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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 |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Ansley Dyer, University of Georgia, "Borders and Mobility: Döner Kebab Origin Mythos" |
| 2022 | Morgan Thoem, Berry College, "'I Like Your Style': A Textual Analysis of TikTok, LGBTQ+ Signification, and the Queer Aesthetic” |
| 2021 | Benjamin Allee, Berry College, “In His Image: The Development of an Ideographic Negative in Trump’s Flicker Photography" |
| 2021 | Najma Akhther, Wayne State University, “Peer-to-Peer Support For Mental Health: Perceived Benefits of Information-Seeking and Information-Sharing About Depression and Anxiety on Social Media" |
| 2020 | Jillian Schemenauer, "#Firstgen Students: Disclosure of Mental Illness, Struggles of College, and Seeking Social Support on Twitter" |
| 2020 | Brian Long, "Relational Dialetics as a Ciomplementary Framework in Research on Sexual Harassment" |
| 2019 | Mariann Fant |
| 2014 | Caroline Bybee, “Building Back ‘Better”? USAID’s U.S.-centric Aid Rhetoric in Post-Earthquake Haiti” |
| 2014 | China C. Billotte Verhoff, “Living the Romance: Temporal, Spatial, and Dialectic Influences on Narrative Probability and Fidelity” |
| 2014 | Calvin Coker, “The ‘new welfare queen’: A narrative analysis of Mitt Romney’s ‘47%’ speech” |
| 2014 | Sungsu Kim, “The conditional Effects of Media on Engagement: Examining the Moderating Effects of Affective Ambivalence on Engagement” |
| 2012 | Andrew Peck, “Constitutive Rhetoric and the Public Interest: Locating ‘The People’ in Newton Minow’s Vast Wasteland” |