, and social media.
2409
Thursday • 12:30 pm-1:45 pm
Room: Red Bud C
Herding (Virtual) Cats: Faculty Leadership and
Instructor Development
John A. McArthur, Queens University of Charlotte
Can Online Programs Boost Enrollment and Increase
Course Access?
Candy J. Noltensmeyer, Western Carolina
University
Online, Hybrid, and Face-to-Face Communication
Classes: Can they Co-Exist in the Same Program?
April Chatham-Carpenter, University of Arkansas
at Little Rock
How Teaching Online Made Me a Better Teacher OnCampus
Kim Weller, Queens University of Charlotte
Be Careful What You Wish For: Balancing Online
Success with On-Campus Development
Mark Ward Sr., University of Houston-Victoria
The Potential Disaster of Increased Emphasis on Fully
Online Courses
Thomas M. Steinfatt, University of Miami
Forging Forward: Opportunities and Challenges of
Online Education Program Administration
Diane Monahan, Saint Leo University
From Gator Speech and Debate to Gator
Fulbrighters: Honoring the Legacy of
University of Florida Professor Emeritus
Donald E. Williams, Ph.D.
Thursday • 12:30 pm-1:45 pm
Room: Gardenia
Sponsor: Southern Argumentation and Forensics
Division
Innovate or Stagnate?: Battle Royal for
the Classroom
Chair: Kellie W. Roberts, University of Florida
Sponsor: Instructional Development Division
Don Williams and My Fabulous Fulbright to Malaysia
Edmund Kellerman, Ed.D. University of Florida
A Gator Visits Budapest: Maximizing the FulbrightHayes Experience for Research, Teaching, and Service
Todd S. Frobish, Fayetteville State University
Going Global: My Fulbright Experiences in Kazakhstan,
Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait via the Fulbright Senior
Specialist Program
Ty Adams, Fayetteville State University
Chair: S. Brad Bailey, Mississippi Gulf Coast
Community College
Respondent: Kellie W. Roberts, University of Florida
It’s round 2. Last year we only got started. So let’s get ready to rumble again, as passionately face off to discuss best practices in teaching. Some ideas we love, while some we immediately reject. We
have all heard of a classroom practice which we have immediately rejected as blasphemy, but politely kept our angst to ourselves.
Well, not in this panel!
2410
Thursday • 12:30 pm-1:45 pm
Room: Dogwood
Online Education and Innovation in
Program Administration
Sponsor: Association of Communication Administrators
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Chair: John A. McArthur, Queens University of
Charlotte
2412
Panelists:
Beau Foutz, Alcorn State University
Linda Pysher Jurczak, Valdosta State University
William Maze, Northwest Mississippi Community
College
Laurie D. Metcalf, Blinn College
Molly Stoltz, Valdosta State University
This panel intends to discuss, debate, even outright argue about
many of the controversial classroom and pedagogical practices
that you might have heard about at a conference like this one. No
verbal punches will be pulled and feelings will be checked at the
door. If you want to have a frank, honest discussion about contro-
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2501
Thursday • 2:00 pm-3:15 pm
Room: Think Tank @NOMA AV
Top Student Performances in
Performance Studies I
Sponsor: Performance Studies Division
Chair: Danielle Dick McGeough, University of
Northern Iowa
“On my Long Journey Home”: Understanding Videogame
Narratives through Evocative Autoethnography
Jake Beck, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
My Makeshift Mother
Cynthia Sampson, Louisiana State University
Handing Her Over
Montana Jean Smith, Louisiana State University
Respondent: Danielle Dick McGeough, University
of Northern Iowa
2502
Thursday • 2:00 pm-3:15 pm
Room: Studio 220@NOMA B and C
Philosophy and Ethics of Communication
in the Public Sphere
Sponsor: Philosophy and Ethics of Communication
Interest Group
Chair: Molly Stolz, Valdosta State University
Becoming Gebildete: Living-through Interaction
Pat Arneson, Duquesne University
Communicative Shock: An Unethical Challenge to
Narrative Engagement*
Andrew Tinker, Duquesne University
Expanding the Moral Horizon through Rhetorical
Ecologies
Silke Feltz, Michigan Technological University
The Challenges of Integrated Marketing
Communication and Innovation: Communication
Ethics and Privacy
Jeanne M. Persuit, University of North CarolinaWilmington
*Top Graduate Student Paper in Philosophy and Ethics of Communication
2503
Thursday • 2:00 pm-3:15 pm
Room: Regency D-E AV
“All Aboard!” The Cultural Transformation
of Train and Railroad Imagery from
Historical Transport to Modern Innovation
Sponsor: Popular Communication
Chair: Kellie W. Roberts, University of Florida
Movin’ On from Folsom to New Orleans: The
Communication of Emotion and Place Through Train
Images in Country Music
Jean L. DeHart, Appalachian State University
Ride the Tourism Train: Temporality, Public Memory,
and the South Carolina Railroad Museum
Jason B. Munsell, Columbia College
Switching Tracks: Navigating Nature and Media in the
Transformation of Tweetsie Railroad from Commercial
Train to Amusement Park
David Spiceland, Appalachian State University
Modern-day Transportation Icons: The Innovative
Reinvention of Trains as Contemporary Conduits in
Southern Cities
Kelli L. Fellows, Pfeiffer University
Thursday
versial issues that are important, but aren’t often discussed openly
and honestly, then join us for this friendly, yet feisty discussion. If
you choose to join us, prepare to take off your jackets, roll up your
sleeves, and join the skirmish.
2504
Thursday • 2:00 pm-3:15 pm
Room: Regency F
Campaign Advertisements in the 2016
U.S. Presidential Election
Sponsor: Mass Communication Division
Chair: Brian C. Brantley, Texas A&M University-San Antonio
Making the presidency great again: In pursuit of the
presidential narrative of Donald J. Trump
Melissa M. Smith, Mississippi University for Women
I’m with her: Hillary Clinton’s attempts to define herself
and her opponent
Lauren Reichart Smith, Indiana University
The confused narrative of Gary Johnson’s attempts to
appeal to both sides of the political aisle
William F. Harlow, University of Texas of the Permian Basin
Me too: Attempts by smaller political parties to join the
presidential discussion
Barry P. Smith, Mississippi University for Women
Candidate advocacy by outside organizations
Patrick G. Wheaton, Georgia Southern University
Respondent: Michael Frawley, University of Texas of
the Permian Basin
Panelists will discuss attempts by those involved in the 2016
U.S. presidential election to exercise and expand their influence
through campaign advertisements.
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Thursday
2505
Thursday • 2:00 pm-3:15 pm
Room: Regency G
Organizations Come in All Shapes and
Sizes: The Role of Communication in
Diverse Organizational Contexts.
Sponsor: Applied Division
Chair: Abby Brooks, Georgia Southern University
It’ll Be OK, Because We Belong Together: The Influence
of Person-Organization Fit on Interpretation of BadNews Messages and Source Credibility
Jonathon K. Frost, Louisiana State University
Renee Edwards, Louisiana State University
Healthcare Organizations and Ethical Behavior: A
Multiple Case Study Approach to First and Second
Things
Carrie Reif, The University of Southern Mississippi
Julie Lasslo, Eastern Kentucky University
Web Metrics to Inform Organizational Communication
Audits
Amy L. Forrester, University of Tennessee
John W. Haas, University of Tennessee
Mission Statements as Naming Proposals: Applying an
RSI Approach
Susan Opt, James Madison University
Respondent: Kristina Drumheller, West Texas A&M
University
2506
Thursday • 2:00 pm-3:15 pm
Room: Regency H
Diversity Training for Faculty: Intentional,
Inclusive, and Impactful
Sponsor: Intercultural Communication Division
Chair: Hsiu-Jung “Mindy” Chang, Western New
England University
Panelists:
Yvonne Bogle, Western New England University
Jessica H. Carlson, Western New England University
Hsiu-Jung “Mindy” Chang, Western New England
University
Josie A. Brown-Rose, Western New England
University
Cheryl I. Smith, Western New England University
This round table discussion features a panel of University faculty
and administrators who have served in a variety of leadership roles
at the level of department, School, and University-wide Diversity
training initiative. This collaborative panel will involve a hands-on
demonstration of a diversity training session conducted during
university new faculty orientation. Panelists will investigate diver-
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sity training within the context of a university setting. Although diversity training is an important initiative in organizations today, it
has received little attention in the realm of higher education. Faculty and administrators are often expected to work with a diverse
student population with little to no training. Panelists will guide
participants through a faculty inclusion workshop, comprised of
activities, scenarios based on actual classroom situations involving
diversity issues and discussion. Data regarding program effectiveness will also be shared. This diversity training is recommended as a
strategy for universities to improve campus climate and employee
attitudes about diversity
2507
Thursday • 2:00 pm-3:15 pm
Room: Red Bud A
Rhetorical approaches to gender studies
Sponsor: Gender Studies Division
Chair: Linda Levitt, Stephen F. Austin State University
Professional Instincts: Negotiating Motherhood and
Professional Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century
Women’s Magazines
Sarah W. Walden, Baylor University
In Defense of Women’s Health Care: Cecile Richards as
the Voice of Planned Parenthood
Emmalene Carberry, Texas State University-San
Marcos
Divergent Discourse: A Case Study Analyzing the
Effects of Campus Communication About Sexual
Assault
Melissa H. Nipper, East Tennessee State University
Using the Heterosexual Questionnaire as a tool
for LGBTQ issue awareness: A rhetorical analysis of
responses
Sheree’ Keith, Middle Georgia State University
2508
Thursday • 2:00 pm-3:15 pm
Room: Red Bud B
Innovation in Public Relations in
Cultural Arts and Entertainment-related
Industries
Sponsor: Public Relations
Chair: Corey A. Hickerson, James Madison University
Adapting Travel and Tourism Promotions for Millennials
& Gen Y: Going Where They Go
Pam Bourland-Davis and Megan George,
Georgia Southern University
Happy 100th Birthday to America’s National Parks! A PR
Case Study of this Special Centenarian Celebration
Lisa Fall, Pellissippi State Community College
Tracey Farr, Pellissippi State Community College
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While traditional public relations models focus on entertainmentrelated industries as relying on one-way communication with little
research, contemporary practices suggest that such a perspective may miss the mark. Many practitioners in these fields maintain strategic message development (especially in crises), detailed
audience analysis, and any number of other research-based, data
driven analyses of information - much of which contributes to strategic, two-way communication by public relations professionals.
This panel will provide an assessment of some of the contemporary, innovative communication practices within these industries.
2509
Thursday • 2:00 pm-3:15 pm
Room: Red Bud C
Innovative Mentoring Practices
Sponsor: Instructional Development Division
Allies in the Academy: Communicating for
Democratically-based Mentoring Relationships
Spoma Jovanovic, University of North Carolina
Greensboro
Vincent Russell, University of North Carolina
Greensboro
Mentorship in Career Development
Holly K. Ott, University of South Carolina
Joon Kyoung Kim, University of South Carolina
Inspiring a Love for Research
Lynsey K. Romo, North Carolina State University
Meredith Foulke, North Carolina State University
Mentorship in Service Learning
Matthew S. VanDyke, Appalachian State
University
Emily Blevins, Appalachian State University
Four professor-student dyads from four different universities will
discuss the innovative mentorships and partnerships that have
emerged between professor and student both with respect to academic and community pursuits. Participants will share mentoring
best practices on academic research projects, how to establish a
democratically-based mentoring relationship, how to more effectively work side by side on service learning projects (including tips
for promoting mentorship in service-learning courses), and the importance of career mentoring for academia and practice (with regard to preparation for internships, jobs, networking, professional
development, etc., and how career mentorship is mutually beneficial for both faculty and students).
2510
Thursday • 2:00 pm-3:15 pm
Room: Dogwood
Rhetorical Perspectives on Music, Art,
Literature and Poetry
Sponsor: Rhetoric and Public Address Division
Chair: Bill Balthrop, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
Epic Nationalism: Visualizing Constitutive Rhetoric
Through Alphonse Mucha’s The Slav Epic
Kelly Williams, Baylor University
A Village as a Martyr: My Lai and Visual Rhetoric
Ryan Kor, University of Georgia
Digital Literary Public Spheres: Citizen and “Citizen
Critics”
Nikki Orth, Pennsylvania State University
Sound Studies’ Aural Fixation: A Potential Cure
Sarah Scott, Arkansas State University
Thursday
A priori Public Relations: Reverse Engineering Media
Relations Principles to Develop Cultural
Arts Programming
William Thompson, Louisville
Celebrities Connecting with Their Fandom: Who Is
Running Their Social Media Accounts?
Michelle Groover, Georgia Southern University
Haphazard or Deliberate: An Examination of Strategic
Engagement by Sports Organizations
Christie M. Kleinmann, Belmont University
Respondent: Ryan Neville-Shepard, University of
Arkansas
2511
Thursday • 2:00 pm-3:15 pm
Room: Magnolia
“The Great Debates(?):” Fallacy, Foible,
and Major Party Foisting in the 2016
Presidential Election
Sponsor: Southern Argumentation and Forensics
Division
Chair: Rich Knight, Shippensburg State University
Panelists:
Gary Deaton, Transylvania University
Jacob Metz, Tennessee Technological University
Bob Glenn, Owensboro Community and Technical
College
Kevin Bryan, University of Southern Mississippi
Taylor Deaton, Valdosta State University
Brian Powell, University of Montana
Respondent: Misty Knight, Shippensburg State
University
This panel will utilize Argumentation Theory to analyze what happened in the 2016 Presidential race, including the primaries, but focusing on the general election
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Thursday
2512
2602
Thursday • 2:00 pm-3:15 pm
Room: Gardenia
Thursday • 3:30 pm-4:45 pm
Room: Studio 220@NOMA B and C
Using Data Analytics as a Pedagogical
Metaphor: How I Learned to Stop
Worrying About Cell Phones in the
Classroom and Love the Selfie
Perspectives on Communicative
Engagement
Sponsor: Instructional Development Division
Panelists:
William Faux, Valdosta State University
Ashley Myers-Cooper, Valdosta State University
David R. Nelson, Valdosta State University
Unknowingly two entry level survey communication summer classes
combined forces to create an environment where learning extended
out of the classrooms and into online social networks. It happened
when two professors accidentally stumbled onto ways to engage
students in a summer class. Through the use of Instagram and a few
other apps that students help load on to their professors’ phones and
a little encouragement from the first year program coordinator an innovative learning experience was created. Reflecting of the summer
teaching experience, ideas used to navigate the world of social media and data analytics became useful pedagogical metaphors to examine and explore the positive student engagement.
2601
Thursday • 3:30 pm-4:45 pm
Room: Think Tank@NOMA AV
Top Student Performances in
Performance Studies II
Sponsor: Performance Studies Division
Chair: Danielle Dick McGeough, University of
Northern Iowa
Of Mics and Men
Joshua Steinberg, University of North Texas
Guide Star
Anna Marsden, University of North Texas
Red June Sunrise: A Performative Poetic Response to
the Orlando Gay Club Shooting
Colin Whitworth, Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale
Of the Self, Toward the Other: An Autoethnographic
Performance Starting with Underwear
Gregory Langner, Louisiana State University Colin Whitworth, Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale
Respondent: Danielle Dick McGeough, University
of Northern Iowa
Co-Sponsors: Philosophy and Ethics of
Communication Interest Group and Freedom of
Speech Division
Chair: Molly Stoltz, Valdosta State University
Ally Communication in Action: Communicative
Engagement and the Black Lives Matter Movement
Sarah J. Constant, Duquesne University
Engaging Hate Speech in the Public Sphere
Austin Hestdalen, Duquesne University
The Transformative Possibilities of Engaging Students
in Community: Arneson’s Communicative Engagement
and Social Liberation
Linda Pysher Jurczak, Valdosta State University
When Poiesis is Missing: The Difference Between
Communicative Engagement and Communication
Molly Stoltz, Valdosta State University
Buffer Zones and “Safe Spaces”: Communicative
Engagement in Private and Public Proximities
Andrew Tinker, Duquesne University
Respondent: Pat Arneson, Duquesne University
2603
Thursday • 3:30 pm-4:45 pm
Room: Regency D-E AV
Jesus on the Small Screen: The Portrayal
of Christianity on Television
Sponsor: Mass Communication Division
Chair: Alison Slade, Faulkner State Community College
Christianity in Tyler Perry’s television shows
Danielle Williams, Georgia Gwinnett College
But…you’re the savior”: Christian imagery within Once
Upon a Time
Alison Slade, Faulkner State Community College
Scott Chappuis, Bowling Green State University
Biblical allegories, religious symbolism, and Old
Testament suffering in The Walking Dead
Garret Castleberry, Oklahoma City University
Kristopher Copeland, Northeastern State University
Savior of the Squared Circle: CM Punk’s Televised
Vilification of Faith
Jason Peterson, Charleston Southern University
Panelists will explore the abundance of modern-day morality plays
gracing our 21st-century screens and discuss whether it’s still the
norm to see good rewarded and sin punished.
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2604
Top Papers in Public Relations
Sponsor: Public Relations Division
Chair: Ashli Quesinberry Stokes, UNC Charlotte
Evaluation of the NFL’s NO MORE Campaign:
Investigating Influence on Bystander Intentions and
Rape Myth Acceptance*
Sharlene Thompson Richards, Ph.D, James
Madison University
Corey A. Hickerson, Ph.D., James Madison University
Live streaming: Social Media and Crisis Response
Joe R. Downing, Ph.D., Penn State University (York
Campus)
The 2014 General Motors Recalls: Understanding
General Motors’ Crisis Communication Strategies**
Grace Ellen Brannon, Texas A&M University
Gabriel Esteban Pantoja, Texas A&M University
The “beautiful game” or the “bountiful game”? A
public relations approach to sport-based corporate
social responsibility
Chelsea Woods, University of Kentucky
Respondent: Christopher J. McCollough,
Columbus State University
*Top Paper
**Top Student Paper
2605
Thursday • 3:30 pm-4:45 pm
Room: Regency G
It Could Happen on Your Campus: A
case Study of Campus Terrorism, Media
Convergence, and Crisis Communication
Sponsor: Applied Communication Division
Chair: Dr. Brett Borton, University of South Carolina
Beaufort
Terroristic Threats on College Campuses: EKU Case
Study, Part 1
Gary D. Folckemer, Eastern Kentucky University
Media Convergence, Contagion, and Escalation of
Terror: EKU Case Study, Part 2
Jayne L. Violette, University of South Carolina Beaufort
Campus Terrorism and Crisis Communication
Strategies: EKU Case Study, Part 3
Jim Gleason, Eastern Kentucky University
Panelists will discuss campus threats as communication events,
featuring an actual terroristic occurrence which happened at Eastern Kentucky University in October of 2015. A summary of the event
2606
Thursday • 3:30 pm-4:45 pm
Room: Regency H
Communication, Innovation and
Sustainable Development: Trends,
Perspectives and Challenges from the
Global South
Sponsor: Intercultural Communication Division
Thursday
Thursday • 3:30 pm-4:45 pm
Room: Regency F
and rationale behind the communication decisions made during
the event will be offered, along with a theory-framed explanation
of social media’s role in the case, and a final analysis of the crisis
communication lessons learned from the experience.
Chair: Janet D. Kwami, Furman University
Communication and Development in an African
Market: Ethnographic Study of Ghanaian Women
Traders’ Mobile Phone Use
Janet D. Kwami, Furman University
Challenging Political Development in Kenya: A Failure
of the Rule of Law and of its Innovation
Lindsay Harroff, University of Kansas
19 Coups and What’s a Monk to Do? Religious and
Academic Responses to Thai Paternalism
Brandon Inabinet, Furman University
Sustainable Peace-Building? Possibilities and
Limitations of Journalism and User-generated Content
Marta N. Lukacovic, Furman University
Culturally Grounding Sexual Health Initiatives among
Panamanian Adolescents
Deborah Sellnow-Richmond, Columbus State
University
Amanda Gabster, Instituto Conmemorativo
Gorgas de Estudios de la Salud
Economic and political development in Ghana, Kenya, Panama,
and Thailand and the Global South more broadly are based on the
interplay between individual practices on the one hand and governmental or media policies and reporting on the other. Panelists
critically analyze four scenes with an emphasis on communicative
practices “from below” that create social change through grassroots practice.
2607
Thursday • 3:30 pm-4:45 pm
Room: Red Bud A
Rhetoric and the Black Public Sphere
Sponsor: Rhetoric and Public Address Division
Chair: Roseann Mandziuk, Texas State University,
San Marcos
Crafting an African American (Trans)national Identity:
Frederick Douglass at the World’s Columbian
Exposition
Anna Dudney Deeb, University of Georgia
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Thursday
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Judge J. Waties Waring’s Transcendent Persona in “The
Struggle for Negro Rights”
Wanda Fenimore, University of South Carolina –
Sumter
The Subject of the Unsung: Remembering Slavery at
the University of North Carolina
Alex McVey, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill
Respondent: Andre E. Johnson, University of
Memphis
2608
Thursday • 3:30 pm-4:45 pm
Room: Red Bud B
Considering gender in the public sphere
Sponsor: Gender Studies Division
Chair: Leland G. Spencer, Miami University
Should I Be Kissing A Woman Instead?”: Michael Sam
and Masculinity in the National Football League
Jeff Nagel, Baylor University
Gender, Sexuality, and Environmental Injustice:
Understanding the Intersectional Activism of “Queers
for the Climate”
Mollie Murphy, University of Georgia
Voice of Resistance: SlutWalk Little Rock
Janine Armstrong, Pulaski Technical College
On Having a House in Virginia: Anachronistically Racist
Reimagining of History in the State of Missouri v.
Michael L. Johnson
Cordarrell Self, Louisiana State University
2609
Thursday • 3:30-4:45 pm
Room: Dogwood
Top Papers in Intercultural
Communication
Sponsor: Intercultural Communication Division
Chair: Hsiu-Jung “Mindy” Chang, Western New
England University
Nicaragua: A Perspective on Disaster Communication**
Rhett Richardson, University of North Texas
Do You Care for A Relationship? A Qualitative Study of
Hispanic Students’ College Experiences*
Yanrong (Yvonne) Chang, University of Texas-Rio
Grande Valley
Students Writing Culture: Strategies for Illuminating
Pluralistic Voices Through Critical Intercultural
Communication Pedagogy
Amy N. Heuman, Texas Tech University
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Respondent: Mary M. Meares, University of
Alabama
*Top Paper
**Top Student Paper
2610
Thursday • 3:30 pm-4:45 pm
Room: Magnolia
Murder, Lies and Deception: The tales we
tell in the courtroom and then dissect in
innovative communication forms
Sponsor: Freedom of Speech Division
Chair: Laura Brown, University of Kentucky
Deception in “Serial,” “Undisclosed,” “Truth & Justice,”
“Making a Murderer”
Laura Brown, University of Kentucky
The social construction of reality in the courtroom
Amy Thieme, Eastern Kentucky University
The rhetorical nature of evidence as advocacy in
documentary
Chandra Maldonado, North Carolina State
University
The rhetoric of criminality, criminal justice policy
reform, and stigma in the formerly incarcerated
Susannah Bannon, University of Texas, Austin
Dramatism and Murder
Kailin Regutti, Florida Atlantic University
2611
Thursday • 3:30 pm-4:45 pm
Room: Gardenia
When You Aren’t An Old White Guy in
Academe: Exploring the Challenges
Faced by Female Faculty In and Out of the
Classroom
Sponsor: Instructional Development Division
Panelists:
Michelle T. Violanti, University of Tennessee
Carolina Rosas Webber, University of South Carolina
Upstate
Stephanie Kelly, North Carolina A & T State University
Laura E. Miller, University of Tennessee
Michelle E. Garland, University of South Carolina
Upstate
This panel explores the many challenges faced by female faculty
in and out of the classroom and in tenured and tenure-track positions. Panelists come from a variety of work environments: teaching- and research-focused institutions as well as traditional and
historically black universities. Discussion topics include socialization experiences, teacher-student communication, promotion and
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Thursday • 5:00 pm-6:15 pm
Room: Regency D&E
Vice President Spotlight Panel:
Innovative approaches to Commemoration,
Race, and Place: A Conversation with
Rhondda Robinson Thomas
Respondents:
Dr. Jason Black, University of North Carolina at
Charlotte
Dr. Carole Blair, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Dr. Cynthia King, Furman University
Dr. Thomas will present her work, discussing topics related to how
archival research and digital technologies may be employed to excavate histories and places that have been hidden, lost, or covered
over; the identification of efficient and effective processes in using
the archive (and other materials) to better understand how commemoration and cultural heritage sites—along with other historical texts—preserve national and cultural identities, especially in
terms of gender, race and class relations, and the innovations in
scholarship made possible by partnerships between humanities
scholars and colleagues in architecture and design.
Co-sponsors: Applied Communication, Community
College, Intercultural Communication, Political
Communication, Popular Communication, Rhetoric
and Public Address, Ethnography, Philosophy
and Ethics of Communication, Association for
Communication Administrators, American Society for
the History of Rhetoric
Drs. Carole Blair, Jason Black, and Cynthia King will to respond to
Dr. Thomas’ work, based on the methodological, critical, and theoretical insights they have developed from (and in relation to) their
own work.
Chair: Victoria J. Gallagher, North Carolina State
University
SSCA Welcome Reception
Thursday
tenure processes, roles and expectations, classroom management,
Latina experiences, and work/life balance to name a few. The goal
of this panel is to share our experiences to not only empower new
and upcoming female faculty but also to encourage all faculty and
administrators to create better, more innovative, strategies for
training, socialization, and classroom management practices.
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Thursday • 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Teal Ballroom
Presenter: Rhondda Robbinson Thomas, Clemson
University
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Friday
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DAY 3
Friday, April 7, 2017
3101
Friday • 8:00 am-10:00 am
Room: Regency C
87th Annual Southern States
Communication Association Breakfast
and Business Meeting
Sponsor: Southern States Communication
Association
Presiding: Roseann Mandzuik, Texas State
University
Please join us for breakfast, the association’s annual members’
business meeting, and President Mandzuik’s address.
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Friday • 10:15 am-11:30 am
Room: Think Tank@NOMA AV
Exploring Identity, Family Narrative, and
Performance
Sponsor: Performance Studies Division
Chair: Montana Smith, Louisiana State University
Friday • 10:15 am-11:30 am
Room: Studio 220@NOMA B
Rhetorical Innovations in Policy, Law and
Order: Burke and the American Political
Mind
Sponsor: Kenneth Burke Society
Chair: Ryan McGeough, University of Northern Iowa
The Metaphoric Construction of the Space Frontier:
Politics of Scientific Innovation
Alexander Morales, University of South Florida
The (Burkean) Irony of American History: Niebuhr and
American Political Realism
Cody Hawley, University of South Florida
What’s Love Got to Do with It?’: Love as Order in
Capitalist Society
Jamie Robb, University of South Florida
Dis-able-ing the ADA: Giving Voice to Disabled
Populations with Help from Burke
Max Plumpton, Independent Scholar
Heath Ledger’s Joker: A Burkean Hero
Jacob Abraham, University of South Florida
Respondent: David Payne, University of South
Florida
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Fat: A Family Tree
Colin Whitworth, Southern Illinois University
Just Breathe
Montana Jean Smith, Louisiana State University
Grandmama Says
Nicole Constantini, Louisiana State University
Strangers
Les Delgado, Southern Illinois University
Friday • 10:15 am-11:30 am
Room: Studio 220@NOMA C
Respondent: Brianne Waychoff, Borough of
Manhattan Community College, CUNY
Whose Choice is it Anyway? Contemplating the Ways
in Which Methods and Design Influence Degrees of
Freedom in the Production of Deceptive Messages
Kelly Morrison, University of Alabama at
Birmingham
Steven McCornack, University of Alabama at
Birmingham
Applying the Activation-Decision- Construction-Action
Theory of Deception to Understand Development of
the Ability to Deceive
Jeffrey J. Walczyk, Louisiana Tech University
The Truth-Default Theory Perspective on Human
Deception Detection
Timothy R. Levine, University of Alabama at
Birmingham
Family narratives create a family’s group identity and aid in the
creation of personal identities. Individuals revisit family stories
as a way to teach family history as well as situate personal identities within a larger, societal context. The telling and retelling of
these family narratives becomes a performance that shapes and reshapes our language, identity, and experiences. Through the use of
personal family narratives, the members of this panel use performance as a way to embody their own family stories and to share
that embodiment with others. In a transformative personal performance, the performers fuse together identity, family narrative, and
performance.
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Theoretical and Methodological
Innovations in Deception Research
Sponsor: Language and Social Interaction Division
Chair: Kelly Morrison, University of Alabama at
Birmingham
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COMMUNICATION AND INNOVATION
Paul Stob, Vanderbilt University
Sandra J. Sarkela, The University of Memphis
This panel reviews current theoretical and methodological innovations in three different areas of deception research: deceptive
message production, deception detection, and perception of deception. The panelists from two different fields, communication
and psychology, will present their most recent findings, and discuss their recommendations for how we should move deception
research forward both theoretically and methodologically.
Women’s suffrage only made the Senate floor once in the nineteenth
century, in 1887. It was fitting that the opposition, against Susan B. Anthony’s testimony, was led by a man born locally, in Pickens, South
Carolina, Joseph Emerson Brown. In his speech “Against the Women’s
Suffrage Amendment,” as printed in Wrage and Baskerville’s American
Forum: Speeches on Historic Issues, 1788-1900, Brown uses all of the
standard topoi of the era to deny a woman like Anthony her standing,
her voice, and her argument.
3204
Friday • 10:15 am-11:30 am
Room: Regency D-E AV
Social & Media Representation and
Choices to Communicate Cross-Culturally
Sponsor: : Intercultural Communication Division
Chair: Patrick D. Bennett, Midlands Technical College
Black Patrons Matter: Insight into the Negro Green
Social Media Guide
Tracey Vaughan, Old Dominion University
Striving for Universal Content: Transforming the NBA’s
Visual Nature
Joseph Moss, Georgia State University
Evolution of Racial Representations in Vogue Magazine
Advertisements: Women and Whiteness
Elizabeth H. Hurst, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville
The Influence of High/Low Context Culture on Choice
of Communication Media: Students’ Media Choice to
Communicate with Professors in China and the United
States
Xiaoxu Yang, University of Alabama
Yi Jasmine Wang, University of Louisville
Margaret D’Silva, University of Louisville
Respondent: Pavica Sheldon, University of Alabama
in Huntsville
3205
Friday • 10:15 am-11:30 am
Room: Regency F
‘A Woman’s Place,’ With Love from South
Carolina, Joseph E. Brown
Southern Colloquium on Rhetoric
Sponsors: Rhetoric and Public Address Division and
the American Society for the History of Rhetoric
Chair: James Darsey, Georgia State University
Panelists:
Ann Burnette, Texas State University
Brandon Inabinet, Furman University
This year’s Southern Colloquium on Rhetoric SSCA seminar uses the occasion of Greenville, SC, to take up this more obscure text from South
Carolina’s most infamous century. With its well-known first female
governor today, this location serves a timely opportunity to view the
long inventional history of gender in the state, in the southeast, and in
the larger national and global culture. Distinguished panelists of women’s suffrage, gender politics, nineteenth century culture, and regional
history take up this text with brief position statements to spur a conversation. All are invited to participate. As with all good seminars, our
SCoR/SSCA meetings are best when everyone has done the reading
and comes prepared to join the discussion. Links to the readings can be
found at the SCoR Website: www.southerncolloqrhetoric.net.
