Thesis and Dissertation Supervision

DISSERTATION COMMITTEE CHAIR

Hamer, Judah, "The Introduction of Characters in Storytelling" (In progress)..

Feldman, Heidi, “Understanding Customer Service Through an Interactional Lens: The Organization of Action and Activity During Camera Repair Calls”. (Completed July 2009).

Downing, Arthur, "Requesting in Library Reference Service Interactions."  (Completed January, 2008).

Kathleen Haspel, "Not Just Hot Air: From Personal Experience to Public Opinion in Talk Radio Talk."  (Completed May 2001).

Debbie Cohen, "Adding Injury to Insult: Practices of Empathy in an Infertility Support Group." (Completed June 1999).

UNDERGRADUATE HONORS THESIS SUPERVISOR

Matthew Cortland “The communication culture of the Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps.” (Received $5000 from Aresty Center and SAS Honors program to support data collection).  (In progress)

Julie Linden “Trouble during conversational storytelling”.  SAS Honors Thesis, Spring 2009.  Recipient of 2009 Henry Rutgers Scholars Award.

Christiaan DeVries, ““They’ll cut you up like a buffalo, those organ-thieving vultures”: Family communication regarding organ donation.” Henry Rutgers Honors thesis, completed Spring, 2004.

Julie Cohen, “Themes in Holocaust Narrative.”  General Honors Interdisciplinary Project, completed Spring, 2002

Izabella Waszkielewicz, "The Enactment and Management of Conflict in Casual and Professional Settings: Two Case Studies." Henry Rutgers Honors Thesis, completed Spring, 2000.

Danielle Alfonzo, “The Bilingual Courtroom.”  Henry Rutgers Honors Thesis, completed Spring, 1999.

Tiffany Simon, “Relational Communication in Naturally Occurring Conversation. ”Mabel Smith Douglass Undergraduate Honors Thesis, completed Spring, 1994.