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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Outstanding Teaching Award

Year	Award Winner
2022	Minkyung Kim (GTA), Rob Razzante (Fixed Term), Elizabeth Eger & Pavitra Kavya  (Tenure Track Instructor), & Sarah Riforgiate (Tenured)
2021	Greta Underhill (GTA), Angela Pastorek (Fixed Term), Sarah K. Chorley (Tenure Track), & Sarah Blithe (Tenured)

Outstanding Mentoring Award

Year	Award Winner
2022	Sarah Dempsey
2021	Kerri Stephens

Engaged Scholars Service Award

Year	Award Winner
2022	Anna Wiederhold Wolfe
2021	Jasmine Linabary
2020	Dawna Ballard
2020	Kim Cuny
2019	Sarah Dempsey
2018	J. Jacob Jenkins
2016	Matthew W. Seeger
2015	Lynn Harter
2013	Marianne LeGreco
2012	Joy L. Hart
2011	Patricia S. Parker

Outstanding Textbook Award

Year	Award Winner
2022	Daniel P. Modaff & Jennifer A. Butler, Organizational Communication: Foundations, Challenges, and Misunderstandings, (5th Ed.) Cognella
2020	Sarah J. Tracy, Qualitative Research Methods: Collecting Evidence, Crafting Analysis, Communicating Impact (2nd Ed). Wiley Blackwell
2018	Gregory S. Larson and Rebecca Gill, Organizations and Identity
2017	Renee Guarriello Heath and Matthew G. Isbell, Interorganizational Collaboration: Complexity, Ethics, and Communication. Waveland Press.
2016	François Cooren, (2015), Organizational Discourse: Communication and Constitution. Polity Press.
2013	Dennis K. Mumby, (Eds.). (2013), Organization and organizing: Materiality, agency and discourse. New York: Routledge.
2011	Joann Keyton, (2011), Communication & organizational culture: A key to understanding work experiences (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2010	George Cheney, Lars Thoger Christensen, Theodore E. Zorn, and Shiv Ganesh, (2010), Organizational communication in an age of globalization: Issues, reflections, practices. Long Grove, IL: Waveland.

Outstanding Edited Book Award

Year	Award Winner
2022	Andrew F. Herrmann, The Routledge International Handbook of Organizational Autoethnography, Routledge.
2021	Marya L. Doerfel, Jennifer L. Gibbs, Rebecca J. Meisenbach, Darvelle Hutchins, Jennifer Ptacek, Stacey Connaughton, Michael L. Kent, Nneka Logan, Amy Gonzales, Harry Yaojun Yan, Ana Aguilar, Dawna Ballard, Robert Razzante, Sarah Tracy, Katrina Hanna, Joshua Barbour, Shelbey Rolison, Jared T. Jensen, Patricia S. Parker, Dorothy Holland, Jean Dennison, Sara H. Smith, Melvin Jackson, Rahul Mitra, Odile Vallee, Patrice M. Buzzanell, Walid A. Afifi, Monica Cornejo, Sharde Davis, & Bernadette Gailliard, Organizing Inclusion: Moving diversity from demographics to communication processes. Rouledge
2020	Keri K. Stephens, New Media in Times of Crisis. Rouledge
2019	Consuelo Vásquez & Timothy Kuhn, Dis/organization as communication: Exploring the Disordering, Disruptive and Chaotic Properties of Communication. Routledge
2018	Boris Brummans, The Agency of Organizing: Perspectives and Case Studies. Routledge
2016	Jeffrey W. Treem and Paul M. Leonardi, (Eds.). (2016), Expertise, Communication, and Organizing. Oxford University Press.
2014	Linda L. Putnam and Dennis K. Mumby, (Eds.). (2014), The SAGE handbook of organizational communication: Advances in theory, research, and methods (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
2013	Daniel Robichaud and Francois Cooren, (Eds.). (2013), Organization and organizing: Materiality, agency and discourse. New York: Routledge
2011	Dennis K. Mumby, (Ed.). (2011), Reframing difference in organizational communication studies: Research, pedagogy, and practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
2009	Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik and Beverly Davenport Sypher, (Eds.). (2009), Destructive organizational communication: Processes, consequences, and constructive ways of organizing. New York, NY: Routledge
2007	Steve May, George Cheney, and Juliet Roper, (Eds.). (2007), The debate over corporate social responsibility. New York, NY: Oxford University Press
2006	François Cooren, James R. Taylor, and Elizabeth J. Van Every, (Eds.) (2006), Communication as organizing: Empirical and theoretical explorations in the dynamic of text and conversation. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
2005	Steve May and Dennis K. Mumby, (Eds.). (2005), Engaging organizational communication: Theory and research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
2005	David Grant, Cynthia Hardy, Cliff Oswick, and Linda L. Putnam, (Eds.). (2004), The Sage handbook of organizational discourse. London, UK: Sage
1990	Janet Fulk and Charles W. Steinield, (Eds.). (1990), Organizations and communication technology. Newbury Park, CA: Sage
1988	Fredric M. Jablin, Linda L. Putnam, Karlene H. Roberts, and Lyman W. Porter, (Eds.). (1987), Handbook of organizational communication. Newbury Park, CA: Sage

