Philosophy of Communication, Theory, and Critique 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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Top Student Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Jack Lassiter, "Bewilderment, Inscription, and Freedom in the Rhetoric of Racial Capitalism" |
| 2021 | Cassidy Ellis,"Seeing is Be[liev]ing: A Feminist Theorizing of the Human through Communication, Technologies of Being, and Evidentiary Futility" |
| 2020 | Carrie Jones, "Facebook Groups, Governmentality, and the Shaping of the Surveilled Soul" |
| 2016 | Hannah Karolak, "The Precariat and Public Assembly: Performing Creative Dialogue in Assembly" |
| 2015 | Susan Mancino, “Philosophy of Communication and the Infinity of Lists: The Interplay of the Poetic and Pragmatic” |
| 2014 | Michael Lechuga, “The Nodal Nomad, Lines of Migration, and Landscapes of Citizenship” |
| 2013 | Jessica Sturgess |
Top Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Corey Reutlinger & Robter Razzante, "Theorizing a Communicative Ecology of Microaggressive Interactions" |
| 2022 | Kory Riemensperger, "Voice as Abjection/The Abject Voice: On Hearing (One’s) Self" |
| 2021 | Nathan Bedsole,"Unbearable Silence: Gun Violence and Lacan’s Discourse of the Analyst" |
| 2020 | Maryl McGinley, "Civility in Social Spaces: A Pedagogical Reflection" |
| 2016 | Garnet Butchart, "On the Impossiblity of Non-Communication" |
| 2015 | Brenton Malin, “Communicating with Objects: Ontology, Object-Orientations, and the Politics of Communication” |
| 2014 | Isaac Catt, “The Two Sciences of Communication in Philosophical Contexts” |
| 2013 | Heather Curry, “Precarity, Community and Panhandling in Tampa Bay: Seeking a Theoretical Framework at the Local Scale” |
| 2012 | Pat Arneson, “A Creative Turning: Communicative Participation in Tymieniecka’s Logos of Life” |
Distinguished Book Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Marcin Lewiński and Mark Aakhus, Argumentation in Complex Communication: Managing Disagreement in a Polylogue, published by Cambridge University Press in 2023. |
| 2022 | Nathan R. Johnson, University of South Florida, Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age, published by University Alabama Press in 2020. |
| 2021 | Deborah Eicher-Catt, Recovering the Voice in Our Techno-Social World: On the Phone (Lexington Books, 2020) |
| 2020 | Garnet C Butchart, Embodiment, Relation, Community: A Continental Philosophy of Communication (Penn State University Press, 2019) |
| 2018 | Isaac E. Catt, Embodiment in the Semiotic Matrix: Communicology in Peirce, Dewey, Bateson, and Bourdieu (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017) |
| 2016 | Lisbeth Lipari |
| 2015 | Frank Macke, The Experience of Human Communication: Body, Flesh, and Relationship (Farleigh Dickinson University Press. 2014) |
| 2014 | Pat Arneson, Communicative Engagement and Social Liberation: Justice Will Be Made (Farleigh Dickinson University Press. 2014) |
| 2013 | Ronald C. Arnett and Anette M. Holba, An Overture to Philosophy of Communication (Peter Lang 2012) |
| 2012 | Igor Klyukanov, A Communication Universe: Manifestations of Meaning, Stagings of Significance (Lanham, MA : Lexington Books, 2010) |
Distinguished Book Chapter Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Lisa M. Corrigan, University of Arkansas, "The Gun as (Race/Gender) Technê," published in Rhetoric and Guns in 2022. |
| 2021 | Wolfgang Suetzl, "Who and What of Sharing: A Phenomenological View" in Handbook of the Sharing Economy, edited by Russell W. Belk, Giana M. Eckhardt and Fleura Bardhi |
| 2020 | Jenny Korn, "‘Genderless’ Online Discourse in the 1970s: Muted Group Theory in Early Social Computing,” in Ada’s Legacy, edited by Robin Hammerman and Andrew L. Russell |
| 2018 | Meredith A. Johnson and Nathan R. Johnson, "Can Objects be Moral Agents? Psthuman Praxis in Public Transportation" in Kristin R. Moore and Daniel P. Richards, eds., Posthuman Praxis in Technical Communication (New York: Routledge, 2017), 121-140;4 |
| 2016 | Ramsey Eric Ramsey |
| 2015 | Richard L. Lanigan, “Information Theories” in Paul Cobley and Peter Schulz (eds.) Theories and Models of Communication, Vol. 1 (Handbooks of Communication Science, 22 vols., 2012-2019) |
| 2014 | Isaac Catt, “Korzybski and Charles Sanders Peirce” in Corey Anton and Lance Strate (eds.) Korzybski And… |
| 2013 | Frank Macke, “Intrapersonal Communicology: Reflection, