Critical and Cultural Studies 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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Lifetime Achievement Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2011 | Raymie McKerrow |
| 2009 | Lawrence Grossberg |
Young Leader-Scholar Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2012 | Karma Chavez |
| 2009 | Ted Striphas |
Scholar-Activist Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Louis M. Maraj |
| 2021 | Marianne LeGreco |
| 2020 | Kimberly R. Moffitt |
| 2018 | Amber Johnson |
| 2016 | Suzanne Enck |
| 2015 | Rachel Griffin |
| 2014 | Todd Wolfson |
| 2012 | Todd Wolfson |
Outstanding Article Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | José Ángel Maldonado, “Plátano’s Pharmacy: The Republic’s Taste of its own Medicine” |
| Charles Athanasopoulos, “Fanonian Slips: The Rhetorical Function & Field of the White Mask” | |
| 2022 | Godfried A. Asante & Jenna Hanchey, "African Communication Studies: A Provocation and Invitation," published in Review of Communication in 2021. |
| 2021 | Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui, "Morocco from a Colonial to a Postcolonial Era: The Sociopolitical Environment Through a Grandmother’s Autoethnography"; |
| 2021 | Scott J. Varda & Leslie A. Hahneri, "Black Panther and the Alt-Right: Networks of Racial Ideology"; |
| 2020 | Kyle Larson & George "Guy" McHendry Jr.,"Parasitic Public" |
| 2019 | Robert Mejia, Kay Beckermann, and Curtis Sullivan, “White Lies: A Racial History of the (Post)Truth” |
| 2018 | Kate Lockwood Harris, "Re-situating Organizational Knowledge: Violence, Intersectionality, and the Privilege of the Partial Perspective" Human Relations, 17(3), 2017, 263-285 |
| 2016 | Jason Edward Black and Vernon Ray Harrison, "Southern Paternal Generationalism and the Rhetoric of the Drive-By Truckers", Western Journal of Communication, 29:3, (May, 2015): 283-306 |
| 2015 | Lee Pierce, “A Rhetoric of Traumatic Nationalism in the Ground Zero Mosque Controversy”, Quarterly Journal of Speech, 100 (2014): 53-80 |
| 2014 | Dana L. Cloud, “Shock Therapy, Oprah Winfrey, Celebrity Philanthropy and Disaster ‘Relief’ in Haiti,” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 31:1, (February, 2012): 42-56 |
| 2014 | Erin J. Rand, “An Appetite for Activism: The Lesbian Avengers and the Queer Politics of Visibility,” Women’s Studies in Communication, 36:2 (June, 2013): 121-141 |
| 2012 | Michelle Rodino- Colocino, “Greek Jeremiads: Speaking the Crisis of Job Loss by Opposing Offshored and H-1B Labor,” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 9:1 (March, 2012): 22-46 |
| 2010 | Aysel Morin, “Victimization of Muslim Women in Submission,” Women’s Studies in Communication, 32:3 (September, 2009): 380-408 |
| 2009 | John Howard and Laura Privadera, “The Fallen Woman Archetype,” Women’s Studies in Communication, 31:3 (October, 2008): 287-311 |
| 2008 | Jennifer Daryl Slack, “Resisting Ecocultural Studies,” Cultural Studies, 22:3-4, pp. 477-497 |
| 2005 | Pablo Boczkowski, “Digitizing the News” |
Outstanding Dissertation Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Emily Krebs, "Disrupting Suicidism: Anti-Oppressive Approaches to Addressing the Desire to Die" |
| 2022 | Vincent Russell, "Making Space for Marginalized Voices: Deliberative Activism in Participatory Budgeting," |
| 2021 | Amber Kelsie, "'I know who you are': Antiblackness in the Speculative Rhetorics of Genetic Genealogy" |
| 2020 | Diana Leon,"Bienvenida a Disney, Princess Elena: Exploring Race, Age, and Gender in Disney’s Elena of Avalor" |
| 2020 | Sara Baugh-Harris, "Julia De Burgos, Embodied Excess, and (un)Silenced Memory: A Decolonial Feminist Analysis of Performances of Resistance" |
| 2019 | Shannon O’Sullivan, “Frontiersman are the 'Real Men' in Trump’s America: Hegemonic Masculinity at Work on U.S. Cable’s Version of Blue-Collar Reality" |
| 2018 | Shadee Abdi, "Navigting the (Im)Perfect Performances of Queer Iranian-American Identity" |
| 2016 | Nick J. Sciullo, "A Rhetorical Analysis of Geroge Jackson's Soledad Brother: A Class Critical and Critical Race Theory Investigation of Prison Resistance" |
| 2015 | Megan Diane McFarlane, “U.S. Military Policy and the Discursive Construction of Servicewomen’s Bodies” |
| 2014 | Molly Niesen, “Crisis of Consumerism: Advertising, Activism, and the Battle over the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, 1968-1980” |
| 2012 | Timothy Barney, “(Re)Placing America: Cold War Mapping and the Mediation of International Space” |
| 2010 | Michael Lawrence, “Signature Remembrance: The Names of the 9/11 Dead and the Play of Rhetoricity” |
| 2009 | Isaac West, “Legal Transcripts: Transgender Rhetoric of Law and Everday Life” |
| 2008 | Giorgia Aiello, "Visions of Europe: The semiotic production of transnational identity in contemporary European visual discourse" |
| 2005 | Brian Lain, “Remembering Internment: The Function of Japanese American Rhetorics in Multicultural America” |
| 2004 | Craig Robertson, “Passport Please: The US Passport and the Documentation of Individual Identity, 1845-1930" |
Outstanding Book Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Armond Towns, On Black Media Philosophy |