Outstadnging Monograph Award

Year	Award Winner
2022	Marianne LeGreco & Niesha Douglas, Everybody Eats: Communication and the Paths to Food Justice.
2021	Laurie Lewis,"Parents’ Mental State Communication and Children’s Consumer Behavior in the United States"
2020	Sarah J. Blithe, Anna Wiederhold Wolfe, and Breanna Mohr, Sex and stigma: Stories of everyday life in Nevada’s legal brothel
2020	Rebecca de Souza, Feeding the other: Whiteness, privilege, and neoliberal stigma in food pantries
2019	Keri Stephens, Negotiating Control: Organizations and Mobile Communication
2017	Sarah J. Blithe, Gender Equality and Work-Life Balance: Glass Handcuffs and Working Men in the U.S. Routledge
2016	Kirsten Foot (2015). Collaborating Against Human Trafficking: Cross-Sector Challenges and Practices. Rowman & Littlefield.
2014	Donnalyn Pompper (2014), Practical and theoretical implications of successfully doing difference in organizations. Bingley, UK: Emerald
2013	Craig R. Scott, (2013), Anonymous agencies, backstreet businesses, and covert collectives: Rethinking organizations in the 21st Century. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press
2012	Bruce A. Bimber, Andrew J. Flanagan, and Cynthia Stohl (2012), Collective action in organizations: Interaction and engagement in an era of technological change. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press
2011	Laure K. Lewis (2011),  Organizational change: Creating change through strategic communication. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell
2010	Vincent R. Waldron and Jeffrey W. Kassing (2011), Managing risk in communication encounters: Strategies for the workplace. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
2007	Gail T. Fairhurst (2007), Discursive leadership: In conversation with leadership psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
2006	Laura L. Ellingson (2005), Communicating in the clinic: Negotiating frontstage and backstage teamwork. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press
2004	Karen Lee Ashcraft and Dennis K. Mumby (2003), Reworking gender: A feminist communicology of organization. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
2004	Pablo J. Boczkowski (2004), Digitizing the news: Innovation in online newspapers. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
2003	Peter R. Monge and Noshir S. Contractor (2003), Theories of communication networks. New York, NY: Oxford University Press
2001	James R. Taylor, Carole Groleau, Lorna Heaton, Elizabeth Van Every (2001), The computerization of work: A communication perspective. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
2001	Marshall S. Poole, Andrew H. Van de Ven, Kevin Dooley, and Michael E. Holmes (2000), Organizational change and innovation processes: Theory and methods for research. New York, NY: Oxford University Press
2000	Robin P. Clair (1998), Organizing silence: A world of possibilities. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press
1997	Gail T. Fairhurst and Robert A. Sarr (1996), The art of framing: Managing the language of leadership. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass
1995	Cynthia Stohl (1995), Organizational communication: Connectedness in action. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
1995	Stanley A Deetz (1995), Transforming communication, transforming business: Building responsive and responsible workplaces. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press
1994	James R. Taylor and Elizabeth J. Van Every (1993), The vulnerable fortress: Bureaucratic organization and management in the information age. Toronto: University of Toronto Press
1993	Charles R. Bantz (1993), Understanding organizations: Interpreting organizational communication cultures. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press
1992	Stanley A. Deetz (1992), Democracy in an age of corporate colonization: Developments in communication and the politics of everyday life. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press
1991	George Cheney (1991), Rhetoric in an organizational society: Managing multiple identities. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press
1990	Janet Falk and Charles Steinfield
1989	Dennis K. Mumby (1989), Communication and power in organizations: Discourse, ideology, and domination. Norwood, NJ: Ablex
1988	Fredric Jablin, Linda Putnam, Karlene Roberts, and Lyman Porter
1987	Robert McPhee and Phillip Tompkins (1983), Organizational communication: Traditional theories and new directions. Newbury Park, CA: Sage
1985	Linda Putnam and Michael E. Pacanowsky (1983), Communication and organizations, an interpretive approach. Newbury Park, CA: Sage

