Feminist and Gender 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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Bonnie Ritter Outstanding Feminist Book Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Jessica Furgerson, The Battle for Birth Control: Exploring the Lasting Consequences of the Movement's Early Rhetoric, published by Lexington Books in 2021. |
| 2021 | Raquel Moreira; Bitches Unleashed: Performance and Embodied Politics in Favela Funk |
| 2020 | Stacey Sowards,¡Sí, Ella Puede! The Rhetorical Legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers |
| 2020 | Elizabeth Son, Embodied Reckonings: “Comfort Women,” Performance, and Transpacific Redress |
| 2019 | Jillian M. Báez, In Search of Belonging: Latinas, Media, and Citizenship |
| 2018 | Leandra Hinojosa Hernandez and Sarah De Los Santos Upton, Challenging Reproductive Control and Gendered Violence in the Americas: Intersectionality, Power, and Struggles for Rights |
| 2017 | Sara L. McKinnon, Gendered Asylum: Race and Violence in U.S. Law and Politics |
| 2016 | Bonnie J. Dow, Watching Women's Liberation |
| 2015 | Sarah Projansky, Spectacular Girls: Media Fascination & Celebrity Culture |
| 2014 | Cara Wallis, Technomobility in China: Young Migrant Women and Mobile Phones |
| 2013 | Tasha Dubriwny, The Vulnerable Empowered Woman: Feminism, Postfeminism, and Women’s Health |
| 2012 | Laura L. Ellingson and Patricia J. Sotirin, Aunting: Cultural Practices that Sustain Family and Community Life |
| 2011 | Jane Sutton, The House of My Sojourn: Rhetoric, Women, and the Question of Authority |
| 2010 | Emily Chivers Yochim, Skate Life: Re-Imagining White Masculinity |
| 2009 | Helene A. Shugart & Catherine Egley Waggoner, Making Camp: Rhetorics of Transgression in U.S. Popular Culture |
| 2008 | Mary E. Triece, On the Picket Line: Strategies of Working-Class Women During the Depression |
Top Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Rico Self, "'Let's Set(te) the Scene': How Black Women Use Dance to Challenge Normative Ideals of Femininity" |
| 2021 | Theresa Kulbaga and Leland Spencer, "Outrage Epistemology: Affective Excess as a Way of Knowing in Feminist Scholarship"; |
| Meng Li, "Articulating Maternal Guilt: Migration, Motherhood, and Changing Ideologies of Childrearing in China"; | |
| 2020 | Casey Ryan Kelly and Chase Aunspach, “Incels, Compulsory Sexuality, and Queer Un/Makings” |
| 2019 | Victoria Newsom and Lara Lengel, “Forty Years of In/visibility: MENA Women Since the Islamic Revolution in Iran, 1979-2019” |
| 2018 | Michelle Coplean, "Problematizing Punjammies: Rescue Branding, Global Sisterhood, and Sexual Labor" |
| 2017 | Kate Lockwood Harris, "Yes Means Yes and No Means No, but Both These Mantras Need to Go: Communication Myths in Conesnt Education and Anti-Rape Activism" |
| 2016 | Alison Novak and Julia Richmond, “'The phrase has been hijacked:' Studying generational communication on Feminism through social media" |
| 2015 | Melinda Weathers and Jimmy Sanderson, “From Silence to #WhyIStayed: Locating Our Stories and Finding Our Voices” |
| 2014 | Dana Schowalter, “'A Deal with the Devil': International Governance Organizations, Transnational Corporations, and Investments in Women” |
| 2013 | Kristan Poirot, “SlutWalks, Difference, and Memories of Feminism” |
| 2013 | Sarah Blithe and Jenna Hanchey, “Fleshing Out Bodyism: Illuminating Connections between Gender Verification Testing and Witch-Hunts” |
| 2012 | Margeaux Lipmann, "Redefining 'Slut': Identification and Perspective by Incongruity at SlutWalk Toronto" |
| 2012 | Michelle Rodino Colocino, "Post-welfare Mothers in Wi-Fi Zones: Dreams of (Im)mobile Privatization in a Neo-post World” |
| 2011 | Deborah Ballard Reisch, Jackie Silveria Sater, Alyssa Ballard Reisch, Wichita State University, “In the Transition from Childhood to Womanhood: Constructing Coming of Age Rituals in Contemporary U.S. American Culture” |
| 2010 | Danielle Stern, “It takes a classless, heteronormative utopian village: A feminist exploration of family on Gilmore Girls” |
Top Student Paper
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Courtney Fallon, "r/childfree: An Intersectional Feminist Rhetoric" |
| 2021 | Leah Brooks-Hall, "Queer Digintimacy: Transforming AI-Human Relationality Toward Queer Futurity" |
| 2020 | Sarah F. Price, “The Authentic Woman: Transnormative Health Narratives in Television” |
| 2019 | Ashley Mattheis, ”Motherhood as a Cultural Infrastructure: Developing a Cultural-Infrastructural View” |
| 2017 | Hailey Otis, "An Inflammatory Femme and a Queer Black Feminist Form: Ashleigh Shackelford's Queering of Fat Activism Through the Polemic" |
| 2016 | Mick Brewer, "On the Run Towards or Away From a Feminist Ethos?: Ambivalence and Liminal Feminism in the Beyoncé Concert Documentary On the Run" |
| 2015 | Bridget Sutherland, “Affective Scripts of Intimate Violence: Writing Pain and Fear on to Bodies and into the Law” |
| 2014 | Haneen Al Ghabra, “Weaving Intersectionality through Narrative Criticism: Western Feminism and the Marginalization of Third World Feminism” |
| 2013 | Hillary Palmer, “Mexico's Drug War, Feminized: The New York Times and Visual Narratives of Dichotomized Women” |
| 2012 | Dana Schowalter, “10,000 Women Save the Bottom Line: Philanthrocapitalism and the Corporate Media Environment" |
| 2011 | Lexie Kite, “Victoria’s Secret: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Self-Subjectification” |
| 2010 | Andrea Ellison |
Outstanding Article Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Dr. Michelle A. Holling, "Intersectionalities in the Fields of Chicana Feminism: Pursuing Decolonization through Xicanisma’s 'Resurrection of the Dreamers'," published by Lexington Books in 2020. |
| 2021 | Joëlle M. Cruz, Gloria Nziba Pindi, Godfried Asante, Jenna N. Hanchey, & C. Nthemba Mutua-Mambo, "African Feminist and Queer Coalitions"; |
| 2020 | Jade D. Petermon and Leland G. Spencer, “Black queer womanhood matters: searching for the queer herstory of Black Lives Matter in television dramas” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 36:4, 339-356. |
| 2019 | Caitlin Bruce and Elise Homan, "Crossing Borders, Building Solidarity: Affective Labor in Shaping Coalitional Murals," Women’s Studies in Communication, 41, no 3 (2018): 224-245. |
| 2018 | Haneen Al-Ghabra and Bernadette Marie Calafell, "From failure and allyship to feminist solidarities: negotiating our privileges and oppressions across borders" Text & Performance Quarterly, 30 no 1/2 (2018): 38-54. |
Scholar Activist Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Carrie Murawski |
| 2021 | No award given |
| 2020 | Satarupa Dasgupta |
| 2019 | Roslyn Satchel |
| 2018 | Nina Maria Lozano |