| 2022 | Catalina M. de Onís, Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico, published by University of California Press in 2021. |
| Louis M. Maraj, Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics, published by Utah State University Press in 2020. | |
| 2021 | Lisa A. Flores, Deportable and Disposable: Public Rhetoric and the Making of the ‘Illegal’ Immigrant; |
| Anjali Vats, The Color of Creatorship: Intellectual Property, Race, and the Making of Americans ; | |
| 2020 | Amanda Nell Edgar, Culturally Speaking: The Rhetoric of Voice and Identity in a Mediated Culture (The Ohio State University Press, 2019) |
| 2019 | Sarah Jane Blithe, Anna Wiederhold Wolfe, and Breanna Mohr, Stories of Sex and Stigma: Work and Life in Nevada’s Legal Brothels (NYU Press, 2019) |
| 2018 | Patricia Davis, Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity (University of Alabama Press, 2016) |
| 2016 | Michael Middleton, Aaron Hess, Danielle Endres, and Samantha Senda-Cook, Participatory Critical Rhetoric: Theoretical and Methodological Foundations for Studying Rhetoric in Situ (Lexington Books, 2015) |
| 2015 | Erin J. Rand, Reclaiming Queer: Activist and Academic Rhetorics of Resistance (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2014) |
| 2014 | Sarah Sharma, In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics (Duke University Press, 2014) |
| 2012 | Michael Z. Newman & Elana Levine, Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Culture Studies (Routledge, 2012) |
| 2010 | Ted Striphas, The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control (Colombia University Press) |
| 2009 | Helene Schugart and Catherine Wagner, Making Camp (The University of Alabama Press) |
| 2008 | Jeremy Packer, Mobility Without Mayhem: Safety, Cars and Citizenship (Duke University Press) |
| 2007 | Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Toxic Tourism: Rhetorics of Travel, Pollution, and Environmental Justice (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007) |
| 2005 | Daniel Makagon, Where the Ball Drops: Days and Nights in Times Square (University of Minnesota Press) |
Top Student Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2021 | Myles Mason, "Developing Media Infrastructures for Racialized Imaginaries: An affective historiography of 911 emergencies"; |
| 2021 | Jordan L. Johnson, "Melancholic Memory: El Grito as Cinematic Haunting"; |
| 2021 | Nicholas Lepp, "Thanatopolitical Mourning and the Ashes Action: Subjectivizing the Dead and Disrupting the Liberal Human"; |
| 2021 | Kesha Shalyn James, "Visualizing the Revolution: Emory Douglas, Constitutive Rhetoric, and the Black Panther Party"; |
| 2020 | Sarah Dweik, "White-, pink-, and art-washing violence: Boycott Eurovision’s position in exposing coloniality in Palestine" |
| 2012 | Emily Kofoed, “Maquiladora Bodies and Gendered Capital at the U.S.-Mexico Border” |
| 2009 | Carol Chow, “The Streets as Battlefield” |
| 2008 | Melanie Loehwing, “Reinventing Home: Chuck Palahniuk’s Parable of Lady Baglady” |
| 2005 | Rae Lynn Schwartz, “The Rhetorical Framing of National Geographic’s Afghan Girl: Visual Images and the Bush Administration’s Post-9/11 Biometric and Identification Policy” |
Top Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2021 | Kyle Christensen & Marina Levina, "Saving White Women: Vulnerability and the Immobilized Body in 'Don’t Breathe'" (2016); |
| 2021 | Michael J. Steudeman & Amanda Neil Edgar, "'Hey, Mr. Scott, whatcha gonna do?': Inducing White Cringe in 'Scott’s Tots'" ; |
| 2021 | Dongjing Kang, "Imagining Tibet: Representations of the Tibetan Grassroots Internet Celebrity Tenzin in Chinese Digital Media"; |
| 2021 | Christian Alexander Vukasovich, "Emboldening Voices on Display: ‘Unite the Right’ and the Rise of the Radical White Supremacist Populism Transforming the American Visual Discourse"; |
| 2020 | Linsay Cramer & Gabriel Cruz, "Whiteness, masculinity, and ammorality in Netflix’s The Punisher" |
| 2020 | Arlene Fernández, "‘Black like this’: Afro-Latinx performance and mediated boundaries of blackness" |
| 2020 | Darrian Carroll, "F+ck your condolences: The rhetoric of an impossible demand" |
| 2020 | Matthew Salzano, "Digitizing fictocriticism: Inventing and intervening in the bath with ContraPoints" |
| 2012 | Thomas R. Dunn, “A Community of Bricoleurs: Early GLBT Rhetors Making Do with Heterosexual History” |
| 2009 | Miranda Brady, “Discourse, Cultural Policy and Other Mechanisms of Power: The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian” |
New Investigator Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Louis M. Maraj |
| 2022 | Jenna Hanchey |
| 2021 | Michael Lechuga |
| 2020 | Jungmin Kwon |
| 2019 | Tiara Na'puti |
| 2018 | Robert Mejia |
| 2018 | Myra Washington |
| 2015 | Casey Ryan Kelley |
| 2012 | Karma Chavez |
Distinguished Scholar Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Karma R. Chávez |
| 2021 | Bernadette Calafell |
| 2020 | Angharad Valdivia |
| 2020 | Charles E. Morris III |
| 2019 | Lisa Flores |
| 2019 | Tina M. Harris |
| 2018 | Thomas Nakayama |
| 2018 | Ronald Jackson |
| 2016 | Raka Shome |
| 2015 | Kent A. Ono |
| 2014 | Dana L. Cloud |
| 2012 | Ronald Walter Greene |