Political 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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Roderick P. Hart Outstanding Book Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Emily Van Duyn, Democracy Lives in Darkness: How and Why People Keep Their Politics a Secret, published by Oxford University Press in 2021 |
| Melissa Aronczyk & Maria I. Espinoza, A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism, published by Oxford University Press in 2021 | |
| 2022 | Stephen J. Heidt, Resowing the Seeds of War: Presidential Peace Rhetoric since 1945, published by Michigan State University Press in 2021 |
| Joshua M. Scacco & Kevin Coe, The Ubiquitous Presidency: Presidential Communication and Digital Democracy in Tumultuous Times, published by Oxford University Press in 2021 | |
| Sarah Sobieraj, Credible Threat: Attacks Against Women Online and the Future of Democracy, published by Oxford University Press in 2020 | |
| (Honorable Mention) Michael McDevitt, Where Ideas Go to Die: The Fate of Intellect in American Journalism, published by Oxford University Press in 2020. | |
| 2021 | Dannagal G. Young, Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States (2019) |
| 2020 | Ashley Hinck, Politics for the Love of Fandom: Fan-Based Citizenship in a Digital World (LSU Press, 2019) |
| 2019 | Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Cyber-War: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President – What We Don’t, Can’t, and Do Know (Oxford University Press, 2018) |
| 2019 | Sharon E. Jarvis and Soo-Hye Han, Votes That Count and Voters Who Don’t: How Journalists Sideline Electoral Participation (Without Even Knowing It) (Penn State University Press, 2018) |
| 2018 | Joel Penney, The Citizen Marketer: Promoting Political Opinion in the Social Media Age (Oxford University Press, 2017) |
| 2017 | Marwan M. Kraidy (2017). The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World. (Harvard University Press, 2016) |
| 2016 | Michael Lee (2014). Creating Conservatism: Postwar Words that Made an American Movement. Michigan State University Press. |
| 2015 | Jennifer Stromer-Galley (2014). Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age. New York: Oxford University Press. |
| 2014 | Mary Stuckey (2013). The Good Neighbor: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Rhetoric of American Power. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. |
| 2013 | Brian Kaylor (2012). Presidential Campaign Rhetoric in an Age of Confessional Politics. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. |
| 2012 | Kate Kensi, Bruce W. Hardy, & Kathleen H. Jamieson (2010). The Obama Victory: How Media, Money, and Message Shaped the 2008 Election. Oxford University Press. |
| 2011 | Marwan M. Kraidy (2010). Reality television and Arab politics: Contention in public life. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. |
| 2010 | Geoffrey Baym (2009). From Cronkite to Colbert: The evolution of broadcast news. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers. |
| 2009 | David Domke & Kevin Coe (2007). The God strategy: How religion became a political weapon in America. New York: Oxford University Press. |
| 2008 | Carol K. Winkler (2006). In the name of terrorism: Presidents on political violence in the post-world war II era. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. |
| 2007 | Sharon E. Jarvis (2005). The talk of the party: Political labels, symbolic capital and American life. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. |
Michael Pfau Outstanding Article Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Noor Ghazal Aswad, "Radical Rhetoric: Toward a Telos of Solidarity, Rhetoric and Public Affairs," published in Rhetoric & Public Affairs in 2021 |
| 2022 | Allison M. Prasch, “The Rise of the Global Rhetorical Presidency,” published in Presidential Studies Quarterly in 2021 |
| 2021 | Hsuan-Ting Chen, Lei Guo, and Chris Chao Su,"Network Agenda Setting, Partisan Selective Exposure, and Opinion Repertoire: The Effects of Pro- and Counter-Attitudinal Media in Hong Kong" |
| 2020 | Robert C. Rowland, "The populist and nationalist roots of Trump's rhetoric" Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 22(3), 343-388 |
| 2019 | Ashley Muddiman and Natalie Jomini Stroud, "News Values, Cognitive Biases, and Partisan Incivility in Comment Sections" Journal of Communication, 67(4), 586-609 |
| 2018 | Benjamin R. Warner & Astrid Villamil, "A Test of Imagined Contact as a Means to Improve Cross-Pratisan Feelings and Reduce Attribution of Malevolence and Acceptance of Political Violence" Communication Monographs, 84:4, 447-465 |
