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Submissions from 2022
Frisky in your Forties: Call Me Kat Revises the 'Crazy Cat Lady' Trope, Shana Bridges
“Cane Boil” (Documentary), Dean Cummings
“The Secret Life of an Alien Teenager” Three alien siblings are sent to earth by their mother to learn a lesson (Multi-cam Production)., Dean Cummings
Submissions from 2021
Embodying History: Hip-Hop Dance as Resistance and Protest, Sarah E. McCarroll
The Key Plays: A House Divided, Sarah E. McCarroll
Submissions from 2020
G-Men Heroes and Deep-State Thugs: Analysis of Hollywood’s Historical Representation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Dean Cummings
Political Ads: Political Advertising is a Windfall of Profit for Television Stations, Dean Cummings
Social Penetration Theory and the Spam Correspondence of the Presidential Campaign, Dean Cummings
Back in the Narrative’: Creating the Citizen Body in Hamilton, Sarah E. McCarroll
Submissions from 2019
G-Men Heroes or Deep State Thugs: Hollywood's Historical Representation of the FBI, Dean Cummings
Political Cash Cows: US Television Stations Remain Relevant and Lucrative Because of Political Campaigns, Dean Cummings
Script Presentation: Counter Revolution Respondent, John Goshorn
Script Presentation: What is Done Respondent, John Goshorn
Back in the Narrative’: Creating the Citizen Body in Hamilton, Sarah E. McCarroll
"One Man’s Vision of the World”: Yeats and the Abbey Theatre, Sarah E. McCarroll
Submissions from 2018
Nutrition facts and consumption acts: Testing the effects calorie label design on consumers’ decision-making processes, Lauren Bayliss
No One Is Watching: Millennial Disengagement from the Main Stream, Dean Cummings
Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks – The Impact of Multimedia Journalism on Ageism in Television News, Dean Cummings
The Candy Bar – CHEAT TEST: SIX reasons why journalists take the bait of “Fake News’, Dean Cummings
The MMJ became a McJob: The McDonaldization of Multimedia Journalism, Dean Cummings
The 2018 Digital Showcase: Sights and Sounds of the South, Dean C. Cummings, Kenny D. Smith, and John Goshorn
The Cognitive Ecology of Objects and Things at Smallhythe Place, Sarah E. McCarroll
The Key Plays: Underdogs, Sarah E. McCarroll
Submissions from 2017
Health cues, food cues, and final selections: The effects of nutrition format and individual differences on desired portion size, Lauren Bayliss
Mediated food cues: A theoretical framework for sensory information, Lauren Bayliss
Wading Through the Waters of Fake News and Alternative Facts, Dean Cummings
Globe to Globe: How the World Came to London to Perform Shakespeare, and How Shakespeare Traveled the World, Sarah E. McCarroll
Cecil Brown: 1940s’ Radio Commentator Who First Championed Civil Rights, Reed W. Smith
Radio Commentators: America’s Opinion Leaders, Reed W. Smith
Submissions from 2016
Globe to Globe: How the World Came to London to Perform Shakespeare, and How Shakespeare Traveled the World, Sarah E. McCarroll
The Key Plays: The 21st Century Edition, Sarah E. McCarroll
Beyond the Mask: Creating Character & Impulse Through Commedia, Nicholas D. Newell
Submissions from 2015
Navigating the Arts in the Academy, Sarah E. McCarroll
Performing the Absent Body: Voyeurism and the Playboy Riots, Sarah E. McCarroll
Sun City-Hilton Head Irish Heritage Society, Guest Speaker, Sarah E. McCarroll
The Key Plays 3: Diversity in American Theatre, Sarah E. McCarroll
Young Scholars Award Panel Presentation, Sarah E. McCarroll
A Playwright’s Guide to the Gatekeepers, Nicholas D. Newell
Commedia & Finding Your Inner Zanni, Nicholas D. Newell
Submissions from 2014
Making Air with a Magic Bullet: The Multimedia Journalist’s Impact on News Production, Dean Cummings
Henry the Which? Who’s Who in Shakespeare’s History Plays, Sarah E. McCarroll
Jane Austen Goes Dancing: Romance and the Ballroom, Sarah E. McCarroll
The “Boy” Who Wouldn’t Grow Up: Peter Pan and the Dangers of Eternal Youth, Sarah E. McCarroll
Freedom Behind the Mask, Nicholas D. Newell
Get Your Script Off of the Stack, Nicholas D. Newell
L’amour Dans La Poesie Et La Musique, Nicholas D. Newell
Cecil Brown: The Controversial Life of an Itinerant Broadcast Commentator, Reed W. Smith
Submissions from 2013
Dance? But It’s Shakespeare!: Period Dance for Actors, Sarah E. McCarroll
Mr. and Mrs. Macbeth’s Victorian Marriage, Sarah E. McCarroll
The Historical Body Map: Cultural Pressures on Embodied Cognition, Sarah E. McCarroll
The Past is Prologue: Practicing Theory and History, Sarah E. McCarroll
Jimmy Carter and Charles Ferris: The Men Who Shook Up the Federal Communications Commission, Reed W. Smith
The Real Designers of Telecommunications Deregulation: It Wasn’t Reagan or Fowler, Reed W. Smith
Submissions from 2012
Irving and Terry at the Lyceum: West End Shakespeare, Sarah E. McCarroll
Period Plays, Modern Bodies: Embodying Times Gone By, Sarah E. McCarroll
Political Acts and Acting: Elizabeth Robins’ Ibsen and the Actress, Sarah E. McCarroll
Submissions from 2011
