Models
The following section details some of the alternative dissertation projects that scholars have created in recent years.
UW-Madison
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Steel Wagstaff (English)
 
University of Wisconsin System
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Virginia Kuhn (English, UW-Milwaukee)
 
Beyond UW
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Laura Gogia (Educational Research and Evaluation – Virginia Commonwealth University)
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Amanda Visconti (Composition and Rhetoric – U Maryland)
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A. D. Carson (Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design – Clemson U)
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Gregory T. Donovan (Communication and Media Studies – Fordham)
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Nick Sousanis (Interdisciplinary Studies in Education – Columbia U)
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Matthew Lincoln (Art History – U Maryland)
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Dwayne Dixon (Cultural Anthropology – Duke University