2006 Graduate Student Recognition

2005 Student Achievements...

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Fellowships, Scholarships & Awards

Giorgia Aiello, UW Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Social Professions, 2006-07; Fellowship, Connecting with the Community: An Institute on the Public Humanities for Doctoral Students, UW Simpson Center for the Humanities, 2005; International Communication Association’s Visual Studies Division Conference Travel Grant, 2006; Annenberg Travel Grant for the International Communication Association Convention, 2006; UW Simpson Center for the Humanities Graduate Student Fund Grant to create a display of public scholarship work done at the Seattle Central Library in collaboration with Youth in Focus, Summer 2005.

Laura Black & Jay Leighter, Top Four Paper, Language and Social Interaction Division, National Communication Association Conference, 2005.

Ted Coopman, Best Student Paper, Group Division, National Communication Association Conference, 2005; Fellowship, Connecting with the Community: An Institute on the Public Humanities for Doctoral Students, UW Simpson Center for the Humanities, 2005.

Kate Dunsmore, Fellowship, Connecting with the Community: An Institute on the Public Humanities for Doctoral Students, UW Simpson Center for the Humanities, 2005.

Irina Gendelman, Madeline Jones Campbell Scholarship, Mortar Board Alumni/Tolo Association, 2005.

Sue Lockett John, Elizabeth Ayres Scholarship, Mortar Board Alumni/Tolo Association, 2005.

Edith Manosevitch, Madeline Jones Campbell Scholarship, Mortar Board Alumni/Tolo Association, 2005; Top Paper, Mass Communication Theory and Research Division, National Communication Association’s National Doctoral Honors Seminar, 2005.

Sara Morgan, Fellowship, Connecting with the Community: An Institute on the Public Humanities for Doctoral Students, UW Simpson Center for the Humanities, 2005; Korean American Scholarship Foundation Designated Scholarship.

Service Awards, Honors & Activities

Giorgia Aiello, Invited Panel Speaker, “Considering Class: Working-Class Graduate Students Discuss their Experiences at the UW,” UW Graduate Professional Education Week, Winter 2006; Invited Participant, Working Meeting for the conference “Place Matters: Seeking Equity in a Diverse Society,” UW Diversity Research Institute, Spring 2006; Invited Respondent, UW Department of Communication Ways of Speaking Lecture Series, Spring 2006.

Ted Coopman, Graduate Student Representative, Executive Committee, Association of Internet Researchers.

Irina Gendelman, Invited Speaker, “Communication, Public Spaces and Community Art,” Allegheny College, PA.

Clifford Tatum, Mentor, UW Undergraduate Research Symposium “Paradox and Progress: Exploring Urban Culture in Amsterdam through Interdisciplinary e-Research,” 2006.

Research Mentor Center (RMC) Volunteers 2005-06: Whitney Anspach, Ted Coopman, Sheryl Cunningham, Meghan Dougherty, Kate Dunsmore, Kristin Gustafson, Jessica Harvey, Andrea Hickerson, Julie Homchick, Sue Lockett John, Nicole Kim, Monique Lacoste, Gina Martinez, Madhavi Murty, Tim Pasch, Stephanie Smith, Sarah Shmuel, Leah Sprain, Amoshaun Toft, Nancy Van Leuven, Mary Lynn Veden, Lea Werbel, Dru Williams.

Publications

Giorgia Aiello, (2005) Book review: “Shaping the network society: The new role of civic society in cyberspace.” New Media & Society, 7(4); (with Crispin Thurlow), (2006) “Symbolic capitals: Visual discourse and intercultural exchange in the European Capital of Culture scheme.” Language and Intercultural Communication, 6(2).

Laura Black, (2005) “Building connection while thinking together: By-products of employee training in dialogue.” Western Journal of Communication, 69, 273-292; (2005) “Dialogue in the lecture hall: Teacher-student communication and students’ perceptions of their learning.” Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, 6, 31-40.

Ted Coopman, (2006) Book review: “Applied ethics in internet research.” Mary Thorseth (Ed.) The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies.

Ted Coopman & Sue Lockett John (with David Domke, E. Graham & K. Coe), (2006) “Follow the leader: The Bush administration, new media, and the U.S.A. Patriot Act.” Political Communication 23(3).

Ben Crosby, “The benefits of a for-credit tutor training course in starting a university writing center,” lead article, Writing Lab Newsletter, May 2006.

Tony Docan, (2006) “Using Jenga® to teach system theory.” Communication Teacher, 20, 11-13.

Kate Dunsmore & Edith Manosevitch (with Patricia Moy & Keith Stamm), (2005) “Linking dimensions of internet use and civic engagement.” Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 82(3), 571-586.

Kathy Hall, Book review: “Communication and Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making.” Technical Communication, August 2005, 51(3): 373-374.

