African American Communication and Culture 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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NCA National Award:
Orlando L. Taylor Distinguished Scholarship Award in Africana Communication
Lifetime Service Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas, Georgia Southern University |
Rex Crawley Outstanding Service Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Dr. Sharnine Herbert, Shippensburg University |
Outstanding Research Article Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2022 | No Award Given |
| 2021 | Kimberly P. Johnson, "Must thee Take the Man Exclusively? Jarena Lee and Claiming the Right to Preach,” Jarena Lee and Claiming the Right to Preach Listening, 55(3), 181-194. |
| 2020 | Melvin Williams and Matthew Cotton, “Better Than Steph Curry and More Profitable Than LeBron James: An Analysis of LaVar Ball’s Agenda Building of the Ball Brothers,” Journal of Sports Media, 1-2 (14), Spring 2019, pp. 201-232. |
| 2019 | Shardé M. Davis (2019). When sistahs support sistahs: A Process Of Supportive Communication About Racial Microaggressions Among Black women. Communication Monographs, 89(2), 133-157. |
| 2018 | Amber Johnson "From Motown to Ferguson, the Theatre to the Streets: My Autocritography of Aesthetic Cleansing and Canonical Exception" Qualitative Inquiry, 24(2), 88-100 |
| 2016 | Alfred L. Martin Jr. (2014) Scripting Black Gayness: Television Authorship in Black-Cast Sitcoms. Television & News Media, 16(7), 648-663. |
| Karla D. Scott (2016) Young, Shifting, and Black: Leaving the Language of Home and Back Again - A Cautionary Tale of Crossing Race and Gender Borders. Qualitative Inquiry. | |
| 2015 | Annette Madlock Gatison |
| 2014 | Angela Cooke Jackson & Marke P. Orbe (2013). Relational, pleasure, and fear-associated aspects of condom use for disease prevention: A qualitative study of high-risk African American men. Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, 14(1), 62-68 |
| 2013 | Cerise L. Glenn and Dante L. Johnson (2012).-’What they see as acceptable:’ A co-cultural theoretical analysis of black male students at a predominantly white institution.” The Howard Journal of Communications, 23 351-368. |
| 2012 | Eletra Gilchrist-Petty & Sakile K. Camara |
Outstanding Book Chapter Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2022 | No Award Given |
| 2021 | Kimberly P. Johnson , "A Womanist Response to Black Lives Matter and American Nationalism" |
| 2020 | Morgan Smalls, "Social TV and Stereotypes: The Social Construction of #BeingMaryJane on Twitter" |
| 2019 | Jenny U. Korn (2019). "The President Was Black y’all: Presidential Humor, Neo-racism, and the Social Construction of Blackness and Whiteness. |
| 2018 |
Loren Coleman (2018). "Boy Bye": A Textual Analysis of Angela Rye and the Politics of Representation of Black Women in Cable Television News. In C. Murray (Ed.) Leadership through the lens: Interrogating production, presentation, and power (pp. 67-84). Lexington Books. |
| 2016 | Cerise L. Glenn (2016). Cocreating Professional Development Opportunities for Moving “Pet” to Peer: Examining Mentoring Experiences for African American Female graduate students Aspiring to become tenure Track Professors. In Keisha Edwards Tassie and Sonja M. Brown Givens (Eds.), Women of Color Navigating Mentoring Relationships: Critical Examinations. Lexington Books. |
| 2014 | Amber L. Johnson (November 2013). Negotiating More, (Mis)Labeling the Body: A Tale of Intersectionality.” In R. Boylorn & M. Orbe (Eds.), Critical Autoethnography: Intersecting Cultural Identities in Everyday Life. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press |
| 2013 | Shanara Reid-Brinkley (2012). Mammies and Matriarchs: Feminine Style and Signifyin(g) in Carol Moseley Braun’s 2003-2004 Campaign for the Presidency. In Karma R. Chávez and Cindy L. Griffin (Eds.), Standing in the Intersection: Feminist Voices, Feminist Practices in Communication Studies. SUNY Press, 2012 |
