Awards

Teaching Awards

Donald H. Ecroyd Award for Outstanding Teaching in Higher Education

• Richard A. Cherwitz, University of Texas

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

• No award given

Michael and Suzanne Osborn Community College Outstanding Educator Award

• Robert G. Leonard, Sinclair College

Wallace A. Bacon Lifetime Teaching Excellence Award

• David Zarefsky

Scholarship Awards

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

• Paul Schrodt, Texas Christian University

Charles H. Woolbert Research Award

• John Louis Lucaites, "Visualizing 'The People': Individualism vs. Collectivism in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men." Quarterly Journal of Speech 83 (1997): 269-288.

Diamond Anniversary Book Award

• John Daly, Advocacy: Championing Ideas and Influencing Others (Yale University Press, 2011)
• Kate Kenski, Bruce Hardy, & Kathleen Hall Jamieson, The Obama Victory: How Media, Money, and Message Shaped the 2008 Election (Oxford University Press, 2010).

Donald P. Cushman Memorial Award

• David Askay, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, "Silence in the Crowd: The Spiral of Silence Contributing to the Positive Bias of Opinions in an Online Review System"

Douglas W. Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award

• Sonja K. Foss

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

• Leslie J. Reynard, "The Fire-Eaters Surrender to General Sherman: Savannah Newspapers 1864-65," Free Speech Yearbook 45 (2011): 111-130

Gerald M. Phillips Award for Distinguished Applied Communication Scholarship

• Howard Giles

Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Awards

• Christy Ledford, George Mason University. "Improving Patient Outcomes through Physician Communication: Message Frame and Presentation Mode Influence on the Walking Behavior of Type 2 Diabetics," (Gary Kreps, advisor).
• Thomas R. Dunn, University of Pittsburgh. "Queerly Remembered: Tactical and Strategic Rhetorics for Representing the GLBQT Past," (Lester Olson, advisor).

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

• Samuel McCormick, Letters to Power: Public Advocacy without Public Intellectuals (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011).

James L. Golden Outstanding Student Essay in Rhetoric Award

• Tiara Foster, Syracuse University

Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award

• Dave Tell

Leslie Irene Coger Award for Distinguished Performance

• Karen S. Mitchell

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

• Ragan Fox

Mark L. Knapp Award in Interpersonal Communication

• Mary Anne Fitzpatrick

Stephen E. Lucas Debut Publication Award

• Christine J. Gardner, Making Chastity Sexy (University of California Press, 2011).

Service Awards

Robert J. Kibler Memorial Award

• Ronald L. Jackson II

Samuel L. Becker Distinguished Service Award

• Linda L. Putnam