Masters Students
Genevieve Delali Antonio
- MS Student
- gantonio@mtu.edu
- Walker 331
Research Interests
- Creative Writing
- Literacy Studies
Tucker D. Nielsen
- MS Student
- tdnielse@mtu.edu
- Walker 141
Research Interests
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Tucker is studying processes for improving student retention in writing programs, specifically within writing centers. His work will focus on creating methods to reinforce the importance of composition and rhetoric for STEAM students. |
PhD Candidates and Students
Eugene Brown Agyei
- PhD Student
- eagyei@mtu.edu
- Walker 140
Research Interests
Eugene’s research interests include communication studies, technical communication, new and digital media technologies and their disruption of traditional media practices. He's also interested in understanding trends in Africa's growing digital media space.
Ayodele James Akinola
- PhD Student
- aakinola@mtu.edu
- Walker 140
Research Interests
James’ major interest revolves around digital humanities, visual rhetoric, digital communication and culture. He is also involved in digital discourses on humour, politics, misinformation and technical communication in the health industry.
Omar Alharbi
- PhD Student
- omara@mtu.edu
- Walker 131
Research Interests
Social media, Communication Studies and visual communication.
- PhD Student
- He/Him/His
- iamaraiz@mtu.edu
- Walker 142
Personal Web Site
Research Interests
Genius is interested in Technoculture with specific leaning towards digital humanities' and digital cultures' intersection with contemporary democracy and developmental practices.
Kendall Belopavlovich
- PhD Candidate
- They/Them/Theirs
- kybelopa@mtu.edu
- Walker 312
Research Interests
Kendall's research interests include transnational cultural products and cultural policies, visual representations of indigeneity, Japanese anime and manga, global popular culture, and the work of acknowledging (decolonizing institutional spaces).
D-Jay Bidwell
- PhD Student
- djbidwel@mtu.edu
- Walker 142
Research Interests
D-Jay’s research interests center around technical communication, usability studies, universal design, and rhetoric. Particularly, what rhetorical choices students in the writing classroom make when designing/writing materials.
Marina Choy
- PhD Candidate
- mchoy@mtu.edu
- Walker 312
Fredrica Markson Eduaful
- PhD Student
- fmarkson@mtu.edu
- Walker 332
Lindsay Hiltunen
- PhD Student
Research Interests
Lindsay is interested in intersections of archives, rhetorical production and meaning making in history, and memory studies, especially around contexts of labor upheaval, social movements, and contested public space. Other activities and interests include digital humanities, horror cinema and film studies generally, underground and marginalized music scenes, and sporting culture, especially ice hockey.
Aaron Hoover
- PhD Student
- adhoover@mtu.edu
- Walker 311
Brilynn Janckila
- PhD Student
- bjancki@mtu.edu
- Walker 313
Emma C. Johnson
- PhD Student
Research Interests
Cultural studies, aesthetics, socio-economic class, globalization, philosophy. Asymmetries in power in Palestine/Israel as a case study for invisible global structures.
Donna Mathew
- PhD Student
- dmathew@mtu.edu
- Walker 141
Nila McGinnis
- PhD Student
Research Interests
Social Media, Influencer Culture, Digital Humanities, Internet Policy, Information Science, Law & Culture
Veena Namboodri
- PhD Student
- vnambood@mtu.edu
- Walker 329D
Favour Normeshie
- PhD Student
- fnormesh@mtu.edu
- Walker 332
Alfred Owusu-Ansah
- PhD Candidate
- aowusuan@mtu.edu
- Walker 311
Sara Potter
- PhD Candidate
- spotter@mtu.edu
- Walker 131
Samantha Quade
- PhD Student
- squad@mtu.edu
- Walker 331
Tori Reeder
- PhD Student
- tcreeder@mtu.edu
- Walker 333
Lior Rosenfield
- PhD Student
- lrosenfe@mtu.edu
- Walker 311
Research Interests
- Phenomenology of technology, metaphysics, and the possibility of a future in a technological world.
- Phenomenology of Support. Can we save our normative language in an engineered society? Or perhaps we are at a point in which we have to focus our attention on the meaning of support rather than evaluating The Evidence.
Basanti Timalsina
- PhD Candidate
- She/Her/Hers
- btimalsi@mtu.edu
- Walker 329D
John Velat
- PhD Student
- jlvelat@mtu.edu
- Walker 337
Laura Vidal-Chiesa
- PhD Candidate
- Composition Program Assistant Director
- lvidalch@mtu.edu
- Walker 313
Research Interests
- Writing Program Administration
- Composition Studies
- Emotional Labor
- Organizational Communication
- Feminism
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)
Elizabeth Wahmhoff
- PhD Student
- She/Her/Hers
- ecwahmho@mtu.edu
- Walker 331
Research Interests
Rhetoric & Composition
Richard Ward
- PhD Student
- richardw@mtu.edu
- Walker 330
Research Interests
Richard’s research interests center around technical communication and composition pedagogies and the emphasizing of interdisciplinary collaborations that strengthen the university’s community literacy through a unified science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM). His present work applies this research in the technical communication classroom, where his students engage in service learning that applies their STEM experience to the industry and business of the visual and performing arts.
Etson Williams
- PhD Student
- etsonw@mtu.edu
- Walker 330