University of Utah Students and Faculty Top Papers and Panels at WSCA 2013

Congratulations to the following University of Utah scholars who produced Top Papers at the 2013 meeting of the Western States Communication Association held in Reno, NV.

Mark Bergstrom – "Abortion as Taboo Topic: A Network Text Analysis of Abortion Disclosure Decisions and Boundary Coordination"

Elizabeth Brunner – "Reflections of the Hegemony of Productivism: The Art of Xu Xioayan"

Brian Cozen - Stuck in Automobile Flows: Labor Mobility and the Persistent Promise of the American Road

Jennifer A. Cummings – "Conflict at Home: A Qualitative Case Comparison of Conflict Interaction in Mother-Adolescent Daughter Relationships"  (Top Paper)

Matthew Richards – "Rhetorical Countervisuality: Confrontations of the Sensible"

Natasha Seegert – "Images as Animals, Animals as Images"

Maurianna Shelbourn – "Haunted by the Specter of 'Mary Alice': Performance as (Re)membering Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

Amanda Friz Siska – "The TVU Debate and the Medical Gaze: Thrusting Technology into the Pregnant Body"

Carlos Tarin - "'Our Art Has Absolutely No Purpose': Problematizing Nature Representations in the Work of Christo and Jeanne-Claude"