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Budor Al-Zahrani, PhD Student

Budor Al-Zahrani

Previous Schools

  • MA, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), King Abdulaziz University
  • BA, English, King Abdulaziz University

Areas of Scholarship

  • Educational Policy and Applied Linguistics, with research interests in the areas of:
    • language use
    • L2 aquisition
    • language learning and teaching

Tiffany Barney, PhD Student

Tiffany Barney

Previous Schools

  • MA, Theoretical Linguistics, University of Utah
  • BA, English Major and Linguistics Minor, University of Utah
  • AS, General Studies, Salt Lake Community College

Areas of Scholarship

  • Assessment & Placement
  • Student Trajectory & Transfer
  • Digital Modes & Integrated Research

Jessica Begay, MA Student

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Previous Schools

  • BA, Writing and Rhetoric Studies, University of Utah

Areas of Scholarship

  • Indigenous Rhetorics
  • Decolonial Rhetorics
  • American Indian Rhetorics

Mitzi Ceballos, PhD Student

Mitzi Ceballos

Previous Schools

  • MA, English, Washington State University
  • BA, English, Boise State University

Areas of Scholarship

  • Decolonial/Postcolonial studies 
  • Archival studies 
  • (Im)Migration Rhetorics 

Nicole Clawson, PhD Candidate

Nicole Clawson, PhD Student

Previous Schools

  • MA, English Literature, Brigham Young University 
  • BS, Public Health Education, Brigham Young University

Areas of Scholarship

  • Rhetoric and Power
  • Narrative Identity 
  • Writing Program Administration

Aubrey Fochs, PhD Student

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Previous School

  • MSE, Higher Education Leadership, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater 
  • BA, English Professional Writing & Publishing, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater 
  • BA, Religious & Rhetoric Studies, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater 

Areas of Scholarship

  • Legal Rhetoric
  • Literacy
  • Religious Rhetoric

Pietera Fraser, PhD Candidate

Previous School

  • MA, Rhetoric and Writing, San Diego State University
  • BA, English, Brigham Young University-Idaho

Areas of Scholarship

  • Contemplative Pedagogy
  • First-Year Writing
  • Multilingual Writing

John Gordon, PhD Student

Previous School

  • MS, Information Systems & Business Analytics, University of Utah
  • BA, English, University of Utah
  • BS, Computer Science, Weber State University

Areas of Scholarship

  • Code Studies
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Data Analytics & Visualization

Lisa Harris, PhD Student

Lisa Harris

Previous School

  • MA American Literature, Brigham Young University
  • BA English, Brigham Young University 

Areas of Scholarship

  • Feminist Rhetoric
  • Rhetoric in the Disciplines
  • Writing Program Administration

Keolanani Kinghorn, PhD Student

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Previous School

  • MA, English Literature and Rhetoric, Weber State University
  • BA English, Brigham Young University, Hawaii
  • BA, Music, Brigham Young University, Hawaii

Areas of Scholarship

  • Decolonial Rhetoric

Alice Lopez-Haute, PhD Student

Previous Schools

  • MA, English, University of Utah
  • BA, English, University of Utah

Areas of Scholarship

  • Digital Rhetorics

 

Rachel Lott,  PhD Student

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Previous Schools

  • MA Early British Literature, Brigham Young University 
  • BA English, Brigham Young University 

Areas of Scholarship

  • Literacy and Identity 
  • Higher Education for Incarcerated Populations 
  • Digital Literacy/Digital Divide 

Joseph Mayaki, PhD Student

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Previous Schools

  • MA, English Literature, University of Ibadan
  • BA English Arts, University of Ibadan

Areas of Scholarship

  • Digital Health PlatformsRhetoric of Health 
  • MedicineMedical Humanities

Keith McDonald, MA Student

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Previous Schools

  • BA, Mass Communication, University of Utah
  • AA, General Studies, SLCC

Areas of Scholarship

Donald Penner, PhD Candidate

Donald Penner

Previous Schools

  • MA, English, University of Texas at Tyler
  • BA, International Relations, University of Colorado at Boulder

Areas of Scholarship

  • Two-Year College Literacy Studies
  • Professional Identity 
  • Discourse Analysis

Muath Qadous, PhD Student

Muath Qadous

Previous Previous Schools

  • MA, English, Western Carolina University
  • BA, English, An-Najah National University

Areas of Scholarship

  • Place-based rhetoric
  • Decolonial rhetoric
  • Comparative rhetoric

Rachael Rasmussen, MA Student

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Previous Schools

  • BA, English, Technical Communication & Rhetoric
  • Utah State UniversityBA, Spanish
  • Utah State University

Areas of Scholarship

  • The rhetoric of technologySpatial rhetoric
  • Environmental rhetorics
  • Comparative rhetoric

Mat Sillito, PhD Student

Previous Schools

  • MA, English, University of Utah
  • BA, English, Utah Valley University

Areas of Scholarship

  • Drug rhetorics
  • Epideictic rhetorics
  • Care-based pedagogies

Olivia Young, MA Student

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Previous Schools

  • Linguistics with minor in Writing and Rhetoric, University of Utah
  • AS, Salt Lake Community College 

Areas of Scholarship

  • Discourse Analysis 
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Blame Rhetorics
 
Last Updated: 9/5/23