Critical and Cultural Studies Division

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Interest Group Awards 2016

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