Mikaela Malsin successfully defended her dissertation on April 25, 2016. The dissertation is entitled, "Three Decades of Tinkering with the Machinery of Death: A Rhetorical History of the Supreme Court's Death Penalty Jurisprudence." Congratulations again, Mikaela! Mikaela (right) and her advisor, Dr. Belinda A. Stillion Southard, after the successful defense