| 2012 | Nickesia Gordon |
Outstanding Book Award*
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2022 | No Award Given |
| 2021 | Andre E. Johnson, No Future in this Country (University Press of Mississippi, 2020) |
| 2019 | Amanda Nell Edgar & André E. Johnson, The struggle over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter (Lexington Books, 2018) |
| 2016 | Annette D. Madlock Gatison, Health Communication & Breast Cancer Among Black Women: Culture, Identity, Spirituality, and Strength (Lexington Books, 2016) |
| 2015 | Aisha S. Durham, Home with Hip Hop Feminism (Peter Lang, 2014) |
| 2013 | Andre E. Johnson, The Forgotten Prophet: Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and the African American Prophetic Tradition (Lexington Books, 2012) |
| 2012 | Maurice Hall & Kamille Gentles-Peart, Re-Constructing Place and Space: Media, Power, Discourse and the Constitution of Caribbean Diasporas (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012) |
Outstanding Dissertation Award*
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2022 | No Award Given |
| 2021 | No Award Given |
| 2020 | Dr. Keven Rudrow, Resistive Black Masculinities: Race, Masculinity, and the Hip-Hop Sensibilities of Black Popular Culture |
| 2019 | No awards given this year |
| 2018 | Deion Hawkins, "I thought I was going to die. All I could do was turn on my camera and pray': Trauma and Communication Surrounding Police Brutality in the Black Community" |
| 2017 | No awards given this year |
| 2016 | Ashley Renée Hall, “Theorizing Rival Rhetorics of Black Maternities: Imagining (Re)Productive Life in Social Death” |
| 2015 | Marcus K. Hassell |
| 2014 | Uchenna A. Onuzulike “Ethnic and Transnational Identities in the Diaspora: A Phenomenological Study of Second-Generation Igbo-American Young Adults” |
| 2013 | No awards given this year |
| 2012 | Christopher House |
Top Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2022 | No Award Given |
| 2021 | Niya Pickett Miller & Gheni Platenburg, "Lizzo’s Black, Female, and Fat Resistance." |
| 2020 | Nickesia Gordon, "Discourses of Consumption: Representation of the Black Female Body as Food in Hip-Hop and R&B Songs Over the Past Twenty Years" |
| 2019 | Felecia J. Ross & Susan L. Kline, "Contextualizing The Black Church: Analysis Of Newspaper Coverage In The Obama-Wright Controversy" |
| 2015 | Susan L. Kline & Tiffany White, “How do We Talk about Colorism? The Effect of Racial Micro-aggression Acts on Online Discussions of Colorism” |
| Roger Davis Gatchet & Stephen A. King “Music and Public Memory: Transcending the Past at the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center” | |
| 2014 | J.W. Smith & Sidi Becar Meyara, “Reclaiming Our Past: The Significance of the African Renaissance in the Development of African American Rhetorical Theory” |
| 2012 | Kimberly Johnson, “The Traditional Communalism of Womanist Preaching” |
Top Student Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2022 | No Award Given |
| 2021 | Shelby Shackelford, "The Rhetoric of the Double-Voiced: Strategic Ambiguity in the Silent Protest Parade" |
| 2020 | Lionnell “Badu” Smith, Ask Me Who I Am': A Critical Autoethnography of My Black Identity Through Killmonger's Black Bodied Performances |
| 2015 | Eric Holland “The African American Monomyth: A Mythic Criticism of Black Heroic Figures in American Cinema” |
| Kate Miltner “’One part politics, one part technology, one part history’: The Construction of Race in the Unicode 7.0 Emoji Set” |
*Please note: the Outstanding Book Award and Outstanding Dissertation Award alternate each year, which means the board will accept book nominations for the 2021 NCA conference, dissertation award nominations for the 2022 NCA conference, and so forth.