Friday
Culture, Deception, and Cognitive Structure
Elena Bessarabova, University of Oklahoma
3206
Friday • 10:15 am-11:30 am
Room: Regency G
Innovation Against Oppression
Sponsor: Applied Communication Division
Chair(s):
Dr. Michael Waltman, (Co-Chair), University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Dr. Kenneth S. Zagacki, (Co-Chair), North
Carolina State University
Racist is to Racist Behavior as Rapist is to…: Innovative
Communication Resources to Address Sexual Violence
& Consent Practices
Nicole T. Castro, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
Re-Centering Whiteness: GIRLS
Benjamin Clancy, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
(Inter)Playing with Race: Art and Play as
Communicative Social Justice Strategies
Daniel Dilliplane, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
Queering Black (im) Possibility: Black Lives Matter vs.
Blue Lives Matter
Goyland Williams, New York City College of
Technology
This round-table panel highlights the work of emerging scholars
in the fields of rhetoric, interpersonal communication, and performance studies to investigate the communicative and civic requirements of activist-scholars; special attention is paid to theories of
oppression and topics of sexual violence, re-centering whiteness,
theater of the oppressed, and social movements. Southern States Communication Association • April 5-9, 2017 • Greenville, South Carolina
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Friday
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3209
Friday • 10:15 am-11:30 am
Room: Regency H
Friday • 10:15 am-11:30 am
Room: Red Bud B
Top Three Papers in Philosophy and
Ethics of Communication
Innovations in the Ethnographic Gaze:
Identity, Space, and Performative
Ethnography
Sponsor: Philosophy and Ethics of Communication
Interest Group
Sponsor: Ethnography Interest Group
Chair: Pat Arneson, Duquesne University
Chair: Adolfo Lagomasino, University of South Florida
Kierkegaardian Seductions: Ambiguity and Edification
in the Student-Teacher Relationship*
Andrew F. Herrmann, East Tennessee State
University
War within the Margins: A Confrontation between
Faith and Reason
Mark Ward Sr., University of Houston-Victoria
Communication Ethics: The Interplay of Cultural
Relativism and Cultural Universalism
Ronald C. Arnett, Duquesne University
Blue and Green and All Else In Between
Deborah Cunningham Breede, Coastal Carolina
University
A Str8 Subject in Mayor Milk’s Court – Intersectionality,
Archival Queering, and World Making in an LGBTQ
Anthology Project
Jason Edward Black, University of North Carolina
at Charlotte
Soul For Sale: A Reflection on the NCA Graduate School
Fair
Adam Key, Texas A&M University
Queering Space: A Performance of Gender in the
Classroom
Cara T. Mackie, Florida Southern College
*Top Competitive Paper in Philosophy and Ethics of Communication
3208
Friday • 10:15 am-11:30 am
Room: Red Bud A
Rhetoric in the Age of Obama
Sponsor: Rhetoric and Public Address Division
Respondent: Beth Bradford, Florida Southern
College
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Chair: Patrick G. Wheaton, Georgia Southern
University
Friday • 10:15 am-11:30 am
Room: Red Bud C
Droning On: Barack Obama’s Definitional Discourse
Justifying Procedures for Lethal Operations Outside of
War Zones
Stephen J. Heidt, Florida Atlantic University
Race, the Movement and the Bully Pulpit: Barack
Obama and Addressing Black Audiences
Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis
Bringing Visibility to a Broken System: Barack Obama’s
Visit to El Reno Federal Correctional Institution
Matthew Klingbeil, Georgia State University
“You fit in here:” A Close Textual Analysis of President
Barack Obama’s Address to the Islamic Society of
Baltimore
Matthew Winn, Texas State University, San Marcos
Graduate Papers in Public Relations
Respondent: Sam Perry, Baylor University
Sponsor: Public Relations Division
Chair: Amber Smallwood, University of West Georgia
The Contingency Theory of Conflict Management: The
Innovative Life and Growth of a Meta Theory of Public
Relations
Douglas Wilbur, University of Missouri at Columbia
Crafting a Faculty and Staff Fundraising Campaign:
Predictors of Giving, Donor Motivations and Effective
Strategies
Piyawan Charoensap-Kelly, University of
Southern Mississippi
Talking Tough: The White House Response to the 2013
Government Shutdown
Erik Brooks, University of North Carolina at
Charlotte
University Advertising and Universality in Messaging
Stan Diel and Stephen Katsinas, Ph.D., University
of Alabama
Respondent: Pam Bourland-Davis, Georgia
Southern University
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Top Faculty Papers in Political
Communication
Sponsor: Political Communication Division
Chair: Larry Powell, University of Alabama at
Birmingham
Weighing our options: Unintended ramifications of
Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move first lady initiative
Christine M. Spinetta, University of Texas-Rio
Grande Valley
Susan H. Sarapin, Troy University
Fact-checking political candidates: An analysis of
PolitiFact patterns 2010-2014*
Joan L. Conners, Randolph-Macon College
Tweet to the Primaries: A Narrative Analysis of
Presidential Candidates
J. Scott Smith, Christopher Newport University
Anna Brinkley, Christopher Newport University
Respondent: Barry P. Smith, Mississippi University
for Women
*Top Faculty Paper
3212
Friday • 10:15 am-11:30 am
Room: Magnolia
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go:
Adventures in Survey and Applied
Research
Sponsor: Theodore Clevenger, Jr. Undergraduate
Honors Conference
Chair: Abby Brooks, Georgia Southern University
The Power of Stigmatizing Language Surrounding
Substance Use Disorder
Thomas Johnston, Georgetown College
The Success of Online Dating Versus Traditional Dating
Among College Students
Kaitlin Colon, Southern Adventist University
Shaina Rantung, Southern Adventist University
Ashley Rich, Southern Adventist University
Cheyenne Silvers, Southern Adventist University
An Investigation of Bullying Perpetrators and Victims’
Usage of Imagined Interactions
Colton Krawietz, Louisiana State University
Promoting Communication within a Learning
Environment among Toddlers and Preschoolers
Christie Johnson, University of Montevallo
Respondent: Abby Brooks, Georgia Southern
University
3213
Friday • 10:15 am-11:30 am
Room: Gardenia
Friday
Friday • 10:15 am-11:30 am
Room: Dogwood
Spillover and Cell Phones: The Development of the
Digital Single Market in the European Union
Melissa Temple, Furman University and Vesalius
College
The Politics are Dancing: Innovative Work
in Political Communication
Sponsor: Theodore Clevenger, Jr. Undergraduate
Honors Conference
Chair: Christina Moss, University of Memphis
Narrative Criticism of President Obama’s Address on
Osama bin Laden
Julie A. Rakowitz, Texas A&M University
Defining Physical Fitness Politically: A Discussion of
Image and a Rhetorical Analysis of Political Discourse
Katie Mathewson, Appalachian State University
Mother In Chief: Gender, Hillary Clinton, and the
Rhetoric of the 2016 DNC
Lainey Wood, Columbia College SC
Colin Kaepernick Protesting the National Anthem
Nichole West, Schreiner University
Koral Riggs, Schreiner University
Apocalypse to Innovation: Detecting a Shift in Climate
Change Rhetoric
John McNair, Appalachian State University
Respondent: Christina Moss, University of Memphis
3301
Friday • 11:45 am-1:00 pm
Room: Regency D-E
Vice President Spotlight Panel
Communicative Cities in the 21st
Century: A Roundtable Discussion
and Assessment of Greenville, SC as an
Innovative Case Study
Co-sponsors: Applied Communication, Ethnography Chair/Facilitator: Brandon Inabinet, Furman
University
Urban Communication Scholars:
Susan Drucker, Hofstra University
Gary Gumpert, Urban Communication Foundation
and Professor Emeritus, Queens College, CUNY
Victoria Gallagher,North Carolina State University
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Max Renner, North Carolina State University
Matthew Matsaganis, State University of New York,
Albany
This panel features local leaders from the city of Greenville interacting with communication scholars whose work on Urban Communication and related issues/topics provide innovative assessments and
innovative opportunities for urban planning, urban infrastructure
and urban life. Invited panelist will discuss the potentialities that can
emerge from the joining of academic and community organizations
and also discuss how communication scholars have and can continue to contribute to conversations related to issues of community well-being, access to resources for all regardless of socioeconomic
status, and structures which can produce better civic engagement
within and between communities. Topics for this panel include historical and structural developments of Greenville, public transportation and access, economic sustainability efforts and public policy. 3302
Friday • 11:35 am-2:00 pm
Studio 220@NOMA A
Past Presidents’ Luncheon
3303
Friday • 11:45 am-1:00 pm
Room: Think Tank @NOMA AV
New Parenting Innovations and Some
Good Old-Fashioned Stories
Sponsor: Performance Studies Division
Chair: Lyndsay Michalik Gratch, Georgia Gwinnett
College
Oh Baby, Baby How Was I Supposed to Know: A Birth
Partner’s Guide to Negotiating Anxiety, Uncertainty
and Masculinity in Case Someone Happens to Ask You
Charles Parrott, Kennesaw State University
Tube: An Accounting of the Quantified Baby
Lyndsay Michalik Gratch, Georgia Gwinnett
College
Born into a Metaphor: Inscribing and Incorporating
Practices in the CCHD Community
Ariel Gratch, Georgia College & State University
Respondents:
Danielle Dick McGeough, University of Northern
Iowa
Loretta Pecchioni, Louisiana State University
This panel demonstrates how storytelling can perform family and
open dialogue about the parts of new-parenthood that are often left
unspoken. The performers on this panel are all new at doing family, at
least in the role of parent. Their stories are political acts of memory and
revelation that make visible what other stories hide Topics include: the
medicalization of birth from a father’s point of view, technological innovations used to keep a critically ill newborn alive, and the pressure to
thrust identities onto children before they can choose their own. The
two panel respondents address the performances from performance
studies and health communication perspectives.
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Friday • 11:45 am-1:00 pm
Room: Studio 220@NOMA B
Top Papers in Freedom of Speech
Sponsor: Freedom of Speech Division
Chair: Grant Cos, Rochester Institute of Technology
#DoYourJob: Fairness, Freedom, and the Rhetoric of
Victimhood*
Christopher J. Vincent, Louisiana State University
[Rolling] Stone may break my bones, but its words
should never hurt me: Can a case of defamation lead to
innovation in communication law?
Susan H. Sarapin, Ph.D., Troy University
Larry the Cable Guy: The Public Advocate of the Anti–
Political Correct Free Speech Crowd
David Dewberry, Rider University
“Taking a Knee” and Other Acts of Symbolic Expression:
Gender and Race Constraints in Colin Kaepernick’s
National Anthem Protest
Grant Cos, Rochester Institute of Technology
R. Pierre Rodgers, George Mason University
* Top Student Paper
3305
Friday • 11:45 am-1:00 pm
Room: Studio 22@NOMA C
Communication Innovations in Race,
Gender, and Identity Theory
Sponsor: Communication Theory Division
Chair: Alison Slade, Faulkner State Community
College
An Ethnographic Exploration of the Layered Identities
of Syrian Refugees*
Elizabeth H. Hurst, The University of Tennessee,
Knoxville
Courtney N. Wright, The University of Tennessee,
Knoxville
Counterpublics and the Universal Audience
Aaron Dicker, Georgia State University
A Uses and Gratifications Theoretical Examination of
Gender, Race, and Sexual Orientation in Shondaland
Eletra S. Gilchrist-Petty, The University of
Alabama in Huntsville
Kathy Barclay, The University of Alabama in
Huntsville
Organizational Identification and the Willingness to
Censor College News Media
Christopher Mapp, University of Louisiana at
Monroe
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* Top Paper
3306
Friday • 11:45 am-1:00 pm
Room: Regency F
Top Papers in Mass Communication
Sponsor: Mass Communication Division
Chair: Brian C. Brantley, Texas A&M University-San
Antonio
Trends in Higher Education Communication Tools
Katherine P. Saxon, University of Tennessee
“Four Homegrown Muslim Terrorists on a Mission
from Hell”: Law Enforcement Gatekeeping and News
Framing of the Newburgh Four
J. Scott Smith and Kyle Angelet, Christopher
Newport University
Emotions, Mental Health and Advertising: An Analysis
of the Advertising Campaign for Disney/Pixar’s Inside
Out*
Emma Butterworth, University of North Carolina
at Charlotte
“Paving the Way”: How Newspaper Coverage of
Fracking in Florida Supports Fossil Fuels**
Alex Huebner and Jennifer Proffitt, Florida
State University
Respondent: Lauren Reichart Smith, Indiana
University
*Top Student Paper in Mass Communication
**Top Paper in Mass Communication
3307
Friday • 11:45 am-1:00 pm
Room: Regency G
Competitive Papers in Interpersonal
Communication
Sponsor: Interpersonal Communication Division
Chair: Gary Beck, Old Dominion University
Health and Relationship Beliefs in Family Discourses
about Purity Pledges: Gender, Faith Values, and the
Communicative Constitution of Reality
Jimmie Manning, Northern Illinois University
The Stickiness of Weight Stigma: An Examination
of Residual Weight Stigma, Stigma Targets, and
Willingness to Date
Mary Beth Asbury, Middle Tennessee State
University
Jessica M. W. Kratzer, Northern Kentucky
University
Thomas M. Brinthaupt, Middle Tennessee State
University
Toward a Theory of Moral Injury and Relational
Framing among Post-deployment Soldiers in Close
Relationships: A Preliminary Study
Jennifer A. Samp, University of Georgia
Andrew I. Cohen, Georgia State University
Rejection Sensitivity, Complaint-related
Communication, and Relational Satisfaction: A
Mediation Analysis
Timothy Worley, Murray State University
Jennifer Samp, University of Georgia
Managing Family Communication Paradigm
Shift: Family Members’ Cell Phone Use, Affective
Responsiveness, Affective Involvement, and General
Family Functioning
Thomas Socha, Old Dominion University
Tracey Vaughan, Old Dominion University
Amal Aldawoud, Old Dominion University
Ericha Forest, Old Dominion University
Christian Kendall, Old Dominion University
Brian Patrick Kurisky, Old Dominion University
Amy Matzke-Fawcett, Old Dominion University
Joseph G. Ponthieux, Old Dominion University
Bernard Pruden, Old Dominion University
Ryan Webb, Old Dominion University
Friday
A Rhetorical Theory of Identity
Piyawan (Pui) Charoensap-Kelly, University of
Southern Mississippi
A More Complete Model Predicting Breastfeeding
Intentions?: Combining the Theory of Planned Behavior
and Uses and Gratifications
Elizabeth Johnson-Young, University of Mary
Washington
Respondent: Linda D. Manning, Christopher
Newport University
3308
Friday • 11:45 am-1:00 pm
Room: Regency H
Critical Pedagogical Innovations in the
Intercultural Communication Classroom:
Stories of Reflexivity and Praxis
Sponsor: Intercultural Communication Division
Chair: Chad Nelson, Florida Gulf Coast University
Panelists:
EunYoung Lee, Florida Gulf Coast University
Theon Hill, Wheaton College
Chad Nelson, Florida Gulf Coast University
Billy Huff, University of South Florida, Tampa
Jon Braddy, Florida Gulf Coast University
United by our commitment to practice what Deanna Fassett and
John Warren (2007) call critical communication pedagogy, panelists explore both opportunities and obstacles to performing criti-
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cal communication pedagogy in the intercultural communication
classroom. Guided by autoethnographic methodologies, panelists
wrestle with how their positionalities mutually inform their pedagogies in the intercultural communication classroom. This panel
also opens up a conversation about the use of personal stories to
innovate the ways in which we teach and engage in intercultural
communication.
3309
Friday • 11:45 am-1:00 pm
Room: Red Bud A
Innovation and Interruption: Rhetorical
Interventions in Abortion Discourse,
2013-2016
Sponsor: Rhetoric and Public Address Division
Panelists:
Laura Roberts, North Carolina State University
Kelly M. O’Donnell, University of North Carolina at
Greensboro
Molly McCormack, University of Arkansas
Skye de Saint Felix, University of Arkansas
The National Association of College Employers (NACE) Job Outlook
for 2016 indicates employers want communication skills. Great
news for our majors, but how do we help them put their best foot
forward? This panel discusses the changing job market landscape
and how to prepare students of various academic degree levels for
the job market.
3311
Respondent: Lisa M. Corrigan, University of
Arkansas
Friday • 11:45 am-1:00 pm
Room: Red Bud C
Forty-three years after the landmark abortion case, Roe v. Wade
(1973), America has seen a revitalized conservative campaign to
rollback reproductive rights, making abortion one of the most
heavily regulated procedures in the United States. The contemporary battle over abortion rights peaked with the June 2016 Supreme Court decision in Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstedt,
which struck down Texas’ House Bill 2, a law that shutdown numerous clinics across the state. In response to increased legislation
regulating and limiting abortion access, some filmmakers have released new documentaries to shed light on the impact these laws
have on women, doctors, and ability to access abortion care. This
panel will explore and critique the rhetorical strategies embedded in both popular and political discourses that have shaped the
current political landscape and narratives on reproductive justice.
Scholars on this panel are located at southern universities in states
where repressive laws and harmful popular representations about
abortion abound.
Top Student Papers in Political
Communication
3310
Friday • 11:45 am-1:00 pm
Room: Red Bud B
The Changing Landscape of the Job
Market: Preparing Communication
Students for the Job Search
Sponsor: Instructional Development Division
Chair: Jacob Metz, Tennessee Tech University
Using Persuasion to Increase Your Marketability?
Michelle T. Violanti, University of Tennessee
Résumé/Vita and the Digital Revolution
Scott Christen, Tennessee Tech University
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Dressing to Impress May not Mean a Suit and Tie
Stephanie Kelly, North Carolina A and T State
University
Prepare to Impress: Prepping Students for the Job
Interview
Colleen Mestayer, Tennessee Technological
University
Dealing with Rejection: How to Bounce Back When You
Do Not Get the Offer
Christina Williams, North Carolina A & T State
University
Dressing for the Masquerade: Balancing Who You Are
and Who They Want in the Pursuit of a Position
Michelle Garland, University of South Carolina
Upstate
Sponsor: Political Communication Division
Chair: Marcus J. Coleman, University of Southern
Mississippi
Softer Shades of Propaganda: The Innovation of the
Islamic State’s Recruitment Rhetoric
Austin Allen, Texas State University
Towards a conflicting Weibo sphere: an entertainmentoriented agenda and networked political
deliberation**
Zhou Shan, University of Alabama
Factors Predicting the Internet Adoption Worldwide: A
Longitudinal Analysis between 2000 and 2013
Hongliang Chen, Texas A&M University
The ‘War’ on Terror and Disease: President Obama’s
Metaphoric Securitization of Ebola
Logan Gramzinski, University of Georgia
Respondent: Stephanie Martin, Southern Methodist
University
** Top Student Paper
3312
Friday • 11:45 am-1:00 pm
Room: Dogwood
Gendering Rhetorical Practice
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Sponsor: Rhetoric and Public Address Division
Approaching the Analysis of Space via the Visual
Rhetoric of Lady Justice: Understanding Jurisprudence
Through ‘Metonymic Tokens”
Bradley Knox, University of Memphis
Watson’s Invitation to the Oppressor: The Implications
of Audience on Invitational Rhetoric
Cassidy D. Ellis, University of Alabama
A Woman’s Place: Redefining Republican Motherhood
Through Katherine G. Howard’s “On Being a Woman”
Krystal Fogle, Texas A & M University
Respondent: Ashli Quesinberry Stokes, University
of North Carolina, Charlotte
3313
Friday • 11:45 am-1:00 pm
Room: Magnolia
We are Living in a Media World: Research
on Media and Innovation
Chair: Jade C. Huell, Columbia College SC
Bitter Sweet Lemonade
Cayla D. Jones, Berea College
A Love Song, a Death Rattle, a Battle Cry: I Am a Man,
No Matter How You Define It
Patrick “Paddy” Murphy, Florida Gulf Coast
University
Risky Parable: A Metaphoric Criticism of The Front
Bottoms’ song, Twin Size Mattress
Juanita Ceyann Boone, West Texas A&M
University
Collegiate a Cappella Culture: The Sing Off, Pitch
Perfect and the Role of Secondary Socialization in
Creating Strong Cultures
Hannah Star, College of Charleston
Power and Women of Color on Primetime Television
Joy E. Mattocks, Fayetteville State University
Respondent: Jade C. Huell, Columbia College SC
3401
Sponsor: Theodore Clevenger, Jr. Undergraduate
Honors Conference
Friday • 1:15 pm-2:30 pm
Room: Think Tank @NOMA AV
Chair: Dean Farmer, Campbell University
Innovations in Communication Pedagogy
– Platforms, Partnerships, and Praxis
Constructing Knowledge Outside of the Education and
Medical Systems: Young Women’s Understandings of
Pregnancy, Childbirth and Media Representation
Ambria King, Berea College
Survival of the Fittest: Evolution of the Relationship
Between Media and the Public Through Social Media
Katelyn Brooks, Middle Tennessee State University
Beyond an Online Community: Exploring the Role of
Social Media in the Formation of Fan Culture in Sports
Lauren Shear, The George Washington University
Ethical Implications of Blogging in Public Relations
Practices
Cierra Seid, College of Charleston
Vanity and Victimization: The Paris Robbery and Media
Portrayal of Kim Kardashian-West
Madeline Bronstein, The George Washington
University
Respondent: Dean Farmer, Campbell University
3314
Friday • 11:45 am-1:00 pm
Room: Gardenia
Music and Television for the
Masses: Innovative Work in Popular
Communication
Friday
Chair: Wendy Atkins-Sayre, University of Southern
Mississippi
Sponsor: Theodore Clevenger, Jr. Undergraduate
Honors Conference
Sponsor: Instructional Development Division
Chair: Christopher J. McCollough, Columbus State
University
Applying Praxis in the 21st Century Communication
Curriculum: Opportunities, Challenges, and Examples
Danna M. Gibson, Columbus State University
What is Old is New: Using the Structural Differential
Model from General Semantics, and Other Lessons
from Communication, to Train K-20 Educators on 21st
Century Pedagogical Principles
Bridget Markwood, Columbus State University
From the Boardroom to the Classroom: Innovative
Community Partnerships bringing Fortune 500s to the
Classroom
Marion Scott, Columbus State University
Service-Learning Spurring Economic Development:
Applying Competitive Assessment of Service-Learning
to Achieve Mutual Benefit in Town-Gown Relationships
Christopher J. McCollough, Columbus State
University
Experiential Learning and the Online Classroom:
Student Perceptions of a Cross-University, Team-Based
Project
Amber K. Smallwood, University of West Georgia
Brigitta R. Brunner, Auburn University
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This panel offers a cross-institutional perspective of faculty on community partnerships and bringing praxis to a variety of teaching
platforms, contexts, and levels of education, as well as exploring innovative means of evaluation. After a brief discussion of the value
of praxis in the classroom, faculty members will discuss how their
community partnership development and innovative teaching
models. Among the topics covered will be partnership cultivation,
partner roles in the classroom, assessment of community-based
class projects, and the application of practices to diverse classroom
settings, as well as the use of communication principles in reforming public education.
3402
Friday • 1:15 pm-2:30 pm
Room: Studio 220@NOMA C
How to Publish a Research Report: The
Submission Process
Sponsor: Communication Theory Division
Chair/Facilitator: Fran C. Dickson, Eastern Kentucky
University
How to select the appropriate journal
Tina A. Harris, University of Georgia
Tailoring the manuscript to the journal
Amanda Nell Edgar, University of Memphis
Dividing the study/essay into multiple submission
Amy N. Heuman, Texas Tech University
Composing the perfect cover letter
Richard Bello, Sam Houston State University
Navigating the sticky wicket of authorship credit
Craig O. Stewart, University of Memphis
This “how to” panel will proceed round-table style with brief remarks from the panelists followed by comments across the panel as well as an extensive question-and-answer session with the
audience.
Affairs at Morehead State University. He is a professor of communication and a scholar in the field of communication theory and research.
3404
Friday • 1:15 pm-2:30 pm
Room: Regency F
Undergraduate Research at Sea as an
Innovative High-Impact Educational
Practice
Sponsor: Intercultural Communication Division
Chair: Jennifer T. Edwards, Tarleton State University
Panelists:
Jeff Nwidobie, Tarleton State University
Aissa Martinez, Tarleton State University
Christian Rocha, Tarleton State University
David Gillespie, Tarleton State University
Respondent: Karley Goen, Tarleton State University
Through this panel discussion, participants will discover the benefits, disadvantages, and best practices of low-cost, short-term
study abroad programming for communication studies students
(especially first-generation college students). The three faculty
members and seven students traveled to Honduras and Mexico as
part of a joint “Travel, Tourism, and Study Abroad” experience focused on undergraduate research. This session will feature several
low-cost study abroad options (including cruises), a sample syllabus, the course agenda for each day abroad, best practices, student
perspectives of the experience, and how to infuse high-impact educational practices in communication courses. This single-institution panel will provide in-depth knowledge from administrators,
faculty, and staff who engage in their experience on their campus.
3405
Friday • 1:15 pm-2:30 pm
Room: Regency H
3403
Friday • 1:15 pm-2:30 pm
Room: Regency D-E AV
Concerns for Administrators from
Communication: A Panel Featuring Brian
McGee, Constance LeDoux Book and
Steven Ralston
Sponsor: Association of Communication
Administrators
Chair: Carl Cates, Arkansas State University
Brian R. McGee is Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs of the College of Charleston. He is a professor of communication and a faculty associate in the Women’s and Gender
Studies Program.
Connie LeDoux Book is the Provost and Dean of the College
at The Citadel. She also professor and researcher in the field of telecommunications.
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Steven Ralston is the Provost and Vice President of Academic
Innovative Social Movements and
Innovations in Social Movement Theories
Sponsor: Rhetoric and Public Address Division
Chair: Dr. Emily Winderman, North Carolina State
University
“Vote Climate!”: Slogans, Planetary Anxieties, and The
Green- Washing of Environmental Politics
Dustin A. Greenwalt, Pennsylvania State
University
Rethinking Articulation Theory Through the Podemos
Party’s Activist Praxis
Brittany R. Leach, University of Virginia
#blacklivesmatter: Innovations in Social Media,
Activism, and World-Making
Jason G. Williamson, University of Georgia
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Respondent: Lee Pierce, University of Georgia
Social movement discourses have provided persistent grounds for
generating new rhetorical theories, methods, and areas of inquiry,
many of which have influenced the trajectory of the discipline as a
whole. With the recent emergence of activism among members of
Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street and similar groups across the
globe, a variety of Women’s Movement’s, as well as organizations
concerned with climate change, our contemporary context provides an important opportunity to evaluate and build upon these
accomplishments. As such, this panel seeks to revisit disciplinary
inquiries associated with social movements, develop new scholarly pathways, and interrogate how shifting technological, political,
and social contexts enable or constrain these attempts to spur social change.
3406
Friday • 1:15 pm-2:30 pm
Room: Red Bud A
Innovative General Education Course
Designs
Sponsor: Community College Division
Chair: S. Brad Bailey, Mississippi Gulf Coast
Community College
Panelists:
Greg G. Armfield, New Mexico State University
Patrick Breslin, Santa Fe College
Nakia Welch, San Jacinto Community College
Whether you are a seasoned instructor in search of different ideas
to design your general education class or an instructor new to the
classroom, this panel is exactly what you are looking for! The panelists will share innovative course designs for teaching four of the
more common classes offered at community colleges across the
nation. Panelists will share their successful experiences implementing and offering these innovatively designed courses. These are not
individual assignment ideas akin to those available in a GIFTS session, they are (re)design approaches/formats for the entire course!
English Is Not Enough: Language and Accessibility
Within Debate Spaces
Hannah Tabrizi, Valdosta State University
Michael Eaves, Valdosta State University
Competition and Inclusion: Addressing the Needs of
People with Disabilities in the Competitive Forensics
Austin Allen, Texas State University – San Marcos
To Eat or Not to Eat: A Content analysis of Forensic
Tournament Invitations
Kevin Bryant, University of Southern Mississippi
Friday
Stigmatization and Social Movements: Mapping
the Pro-Choice Fracture in the #ShoutYourAbortion
Campaign.
Emily Winderman, North Carolina State University
3408
Friday • 1:15 pm-2:30 pm
Room: Dogwood
New Directions in Political Rhetoric
Sponsor: Rhetoric and Public Address Division
Chair, Dan Grano, University of North Carolina,
Charlotte
The Rhetoric of the New Southern Strategy: Rand Paul
at Howard University
Ryan Neville-Shepard, University of Arkansas “I am the NRA”: Values Advocacy and Identification
Strategies of the Freedom’s Safest Place Campaign
Liz Ballard, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
Martí’s Parrhesia: A Dream Sequestered
Adolfo Lagomasino, University of South Florida
Intersecting Globalization & Security: A Rhetorical
Analysis of Free Trade Agreements
Clay Stewart, University of Georgia
The Senator Who Cried “Communist”: Joseph McCarthy
and the “Enemies from Within”
Kelly Williams, Baylor University
Respondent: Dan Grano, University of North
Carolina, Charlotte
3409
Friday • 1:15 pm-2:30 pm
Room: Regency G
3407
Friday • 1:15 pm-2:30 pm
Room: Red Bud B
Exploring Elements of Recent Presidential
Campaigns
Invisible Barriers and Exclusivity in
Forensics
Sponsor: Political Communication Division
Sponsor: Argumentation and Forensics Division
Chair: Keven Rudrow, University of Memphis
Unintelligible Barriers: A Critical Analysis of Racialized
and Sexualized Exclusion in Competitive Debate
Christopher J. Vincent, Louisiana State University
Keven J. Rudrow, University of Memphis
Chair: Kayla Hastrup, Louisiana State University
Barack Obama’s Response to the ‘Angry Black Man’
Race Card: A Critical Analysis of ‘A More Perfect Union’
Ronald Lee, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Aysel Morin, East Carolina University
Slicing the 2016 Campaign News Pie: Front-page
election coverage
Joan Conners, Randolph-Macon College
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The Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speeches of
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton: Terministic Screens
and Antagonistic Worldviews
Jim A. Kuypers, Virginia Tech
John F. Kennedy and Identification in Houston
J. David Trebing, Kent State University
Intensity of Face Threats in the 2008, 2012 and 2016 US
Presidential Debates
Edward A. Hinck, Central Michigan University
Shelly S. Hinck, Central Michigan University
William O. Dailey, Central Michigan University
Talk About the Passion: Research on
Family and Gender
‘No Sexual Revolution Here’: How Birth Control
Advertisements Control Consumers
Laura Daley, Transylvania University
Deaf Patient and Healthcare Practitioner
Communication: Deaf Patients’ Experiences in a Small
Southeastern City
Tess LaRie Ellis, University of South Carolina
Upstate
“I’m Just Using Everything at My Disposal”: A
Qualitative Analysis of the Narratives Surrounding
Prescription Stimulant Misuse on College Campuses
Gretchen Bauermeister, The George Washington
University
Disclosure Patterns Among Gynecologic Patients
Clint G. Graves, The University of Tennessee
Critical Analysis of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders:
Explication and Dissection of Stigma
Taylor E. McKaig, Campbell University
Sponsor: Theodore Clevenger, Jr. Undergraduate
Honors Conference
Respondent: Kathryn E. Anthony, University of
Southern Mississippi
3410
Friday • 1:15 pm-2:30 pm
Room: Magnolia
Chair: Patrick G. Wheaton, Georgia Southern
University
The Bravery Deficit: Reshma Saujani’s TED Talk on
Teaching Young Girls Bravery Rather than Perfection
Meghan Brophy, Furman University
For Better or for Worse: A Generic Criticism of American
Family-Centered Sitcoms and Associated Ideological
Influence
Lauren Lee, Texas State University
An Exploration of Dominance in Rape Culture: A
Feminist Criticism of the Stanford Rape Case Letters
Kassidy Payne, West Texas A&M University
Christmas Letters as Eulogy and Redemption
Stella Childress, Murray State University
Suitable for Adults: An Analysis of Borrowed Time Using
Narrative Criticism
Kelsey Knight, West Texas A&M University
Respondent: Patrick G. Wheaton, Georgia
Southern University
3411
Friday • 1:15 pm-2:30 pm
Room: Gardenia
Doctor, Doctor: Research in Innovative
Health Communication
Sponsor: Theodore Clevenger, Jr. Undergraduate
Honors Conference
Chair: Kathryn E. Anthony, University of Southern
Mississippi
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3501
Friday • 2:45 pm-4:00 pm
Room: Think Tank@NOMA AV
Don’t Forget to Play: Celebrating the
Legacy of Dr. Kelly Taylor
Sponsor: Performance Studies Division
Chair: Rebecca Walker, Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale
Panelists
Jay Allison, University of North Texas
Andrea Baldwin, University of Houston- Clear Lake
Garret Castleberry, Oklahoma State University –
Oklahoma City
Sharon Croft, Capital University
Dan Heaton, Capital University
Leigh Anne Howard, University of Southern Indiana
Holley Vaughn, University of North Texas
Rebecca Walker, Southern Illinois University
Dr. Kelly Taylor taught for almost twenty years in the Communication Studies department at the University of North Texas. During
that time, her work as a performance studies scholar and practitioner made her a vital part of the performance studies field, particularly throughout the southern region of the United States. A former
chair of the Performance Studies Division when it was still called
the Interpretation Division, Dr. Taylor has a long history of service
to SSCA. Although she recently retired, her creative research and
mentorship impacted so many members of the Southern States
Communication Association’s larger community, that this panel
was created to honor her lasting influence on multiple generations
of communication and performance studies scholar-practitioners.
