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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Early Career Award (formerly New Investigator Award)
| Year |
Award Winner |
| 2021 |
Joshua Trey Barnett |
| 2020 |
Justin Eckstein |
| 2019 |
Caitlin Frances Bruce |
| 2018 |
Michele Kennerly |
| 2017 |
Casey Ryan Kelly |
| 2016 |
Josue David Cisneros |
| 2015 |
Robin E. Jensen |
| 2014 |
Scott Stroud |
| 2013 |
Erin Rand |
| 2012 |
Claire Sisco King |
| 2011 |
Jeremy Engels |
| 2010 |
Jeff Bennett |
| 2009 |
Bradford J. Vivian |
| 2008 |
Phaedra Pezzullo |
| 2007 |
Debra Hawhee |
| 2006 |
Joshua Gunn |
| 2005 |
Cara Finnegan |
| 2004 |
Robert Asen |
| 2003 |
M. Lane Bruner |
| 2002 |
Eric King Watts |
| 2001 |
Kirt Wilson |
| 2000 |
Raka Home and Lisa Flores |
| 1998 |
Bryan Taylor |
| 1996 |
Edward Schiappa |
Faculty Mentorship Award
| Year |
Award Winner |
| 2021 |
Karrin Vasby Anderson |
| 2020 |
Daniel Brouwer |
| 2019 |
Joan Faber McAlister |
| 2019 |
Bernadette Marie Calafell |
| 2018 |
Rosa Eberly |
| 2017 |
Cara Finnegan |
| 2016 |
Angela G. Ray |
| 2015 |
Barbara Biesecker |
| 2013 |
Vanessa Beasley |
Distinguished Scholar Award
| Year |
Award Winner |
| 2021 |
Robert C. Rowland and Cara Finnegan |
| 2020 |
Raka Shome |
| 2019 |
Lisa A. Flores |
| 2018 |
Ekaterina Haskins |
| 2017 |
Debra Hawhee |
| 2016 |
Charles E. Morris III |
| 2015 |
Kent Ono |
| 2014 |
Robert Asen |
| 2013 |
John M. Sloop |
| 2012 |
Dana Cloud |
| 2011 |
Barbara Biesecker |
| 2010 |
Carole Blair |
| 2009 |
Alan Gross |
| 2007 |
JThomas Frentz |
| 2006 |
Edward Schiappa |
| 2005 |
Dan O'Keefe |
| 2004 |
James Aune |
| 2003 |
Gerard Hauser |
| 2002 |
John Lucaites |
| 2000 |
Robert Hariman |
| 1999 |
G. Thomas Goodnight |
| 1998 |
Thomas Farrell |
| 1996 |
Brant Burleson |
Nichols-Ehninger Award for Top Student Paper
| Year |
Award Winner |
| 2020 |
Noor Ghazal Aswad, "Radical Rhetoric: Towards a Telos of Solidarity" |
| 2019 |
Dominique Salas, “Decolonizing Exigency: Settler Exigencies in the Winnebago Mission Home” |
| 2018 |
Joe Hatfield |
| 2017 |
Kelsey Lahr |
| 2016 |
Jenna Hanchey |
| 2015 |
Amanda Neil Edgar, “Material Networks, Rhetorical Fluidity, and the Sensory Voice” |
| 2014 |
Amanda Neil Edgar, “Vocal Intimacy and the Sonic Dimensions of Race” |
| 2012 |
Lee Pierce, “Hijacking History: Reconciling the Nation-State in the Canadian Indian Residential Schools Controversy” |
| 1990 |
Barbara Zeltzer |
| 1989 |
Ruth Slavin |
| 1988 |
Don Paul Jones |
| 1987 |
Robin Reese |
| 1986 |
Stephen D. O'Leary |
