Candidates
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Elina
Erzikova (Penza,
Russia) |
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Undergraduate
Degree
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BA,
Journalism, Tashkent State University |
Master's
Degree
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MA,
Journalism, University of Alabama |
Research
Specialty
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Political
communication, health communication |
About
Me:
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Elina
loves extremes and has jumped with a parachute, rode
in a submarine, worked in an emergency room, trained
HIV-positive inmates and many other things in her journalism
career. |
Dissertation
topic
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Teaching Ethics to Public Relations Students |
Dissertation
chair
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Bruce Berger |
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Rachel
Fleming-May (Urbana,
IL)
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Undergraduate
Degree
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BA,
Classics, Macalester College (St. Paul, MN) |
Master's
Degree
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MLIS,
Rosary College (now Dominican University, River Forest,
IL) |
Research
Specialty
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Information
Seeking and Use, Conceptual Issues in LIS, Academic
Libraries and Librarianship/the Library in Higher
Education |
About
Me:
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Rachel
worked as a librarian for seven years before beginning
her doctoral program. |
Dissertation
topic
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Inputs,
Outputs and Outcomes: the Concept of Use in Library
and Information Science |
Dissertation
chair
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Charles
Osburn |
C.V.
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Available HERE |
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Jun
Kyo Kim (Seoul,
Korea)
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Undergraduate
Degree
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BA,
Mass Communication/Statistics, Sun Kyun Kwan University
(Seoul) |
Master's
Degree
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MA,
Mass Communication/Advertising, University of Georgia |
Research
Specialty
|
Interactive
Advertising and Consumer Behavior |
About
Me:
|
A
lover of travel, Jun Kyo wants to visit all fifty
states. |
Dissertation
chair |
Yorgo
Pasadeos |
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Kyun
Soo Kim (Gwangju,
Korea)
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Undergraduate
Degree
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BA,
Communication, Chonnam National University (Gwangju) |
Master's
Degree
|
MA,
Journalism, Korea University (Seoul) |
Research
Specialty
|
Political
Communication, New Media, and Psychological Process
of Media Effects |
About
Me:
|
Photography
is a personal passion in addition to doing research.
Taking photographs makes Kyun Soo see the things
around him differently |
Dissertation
topic
|
Hostile
media perception in news coverage of two Americas
in science |
Dissertation
chair
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David
Roskos-Ewoldsen |
C.V.
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Available HERE |
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Ginger
Miller Loggins (New
Orleans, LA)
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Undergraduate
Degree
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BA,
Arts and Science, Loyola University |
Master's
Degree
|
MA,
Communication, University of Alabama |
Research
Specialty
|
Effects
of television on racial stereotypes and prejudice |
About
Me:
|
Ginger
and her husband are the proud parents of two ferrets
and a dog. With a fondness for Louis Armstrong and
Nina Simone, she usually listens to Jazz, Blues,
and Funk while she works. You can see one of her
pet projects HERE. |
Dissertation
topic
|
Can TV Reduce Prejudice? Assessing the
Malleability of Implicit Prejudice through the News
Media |
Dissertation
chair
|
William Evans |
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Jenn
Burleson Mackay (Newland,
NC)
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Undergraduate
Degree
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BA,
Journalism, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill |
Master's
Degree
|
MA,
Journalism, University of Alabama |
Research
Specialty
|
Journalism
ethics, credibility |
About
Me:
|
Jenn
has worked in both television news and newspapers.
In her "free" time, she enjoys decorating
cakes and is learning to play the banjo. |
Dissertation
topic
|
A
Journalistic Ethics Scale: Measuring constraints
on journalistic decisions |
Dissertation
chair
|
Jennings
Bryant |
C.V.
|
Available HERE |
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Jon
Mills (Lafayette,
IN)
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Undergraduate
Degree
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BS,
Public Relations, Purdue University |
Master's
Degree
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MA,
Comm/Org, Northern Illinois University |
Research
Specialty
|
Public
Relations/sports marketing |
About
Me:
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Jon
worked as an account executive for Fleishman-Hillard
in Chicago. |
Dissertation
topic
|
Naming
rights of sports venues |
Dissertation
chair |
Bruce Berger |
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Erika
Pribanic-Smith (Twinsburg,
OH)
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Undergraduate
Degree
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BA,
Communication, Mount Union College (Alliance, OH) |
Master's
Degree
|
MA,
Journalism, University of Alabama |
Research
Specialty
|
Antebellum
southern newspapers; history and technology |
About
Me:
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A
former community journalist, Erika enjoys vegetarian
cooking and travels the south attending concerts
by her favorite bands. |
Dissertation
topic
|
Ideological
origins of secession in South Carolina's newspapers |
Dissertation
chair
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Karla
Gower |
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Laura
Ware (Huntsville,
AL)
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Undergraduate
Degree
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BS,
Psychology, Guilford College |
Master's
Degree
|
MA,
Communication Studies, University of North Carolina-Greensboro |
Research
Specialty
|
Gender
and communication, organizational studies, and communication
and social change |
About
Me:
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Laura
has experience in the nonprofit sector working in
public relations and volunteer coordination. Away
from school, she is an avid fiction reader and total
Starbucks addict. |
Dissertation
topic
|
Organizational
communication in Alabama nonprofits |
Dissertation
chair
|
Tom
Harris |
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Jie
(Jennifer) Xu (Jiangsu,
China)
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Undergraduate
Degree
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BA,
Journalism, Nanjing University |
Master's
Degree
|
MA,
Mass Communication, Nanjing University |
Research
Specialty
|
Health
communication, advertising |
Dissertation
topic
|
Influences
of the sensation and cognition value of anti-smoking
messages on college students' perception of
message effectiveness: An integration of the Activation
Model of Information Exposure and the Elaboration
Likelihood Model |
Dissertation
chair
|
Jennings
Bryant |
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