Featuring former students and colleagues, this panel celebrates Dr.
Taylor’s legacy in performance, through performance.
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3502
Innovation is Ruining How I Teach
Theory!: A Roundtable Discussion on
How Social Media and Technology is
Changing the Ways We Explain Older
Communication Theories
Sponsor: Communication Theory Division
Panelists:
John H. Saunders, University of Central Arkansas
Alison Slade, Faulkner State Community College
Christopher Mapp, University of Louisiana at Monroe
Carl Thameling, University of Louisiana at Monroe
Many of the communication theories that we teach, and are highlighted in most introductory and advanced theory textbooks, were
created prior to the invention of the world-wide web and all the following technology that has forever changed how humans communicate. Because these theories are still very workable, we continue
to teach them. However, due to technology, our students communicate differently now than most faculty members did when we
first learned these theories. This change means that faculty are being forced to find different ways to explain and apply older theories. This roundtable encourages discussion in the innovation of
new methods in teaching communication theory with the advent
of social media impacting this education and application of theory
in the classroom.
3503
Friday • 2:45 pm-4:00 pm
Room: Regency D-E
Top Papers in Popular Communication
Sponsor: Popular Communication
Chair: Emily D. Ryalls, Mississippi State University
The Perfect Affair: Ashley Madison’s Simulation
Terri Manley, Texas Tech University
“I Didn’t See It, but I Know What It’s About”: The
Motion Picture Trailer and Problematic Synecdoche
C. Wesley Buerkle, East Tennessee State University
A Thankless Compromise: You Tube, Uber, Gary
Vayherchuk, and the Language of Hustle
John Moist, Baylor University
Co-opting Voice and Cultivating Fantasy:
Contextualizing and Critiquing the A Gay Girl in
Damascus Hoax Blog*
Gordon Alley-Young, Kingsborough Community
College – City University of New York
Star Trek, Metaphor, and Social Change: An Innovative
Approach to Social Commentary in the 1960s and
Beyond **
Joseph G. Ponthieux, Old Dominion University
Respondent: Emily D. Ryalls, Mississippi State
University
*Top Paer
** Top Student Paper
Friday
Friday • 2:45 pm-4:00 pm
Room: Studio 220@NOMA C
3504
Friday • 2:45 pm-4:00 pm
Room: Regency F
Pathos, Public Address, and Political
Invention: Advancing Rhetorical Theory &
Criticism
Sponsor: Rhetoric and Public Address Division
Chair: Emily Winderman, North Carolina State
University
“Osama bin Laden’s Angry Rhetoric”
Celeste M. Condit, University of Georgia
“We celebrate our own funeral, the discovery of
America: Pathos, Promise, and Constraint in Simon
Pokagon’s (Potawatomie) Resistance to the 1893
World’s Fair”
Jason Edward Black, University of North Carolina,
Charlotte
“Gendered Empathy and the Rhetorical Production
of Disgust: Pathos in the Center for Medical Progress’
Planned Parenthood Videos.”
Emily Winderman, North Carolina State University
Laura Roberts, North Carolina State University
“’This is Great, but We’re Not Crazy’: NAMI’s Muted
Anger at ACA’s Mental Health Stigma”
Sally Spaulding, University of Georgia
Respondent: Kevin Marinelli, Davidson College
In the past several years, critics have turned towards the study of
emotion in order to expand our understanding of how human social boundaries are made and unmade through rhetorical action.
While affect theory has helpfully complicated some of our calcified
intellectual traditions, pathos remains an under-theorized resource
for critics. To continue addressing this lacuna, our panel focuses on
pathos from a number of perspectives ranging from bio-symbolicity to rhetorical history. Each panelist examines pathos as both a
vector of critique and a mode of inventional resource, considering
the political implications of public emotions and their strategic deployment. This panel suggests that pathos could be a valuable theoretical export to interdisciplinary affect studies insofar as it calls
for a consideration of emotional historicity, corporeal materiality,
and political invention.
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BIG HERO IMAGE HERE
GRADUATE STUDIES
AT MEMPHIS
MA concentrations in Film & Video
Production and Communication Studies.
PhD in Communication Studies with
emphases in Rhetoric & Media Studies and
Health & Relational Communication.
Competitive stipends, funding for conference
travel, and cash awards for excellence in
teaching, research, and creative work.
Driven by doing.
The University of Memphis, a Tennessee Board of Regents
institution, is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
University. It is committed to education of a non-racially
identifiable student body.
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memphis.edu/communication
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HEALTH COMMUNICATION
AT MEMPHIS
Research opportunities in the city's 19 hospitals,
including St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and two
of the largest healthcare systems in the country,
Methodist LeBonheur and Baptist Memorial.
Interdisciplinary collaboration with UofM's School of
Public Health and University of Tennessee Health
Science Center.
Programmatic focus on translating and implementing
communication research both locally and nationally.
Driven by doing.
The University of Memphis, a Tennessee Board of Regents
institution, is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
University. It is committed to education of a non-racially
identifiable student body.
memphis.edu/communication
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Friday
3505
Friday • 2:45 pm-4:00 pm
Room: Regency G
Innovation vs. Dissolution: A Roundtable
Discussion of the 2016 US Presidential
Election
Sponsor: Political Communication Division
Chair: Marcus J. Coleman, University of Southern
Mississippi
Participants:
Larry Powell, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Melissa M. Smith, Mississippi University for Women
Marcus J. Coleman, University of Southern Mississippi
William F. Harlow, University of Texas of the Permian
Basin
Lauren Reichart Smith, Indiana University
Brian C. Brantley, Texas A&M University – San Antonio
Kenny D. Smith, Indiana University
Barry P. Smith, Mississippi University for Women
Patrick G. Wheaton, Georgia Southern University
Panelists will discuss the candidates, issues, strategies, and outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. This election featured a
major-party female nominee, a real-estate magnate turned realityTV star nominee, a historic level of mistrust in both parties’ nominees, and an unconventional campaign season that defied easy
analysis. Does this election presage innovation or dissolution of the
familiar electoral process?
3506
Friday • 2:45 pm-4:00 pm
Room: Regency H
Innovations in Supporting Public
Engagement with Science:
Methodological, Institutional,
Educational
Sponsor: Applied Communication Division
Chair: Jean Goodwin, North Carolina State University
Breaking Maslow’s hammer: Cross-training public
engagement students in rhetoric and ethnography
Pat J. Gehrke, University of South Carolina
Prosaic voices: Accounting for Vernacular Data in
Rhetoric of Science Research
Adam Lerner, The University of South Carolina
Leadership in Public Science at NCSU: An institutional
mechanism for integrating research and education in
science and in communication
Jean Goodwin, North Carolina State University
Bring the healers, scientists, techies, builders,
mathematicians, as well as all others: An institutional
center for enhancing (science) communication at TTU
Luke LeFebvre, Texas Tech University
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Scientists should improve their public communication efforts;
communication scholars should be able to help. This panel reports
on the methodological, institutional and educational innovations
that promise to allow communication scholars to better support
the communication of science to broader publics.
3507
Friday • 2:45 pm-4:00 pm
Room: Red Bud A
Innovative Ideas for Helping Students
with Language Barriers Navigate the
Basic Course
Sponsor: Intercultural Communication Division
Chair: Jill Bergeron, University of Tennessee
Innovative Strategies for Meeting the Needs of
International Students
Jill Bergeron, University of Tennessee
Gamification in the ESL classroom: Diminishing
speaking anxiety through play
Mary Grace Antony, Schreiner University
Innovation and Basic Communication: An Inductive
Pedagogy for Public Speaking
Mark Ward Sr., University of Houston-Victoria
The purpose of this roundtable discussion is to explore creative and
innovative ways to help students with language barriers, such as
ESL students, succeed in the basic course. So often these students
are mainstreamed into the basic course with native speakers and
are left behind because of the fast pace of the course and a lack
of mastery in the English language. Panelists briefly discuss their
experience in this area and offer pedagogical strategies that have
worked for their students; then open the floor for members of the
audience to ask questions and contribute their ideas and insights.
3508
Friday • 2:45 pm-4:00 pm
Room: Red Bud B
Innovations in Training Graduate
Students, Teaching Undergraduates,
Curricular Design and Assessment
Sponsor: Instructional Development Division
Chair: Steven McCornack, University of Alabama at
Birmingham
Panelists:
Andrew Pyle, Clemson University
Kelly Morrison, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Erin Ash, Clemson University
Beth Goodier, College of Charleston
Jennifer Kopfman, College of Charleston
Jayne L. Violette, University of South Carolina
Beaufort
To truly innovate instruction we must consider each dimension influencing delivery. This roundtable provides useful suggestions
Southern States Communication Association • April 5-9, 2017 • Greenville, South Carolina
COMMUNICATION AND INNOVATION
3509
Friday • 2:45 pm-4:00 pm
Room: Red Bud C
Communication Theory Division Business
Meeting
Chair: Shaughn Keaton, Young Harris College
3510
Friday • 2:45 pm-4:00 pm
Room: Dogwood
Top Papers in Argumentation and
Forensics
Sponsor: Southern Argumentation and Forensics
Division
Chair: Adam Key, Texas A&M University
The Either/Or Fallacy of Binary Voting in Competitive
Academic Debate
Nakia Welch, San Jacinto Community College
Reduction and Decadence: Implications of Reduction
on Universalist and Nominalist Argument
Cody R. Hawley, University of South Florida
#Urban: Student Voices and Conflicting Social Identities
in a Critical Ethnography of an Urban Debate League*
Sara M. Mathis, Auburn University
Forensics and Anthropocentrism: Envisioning a
Posthuman Debate Space **
Keven Rudrow, University of Memphis
Hannah Tabrizi, Valdosta State University
Respondent: Forrest Rule, Texas A&M University
*Top Paer
** Top Student Paper
Participants:
Ron Jackson, NCA First Vice President
Jimmie Manning, NCA Inclusivity Task Force
Kathleen J. Turner, NCA Inclusivity Task Force
Paaige K. Turner, NCA Executive Director
This panel features NCA National Office staff and elected leadership who will highlight the resources available through NCA to
support teaching, research, and career development in communication. The panel will dedicate time for attendees to share input
and ask questions about NCA.
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across each dimension. We begin by exploring how we train graduate students, examining ways to facilitate their comprehension
and application of research, and how to use communication theory to enhance instructional techniques. Next, we review the use of
group collaboration and internships in undergraduate education.
Creative curricular design is considered, with specific suggestions
for flexibly streamlining design choices. Finally, we address assessment, describing an innovative approach to individual student assessment that also may be used for program assessment.
3512
Friday • 2:45 pm-4:00 pm
Room: Magnolia
People are People: Innovations in
Ethnography, Culture, and Organizations
Sponsor: Theodore Clevenger, Jr. Undergraduate
Honors Conference
Chair: Susan Opt, James Madison University
African American Teen and Adolescent Communication
in the African American Roller Skating Subculture
Hannah Jobe, Southern Adventist University
Gavin Finch, Southern Adventist University
Up in the Air: A Look into the Positive Effects of Aerial
Dance on Self-concept, Self-esteem, and Identity
Caitlyn Anderson, Columbia College SC
Sexual Assault: An Autoethography about Survivors as
a Muted Group
Cassandra B. Weckerly, Berea College
Sporting Gender: Blowing the Whistle on Gendered
Communication in the Player-Coach
Devon Walter, Columbia College SC
Newsroom Culture in a Time of Change
Megan Foster, Coastal Carolina University
Lindsey Hanks, Coastal Carolina University
Respondent: Susan Opt, James Madison University
3513
Friday • 2:45 pm-4:00 pm
Room: Gardenia
It’s Not the Rhetoric of Failure:
Innovations in Theory and Rhetoric
3511
Friday • 2:45 pm-4:00pm
Room: NOMA B
National Communication Association:
Initiatives and Member Resources
Chair: Trevor Parry-Giles, University of Maryland
Sponsor: Theodore Clevenger, Jr. Undergraduate
Honors Conference
Chair: Richard Leeman, University of North Carolina,
Charlotte
The Constitutive Rhetoric of Daniel Webster’s Reply
John Michael Kauth, Florida Gulf Coast University
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Friday
COMMUNICATION AND INNOVATION
Beyond the Utilitarian Principle: Tragic Oedipus,
Farcical Christ, and Prosthetic Hamlet
Austin D. Burke, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Chris Murphy’s Filibuster on Guns: An Effective
Narrative for Change
Natalie Swimmer, Furman University
Dying to Live: Challenging the Rhetoric of Gendered
Motivation in Suicide Bombing
Dina Hamadi, University of Houston
Somos España: Building a New Spanish Identity
Lakelyn Taylor, University of Southern Mississippi
Respondent: Richard Leeman, University of North
Carolina, Charlotte
3601
Friday • 4:15 pm-5:30 pm
Room: Regency D-E
Vice President Spotlight Panel –
Communication and Innovation in
Presidential Campaigns: A Conversation
with Michael McCurry
Co-Sponsor: Community College, Political
Communication, Popular Communication, Rhetoric
and Public Address, (Southern) Argumentation /
Forensics, Kenneth Burke Society, Philosophy and
Ethics of Communication Moderator: Mary Stuckey, Georgia State University
Featured Guest: Michael McCurry, Distinguished
Professor of Public Theology at Wesley Seminary and
former White House Press Secretary
Panelists:
Navita Cummings James, University of South Florida
Jennifer Mercieca, Texas A&M University
Kenneth Zagacki, North Carolina State University
Description: This panel will feature Mike McCurry, currently Distinguished Professor of Public Theology at Wesley Seminary, former press
secretary for President Bill Clinton, and current head of the presidential debate commission, in conversation with presidential, rhetorical
and media studies scholars (including Drs. Jennifer Mercieca, Kenneth S. Zagacki, and Navita Cummings James) to provide a post mortem reflection on the communication innovations and challenges that
characterized the 2016 presidential campaign. Topics will include comparing and contrast strategies of past presidential campaigns with
recent approaches, as well as assessment of the measures taken to
represent a collective understanding of a candidate’s identity. This is
a moderated discussion with Dr. Mary Stuckey serving as moderator.
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3602
Friday • 4:15 pm-5:30 pm
Room: Think Tank @NOMA AV
The 2017 Multimedia Production
Showcase
Moderator: Barry P. Smith, Mississippi University for
Women
The 2017 Multimedia Production Showcase highlights student
works from video production and media design courses. These
works are presented as pedagogical examples to spur discussion
and innovation in such courses. The producers and/or course instructors for various works will discuss the background of each
work and how it fits into a production curriculum. Projection equipment will be required for this panel.
3701
Friday, 5:45 pm-7:00 pm
Room: Studio 220@NOMA Think Tank
Kenneth Burke Society Business Meeting
3702
Friday • 5:45 pm-7:00 pm
Room: Regency F
Popular Communication Division
Business Meeting
3703
Friday • 5:45 pm-7:00 pm
Room: Regency G
Performance Studies Division Business
Meeting
3704
Friday • 5:45 pm-7:00 pm
Room: Rege pmncy H
Philosophy and Ethics in Communication
Interest Group Business Meeting
3705
Friday • 5:45 pm-7:00 pm
Room: Red Bud A
Political Communication Division
Business Meeting
Southern States Communication Association • April 5-9, 2017 • Greenville, South Carolina
COMMUNICATION AND INNOVATION
3706
3709
Friday • 5:45 pm-7:00 pm
Room: Magnolia
Instructional Development Division
Business Meeting
American Society for the History of
Rhetoric Business Meeting
3707
3710
Friday • 5:45 pm-7:00 pm
Room: Red Bud C
Friday • 5:45 pm-7:00 pm
Room: Gardenia
Language and Social Interaction Division
Business Meeting
Association of Communication
Administrators Business Meeting
Friday
Friday • 5:45 pm-7:00 pm
Room: Red Bud B
3708
Friday • 5:45 pm-7:00 pm
Room: Dogwood
Public Relations Division Business
Meeting
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Saturday
COMMUNICATION AND INNOVATION
DAY 4
Saturday, April 8, 2017
4101
Saturday • 8:00 am-9:15 am
Room: Regency C
Theodore Clevenger, Jr. Undergraduate
Honors Conference Breakfast
Presiding: Jason Munsell, Vice President-Elect
UHC Participants, their registered guests, and their faculty sponsors are invited.
4104
Saturday • 8:00 am-9:15 am
Room: Regency D-E AV
Entertainment and Representation in
Popular Culture
Sponsor: Popular Communication
Chair: Danielle E. Williams, Georgia Gwinnett
College
4102
Saturday • 8:00 am-9:15 am
Room: Think Tank@NOMA AV
TOO PERFECT?: The Cyborg Who Schooled
Me ( An Original, Site-Specific play)
Sponsor: Performance Studies Division
Chair: David Burke, Greenville Technical College
Director: David Burke, Greenville Technical College
Performers:
Carli Gaughf, Greenville Technical College
Bobbi Lee, Greenville Technical College
David Burke, Greenville Technical College
Rebecca Ferguson, Greenville Technical College
Dan Robbins, Greenville Technical College
“She Invited Other People to that Space”: Social
Justice and Place in Beyonce’s Lemonade Audience
Communities
Amanda Nell Edgar, University of Memphis
Ashton Toone, University of Memphis ‘Cause Stone Cold Said So: Austin 3:16 as Prophetic
Aphorism
Adam Key, Texas A&M University
Astral Projections: On being Haunted by Ghosts from
the Future
Kevin Ells, Texas A& M University-Texarkana
The Supercam Mythology and Cam Newton’s
Performance of Blackness: The Controversial
Superbowl 50 Post-Game Press Conference
Serena Daya, Wake Forest University
Respondent: Danielle E. Williams, Georgia
Gwinnett College
4103
Saturday • 8:00 am-9:15 am
Room: Studio 220@NOMA B and C
GIFTS: Great Ideas For Teaching Students
Sponsor: Community College Division
Chair: Monette Callaway, Hinds Community College
Building A Promotional Campaign
Andrew S. Pyle, Clemson University
D. Travers Scott, Clemson University
Isn’t That Pinteresting?: Innovating with Pinterest to
Broaden Course Impact
Laurie D. Metcalf, Blinn College
Playing Cards For Status
Jill Stapleton Bergeron, University of Tennessee
Using TED Talks to Teach Outlining
Jay Pedregosa, Blinn College
Melissa Meek, Blinn College
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Teaching PowerPoint as a Visual Aid to Create Study
Guides
Stephanie Kelly, North Carolina A & T University
#Communication: Making Class a Social Media
Experience
Nakia Welch, San Jacinto Community College
4105
Saturday • 8:00 am-9:15 am
Room: Regency F
Advances and Innovations in Rhetoric
and Religion
Sponsor: American Society for the History of
Rhetoric Interest Group and Rhetoric and Public
Address Division
Chair: Vernon Ray Harrison, Central Alabama
Community College
“An Abominable Conclave of Negro Hating Demons”:
Bishop Henry McNeal Turner, the Supreme Court and
the Plessy Decision
Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis
Southern States Communication Association • April 5-9, 2017 • Greenville, South Carolina
COMMUNICATION AND INNOVATION
Saturday • 8:00 am-9:15 am
Room: Regency G
Mothers’ Beliefs about the Importance and Impact of
Family Sexual Communication
Katrina L. Pariera, George Washington University
Family, Identity and Home: Retrospective Narratives of
Child Immigrants
Linda D. Manning, Christopher Newport University
Heather L. Bridges, The Virginia Gazette
A Silver Lining: A Quantitative Study of the Relationship
between Personality Factors and Post Traumatic
Growth Following the Death of a Spouse.
Carrie L. West, Schreiner University
Grandparents and Grandchildren at Play: Video Games
as Conduit for Family Communication
Sanela Osmanovic, Louisiana State University
Loretta Pecchioni, Louisiana State University
Targeting, Organizing, & Resisting:
Stakeholders and Group Communication
Respondent: Thomas Socha, Old Dominion
University
Respondent: Laura Alberti-Strait, University of
Southern Mississippi
4106
Sponsor: Applied Communication Division
Chair: Carrie Reif, University of Southern Mississippi
SnowedOut Atlanta: Examining the Development of
Digital Emergent Citizen Groups
Meredith Morgoch, Clemson University
Andrew S. Pyle, Clemson University
Brandon Boatwright, Clemson University
They’re With Us: Bullying and the Role of Group
Affiliation
Trevor Setvin, Community College of Baltimore
County
Young Millennials and Food Companies: Product
Purchasing and Word of Mouth Behaviors
Sadie Moore, University of Arkansas
Kelly W. Conley, University of Arkansas
Zeyu Lu, University of Arkansas
Myria W. Allen, University of Arkansas
Pins and Publicity: Exploring Public Relations Best
Practices for Pinterest
Cathlin V. Clark-Gordon, West Virginia University
Andrew S. Pyle, Clemson University
Respondent: Marjorie Buckner, Texas Tech
University
4107
Saturday • 8:00 am-9:15 am
Room: Regency H
Family Conversations and Unique
Interactions
Saturday
Ethical Innovation in Religious Rhetoric: First Peter’s
Challenge to Household Codes
Steven Tramel Gaines, University of Memphis
The Jeremiah Wright Controversy, Obama’s Loss of
Religious Identity, and Rhetorical Invention
Sam Perry, Baylor University
Evolution and Creation: A Civilized Debate?
Andrew Judson Hart, University of Georgia
4108
Saturday • 8:00 am-9:15 am
Room: Red Bud A
Prisons and the Public: Criminal Justice
Rhetoric and its Political Consequences
Sponsor: Rhetoric and Public Address Division
Chair: Ryan Kor, University of Georgia
#KellyOnMyMind: Religion and Gender Discourse in
Capital Punishment
Abolitionist Campaigns
Jason G. Williamson, University of Georgia
Searching for a National Community: Barack Obama’s
Rhetoric on Race and Prison Reform
Matthew Klingbeil, Georgia State University
Race, Mass Incarceration, and the Book Review: A
Genre Analysis of Reform
Scholarship Debates
Sara Baugh Harris, University of Denver
The Visible Criminal and the Specter of Willie Horton:
Changing Perspectives of Justice within the Civic
Imaginary
Emily Kofoed, University of South Carolina Upstate
This panel considers public rhetoric about U.S. prisons and the people within the prison-industrial complex. In looking to criminal justice discourse in presidential rhetoric, social media, and literature,
these papers consider the role of correctional facilities in shaping
society and culture.
Sponsor: Interpersonal Communication Division
Chair: Josh Pederson, University of Alabama
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COMMUNICATION AND INNOVATION
Saturday
4109
4111
Saturday • 8:00 am-9:15 am
Room: Red Bud B
Saturday • 8:00 am-9:15 am
Room: Magnolia
The Need for Innovation in Crafting
Educational Responses to Terror Strikes
Incorporating Free Speech in the
Curriculum
Sponsor: Intercultural Communication Division
Sponsor: Freedom of Speech Division
Chair: Todd Lee Goen, Christopher Newport University
Chair: Grant Cos, Rochester Institute of Technology
Panelists:
Todd Lee Goen, Christopher Newport University
Joy L. Hart, University of Louisville
Linda D. Manning, Christopher Newport University
Nina-Jo Moore, Appalachian State University
Kandi L. Walker, University of Louisville
Free Speech in the Basic Course
David R. Dewberry, Rider University
Free Speech in Organizational Communication Courses
Rebekah L. Fox, Texas State University
Free Speech in Political Communication Courses
Ann Burnette, Texas State University
Free Speech in the Journalism Courses
Mark Grabowski, Adelphi University
Free Speech is the Methodology Courses
Stephen A. Smith, University of Arkansas
Free Speech in the Communication Ethics Courses
Pat Arneson, Duquesne University
Terror attacks during the 2015-2016 academic year required many
intercultural and education abroad programs to craft messages addressing fears for safety and security. This panel will explore concerns communication scholars working in a variety of intercultural
capacities must consider when crafting messages to address these
fears. Specifically, the panel will address the roles of media coverage in creating barriers to intercultural understanding, institutional concerns regarding intercultural programs, and a potential lack
of intercultural competence amongst the target for the messages. The panel will also address the need for innovative strategies
to ensure messages create greater intercultural awareness and understanding while simultaneously addressing concerns raised by
parents, students, administrators, etc.
Saturday • 8:00 am-9:15 am
Room: Gardenia
Politics as Story Telling
4110
Saturday • 8:00 am-9:15 am
Room: Red Bud C
Is Perception Reality? A Look at How
Perception Shapes Our Thinking, Actions,
and Innovative Practices
Sponsor: Ethnography Interest Group
Chair: Christine S. Davis, University of North Carolina
at Charlotte
Augmenting Singularity through 360 Video
William Allen, Florida Southern College
Bounce Back Discourse: The Significant Connection
Between Communication and Resilience
Pamela Dykes, Florida Southern College
The Iron Will in Fitness
Beth Bradford, Florida Southern College
Portrayals of the Middle East from Abroad: The Truth
and the Lies
Theresa MacNeil, Florida Southern College
Respondent: Deborah Cunningham Breede,
Coastal Carolina University
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4112
Sponsor: Political Communication Division
Chair: Marcus J. Coleman, University of Southern
Mississippi
Narrativizing the Iraq Surge: A Rhetorical History
John P. Banister, University of Georgia
Donald Trump and the (De)Evolution of the Strict
Father in Conservative Political Rhetoric
Nick Rangel, Houston Community College
Instagram, Hillary Clinton, and Femininity: Examining
Follower Preferences in Social Media
Krystal Fogle, Texas A&M University
Respondent: Melissa M. Smith, Mississippi
University for Women
4201
Saturday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Think Tank @NOMA AV
Innovations in Teaching Public Speaking:
Digital and Critical
Sponsor: Instructional Development Division
Southern States Communication Association • April 5-9, 2017 • Greenville, South Carolina
COMMUNICATION AND INNOVATION
This panel presents the research of four active teacher-scholars proposing and practicing major innovations in teaching public speaking. These papers present not only practical guidance on
how the course can better serve its mission in our current age, but
also macro-level reorganizations and reorientations of the course.
These innovations together indicate the beginning of a revolution
in how we think about and teach one of our discipline’s most important and most common courses
4202
Saturday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Studio 220@NOMA B and C
GIFTS: Great Ideas For Teaching Students
Sponsor: Community College Division
Chair: S. Brad Bailey, Mississippi Gulf Coast
Community College
Understanding How We Present Ourselves to Others:
An Exercise in Identity Management
Jacob Metz, Tennessee Technological College
The Passion Speech
Steven Herro, College of Southern Nevada
Two Truths and a Lie—Increasing Student Interaction
with Professor and Peers During the First Weeks of
Class in Blended and Online Classes
Ruth Martin, Blinn College
Lights. Camera, Communicate: Assigning Student
Videos to Build A Learning Community in a Hybrid or
Online Communication Course
Anne O. Campbell, Penn State Erie, The Behrend
College
Pinterest Visualization and Audience Analysis
Assignment
Scott A. Eldredge, Western Carolina University
4203
Saturday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Regency D-E AV
On the Frontiers of Feminism: Contesting
Post-Feminist Rhetoric and Gender
Performativity in Popular Culture
Sponsor: Popular Communication
Chair: Cynde Carrico Rausch, Florida Atlantic
University
Bits and Bites of Play: An Exploration of the Online
Paratextual Practices Surrounding Female Gameplay of
Telltale’s The Walking Dead (2012)
Kristina Bell, High Point University
A Woman’s Place in the Octagon: Audience
Reception of Gender and Sexuality as Depicted in
Representations of Female UFC Fighters
Temiela Blackman, Independent Scholar
#FarmHer and the Hybrid Rhetoric of the 21st Century
Female Farmer
Krystin Gollihue, North Carolina State University
The Frontier and the Rhetoric of Gender Performativity
in Early 20th Century Visual Culture
Chandra Maldonado, North Carolina State
University
Saturday
Avoiding a Faustian Bargain: Using Critical
Communication Pedagogy in the Required Public
Speaking Course
Juliane Mora, University of Tampa
Transforming the Pedagogy of the Basic Course: A
Team-Based Learning Approach
Luke LeFebvre, Texas Tech University
Public Speaking in the 21st Century: Leveraging the
Digital for Rhetorical Excellence
Davis W. Houck, Florida State University
Rhetorical innovation for the digital era: Meeting the
civic/commercial duties through online pedagogy
Pat J. Gehrke, University of South Carolina
Respondent: Cynde Carrico Rausch, Florida Atlantic
University
4204
Saturday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Regency F
Panel in Honor of Outstanding Scholar
in Communication Theory: Courtney N.
Wright
Sponsor: Communication Theory Division
Chair: Shaughan Keaton, Young Harris College
This program honors Dr. Courtney Wright for her contributions to
our knowledge and understanding of communication theory. Dr.
Wright’s research program focuses on relational communication
and conflict in close relationships and instructional settings. She is
primarily interested in manifestations of the darker sides of human
interaction in social influence, social confrontation, and paradoxical forms of communication (e.g., the silent treatment, teasing behavior).
Please join us as we celebrate Dr. Wright’s accomplishments.
