Communication as Social Construction 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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Top Paper Award

Year	Award Winner
2022	Courtney Hook, Pepperdine University & Brittany Peterson, Ohio University, "(Re)Learning, Recognizing, and Reframing Incarceration: Exploring Communicative Constructions of Prisoner Rehabilitation"
2022	Kelly Tenzek, University at Buffalo, "Clinician Communication in Hospice: Constructions of Reality Throughout the End-of-Life Process"
2019	Ellen Defossez, University of Denver
2018	Jocelyn M. DeGroot and Heather J. Carmack, "A Punch in the Gut': The Social Construction of Grief Meaning-Making following Hillary Clinton's 2016 Presidential Election Loss"
2018	Nurhayat H. Bilge, Maria Ines Marino, and Ibrahim Abou Ghalioum, "Distilling the Definitions of Ethnicity in Communication Scholarship: Wading into the Quagmire"
2018	Ibrahim Abou Ghalioum, "DNA and Reddit: Identity Communication in the Information Age"
2018	Amoshaun Toft, "Talking Across Movements on Democracy Now!"
2017	Alex Rister and Sally O. Hastings, "Claiming Their Seat at the Head of the Table: Executive Women's Front and Backstage Behaviors"
2016	Shirley Serini, "Changing Church Culture: Constructing Reality in Community"
2015	Joshua Atkinson, “Narrative, Location, and the Construction of Space: The Role of Stadtpunke in the Mannheimer Cityscape”
2014	Rebecca Piekkari, Minna Logemann, and Mirja-Liisa Charles, “Identification as a Communicative Construct: Textual Agency of the Strategic Concept ‘Must-win Battle’”
2013	Nathan Swords, Mark P. Orbe, Angela F. Cooke-Jackson, and Amber Johnson, “Exploring the Coordinated Management of Meaning of Sex: The Social Construction of Male College Student Logical Forces”
2013	Suchitra Shenoy-Packer, “Former Substance Abusers and a Communicative Construction of Resilience in Recovery”
2013	Vince Meserko, “Louie, You’re Gonna Die: Authenticity and the Fictionalized Self in FX’s Louie”
2013	Kelly Tenzek, Emily Cramer, and Mike Allen, “Spirituality and Coordinated Management of Meaning: Examining the Chaplain’s Role in Social Constructions of a ‘Good Death’”
2012	Emily Baird, “'That’s Just How It Goes, Right?’ Representations of Bullying from the It Gets Better Project”
2012	Pamela Schultz, “Monsters, Scapegoats, and Sex Offenders: Metaphor and Moral Panic”
2012	Katie Striley & Kimberly Field-Springer, “The Bad Mother Police: Theorizing Risk Orders in the Discourses of Infant Feeding Practices”
2009	Laura Russell, “Risk in the Making: Narrative, Problematic Integration and the Social Construction of ‘Risk’”

Top Student Paper Award

Year	Award Winner
2019	Courtney Hook, Ohio University.
2017	Richelle Hurley, "An Inappropriate Football 'Formation': Beyonce's 2016 Super Bowl Performance, Mystery, and the Narratives of Football and Race in America"
2016	Sonia Rains Ivancic
2015	Nathan Bedsole, “Putin Will Teach You How To Love: Structure and Agency at the 2014 Sochi Olympics”
2014	Nathan Bedsole, “Let’s Start a Pussy Riot: Subverting Discursive Constructions”
2013	Vince Meserko, “Louie, You’re Gonna Die: Authenticity and the Fictionalized Self in FX’s Louie”
2012	Katie Striley & Kimberly Field-Springer, “The Bad Mother Police: Theorizing Risk Orders in the Discourses of Infant Feeding Practices”

Article of the Year Award

Year	Award Winner
2015	Heather J. Carmack and Gloria J. Galanes, “More than Just Good Grades Dialectical Tensions in Students’ Construction of a ‘Good Student’ Identity,” Qualitative Communication Research 2 (2013): 81-108

Dissertation of the Year Award

Year	Award Winner
2015	Katie Striley, “A multiple method longitudinal study of gifted adolescents’ communication of and about ostracism and social exclusion”