Stephen E. Lucas Debut Publication Award
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NCA Awards for Outstanding Scholarship
The Lucas Debut Publication Award seeks to encourage and reward new scholars in the communication discipline. It aims to identify and hold up for praise a contribution to the discipline by an author or authors publishing their first scholarly book or monograph. Scholars who have not previously received publication credit as an author or co-author of a book or a monograph (including articles in electronic-only journals) may submit their work for the Lucas Debut Publication Award.
Year | Award Winner |
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2022 | Richard Branscomb, “Making Manifest: White Supremacist Violence and the Ethics of Alethurgy,” published in the Journal for the History of Rhetoric in 2021. |
2021 | Kristina Lee, “Theistnormativity and the Negation of American Atheists in Presidential Inaugural Addresses,” published in Rhetoric & Public Affairs in 2020 |
2020 | Hailey Nicole Otis, “Intersectional Rhetoric: Where Intersectionality as Analytic Sensibility and Embodied Rhetorical Praxis Converge,” published in the Quarterly Journal of Speech in 2019. |
2019 | Megan Alyssa Fletcher, “We to Me: An Autoethnographic Discovery of Self, In and Out of Domestic Abuse,” published in Women’s Studies in Communication in 2018. |
2018 | Whitney Gent, "When Homelessness Becomes a 'Luxury': Neutrality as an Obstacle to Counterpublic Rights Claims." Published in Quarterly Journal of Speech 103 (2017) 230-250. |
2017 | Yvonne Slosarski, “Jamming Market Rhetoric in Wisconsin's 2011 Labor Protests,” published in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 13 (2016): 250-268. |
2016 | Atilla Hallsby, "Imagine There's No President: The Rhetorical Secret and the Exposure of Valerie Plame," Quarterly Journal of Speech 101 (2015): 354-378. |
2015 | Lee M. Pierce, "Rhetoric of Traumatic Nationalism in the Ground Zero Mosque Controversy," Quarterly Journal of Speech 100 (2014): 53-80. |
2014 | Rohini S. Singh, "It's about Time: Reading U.S.-India Cold War Perceptions through News Coverage of India," Western Journal of Communication 78 (2014): 522-544. |
2013 | Emily Dianne Cram, "'Angie was our Sister:' Witnessing the Trans-Formation of Disgust in the Citizenry of Photography," Quarterly Journal of Speech 98 (2012): 411-438. |
2012 | Christine J. Gardner, Making Chastity Sexy (University of California Press, 2011). |
2011 | Thomas R. Dunn, “Remembering Matthew Shepard: Violence, Identity, and Queer Counterpublic Memories,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 13 (2010): 611-652. |
2010 | Melanie Loehwing & Jeff Motter, “Publics, Counterpublics, and the Promise of Democracy,” Philosophy & Rhetoric 42 (2009): 220-241. |