Southern States Communication Association • April 5-9, 2017 • Greenville, South Carolina
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Saturday
4205
4207
Saturday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Regency G
Saturday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Red Bud A
Top Papers in Applied Communication
Top Papers in Rhetoric and Public Address
Sponsor: Applied Communication Division
Sponsor: Rhetoric and Public Address Division
Chair: Kathryn E. Anthony
Chair: Lisa M. Corrigan, University of Arkansas
Emotions and Organizational Citizenship Behavior:
Exploring the Emotional Predictors of Interpersonal OCB*
Emily Paskewitz, University of Tennessee
Family Caregiver Communication in the ICU: Toward a
Relational View of Health Literacy
Mandy Young, University of Memphis
Elizabeth Stephens, Middle Tennessee State University
Joy Goldsmith, University of Memphis
Dress for Their Success: Thematic Analysis of Gender
Bias Dress Codes**
Anna-Carrie Beck, The University of Kentucky
Communicating an Elimination Diet
Madison Ray, Armstrong State University
Irony in Charleston: Barack Obama’s Eulogy for
Clementa C. Pinckney, June 26, 2015
Scott Anderson, Arkansas State University*
“Dumbing” the Jocks: Exploring Opportunities for
Nonverbal Athlete Protest Rhetoric
Meredith Bagley, University of Alabama
Performing Late Liberal Prudence: Rehnquist and Due
Process
Tim Barouch, Georgia State University
Sirleaf’s Rhetorical Transformations during Liberia’s
Ebola Crisis
Julia Spiker, University of Akron
Respondent: Raymond R. Ozley, University of
Montevallo
*Top Faculty Paper
** Top Student Paper
4206
*Top Paper
4208
Saturday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Red Bud B
Saturday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Regency H
Top Papers in Interpersonal
Communication
Top Papers in the History of Rhetoric
Sponsor: Interpersonal Communication Division
Sponsor: American Society for the History of
Rhetoric Interest Group
Chair: Fran C. Dickson, Eastern Kentucky University
Chair: Jefferson Walker, University of Alabama at
Birmingham
The Readiness Paradigm: An Innovative Approach to
Rhetorical Education from Classical Sources
Thomas Duke, University of Alabama
The Manhattan Project National Historical Park:
Technofetish Tourism at the Hanford B-Reactor
Wade Walker, Auburn University
A Public without Community? Toward a
Rapprochement of Two Critical Concepts**
Cody R. Hawley, University of South Florida
Money Matters: Rhetorics of Money and the Criticism
of Economic Discourse*
William O. Saas, Louisiana State University
Respondent: Melody Lehn, University of South
Carolina, Extended University
*Top Paper
**Top Student Paper
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Respondent: Kevin Marinelli, Davidson College
Transgenerational Patterns of Communication
Orientations and Depression among Mothers and
Adult Children*
Timothy Curran, University of Georgia
Jennifer A. Samp, University of Georgia
Anastacia Janovec, University of Georgia
Memorable Messages and the Evaluation of Relational
Transgressions
Nathan Miczo, Western Illinois University
Nonverbal Politeness Scale: Development and Validation
Andrew C. Tollison, Merrimack College
Kenneth J. Levine, Michigan State University
Abby M. Brooks, Georgia Southern University
Mary Beth Asbury, Middle Tennessee State University
A Proposed Model of College Students’ Mental Health
Help-Seeking Attitudes and Intentions**
Jacob J. Matig, University of Kentucky
Michele K. Olson, University of Kentucky
Sarah E. Sheff, University of Kentucky
Chelsea L. Woods, University of Kentucky
Southern States Communication Association • April 5-9, 2017 • Greenville, South Carolina
COMMUNICATION AND INNOVATION
Respondent: Carrie L. West, Schreiner University
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4209
Saturday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Red Bud C
Construction of the “Other” through
Influence, Writing, and Recruitment Interculturally
Sponsor: Intercultural Communication Division
Chair: Ramesh N. Rao, Columbus State University
Covering Others: For what purpose, and with what
intent?
Ramesh N. Rao, Columbus State University
Persuasive Tactics of the STOP ERA Campaign: Gaining
Compliance through the Six Principles of Influence
Kayla J. Hastrup, Louisiana State University
Social Media Practices and Intercultural
Communication for Employee Recruitment in the
Cruise Industry
Jennifer T. Edwards, Tarleton State University
Travel journalism as global media discourse:
Constructions of the “other” in travel writing
Philip S. Poe, Mississippi State University
Respondent: Mary Grace Antony, Schreiner
University
Clevenger Panel One: Top Papers in Media
and Popular Communication*
Sponsor: Theodore Clevenger, Jr. Undergraduate
Honors Conference
Chair: Brandon Inabinet, Furman University
Law & Order: SVU, Rape Culture, and the Rhetoric of
Guilt
Palmer Reynolds, Columbia College SC
The Bro Code: Masculinity Construction and
Communication in How I Met Your Mother
Cameron Brown, The University of Memphis
A Rhetorical Criticism of M.I.A.’s “Borders”
Mollie Murphy, North Carolina State University
Piper Chapman: How Performativity and
Intersectionality Interact within the Women-In-Prison
Genre
Kennedy Wilks, University of North Texas
Tracing Narrative Blueprints: How Audience Lines Allow
for Map Projections to Become Reality
Estefania Castro, North Carolina State University
Saturday
Saturday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Magnolia
*Top Paper
** Top Student Paper
Respondent: Brandon Inabinet, Furman University
*This year, the UHC Top Paper panels are designated as Clevenger
Panels. Each student presenting on theses panels is recognized as
a Clevenger Scholar.
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4210
Saturday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Dogwood
Free Speech Issues: Societal Stasis and
Flux
Sponsor: Freedom of Speech Division
Chair: Pat Arneson, Duquesne University
The Public Platform as Fundamental to Freedom of
Expression: Access to the Opportunity to Influence
Pat Arneson, Duquesne University
Hyper Vigilance or Hyper Vigilantism: Why is the Press
Preoccupied with Clinton Scandals?
David R. Dewberry, Rider University
Cacophony of Gunfire: Competing Frames of Campus
Carry Discourse
Rebekah L. Fox, Texas State University
Ann E. Burnette, Texas State University
The Importance and Necessity of Primary Research in
Researching Free Speech and Politics
Stephen A. Smith, University of Arkansas
Saturday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Gardenia
Everybody Wants to Rule the World:
Research in Innovative Political Rhetoric
and Nationalism
Sponsor: Theodore Clevenger, Jr. Undergraduate
Honors Conference
Chair: Kellie W. Roberts, University of Florida
Decent Exposure: An In-Depth Analysis of David
Horsey’s Political Cartoon
Olivia Rudiak, North Carolina State University
Social Media and Its Effects on the 2016 Presidential
Election
Victoria Newbill, Flagler College
I Want to Thank You for What I Have Done and What I
Will Do
Tim Hare, Georgia Southern University
The Fabled Fabric
Sarah Mohr, Furman University
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COMMUNICATION AND INNOVATION
GRADUATE STUDIES
at
THE UNIVERSITY OF
SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI
Offering students a supportive environment
for advancing their education and careers
The University of Southern Mississippi,
founded in 1910 as a teachers’ college, has
grown into a competitive doctoral and
reasearch institution with a diverse student
body and award-winning faculty members.
The university’s main campus is located in
Hattiesburg, Miss. The region offers a variety
of outdoor activities (including a 40-mile
hike/bike trail and rivers), live music events,
museums, shopping and an excellent
culinary scene. Additionally, the city is
centrally located and offers easy access to
beautiful beaches, New Orleans, Jackson,
Mobile and Biloxi. Find out more about the
region at www.hattiesburg.org.
For information about our Ph.D. and
M.A. programs, contact
Dr. Steven Venette
The University of Southern Mississippi
Department of Communication Studies
118 College Drive #5131
Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001
[email protected]
601.266.4325
www.usm.edu/communication-studies
WELCOMING
AND THANKING
Laura Stengrim
Charles H. Tardy
Ph.D., University of Illinois
Rhetoric, director of the Speaking Center
Ph.D., University of Iowa
Upon his retirement, for 16 years of
service as our department chair, and
37 years of service to the profession and
The University of Southern Mississippi
FROM THE FACULTY
Kathryn Anthony
Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Health communication, interpersonal
communication
Wendy Atkins-Sayre
Ph.D., University of Georgia
Department chair
Rhetoric, social movements
Marcus Coleman
Ph.D., University of Georgia
Political communication, interdisciplinary
studies
Casey Maugh Funderburk
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Rhetoric, feminist criticism
Lawrence A. Hosman
Ph.D., University of Iowa
Persuasion, language and social influence
Eura Jung
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Intercultural and interpersonal
communication
John C. Meyer
Ph.D., University of Kansas
Organizational communication, humor
Laurance Paul Strait
Ph.D., University of Southern California
Rhetoric, director of forensics
Steven J. Venette
Ph.D., North Dakota State University
Organizational communication,
risk and crisis communication
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Saturday
COMMUNICATION AND INNOVATION
Communication as a First Lady: Anticipating the Style
of Melania Trump
Anna Bundy, Appalachian State University
Respondent: Kellie W. Roberts, University of Florida
4301
Saturday • 11:00 am-12:15 pm
Room: Think Tank@NOMA AV
Top Student Papers in Performance
Studies
Sponsor: Performance Studies Division
4303
Chair: Danielle Dick McGeough, University of
Northern Iowa
Saturday • 11:00 am-12:15 pm
Room: Regency D-E AV
Trapped in A Doll House: How Nora’s Slammed Door
Left the Men Behind
Naomi Bennett, Louisiana State University
Reflexive Intersectionality
Anna Marsden, University of North Texas
Finding my Front Porch: An Autoethnography of
Performing Intersections of Queer and Regional
Identity
Colin Whitworth, Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale
Hermanas del Arte, Sisters of Art
Olivia G. Perez-Langley, Angelo State University**
Coping with Cancer’s Narrative Uncertainty: A Narrative
and Performative Model for Coping with Cancer
Patrick E. McElearney
A Sampling of Outstanding Scholarship:
Top Papers in the Gender Studies Division
Respondent: Danielle Dick McGeough, University
of Northern Iowa
4302
Saturday • 11:00 am-12:15 pm
Room: Studio 220@NOMA B and C
GIFTS: Great Ideas For Teaching Students
Sponsor: Community College Division
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Innovative Ideas from the Cult Classic Motion Picture
Friday: Persuasion Theory as Taught by “Professor
Smokey”
S. Brad Bailey, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community
College
Using Jimmy Carter’s Call to Action to Increase
Awareness of Issues Facing Women and Girls
Mary Carver, University of Central Oklahoma
Innovation and Creativity in Video and Audio: how Film
and T.V. Clips Craft Communication Learning
Beau Foutz, Alcorn State University
Chair: Linda Levitt, Stephen F. Austin State University
The Politics and Potentialities of Queer Decorum:
Exploring Gabriel García Román’s Queer Icons*
Megan Elizabeth Morrissey, University of North Texas
The Best of All Worlds: Containing Miley Cyrus through
the (White) Male Gaze**
Montana Jean Smith, Louisiana State University
Transing Communication Education: A Chorus of Voices
for Innovating Transgender Pedagogy
Jamie Capuzza, University of Mount Union
Leland G. Spencer, Miami University
E. Tristan Booth, Arizona State University
Lucy Miller, Texas A&M University
T.J. Billard, University of Southern California
Sarah Jones, Arizona State University
Matthew Heinz, Royal Roads University
Camping the “Post-” on Scream Queens
Emily D. Ryalls, Mississippi State University
*Outstanding faculty paper
** Outstanding student paper
4304
Chair: Frances E. Brandau, Sam Houston State
University
Saturday • 11:00 am-12:15 pm
Room: Regency F
Who Made Up These Rules?: Understanding the Rules
of Family Communication
Isaac Evans, Tennessee Technological University
Scott Christen, Tennessee Technological University
The Empathy Map: An Innovative Approach for
Teaching Students Communication Skills
Courtney R. Brazile, Eastfield College
Mary F. Forrest, Eastfield College
Discourses of Hate
Sponsor: Language and Social Interaction Division
Chair: Caroline E. Sawyer, University of South
Carolina - Beaufort
Rhetoric, Race, and the Reconstruction of Black Lives
Matter as a Hate Group
Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis
Southern States Communication Association • April 5-9, 2017 • Greenville, South Carolina
COMMUNICATION AND INNOVATION
Respondent: Amanda Nell Edgar, University of
Memphis
From the rise of Donald Trump and Hillary-bashing in the 2016 presidential campaign, to the backlash against anti-racist movements
such as Black Lives Matter, hate has been a salient feature of U.S.
public discourse in the past year. Drawing on critical and rhetorical discourse studies perspectives, the presenters on this panel will
analyze how conservatives attempt to reframe the Black Lives Matter as a hate group, how liberal women enact “Hillary-hate,” how
White Nationalists respond to Trump’s political discourse, and how
Trump and Clinton make and respond to accusations of racism.
4306
Saturday • 11:00 am-12:15 pm
Room: Regency H
Contemporary Issues in Free Speech
Sponsor: Freedom of Speech Division
Chair: R. Pierre Rodgers, George Mason University
Laura Brown, University of Kentucky
Pat Arneson, Duquesne University
Stephen A. Smith, Univeristy of Arkansas
Chandra Maldonado, North Carolina State University
Grant Cos, Rochester Institute of Technology
Saturday
Patriarchy in Sheep’s Clothing: Hillary Clinton, Liberal
Women, and Discourses of Hate
Melody Lehn, University of South Carolina,
Extended University
Donald Trump and Hitler: How Modern White
Nationalists Perceive ‘The Donald.’
Claire D. Rhodes, Florida State College at
Jacksonville
Discourses of Race/ism in the 2016 Presidential Campaign
Craig O. Stewart, University of Memphis
4307
Saturday • 11:00 am-12:15 pm
Room: Red Bud A
Top Student Papers in Rhetoric and Public
Address
Chair: Lisa M. Corrigan, University of Arkansas
4305
Saturday • 11:00 am-12:15 pm
Room: Regency G
Social Norms and Mores: Papers on
Health Communication
Sponsor: Applied Communication Division
Chair: Cathlin V. Clark-Gordon, West Virginia
University
Why Do People with Diabetes Adapt or Avoid
eHealth?: A Qualitative Approach towards Examining
Communication Patterns
Grace Ellen Brannon, Texas A&M University
E-cigarette Users: Better Health through Vaping?
Clara G. Sears, University of Louisville
Joy L. Hart, University of Louisville
Kandi L. Walker, University of Louisville
Alexander S. Lee, University of Louisville
S. Lee Ridner, University of Louisville
Rachel J. Keith, University of Louisville
Coping with Stress through Humor in Emergency
Medical Services
Brian Perna, The University of Southern Mississippi
Daily communication and eating: exploring media use,
parental rules and peer influence on minority children’s
healthy eating
Xueying Zhang, University of Alabama
Kim Baker, University of Alabama
Sarah Pember, University of Alabama
Kim Bissell, University of Alabama
Respondent: Rebekah L. Fox, Texas State University
Forgetting Stonewall: Public Memory and the Loss of
Militancy in Queer Activism **
Jeff Nagel, Baylor University
“An Awesome Responsibility to Withstand her
Barrage”: William F. Buckley, Jr. and the Conservative
Critique of Higher Education
John Moist, Baylor University
“The Role of Cold War Nostalgia in the Senate Armed
Services Committee Hearing on ‘Global Challenges and
the U.S. National Security Strategy.”
Breena Brockmann, University of Georgia
“Father Charles E. Coughlin’s “Menace of The World
Court” Speech and the Mobilizing Role of Fear in
Depression Era Rhetoric”
Milene Ortega, Georgia State University
Respondent: Stephen J. Heidt, Florida Atlantic
University
**Top student paper
4308
Saturday • 11:00 am-12:15 pm
Room: Red Bud B
Stop!: We Have Explored Innovative
Approaches to Apprehension, Emotions,
and the Public Speaking Curriculum…
and the Results are in!
Sponsor: Community College Division
Chair: Steven Herro, College of Southern Nevada
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COMMUNICATION AND INNOVATION
Exploring Communication Apprehension Among
College Students
Colin Croat, Western Carolina University
Candy J. Noltensmeyer, Western Carolina
University
Suzon Hawley, Western Carolina University
Association Among Community College Students’
Technology Apprehension and Achievement Emotions
in Developmental Education Courses
Sara G. Crocker, Clemson University
Joseph P. Mazer, Clemson University
An Integrally Informed Approach to the Public
Speaking Curriculum
Patrick Breslin, Santa Fe College
Respondent: Nakia Welch, San Jacinto Community
College
4309
Saturday • 11:00 am-12:15 pm
Room: Red Bud C
Top Papers in the Kenneth Burke Society
Chair: Ryan Erik McGeough, University of Northern
Iowa
Floor Debates of the 1910 Mann Act: A Contest of
Scene and Agent
Ben Swenson-Weiner, Texas State University
Skyrim and Immersion into the Scene: Kenneth Burke
and Environmental Potential Within Role-Playing Video
Games
Sam Watson, Baylor University
Bloody Bogalusa and the Fight for a Bi-Racial Lumber
Union: A Study in the Burkean Rebirth Cycle
Josie A. Burks, University of Alabama
Rejecting the ‘New South’: Ida B. Wells’s New Moral
Order for Civil Rights*
Anna M. Dudney Deeb, University of Georgia
I, Soldier: The Military Mythos of the TALOS Project**
Johanna M. Broussard, Louisiana State University
*Top Student Paper in the Kenneth Burke Society
**Top Paper in the Kenneth Burke Society
4310
Saturday • 11:00 am-12:15 pm
Room: Dogwood
Creating and Sustaining a StudentRun Social Media Research Institute:
Benefits, Opportunities, and Supports, a
Roundtable Discussion
Sponsor: Public Relations Division
Participants:
Jeff Nwidobie, Tarleton State University
Nwidobie is an undergraduate student majoring in engineering at
Tarleton State University. He serves as the Executive Social Media
Coach for the Texas Social Media Research Institute.
Aissa Martinez, Tarleton State University
Martinez is an undergraduate student majoring in communication
at Tarleton State University. She serves as a fourth-semester, Social
Media Coach for the Texas Social Media Research Institute.
Christian Rocha, Tarleton State University
Rocha is an undergraduate student majoring in communication at
Tarleton State University. She serves as a fourth-semester, Social
Media Coach for the Texas Social Media Research Institute.
David Gillespie, Tarleton State University
Gillespie is an undergraduate student majoring in communication
at Tarleton State University. He serves as a second-semester, Social
Media Coach for the Texas Social Media Research Institute.
Respondent: Dr. Kaley Goen, Tarleton State
University, Co-Director of the Texas Social Media
Research Institute (TSMRI)
College students who attend higher education institutions located
in a rural environment do not typically have opportunities to connect with industry professionals through company internships. The
Texas Social Media Research Institute provides opportunities for
students to gaining experience working with faculty members on
external social media accounts while never leaving their campus.
Through this panel, the student panelists will provide the structure
of TSMRI, the goals of the organization, and how universities can
form their own institute.
4311
Saturday • 11:00 am-12:15 pm
Room: Magnolia
Clevenger Panel 2: Top Papers in Survey
and Applied Research*
Sponsor: Theodore Clevenger, Jr. Undergraduate
Honors Conference
Chair: Thomas Socha, Old Dominion University
Fighting Islamophobia: Prejudice Reduction through
Contact Simulation with Written Narrative
Nejla Day, The George Washington University
The Baltimore Riots as Crisis Management Case Study
Alena Kairys, Flagler College
HPV Vaccination Receptivity: How Provider Messaging
Influences Patient Receptivity
Katie D. Scott, University of Tennessee
Social Media: The Use of Social Media in Social Justice
Movements
Monica Crawford, Appalachian State University
Adaptation of International Students: View Change on
the LGBTQI Community
Sheyla Finkelshteynn, Berea College
Chair: Jennifer Edwards, Tarleton State University
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COMMUNICATION AND INNOVATION
Respondent: Thomas Socha, Old Dominion
University
4312
Did Video Really Kill the Radio Star?
Adventures in Digital and Performance
Submissions
Saturday • 11:00 am-12:15 pm
Room: Gardenia
Sponsor: Theodore Clevenger, Jr. Undergraduate
Honors Conference
Clevenger Panel 3: Top Papers in
Rhetorical Theory and Criticism*
Chair: Ariel Gratch, Georgia College & State
University
Sponsor: Theodore Clevenger, Jr. Undergraduate
Honors Conference
Praye(red)
Les Delgado, Southern Illinois University
S.O.S. Food Pantry PSA
Kaitlyn Word, Austin Peay State University
Who is Spring & Sprout?
Lesley Goodaker, Transylvania University
​“Authentic Inauthenticity”: A Rhetorical Critique of
Buzzfeed’s T​ asty and Lifestyle Video Tutorials
Jordan Long, Transylvania University
Chair: Dan Grano, University of North Carolina,
Charlotte
Human Rights Theory: Making the Case for the
Inclusion of Adam Smith
Kelsey Orr, Furman University
The Growing Threat of Terrorism Inside of Our
Borders’: A Fantasy-Theme Criticism of Donald Trump’s
Interpretation of the 2016 Orlando Nightclub Shooting
Kiara Walker, Transylvania University
Obama and American Exceptionalism: The Shaping of
an American Identity
Jessica Chaplain, Appalachian State University
A Question to Society: ‘Whether the Art of Medicine as
It Has Been Usually Practiced Has Contributed to the
Advancement of Mankind’
Kayla Wiles, Furman University
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion as Controversial
Rhetoric
Jocelyn Boulware, Furman University
Respondent: Dan Grano, University of North
Carolina, Charlotte
*This year, the UHC Top Paper panels are designated as Clevenger
Panels. Each student presenting on theses panels is recognized as
a Clevenger Scholar.
Respondent: Ariel Gratch, Georgia College & State
University
4502
Saturday • 2:45 pm-4:00 pm
Room: Dogwood
Planning Meeting for 2018 SSCA
Convention
Chair: Jason Munsell, Second Vice President
All division and interest group planners for 2018 should attend this
meeting or the one on Sunday morning at 8am.
4503
Saturday • 2:45 pm-4:00 pm
Room: Studio 220@NOMA B and C
GIFTS: Great Ideas For Teaching Students
4401
Saturday • 12:30 pm-2:30 pm
Room: Regency C
Southern States Communication
Association 87th Annual Awards
Luncheon
Presiding: Roseann Mandzuick, President
Keynote Speaker: Michael Waltmann
*This is a ticketed event*
Saturday
*This year, the UHC Top Paper panels are designated as Clevenger
Panels. Each student presenting on theses panels is recognized as
a Clevenger Scholar.
4501
Saturday • 2:45 pm-4:00 pm
Room: Think Tank@NOMA AV
Sponsor: Community College Division
Chair: Laurie D. Metcalf, Blinn College
Teaching t-tests, ANOVA, and Correlations Through
Throwing
Timothy Worley, Murray State University
Discovering Cultural Differences Through A Rigged
Board Game
Jeff Sorrels, East Texas Baptist University
Inquiry-Based Civil Discourse Education
Darren L. Linvill, Clemson University
Andrew S. Pyle, Clemson University
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Saturday
COMMUNICATION AND INNOVATION
Street Ethnography Using Tumblr
D. Travers Scott, Clemson University
Andrew S. Pyle, Clemson University
Drastic Measures: Teaching Effective Delivery Through
Phil Davison
T. Kody Frey, University of Kentucky
Teaching with TED Talks
Donata Worrell, Rockingham Community College
4504
Saturday • 2:45 pm-4:00 pm
Room: Regency D-E AV
*Top Paper in Language and Social Interaction
** Top Student Paper in Language and Social Interaction
4506
Saturday • 2:45 pm-4:00 pm
Room: Regency G
Writing Evocative Autoethnography:
Writing Lives, Telling Stories
Sponsor: Ethnography Interest Group
Town Hall Debate
Chair: Cara T. Mackie, Florida Southern College
Sponsor: Southern Argumentation and Forensics
Division
Panelists:
Art Bochner, University of South Florida
Carolyn Ellis, University of South Florida
Moderator: Michael Eaves, Valdosta State University
Panelists:
Christopher J. Vincent, Louisiana State University
Taylor Deaton, Valdosta State University
Ty Adam, Fayetteville State University
Stephen A. Smith, University of Arkansas (Retired)
An annual tradition of the Argumentation & Forensics Division, the
Town Hall Debate features members of the Division arguing on a
resolution related to current events in teams of two. This year’s resolution will concern the theme of the conference, Communication
& Innovation. Audience members will be asked to participate both
through comments and questions after the debate as well as voting to decide the winner.
4505
Saturday • 2:45 pm-4:00 pm
Room: Regency F
Management of Contradiction,
Contingency, and Ambiguity in Public
Discourses
Sponsor: Language and Social Interaction Division
Chair: Jelena Petrovic, Stetson University
#OscarsSoWhite: A thematic and visual analysis of
Tweets during Chris Rock’s 2016 Academy Award
Monologue
Catherine E. Bahn, Arkansas State University
Co-Constructing Constituent Relations in Town Hall
Meetings: The Pursuit of Political Accountability in
Question and Answer Exchanges*
Robert J. Green, Stephen F. Austin State University
The Inherent Visual Nature of Language**
Joseph G. Ponthieux, Old Dominion University
The Absence/Presence of the Transgender Identity in
the Political Discourse of March 23, 2016… The Day
North Carolina’s “Bathroom Bill” Passed
Deborah Thomson, East Carolina University
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Respondent: Bryan Crow, Southern Illinois University
Carbondale
Respondents:
Andrew F. Herrmann, East Tennessee State
University
Chris Patti, Appalachian State University
Bochner and Ellis will provide a detailed account of the development and writing of their latest book, Evocative Autoethnography.
They will discuss such issues as how they function as collaborators
and writing partners; deficiencies in the norms of scholarly writing in the human sciences; the rise of autoethnography and narrative inquiry; how to evaluate autoethnography; writing as method;
truth and memory in narrative writing; overspecialization in communication studies; what it means to live a writing life; and how
they teach autoethnography and narrative inquiry. Respondents
will lead discussion of issues related to the future of autoethnography in communication research.
4507
Saturday • 2:45 pm-4:00 pm
Room: Regency H
“There’s No ‘I’ in Team:” The Role
of Communication in Sports and
Volunteerism
Sponsor: Applied Communication Division
Chair: Greg G. Armfield, New Mexico State University
Motivation Gets Them in the Door, But What Keeps
Them There? Exploring A New Model of Volunteer
Satisfaction
Colleen Mestayer, Tennessee Technological
University
Development and testing of the NASCAR Fan
Motivation Model
Thomas Mueller, Appalachian State University
Volunteer Socialization: Rethinking the Training of
American Cancer Society Volunteers
Haley Miller, Western Kentucky University
Jennifer Mize Smith, Western Kentucky University
Southern States Communication Association • April 5-9, 2017 • Greenville, South Carolina
COMMUNICATION AND INNOVATION
Respondent: Andrew S. Pyle, Clemson University
4508
4510
Saturday • 2:45 pm-4:00 pm
Room: Red Bud C
Student Papers on Interpersonal
Communication Processes
Sponsor: Interpersonal Communication Division
Chair: Fran C. Dickson, Eastern Kentucky University
Saturday • 2:45 pm-4:00 pm
Room: Red Bud A
Prison and the Rhetoric of Black
Liberation
Sponsors: Rhetoric and Public Address Division and
the American Society for the History of Rhetoric
Chair: Carole Blair, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
Panelists:
Carole Blair, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Davis W. Houck, Florida State University
Sean O’Rourke, Sewanee, The University of the South
Mary Stuckey, Georgia State University
Respondent: Lisa M. Corrigan, University of
Arkansas
This panel examines Lisa M. Corrigan’s new book Prison Power: How
Prison Influenced the Movement for Black Liberation (UPM: 2016) to
assess the book’s excavation of the changing role of prison politics
in the black freedom struggle.
The Relationship between Aggressive and Assertive
Communication Behaviors: Examination and
Scale Development of the Aggressive Assertive
Communication Instrument (AACI)
Valerie Berenice Coles Cone, University of
Georgia
Seeking vs. Avoidance: How Young Adults Manage
Uncertainty Regarding the Affordable Care Act
Gemme Campbell, Texas A&M University
Smartphones and Interpersonal Relationships: An
Exploratory and Descriptive Examination of How
Texting Plays a Role in Face-to-Face Communication
Matthew Robins, Arkansas State University
Managing Political Differences within Marriage: Does
Shared Family Identity Help?
Jennifer Schon, University of Kansas
Saturday
High School Athletes’ Relationships with Head Coaches
and Teammates as Predictors of their Expressions of
Upward and Lateral Dissent
Gregory A. Cranmer, Clemson University
Marjorie Buckner, Texas Tech University
Respondent: Mary Beth Asbury, Middle Tennessee
State University
4511
Saturday • 2:45 pm-4:00 pm
Room: Magnolia
4509
Saturday • 2:45 pm-4:00 pm
Room: Red Bud B
Finding Your Voice: A Workshop on Public
Speaking as Innovative Empowerment
Sponsor: Instructional Development Division
Panelists:
Kathleen J. Turner, Davidson College
Randall Osborn, Independent Scholar
Michael Osborn, University of Memphis
Suzanne Osborn, University of Memphis
Despite the fear and trembling with which many student approach
public speaking courses, we understand the value of public speaking as a way to provide innovative empowerment for them personally, professionally, and as members of the body politic. This
workshop will develop a list of challenges facing students (and faculty!) in each of the five rhetorical canons, brainstorm solutions in
smaller groups, and share insights as a whole.
Issues of gender in digital spaces
Chair: Ashton Mouton, Purdue University
“Does This Lab Coat Make Me Look
#DistractinglySexy?”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of a
Feminist Hashtag Campaign
Alex Rister, University of Central Florida
Player-Avatar Sex Congruity and Game Enjoyment
Duncan V. Prettyman, University of Delaware
Social Media and Gender Issues
Lynne M. Webb, Florida International University
Nicholas M. Temple, Central Washington
University
Transgender Consciousness-Raising on YouTube:
Experience, Testimony, and Vu’s Oeuvre
Evan Schares, Louisiana State University
Respondent: Ashton Mouton, Purdue University
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COMMUNICATION AND INNOVATION
4602
Saturday
4512
Saturday • 2:45 pm-4:00 pm
Room: Gardenia
Saturday • 4:15 pm-5:30 pm
Room: Red Bud C
Culture Club: Innovations in Culture and
Communication Research
Making Your Mark: Utilizing Innovation
and Technology to Market Your State
Association
Sponsor: Theodore Clevenger, Jr. Undergraduate
Honors Conference
Chair: Caroline Sawyer, University of South Carolina,
Beaufort
The Influence of Cultural Dimensions on Conflict
Communication Patterns
Alexandra Nelson, University of Tennessee
Chris Stovall, University of Tennessee
Karlie Crawford, University of Tennessee
Lizzie Davis, University of Tennessee
Leah French, University of Tennessee
Does China Run on Dunkin?
Alexandra Balcom, High Point University
The Rhetoric of Black Women’s Hair as a Personal
Identity
Jamal Mentor, Georgia Southern University
Airbnb: Digital Discrimination
Chloe Medina, Flagler College
Universality of Facial Expression of Emotion
Kelley Smith, Young Harris College
Respondent: Caroline Sawyer, University of South
Carolina, Beaufort
4601
Saturday • 4:15 pm-5:30 pm
Room: Regency D-E AV
President’s Spotlight Panel: A
Conversation on Politics, Civility, and
Conscience
Sponsor: SSCA President
Chair: Roseann Mandziuk, Texas State University
Panelists:
Vanessa Beasley, Vanderbilt University
Carole Blair, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Michael Osborne, University of Memphis
Mary Stuckey, Georgia State University
Description: This panel brings together scholars who through
their research and professional service examine the intersections
between communication and conscience, including engaging
questions of social justice, equality, conservation, caring, and civic
responsibility. As our region continues to grow and diversify, this
is a particularly opportune moment for SSCA members to come together to determine how to promote the value of communication
scholarship and communication competencies. This conversation
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Sponsor: State Association Interest Group
Moderator: Carl Cates, Arkansas State University
Panelists:
Leslie Rasmussen, Xavier University
S. Brad Bailey, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community
College
Keith Perry, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
John H. Saunders, University of Central Arkansas
The focus of this roundtable is to discuss different ways that state
associations have used technology to promote their respective association. The panel will discuss what has worked, what has not
worked, and how emerging technologies might further promote
state associations. Our discussion will primarily focus on social media, but will also discuss other technologies that have been used.
4603
Saturday • 4:15 pm-5:30 pm
Room: Magnolia
It’s the End of the World as We Know
It: Adventures in Innovative Research
on Technology, Culture, Politics and
Education
Sponsor: Theodore Clevenger, Jr. Undergraduate
Honors Conference
Chair: Jean DeHart, Appalachian State University
Tweeting for Presidency: Donald Trump’s Sophist
Rhetoric
Ashley Whittemore, Georgia Southern University
Saving Innovation: Examining the Technology Gap
Through the Lens of Symbolic Interactionism
Sierra Marling, Berea College
Developing and Promoting Two Interdisciplinary
Minors
Austin Hunter Morgenroth, Schreiner University
From Blacksmiths to Dentists: An Examination of the
Scientific Method and Rhetoric in The Natural History
of Human Teeth
James Ricke, Furman University
The Publicity of Privacy: Why Sexuality Shouldn’t Be News
Anne K. Walker, Northwest Arkansas Community
College
Respondent: Jean DeHart, Appalachian State
University
Southern States Communication Association • April 5-9, 2017 • Greenville, South Carolina
COMMUNICATION AND INNOVATION
4604
4704
Saturday • 5:45 pm-7:00 pm
Room: Regency G
We’re Not Gonna Take It!: Innovative
Research on Gender, Race and Culture
Applied Communication Division
Business Meeting
Sponsor: Theodore Clevenger, Jr. Undergraduate
Honors Conference
Chair: C. Wesley Buerkle, East Tennessee State
University
Something New and Something Old: The Progression
and Regression of Modern Representations of African
American Femininity in Romance Films
Rosemary Coskrey, Furman University
She’s the ‘Boss’—Not: Rhetoric, Gender and
Managerial Styles in 30 Rock
Ashley Robinson, Columbia College SC
Just Because We’re Magic Doesn’t Mean We’re Not
Real: Deciphering Jesse Williams’ 2016 BET Awards
Speech
Blair Williams, North Carolina State University
Tell Me How You Really Feel: How the Ideals of
“Love” Promoted in Romantic Comedies Alter the
Communication Tendencies of Romantic Relationships
Emily Arnold, Georgia Southern University
Observation of Gender Roles in the Media: Dissection
of the 1984 Classic Ghostbusters and 2016 Remake
Ghostbusters
Elysia Leos, Schreiner University
Kathryn Bushman, Schreiner University
Respondent: C. Wesley Buerkle, East Tennessee
State University
4705
Saturday • 5:45 pm-7:00 pm
Room: Regency H
Intercultural Communication Business
Meeting
4706
Saturday
Saturday • 4:15 pm-5:30 pm
Room: Gardenia
Saturday • 5:45 pm-7:00 pm
Room: Red Bud A
Southern Argumentation and Forensics
Business Meeting
4707
Saturday • 5:45 pm-7:00 pm
Room: Red Bud B
Freedom of Speech Division Business
Meeting
4708
Saturday • 5:45 pm-7:00 pm
Room: Red Bud C
States Advisory Interest Group Business
Meeting
4709
4701
Saturday • 5:45 pm-7:00 pm
Room: Studio 220@NOMA B
Saturday • 5:45 pm-7:00 pm
Room: Dogwood
Ethnography Interest Group Business
Meeting
Community College Division Business
Meeting
4710
4702
Saturday • 5:45 pm-7:00 pm
Room: Studio 220@NOMA C
Saturday • 5:45 pm-7:00 pm
Room: Magnolia
Gender Division Business Meeting
Interpersonal Communication Division
Business Meeting
4703
Saturday • 5:45 pm-7:00 pm
Room: Regency F
Rhetoric and Public Address Division
Business Meeting
4711
Saturday • 5:45 pm-7:00 pm
Room: Gardenia
Mass Communication Division Business
Meeting
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4712
Page to Stage: Adapting and Staging
Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s The Little
Prince
Sponsor: Performance Studies Division
Chair: Ruth Laurion Bowman, Louisiana State
University
Adapting and Staging Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s The
Little Prince
Melanie Kitchens O’Meara, Augusta University
Respondent: Ruth Laurion Bowman, Louisiana
State University
DAY 5
Sunday, April 9, 20175101
5101
Sunday • 8:00 am-9:15 am
Room: Gardenia
Nominating Committee Meeting
Chair: Roseann Mandzuik, SSCA Immediate Past
President
Sunday
Saturday • 5:45 pm-7:00pm
Room: Think Tank@NOMA
Participants: Immediate Past Chairs of SSCA
Divisions
5102
Sunday • 8:00 am-9:15 am
Room: Magnolia
4801
Saturday • 6:30 pm-8:30 pm
Room: Studio 220@ NOMA A
The Annual SSCA Osborn Reception
Sponsors: Drs. Michael and Suzanne Osborn,
University of Memphis, and Pearson Publishing
2017 Convention Planning Meeting
Chair: Jason Munsell, Vice President
All division and interest group planners for 2017 should attend this
meeting or the one on Saturday afternoon at 2:45 pm.
5103
Sunday • 8:00 am-9:15 am
Room: Think Tank @NOMA-AV
Installation: Afterlife
Sponsor: Performance Studies Division
Artist/Chair: Jennifer Tuder, St. Cloud State
University
5104
Sunday • 8:00 am-9:15 am
Room: Regency F
Speaking Out by Kneeling Down:
Professional Athletes and Political Protest
Sponsor: Mass Communication Division
Chair: Lauren Reichart Smith, Indiana University
Panelists:
Brian C. Brantley, Texas A&M University-San Antonio
Lauren Reichart Smith, Indiana University
Matthew Stilwell, University of South Carolina
Panelists will discuss various acts of protest centering on the U.S.
national anthem initiated by professional athletes, as well as the
wide range of reaction to those protests by members of the media
and the public.
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Sunday
5105
5201
Sunday • 8:00 am-9:15 am
Room: Dogwood
Sunday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Gardenia
Measuring Public Relations Education’s
ROI: Best Practices in Program
Assessment
Committee on Committees Meeting
Sponsor: Public Relations Division
Moderator: Christie M. Kleinmann, Ph.D., APR,
Belmont University
Participants:
Pamela G. Bourland-Davis, Ph.D., Georgia Southern
University
Corey A. Hickerson, Ph.D.
James Madison University
Kevin S. Trowbridge, Ph.D., APR, Belmont University
Christie M. Kleinmann, Ph.D., APR, Belmont
University
In the era of big data, public relations is expected to demonstrate
business results through its strategies and tactics. In response, public relations educators teach students how to establish return on investment (ROI) in the boardroom, but how well do we illustrate our
own ROI in the classroom and on our campuses? This panel focuses on how educators can assess and validate the effectiveness of a
public relations program.
5106
Sunday • 8:00 am-9:15 am
Room: Red Bud B
Interrogation and Communication:
Questions as Social Action in Online
Discourse
Sponsor: Language and Social Interaction Division
Chair: Linda Di Desidero, Marine Corps University
Q&A in the Online Classroom: How Questions Build
Relationships and Create Community
Mark Ward Sr,, University of Houston-Victoria
Questions as Teaching Tools in Online Classes
Andrew Pyle, Clemson University
Social Action and Epistemic Stance in Peer to Peer
Online Discourse
Linda Di Desidero, Marine Corps University
Respondent: Eugenie Almeida, Fayetteville State
University
Panelists all develop insights about the role of questions in online
interaction. All presentations characterize the online communication environment as a unique context, not simply as an extension
of face-to- face communication. They argue that understanding
the nature and function of questions in online social interaction
can strengthen the ways in which we view, design, and structure
these interactions in contexts such as the online classroom.
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Presiding: Victoria Gallagher, President
Participants:
Jason Munsell, Vice President
Roseann Mandzuik, Immediate Past President
Jerold L. Hale, Executive Director
Ashli Quesinberry Stokes, Marketing Director
Leroy Dorsey, SCJ Editor
Melissa M. Smith, Finance Committee Chair
5202
Sunday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Think Tank@NOMA-AV
Contributed Performances in
Performances Studies
Sponsor: Performance Studies Division
Chair: Danielle Dick McGeough
Change Ring
Sarah McGreevey Hannay, Schreiner University
“The Water is Wide”: A Celebration of Pat Conroy’s
Memoir
Jayne L. Violette, University of South Carolina
Beaufort
Libby Ricardo, University of South Carolina
Beaufort
George Pate, University of South Carolina Beaufort
Ellen Malphrus, University of South Carolina
Beaufort
Afterlife: A Performative Documentation of Suicide
Punchline
Jennifer Tuder, St. Cloud State University
Respondent: Ron Shields, Sam Houston State
University
5203
Sunday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Red Bud C
Time and Place Committee Meeting
Participants:
Greg Armfield, New Mexico State
Jason Black, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Frances Brandau, Sam Houston State University
Jerold L. Hale, College of Charleston
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5204
5206
Sunday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Regency F
The Falling Academic Spectacle: Giving
Our Regards to the Phantom Power
Structure of Higher Education in Order to
Foster Civic Innovation and Disciplinary
Rebirth
How Groups Use Media to Inform and
Persuade Their Communities
Sponsor: Philosophy and Ethics of Communication
Interest Group
Digital Religion and Media Economics: Concentration
and Convergence in the Electronic Church
Mark Ward, University of Houston-Victoria
Chronic Disease in the National Football League:
An Analysis of the NFL’s Health Information Using
Identification Theory
Paige B. Gloeckner, Texas A&M University
Grace Ellen Brannon, Texas A&M University
The Influence of Time of Year on the Tweeting Behavior
of Major League Baseball Teams
Zachary W. Arth, University of Alabama
Gregory D. Saxton, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Free-to-Play? Considering a Model of Functional
Factors in Video Game Design Influencing the
Economic Effectiveness of Microtransactions
Casey Hart, Stephen F. Austin State University
Chair: Caryn L. Winters, University of Louisiana at
Lafayette
Disillusion at the Trailhead of Innovation: The Four
Noble Truths and the Possibility of Compassion in an
Ambivalent Gaze
Charles Womelsdorf, South Louisiana Community
College
Regarding Academic Duty: What Faculty Owe
Students, Society, and Ourselves
Caryn L. Winters, University of Louisiana at
Lafayette
The Melissa Click Conundrum: Must We Choose
Between Laws and Circumstances?
Christopher M. Toula, Georgia State University
5205
Sunday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Regency D-E AV
Explorations of Online Marketing,
Gaming, Filtering & Entertaining
Sponsor: Popular Communication
Chair: Steve Herro, College of Southern Nevada
You Got Macros in my News Story: Buzzfeed and the
Continued Success of Infotainment
Victoria Stiegel, Texas A&M University
Popular Culture and the Progress of Modern-Day
Pilgrimages
Melissa H. Nipper, East Tennessee State University
#Transformation Tuesday: Investigating the “Female
Gaze” on Female Fitness Ideals
Katie Nelson, Wake Forest University
Gender Issues in Online Gaming
Nicholas M. Temple, Central Washington
University
Lynne M. Webb, Florida International University
Respondent: Amanda Nell Edgar, University of
Memphis
Sponsor: Mass Communication Division
Chair: Kenny D. Smith, Indiana University
Sunday
Sunday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Studio 220 @ NOMA B
Respondent: Barry P. Smith, Mississippi University
for Women
5207
Sunday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Regency G
Discussions and Applications:
Examining Cases from the Book, Issues
of Culture and Conflict: Case Studies in
Organizational Communication
Sponsor: Applied Communication Division
Chair: Matthew C. Ramsey, Shippensburg University
of Pennsylvania
A Crisis at the Counseling Center
Matthew C. Ramsey, Shippensburg University of
Pennsylvania
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Kathryn E. Anthony, University of Southern
Mississippi
Alyssa M. Sloan, King College
An Athletic Director’s Dilemma
Kara Laskowski, Shippensburg University of
Pennsylvania
No Victory: Leadership and Dissention in Church
John C. Meyer, University of Southern Mississippi
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Saturday
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How Do We Tell the Family?
Laura E. Miller, University of Tennessee
‘Do No Harm’: Futility in the ICU
Stacey Passalacqua, University of Texas at San
Antonio
Panelists (case study authors) will overview their cases and outline
the potential applications for the new organizational communication case study book, Issues of Culture and Conflict: Case Studies in
Organizational Communication, published by Kendall Hunt.
5208
Sunday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Regency H
Innovative Communities: Constructing
Co-Cultural Communities through New
Media
Sponsor: Intercultural Communication Division
Chair: Cassidy D. Ellis, The University of Alabama
Panelists:
Natalee M. Briscoe Pounders, The University of
Alabama
Benjamin A. Ray, The University of Alabama
Peyton E. Magruder, The University of Alabama
Cassidy D. Ellis, The University of Alabama
Research has shown that when ostracized by society-at-large, cocultural groups often find community online. But what does it
mean to find community in the age of new media? How does the
advent of innovative communication such as Facebook Live and
Twitter, which can reach millions of people in real-time, impact
co-cultural groups’ online communities, and how do these communities respond in times of crisis or hardship? Projects presented on this interdisciplinary panel will attempt to grapple with such
questions. Utilizing intercultural communication theories, as well
as feminist and queer theories, projects included on this panel will
present both probing theoretical research as well as mixed-methods content analyses. During a time in which people are particularly divided by issues of race, gender, sexuality, and class, this panel
will illuminate the sometimes subversive ways in which support
can be found and agency can be reclaimed by “othered” groups
online.
5210
Sunday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Dogwood
Innovations in Rhetorical Theory
Sponsor: Rhetoric and Public Address Division
Chair: Lisa Corrigan, University of Arkansas On the Invention of a Scientific Romance: Thomas H.
Huxley’s “Origin of Species”
Thomas Lessl, University of Georgia
Playing Offense and Defense: The NFL (National
Football League) and the Concussive Crisis in Player
Safety
Jeff Nagel, Baylor University
The “Ghostly Traces” of Racism: Visual Rhetoric and
Negotiating Iconophilia and Iconoclasm
John Russell, Georgia State University
A Call for an Agrarian Reevaluation of Richard M.
Weaver
McKay Stangler, Berry College
5301
Sunday • 11:00 am-12:15 am
Room: Think Tank@NOMA-AV
Installation: Afterlife
Sponsor: Performance Studies Division
Artist/Chair: Jennifer Tuder, St. Cloud State
University
Thank you for being part of SSCA!
Safe travels!
5209
Sunday • 9:30 am-10:45 am
Room: Red Bud A
Communicating the Body
Sponsor: Gender Studies Division
Chair: Heather Suzanne Woods, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill
Panelists:
Kristiana Lilly Baez, Baylor University
Nicole Castro, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Jackie Poapst, George Mason University
Emily Winderman, North Carolina State University
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The Texas State University Department of
Communication Studies Congratulates
DR. ROSEANN MANDZIUK
SSCA President
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OFFERING:
Doctor of Philosophy Degree
Master of Science Degree
Bachelor of Arts Degree
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Graduate Program Areas
Social Influence
Organizational Culture, Privacy Mgmt.
Interpersonal Health Communication
Group and Team Communication
Leadership
Relational Conflict
Pedagogy
Hate Speech, Social Identity
Communication Studies Graduate Faculty
John Haas, Ph.D., Director
Michael Kotowski, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Virginia Kupritz, Ph.D., Professor
Laura Miller, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Emily Paskewitz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Joan Rentsch, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Dean
Michelle Violanti, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Courtney Wright, Ph.D., Associate Professor
For more information contact:
Michael Kotowski, Graduate Program Coordinator
School of Communication Studies
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996
Email: [email protected]
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ASSOCIATION OFFICERS
Immediate Past President
Jean DeHart, Appalachian State University
President
Roseann M. Mandziuk, Texas State University
Vice President/Convention Planner
Victoria Gallagher, North Carolina State University
Vice President-Elect/Undergraduate Honors Convention Planner
Jason Munsell, Columbia College South Carolina
Executive Director
Jerry Hale, College of Charleston Past Executive Director
Carl Cates, Arkansas State University
SCJ Editor
Leroy Dorsey, University of Memphis
Marketing Director
Jennifer Mize Smith, Western Kentucky University
Finance Chair
Shawn Long, UNCC
SSCA REPRESENTATIVES TO NCA
SSCA K-12 REPRESENTATIVE
Kristy Cates, Lowndes High School, Georgia
SSCA COMMUNITY COLLEGE REPRESENTATIVE
Brad Bailey, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
SSCA 4 YEAR COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY REPRESENTATIVE
Linda Jurczak, Valdosta State University
NCA NOMINATING COMMITTEE REPRESENTATIVE
Mary Stuckey, Georgia State University
NCA SPECTRA REPRESENTATIVE
Shanshan Lou, Appalachian State University
2015-2016 SSCA COMMITTEES
STANDING COMMITTEES
COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES
Chair: President
Roseann M. Mandziuk, Texas State University
Immediate Past President
Jean DeHart, Appalachian State University
Vice President/Convention Planner
Victoria Gallagher, North Carolina State University
Vice President-Elect/Undergraduate Honors Convention Planner
Jason Munsell, Columbia College South Carolina
Executive Director
Jerry Hale, College of Charleston Past Executive Director
Carl Cates, Arkansas State University
SCJ Editor
Leroy Dorsey, University of Memphis
Marketing Director
Jennifer Mize Smith, Western Kentucky University
CONSTITUTION COMMITTEE
Chair: Jennifer Edwards, Tarleton State University
Linda DiDesidero, Marine Corps University
Lesli Pace, University of Louisiana, Monroe
FINANCE
Chair: Melissa Smith, Mississippi University for Women
Joy Hart, University of Louisville
Wendy Atkins-Sayre, University of Southern Mississippi
Jerold Hale, College of Charleston
NOMINATING COMMITTEE
Chair: Jean DeHart,Appalachian State University
PUBLICATIONS
Chair: Kandi Walker, University of Louisville
Janie Harden Fritz, Duquesne University
Dan Grano, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
RESOLUTIONS
Chair: Verlaine McDonald, Berea College
Chris Patti, Appalachian State University
Larry Moore, Auburn University at Montgomery
RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Chair: Sherry G. Ford, University of Montevallo
Abby M. Brooks, Georgia Southern University
Melissa Smith, Mississippi State University
Gina Ercolini, University of South Carolina
Frances Brandau, Sam Houston State University
Jason Black, University of Alabama
Carl Cates, Arkansas State University
TIME AND PLACE
Chair: Greg Armfield, New Mexico State University
Jason Black, University of Alabama
Frances Brandau, Sam Houston State University
Jerry Hale, College of Charleston
ROSE B. JOHNSON SCJ ARTICLE AWARD
SCJ Editor and Editorial Board
DWIGHT L. FRESHLEY OUTSTANDING NEW TEACHER AWARD
Chair: Courtney Wright, University of Tennessee
Linda Jurczak, Valdosta State University
Margart D’Silva, University of Louisville
THE JOHN I. SISCO EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AWARD
Chair: Rich, UNC Charlotte
Jennifer Samp, University of Georgia
Cynthia KingLeeman, Furman University
JANICE HOCKER RUSHING EARLY CAREER RESEARCH AWARD
Chair: Graham Bodie, Louisiana State University
Pavica Sheldon, University of Alabama at Huntsville
Rebekah Fox, Texas State University
OUTREACH AWARD
Chair: Jefferson Walke, Louisiana Tech University
Tina Harris, University of Georgia
Beth Eschenfelder, University of Tampa
T. EARLE JOHNSON – EDWIN PAGET DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
AWARD
Chair: Nina-Jo Moore, Appalachian State University
Charles Tardy, University of Southern Mississippi
Trudy Hanson, West Texas A&M University
MICHAEL M. OSBORN TEACHER-SCHOLAR AWARD
Chair: Marty Medhurst, Baylor University
Stephanie Coopman , San Jose State University
Ann Burnette, Texas State University
Finance Chair
Shawn Long, UNCC
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MINORITY RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION AWARD
Chair: Courtney Brazile, Eastfield College
Linda Vangelis, Christopher Newport University
John Haas, University of Tennessee
SUZANNE OSBORN COMMUNITY COLLEGE OUTSTANDING
EDUCATOR AWARD
Chair: Richard Quianthy, Broward Community College
Monette Callaway, Hinds Community College
Deborah Hefferin, Broward Community College
J. DONALD RAGSDALE AWARD FOR MENTORING
Chair: Michelle Violanti, University of Tennessee
Andrew Pyle, Clemson University
Rick Bello, Sam Houston State University
Vice Chair / Program Planner
Grant Cos, Rochester Institute of Technology
Vice Chair Elect
John Drew, Adelphi University
Secretary
Bradley Wilson, Midwestern State University
GENDER STUDIES
Immediate Past-Chair / Nominating CommitteeRepresentative
Ashley Barrett, Baylor University
Chair
Leland Spencer, Miami University
[email protected]
SSCA DIVISIONS
Vice Chair / Program Planner
Linda Levitt, Stephen F. Austin University
APPLIED COMMUNICATION
Vice Chair Elect
Ashley Mouton, Purdue University
Immediate Past-Chair / Nominating Committee Representative
Patrick Dillon, University of Memphis
Chair
Raymond Ozley, University of Montevallo
Secretary
Beth Bradford, Florida Southern College
INSTRUCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Vice Chair / Program Planner
Kathryn Anthony, University of Southern Mississippi
Immediate Past-Chair / Nominating Committee Representative
Stephanie Kelly, North Carolina A&T State University
Vice Chair Elect
Andrew Pyle, Clemson University
Chair
linda pysher jurczak, Valdosta State University
Secretary
Brian Perna, University of Southern Mississippi
Vice Chair / Program Planner
Michelle Epstein Garland, University of South Carolina Upstate
COMMUNICATION THEORY
Vice Chair Elect
Scott Christen, Tennessee Technological University
Immediate Past-Chair / Nominating Committee Representative
Pavica Sheldon, University of Alabama at Huntsville
Chair
Shaughn Keaton, Young Harris College
Secretary
Kevin Bryant, University of Southern Mississippi
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
Vice Chair / Program Planner
Chris Mapp, University of Lousiana at Monroe
Immediate Past-Chair / Nominating Committee Representative
Mary Meares, University of Alabama
Vice Chair Elect
Phillip Madison, Stephen F. Austin State University
Chair
Mary Grace Antony, Schreiner University
Secretary
Sherry Ford, University of Montevallo
Vice Chair / Program Planner
Hsiu-Jung “Mindy” Chang, Western New England University
COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Vice Chair Elect
Mary M. Meares, University of Alabama
Immediate Past-Chair / Nominating Committee Representative
Richard Falvo, El Paso Community College
Chair
Nakia Welch, San Jacinto College
Secretary
Jill Bergeron, University of Tennessee
INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION
Vice Chair / Program Planner
Monette Callaway, Hinds Community College
Immediate Past-Chair / Nominating Committee Representative
Mary Beth Asbury, Middle Tennessee State University
Vice Chair Elect
Laurie Metcalf, Blinn College
Chair
Carrie West, Schreiner University
Secretary
Dena Horne, Sam Houston State University
Vice Chair / Program Planner
Fran Dickson, Eastern Kentuckey University
FREEDOM OF SPEECH
Vice Chair Elect
Gary Beck, Old Dominion University
Immediate Past-Chair / Nominating Committee Representative
Mark Grabowski, Adelphi University
Chair
David Dewberry, Rider University
Secretary
Timothy R. Worley, Murray State University
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LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL INTERACTION
Immediate Past-Chair / Nominating Committee Representative
Linda Di Desidero, Marine Corps University
PUBLIC RELATIONS
Chair
Craig Stewart, University of Memphis
Immediate Past-Chair / Nominating Committee Representative
Shirley Serini, Valdosta State University
Vice Chair / Program Planner
Jelena Petrovic, Stetson University
Chair
Chris McCollough, Columbus State
Vice Chair Elect
Lori Stallings, University of Memphis
Vice Chair / Program Planner
Ashli Stokes, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Secretary
Mark Waard, University of Houston-Victoria
Vice Chair Elect
Amber Smallwood, University of West Georgia
MASS COMMUNICATION
Secretary
Mia Long Anderson, University of South Alambama
Immediate Past-Chair / Nominating Committee Representative
Gyromas Newman, University of Mobile
RHETORIC AND PUBLIC ADDRESS
Chair
Melissa Smith, Mississippi University for Women
Immediate Past-Chair / Nominating Committee Representative
Christi Moss, University of Memphis-Lambuth
Vice Chair / Program Planner
Brian Brantley, Texas A&M - San Antonio
Chair
Meredith Bagley, University of Alabama
Vice Chair Elect/Secretary
Dean Cummings, Georgia Southern University
Vice Chair / Program Planner
Lisa Corrigan, University of Arkansas
PERFORMANCE STUDIES
Vice Chair Elect
Kevin Marinelli, Davidson College
Immediate Past-Chair / Nominating Committee Representative
Rebecca Walker, Southern Illinois University
Chair
Brianne Waychoff, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College
Secretary
Melody Lehn, University of South Carolina
SOUTHERN ARGUMENTATION AND FORENSICS
Vice Chair
Danielle Dick McGeough, University of Northern Iowa
Immediate Past-Chair / Nominating Committee Representative
Patrick Wheaton, Georgia Southern University
Vice Chair Elect
Sarah Jackson, Southern University at New Orleans
Chair
Kevin Bryant, University of Southern Mississippi
Secretary
Holley Vaughn, University of North Texas
Vice Chair / Program Planner
Adam Key, Texas A&M University
POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
Vice Chair Elect
Keven Rudrow, University of Memphis
Immediate Past-Chair / Nominating Committee Representative
Lauren Reichart Smith, AuburnUniversity
Chair
Darrell Roe, Eastern New Mexico University
Vice Chair / Program Planner
Marcus J. Coleman, University of Southern Mississippi
Vice Chair Elect
Nick Rangel, Houston Community College
Secretary
Jon Ezell, Tennessee Tech University
POPULAR COMMUNICATION
Immediate Past-Chair / Nominating Committee Representative
Matt Ramsey, Shippensburg University
Chair
Dave Nelson, Valdosta State University
Vice Chair / Program Planner
Emily Ryalls, Mississippi State University
Vice Chair Elect
Garrett Castleberry, Oklahoma City University
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Secretary
Garrett Castleberry, Oklahoma City University
Secretary
Chris Vincent, Louisiana State University
SSCA INTEREST GROUPS
ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNICATION ADMINISTRATORS (ACA)
Immediate Past-Chair
Sally Hardig, University of Montevallo
Chair
Cole Franklin, East Texas Baptist University
Vice Chair / Program Planner
Nelle Bedner,Central Arkansas University
Vice Chair-Elect
Pam Bourland-Davis, Georgia Southern
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF RHETORIC
Immediate Past-Chair
Ray Harrison, Central Alabama Community College
Chair
Melody Lehn, University of South Carolina - Extended University
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Vice Chair / Program Planner
Jefferson Walker, Louisianna Tech University
Vice Chair-Elect
Andrew Johnson, University of Memphis
Secretary
Adam Sharples Brooks, University of Ala
ETHNOGRAPHY
Immediate Past Chair
Liz Edgecomb, Xavier University of Louisiana
Chair
Deborah Cunningham Breede, Coastal Carolina University
Vice-Chair
Cara Mackie, Florida Southern College
Vice-Chair Elect
Elizabeth Stephens, Middle Tennessee State University
Secretary
Adolfo Lagomasino, University of South Florida,
Oglethorpe University
KENNETH BURKE SOCIETY
Immediate Past-Chair
Anna Turnage, Bloomsburg University
Chair
Ryan McGeough, University of Northern Iowa
Vice Chair / Program Planner
Ryan McGeough, Northern Iowa University
Vice Chair-Elect
Jonathan Broussard, Louisiana State University
Secretary
Jonathan Broussard, Louisiana State University
PHILOSOPHY & ETHICS OF COMMUNICATION
Immediate Past-Chair
Brian Gilchrist, Eastern University
Chair
Molly Stoltz, Valdosta State University
Vice Chair
Pat Arneson, Duquesne University
STATE ASSOCIATION
Chair
John Saunders, Central Arkansas University
Vice-chair
Darrell Roe, Eastern New Mexico University
Vice-chair Elect
Keith Perry, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
Secretary
Brad Bailey, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
SSCA CHARTER MEMBERS
MAY 2, 1930
BIRMINGHAM, AL
Annie Boyett, Howard College
Ellen Haven Gould, Alabama College
Rose B. Johnson, Woodlawn High School (Ala.)