| Michael J. Lee, "Us, Them, and the War on Terror: Reassessing George W. Bush's Rhetorical Legacy" Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 14:1, 3-30 | |
| 2017 | Josh Scacco and Kevin Coe, "The Ubiquitous Presidency: Toward a New paradigm for Studying Presidential Communication" International Journal of Communication |
| 2016 | Michael Serazio (2014). The New Media Designs of Political Consultants: Campaign Production in a Fragmented Era. Journal of Communication, 64 (4), 743-763. |
| 2015 | Michael L. Butterworth (2014). Nate Silver and Campaign 2012: Sport, the Statistical Frame, and the Rhetoric of Electoral Forecasting. Journal of Communication 64, 895-914. |
| 2014 | Mitchell S. McKinney and Benjamin R. Warner, “Do presidential debates matter? Examining a decade of campaign debate effects.” Argumentation and Advocacy 49, 238-258. |
| 2013 | Kevin Coe & Anthony Schmidt (2012). America in Black and White: Locating Race in the Modern Presidency, 1933-2011. Journal of Communication 62, 609-627. |
| 2012 | Karen V. Anderson (2011). “Rhymes with Blunt": Pornification and U.S. Political Culture. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 14(2), 327-368. |
| 2011 | Stroud, N. J. (2010). Polarization and partisan selective exposure. Journal of Communication 60(3), 556-576. |
| 2010 | Anderson, F. D., King, A., & McClure, K. (2009). Kenneth Burke’s dramatic form criticism. In J. A. Kuypers (Ed.), Rhetorical Criticism: Perspectives in Action (pp. 143-163). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. |
| 2009 | Rowland, R., & Jones, J. (2007). Recasting the American dream and American politics: Barack Obama’s keynote address to the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Quarterly Journal of Speech 93, 425-448. |
| 2008 | Coe, K., & Domke, D. (2006). Petitioners or prophets? Presidential discourse, God, and the ascendancy of religious conservatives. Journal of Communication 56, 309-330. |
| 2007 | Mitchell, G. R. (2006). Team B intelligence coups. Quarterly Journal of Speech 92, 144-173. |
Lynda Lee Kaid Outstanding Dissertation Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | María Celeste Wagner, "Responding to Media Coverage of Gender-Based Violence in Argentina and the United States: A Mixed Methods Study of the Intersecting Roles of Gender, Class, and Racialized Ethnicity Among General and Activist Publics" |
| 2022 | Yujin Kim, “How Language Use on Facebook Drives Affective Polarization” |
| 2021 | Jessica R. Collier, "Exposure to Misinformation on Social Media: The Role of Contextual Factors Beyond Motivated Reasoning." |
| 2020 | Emily Elizabeth Van Duyn, "Networked Silence: Political Dissent in a Digital Era" |
| 2019 | Kaiping Chen," When People’s Voices Matter: Examining Mini-Public Deliberation and Digital Crowdsourcing with Machine Learning Tools" |
| 2018 | Shannon C. McGregor, "Social (Media) Construction of Public Opinion by Political Elites" |
| 2017 | Michael Kearney, "A Network-Based Approach to Estimating Partisanship and Analyzing Change in Polarization During the 2016 General Election" |
| 2016 | Josh Scacco, "Presidential Prediction: The Strategic Construction and Influence of Expectation Frames" |
| 2015 | Ashely Hinck, "Fan-Based Performances of Citizenship: Fandom, Public Engagement, and Politics" |
| 2014 | Ashley Muddiman, "The instability of incivility: How news frames and citizen perceptions shape conflict in American politics" |
| 2013 | Justin Reedy, "Political discussion and deliberative democracy in immigrant communities" |
| 2012 | Timothy Barney, "(Re)Placing America: Cold War Mapping and the Mediation of International Space" |
| 2011 | Mary D. Brinson, "Muslims in the media: Intercultural consequences of an Islamaphobic media system" |
| 2010 | Leslie A. Rill, "Information, pleasure, and persuasion: How motivations function in talking politics" |
| 2009 | Cindy Koenig Richards, "The awakening: Rhetoric and the rise of new women in the new Northwest, 1868 – 1912" |
| 2007 | Natalie Stroud, "Selective Exposure to Partisan Information" |
Bruce E. Gronbeck Political Communication Research Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2016 | Ned O'Gorman |
Top Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Chris S. Earle, "Postracial Presumptions: The Supreme Court’s Undoing of the Voting Rights Act through Racial Ignorance" |
| 2022 | Robert Hinck, Edward A. Hinck, & Shelly Schaefer Hinck, “Gender, Politeness, and the 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary Debates.” |
| 2021 | Stewart M. Coles, "Evaluating the Political Relevance of Media Content: Conceptualization and Consequences." |