Top Student Paper Award

Year	Award Winner
2021	Jessica Sage Rauchberg"Reimagining Cybervetting as a Transformative Crip Organizational Practice: A Case Study of LifeTown"
2021	L. D. Mattson"Queering Resilience: Opportunities for LGBTQ Organizing"
2021	Kyle Anthony Hanners & Marco Dehnert"Organizing as Cultural (Re)Production: Conjoining Organizational Knowledge and Critical Educational Scholarship"
2021	Jeannette Isabelle Iannacone"Upholding the Dominant Work Ideology: How Meaningful Work Narratives of Syrian Refugees in Organizational Rhetoric Reinforce a Capitalist Ontology of Labor"
2020	Emily Godager, Michael Coker, Benjamin Davis, and Kari Pink, "An Assessment of Team Communication After a Leader's Organizational Exit"
2020	Beatriz Nieto-Fernandez, "An Organizational Communication Ethics Approach to Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing"
2020	Delaney Harness, "Paradigms and Paradoxes: Beyond The Extant Approaches to Transparency"
2020	Timothy Betts, "Putting on the Happy Meal Handcuffs: Organizing Communicative Resilience Amidst Unemployment"
2019	Rebecca Costantini, "Identity and the Secular-Sacred: The Communicative (Re)Shaping of Commemorative Space"
2019	Sue Lockyer, "Beyond Inclusions: Survivor Voices in the Human Trafficking Movement"
2019	Avigail McClelland-Cohen, Dalia van Zyll, & Catherine Weatherly, "From #MeToo to #WeToo: Constituting Movement Identity in a Digitally Networked Context"
2019	William Smith, "Communication for Organizational Survival: Balancing (Dis)Organizing Tensions Through Communicative Practice"
2018	Dana H. Marshall, "A (dis)organized analysis: Towards a communicative framework of (dis)organizing"
2018	Rebecca B. Leach, "More Than Idle Talk: Exploring Gossip in Organizational Socialization"
2018	Brittany Ann Knutson, "Organizing Women as Violent Actors: An Analysis of U.S. Women Recruited to the Islamic State"
2018	Camille Grace Endacott, "Communicating corporate social responsibility for contract workers"
2016	Scott Banghart
2013	Courtney Davis, “Organizational assimilation in non-profit organizations: What about the paid employee?”

