Family Communication 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 |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Roselia Mendez Murillo & Jennifer A. Kam, "Facilitating Relational Maintenance for Separated Latina/o/x Immigrant Families: The Important Role of Primary Caregivers" |
| 2022 | Kristina M. Scharp, Cimmiaron Alvarez, & Brittan Barker, "Communicative Resilience by Proxy: Exploring How Hearing Parents Enact Resilience for Themselves and Their Children Who Use Cochlear Implants" |
| 2021 | Li Meng, "Articulating Maternal Guilt: Migration, Motherhood, and Changing Ideologies of Childrearing in China" |
| 2020 | Kristina M. Scharp, Russell Hansen, Kyle Kubler, and Tiffany R. Wang, "'What kind of a horrible human being of a mother could not have her kids?': Making meaning of parental alienation” |
| Leslie R. Nelson, Summer Atwood, and Maria Butauski, "'Damage Control:' An Exploration of the Content, Process, and Functions of Foster Exit Narratives from the Foster Parent Perspective" | |
| LaShawnda M. Kilgore, Haley Kranstuber Horstman, Colleen Colaner, "'I'm still breathing, I'm still alive:' Former Foster Youths' Narratives of Trauma and Resilience" | |
| 2019 | Analisa Arroyo, Alesia Woszidlo, and Anastacia Janovec, "The Relationships between Mothers’ and Daughters’ Feminist Identity, Voice, and Psychological Outcomes" |
| Quinten Shenk Bernhold and Howard Giles, "The Role of Grandchildren’s Own Age-Related Communication and Accommodation from Grandparents in Predicting Grandchildren’s Successful Aging" | |
| Sarah Parsloe, Stephanie Tikkanen, Brittany L. Peterson), “I was a traditional male until he came along”: Responding to disrupted discourses of fatherhood while raising a child with Sturge-Weber Syndrome" | |
| 2017 | Jennifer A. Kam, Rachyl L. Pines, and Quinten Bernhold, "Assessing Changes in Language Brokers' Communal Coping Patterns: Testing a Theoretical Model of Communal Coping" |
| 2016 | Leanne Knobloch and Lynne Knobloch-Fedders, "Military Children's Difficult with Reintegration after Deployment: A Relational Turbulence Model Perspective" |
| 2015 | Paul Schrodt and Kaitlin E. Phillips, “Self-Disclosure and Relational Uncertainty as Mediators of Family Communication Patterns and Relations Outcomes in Sibling Relationships” |
| 2014 | Kimberly Pusateri, David J. Roaché and Jennifer A. Kam, “Grandparents’ and Young-adult Grandchildren’s Identity Gaps and Perceived Caregiving Intentions: An Actor-partner Interdependence Model” |
| 2013 | Leslie A. Baxter, Elizabeth A. Suter, Lindsey Thomas, and Leah Seurer, "The Dialogic Construction of Adoption in Online Foster Adoption Narratives” |
| 2012 | Meredith Marko Harrigan, Sarah Dieter, Jenna Leinwohl, and Laura Marrin, “’It’s Just Who I Am… I Have Brown Hair. I Have a Mysterious Father’: An Exploration of Donor-conceived Offspring’s Identity Construction” |
Top Student Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Olivia Watson & Jana Hockersmith, "'Couldn't you get an American?': Navigating Communicative Disenfranchisement Experienced by Transracial Adoptive Families" |
| 2022 | Chelsea E. Moss & Taylor S. Vasquez, “’Make Your Family Proud’: Analyzing the Communication of Roles and Identity in Disney's Encanto” |
| 2021 | Katie Kassler, "'The Gift God Has Given Us': Baptist Mothers’ Identity Enactment During Sex Talks with Children"; |
| 2020 | Elizabeth A. Hintz and Amy Haywood, "Media Frames of Voluntary Childlessness in the United States From 1979 to 2018" |
| 2019 | Elizabeth A.Hintz and Clinton L. Brown, "Childfree and "Bingoed": Competing Discourses of Reproductive Normativity and Autonomy Animated in Online Narratives of Conversations about Voluntary Childlessness" |
| 2017 | Alaina M. Veluscek and Karlee A. Posteher, "SPORTS: An Analysis of Sibling and Parents on Recruitment Transition Support" |
| 2016 | Veronica Droser, "(re)Conceptualizing Family Communication: Applying Deetz's Conceptual Frameworks within the Field of Family Communication" |
| 2015 | Bobbi Van Gilder and Michael Ault, “The Discursive Construction of ‘Family’ in Plural Marriage Culture: How Centennial Park Residents Challenge Dominant Discourses of the Idealized Nuclear Family” |
| 2014 | Joshua Michael Parcha, “The Visible #Family: Using the Hashtag to Observe #Family Construction” |
| 2013 | Julia Moore, Jennifer Kienzle, and Elizabeth M. Flood, “A Dialogic Analysis of Marriage Proposals among Cohabitating Couples” |
Sandra Petronio Dissertation Excellence Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Lauren Jean Johnsen, "Men and Maternal Care: How Men Make Sense of Their Experiences with a Partner's Pregnancy, Labor, and Delivery," advised by Haley K. Horstman |
| 2022 | Michaela Devyn Mullis, "The Alienated Parent-Child Bond Across the Lifespan: Relational Reconnection in Parental Alienation Families," advised by Carla L. Fisher |
| 2021 | Elizabeth Spencer, "Conversation Goals, Communication Satisfaction, and Relational Dynamics While Navigating Alzheimer’s Disease: A Pre- and Post-Diagnosis Dyadic Examination of Family Communication" |
