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Graduate Students Awarded "Top Student Paper" at Annual Convention
Speech and Debate Team places 17th in national tournament
2008 Giles Wilkeson Gray Lecture
DR. KING'S RARE COMICS
Doctoral student, Karen Hartman's debut publication, titled Intertextuality and apologia: "Rhetorical Efficacy Through Shared Values as Illustrated Through the Firing of Coach Bobby Knight", will appear in the Summer 2008 issue of Speaker and Gavel, the National Journal of DSR-TKA, national honorary forensic society.
LSU Debaters recognized by The Shreveport Times.
Congratulations to the following graduate students recognized at the NCA convention in Chicago. Brianne Waychoff won top debut paper for Performance Studies, Ben Powell won the Marie J. Robinson Grauduate Student Scholarship from the Performance Studies Division, Danielle McGeough for the top student paper in Freedom of Expression, and Crystal Lane Swift for a Pi Kappa Delta award.
2007 - 2008 Visiting Scholars
Tracy Stephenson Shaffer and co-author Ronald J. Pelias published the second edition of Performance Studies: The Interpretation of Aesthetic Texts in the fall of 2007. The practice-based text functions as a bridge between the long respected tradition of oral interpretation and trends in contemporary performance studies research. The edition includes new chapters on everyday storytelling and performance art as well as a DVD featuring sample solo performances by many of LSU's current graduate students.
Congratulations to Ruth Laurion Bowman, Melanie Kitchens, and Linda Shkreli for their article, “FEMAture Evacuation: A Parade,” published in the newest issue of Text and Performance Quarterly.
Congratulations to our doctoral student, Pavica Juric, for winning the "best graduate student paper award" at the recent Louisiana Communication Association Convention at the ULM campus.
NEW ! Communication Interaction Lab
Crystal-Lane Swift , coach of the the Mixon Lyceum Speech and Debate Team, has a new publication out for Speaker and Gavel that was coauthored with Gary Rybold. The article is entitled "Finding an Acceptable Definition of "Original" Work in Platform Speeches: A Study of Community College Coaches. In addition she has two more publication coming out this fall.
James Honeycutt was presented with Top Paper Award at the 57th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, in San Francisco,CA on May 24-28, 2007. "Predicting Intrapersonal Communications Satisfaction on the Basis of Imagined Interaction Functions and Measures of Horizontal and Vertical Individualism and Collectivism in the Pacifc Rim"
Congratulations to Gretchen Stein Rhodes who won the LSU Dissertation Fellowship for 2007-2008 (this makes the third year running that a CMST student has received this award.
Danielle Sears Vignes has been accepted into the summer seminar at Northwestern University's Center for Global Culture and Communication on "Perofrmance and Excess" June 25-29! She 2will take both her show, "Hang It Out to Dry," and her dissertation project.
Dr. Stephanie Grey and Dr. Patricia Suchy work on Special Projects for the play "Cocktail"
Delta Sigma Rho - Tau Kappa Alpha Forensic National Tournament results
2007 Giles Wilkeson Gray Lecture presented on March 6th
2007 Harold Mixon Mardi Gras Classic Tri-State Championship Tournament
Dr. James Honeycutt won the Distinguished Book Award Award for his book, Imagined Interactions: Daydreaming about Communication, in the Communication & Social Cognition Division. He was presented the award at the National Communication Association 92nd Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
Dr. Patricia Suchy works with Dr. James V. Catano (English), Dr. Adelaide Russo (French), and LSU students on Louisiana documentary with Guest Artist, Award-Winning Documentarian Rob Rombout
So You Think You Can Dance?
2006 Departmental Retreat
Professor Patricia Suchy visits LSSU as Artist-in-Residence
LSU Speech & Debate Team Won the Louisiana Intercollegiate Forensics Association Championships
RECENT STUDY SHOWS STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS OF THE HURRICANES.
Joy Banner has been selected as a Huel D. Perkins Doctoral Fellowship recipient. The Huel D. Perkins Doctoral Fellowship recognizes past academic excellence and potential for significant scholarly contributions.
Dr Renee Edwards coauthored an article, "Distinguishing the number of credit cards held by college students employing credit and money attitudes and imagined interactions," published in Financial Counseling and Planning.
Dr. James M. Honeycutt is editing a new book on imagined interaction for Hampton Press called, "Imagine That: New Advances in Imagined Interactions." The book contains research on imagined interactions in relation to bereavement, internet usage, chaos, and managing conflict and other processes. Renee Edwards, Jon Croghan, Tammy Kelley, and Shaun Treat are contributing authors.
Dr. Loretta Pecchioni and two co-authors published Life-span Communication in 2005 with Lawrence Erlbaum. This text emphasizes how communicative processes develop, are maintained, and change throughout the life span, by examining specific communication processes from infancy through childhood and adolescence into middle age and later life. Topics covered include language skills, interpersonal conflict management, socialization, care-giving, and relationship development.
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