Health as hegemonic masculinity: The symbolic construction of health in Men’s Health and Men’s Fitness magazines, Beverly L. Graham and Chris B. Geyerman
Great Minds Lecture Series: “Three Episodes in Georgia Media History,”, Reed W. Smith
Valued Added Programs through Advisory Boards, Reed W. Smith
Submissions from 2010
How Everyone Loves Raymond: The hegemonic function of gender, class, and nationalism, Beverly L. Graham and Chris B. Geyerman
Internationalizing the communication curriculum: The China experience, Beverly L. Graham, Chris B. Geyerman, and K. S. Berry
Potential Utility of incorporating compliance- gaining behavior theory for men’s healthcare messages, Beverly L. Graham and Urkovia Jacob-Andrews
Submissions from 2009
These are a few of my favorite things: Discipline approaches to public speaking, Beverly L. Graham, A. M. Brooks, and L. L. Muller
Regulating the Regulators: The FCC Versus the House of Representatives, Reed W. Smith
Student Production, Original “Old Radio Video Documentary in Celebration of 100 Years of Radio”, Reed W. Smith
The Case of FCC Chairman John Doerfer and TV License Influence Peddling, Reed W. Smith
Submissions from 2008
Advertising matters: Using Peer Advisors to increase departmental enculturation, Beverly L. Graham
Oral History Strategies Panel, Reed W. Smith
Principles and Experiences in Doing Oral History Research, Reed W. Smith
Submissions from 2006
An investigation of public relations’ role in supporting corporate culture: A Case study of a regional healthcare facility, Pamela Bourland-Davis and Beverly L. Graham
Why Everybody Loves Raymond: Hegemony and the centrifugal discursive formation of patriarchy, Beverly L. Graham and Chris B. Geyerman
Conference on Black Reporters and the Civil Rights Era, Reed W. Smith
Submissions from 2005
Addressing men’s healthcare: Using compliance-gaining behavior and situational theory literature to re-focus target audiences for men’s health, Beverly L. Graham and Pamela Bourland-Davis
Submissions from 2004
Implications of compliance-gaining strategies in public relation campaigns dealing with men’s health, Beverly L. Graham
Network News Framing of the Boys Scouts-Gay Rights Controversy, Reed W. Smith
Submissions from 2003
Student attitudes toward underage drinking: A pre- and post-test of a PR research class charged with investigating the topic, Pamela Bourland-Davis and Beverly L. Graham
Three-part harmony? Three perspectives on survey data of teenage drinking report. Socialization and social norm theory, Beverly L. Graham
Applications of Oral History in Documentary and Entertainment Programming, Reed W. Smith
Journalistic Performance During a Lynching in Georgia, Reed W. Smith
Submissions from 2002
Why can’t we be friends: An exploratory look at intergenerational friendship, Beverly L. Graham
Submissions from 2001
An examination of public relations role in maintaining corporate culture: A newsletter content analysis, Pamela Bourland-Davis and Beverly L. Graham
The themes of corporate culture as told through personal narrative: A case study of a regional healthcare facility during organizational change, Pamela Bourland-Davis and Beverly L. Graham
Facilitating Faculty to Share Administrative Power and Responsibilities: Models for getting it Done, Reed W. Smith
Mass Communication History Division, Reed W. Smith
Submissions from 1999
Using goal setting as part of the public relations internship evaluation, Beverly L. Graham and Pamela Bourland-Davis
Vesting students in their academic career: Using goal setting from introductory public speaking to internships, Beverly L. Graham and Pamela Bourland-Davis
Perceived social support of the rural HIV/AIDS individual, Beverly L. Graham and M. K. Pung
Social Support Issues for Persons Living with HIV in Rural Areas, Beverly L. Graham and M. K. Pung
The Case of the Press and Presidential Missionary Jimmy Carter, Reed W. Smith
Submissions from 1998
The stories of rural HIV+/AIDS individuals: Redemption through the desire to help others and the power of spiritual healing and forgiveness, Beverly L. Graham and Chris B. Geyerman
Disciples or Pharisees: The Religious Press and the Carter Presidency, Reed W. Smith
Submissions from 1997
Improving the internship experience through MBO: A content analysis of student internship goals, Beverly L. Graham and Pamela Bourland-Davis
Student intern's perspectives on goals, Beverly L. Graham and Pamela Bourland-Davis
Informal social support of rural American patients with HIV+, Beverly L. Graham and M. K. Pung
A Qualitative Analysis of the Family When Television Entered the American Home, Reed W. Smith
Submissions from 1996
Ohio Academy of History, Reed Smith
Mass Communication Research Competition, Reed W. Smith
Submissions from 1995
Defining the Public Relations internship through student feedback: A content analysis of mid-term reports, Pamela Bourland-Davis, Beverly L. Graham, and Hal W. Fulmer
Peer evaluations in Public Speaking: A Comparison of private small groups to classroom peer evaluations, Beverly L. Graham
Perceived goal fulfillment in public speaking, Beverly L. Graham
