Presenting CMCI's 2024 Graduates

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

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

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

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

Magna Cum Laude (**)Ìý
3.7 to 3.89 GPA

Cum Laude (*)
3.5 to 3.69 GPA

Bachelor's Degrees

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Master's Degrees

  • Alexandra Branscombe
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  • Charlotte Elizabeth Rose Whittaker

Doctor of Philosophy Degrees

Brandon Matthew DanielsÌýÌý ÌýÌýÌý Ìý ÌýÌý Ìý

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

Joanne Christine Esch ÌýÌý Ìý

  • Dissertation:ÌýFrom Evidence-Based Practice to Engaged Inquiry: Cultivating Communicative Praxis in Community Service OrganizingÌýÌý ÌýÌýÌý ÌýÌýÌý ÌýÌýÌý ÌýÌýÌý Ìý ÌýÌý ÌýÌýÌý ÌýÌýÌý ÌýÌýÌý Ìý
  • Advisor: Karen Ashcraft, PhD

Deepti KhedekarÌýÌý Ìý ÌýÌý

  • Dissertation: Communicating Precarity and Resistance Under Surveillance: Fragile Organizing in Private Online GroupsÌýÌý ÌýÌýÌý ÌýÌýÌý Ìý ÌýÌý ÌýÌýÌý ÌýÌýÌý ÌýÌýÌý Ìý
  • Advisor: Bryan Taylor, PhD

Blessed Efilo NgoeÌýÌý Ìý ÌýÌý Ìý

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

Travis Ray AustinÌý

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

Minso KimÌýÌý ÌýÌýÌý Ìý ÌýÌý Ìý

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

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

Shiva Mohammadi Darian

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

Shamika LaShawn Klassen

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

Ellen Anne Simpson

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

Madelyn L. Zander

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

Jonathan Bradley Gallagher

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

Biyi Wen

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

Arthur Jonathan Bamford

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

Sima Rani BhowmikÌý

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

Joshua Ross Foust

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

Saima Absar Kazmi

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

Marissa Ashley Lammon

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

Emma Joy Lawrence

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

Anat Leshnick

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

Shaylynn Lynch Lesinski

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

Matthew Dale Pickard

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

Luz Aida Ruiz Martinez

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

Kaitlyn Elayne Wright

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

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