Latina & Latino Communication 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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Top Student Paper Award
Year | Award Winner |
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2019 | Bernardita Yunis |
2017 | Victoria Alcazar |
2015 | Ana Gomez, “Que no te eduque la Rosa de Guadalupe; Preserving sexism through telenovelas” |
2014 | Bryan Thomas Walsh, “Remembering ‘The Disappeared’ along U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Histories of State-Sanction U.S. Military Violence and the Viscera of Dissident Memory” |
2012 | Raquel Moreira, “Casos de uma Latina sem Casa: Thoughts on Diaspora, Home, and Immigration” |
Top Paper Award
Year | Award Winner |
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2019 | Dr. Christopher Chavez |
2017 | Kimberly Perez |
2015 | Monica Gallegos and Chris Segrin, “Cultural Values and Satisfaction with Life: The Utility of Interpersonal Communication in Shedding Light on the Latino Health Paradox” |
2014 | Christopher Anthony Chavez, “’News with an accent’: Fusion, civic discourses and the re-negotiation of the Latino television viewer” |
2012 | Zazil Reyes García, “Faceless and mute: Disciplining women in Mexico’s El Mañanero” |
Córdova-Puchot Scholar of the Year Award
Year | Award Winner |
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2022 | Sarah Amira de la Garza, Arizona State University |
2021 | Carlos A. Tarin, The University of Texas at El Paso |
2020 | Josue David Cisneros, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
2019 | Frank G. Perez, The University of Texas at El Paso |
2018 | D. Robert DeChaine, California State University, Los Angeles |
2017 | Stacey K. Sowards, The University of Texas El Paso |
2016 | No Award Given |
2015 | Karma R. Chávez, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
2014 | Richard D. Pineda, The University of Texas at El Paso |
2013 | Lisa A. Flores, University of Colorado, Boulder |
2012 | Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, Texas A&M University |
2011 | Roberto Avant-Mier, The University of Texas at El Paso |
2010 | Bernadette Marie Calafell, The University of Denver |
2009 | Michelle A. Holling, California State University, San Marcos |
2008 | Shane T. Moreman, California State University, Fresno |
Outstanding Book Award
Year | Award Winner |
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2022 | Karma Chávez, The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance, published by University of Washington Press in 2021. |
2021 | Lisa A. Flores, Deportable and Disposable: Public Rhetoric and the Making of “Illegal” Immigrant" |
2020 | Stacey Sowards, "Sí, Ella Puede! The Rhetorical Legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers" |
Outstanding Chapter/Article Award
Year | Award Winner |
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2022 | Litzy Galarza & Paulina A. Rodríguez Burciaga, "Un Puente a la Mesa: The Role of Cultural Translators in the Production of Disney/Pixar's Coco," in Immigrant Generations, Media Representations, and Audiences, ed. Omotayo O. Banjo (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), 155-182. |
2022 | José G. Izaguirre III, "Revoluciónizing América: La Revolución and Gustavo Diáz Ordaz's 1964 Inaugural Address," Quarterly Journal of Speech 108, no. 1 (2022): 1-23. |
2021 | Raisa F. Alvarado & Michelle A. Holling, "Sí, Ella Puede! The Rhetorical Legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers", published in The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Communication |
2020 | Carlos Tarin, “Buen Vivir: Indigeneity, Environmental Activism, and Decolonial Organizing," |
Teaching and Mentorship Award
Year | Award Winner |
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2022 | Amanda Martinez, Davidson College |