T. Earle Johnson, University of Alabama
Mrs. Earle G. McLin, Birmingham Southern College
Helen Osbond, Alabama College
Edwin Paget, North Carolina State College
De Witt Ashton, Mississippi State College for Women
Virgil Baker, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Marvin G. Bauer, Washington & Lee University
Mrs. Artemus Calloway
H. P. Constans, University of Florida
Mildred Ford, Montgomery, Alabama
Frances Gooch, Scott College
Wilhelmina Hedde, Sunset High School in Texas
F. D. Mellen
Vera Alice Paul, State Teachers College, Athens, Georgia
J. W. Raine, Berea College
John D. Shaver, Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Nan Stephens, Agnes Scott College
Irving Stover, Stetson University
E. Turner Stump, Marshall College
Laura Suydom, Alabama
Claude M. Wise, Louisiana State University
SSCA EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
1930 - T. Earle Johnson, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
1931 - M. F. Evan, Alabama 1933 Louise A. Blymer, Berea College
1935 - T. Earle Johnson, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
1936 - A. A. Hopkins, University of Florida
1938 - Louis H. Swain, Furman University
1941 - A. C. LaFollette, Murray State College
1944 - George Neely, Marion Institute
1945 - George Totten, Southwestern at Memphis
1948 - J. T. Daniel, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
1949 - T. Earle Johnson, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
1953 - Delwin Dusenbury, University of Florida
1955 - Paul Brandes, University of Southern Mississippi
1957 - Mary Louise Gehring, Stetson University
1961 - L. L. Zimmerman, University of Florida
1962 - Kevin Kearney, University of South Florida
1963 - Dwight L. Freshley, University of Georgia
1966 - Kevin Kearney, University of South Florida
1969 - Julian Burroughs, Jr., Wake Forrest University
1972 - Jerry L. Tarver, University of Richmond
1975 - G. Allan Yeomans, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
1978 - W. Stuart Towns, University of West Florida
1981 - John I. Sisco, University of South Florida
1985 - Howard Dorgan, Appalachian State University
1990 - Susan A. Siltanen, University of Southern Mississippi
1995 - Richard R. Ranta, University of Memphis
2000 - Hal W. Fulmer, Georgia Southern University
2005 - J. Emmett Winn, Auburn University
2010 - Carl M. Cates, Valdosta State University
2015 - Jerold L. Hale, College of Charleston
SOUTHERN COMMUNICATION
JOURNAL EDITORS
1935 - Rose B. Johnson, Woodlawn High School, Birmingham, Alabama
1938 - Robert B. Capel, Hendrix College
1942 - Claude Kantner, Louisiana State University
1944 - Claude Shaver, Louisiana State University
1948 - Dallas Dickey, University of Florida
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1951 - Howard Townsend, University of Texas, Austin
1954 - Douglas inger, University of Florida
1957 - Charles Getchell, University of Mississippi
1960 - Eugene White, University of Miami
1961 - Owen Peterson, Louisiana State University
1966 - Gregg Phifer, Florida State University
1969 - Dwight L. Freshley, University of Georgia
1972 - BerEhnt E. Bradley, Auburn University
1975 - Ralph T. Eubanks, University of West Florida
1978 - Jerry E. Tarver, University of Richmond
1981 - Howard Dorgan, Appalachian State University
1984 - Martha M. Solomon, Auburn University
1987 - Dale G. Leathers, University of Georgia
1990 - Keith V. Erickson, University of Southern Mississippi
1993 - Andrew A. King, Louisiana State University
1996 - Craig Allen Smith, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
1999 - Kenneth Cissna, University of South Florida
2003 - Joy Hart, University of Louisville
2006 - John C. Meyer, University of Southern Mississippi
2009 - Mary Stuckey, Georgia State University
2012 - J.D. Ragsdale, Sam Houston State University
2015 - Leroy Dorsey, University of Memphis
SSCA PRESIDENTS
1930 - Edwin Paget, North Carolina State University
1931 - Edwin Paget, North Carolina State University
1932 - Frances K. Gooch, Agnes Scott College
1933 - Henry P. Constans, University of Florida
1934 - C. M. Wise, Louisiana State University
1935 - Rose B. Johnson, Woodlawn High School (Alabama)
1936 - Giles W. Gray, Louisiana State University
1937 - Orville C. Miller, Vanderbilt University
1938 - James Watt Raine, Berea College
1939 - T. Earle Johnson, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
1940 - Louise A. Sawyer, Georgia State Women’s College
1941 - Dallas C. Dickey, University of Florida
Albert M. Harris, Vanderbilt University (Honorary)
1942 - Leroy Lewis, Duke University
1943 - Paul L. Soper, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
1944 - Robert B. Capel, Northwestern State College
1945 - Robert B. Capel, Northwestern State College
1946 - Hazel Abbot, Converse College
1947 - Lester L. Hale, University of Florida
1948- Charles A. McGlon, Baptist Theological Seminary
1949 - Glenn R. Capp, Baylor University
1950 - Claude L. Shaver, Louisiana State University
1951 - Betty May Collins, Memphis Technological High School
1952 - Batsell B. Baxter, David Lipscomb College
1953 - Charles M. Getchell, University of Mississippi
1954 - Louise Davison, Davison School of Speech Correction
1955 - Frank B. Davis, Alabama Polytechnic Institute
1956 - Elton Abernathy, Southwest Texas State University
1957 - Thomas R. Lewis, Florida State University
1958 - H. Hardy Perritt, University of Alabama
1959 - McDonald Held, Howard Payne College
1960 - Joseph C. Wetherby, Duke University
1961 - William S. Smith, Auburn University
1962 - Roy E. Tew, University of Florida
1963 - Roy D. Murphy, University of Southwestern Louisiana
1964 - Carroll B. Ellis, David Lipscomb College
1965 - James E. Popvich, University of South Florida
1966 - Franklin Shirley, Wake Forrest University
1967 - L. L. Zimmerman, University of Florida
1968 - Marguerite Metcalf, Catholic High School (Arkansas)
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1969 - Waldo W. Braden, Louisiana State University
1970 - Gregg Phifer, Florida State University
1971 - E. Samuel Dudley, Mississippi State University
1972 - John I. Sisco, University of South Florida
1973 - Wayne N. Thompson, University of Houston
1974 - Dwight L. Freshley, University of Georgia
1975 - Beverly Whitaker Long, University of Texas, Austin
1976 - Calvin M. Logue, University of Georgia
1977 - J. Donald Ragsdale, Louisiana State University
1978 - Bert E. Bradley, Auburn University
1979 - Carl L. Kell, Western Kentucky University
1980 - Mary Frances Hopkins, Louisiana State University
1981 - Ralph T. Eubanks, University of West Florida
1982 - Michael M. Osborn, University of Memphis
1983 - Jerry L. Tarver, University of Richmond
1984 - Dale G. Leathers, University of Georgia
1985 - Robert N. Bostrom, University of Kentucky
1986 - Keith V. Erickson, University of Southern Mississippi
1987 - Richard R. Ranta, University of Memphis
1988 - Martha Solomon, Auburn University
1989 - James L. Applegate, University of Kentucky
1990 - E. Culpepper Clark, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
1991 - Howard Dorgan, Appalachian State University
1992 - Lawrence A. Hosman, University of Southern Mississippi
1993 - Navita Cummings James, University of South Florida
1994 - Thomas S. Frentz, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
1995 - Lynne M. Webb, University of Memphis
1996 - Nina-Jo Moore, Appalachian State University
1997 - Renee Edwards, Louisiana State University
1998 - Susan Siltanen, University of Southern Mississippi
1999 - Gary A. Copeland, University of Alabama
2000 - Mary Evelyn Collins, Sam Houston State University
2001 - Trudy L. Hanson, West Texas A & M University
2002 - Katherine W. Hawkins, Wichita State University
2003 - Marilyn Young, Florida State University
2004 - Terry Thibodeaux, Sam Houston State University
2005 - Kenneth N. Cissna, University of South Florida
2006 - Charles H. Tardy, University of Southern Mississippi
2007 - Craig Allen Smith, North Carolina State University
2008 - Jerry Hale, University of Georgia
2009 - Patricia Amason, University of Arkansas
2010 - Tom Socha, Old Dominion University
2011 - Frances Brandau-Brown, Sam Houston State University
2012 - Monette Callaway, Hinds Community College
2013 - John C. Meyer, University of Southern Mississippi
2014 - John Haas, University of Tennessee
2015 - Jean DeHart, Appalachian State University
2016 - Roseann M. Mandziuk, Texas State University
AWARD RECIPIENTS
ROBERT BOSTROM YOUNG SCHOLAR AWARD honors the
most outstanding paper submitted to the convention each year by a
graduate student. The recipient of this award is determined by the
Vice President through a process established by the Vice President.
2016 - Daniel P. Overton
2015 - Jonathan M. Broussard
2014 - Nick J. Sciullo, Georgia State University
2012 - Jennifer Lynne Cronin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2012 - Timothy B. Worley, University of Georgia
2011 - Ryan Erik McGeough, Louisiana State University
2010 - Carly T. McKenzie, University of Alabama
Cynthia Nichols, University of Alabama
2009 - Lauren Reichart, University of Alabama
2008 - None given
2007 - Anna Turnage, North Carolina State University
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2006 - Zac Gershberg, Louisiana State University
2005 - Carey L. Powers, City University of New York
2004 - Kelli L. Fellows, University of Georgia
2003 - Kelli L. Fellows, University of Georgia
2002 - Mark A. Williams, Texas A & M University
2001 - William Harlow, Texas A & M University
2000 - Pat Ferguson, University of Memphis
1999 - Martin Carcasson, Texas A & M University
1998 - Christie Trinastich, University of Texas, Austin
1997 - Preston Coleman, University of Iowa
1996 - Garth Pauley, Penn State University
1995 - Dionel Cotanda, University of South Florida
1994 - Raka Shome, University of Georgia
1993 - E. M. I. Sefcovic, University of Georgia
1992 - Kathryn Greene, University of Georgia
Rhonda G. Parker, University of Georgia
1991 - Kim E. Freeman, University of Florida
1990 - Cindy J. Kistenberg, Louisiana State University
Krystyna Strzyzewski, University of Arizona
1989 - Regina M. Hoffman, Louisiana State University
1988 - Roy J. Schwartzman, University of Iowa
1987 - Stephanie Zimmerman, University of Kentucky
DWIGHT L. FRESHLEY OUTSTANDING NEW TEACHER
AWARD honors SSCA members who have demonstrated teaching
excellence early in their careers. Nominees must teach courses in
communication and have taught full- time for at least two and not
more than five years. In addition to the requirements noted above,
each nominee must submit a statement of not more than 500 words
on his or her “Philosophy and Practice of Teaching.”
2016 - Ryan McGeough
2015 - Mary Beth Asbury
2014 - Siobhan Smith, University of Louisville
2013 - David P. Terry, San Jose State University
2012 - Casey Malone Maugh, University of Southern Mississippi - Gulf Coast
2011 - Minsun Shim, University of Georgia
2010 - Lora B. Helvie-Mason, Southern University at New Orleans
2009 - Deborah Cunningham Walker, Coastal Carolina University
2008 - Monica Pombo, Appalachian State University
2007 - Billy Wooten, Berea College
2006 - Marcyrose Chvasta, University of South Florida
2005 - Daryl W. Wiesman, Clemson University
2004 - Kandi L. Walker, University of Louisville
2003 - None given
2002 - Frances Brandau-Brown, Sam Houston State University
2001 - Melanie Morgan, University of Louisville
2000 - Vanessa Beasley, Texas A & M University
1999 - Karla K. Jensen, Texas Tech University
1998 - Charla Markhum Shaw, University of Texas, Arlington
1997 - None given
1996 - Carl M. Cates, Valdosta State University
1995 - Enrique D. Rigsby, Texas A & M University
ROSE B. JOHNSON SCJ ARTICLE AWARD honors the author
or authors of an outstanding, significant article published in the
Southern Communication Journal. The recipient of this award is
determined by the Editor and editorial board of SCJ through a process
established by the Editor.
2016 - Zoë Hess Carney & Mary E. Stuckey
2015 - Kathleen Hunt
2014 - Patricia Davis, Georgia State University
2013 - Wendy Atkins-Sayre, University of Southern Mississippi
2012 - Page Toller, University of Nebraska-Omaha
2011 - Daniel A. Grano, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
2010 - Deborah Thomson, East Carolina University
2009 - Christina R. Foust, University of Denver
2008 - James J. Kimble, Seton Hall University
2007 - Todd McDorman, Wabash College
2006 - Katherine Hendrix, University of Memphis
2005 - Michael Waltman, University of North Carolina
2004 - Carol B. Mills, Northern Illinois University
Austin S. Babrow, Purdue University
2003 - Kathryn M. Olsen, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
2002 - Suzanne Fitch, Southwest Texas State University
Roseann M. Mandziuk, Southwest Texas State University
2001 - John R. Stewart and Karen Zediker, University of Washington
2000 - Jacquline Bacon
1999 - Michael Pfau, University of Wisconsin
Patricia Moy, University of Wisconsin
Barry Radler, University of Wisconsin
Michael K. Bridgeman, University of Wisconsin
1998 - Robert E. Terrill, Indiana University
David Zarefsky, Northwestern University
Marouf Hasian, Jr., Arizona State University
Lisa A. Flores, Arizona State University
1997 - William Bailey, University of Arizona
1996 - Jill Taft Kaufman, Central Michigan University
1995 - Abran J. Salazar, Texas A & M University
Samuel L. Becker, University of Iowa
Virginia Daughety, University of Iowa
1994 - Calvin M. Logue, University of Georgia
Thurmon Garner, University of Georgia
1993 - Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, University of Illinois
1987 - Charles R. Conrad, Texas A & M University
1984 - David Zarefsky, Northwestern University
T. EARLE JOHNSON-EDWIN PAGET DISTINGUISHED
SERVICE AWARD honors SSCA members who, through their
service and leadership to the Association and the profession, have
made significant contributions and merit recognition.
2016 - Charles H. Tardy
2015 - John Meyer
2014 - J. Donald Ragsdale, Sam Houston State University
2013 - Emmet Winn, Auburn University
2012 - Trudy Hanson, West Texas A&M University
2011 - Michael and Suzanne Osborn, University of Memphis
2010 - Mark Hickson III, University of Alabama at Birmingham
2009 - Thomas Frentz, University of Arkansas
2008 - None given
2007 - Kenneth Cissna, University of South Florida
2006 - Marilyn Young, Florida State University
2005 - None given
2004 - Mary Evelyn Collins, Sam Houston State University
2003 - Richard L. Conville, University of Southern Mississippi
2002 - Nina-Jo Moore, Appalachian State University
2001 - Richard Ranta, University of Memphis
2000 - Susan Siltanen, University of Southern Mississippi
1999 - Bert Bradley, Auburn University
1998 - Keith Erickson, University of Southern Mississippi
1997 - Jerry Tarver, University of Richmond
1996 - Dwight Freshley, University of Georgia
Gregg Phifer, Florida State University
1995 - Howard Dorgan, Appalachian State University
1994 - John I. Sisco, Southwest Missouri State University
MINORITY RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION AWARD honors
institutions that have demonstrated noteworthy commitment to the
recruitment and retention of minority students for their campuses.
2016 - University of Louisiana - Lafayette
2015 - None given
2014 - None given
2013 - School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University
of Southern Mississippi
2012 - None given
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2011 - None given
2010 - Department of Communication Studies, The University of
North Carolina at Charlotte
2009 - Department of Communication and Journalism, College of
Liberal Arts, Auburn University
2008 - None given
2007 - None given
2006 - None given
MICHAEL M. OSBORN TEACHER-SCHOLAR AWARD honors
SSCA members who have balanced professional careers, having
achieved excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service.
2016 - Mary Stuckey
2015 - Lynne Webb
2104 - Roseann Manduziuk, Texas State University
2013 - Kenneth N. Cissna, University of South Florida
2012 - Katherine Hendrix, University of Memphis
2011 - Kathleen J. Turner, Davidson College
2010 - Jerry Hale, University of Georgia
2009 - None given
2008 - Art Bochner, University of South Florida
2007 - Martin Medhurst, Baylor University
2006 - None given
2005 - Marilyn Young, Florida State University
2004 - Julia T. Woods, University of North Carolina
2003 - Robert E. Denton, Jr., Virginia Polytechnic Institute
2002 - None given
2001 - Janice Rushing, University of Arkansas
2000 - None given
1999 - Ronald H. Carpenter, University of Florida
1998 - Mary Frances Hopkins (emeritus), Louisiana State University
1997 - Tom Frentz, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
1996 - None given
1995 - Beverly Whitaker Long, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
1994 - Michael M. Osborn, University of Memphis
OUTREACH AWARD honors SSCA members who have made
significant contributions to the profession by facilitating the success and
access of under-represented populations or the integration of specific
groups of students, professionals, or scholars into the communication
discipline or professional organizations. The significant contribution may
be the initiation of a major activity, the completion of a major project, or
represent a lifetime of work with numerous individuals or on numerous
meaningful activities. The scope of the activity may be national, regional,
or local, and might involve mentoring, advising, liaison, or other activities.
2016 - Sean O’Rourke
2015 - None given
2014 - None given
2013 - Jimmie Manning, Northern Illinois University
2012 - Dominique Gendrin, Xavier University
2011 - Sean Long, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
2010 - Tina Harris, University of Georgia
2009 - William Thompson, University of Louisville
2008 - Margaret D’Silva, University of Louisville
2007 - None given
2006 - Carol Winkler, Georgia State University
2005 - Steve Madden, Clemson University
2004 - None given
2003 - None given
2002 - Marsha Houston, University of Alabama
2001 - None given
2000 - Tyrone L. Adams, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
1999 - Robert Denton, Viginia Tech
1998 - Suzanne Osborn
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1997 - Lynne M. Webb, University of Memphis
1996 - Andrew King, Louisiana State University
1995 - E. Culpepper Clark, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
1994 - Theodore Clevenger, Jr., Florida State University
JANICE HOCKER RUSHING EARLY CAREER RESEARCH
AWARD honors SSCA members who have demonstrated exceptional
scholarly ability through research and publication early in their academic
careers. Nominees must be untenured, assistant professors in the field of
communication, and no more than five years shall have passed between
nominee’s appointment to the rank of assistant professor (or receipt of
terminal degree) and the time of the award. In addition, nominees must
have participated in the program of the annual convention at least twice
(or participated once in the convention program and published an article
in the Southern Communication Journal). In addition to the requirements
noted above, a maximum of three (3) representative publications by the
nominee must be submitted.
2016 - Shaughan A. Keaton
2015 - Pavica Sheldon
2014 - Rebekah Fox, Texas State University
Po-Lin Pan, Arkansas State University
2013 - Graham Bodie, Louisiana State University
E. Johanna Hartelius, University of Pittsburgh
2012 - Megan Foley, Mississippi State University
Brandon Inabinet, Furman University
2011 - Ambar Basu, University of South Florida
2010 - None given
2009 - Dan Grano, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Ashli Q. Stokes, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
2008 - Jason Edward Black, University of Alabama
Cris Davis, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
2007 - Elissa Foster, San Jose State University
2006 - Stacy Holman Jones, University of South Florida
2005 - Arthur Raney, Florida State University
2004 - Michael I. Arrington, Ohio University
2003 - Kevin Wright, University of Memphis
2002 - None given
2001 - None given
2000 - None given
1999 - Jim Kuypers, Dartmouth College
1998 - Jennifer Monahan, University of Georgia
1997 - Kathryn Greene, East Carolina University
1996 - Sean Patrick O’Rourke, Vanderbilt University
1995 - Cindy J. Kistenberg, University of Houston, Downtown
Roxanne L. Parrot, University of Georgia
FRANKLIN SHIRLEY AWARD FOR THE TOP
UNDERGRADUATE HONORS CONFERENCE PAPER honors
the most outstanding paper submitted each year to the Theodore
Clevenger Jr. Undergraduate Honors Conference. The recipient of this
award is determined by the Vice President Elect through a process
established by the Vice President Elect.
2016 - Samantha Grainger Shuba
2015 - Polina Larina
2014 - Terrell Jake Dionne, University of North Texas
2013 - Kirsten Clark, Millsaps College
2012 - Monica Lawson, Transylvania University
2011 - Diana Lynde, Columbia College
2010 - Brad Griffith
2009 - Lateshia Beachum, Columbia College
2008 - Kattrina Baldus, James Madison University
2007 - Judith Novak, University of Kentucky
Drew Anderson, Georgia Southern University
2006 - Alex Teh, University of Georgia
2005 - Jennifer Bafundo, Furman University
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2004 - Lindsey Ilion, George Washington University
2003 - Andrew Thomas Ross, George Washington University
2002 - Cynthia Ledford, University of Kentucky
2001 - Sara Bakker, George Washington University
2000 - Melanie Dotson, Samford University
1999 - Mark T. Witko, University of Wyoming
1998 - Kevin Hooper, North Carolina State University
1997 - Amy Tilton, University of Texas, Corpus Christi
1996 - Andrea Doughty and Kelli Jones, University of Alabama at
Birmingham
1995 - Blaine Hummel and Garret Ulosevich, Trinity University
1994 - Gerard Pfannensteil, Trinity University
1993 - Joshua Boyd, David Lipscomb University
1992 - Lorice Evans, Trinity University
JOHN I. SISCO EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AWARD honors
SSCA members who have consistently demonstrated excellence in
teaching communication throughout their academic careers. Nominees
must be employed full-time teaching courses in communication for a
minimum of ten years. In addition to the requirements noted above,
each nominee must submit a statement of not more than 500 words on
his or her “Philosophy and Practice of Teaching.”
2016 - Ann Burnette
2015 - Carol Thompson
2014 - Leigh Anne Howard, University of Southern Illinois
2013 - Michael I. Arrington, University of Kentucky
2012 - Jennifer A. Samp, Auburn University
2011 - Barbara Biesecker, University of Georgia
2010 - Deanna Dannels, North Carolina State University
2009 - Sean O’Rourke, Furman University
2008 - Joy Hart, University of Louisville
2007 - Elizabeth Bell, University of South Florida
2006 - Mary E. Stuckey, Georgia State University
2005 - None Given
2004 - Stephen Braden, Georgia State University
2003 - None Given
2002 - Katherine Hendrix, University of Memphis
2001 - Bonnie J. Dow, University of Georgia
2000 - James A. Aune, Texas A & M University
1999 - Lawrence A. Hosman, University of Mississippi
1998 - Mark Hickson III, University of Alabama, Birmingham
1997 - George Grice, Radford University
1996 - Nina-Jo Moore, Appalachian State University
1995 - Calvin M. Logue, University of Georgia
1994 - Marsha L. Vanderford, University of South Florida
OUTSTANDING SCHOLAR IN COMMUNICATION THEORY
AWARD
2016 - None given
2015 - None given
2014 - Lynne M. Webb, University of Arkansas
2013 - James Honeycutt, Louisiana State University
2012 - Ronald C. Arnett, Duquesne University
2011 - Jerry Hale, University of Michigan, Dearborn
2010 - John C. Meyer, University of Southern Mississippi
2009 - Pamela Kalbfleisch, University of North Dakota
2008 - William G. Powers, Texas Christian University
2007 - None given
2006 - None given
2005 - James C. McCroskey, West Virginia University
2004 - Richard Conville, University of Southern Mississippi
2003 - J. Donald Ragsdale, Sam Houston State University
2002 - Kenneth N. Cissna, University of South Florida
2001 - Ralph Behnke, Texas Christian University
2000 - Lynne M. Webb, University of Arkansas
1999 - Joann Keyton, University of Memphis
1998 - Charles H. Tardy, University of Southern Mississippi
1997 - Renee Edwards, Louisiana State University
1996 - James L. Applegate, University of Kentucky
1995 - Mark L. Knapp, University of Texas
1994 - Theodore Clevenger, Jr., Florida State University
GENDER STUDIES SCHOLAR OF THE YEAR
2016 - None given
2015 - Jason Edward Black, University of Maryland
2014 - None given
2013 - Jane Jorgenson, University of South Florida
2012 - None given
2011 - Marion Meyers, Georgia State University
2010 - Janis Edwards, University of Alabama
2009 - Carole Blair, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2008 - Roseann M. Mandziuk, Texas State University
2007 - Julia T. Wood, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2006 - Elizabeth Allen Bell, University of South Florida
2005 - Sonja K. Foss, University of Colorado at Denver
Karen A. Foss, University of New Mexico
2004 - Donna Nudd, Florida State University
2003 - None given
2002 - Diana K. Ivy, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi
2001 - Lynne Webb, University of Arkansas
2000 - None given
1999 - Trudy L. Hanson, West Texas A&M University
1998 - Katherine Hawkins, Wichita State University
1997 - Susan Stiltanen, University of Southern Mississippi
1996 - Marsha Vanderford, University of South Florida
1995 - Renee Edwards, Louisiana State University
1994 - Julia T. Wood, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1993 - Carol J. Jablonski, University of South Florida
1992 - Mary Frances HopKins, Louisiana State University
1991 - Navita Cummings James, University of South Florida
1990 - Marsha Houston, Tulane University
1989 - Virginia E. Wheeless, Morehead State University
1988 - Kathleen J. Turner, Tulane University
SUZANNE OSBORN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
OUTSTANDING EDUCATOR AWARD Committee, whose
purpose shall be to solicit nominees for the award, evaluate them
based on the criteria established in the “Awards Guideline” and
designate a recipient or recipients, unless none of the nominees
meets the criteria.
2016 - Deborah Hefferin
2015 - Monette Callaway
J. DONALD RAGSDALE AWARD FOR MENTORING
Committee, whose purpose shall be to solicit nominees for the
award, evaluate them based on the criteria established in the
“Awards Guideline” and designate a recipient or recipients, unless
none of the nominees meets the criteria.
2016 - Wendy Atkins-Sayre
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PAST CONVENTIONS & HOTELS
1930 BIRMINGHAM, AL
Thomas Jefferson Hotel
1931 ATLANTA, GA
Henry Grady Hotel
1932 ASHEVILLE, NC
1933 BEREA, KY
Boone Tavern
1934 BIRMINGHAM, AL
Thomas Jefferson Hotel
1935 NEW ORLEANS, LA
Stevens Hotel with NATS
1936 GAINESVILLE, FL
Thomas Hotel
1937 NASHVILLE, TN
Andrew Jackson Hotel
1938 ATLANTA, GA
Henry Grady Hotel
1939 BATON ROUGE, LA
Heidelberg Hotel
1940 CHATTANOOGA, TN
Patten Hotel
1941 BIRMINGHAM, AL
Tutwiler Hotel
1942 ATLANTA, GA
Henry Grady Hotel
1943 JACKSON, MS
Heidelberg Hotel
1944 JACKSON, MS
Heidelberg Hotel
1945 CLEVELAND, TN (CANCELLED)
Cherokee Hotel
1946 ATLANTA, GA
Henry Grady Hotel
1947 BATON ROUGE, LA
Heidelberg Hotel
1948 NASHVILLE, TN
Maxwell Hotel
1949 WACO, TX
Roosevelt Hotel
1950 BIRMINGHAM, AL
Tutwiler Hotel
1951 GAINESVILLE, FL
Thomas Hotel
1952 JACKSON, MS
Heidelberg Hotel
1953 GREENVILLE, SC
Poinsett Hotel
1954 DALLAS, TX
Adolphus Hotel
1955 MEMPHIS, TN
Peabody Hotel
1956 HATTIESBURG, MS
Forrest Hotel
1957 ATHENS, GA Georgia
Center for Cont. Education
1958 HOUSTON, TX
Rice Hotel
1959 LOUISVILLE, KY
Sheraton Seelbach Hotel
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1960 WINSTON-SALEM, NC
Robert E. Lee Hotel
1961 MIAMI, FL
Everglades Hotel
1962 AUSTIN, TX
Driskell Hotel
1963 NASHVILLE, TN
Andrew Jackson Hotel
1964 HOUSTON, TX
Texas State Hotel
1965 DURHAM, NC
Jack Tar Hotel
1966 MIAMI, FL
Everglades Hotel
1967 LITTLE ROCK, AR
Marion Hotel
1968 MEMPHIS, TN (CANCELLED)
Peabody Hotel
1969 MEMPHIS, TN
Peabody Hotel
1970 WINSTON-SALEM, NC
Robert E. Lee Hotel
1971 NEW ORLEANS, LA
Roosevelt Hotel
1972 SAN ANTONIO, TX
El Tropicano Hotel
1973 LEXINGTON, KY
Phoenix Hotel
1974 RICHMOND, VA
John Marshall Hotel
1975 TALLAHASSEE, FL
Tallahassee Hilton Hotel
1976 SAN ANTONIO, TX
El Tropicano Hotel
1977 KNOXVILLE, TN
Hyatt Regency Hotel
1978 ATLANTA, GA
Sheraton Biltmore Hotel
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1979 BILOXI, MS
Broadwater Beach Hotel
1980 BIRMINGHAM, AL
Hyatt House Hotel
1981 AUSTIN, TX
Hilton Palacio del Rio
1982 HOT SPRINGS, AR
Arlington Hotel
1983 ORLANDO, FL
Hilton Inn-Florida Center
1984 BATON ROUGE, LA
Hilton Hotel
1985 WINSTON-SALEM, NC
Hyatt House Hotel
1986 HOUSTON, TX
Shamrock Hilton Hotel
1987 ST. LOUIS, MO
Clarion Hotel with CSCA
1988 MEMPHIS, TN
The Peabody Hotel
1989 LOUISVILLE, KY
Brown Hotel
1990 BIRMINGHAM, AL
Radisson Hotel
1991 TAMPA, FL
Hyatt Regency
1992 SAN ANTONIO, TX
St. Anthony Hotel
1993 LEXINGTON, KY
Hyatt Regency & Radisson Plaza
with CSCA
1994 NORFOLK, VA
Omni Hotel
1995 NEW ORLEANS, LA
The Monteleone Hotel
1996 MEMPHIS, TN
The Peabody Hotel
1997 SAVANNAH, GA
Hyatt Regency
1998 SAN ANTONIO, TX
La Mansion del Rio
1999 ST. LOUIS, MO
Adams Mark Hotel
2000 NEW ORLEANS, LA
The Monteleone Hotel
2001 LEXINGTON, KY
Radisson Plaza Hotel
2002 WINSTON-SALEM, NC
The Adams Mark
2003 BIRMINGHAM, AL
Sheraton Hotel
2004 TAMPA, FL
Wyndam Harbour Island Hotel
2005 BATON ROUGE, LA
Radisson Hotel
2006 DALLAS, TX
Marriott Galleria-Addison
2007 LOUISVILLE, KY
Marriott Downtown
2008 SAVANNAH, GA
Hyatt Regency
2009 NORFOLK, VA
Marriott Waterside
2010 MEMPHIS, TN
The Peabody Hotel
2011 LITTLE ROCK, AR
Doubletree Hotel
2012 SAN ANTONIO, TX
The St. Anthony Hotel
2013 LOUISVILLE, KY
The Seelbach Hilton
2014 NEW ORLEANS, LA
The New Orleans Sheraton
2015 TAMPA, FL
The Marriott Waterside
2016 AUSTIN, TX
Hyatt Regency - Austin
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LIFE MEMBERS
Olson, Kathryn M.
Croft, Blanton
Andersen, Kenneth E.
Osborn, Michael
Eiland, Millard F.
Arrington, Michael I.
Osborn, Suzanne
Freshley, Dwight L.
Balthrop, Bill
Phillips, Selene
Hardig, Sally
Bates, Benjamin
Powell, Larry
Hefferin, Deborah
Brandau-Brown, Frances
Pyle, Andrew
Herndon, Rosanna T.
Cardenas, Cristina
Ranta, Richard R.
Karns, C. Franklin
Cates, Carl M.
Sisco, John I.
Kelly, Stephanie
Chesebro, James
Smith, Robert M.
Loeffler, Donald L.
Cissna, Kenneth N.
Spencer, Leland
Logue, Cal M.
Collins, Mary Evelyn
Stuckey, Mary E.
Martin, Matt
Condit, Celeste M.
Tarver, Jerry L.
Mixon, Harold D.
Coopman, Stephanie
Thibodeaux, Terry M.
Nelson, Dave
Darsey, James
Towns, Stuart
Quianthy, Richard L.
DeHart, Jean
Violanti, Michelle T.
Reynolds, Beatrice Kay
D’Silva, Margaret U.
Webb, Lynne M.
Ritter, Kurt
Eaves, Michael
Weiss, Steven
Roach, Carol A.
Edwards, Renee
Wheaton, Patrick G.
Smith, Stephen
Edwards, William H.
Winn, J. Emmett
Sorrels, Jeff
Erickson, Keith V.
PATRON MEMBERS
Faux II, William
Vickery, Jim
Waldhart, Enid
Foster, John R.
Steven Beebe
Frank, Robert E.
Amy Burt
Fulmer, Hal W.
Ramona Clower Hilliard
INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERS
Guthrie, Russell A.
Trudy Hanson
Hart, Joy
William Harlow
Alabama Communication
Association
Hawkins, Katherine W.
Roderick Hart
Appalachian State University
Hickson III, Mark.
Wayne Kraemer
Clemson University
Hosman, Lawrence A.
Marsha Matthews
College of Charleston
Jackson II, Ronald
Jason Munsell
Columbia College
Kalbfleisch, Pamela J.