Edith Manosevitch, (2006) “Democratic values, empowerment and giving voice: Children’s media discourse in the aftermath of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.” Learning Media and Technology, 31(2).

Tema Milstein, (2005) “Transformation abroad: Sojourning and the perceived enhancement of self-efficacy.” International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 29 (2), 217-238; (with Valerie Manusov), (2005) “Interpreting nonverbal behavior: Representation and transformation frames in Israeli and Palestinian media coverage of the 1993 Rabin-Arafat handshake.” Western Journal of Communication, 69 (3), 183-201.

Sara Morgan, (2005) “More than pictures? An exploration of visually dominant magazine ads as arguments.” Journal of Visual Literacy, 25, 145-166.

Clifford Tatum, (2006) Book review: “Information politics on the web,” New Media & Society 8(3); (2005) “Deconstructing Google bombs: A breach of symbolic power or just a goofy prank?” First Monday, 10(10).

Nancy Van Leuven, “Health literacy in the hills: How a California community shaped its well-being,” Studies in Communication Science, Spring 2006; “Thoughts about pedagogy,” Feminist Con/text, newsletter of the Feminist Scholarship Division of the International Communication Association, Summer 2005.

Conference Presentations

~ American Journalism Historian Association, San Antonio, Oct. 2005:
Kristin Gustafson, “Nellie Francis and the NAACP: Agents for social change in 1920.”

~ American Public Health Association, Philadelphia, Dec. 2005:
Kathy Hall, “Framing the debate: How labor and trade publications view occupational
health policy.”

~ Association for Canadian Studies in the U.S., St. Louis, MO, Nov. 2005:
Natalie Debray, “Hero or hubris? De Gaulle and collective memory in Quebec: A comparative media study.”

Kate Dunsmore, “Banning Canadian cows: A comparative study of US and Canadian news coverage.”

~ Association of Internet Researchers, Chicago, Oct. 2005:
Ted Coopman, “Technologies of dissent: New media, free media, and parallel media infrastructures”; “Can we dare to want it all?,” Revolution or Reform roundtable.

Clifford Tatum, “Emerging methods for analyzing a new generation of civic engagement on the web: Place, space and civic engagement in the Chinese diaspora.”

~ Doctoral Honors Seminar, National Communication Association, Norman, OK, July 2005:
Edith Manosevitch, “Citizens’ argument repertoire and media discourse.”

~ International Association for Language and Intercultural Communication, Brussels, Dec. 2005:
Giorgia Aiello (with Crispin Thurlow), “Symbolic capitals: Visual discourse and intercultural exchange in the European Capital of Culture scheme.”

~ International Association for Public Participation, Portland, OR, Oct. 2005:
Kathy Hall, “Content analysis as an evaluative tool for public involvement”; “What makes activists tick? A tour of the political communication literature,” poster.

~ International Association of Relationship Research, Crete, Greece, July 2006:
Sara Morgan (with Valerie Manusov & M. Keeley), “When talking is difficult: Nonverbal communication and final conversations with loved ones.”

~ International Communication Association, Dresden, Germany, June 2006:
Natalie Debray, “Mediating the motherland: The role of the media in maintaining and contesting Quebec’s French past.”

Irina Gendelman, “Four questions for the study of communication and public spaces.”

Kristin Gustafson, “Accounting for the 1920 lynching in Duluth, Minnesota: Marginalizing people, groups, and ideas in selected Minnesota newspapers.”

Kathy Hall, “Academic poster presentations: How to get noticed.”

Andrea Hickerson, “Movement of the people?: The resonance of social movements from the homeland in the diaspora.”

Mark Hungerford, “Religion and conflict in the news.”

Leah Sprain, “Voices of organic consumption: An ethnographic and rhetorical exploration of organic consumption as political consumption.”

Nancy Van Leuven, “The female face of poverty: Media and the gender divide in the millennium development goals”; “Cascades of news framing: Wrangling rhetoric in Schwarzenegger’s ‘The Indians are ripping us off!’”

Nancy Van Leuven, Sheryl Cunningham & Anna Fahey (with David Domke, K. Coe & M. Bagley), “Masculinity, terrorism, and partisan identity in post-September 11 politics.”

~ Language and Global Communication Conference, Cardiff, Wales, July 2005:
Irina Gendelman & Giorgia Aiello, “Communication in microfinance: An exploratory case study”; “From fast food to slow food: Challenging global modes of consumption through symbolic production.”

Tema Milstein, “Attracting global tourism to Israel: The roles of tourism officials, the press, and reality in the discursive construction of normalcy.”

~ Midwestern Association for Public Opinion Research, Chicago, Nov. 2005:
Andrea Hickerson & Kate Dunsmore (with Patricia Moy), “Sanctioning torture: Power indexing in the confirmation of Alberto Gonzales.”

