Learn about six of the best dissertations being written by CLST certificate students enrolled in this year's dissertation colloquium.  Each presentation will be in the exciting Pecha Kucha format: 20 slides, twenty seconds each, for a nearly seven-minute running time.  A question and answer session will follow. Refreshments will be provided.  CLST Director Ron Zboray hosts.

• Comparative Monstrosity: A Rhetorical History of Chang and Eng Bunker, “The Original Siamese Twins,” in the 19th Century.  Sam Allen, Department of Communication, Current CLST Fellow. 
• Defining an Epidemic: How the Centers for Disease Control Failed Women in the Early AIDS Crisis. Hillary Ash, Teaching Fellow, Department of Communication. 
• Becoming Workers: Changes in Labor Laws and Domestic Workers' Challenges in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Maria Lis Baiocchi, Anthropology, Current CLST Fellow. 
• Born Free: Gaming Software’s Noncommercial Roots, 1975-1988. Logan Blizzard, Teaching Fellow, Department of Communication. 
• Hashtag Circulation as Rhetorical Community and Ritual Creation. Jennifer Reinwald, Teaching Fellow, Department of Communication. 
• What Native looks like now: Embodiment in Contemporary Indigenous art, 1989-Present. Marina Tyquienco, Dietrich A&S Fellow, Department of History of Art and Architecture.

Hosted by Ronald J. Zboray, Professor of Communication, CLST Director

Co-editor with Mary Saracino Zboray, of the Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, vol. 5, US Popular Print Culture to 1860 (Oxford, 2019)