Awards

Teaching Awards

Donald H. Ecroyd Award for Outstanding Teaching in Higher Education

• Beverly D. Sypher,University of Kansas

Marcella E. Oberle Award for Outstanding Teaching in Grades K-12

• Kathy Oakland

Wallace A. Bacon Lifetime Teaching Excellence Award

• W. Charles Redding

Scholarship Awards

Charles H. Woolbert Research Award

• John M. Wiemann, “Explication and Text of a Model of Communication Competence.” Human Communication Research 3 (1977): 195-213.

Douglas W. Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award

• Karlyn Kohrs Campbell

Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression

• Raymond S. Rodgers, editor, “The Meaning of the First Amendment: 1791-1991,” Free Speech Yearbook 29 (1991).

Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Awards

• Barbara Louise Baker, University of Southern California. “Reaffirmation and Transformation of Gender in Popular Film:  A Feminist Approach to Mythic Rhetoric,” (Walter Fisher, advisor).
• Bethami A. Dobkin, University of Massachusetts. “Tale of Terror: News Coverage of Terrorism and the Construction of Public Crisis,” (Jane Blankenship, advisor). 
• Charles Alan Taylor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. “The Rhetorical Construction of Science: Demarcation as Rhetorical Practice,” (Joseph W. Wenzel, advisor).

James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address

• David Zarefsky, Lincoln, Douglas and Slavery: In the Crucible of Public Debate (University of Chicago Press, 1990).

Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award

• James M. Farrell

Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies

• Beverly Whitaker Long

Service Awards

Robert J. Kibler Memorial Award

• Bobby R. Patton

Samuel L. Becker Distinguished Service Award

• Robert C. Jeffrey