Mark Hungerford, “Newspaper critiques of Muslim and Christian political activity and faith claims.”

~ National Centre for e-Social Science, Manchester, England, June 2006:
Clifford Tatum, “Social science perspectives on e-Science workshop.”

~ National Communication Association, Boston, Nov. 2005:
Giorgia Aiello & Irina Gendelman, “Narrative analysis and oral history: An approach to the study of multimodal texts.”

Whitney Anspach, “Uniting macro- and micro-level analytical perspectives in collective identity.”

Nancy Bixler, “Conceptions of cancer in the breast cancer walk.”

Laura Black, “Listening to The City: Storytelling, difference, and identity in online discussions about commemorating September 11th”; “Get paid to be a group communication scholar: Fifteen experts evaluate the health of the discipline,” panel.

Laura Black & Jay Leighter, “‘I’m just raising the question’: An analysis of ‘question(s)’ and meanings in public meetings,” Top Four Paper, Language and Social Interaction Division; (with John Gastil and P. Dees) “From group member to citizen: Measuring the impact of jury deliberation on citizen identity and civic norms.”

Ted Coopman, “Weak is the new strong: Weak ties, communication networks, and collective action,” Best Student Paper, Group Communication Division.

Ben Crosby, “Enlibra: Framing a new American environmental discourse.”

Tony Docan (with C.A. Docan), “Online infidelity: Perceptions of self-infidelity vs. partner-infidelity and conflicting views of women and men.”

Irina Gendelman, “The romantic and the dangerous stranger in public spaces”; “Slow food as a new social movement: A global resistance to fast food culture through symbolic production,” panel.

Sara Morgan, “More than pictures? An exploration of visually dominant ads as arguments.”

Leah Sprain, “Seeking community (and conversation): An ethnographic study of participant orientation to group process in conversation cafes.”

Nancy Van Leuven, “From Tupperware to sex toys: Women and direct home sales online.”

Nancy Van Leuven & Sheryl Cunningham (with David Domke, K. Coe & M. Bagley), “Hyper-masculinity as discursive strategy: George W. Bush ‘conditioning the press’ after September 11.”

~ Rhetoric Society of America, Memphis, May 2006:
Julie Homchick, “Science museum rhetoric.”

Nancy Van Leuven, “‘The rhetoric of a vanishing race’– Chief Seattle’s memorable acquiescence.”

~ Rocky Mountain Modern Languages Association, Coeur d’Alene, ID, Oct. 2005:
Kate Dunsmore, “Voices of African American youth: Aspiration and struggle.”

Andrea Hickerson, “Becoming Iraqi: Kurdish opinion on American intervention in Iraq.”

~ Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Chicago, Nov. 2005:
Nancy Van Leuven, “Perspectives of urban ecology: Tribal casinos and the nature of cities.”

~ University of Washington Graduate Conference for Interdisciplinary Studies, May 2006:
Ben Crosby, “Gnosticism and the rhetoric of testimony in Mormon worship.”

Jennifer Hefti, “The concept of resistance to power in Michel Foucault’s works.”

Tim Pasch, “Google, power, and the fallacy of search engine innocence.”

~ University of Washington International Development Lecture Series, Nov. 2005:
Nancy Van Leuven, “Africa: Whose development agenda is it?”

~ University of Washington Symposium on Social Movements & Online Collective Action, Feb. 2006:
Clifford Tatum, “Online collective action: The product of unintended co-production,” panel.

~ University of Washington Teaching and Learning Symposium, April 2006:
Giorgia Aiello & Irina Gendelman (with T. Dobrowolsky), “Urban archives: Collaborating with undergraduates in researching the city.”

~ University of Washington World Languages Day Colloquium, March 2006:
Natalie Debray, “Language, media, and cultural identity: A view from Quebec.”

~ Western States Communication Association, Palm Springs, CA, Feb. 2006:
Tony Docan, “‘Think about it, get anxious about it, and guard against it, or you might die’: An analysis of self-help infidelity websites”; “Using Jenga® to teach system theory.”

Sara Morgan, “Using the ‘snowball’ technique to discuss nonverbal emotional expression: Great ideas for teaching speech,” panel.

~ World Association for Public Opinion Research, Montreal, Canada, May 2006:
Andrea Hickerson, “The boundaries of scandal: Framing the leak of a CIA operative”; (with Patricia Moy & B. Bosch), “Media use, national attachment and citizenship.”

~ World Summit on the Information Society, Tunis, Tunisia, Nov. 2005:
Maria Garrido (with C. Coward, R. Roman, B. Kolko & A. Gordon), “Corporations, NGOs and IT Training: Blending private and nonprofit approaches to achieving socio-economic outcomes.”