David Sutton
Georgia Southern University
Korn, Jenny
David Williams
University of Louisiana at
Monroe
EMERITUS MEMBERS
Methodist University
Asmuth, M. Violet
North Carolina State University
Kuypers, Jim A.
McGee, Brian R.
McMahan, Eva M.
Bangham, Jerry
Medhurst, Martin
Bock, E. Hope
Moore, Nina-Jo
Newcombe, P. Judson
O’Rourke, Sean Patrick
Borden, Amanda
Young, Marilyn
Texas State University
Valdosta State University
Western Kentucky University
Cook, Norma Cox
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SSCA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE I: NAME
The name of the Association shall be the Southern States Communication Association.
ARTICLE II: PURPOSE
The purpose of the Association shall be to promote study, criticism, research, teaching, and application of the artistic, humanistic, and scientific principles of
communication. The Association, a not-for-profit organization, exists for educational, scientific, and literary purposes only. No part of the net revenues of the
Association, if any, may be used for the private benefit of any individual or group, except that the Executive Council may establish scholarships or research grants for
projects or purposes appropriate to the Association.
ARTICLE III: MEMBERSHIP
Section 1. Individual Membership. Individual membership in the Association shall be open, upon application, to any interested person upon payment of the current
annual dues. Regular membership, student membership, sustaining membership, patron membership, and lifetime membership are all individual memberships.
Active individual membership is a requirement for all elected and appointed positions that support and represent the association. The Executive Council shall set
services provided for the different categories of membership.
ARTICLE IV: OFFICERS
Section 1. Officers. The officers of this Association shall be:The Administrative Committee includes the President, the Vice President, the Vice President-Elect, the
Executive Director, the Journal Editor, the Marketing Director, the Immediate Past President, and the Financial Committee Chair.
Section 2. Term of Office. The terms of office of the President, Vice President, and Vice President-Elect shall be for one year; of the Journal Editor, the Marketing
Director, and representatives to the National Communication Association (NCA), three years; and of the Executive Director, five years.
Section 3. Succession.
1.The Vice President shall automatically succeed to the office of the President upon the expiration of the President’s term of office. The Vice President shall succeed
the President should the President’s office become vacant through death, resignation, or disability.
2.The Vice President-Elect shall automatically succeed to the office of Vice President upon expiration of the Vice President’s term of office. The Vice President-Elect
shall serve as assistant to the Vice President. The Vice-President-Elect shall succeed the Vice President should the Vice President’s office become vacant through
death, resignation, or disability except as specified in Section 5.
Section 4. Duties of Officers.
1.The President shall perform the following duties and such other related duties as shall arise:
1.Preside at all business meetings of the Association and of the Executive Council.
2.Appoint and notify all committees except those otherwise provided for.
3.Provide oversight of divisions and interest groups.
4.Serve as liaison officer between the Southern States Communication Association and all other national, regional, and associations with similar or related
interests.
5.See that members of the profession receive notice of meetings and activities of the Association and of the Executive Council, unless the transmission of such
notices has been otherwise assigned.
6.Facilitate the performance of the constitutional duties of all other officers and committees.
2.The Vice President shall perform the following duties and such other related duties as shall arise:
1.Prepare the program for the annual convention.
2.Serve as program coordinator of the sectional programs arranged by the officers of the recognized Divisions of the Association. The Vice President, as
program chair, shall consider the recommendations of the Division Vice Chairs as to programs, but shall have final authority regarding the program and
winner of the Robert Bostrom Award selection.
3.Assist the President in promoting the activities and interests of the Association as needed or requested.
3.The Vice President Elect shall perform the following duties and other such related duties as shall arise:
1. Be responsible for the annual recruitment efforts of the Association.
2. Assist the President and Vice President in promoting the activities and interests of the Association as needed or requested.
3. Plan the annual Theodore Clevenger, Jr. Undergraduate Honors Conference and determine the Franklin Shirley Award winner.
4.The Executive Director shall perform all ordinary duties of the Secretary and Treasurer of the Association and of the Executive Council.
1.As Treasurer, the Executive Director shall furnish a financial report at each annual convention. The Executive Director shall incorporate into the report a
financial accounting covering all publications and the results of the official independent accounting review.
2.The Executive Director shall notify the National Communication Association Executive Offices of the names and addresses of the newly elected High School,
College, and Community/Two Year College Representatives to Legislative Assembly immediately after the election results have been announced.
3.The Executive Director shall appoint a newsletter editor and a Webpage Editor.
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4.The Executive Director shall publish the SSCA newsletter and conduct Association elections in accordance with procedures outlined elsewhere in the
Constitution.
5. The Executive Director shall negotiate and sign all contracts on behalf of the Association, subject to approval of the Association.
5.The Journal Editor shall direct and supervise the publication of the Southern Communication Journal as authorized by the Executive Council.
6.The Marketing Director shall be responsible for development, implementation, and evaluation of association marketing activities. These include, but are not limited
to: strategic planning, preparing and implementing various marketing activities, membership development and maintenance, organizational branding, securing
advertising, and expansion of state, regional, and national organizational awareness.
7.All SSCA representatives to NCA shall represent the interests of SSCA and its members at the national level, reporting to SSCA’s president. 8.The Immediate Past President shall chair the Nominating Committee and other duties accepted in consultation with the President.
9.The Administrative Committee includes the President, the Vice President, the Vice- President-Elect, the Executive Director, the Journal Editor, the Marketing
Director, the Immediate Past President, and the Finance Committee Chair.
Section 5. Vacancies.
1.The Executive Council shall have authority to fill any vacancy, other than the Presidency, created by the death, resignation, or disability of an elected officer of the
Association.
2.In the event of multiple officer vacancies and/or a vacancy at a point after submissions have been received for the annual convention or undergraduate honors
conference, the Administrative Council shall, at its discretion, select a replacement.
3.In the event of an Executive Director vacancy, the Executive Council shall put forward a replacement who would be ratified by the association membership.
ARTICLE V: EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
Section 1. Membership.
The membership to the Executive Council of the Association shall be:
1.President, Vice President, Vice-President-Elect, Executive Director, Journal Editor, Marketing Director, Chair and members of the Finance Committee.
2.The chairs of the established Divisions of the Association.
3.The Immediate Past President, retiring Executive Director, and retiring Journal Editor, each for one year following that person’s term of office.
4.Three members elected at large by members of the Association for a three-year term to serve as representatives to the Legislative Assembly of the National
Communication Association. On a three-year rotating basis, they shall be elected to represent the interests of High School, College, and Community/Two-Year
College members. The High School, College, and Community/Two Year College Representatives to the Legislative Assembly of the National Communication
Association shall present a report based on correspondence and notes from business meetings of the National Communication Association to the Executive
Council at its first meeting at the annual convention.
Section 2. Terms of Office. Newly elected officers and Council members shall assume office at the close of the annual convention with the exception of the Executive
Director, who shall take office as provided in Article VII, Section 4B and 4C.
Section 3. Meetings. The Executive Council shall normally meet at least three (3) times each year, twice at the annual convention prior to the Association business
meetings, and once at the annual convention of the NCA.
Section 4. Duties and Responsibilities. The Executive Council shall receive reports, recommend budgets, initiate action, establish scholarships or research grants for
projects or purposes appropriate to the Association, and oversee the long-range planning for the Association. In the period between annual conventions, the Executive
Council shall act for the membership of the Association.
Section 5. Emergency Procedures. In case of an emergency that would make it either impossible or impractical for the president to convene the Executive Council,
the President may empower an Emergency Council consisting of the President, the Immediate Past President, the Vice President, the Vice-President-Elect, and
the Executive Director to act for the Executive Council. The President may consult each member to determine what action is to be taken on behalf of the Executive
Council. Items not requiring an immediate decision are to be decided by polling the entire Executive Council.
Section 6. Quorum. Those members of the Executive Council present at a regularly scheduled and announced meeting of the Executive Council shall constitute a
quorum.
ARTICLE VI: MEETINGS
Section 1. Business Meetings. The Association shall hold at least two (2) business meetings at each annual convention.
Section 2.
1.Annual Convention. The Association shall hold a convention and the Theodore Clevenger, Jr. Undergraduate Honors Conference each year in the months of March
or April, preferably during the first full week in April or as near thereto as feasible, at a time determined by the Executive Council upon recommendation by the
Time and Place Committee as provided in Article IX, Section 1.
2.Regional Rotation. Whenever possible, the Time and Place Committee should seek to systematically rotate the Annual Convention site among the several
geographical regions within the larger region covered by the Southern States Communication Association.
3.Local Arrangements. An SSCA member living in or near the host convention city shall chair a local committee to assist the Administrative Committee with
convention arrangements.
Section 3. Strategic Planning Meeting. Upon the call of the President, the Administrative Committee, Immediate Past Executive Director, Finance Committee Chair,
and other appropriate members as designated by the President, shall meet for the purpose of strategic planning. No more than five years shall elapse between such
meetings. The president is responsible for providing a summary report of the meeting to be filed with the Executive Director and to be presented at the subsequent
annual convention’s business meeting.
Section 4. Quorum. Those members of the Association present at a regularly scheduled and announced meeting of the Association shall constitute a quorum.
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ARTICLE VII: NOMINATIONS, ELECTIONS, AND APPOINTMENTS
Section 1. Nominating Committee.
1.Method of Selection.
1.The Nominating Committee shall consist of the Immediate Past President of the Association, as chair, and the Immediate Past Chairs of all Divisions.
2.All members shall serve for one year.
3.The Committee Chair or designee shall give a report to the Executive Council at its annual meeting during the National Communication Association
convention.
2.Restrictions. A member of the Nominating Committee shall not be eligible for any office to be considered by that committee.
3.Responsibilities.
1.Nominations for the Slate of Officers may be made by the following methods:
1. By the Nominating Committee
2. Any SSCA member in good standing may make recommendations to the Nominating Committee.
3. Nominators may submit materials supporting nominees.
4. Other names may be added to the Slate of Officers by petition filed with the Nominating Committee at least six months before the annual convention.
The petition shall state the names of the nominee and the office to which the person is being nominated and shall be signed by at least twenty-five
(25) Association members in good standing at the time and who represent at least two states and five separate institutions.
2.The Nominating Committee shall check with all possible nominees to make each one aware of the responsibilities of the office to which the person is being
nominated and to determine that the nominee will accept and assume the responsibility if elected. Nominees must be members in good standing at the time
of the nomination.
3.The chair of the Nominating Committee shall submit to the Executive Director a list of nominees along with vita information on each candidate and platform
statements from each candidate for the office of Vice President-Elect at least one hundred twenty (120) days prior to the annual convention.
Section 2. Officers to be Elected.
1.Officers to be elected each year are the Vice President-Elect and one Member-at-Large to the Executive Council, who is also the representative to the
Legislative Assembly of NCA (the High School, College, and Community/Two Year College Representative to the Legislative Assembly of the National
Communication Association on a rotating basis).
2.Officers to be elected every three years are the representative to the NCA Nominating Committee.
Section 3. Election.
1. First Ballot.
1. At least seventy (70) days before each annual convention the Executive Director shall make available a ballot to each member of the Association who
is in good standing at the time.
2. This ballot shall contain the names of the candidates for the various offices for which the Nominating Committee is charged to present candidates.
The vita information for each candidate and the platform statements of no more than 300 words for all candidates shall be made available to all
members.
3. A deadline of at least thirty-five (35) days prior to the annual convention shall be set for voting.
4. To be valid, each ballot must be submitted by an association member in good standing and verified by the Executive Director at the close of voting.
2. Second Ballot. If a candidate does not receive a majority vote by the first ballot, a second ballot listing the two candidates who received the plurality of votes
shall be taken in the same manner as the first ballot, except that the Executive Director shall open the voting at least thirty (30) days prior to the convention
and close the voting at least fifteen (15) days prior to the convention.
Tie Between Two Candidates. If two candidates are the only ones on the ballot and receive exactly the same number of votes or a majority is not achieved, the
Executive Director shall contact both candidates prior to conducting a second election. The second election shall open the voting at least thirty (30) days prior to the
convention and close the voting at least fifteen (15) days prior to the convention. In the event that another tie or lack of majority ensues, the Executive Director shall
conduct an election at the annual convention business meeting.
Section 4. Officers to be Appointed.
1. The Executive Director and the Marketing Director shall be appointed by the Executive Council upon recommendation of a sub-committee appointed by the
President and ratified by the membership at the convention.
2. The Journal Editor shall be appointed by the Executive Council, upon the recommendation of the Publications Committee, and ratification by the membership
at the convention.
3. The Executive Director and Journal Editor shall be appointed one year prior to taking office.
4. The term of the Executive Director shall correspond to the fiscal year of the Association, August 1 to July 31, and continue for five (5) consecutive fiscal years.
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ARTICLE VIII: DUES AND FEES
Section 1. Categories.
1. Dues and fees of the Association shall be established for the following categories:
1. Regular Membership
2. Student Membership
3. Sustaining Membership
4. Patron Membership
5. Institutional Membership
6. Life Membership
7. Convention Fees
8. Undergraduate Honors Conference Fee
2. Establishment of Rates: The rates for the dues and fees in each of the categories shall be established by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the membership voting at an
annual convention business meeting.
Section 2. The Executive Director and Marketing Director, in consultation with the Administrative Committee, shall set fees for the following: exhibitor fees,
advertising fees for the convention program, and ads for job postings.
ARTICLE IX: COMMITTEES
Section 1. Standing Committees.
1. Committee and Purposes. The standing committees and their purposes shall be:
1. Committee on Committees, whose purpose shall be to make committee appointments at each convention, and to review assignments in the
fall, filling committee vacancies as needed. While any committee may recommend new members, the power of appointment shall reside in the
Committee on Committees.
2. Constitution Committee, whose purpose shall be to review the Constitution periodically and to recommend such amendments as may seem
necessary to provide for new developments within the Association and in its relationship with the National Communication Association.
3. Finance Committee, whose purpose shall be to prepare an annual budget, present it to the Council for approval, maintain a balanced budget, and
supervise its use. The Executive Director shall be an ex-officio member of the Finance Committee. The Finance Committee must approve payment
for non-budgeted items in excess of $1,000. The Finance Committee shall make recommendations on the investment of money raised through the
payment of Life Membership dues.
4. Nominating Committee, whose purpose shall be to nominate yearly a slate of one or more candidates for Vice-President-Elect, candidates for the
other elected offices that may be vacant, and perform such duties as prescribed in Article VII, Section 1C.
5. Publications Committee, whose purpose shall be to monitor and make recommendations concerning the publication needs of the Association, to
develop and approve policies related to the appearance, frequency, and graphic layout of the publications, and to recommend to the Executive Council
editors of SSCA publications (other than the newsletter editor).
6. Resolutions Committee, whose purpose shall be to draft and present the standard and any special resolutions at the annual convention.
7. Time and Place Committee, whose purpose shall be to solicit and receive competitive bids from cities for the annual convention.
8. Minority Recruitment and Retention Committee, whose purpose is to recruit and retain underrepresented populations as members and determine
the recipient of the Minority Recruitment/Retention Award.
9. Resource Development Committee, whose purpose is to research, plan, and develop financial resources and fundraisers to benefit the organization.
The Executive Director shall serve as an ex-officio member of this committee.
10. T. Earle Johnson-Edwin Paget Distinguished Service Award Committee, whose purpose shall be to solicit nominees for the award, evaluate them
based on criteria established by the Association in the “Guidelines for Awards,” and designate a recipient or recipients, unless none of the nominees
meets the criteria.
11. Janice Hocker Rushing Early Career Research Award, whose purpose shall be to solicit nominees for the award, evaluate them based on criteria
established by the Association in the “Guidelines for Awards,” and designate a recipient or recipients, unless none of the nominees meets the criteria.
12. John I. Sisco Excellence in Teaching Award Committee, whose purpose shall be to solicit nominees for the award, evaluate them based on the criteria
established in the “Guidelines for Awards,” and designate a recipient or recipients, unless none of the nominees meets the criteria.
13. SSCA Outreach Award Committee, whose purpose shall be to solicit nominees for the award, evaluate them based on the criteria established in the
“Guidelines for Awards,” and designate a recipient or recipients, unless none of the nominees meets the criteria.
14. Dwight L. Freshley Outstanding New Teacher Award, whose purpose shall be to solicit nominees for the award, evaluate them based on the criteria
established in the “Guidelines for Awards,” and designate a recipient or recipients, unless none of the nominees meets the criteria.
15. Rose B. Johnson SCJ Article Award Committee, whose purpose is to determine the recipient or recipients based on criteria established by the
Association in the “Guidelines for Awards.”
16. Michael M. Osborn Teacher-Scholar Award Committee, whose purpose shall be to solicit nominees for the award, evaluate them based on the criteria
established in the “Guidelines for Awards” and designate a recipient or recipients, unless none of the nominees meets the criteria.
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17. Suzanne Osborn Community College Outstanding Educator Award Committee, whose purpose shall be to solicit nominees for the award, evaluate
them based on the criteria established in the “Awards Guideline” and designate a recipient or recipients, unless none of the nominees meets the
criteria
18. J. Donald Ragsdale Award for Mentoring Committee, whose purpose shall be to solicit nominees for the award, evaluate them based on the criteria
established in the “Awards Guideline” and designate a recipient or recipients, unless none of the nominees meets the criteria.
2.Appointment
1. The Committee on Committees shall consist of the Administrative Committee..
2. Standing Committees should consist of three members in good standing.
3. Members of the Standing Committees, except the Nominating Committee, the Committee on Committees, and the Rose B. Johnson Award
Committee, shall be appointed for a term of three years, with staggered terms, shall be eligible for reappointment, and shall have the retiring member
serve as chair.
4. Members of the Rose B. Johnson SCJ Article Award Committee shall consist of the SCJ Editor and the Editorial Board.
3. Reports. Each committee shall present its reports to the Executive Council in session at the convention as requested by the President, and the President is
empowered to require reports of progress during the year.
Section 2. Special Ad Hoc Committees. The President may appoint special committees as deemed necessary and desirable to assist in carrying out the program for
the year. Such appointments will expire with the end of the President’s term in office. The Executive Council may authorize the appointment of special committees to
serve longer than one year.
ARTICLE X: DIVISIONS
Section 1. Purpose. The purpose of the Division structure of the Association shall be to recognize and to encourage the spheres of interest and activities of the
specialties of communication.
Section 2. Division Names. Each Division will represent a major specialization of communication. In order to be an officially recognized Division of the Southern
States Communication Association, at least 5% of the Association’s membership shall have indicated membership in the Division. Any Division failing to attract 5%
of the membership (determined 60 days prior to the meeting of the Administrative Committee at the annual convention) shall be placed on a one-year probationary
status during which time it has the opportunity to achieve the minimum. The Executive Director shall notify divisions of probationary status when membership falls
below 5%. Failing to achieve the minimum or failing to elect officers shall result in the Divisional status being revoked and the division becoming an Interest Group.
The following Divisions are recognized and shall be guaranteed space on the convention program, which will be allocated based on division size:
1. Communication Theory
2. Freedom of Speech
3. Intercultural Communication
4. Performance Studies
5. Mass Communication
6. Rhetoric and Public Address
7. Southern Argumentation and Forensics
8. Language and Social Interaction
9. Instructional Development
10. Applied Communication
11. Gender Studies
12. Popular Communication
13. Interpersonal Communication
14. Public Relations
15. Community College
16. Political Communication
Section 3. Each member of the Association shall be an official member of up to two (2) Divisions and may affiliate with additional divisions for a fee set by the Finance
Committee.
Section 4. Meetings. At each annual convention there will be a designated time in the program for a business meeting of each Division.
Section 5. Officers. Members of each Division shall elect the officers for the Division.
1. The officers and their responsibilities shall be:
1. The Chair, who shall be the chief officer of a Division and shall be responsible to the President of the Association.
2. The Vice Chair, who shall serve as program chair for the section programs at the annual convention and shall be responsible to the Vice President of
the Association and ascends to the office of Chair.
3. The Vice Chair-Elect, who ascends to the office of Vice Chair and assists the Chair with divisional responsibilities.
4. The Secretary, who shall take minutes and publicize activities of the Division and shall be responsible to the Executive Director of the Association.
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2. Activities and specialty interests within each Division shall be directed by the officers of that Division.
Section 6. Establishment of New Divisions. New Divisions of the Association may be arranged by concerned individuals petitioning the Executive Council for
such recognition, detailing the academic rationale for such status, and indicating specifically the membership of the proposed division. A new Division cannot be
recognized until 5% of the membership of the Association has indicated their desire to join such a division.
ARTICLE XI: INTEREST GROUPS
Section 1. Purpose. The purpose of the Interest Group structure of the Association shall be to recognize and to encourage the spheres of interest and activities of the
expanding specialties of communication.
Section 2. Interest Group Names. Each Interest Group will represent a major or emerging specialization of communication. In order to be an officially recognized
Interest Group of the Southern States Communication Association, at least 2% of the Association’s membership shall have indicated membership in the Interest
Group. Any Interest Group failing to attract 2% of the membership (as determined 60 days prior to the meeting of the Administrative Committee at the time of the
annual convention) shall be placed on a one-year probationary status during which time it has the opportunity to achieve the minimum. Any Interest Group failing
to achieve the minimum a second year or failing to elect officers or failing to submit a program will have its status as an Interest Group revoked. The list of recognized
Interest Groups will be kept by the Executive Director. Recognized Interest Groups will be guaranteed one program slot and one business meeting at the annual
convention. Additional time slots may be allocated if available, based on the size of the membership in the Interest Group.
Section 3. Membership. Each member of the association may be an official member of up to 2 Interest Groups and may affiliate with other Interest Groups for an
additional fee set by the Finance Committee.
Section 4. Meetings. At each annual convention there will be a designated time in the program for either a program or a business meeting of each Interest Group (see
Section 2 above).
Section 5. Officers. Members of each Interest Group shall elect the officers for the Interest Group.
1. The officers and their responsibilities shall be:
1. The Chair, who shall be the chief officer of an Interest Group and shall be responsible to the President of the Association.
2. The Vice-Chair, who shall serve as program chair for the Interest Group program(s) at the annual convention and shall be responsible to the VicePresident of the Association.
3. The Interest Group shall take minutes and publicize activities of the Interest Group and shall be responsible to the Executive Director of the
Association.
2. Activities and specialty interests within each Interest Group shall be directed by the officers of that Interest Group.
Section 6. Establishment of New Interest Groups. New Interest Groups of the Association may be arranged by concerned individuals petitioning the Executive Council
for such recognition, detailing the academic rationale for such status, and indicating specifically the membership of the proposed Interest Group. A new Interest
Group cannot be recognized until 2% of the membership of the Association has indicated the desire to join such an Interest Group.
ARTICLE XII: PARLIAMENTARY AUTHORITY
Section 1. The American Institute of Parliamentarians Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure, most recent edition, shall be the parliamentary authority for all
matters of procedure not specifically covered in this Constitution.
Section 2. Parliamentarian. The President may appoint a parliamentarian to serve at the President’s pleasure.
ARTICLE XIII: AMENDMENT
This Constitution may be amended:
1. By majority approval of the Executive Council and two-thirds (2/3) of the votes cast at an annual convention business meeting, or
2. By a majority vote at two consecutive annual convention business meetings, or
3. By two-thirds (2/3) approval of the Executive Council and a majority of the votes cast at the annual convention business meeting, or
4. By majority approval of the Executive Council and a majority of the votes cast at an annual convention business meeting provided the Amendment had prior
approval of the Constitution Committee and was circulated among the membership at least thirty (30) days before the date of the annual convention.
ARTICLE XIV: DISSOLUTION
Section 1. Dissolution by Vote. The Association may be dissolved only at a special meeting called for that purpose, and in the manner prescribed by the relevant
state laws, by vote of three-fourths (3/4) of the members present. Subject to compliance with the applicable provisions of such laws, upon any such dissolution of the
Association all its property remaining after satisfaction of all its obligations shall be distributed to one or more corporations, funds, foundations, or learned societies
such as the Executive Council may select, organized or operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes, no part of the net earnings of
which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder, member or individual, and which does not carry on propaganda or participate or intervene in any political
campaign.
Section 2. Dissolution by Inaction. If for any reason the Association shall be unable to elect officers and conduct business in the manner prescribed by its Constitution,
including Section 1 above, all property remaining after satisfaction of all its obligations shall be turned over to the National Communication Association, the national
organization with which this regional association is affiliated.