Top Paper Award

Year	Award Winner
2021	Sean Kenney,"Toward a Queer Horizon: Diversity Work as Queer Alternative Organizing"
2021	Jamie McDonald,"Queering CCO Scholarship: Examining Communication as Constitutive of (Hetero)normative Organizations and Organizing"
2021	Sean M. Eddington, Caitlyn M. Jarvis, & Patrice M. Buzzanell,"Identity through Affective Solidarity: Understanding the Communicative Construction of Identity in Online Men’s Rights Spaces"
2021	Surabhi Sahay & Maria Dwyer,"Organizing in Crisis: Sensemaking, Improvisation, and Job Crafting During COVID-19"
2020	Jeffrey W. Treem, Anu Sivunen, and Ward van Zoonen, "Driven by Fear: An Analysis of Fear Factors Predicting ESM Platform Use"
2020	Jingyi Sun, Aimei Yang, and Adam J. Saffer, "Evolving Together: Exploring Dynamics of the Global Refugee Crisis and Related Multi-Stakeholder Issue Networks"
2020	Patricia Gettings and Elizabeth Dorrance Hall, "Exploring the Career Resilience Strategies of Women in the Early Stages of Traditionally Male Careers"
2020	Virginia Sánchez Sánchez, "'Dando las gracias a mis papás': A discursive analysis of perceptions of callings across generations of Latinx immigrants"
2019	Jenna N. Hanchey and Peter R. Jensen, "Rethinking Organizational Rhetoric: From Identification to Subjectification"
2019	Jessica L. Ford and Sonia Rains Ivancic, "Surviving Organizational Tolerance of Sexual Harassment: An Exploration of Resilience, Vulnerability, and Harassment Fatigue"
2019	Tae Ho Lee, "Salience of Stakeholder Groups and Firms’ Motivations for CSR in Three Market Economies: A Ten-Year Content Analysis of CSR Disclosure"
2019	Kate Lockwood Harris, "Unlearning border defense, undermining white supremacist violence: Renewing the case for interdisciplinary inquiry in organizational communication"
2018	Veronica Radeva Dawson and Elizabeth Brunner, "Corporate Social Responsibility on Wild Public Networks: Patagonia's 'The President Stole Your Land Initiative"
2018	Guowei Jian, "Knowing Others is Wisdom': Theorizing Empathetic Leadership"
2018	Ryan S. Bisel and Elissa Arterburn Adame, "Encouraging Upward Ethical Dissent in Organizations: The Role of Deference to Embodied Expertise"
2016	Suzy D'Enbeau, "Unpacking the dimensions of organizational tension: The case of sexual violence response and prevention among college students"
2016	Stacy Tye-Williams and Kathleen J. Krone, "The Paradox of Workplace Bullying Advice: Re-imagining Advice through the Lens of Critical Emotional Agency"
2016	Jody L.S. Jahn, "A Model of Communicative and Hierarchical Foundations of High Reliability Organizing"
2016	Ashley K. Barret and Keri K. Stephens, "Standardization with a Local Stamp of Approval: The Influential Mediating Role of Workarounds in Organizational Change"
2013	2013- Brenda L. Berkelaar, Jeff Birdsell, and Joshua Scacco, “Storying the Digital Professional: How Online Screening Practices are Changing Personnel Selection and Employability”
2013	2013- Guowei Jian, Xiaowei Shi, Francis Dalisay, “Leader-Member Task Conversation Quality (LMTCQ): Scale Development and Validation through Three Studies”
2013	2013- Lacy G. McNamee and Brittany L. Peterson, “Toward a Tension-Centered Understanding of Volunteer Management”
2013	2013- Sarah Steimel, “Communicating Empowerment(s) With and To Clients in Mediating Organizations”
1991	Robin P. Clair
1991	Deanna Geddes
1991	Stanley A. Deetz
1991	Anne M. Nicotera
1990	Vincent R. Waldron and William F. Sharkey
1990	Colleen M. Keough and Randall A. Lake
1990	Donald D. Morley and Pamile S. Shockley-Zalabak
1989	Connie Casebolt Davis
1989	Eric M. Eisenberg and Steven R. Phillips
1989	Vincent Waldron
1987	Susan Kogler Hill, Margaret Hilton Bahniuk, and Jean Dobos
1987	Gaynelle Rothermel Winograd
1991	G. Richard Holt and Joseph W. Scudder
1991	Shelia McNamee

Outstanding Article Award

 

