Activism and Social Justice Division
Interest Group Awards
Listed here are awards given by the Interest Group to its members. Interests Groups are smaller communities within NCA's large membership that provide a range of resources including networking opportunities, Annual Convention programming, leadership opportunities, awards, and specialized information dissemination channels, among others.
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Activism and Social Justice Community Engagement Award
| Year | Award Winner |
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| 2023 | Leandra Hinojosa Hernández |
| 2022 | No award given |
| 2021 | Sahar Khamis |
| 2020 | Shardé M. Davis |
Activism and Social Justice Pedagogy Award
| Year | Award Winner |
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| 2023 | Angela Denise Mensah nee Prater |
| Ellen W. Gorsevski | |
| 2022 | Satarupa Dasgupta |
| 2021 | Sergio Juárez |
| 2020 | No award given |
Activism and Social Justice Scholarly Influence Award
| Year | Award Winner |
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| 2023 | Dana L. Cloud |
| 2022 | No award given |
| 2021 | No award given |
| 2020 | Leandra Hernandez |
Graduate Student Activist Award
| Year | Award Winner |
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| 2023 | Cassidy D. Ellis |
| 2022 | Savannah Greer Downing |
| 2021 | Primavera L. Martinez |
| 2020 | Joy Melody Woods |
Top Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
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| 2023 | Deborah Thomson, "Decontainment: HB2 Fallout and the Fight for Trans Rights" |
| 2022 | Michael F. Klajbor-Smith, “#NeverAgain Means Never Again For Anyone: Jewish Memory And Legitimizing Radical Protest” |
| 2021 | Stephanie Kaczynski, “‘Sixteen Shots and a Cover-Up!’: News Media Discourse of Chicago’s Fight for Police Reform” |
| 2020 | Sue Lockyer & Christopher "CJ" Koenig, "At the intersection of method and empowerment: Lessons from a pilot Photovoice study among Human Trafficking Survivors" |
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2019 |
Joshua Paul Ewalt, "Oscillating Scale and Articulating Regions: Exploring Power Geometries as a Genre of Activist Rhetoric in People’s Tribune’s Coverage of Benton Harbor, Michigan" |
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Billie Murray, "Reimagining Activism as Combative" |
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2018 |
Srividya "Srivi" Ramasubramanian & Alexandra Sousa, "Blurring the Boundaries, Balancing the Tensions: Examining Self-Identity, Risks, Challenges, and Opportunities for Communication Scholar-Activists" |
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Christina R. Foust & Paige Alfonzo, "“ASHÉ!:” A Media Ecology of the 2015 University of Missouri Protests" |
| 2017 | Timothy Paul Huffman, Saint Louis University & Sarah Jane Tracy, Arizona State University, "Making Claims that Matter: Heuristics for Theoretical and Social Impact in Qualitative Research" |
| 2016 | Nicholas S. Paliewicz, "Policing a Climate for Change: The Architecture of Consensus at the 2014 People’s Climate March" |
Top Student Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
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| 2023 | Jessica Lauren Chaplain, "'Pay up, Pay up, Pay up for Loss and Damage': Forging Climate Justice Coalitions and Solutions at COP27" |
| 2022 | Mohammad Salih, “Platform Coloniality: Facebook at the Intersection of Capitalism and Nation-State Internal Colonialism” |
| 2021 | Yena Kang, “#YellowPeril Supports Black Power: Performing Affective Memory Work for Solidarity” |
| 2020 | Jeff Tischauser, "Between social justice scholarship and activism: A methodological toolkit for racial outsiders" |
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2019 |
Joshua Ratel- Khan, "Calling-Out vs. Calling-In: The Internal Rhetoric of Activist Counterpublics" |
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Carmen Hernandez-Ojeda, "Advocating for a Decolonizing Reframing of 'Youth Bullying'" |
| 2018 | Amrut Mishra, "Archival Ashes: Nostalgia, Video, and Queer Remains" |
| 2017 | Rachel Elizabeth Presley, "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Rhetorical Strategies for Environmental Protection and Cultural Resistance in the Dakota Access Pipeline Movement" |
| 2016 | Christopher Scott Thomas, "'A Global Environmental Movement that Protects Us All': Whiteness, Racial Scripts, and the Southwest Organizing Project’s (SWOP) Letter to the Group of Ten" |