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Eskew, Joshua. The Epistemic Stance and the Rhetorical Stance: A Frequency Analysis of Modal Verb Usage and Rhetorical Technique in Expert Witness Testimony. 2022. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Discourse Analysis, Ideology, Law, Linguistics, Philosophy, Rhetorical Theory
Peterson, Shane. The Rhetorics of Crisis and Apocalypse in the Intermountain West. 2021. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Communication, Community, Environment, Publics/Public Spheres, Rhetoric and Composition, Rhetorical Theory
Palo, Caitlin. An Address to One and Many: Epistolary Experiments with the Public Sphere in England and the United States - 1735, 1796, 1998. 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Genre Theory, Narrative Analysis, Publics/Public Spheres, Rhetorical Theory
Oliveri, Vincent. Roles of Structures-in-Use in the Outcomes of Online Political Talk. 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Communication, Political Science, Rhetorical Theory
Telegen, Joseph. Empathy Passage: Toward a Presentational Genealogy of the Rhetorics of Antisemistism and Israel/Palestine. 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Political Science, Rhetoric and Composition, Rhetorical Theory
Fox, Nancy Ann. American Athena: A Feminist Sophistic Analysis of the Discourses of Women Servicemembers. 2020. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	American, Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing, Discourse Analysis, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Language, Narrative Analysis, Rhetorical Theory
Pratt, Jacqui. Delivering Rhetorical Entanglements. 2019. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Communication, Rhetorical Theory
Shivers-McNair, Ann. Making, Marking, Mattering : What We Can Learn about Writing, Rhetoric, and Technology from a Makerspace. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Culture, Language, Rhetorical Theory
Campbell, Lillian. Simulating Nursing: Rhetoric, Materiality, and Disciplinary Learning. 2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Language, Rhetorical Theory
LeMesurier, Jennifer. Bodies that Move You: the Rhetorical Force of the Dancing Body. 2014. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Pedagogy, Rhetoric and Composition, Rhetorical Theory, Space/Place
Meckfessel, Shon. Contentious Subjects: Non/violence as Topic and Trope in the Occupy Movement. 2014. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Discourse Analysis, Political Science, Rhetorical Theory
Russell, Lindsay Rose. Women in the English Language Dictionary. 2012. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Culture, Gender, History, History of the English Language, Rhetorical Theory
Xu, Jun. Where Knowledge Thrives: The Role of the Metaphorical in Scientific Process. 2012. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Discourse Analysis, Linguistics, Rhetorical Theory, Science and Technology
Read, Sarah. Network Rhetoric: A Network Ethnography of Knowledge Work of System Builders in Child Care and Early Learning. 2011. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Discourse Analysis, Education, Publics/Public Spheres, Race and Ethnicity, Rhetorical Theory
Gross, Allison V. Responding to Students: Uptake and First-Year Composition. 2011. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	Rhetoric and Composition, Rhetorical Theory, Writing Pedagogy
Reddinger, Amy. Domestic Inversions, Domestic Interventions: Mapping the Postwar Formation of Home, School, and Family. 2007. University of Washington, PhD dissertation.	Graduate, Dissertations	American, Culture, Discourse Analysis, Gender, Literature, Nationalism, Race and Ethnicity, Rhetorical Theory, Urban Studies
Shivers-McNair, Ann. Rhetoric and Makers in the Making: Genealogies of Mattering in a Makerspace. Doctoral dissertation, University of Washington. In progress.	Graduate, Dissertations	Digital Humanities, Research Methods, Rhetoric and Composition, Rhetorical Theory, Writing Pedagogy