Year	Award Winner
2022	Nancy Maingi Ngwu, "Toward a Fluid, Shape-Shifting Methodology in Organizational Communication Inquiry: African Feminist Organizational Communication Historiography," published in Review of Communication in 2022.
2022	Masaki Matsunaga, "Uncertainty Management, Transformational Leadership, and Job Performance in an AI-Powered Organizational Context, published in Communication Monographs in 2022.
2021	Dawna Ballard, Brenda Allen, Karen Ashcraft, Shiv Ganesh, Poppy McLeod, & Heather Zoller,"When Words do not Matter: Identifying Actions to Effect Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Academy," Management Communication Quarterly, 34, 590-616.
2020	Joëlle Cruz and Chigozirim Utah Sodeke, Debunking eurocentrism in organizational communication theory: Marginality and liquidities in postcolonial contexts. Communication Theory
2019	Dajung Woo, Reconceptualizing interorganizational collaborations as tensile structures: Implications of conveners’ proactive tension management. Communication Monographs, 86:2, 158-183.
2018	Joelle M. Cruz, Invisibilityand visibility in alternative organizing: A communicative and cultural model. Management Communication Quarterly, 31(4):614-639
2017	Paul M. Leonardi and Diane E. Bailey, Recognizing and selling good ideas: Network articulations and the making of an offshore innovation hub. Academy of Management Discoveries
2016	William C. Barley, (2015). Anticipatory Work: How the Need to Represent Knowledge Across Boundaries Shapes Work Practices Within Them. Organization Science, 26, 1612-1628
2015	Paul M. Leonardi (2014). Social media, knowledge sharing, and innovation: Toward a theory of communication visibility. Information Systems Research, 25, 796-816
2014	Stephanie L. Dailey and Larry Browning (2014). Retelling stories in organizations: Understanding the functions of narrative repetition. Academy of Management Review, 39, 22-43
2013	Matthew A. Koschmann, Timothy R. Kuhn, and Michael D. Pfarrer (2012). A communicative framework of value in cross-sector partnerships. Academy of Management Review, 37, 332-354
2012	Kristen Lucas (2011). The working class promise: A communicative account of mobility-based ambivalences. Communication Monographs, 78, 347-369
2012	Robert Whitbred, Fabio Fonti, Christian Steglich, and Noshir Contractor (2011). From microactions to macrostructure and back: A structurational approach to the evolution of organizational networks. Human Communication Research, 37, 404-433
2011	Paul M. Leonardi (2011). Innovation blindness: Culture, frames, and cross-boundary problem construction in the development of new technology concepts. Organization Science, 22, 347-369
2010	Paul M. Leonardi (2009). Why do people reject new technologies and stymie organizational changes of which they are in favor? Exploring misalignments between social interactions and materiality. Human Communication Research, 35, 407-441
2010	Paul M. Leonardi (2009). Crossing the implementation line: The mutual constitution of technology and organizing across development and use activities. Communication Theory, 19, 278-310
2009	Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik (2008). Intensive remedial identity work: Responses to workplace bullying trauma and stigmatization. Organization, 15, 97-119
2008	Borris H.J. Brummans, Linda L. Putnam, Barbara Gray, Ralph Hanke, Roy J. Lewicki, and Carolyn Wiethoff (2008). Making sense of intractable multiparty conflict: A study of framing in four environmental disputes. Communication Monographs, 75, 25-51
2007	Cynthia Stohl and Michael Stohl (2007). Networks of terror: Theoretical assumptions and pragmatic consequences. Communication Theory, 17, 93-124
2006	Karen Lee Ashcraft (2006). Feminist-bureaucratic control and other adversarial allies: Extending organized dissonance to the practice of ‘new’ forms. Communication Monographs,73, 55-86
2005	Brian C. Taylor, William J. Kinsella, Stephen P. Depoe, and Maribeth S. Metzler (2005). Nuclear legacies: Communication, controversy, and the U.S. nuclear weapons production complex. In P. J. Kalbfleisch (Ed.) Communication Yearbook 29 (pp. 363-409). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
