GLBTQ 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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Dissertation of the Year Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Emily Krebs, "Disrupting Suicidism: Anti-Oppressive Approaches to Addressing the Desire to Die" |
| 2018 | Shadee Adi, "Navigating the (im)perfect performances of queer Iranian-American identity" |
| 2017 | Mia Fischer, "Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State" |
| 2016 | Robert Gutierrez Perez, “Jotería-Historias: Theories from the Fringes” |
| 2014 | Kathryn Hobson “Performing Femininity: Passing, Playing, and Camp” |
Book of the Year Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | E Cram, Violent Inheritance: Sexuality, Land, and Energy in Making the North American West |
| Shinsuke Eguchi, Asians Loving Asians: Sticky Rice Homoeroticism and Queer Politics | |
| 2018 | Thomas R. Dunn, Queerly Remembered: Rheorics for Representing the GLBTQ Past (University of South Carolina Press, 2016) |
| 2017 | Leland Spencer and Jamie Capuzza (eds.), Transgender Communication Studies: Histories, Trends, and Trajectories (Lexington Books, 2015) |
| 2016 | Jennifer Tyburczy, Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display (University of Chicago Press, 2015) |
| 2015 | Jeefery Q. McCune Jr., Sexual Discretion: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing (University of Chicago Press, 2014) |
| 2014 | Karma Chavez, Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities (University of Illinois Press, 2013) |
Monograph of the Year Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui, "'You Know It's Different in the Game Man': Technodesiring, Technorelating, and TechnoBlackness as Analytical Modes of Queer Worldmaking in Black Mirror's, 'Striking Vipers'" |
| Billy Huff, "On[Be]coming in Boystown" | |
| 2018 | Shadee Abdi and Bernadette Marie Calafell, "Queer utopias and a (feminist) Iranian vampire: A critical analysis of resistive monstrosity in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night" 34(4),358-370. |
| 2017 | Stephen M. Haas and Sarah W. Whitton, "The signifigance of living together and importance of marriage in same-sex couples", Journal of Homosexuality, 62, 1241-1263, 2015. |
| 2016 | Shinsuke Eguchi and Myra N. Roberts, “Gay Rapping and Possibilities: A Quare Reading of “Throw that Boy P***y,” Text and Performance Quarterly 35, 2015, 142-157 |
| 2014 | Emily Cram, “’Angie Was Our Sister’: Witnessing the Transformation of Disgust in the Citizenry of Photography,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 98, 2012, 411-438 |
| 2014 | Pamela Lannutti, “Same Sex Marriage and Privacy Management: Examining Couples’ Communication with Family Members,” Journal of Family Communication 13, 2013, 60-75 |
Top Student Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Ashley Hay, "Hermeneutical Implications of Asexual Language as a Technology of Self" |
| 2017 | Woorie Han, "Proud of myself as LGBTQ: The Korea Queer Pride Parade, homonationalism, and queer developmental citizenship" |
| 2016 | Chase Aunspach, “’Not simply as a Textbook or Clinical Case’: A Critical Microhistory of the University of Nebraska’s 1970 ‘Homosexual Problem’” |
| 2014 | Bobbi Van Gilder and Shadee Abdi, “Cultural (In) Visibility and Identity Dissonance: Queer Iranian Women and their Negotiation of Existence” |
Top Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | ben brandley & Lore/tta LeMaster, "The Violence of Allonormativity in Communication Studies: Notes on Injury, Healing, and Asexual Worldmaking" |
| 2018 | M.N. Roberts, "New Homophobia and the Redefining of Religious Freedoms through Discursive Dequeerification: A Defense of the Establishing Clause of the First Amendment" |
| 2018 | Benjamin M.A. Baker, "Narrating the Transgender Suicide Memories and the Viral Moment of Ecological Rhetorical Agency" |
| 2018 | Joe E. Hatfield, "Emasculating Trump: The Incredulous Gaze, Homophobia, and the Dama of Public Secrecy" |
| 2017 | Dana L. Cloud, "The Rhetorical Framing of Whistleblowers: Secret Agents and Queer Failure" |
| 2017 | Elizabeth K. Eger, "Transgender Women Job Seekers Navigating Employment Discrimination and Closeting Communication" |
| 2017 | Kimberlee Perez, "What Do We Do When I Do? Reinforcing, Interrupting and Redoing Marriage in Performance" |
| 2016 | Christopher Hajek, “Distinguished… or Dissonant: Gay Male Midlife Identity as Emergent in Intergenerational Communication” |
| 2012 | Andre Cavalcante |