Revised April 2014
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INDEX OF ADVERTISERS
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Clemson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
College of Charleston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
East Tennessee State University. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Georgia State University. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
NCA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
North Carolina State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Purdue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inside Back Cover
Routledge/Taylor Francis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Sam Houston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Texas State University. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inside Front Cover, 77
Texas Tech University. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 17
Towson University. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
University of Alabama. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
University of Arkansas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
University of Memphis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50, 51
University of North Carolina at Charlotte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Back Cover
University of South Florida. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
University of Southern Mississippi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
University of Tennessee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78, 79
Valdosta State University. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Virginia Tech University. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Western Kentucky University. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
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INDEX OF PARTICIPANTS • SSCA 2017
*= Clevenger UHC Participant
Abraham, Jacob. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2203, 3202
Adams, Ty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2409, 4504
Alberti-Strait, Laura. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4105
Aldawoud, Amal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3307
Allen, Austin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3311, 3407
Allen, Myria W.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4106
Allen, William. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4110
Allison, Jay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3501
Alley-Young, Gordon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3503
Almeida, Eugenie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5106
Amason, Patricia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2307
Anderson, Caitlyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3512
Anderson, Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4207
Angelet, Kyle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3306
Anthony, Kathryn E.. . . . . . 3411, 4205, 5207
Antony, Mary Grace. . . . . . . 1201, 2101,2206,
2306, 2311, 3507, 4209
Armfield, Greg G.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1201, 2101,
2305, 3406, 4507
Armstrong, Janine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2608
Armstrong, John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2312
Arneson, Pat. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2502, 2602, 3207,
4111, 4210, 4306
Arnett, Ronald C.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3207
Arnold, Emily. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4604
Arth, Zachary W.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5206
Asbury, Mary Beth. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2305, 3307,
4208, 4510
Ash, Erin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3508
Atkins-Sayre, Wendy. . . . . . . . . . . . 2404, 3312
Bae, Beom Jun. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2405
Baez, Kristiana Lilly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5209
Bagley, Meredith . . . . . . . . . 1201, 2101, 4207
Bahn, Catherine E.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4505
Bailey, S. Brad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2308,2412,
3406,4202,4302, 4602
Baker, Kim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4305
Balcom, Alexandra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4512
Baldwin, Andrea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3501
Ballard, Liz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3408
Balthrop, Bill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2510
Banister, John P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4112
Bannon, Susannah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2610
Barclay, Kathy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3305
Barouch, Tim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4207
Bartos, Colleen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2406
Bauermeister, Gretchen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3411
Baum, Carolyn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2311
Baxter, Richard L.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2202
Beasley, Vanessa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4601
Beck, Anna- Carrie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2212, 4205
Beck, Gary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2307, 3307
Beck, Jake. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2501
Bell, Kristina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4203
Bello, Richard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2308, 3402
Bennett, Imani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2201
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Bennett, Noami. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4301
Bennett, Patrick D.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2406, 3204
Bergeron, Jill Stapleton. . . . . . . . . 3507, 4103
Bessarabova, Elena. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3203
Bilge, Nurhayat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2206
Billard, T.J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4303
Bissell, Kim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4305
Black, Jason Edward. . . . . . . . . . . 2309, 2404,
2701, 3209, 3504
Blackman, Temiela. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4203
Blair, Carole. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2701, 4508, 4601
Blankenship, Christina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2403
Blevins, Emily. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2509
Boatwright, Brandon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4106
Bochner, Art. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4506
Bogle, Yvonne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2506
Book, Connie Ledoux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3403
Boone, Juanita Ceyann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3314
Booth, E. Tristan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4303
Borton, Brett. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2605
Boulware, Jocelyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4312
Bourland-Davis, Pam . . . . . . . . . . 2405, 2508,
3210, 5105
Bowman, Ruth Laurion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4712
Braddy, Jon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3308
Bradford, Beth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3209, 4110
Brandau, Frances E.. . . . . . . 2207, 2308, 4302
Brannon, Grace Ellen. . . . . . 2604, 4305, 5206
Brantley, Brian C.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2210, 2504,
3306, 3505, 5104
Brazile, Courtney R.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4302
Breede, Deborah C.. . . . . . . . . . . . 1201, 2101,
2407, 3209, 4110
Breslin, Patrick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3406, 4308
Bridges, Heather L.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4107
Brinkley, Anna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3211
Brinthaupt, Thomas M.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3307
Broadway, Camille. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2405
Brock, Darlene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2201
Brockmann, Breena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4307
Bronstein, Madeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3313
Brooks, Abby. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2305, 2307,2
505,3212, 4208
Brooks, Erik. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3210
Brooks, Katelyn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3313
Brophy, Meghan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3410
Broussard, Johanna M.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4309
Brown, Cameron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4211
Brown, Laura. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2610, 4306
Brown-Rose, Josie A.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2506
Brunner, Brigitta R.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3401
Bryant, Kevin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1201, 2101,
2511, 3407
Buckner, Marjorie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2212, 2306,
4106, 4507
Buerkel- Rothfuss, Nancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2307
Buerkle, C. Wesley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3503, 4604
Bundy, Anna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4212
Burke, Austin D.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2407, 3513
Burke, Charlotte G.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2407
Burke, David. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4102
Burks, Josie A.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4309
Burnette, Ann E.. . . . . . . . . . 3205, 4111, 4210
Bushman, Kathryn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4604
Butterworth, Emma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3306
Callaway, Monette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2308, 4103
Campbell, Anne O.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4202
Campbell, Gemme. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4510
Capuzza, Jamie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4303
Carberry, Emmalene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2507
Carlson, Jessica H.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2506
Carrion, Melissa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2405
Carver, Mary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2202, 4302
Castleberry, Garret. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2603, 3501
Castro, Estefania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4211
Castro, Nicole. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3206, 5209
Cates, Carl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1101,1201, 2101,
2402, 3403, 4602
Cates, Kristy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1201, 2101
Chang, Hsiu- Jung “Mindy”. . . . . . 2506, 2609
Chang, Jay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2205
Chang, Yanrong (Yvonne). . . . . . . 2406, 2609
Chaplain, Jessica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4312
Chappuis, Scott. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2603
Charoensap-Kelly, Piyawan . . . . . 3210, 3305
Chatham-Carpenter, April. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2410
Chen, Hongliang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3311
Childress, Stella . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3410
Christen, Scott. . . . . . . . . . . . 2311, 3310, 4302
Cissna, Ken. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2207
Clancy, Benjamin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2304, 3206
Clark-Gordon, Cathlin V.. . . . . . . . . 4106, 4305
Cohen, Andrew I.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3307
Cole, Hazel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2405
Coleman, Marcus J.. . . . . . . 3311, 3505, 4112
Colon, Kaitlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3212
Condit, Celeste M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3504
Cone, Valerie Berenice Coles . . . . . . . . . . 4510
Conley, Kelly W.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4106
Conners, Joan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3211, 3409
Constant, Sarah J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2602
Constantini, Nicole. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3201
Coopman, Stephanie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2308
Copeland, Kristopher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2603
Corrigan, Lisa M.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3309, 4207,
4307,4508, 5210
Cos, Grant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3304, 4111, 4306
Coskrey, Rosemary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4604
Cranmer, Gregory A.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4507
Crawford, Karlie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4512
Crawford, Monica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4311
Croat, Colin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4308
Crocker, Sara G.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4308
Croft, Sharon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3501
Crow, Bryan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4505
Curran, Timothy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4208
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D’Silva, Margaret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3204
Dailey, William O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3409
Daley, Laura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3411
Darsey, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3205
Davis, Alyssa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2212
Davis, Christine S.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2407, 4110
Davis, Lizzie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4512
Day, Nejla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4311
Daya, Serena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4104
de Saint Felix, Skye. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3309
Deaton, Gary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2511
Deaton, Taylor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2511, 4504
Deeb, Anna M. Dudney. . . . . . . . . 2607, 4309
DeHart, Jean. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1101, 1201, 2101,
2308, 2404, 2503, 4603
Delgado, Les . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3201, 4501
Desidero, Linda Di. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5106
Dewberry, David. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1201,2101,
3304, 4111, 4210
Dicker, Aaron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3305
Dickman, Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2203
Dickson, Fran C.. . . . . . . . . . . 3402, 4208, 4510
Diel, Stan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3210
Dilliplane, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3206
Donato, Mary E.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2208
Dorsey, Leroy. . . . . . . 1101, 1201, 2101, 5201
Downing, Joe R.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2604
Drucker, Susan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3301
Drumheller, Kristina. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2202, 2505
Duke, Thomas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4206
Dunlap, Jenna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2208
Dupree,DJ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2201
Dykes, Pamela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4110
Eaves, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3407, 4504
Edgar, Amanda Nell. . . . . . . . . . . . 3402, 4104,
4304, 5205
Edwards, Jennifer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1201, 2101,
3404, 4209, 4310
Edwards, Renee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2505
Eldredge, Scott A.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4202
Ellis, Carolyn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4506
Ellis, Cassidy D.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3312, 5208
Ells, Kevin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4104
Ellis, Tess LaRie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3411
Erdely, Jennifer L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2301
Evans, Isaac. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4302
Fall, Lisa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2305, 2405, 2508
Farhat, Aya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2303
Farmer, Dean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3313
Farr, Tracey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2508
Faulkner, Blake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2304
Faux, William. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2512
Fellows, Kelli L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2503
Feltz, Silke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2408, 2502
Fenimore, Wanda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2607
Ferguson, Rebecca. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4102
Finch, Gavin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3512
Finkelshteynn, Sheyla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4311
Fitzpatrick, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2304
Fogle, Krystal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3312, 4112
Folckemer, Gary D.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2605
Ford, Sherry . . . . . . . . 1201, 2101, 2212, 2402
Forest, Ericha. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3307
Forrest, Mary F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4302
Forrester, Amy L.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2505
Foster, Megan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3512
Foulke, Meredith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2509
Foutz, Beau. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2412, 4302
Fox, Rebekah. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4111, 4210, 4305
Frank, Robert (Bob). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2402
Franklin, Cole. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1201, 2101
Frawley, Michael. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2504
French, Leah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4512
Frey, T. Kody. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2212, 4503
Frobish, Todd S.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2409
Frost, Jonathon K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2505
Gabster, Amanda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2606
Gaines, Steven Tramel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4105
Gallagher, Victoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1101, 1201,
2101, 2701, 3301, 5201
Garland, Michelle. . . . . . . . . 2212, 2611, 3310
Gaughf, Carli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4102
Gehrke, Pat J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3506, 4201
George, Megan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2508
Gerlich, Nicholas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2202
Geyerman, Chris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2405
Gibson, Danna M.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2202, 3401
Gilchrist-Petty, Eletra S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3305
Gillespie, David. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3404, 4310
Gleason, Jim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2605
Glenn, Bob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2511
Gloeckner, Paige B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5206
Goen, Karley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3404, 4310
Goen, Todd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2308, 2402, 4109
Goldsmith, Joy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4205
Gollihue, Krystin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4203
Goodaker, Lesley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4501
Goodier, Beth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3508
Goodwin, Jean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3506
Grabowski, Mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4111
Graham, Beverly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2405
Gramzinski, Logan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2204, 3311
Grano, Dan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2404, 3408, 4312
Gratch, Ariel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2301, 3303, 4501
Gratch, Lyndsay Michalik. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2301,
2401, 3303
Graves, Clint G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3411
Graves, Emily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2401
Gray, Jennifer B.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2303
Green, Robert J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2307, 4505
Greenwalt, Dustin A.. . . . . . . . . . . . 2309, 3405
Groover, Michelle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2508
Gumpert, Gary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3301
Haas, John W.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2505
Hale, Jerold M. . . . . . 1101, 1201, 2101, 5201
Hallsby, Atilla. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2309
Hamadi, Dina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3513
Hample, Jessica. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2208
Han, Jiangxue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2209
Hanks, Lindsey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3512
Hannay, Sally. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2408
Hannay, Sarah McGreevey. . . . . . . . . . . . 5202
Hanson, Trudy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2202, 2311
Hardig, Sally Bennett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2212
Hare, Tim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4212
Harlow, William F.. . . . . . . . . 2209, 2504, 3505
Harris, Sara Baugh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4108
Harris, Tina A.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2206, 3402
Harrison, Vernon Ray. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4105
Harroff, Lindsay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2606
Hart, Andrew Judson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4105
Hart, Casey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5206
Hart, Joy L.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2207, 4109, 4305
Kayla J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3409, 4209
Halva-Nebauer, Glen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2312
Hawley, Cody. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3202, 3510, 4206
Hawley, Suzon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4308
Hayes, Marceline Thompson. . . . . . . . . . 2207
Heaton, Dan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3501
Heidt, Stephen . . . . . . . . . . . 2204, 3208, 4307
Heinz, Matthew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4303
Hendrix, Katherine Grace. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2212
Herrmann, Andrew F.. . . . . . . . . . 2303, 2407,
3207, 4506
Herro, Steve. . . . . . . . . 2303,4202,4308, 5205
Hestdalen, Austin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2602
Heuman, Amy N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2206, 2306,
2609, 3402
Hickerson, Corey. . . . . . . . . . 2508, 2604, 5105
Hill, Theon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3308
Hinck, Edward A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3409
Hinck, Shelly S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3409
Hoffman, William. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2305
Horne, Dena. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2308
Houck, Davis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4201, 4508
Hovanic, Mary-Kate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2208
Howard, Leigh Anne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3501
Huebner, Alex. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3306
Huell, Jade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2401, 3314
Huff, Billy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3308
Hughes, A.G.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2403
Hurst, Elizabeth H.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3204, 3305
Inabinet, Brandon. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2312, 2606,
3205, 3301, 4211
Ivory, James D.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2406
Jackson, Ronald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3511
Jackson, Sarah K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2401
Jacobs, Melissa E.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2212
James, Navita Cummings. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3601
Janovec, Anastacia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4208
Jobe, Hannah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3512
Johnson III, Edgar D.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2311
Johnson, Andre. . . . . 2607, 3208, 4105, 4304
Johnson, Christie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3212
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Johnston, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3212
Jones, Cayla D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3314
Jones, Sarah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4303
Jovanovic, Spoma. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2509
Jurczak, Linda Pysher. . . . . . . . . . 1201, 2101,
2311, 2412, 2602
Kairys, Alena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4311
Katsinas, Stephen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3210
Kaufmann, Renee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2212
Kauth, John Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3513
Keaton, Shaughn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1201, 2101,
3509, 4204
Keith, Rachel J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4305
Keith, Sheree’. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2507
Kellerman, Edmund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2409
Kelly, Stephanie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2212, 2611,
3310, 4103
Kendall, Christian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3307
Key, Adam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3209, 3510, 4104
Kim, Joon Kyoung. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2509
King, Ambria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3313
King, Cynthia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2312,2701
Kleinmann, Christie M. . . . . . . . . . 2508, 5105
Klingbeil, Matthew . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3208, 4108
Knight, Kelsey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3410
Knight, Misty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2511
Knight, Rich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2511
Knox, Bradley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3312
Koerber, Amy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2306
Kofoed, Emily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4108
Kopfman, Jennifer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3508
Kor, Ryan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2510, 4108
Kotowski, Michael. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2211, 2307
Kratzer, Jessica M.W.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3307
Krawietz, Colton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3212
Kurisky, Brian Patrick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3307
Kuypers, Jim A.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3409
Kwami, Janet D.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2606
Lagomasino, Adolfo. . . . . . . . . . . . 3209, 3408
Land, Sonja. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2311
Laskowski, Kara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5207
Lasslo, Julie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2505
Lawrence-Kuether, Maureen. . . . . . . . . . 2406
Leach, Brittany R.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3405
Leach, Rebecca B.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2212
LeBlanc, Amanda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2203
Lee, Alexander S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4305
Lee, Bobbi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4102
Lee, Eun Young. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2206, 3308
Lee, Lauren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3410
Lee, Ronald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3410
Leeman, Richard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3513
LeFebvre, Luke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3506, 4201
Lehn, Melody. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1201, 2101,
2310, 4206, 4304
Loes, Elysia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4604
Lerner, Adam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3506
Lessl, Thomas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5210
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Lessley, James, Adam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2208
Levine, Kenneth J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4208
Levine, Timothy R.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2211, 3203
Levitt, Linda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2507, 4303
Lewis, Camille. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2310
Linvill, Darren L.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2212, 4503
Long, Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4501
Long, Shawn . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1101, 1201, 2101
Lou, Shanshan. . . . . . . . . . . . 1201, 2102, 2209
Lu, Zeyu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4106
Lukacovic, Marta N.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2606
Mackie, Cara T.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3209, 4506
MacNeil, Theresa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4110
Magruder, Peyton E.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5208
Maldonado, Chandra. . . . . 2610, 4203, 4306
Malphrus, Ellen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5202
Mandziuk, Roseann. . . . . . . . . . . . 1101, 1201,
2101, 2607, 4601
Manley, Terri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3503
Manning, Jimmie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3307, 3511
Manning, Linda D.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2402, 3307,
4107, 4109
Mao, Chang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2205
Mapp, Christopher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3305, 3502
Marinelli, Kevin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3504, 4207
Markwood, Bridget. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3401
Marling, Sierra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4603
Marsden, Anna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2601, 4301
Martin, Ruth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4202
Martin, Stephanie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3311
Martinez, Aissa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3404, 4310
Mathewson, Katie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3213
Mathis, Sara M.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3510
Matig, Jacob J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4208
Matsaganis, Matthew. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3301
Mattocks, Joy E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3314
Matzke-Fawcett, Amy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3307
Maze, William. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2412
Mazer, Joseph P.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4308
McAlexander, Kristen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2408
McArthur, John A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2410
McCarty, Josh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2209
McCollough, Christopher J. . . . . . 1201,2101,
2202, 2604, 3401
McConnell III, John R.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2311
McCormack, Molly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3309
McCornack, Steven. . . . . . . 2211, 3203, 3508
McCubbin, Caylin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2201
McCurry, Michael. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3601
McElearney, Patrick E.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4301
McFerguson, Marquese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2403
McGee, Brian R.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3403
McGeough, Danielle. . . . . . . . . . . 2401, 2501,
2601, 3303, 4301, 5202
McGeough, Ryan Erik. . . . . . . . . . 1201, 2101,
2301, 3202, 4309
McKaig, Taylor E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3411
McNair, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3213
McVey, Alex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2309, 2607
Meares, Mary M.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2206, 2609
Medina, Chloe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4512
Meek, Melissa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4103
Mentor, Jamal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4512
Menzies, Alisha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2203, 2303
Mercieca, Jennifer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3601
Mestayer, Colleen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3310, 4507
Metcalf, Laura D.. . . . . . . . . . 2412, 4103, 4503
Metz, Jacob. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2511, 3310, 4202
Meyer, John C.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5207
Miczo, Nathan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2208, 4208
Miller, Haley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4507
Miller, Laura. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2611, 5207
Miller, Lucy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4303
Miller, Rozilyn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2202
Mohr, Sarah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4212
Moist, John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3503, 4307
Monahan, Diane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2410
Moore, Nina- Jo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2402, 4109
Moore, Sadie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4106
Mora, Juliane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4201
Morales, Alexander. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3202
Moregenroth, Austin Hunter. . . . . . . . . 4603
Morgoch, Meredith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4106
Morin, Aysel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3409
Morrison, Kelly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3203, 3508
Morrissey, Megan Elizabeth. . . . . . . . . . . 4303
Moss, Christina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3213
Moss, Joseph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3204
Mouton, Ashton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4511
Mueller, Thomas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4507
Munsell, Jason. . . . . 1101, 1201, 2101, 2301,
2503, 4101, 4502, 5102, 5201
Murphy, Mollie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2608
Murphy, Mollie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4211
Murphy, Patrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3314
Myers, Scott A.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2208
Myers-Cooper, Ashley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2512
Nagel, Jeff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2608, 4307, 5210
Nelson, Alexandra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4512
Nelson, Chad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3308
Nelson, David. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1201, 2101,
2202, 2308, 2512
Nelson, Katie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5205
Neville-Shepard, Ryan. . . . . . . . . . 2510, 3408
Newbill, Victoria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4212
Nicholson, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2205
Nipper, Melissa H.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2507, 5205
Noltensmeyer, Candy J.. . . . . . . . . 2410, 4308
Nwidobie, Jeff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3404, 4310
O’Donnell, Kelly M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3309
O’Meara, Melanie Kitchens. . . . . . . . . . . . 4712
O’Neill, Steve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2312
O’Rourke, Sean. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4508
Obeid, Sam(ira) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2203
Olson, Michele K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4208
Opt, Susan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2505, 3512
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Orr, Kelsey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4312
Orth, Nikki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2510
Osborn, Jamie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2307
Osborn, Michael. . . . . . . . . . 4509, 4601, 4801
Osborn, Randall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4509
Osborn, Suzanne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4509, 4801
Osmanovic, Sanela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4107
Ott, Holly K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2509
Ozley, Raymond R.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1201, 2101,
2212, 4205
Reynolds, Palmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4211
Panetta, Edward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2204
Pantic, Mirjana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2406
Pantoja, Gabriel Esteban . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2604
Pariera, Katrina L.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4107
Parry-Giles, Trevor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3511
Parrott, Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3303
Paskewitz, Emily. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4205
Passalacqua, Stacey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5207
Pate, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5202
Patti, Chris. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4506
Payne, David. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3202
Payne, Kassidy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3410
Pecchioni, Loretta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3303, 4107
Pederson, Josh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2307, 4107
Pedregosa, Jay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4103
Pember, Sarah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4305
Perez-Langley, Olivia G.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4301
Perna, Brian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2205, 4305
Perry, Keith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4602
Perry, Sam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3208, 4105
Persuit, Jeanne M.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2502
Peterson, Jason. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2603
Petrovic, Jelena. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4505
Pickett, James R.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2302
Pierce, Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3405
Plumpton, Max. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2403, 3202
Poapst, Jackie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5209
Poe, Phillip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2303, 4209
Polikoff, Rich. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2406
Ponthieux, Joseph G. . . . . . 3307, 3503, 4505
Pounders, Natalee M. Briscoe . . . . . . . . . 5208
Powell, Brian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2511
Powell, Larry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3211, 3505
Prettyman, Duncan V.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4511
Proffitt, Jennifer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3306
Pruden, Bernard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3307
Pyle, Andrew. . . . . . . . . . . . 2205, 3508, 4103,
4106, 4503, 4507, 5106
Rakowitz, Julie A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3213
Ralston, Steven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3403
Ramsey, Matthew C.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5207
Rangel, Nick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4112
Ranson, Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2312
Rantung, Shaina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3212
Rao, Ramesh N.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4209
Rasmussen, Leslie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4602
Ratcliff, Amanda Jo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2209
Rausch, Cynde Carrico. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4203
Ray, Benjamin A.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5208
Ray, Madison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4205
Reif, Carrie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2505, 4106
Renner, Max. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3301
Rhodes, Claire D.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4304
Ricardo, Libby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5202
Rich, Ashley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3212
Richards, Sharlene Thompson. . . . . . . . . 2604
Richardson, Rhett. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2609
Richardson, Steve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2312
Ricke, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4603
Ridner, S. Lee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4305
Riggs, Koral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3213
Rister, Alex. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4511
Ritter, Matt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2209
Robb, Jamie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3202
Robbins, Dan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4102
Roberts, Kellie W.. . . . . . . . . 2409, 2503, 4212
Roberts, Laura. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3309, 3504
Roberts, Van T.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2210
Robins, Matthew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4510
Robinson, Ashley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4604
Rocha, Christian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3404, 4310
Rodgers, R. Pierre. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3304, 4306
Rodriguez, Leslie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2205
Roe, Darrell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1201, 2101
Romo, Lynsey K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2509
Roscoe, Rod D.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2311
Rudiak, Olivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4212
Rudrow, Keven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3407, 3510
Rule, Forrest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3510
Russell, John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5210
Russell, Vincent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2509
Ryalls, Emily D.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3503, 4303
Saas, William O.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4206
Samp, Jennifer A.. . . . . . . . . 2211, 3307, 4208
Sampson, Cynthia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2501
Sarapin, Susan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3211, 3304
Sarkela, Sandra J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2310, 3205
Saunders, John H.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1201, 2101,
3502, 4602
Sawyer, Caroline. . . . . . . . . . 2310, 4304,4512
Saxon, Katherine P.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3306
Saxton, Gregory D.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5206
Schares, Evan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4511
Schon, Jennifer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4510
Scott, D. Travers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4103, 4503
Scott, Katie D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4311
Scott, Marion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2202, 3401
Scott, Sarah Mayberry. . . . . . . . . . 2310, 2510
Sears, Clara G.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4305
Seid, Cierra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3313
Sellnow-Richmond, Deborah. . . . . . . . . 2606
Setvin, Trevor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4106
Shan, Zhou. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2209, 3311
Shear, Lauren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3313
Sheer, Vivian C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2205
Sheff, Sarah E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4208
Sheldon, Pavica. . . . . . . . . . . 2208, 2406, 3204
Shields, Ron. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5202
Silvers, Cheyenne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3212
Simmons, Donald B.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2305
Simon, Jenni. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2405
Slade, Alison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2603, 3305, 3502
Sloan, Alyssa M.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5207
Smallwood, Amber. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3210, 3401
Smith, Barry P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2210, 2504,
3211, 3505, 3602, 5206
Smith, Cheryl I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2506
Smith, J. Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3211, 3306
Smith, Jennifer Mize. . . . . . . . . . . 1101, 1201,
2101, 4507
Smith, Kelley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4512
Smith, Kenny D.. . . . . . . . . . . 2210, 3505, 5206
Smith, Lauren Reichart. . . . . . . . . . 2210,2504,
3306, 3505,5104
Smith, Melissa M.. . . . . . . . 1201, 2101, 2209,
2504, 3505, 4112, 5201
Smith, Montana. . . . . . . . . . 2501, 3201, 4303
Smith, Stephen A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4111, 4210,
4306, 4504
Socha, Thomas. . . . . . . . . . . 3307, 4107, 4311
Sorrels, Jeff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4503
Spaulding, Sally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3504
Spencer, Leland G.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1201, 2101,
2608, 4303
Spiceland, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2503
Spiker, Julia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4207
Spinetta, Christine M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3211
Stallings, Lori. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2310, 2311
Stangler, McKay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5210
Star, Hannah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3314
Steinberg, Joshua. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2601
Steinfatt, Thomas M.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2410
Stephens, Elizabeth. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2407, 4205
Stewart, Clay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3408
Stewart, Craig O.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1201, 2101,
2311, 3402, 4304
Stiegel, Victoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5205
Stilwell, Matthew. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5104
Stob, Paul. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3205
Stokes, Ashli Quesinberry. . . . . . 2404, 2604,
3312, 5201
Stoltz, Molly. . . . . . . . 1201, 2101, 2412, 2602
Stovall, Chris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4512
Strawser, Michael G.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2311
Stuckey, Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1201,2101,
3601, 4508, 4601
Swenson-Weiner, Ben. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4309
Swimmer, Natalie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3513
Tabrizi, Hannah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3407, 3510
Tatum, Nicholas T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2212
Taylor, Lakelyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3513
Temple, Melissa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3212
Temple, Nicholas M. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4511,5205
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Terry, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2301
Tetteh, Dinah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2307
Thameling, Carl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3502
Thames, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2302
Thibodeaux, Terry M. . . . . . . . . . . . 2208, 2406
Thieme, Amy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2610
Thomas, Rhondda R.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2701
Thompson, William. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2508
Thomson, Deborah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4505
Tinker, Andrew. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2502, 2602
Tipton, Whitney L.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2406
Tollison, Andrew C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4208
Toone, Ashton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4104
Toula, Christopher M.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5204
Trebing, J. David. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3409
Triana, Ben . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2205
Trowbridge, Kevin S.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5105
Tuder, Jennifer. . . . . . . . . . . . 5103, 5202, 5301
Turner, Kathleen J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3511, 4509
Turner, Paaige K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3511
VanDyke, Matthew S.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2509
Vatz, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2302
Vaughan, Tracey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3204,3307
Vaughn, Holley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2401, 3501
Vincent, Christopher J.. . . . . 3304,3407,4504
Vincent, Christy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2202
Violanti, Michelle T.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2611, 3310
Violette, Jayne L.. . . . . . . . . . 2605,3508, 5202
Walczyk, Jeffrey J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3203
Walden, Sarah W.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2507
Walker, Anne K.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4603
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Walker, Jefferson . . . . . . . . . 2204, 2404, 4206
Walker, Kandi L.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1201, 2101,
2207, 4109, 4305
Walker, Kiara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4312
Walker, Rebecca. . . . . . . . . . 2201, 2401,3501
Walker, Wade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4206
Walter, Devon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3512
Waltman, Michael. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3206, 4401
Wang, Tiffany R.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2212
Wang, Yi Jasmine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3204
Ward Sr., Mark. . . . . . . . . . . 2206, 2410, 3207,
3507, 5106, 5206
Watson, Hays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2204
Watson, Joey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2201
Watson, Sam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4309
Watts, Hannah Allison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2307
Waychoff, Brianne. . 1201, 2101, 2401, 3201
Webb, Lynne . . . . . . . 2207, 2306, 4511, 5205
Webb, Ryan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3307
Webber, Carolina Rosas. . . . . . . . . 2306, 2611
Weckerly, Cassandra B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3512
Wei, Fang-Yi Flora. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2212
Welch, Nakia. . . . . . . . . . . . .1201, 2101, 3406,
3510, 4103, 4308
Weller, Kim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2410
West, Carrie L. . . . . . . . . . . . 1201, 2101, 2408,
3510, 4107, 4208
West, Nichole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3213
Wheaton, Patrick G.. . . . . . 2204, 2304, 2504,
3208, 3410, 3505
Whitlinger, Claire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2312
Whittemore, Ashley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4603
Whitworth, Colin. . . . . . . . . . 2601,3201,4301
Wilbur, Douglas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3210
Wiles, Kayla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4312
Wilks, Kennedy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4211
Williams, Blair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4604
Williams, Christina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3310
Williams, Danielle E.. . . . . . .2303, 2603,4104
Williams, Goyland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3206
Williams, Kelly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2510, 3408
Williamson, Jason G.. . . . . . . . . . . . 3405,4108
Winderman, Emily. . . . . . . . 3405, 3504,5209
Winiski, Mike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2312
Winn, Matthew. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2304, 3208
Winters, Caryn L.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5204
Womelsdorf, Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5204
Wood, Lainey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3213
Woods, Chelsea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2604, 4208
Woods, Heather Suzanne. . . . . . . 2309, 5209
Word, Kaitlyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4501
Worley, Timothy. . . . . . . . . . 2208, 3307, 4503
Worrell, Donata. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4503
Wright, Courtney. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3305, 4204
Yang, Xiaoxu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3204
Young, Mandy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4205
Young, Steven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2209
Zagacki, Kenneth S. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3206, 3601
Zhang, Xueying. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4305
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COMMUNICATION AND INNOVATION
SSCA 88th Annual Convention
Call for Participation
“Muses and Musings in the Music City”
April 4-8, 2018 | Sheraton Downtown | Nashville, Tennessee
Homer begins The Oddessy with something like “Sing to me, Oh Muse…” The theme “Muses and Musings in the Music
City” (a strategic tongue twisting alliteration) calls on us all to consider inspiration, engage in reflection, and to listen to each
other. “Muses and Musings” as a theme invokes kairos and provokes inspiration. Contemporary times demand invention
and discovery requires a muse; a telos of passion. This conference theme asks us to sustain and stimulate enthusiasm in our
craft(s), to offer motivational research and pedagogy, and to create art and action.
Of course the conference theme—and themes are themselves muses--offers us many avenues of scholarly inquiry starting,
of course, with the mythic muses. Generally, the muses inspired works of both art and science. Pausanias seemingly told
of the original three: melete (practice), mneme (memory), and aeode (song). We also have the well-known mythic nine
muses/goddesses and all their mythic doings: Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia,
and Urania. Can the original three muses and the well-known nine offer us inspiration for our scholarship, our teaching, our
everyday lives? And, by the way, any interesting scholarly work on Xanadu is fair game and magical. Of course, we can also
consider work in mythology generally for this conference; the cultural stories we tell and re-tell impact all aspects of our lives.
Further, considering that many of our contemporary practices/places/thoughts have their linguistic genealogy in “muse,” we
can consider the voice of muse as she sings in such “rows” as museums, amusements, and music.
The state capital of Tennessee, Nashville bills itself as “Music City, USA” and its music industry is the second largest in the
United States. There are countless opportunities to submit work in the area of music and communication from multiple
interests and epistemological stances. But Nashville’s biggest industry is healthcare. That makes sense since a lot of folks get
sick of all that country music; though countless genres of music thrive in Nashville. Nashville is also home to an ever growing
automotive industry as well as home to the headquarters of the United Methodist Church and Southern Baptist Convention.
Even more, Nashville is indeed home to a number of well-known museums (like the Johnny Cash Museum) and auditoriums,
including the coveted Grand Ole Opry. Nashville has several civil war sites and, linking us back to the ancients, a full-scale
reproduction of the Parthenon. I have also heard that there are some colleges and universities in Nashville. Therefore, given
the theme and the site, Nashville is an inspirational location for not only mindful reflection on communication research,
scholarship, and pedagogy, but also inspired new work that will inspire others.
Each division and interest group is encouraged to program at least one panel consistent with the conference theme. Cosponsored panels where thematic presentations cut across divisions or interest groups are also welcome. In addition
to traditional panels of papers, the Vice President is interested in workshops and interactive programs that maximize
opportunities for intellectual engagement and professional development. Where entire panels are proposed, submitters are
encouraged to diversify the institutional affiliation of the panel participants. Program proposals that do not fit within SSCA’s
divisional and interest group structure may be submitted directly to the Vice President for consideration as part of the Vice
President’s Spotlight Series. The deadline for all submissions is September 8, 2017. The complete call for papers will be posted
in June 2017. For more information, contact Dr. Jason Munsell by email at [email protected]. We look forward to
seeing you in Nashville in 2017!
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Frentz, Thomas S.: rhetorical studies,
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Scheide, Frank M. : film and film history
Wicks, Robert H. : mass communication theory
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Amason, Patricia : interpersonal, group, health
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Rosteck, Thomas : rhetorical studies,
communication, and culture
Schulte, Stephanie: new media, history of
technology, popular culture and American studies
Warren, Ron : media processes and effects,
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political issues using interpretive, quantitative, rhetorical,
and critical lenses.
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Aloia, Lindsey S. : interpersonal communication
theory and research
Decarvalho, Lauren J. : film and television
studies, critical cultural studies, feminist theory
Neville-Shepard, Ryan : rhetorical studies, political
communication, presidential rhetoric
Spialek, Matthew L.: disaster communication,
communication ecology, quantitative research
methods
CLINICAL ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
Neville-Shepard, Meredith : rhetorical studies,
social movements
Walker, Kasey L. : organizational, small group and
leadership communication, social network analysis
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BRIAN LAMB SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION
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The BRIAN LAMB SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATION (BLSC)
continues Purdue University’s strong tradition
of excellence in communication scholarship,
education, leadership and engagement
while supporting the values of openness and
innovation in communication.
The BLSC offers tailored M.A. AND Ph.D. PROGRAMS
that fit each graduate student’s academic
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Health Communication
Interpersonal Communication
Media Technology and Society
Organizational Communication
Public Relations
Congratulations to our recent Ph.D. students
who have accepted faculty positions:
Lindsey DiTirro
University of
Southern Indiana
Heather Fedesco
Colorado College
Brooke Friley
Texas A&M University,
Corpus Christi
Patricia Gettings
Indiana University Southeast
Andrew Iliadis
University of Ontario
Institute of Technology &
Decimal Lab
Megan Kinney Feister
California State University,
Channel Islands
Arunima Krishna
Boston University
Kurtis Miller
Tusculum College
Jessica Sturgess
Northern Illionois
University
Elizabeth Wilhoit
Auburn University
Brian Lamb School of Communication
100 N. University St.
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2098
765-494-3429
www.cla.purdue.edu/communication
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Communication Studies M.A. Program
Located at North Carolina’s urban research institute, the Communication Studies program at UNC Charlotte
offers a premier setting in which to study the blend of communication theory and practice. Our generalist
program allows for students to take classes within different subfields of the discipline, including: health
communication, public relations, media studies/rhetoric and organizational communication. Together, faculty
and students make up our community of scholars who are committed to furthering communication studies.
Graduate Faculty:
Erin Basinger (Ph.D., U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Health, Interpersonal Comm.
Jason Black (Ph.D., University of Maryland) Rhetorical Studies and Social Change
Jaime Bochantin (Ph.D., Texas A&M University) Organizational & Interpersonal
Comm.; Stress & Burnout, Work-life Balance
Jonathan L. Crane (Ph. D., University of Illinois) Media Studies, Film Theory and
Cultural Studies
Christine S. Davis (Ph. D., University of South Florida) Communication in Health,
Disability, & End-of-life Contexts
Tiffany Gallicano (Ph.D., University of Maryland) PR, Public Engagement
Loril M. Gossett (Ph.D., University of Colorado- Boulder) Organizational Comm. &
Virtual Work
Daniel A. Grano (Ph.D., Louisiana State University) Rhetoric and Sports Culture
Min Jiang (Ph.D., Purdue University) International Media & Media Technology
Dean Kruckeberg (Ph.D., University of Iowa) International Public Relations & Ethics
Richard W. Leeman (Ph.D., University of Maryland) Rhetoric & Public Address
Stephanie Norander (Ph.D., Ohio University) Org. Comm., Comm across curriculum
Rachel Plotnick (Ph.D., Northwestern University) History of Information, Comm. &
Media Technologies
Margaret M. Quinlan (Ph.D., Ohio University) Health, Disability & Gender
Clifton Scott (Ph.D., Arizona State University) Organizational Comm., Meetings &
High Reliability Organizing
Ashli Q. Stokes (Ph.D., University of Georgia) PR, Rhetoric & Health Campaigns
www.gradcomm.uncc.edu
For more information, contact:
Dr. Christine Davis, Graduate Program Director
[email protected] | (704) 687-0760
Courses Offered:
A sampling from our innovative
communication curriculum:
4 required: Professional Seminar,
Communication Theory, Research
Methods, Adv. Research Methods
Other courses: Issues Management;
Interpersonal Processes in Health
Contexts; Power, Control and Dissent
in Organizations; Rhetorical Criticism;
Dark Side of Organizational Comm.;
Textual Analysis; Ethics, Power and
Discourse; Healthcare Narratives;
Qualitative Research Methods; Media
and Society—and many more!