Awards

Teaching Awards

Donald H. Ecroyd Award for Outstanding Teaching in Higher Education

• John A. Daly, University of Texas

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

• Ruth E. Kay

Michael and Suzanne Osborn Community College Outstanding Educator Award

• Ronald Biddle, Clovis Community College

Wallace A. Bacon Lifetime Teaching Excellence Award

• Kristin Valentine

Scholarship Awards

Bernard J. Brommel Award for Outstanding Scholarship or Distinguished Service in Family Communication

• Sandra Petronio, Arizona State University

Charles H. Woolbert Research Award

• Joseph B. Walther, “Interpersonal Effects in Computer-Mediated Interaction: A Relational Perspective.” Communication Research 19 (1992): 52-90.

Diamond Anniversary Book Award

• James Aune, Selling the Free Market. (Guilford Press, 2002).

Douglas W. Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award

• Molefi Kete Asante

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

• Louise Benjamin, Freedom of the Air and the Public Interest: First Amendment Rights in Broadcasting to 1935 (Southern Illinois University Press, 2001).

Gerald M. Phillips Award for Distinguished Applied Communication Scholarship

• Eileen Berlin Ray

Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Awards

• Angela G. Ray, University of Minnesota. “Pupils, Spectators, Citizens: Representations of U.S. Public Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Lyceum,” (Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, advisor).
• Michael William Pfau, Northwestern University, “The Place of Conspiracy: The ‘Slave Power’ in Chase, Sumner and Lincoln,” (David Zarefsky, advisor).
• Toby Arquette, Northwestern University. “Social Discourse, Scientific Method, and the Digital Divide: Using the Information Intelligence Quotient (IIQ) to Generate a Multi-Layered Empirical Analysis of Digital Division,” (James Schwoch, advisor).

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

• Stephen Hartnett, Democratic Dissent and the Cultural Fictions of Antebellum America (University of Illinois Press, 2002).

James L. Golden Outstanding Student Essay in Rhetoric Award

• Joel McKim, Concordia University

Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award

• Kirt H. Wilson

Leslie Irene Coger Award for Distinguished Performance

• Joni Lee Jones
• Patricia S. Pace

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

• Lisa Merrill

Service Awards

Robert J. Kibler Memorial Award

• Kathleen Galvin

Samuel L. Becker Distinguished Service Award

• Michael M. Osborn