| 2020 | Emily Elizabeth Van Duyn, “Politics and Partnerships: Navigating Political Conflict in Cross-Cutting Romantic Relationships” |
| Jacob William Justice, “Conspiracy Theory at the Political Crossroads: Trump Campaign Rallies and the Rhetoric of Conspiracy Theory” | |
| Camille Saucier, Nathan Walter, and Stephanie Edgerly, “When and Why Do People Fact-Check Partisan Information” | |
| Dustin Carnahan, Daniel E. Bergan, Suhwoo Ahn, Ezgi Ulusoy, and Rachel Barry, “The Beliefs of Others: Assessing the Potential of Partisan In-Group Norms as a Strategy toward Correcting Misperceptions” | |
| 2019 | Josh Guitar, "The Snowden Ideograph: How the State Survived Snowden's Attempt to Save Democracy,", Christopher Newport University |
| 2018 | Beth Bollinger, Kevin J Calderwood, & Rico Neumann, "From Nixon to Trump: Analyzing Presidential Discourse Discussing Violence Against Women" |
| 2017 | Ignacio Moreno and Karrin Anderson, "Political Pornification Gone Global: Teresa Rodriguez as a Fungible Object in the 2015 Spanish Regional Elections" |
Top Student Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Logan Sean Spence, "Conspiratorial Apocalyptic Sublime: Critical Race Theory as the Sublime Object of Ideology" |
| 2022 | Abby QIN, “Staying Tuned for Censored Information Sources? A media habit approach to immigrants’ information practices.” |
| 2021 | Kristina M. Lee, "Playing Devil’s Advocate: The Satanic Temple’s Strategic Utilization of Blasphemy as a Form of Uncivil Obedience." |
| 2020 | Joseph Lawrence Flores,“The Memes to the End: Affective Labor, (Fetishistic) Political Participation, and Propaganda on behalf of a Trump National Imaginary” |
| Chelsea P. Butkowski and Samuel Wilson, “Can’t, Won’t, Don’t Vote: Networked Non-Voter Narratives During the 2016 Election” | |
| Mark Schmutzler, “Untying the Binds of Congress: The Competing Narratives and Binding of Congressional Speakers” | |
| Samuel T. Allen, “Trump’s (Non)Presidential Rhetoric and the Trump Rhetorical Presidency" | |
| 2019 | Ethan Morrow, Jihye Park, and Iuliia Alieva, "Crossing Realms: The Effect of Facebook Activity on Offline Political Engagement" |
| 2018 | Wm. Bryan Paul, "The Political Hero on Display: Rethinking the American Monomyth in Madam Secretary" |
| 2017 | Lauren Fine, "The Difference of Four Years: How Students' Political Views Change During College" |
Outstanding Service to the Division
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Ashley R. Muddiman |
| 2022 | Colene Lind |
| 2021 | Sumana Chattopadhyay |
| 2020 | Benjamin R. Warner |
| 2019 | Kevin Coe |
| 2018 | Rebekah Watson Gaidis |
| 2017 | Kristy Horn Sheeler |
Top Paper Panel Recipients
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2021 | Christina Marie Henry & William Eveland, Jr."Express Yourself? Political Conversation, Emotion Regulation, and the Expression of Political Emotions" |
| Freddie J. Jennings & Benjamin Warner"Partisan Cues, Anger, and Attitude Formation: Three Experiments on Partisan Motivated Reasoning" | |
| Calvin R. Coker & Joel Lansing Reed"Express Yourself?"This is a Patriotism Check: Political Economy, Corruption, and Duty to America in the 2020 Primary Debates" | |
| 2017 | Soumia Bardhan, "Contextualizing Democratic Ideals into Islamic Idiom? The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's Counterpublic Dynamis in Ikhwanweb" |
| Alison Novak, "Millenial Engagement Myth-Busing: Active Disengagement and the Future of Digital Politics" | |
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Mitchell McKinney, Fred Jennings, Calvin Coker, and Benjamin Warner, "Tweeting Presedential Primary Debates: Debate Processing through Motivated Twitter Instruction" |
Top Student Paper Panel Recipients
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2021 | Dakota Park-Ozee"'The Man Who Has Money is King': Discursive Constructions of Affluent Domination of U.S. Politics in Letters-to-the-Editor, 1948-2016" |
| Ryan Bince "Polarizing the Populi: An Agonistic Approach to Populist Discourse" | |
| Sebastiaan HMH Gorissen"The Deplatforming of Donald Trump: The First Amendment and Content Moderation to Curb Anti-American Political Dissent on Social Media" | |
| 2017 | Loretta Rowley, "Domesticating International Responsibilities: U.S. Gubernatorial Resistance to Obama's Syrian Refugee Resettlement Plan" |
| Sohyun Choi, "Hope and Its Place in Politics" | |
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Rico Neumann and Devon Geary, "Reaching Muslims from the Bully Pulpit: Analyzing Presidential Discourse on Islam and Muslims from FDR to Obama" |