| 2020 | JhuCin Rita Jhang, "'She did not come out, but we have come to terms' -- Family reconciliation of challenged expectations when a young adult child is gender and sexual minority/Tongzhi: Multiple perspectives" |
| 2019 | Bailey M. Oliver, "Blended family resilience: Communication practices in positive adult half sibling relationships" |
| 2017 | Julia Moore, "From Childless by Choice to Mother: Performative and Subversive Negotiations of Face in Relational Communication About (Never) Having Children" |
| 2016 | Kelly G. Odenweller, "Communicating to Resolve the 'Mommy Wars': Testing Communicated Stereotypes and the Common Ingroup Identity Model with Stay-at-Home and Working Mothers" |
| 2015 | Lindsay Aloia, “Childhood Exposure to Verbal Aggression and Desensitization to Conflict in Young Adulthood,” advised by Denise Solomon |
| 2014 | Roi Estlein, “Manifestations of Responsiveness and Control in Husbands’ and Wives’ Marital and Parental Communication,” advised by Jennifer Theiss |
| 2013 | Mary E. Nagy, “The Communicative and Physiological Manifestations of Relational Turbulence During the Empty-Nest Phase of Marital Relationships,” advised by Jennifer Theiss |
| 2012 | Diana Breshears, “A Dialectical Analysis of Discourses Surrounding Children’s Experience of Parental Disclosures of Homosexuality,” advised by Dawn Braithwaite |
Distinguished Book Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Kathryn Greene, Valerian Derlega, Gust A. Yep, & Sandra Petronio, Privacy Disclosure of HIV in Interpersonal Relationships: A Sourcebook for Researchers and Practitioners (2003), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. |
| 2020 | Kathryn Maguire, Stress and Coping in Families (2012), Polity Press. |
| 2019 | Leslie A. Baxter, Editor, Remaking “Family” Communicatively (2014), Peter Lang Publishing. |
| 2016 | Mary Anne Fitzpatrick, Between husbands and wives: Communication in marriage (1998), SAGE. |
| 2015 | Elaine Wittenberg-Lyles, Joy Goldsmith, Sandra L. Ragan, and Sandra Sanchez-Reilly, Dying with Comfort: Family Illness Narratives and Early Palliative Care (2010), Hampton Press. |
| 2014 | Vincent R. Waldron and Douglas L. Kelley, Communicating Forgiveness (2008), SAGE. |
| 2013 | Lynn H. Turner and Richard L. West, The Family Communication Sourcebook (2006), SAGE. |
Distinguished Article Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Meng Li, "Maintaining Ties and Reaffirming Unity: Family Rituals in the Age of Migration," published in Journal of Family Communication in 2018. |
| 2022 | Marie Haverfield & Jennifer Theiss, “Parent’s Alcoholism Severity and Family Topic Avoidance About Alcohol as Predictors of Perceived Stigma Among Adult Children of Alcoholics: Implications for Emotional and Psychological Resilience,” published in Health Communication, in 2016. |
| 2021 | Kristina M. Scharp & Lindsey J. Thomas;"Family 'Bonds': Making Meaning of Parent–Child Relationships in Estrangement Narratives," published in the Journal of Family Communication in 2016; |
| 2020 | Tiffany R. Wang, “'I’m the only person from where I’m from to go to college': Understanding the memorable messages first-generation college students receive from parents" Journal of Family Communication, 14(3), 270-290. |
| 2019 | Vince Waldron, Dayna Kloeber, Carmen Goman, Nicole Piemonte, & Joshua Danaher, "How Parents Communicate Right and Wrong: A Study of Memorable Moral Messages Recalled by Emerging Adults" Journal of Family Communication, 14:4, 374-397. |
| 2017 | Erin Sahlstein, Katheryn C. Maguire, and Lindsay Timmerman, "Contradictions and Praxis Contextualized by Wartime Deployment: Wives' Perspectives Revealed through Relational Dialectics" Communication Monographs, 76:4, 421-442. |
| 2016 | Caryn E. Medved, Shannon M. Brogan, Andrea M. McClanahan, Jerimiah F. Morris, and Gregory J. Shepherd, "Family and work socializing communication: Messages, gender, and ideological implications" Journal of Family Communication 6 (2009): 161-180. |
| 2015 | Ascan Koerner and Mary Anne Fitzpatrick “Toward a Theory of Family Communication,” Communication Theory 12 (2002): 70-91. |
| 2014 | - Steve R. Wilson, Felicia Roberts, Jessica J. Rack, and Julie E. Delaney, “Mothers’ Trait Verbal Aggressiveness as a Predictor of Maternal and Child Behavior during Playtime Interactions,” Human Communication Research 33 (2008): 392-422. |
| 2013 | Anita Vanelisti, Katheryn Maguire, Alicia Alexander, and Gretchen Clark, “Hurtful Family Environments: Links with Individual, Relationship, and Perceptual Variables,” Communication Monographs 74 (2007): 357-385. |
| 2012 | Michael I. Arrington, “’She’s Right Behind Me All the Way’: A Narrative Analysis of Prostate Cancer and Changes in Marital Relationships,” Journal of Family Communication 5 (2005): 141-162. |
Leslie A. Baxter Early Career Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Elizabeth A. Hintz |
| 2022 | Lindsey Thomas |
| 2021 | Elizabeth Dorrance Hall |
| 2020 | Kristina M. Scharp |
Chair
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Dr. Haley K. Horstman |
| 2022 | Dr. Kristina M. Scharp |