2004	Timothy Kuhn and Steven R. Corman (2003). The emergence of homogeneity and heterogeneity in knowledge structures during a planned organizational change. Communication Monographs, 70, 198-229
2003	Erika L. Kirby, Annis G. Golden, Caryn E. Medved, Jane Jorgenson, and Patrice M. Buzzanell (2003). An organizational communication challenge to the discourse of work and family research: From problematics to empowerment. In P. J. Kalbfleisch (Ed.), Communication Yearbook 27 (pp. 1-44). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
2002	Gail T. Fairhurst, François Cooren, and Daniel J. Cahill (2002). Discursiveness, contradiction, and unintended consequences in successive downsizings. Management Communication Quarterly, 15, 501-540
2001	James R. Taylor (2001). The “rational” organization reconsidered: An exploration of some of the organizational implications of self-organizing. Communication Theory, 11, 137-177
2001	Cynthia Stohl and George Cheney (2001). Participatory processes/paradoxical practices: Communication and the dilemmas of organizational democracy. Management Communication Quarterly, 14, 349-407
2000	William J. Kinsella (1999). Discourse, power, and knowledge in the management of “Big Science”: The production of consensus in a nuclear fusion research laboratory. Management Communication Quarterly, 13, 171-208
1999	Craig R. Scott, Steven R. Corman, and George Cheney (1998). Development of a structurational model of identification in the organization. Communication Theory, 8, 298-336
1998	George Cheney, Joseph Straub, Laura Speirs-Glebe, Cynthia Stohl, Dan Degooyer, Susan Whalen, Kathy Garvin-Doxas, and David Carlone (1998). Democracy, participation, and communication at work: A multi-disciplinary review. In M. E. Roloff (Ed.), Communication Yearbook 21 (pp. 35-91). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
1997	Dean Scheibel (1996). Appropriating bodies: Organ(izing) ideology and cultural practice in medical school. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 24, 310-331
1996	Dennis K. Mumby (1996). Feminism, postmodernism, and organizational communication studies: A critical reading. Management Communication Quarterly, 9, 259-295
1995	Lisa A. Howard and Patricia Geist (1995). Ideological positioning in organizational change: The dialectic of control in a merging organization. Communications Monographs, 62, 110-131
1994	Gail T. Fairhurst (1993). The leader‐member exchange patterns of women leaders in industry: A discourse analysis. Communications Monographs, 60, 321-351
1993	Robin P. Clair (1993). The use of framing devices to sequester organizational narratives: Hegemony and harassment. Communications Monographs, 60, 113-136
1992	Terrance L. Albrecht and Bradford J. Hall (1991). Facilitating talk about new ideas: The role of personal relationships in organizational innovation. Communications Monographs, 58, 273-288
1991	Charles Conrad (1991). Communication in conflict: Style‐strategy relationships. Communications Monographs, 58, 135-155
1990	Eric M. Eisenberg (1990). Jamming transcendence through organizing. Communication Research, 17, 139-164
1989	Andrew H. Van de Ven and Marshall S. Poole (1988). Paradoxical requirements for a theory of organizational chang. In K. S. Cameron & R. E. Quinn (Eds.), Paradox and transformation: Toward a theory of change in organization and management (pp. 19-64). Cambridge, MA: Ballinger
1988	Robert D. McPhee (1988). Vertical communication chains toward an integrated approach. Management Communication Quarterly, 1, 455-493
1987	Dennis K. Mumby (1987). The political function of narrative in organizations. Communications Monographs, 54, 113-127
1985	Eric M. Eisenberg (1984). Ambiguity as strategy in organizational communication. Communication Monographs, 51, 227-242
1984	Michael E. Pacanowsky and Nick O’Donnell-Trujillo (1983). Organizational communication as cultural performance. Communications Monographs, 50, 126-147
1983	Linda L. Putnam and Ritch L. Sorenson (1982). Equivocal messages in organizations. Human Communication Research, 8, 114-132