MA & PhD Program Career Outcomes

Asmita Ghimire

• Dissertation: Discursive Technology and Transnational Conscientización Testimonios: Approaching Technical Communication from a Transnational Feminist Perspective
• Initial post-graduation plan: Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of St. Thomas

Caitlin Baulch

• Dissertation: "'That's Just an Old Wives' Tale': Natural Labor Induction on Social Media and in the Archive"

• Advisor: Molly Kessler

• Initial Post-Graduation Plan: Assistant Teaching Professor, Wake Forest University

Cody Bursch

• Dissertation: “Conducting a Personal Listening Audit as a Practice of Critical Self-Awareness”

• Advisor: Amy Lee

• Initial Post-Graduation Plan: Professor of English, Arizona Western College

Mikayla Davis

• Dissertation: “Writing for Fun: Using Play in the College Writing Classroom”

• Advisor: Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch

Emily Gresbrink

• Dissertation: "A Humanist Approach to Digital Risk Communication: Investigating Graduate Student Responses to COVID-19 E-Mails"

• Advisor: Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch

• Initial Post-Graduation Plan: Assistant Professor, Minnesota State University, Mankato (MN)

Jessa Wood

• Dissertation: "At The Event Horizon: Possibilities and Precarities in WAC/WID’s Reckoning with Antiracism"

• Advisor: Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch

• Initial Post-Graduation Plan: Associate Faculty in Writing Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)

Mark Brenden

• Dissertation: "Composition's Terms of Use: The Pedagogical Implications of Learning Management Systems"

• Advisors: Patrick Bruch & Tom Reynolds

• Initial Post-Graduation Plan: Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin - River Falls (WI)

Brandi Fuglsby

• Dissertation: "Including Critical Feminist Approaches in the Technical Communication Classroom: An Autoethnography throughout Changing Rhetorical Ecologies"

• Advisor: Ann Hill Duin

• Initial Post-Graduation Plan: Assistant Professor, Austin Peay State University (TN)

Alexander Champoux-Crowley

• Dissertation: "Negotiation & Translation in First Year Composition WPA Work: Transformative Professional Knowledge to Composition Practice"

• Advisor: Patrick Bruch

• Initial Post-Graduation Plan: Lecturer, University of Southern Maine (ME)

Katlynne Davis

• Dissertation: "Writing Across Layers of Precarity: Professionals’ Digital Social Media Labor in Mental Health Advocacy"

• Advisors: Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch & Ann Hill Duin

• Initial Post-Graduation Plan: Assistant Professor, University of St Thomas (MN)

Evelyn Dsouza

• Dissertation: "The Rhetorical Ecology of an Urban Wetland Complex"

• Advisors: Donald Ross & Dan Card

• Initial Post-Graduation Plan: Technical Editor, WSP (NJ)

Danielle Mollie Stambler

• Dissertation: "Eat Well to Work Well: Oppression, Risk, Power, and the Rhetorics of Employee Wellness"

• Advisors: Molly Kessler & Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch

• Initial Post-Graduation Plan: Assistant Professor of Technical Communication, Arizona State University (AZ)

Ryan Wold

• Dissertation: "Design, Business Models and Embedded Values: Developing a Mentor Program Management Platform as a Model of Humane Technology"

• Advisors: Ann Hill Duin & Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch

• Initial Post-Graduation Plan: CEO at Tablmakr, Researcher/Entrepreneur 

McKinley Green

• Dissertation: "User Resistance in HIV Technology Design: Toward a Critical Participatory Rhetoric for Technical and Professional Communication"

• Advisor: Pat Bruch

• Initial Post-Graduation Plan: Assistant Professor, George Mason University (VA)

Jeremy Rosselot-Merritt

• Dissertation: "Fertile Grounds in Technical and Professional Communication: Identity, Legitimacy, Power, and Workplace Practice"

• Advisor: Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch

• Initial Post-Graduation Plan: Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon University (PA)

Chakrika Veeramoothoo

• Dissertation: "Investigating the Online Presence of Immigration Organizations: Understanding the Role of Social Justice and Technical Communication"

• Advisors: Ann Hill Duin & Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch

• Initial Post-Graduation Plan: Assistant Professor, University of Houston-Downtown (TX)

Kari Campeau

• Dissertation: "The Rhetorical Making of an Illness: Medical Refusal, Trope, and Improvisation in a Somali Women's Health Center"

• Honorable Mention, Arts & Humanities Category, UMN Graduate School Best Dissertation Award, 2021

• Advisors: Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch & Mary Schuster

• Initial Post-Graduation Plan: Assistant Professor, University of Colorado - Denver (CO)

Nicole Ciulla

• Dissertation: "Temporal Rhetorics of Local Climate Action"

• Advisor: Tom Reynolds

• Initial Post-Graduation Plan: Assistant Professor of English, Saint Mary's University (MN)

Trent Kays

• Dissertation: "Authority in Digital Space: Exploring the Case of the Green Pea Galaxy"

• Advisor: Laura Gurak 

• Initial Post-Graduation Plan: Assistant Professor, Augusta University (GA)

Ryan Eichberger

• Dissertation: "Imaging Environmental Belonging in a Wounded World: Toward a Visual Rhetoric for the Anthropocene"

• Best Dissertation Award in Arts and Humanities, UMN Graduate School, 2020

• Advisor: Daniel J. Philippon

• Initial Post-Graduation Plan: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Saint Olaf College (MN)

Juliette Lapeyrouse-Cherry

• Dissertation: “Composing the Gulf Coast: Narratives of Environmental Toxicity, Racial Injustice, and Carbon Energy Across Modalities”

• Advisor: Daniel J. Philippon

• Initial Post-Graduation Plan: Adjunct Academic Faculty, Saint Catherine University (MN)

Jason Tham

• Dissertation: “Multimodality, Makerspaces, and the Making of a Maker Pedagogy for Technical Communication and Rhetoric”

• Advisor: Ann Hill Duin

• Initial Post-Graduation Plan: Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University (TX)