1. (Meta)Unveiling: Critical Discourse Analysis of Kabul Beauty School as an Orientalist Project - Raven Pfister, Purdue University

2. A Case Study of All the Inaugurals from the Republic of China in Taiwan - Lin-Lee Lee, National Kaohsiung Normal Univ

3. A Critical Rhetorical Analysis of the Smithsonian Institution's Exhibit on Filipino/as in America - Beverly Natividad, University of Denver

4. Broadening the Field: Public Relations' Boundary Spanner Role as a Postcolonial Agent - Anna Victoria Ortiz, Purdue University

5. Building Bridges between Public History and Mexican Identity: A Photo Essay through Guadalajara - Korey Force, Saginaw Valley State University

6. Building Bridges: The Expectancy-Violations Communication Strategy in the 2009 drought appeal project by the Kenya Red Cross and the Media Owners Association of Kenya. - Lucy Wanjiku Gichaga, Regent University

7. Comparing Koreans’ and Americans’ Knowledge Related to Organ Donation - Hyunjung Kim, SUNY Buffalo; Heasun Chun, SUNY Buffalo; Thomas Feeley, State University of NY University at Buffalo

8. Complicating Subjectivity and Transgression: An analysis of the Queer Movement in the Islamic Republic of Iran - Niki Fayaz, San Francisco State University

9. Constructing 'the Other': A Critical Examination of Chinese International Students’ Online Identity - Zheng Zhu, Washington State University

10. Exploring Identity, Place, and Power: Hawaii in the U.S. Imagination - Una Kimokeo-Goes, Penn State University

11. Exploring the Authenticity of a Staged Culture: A Texas-sized Ethnography - Carolyn Baum, West Texas A&M University

12. Factors Influencing Indigenous Patients in Baja Verapaz, Guatemala - Laura Burton, Univ of New Mexico

13. From Hurricane Rita to Hurricane Ike: The Learning Curve among Texas Coastal Crisis Leaders - Denise Brown Swain, North Dakota State Univ; Nadene Vevea, North Dakota State Univ

14. Genderless Education and Beyond from a Cross-Cultural Perspective - Julia Khrebtan-Hoerhager, University of Denver

15. Geopolitics and Nation-Making: A Transnational Feminist Analysis of US Asylum Policy for Chinese Opposing Population Control - Sara McKinnon, University of Wisconsin, Madison

16. Give us Your Waste, and we will Shine: An Analysis of the Controversy Surrounding Nuclear Waste Transports in Germany - Diana Trebing, Saginaw Valley State University

17. Globalization and emplaced mobility A report on initial findings of research in Concepción, Chile - Steve Wiley, North Carolina State University

18. Internet Dependency and Social Support: How Taiwanese College Students Obtain Social Support from the Largest Virtual Community in Taiwan - Szu-Wei (Chris) Chen, Univ of Missouri, Columbia

19. Japanese Media and Taiwanese Youth Consciousness: A Discourse Analysis of Taiwanese Online Bulletins - Hsin-Yen Yang, University of Iowa

20. Mapping Kibera: Cartographic (Non)Representations of East Africa’s Largest Slum - Brian Ekdale, Univ of Wisconsin, Madison; Melissa Tully, Univ of Wisconsin, Madison

21. Masked Performance: Visibility, Anonymity, and the Globalization Politics of the EZLN - Michael Middleton, University of Utah

22. Mediating the boundaries: Second-generation Korean American adolescents’ use of transnational Korean media for cultural maintenance & as markers of ethnic boundaries - David Oh, Denison University

23. Minding their Business: Discourses of Colonialism and Neoliberalism in the Commercial Guide for US Companies in China - Zhuo Ban, Purdue University; Mohan Dutta, Purdue University

24. Objectification and problematization: Representation of diasporic women by the South Korean news media - Sumi Kim, Univ of Minnesota

25. Power and Communication in Intercultural Communication - Tara D. Hargrove, Southern Adventist University

26. Race, Romance and Racial Thinking: Exploring the Political Implications of Interracial Relationships In American Film - Carole V. Bell, The George Washington University

27. Ripple Effect of a Stone into the Sea: Online Responses to 'The Economist’s' Article Entitled 'The riots in Xingjiang: Is China fraying?' - Dexin Tian, Savannah College of Art and Design-Hong Kong; Chin-Chung Chao, Univ of Nebraska, Omaha

28. River-City assemblages: Floods, disasters and the construction of social space - Daniel Sutko, North Carolina State University; Adam Rottinghaus, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

29. Running the Race: Competition Discourse and Broadband Growth in Aotearoa New Zealand - Shiv Ganesh, University of Waikato; Theodore Zorn, University of Waikato

30. Rural America, Women’s Work, and the Digital Divide: Gendering the Internet - Kiley Larson, University of Kansas

31. Seasoning for the Soul: Empowerment through Food Preparation among Mexican Women in the Texas Colonias - Masha Sukovic, Texas A&M University; Barbara Sharf, Texas A&M Univ; Joseph Sharkey, Texas A&M University

32. Shanghai and Early Newspapers in 1870s-90s - Ying Zhang, Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

33. Stories That Must Be Told: The Survivor Rhetoric of Modern Day Slaves - Jenna Reno, Baylor University

34. The Consumption of Transnational Media Contents and Gender Identity in Local Contexts: The Case of Young Women in South Korea - Jungmin Kwon, Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

35. The Murder of Chris Hani: Tracing South Africa's Economic Policy Transformations through the Discourse of Victims’ Rights - Raphael Trapido Ginsberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

36. The New Media and Social Traditions in Social Transition-The Study of 'Human Flesh Search' in China - Yang Fan, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Debbie Dougherty, Univ of Missouri, Columbia

Gust Yep, San Francisco State Univ

Rahul Mitra, Purdue University

Mikiko Crawford, Ohio University Southern Campus

37. The Bridge between Two Cultures: Communication of Japanese Women and American Soldiers in Occupied Japan - Mikiko Crawford, Ohio University Southern Campus

38. Comparison of Communication Patterns between the U.S. & Japan: Through the Japanese War Bride Families - Shizuko Suenaga, Seattle University

39. The Communication of the Japanese War Brides through their Newsletter from 1989 to 2006 - Katie Kaori Hayashi, Journalist/Writer

40. Making Ethnographic Collage: Toward Intermedial Ethnography - Ayaka Yoshimizu, Simon Fraser University

From Counter-Terror to ‘Counter-Drugs’: the Ideologies of Enforcement and Democracy Promotion in the US Congressional Debate Over Plan Colombia - Matthew Bost, Univ of Minnesota

It’s ‘Just Peace’: Constituting Friends and Enemies in Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Speech - Kaitlyn Patia, Univ of Minnesota

The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same: Obama’s West Point Address on Afghanistan - Shana Bridges, Indiana University

Prudent Rhetoric: Implications of Justifying Means Over Ends in Hillary Clinton's Foreign Policy - Gregory Dorchak, University of Massachusetts, Amherst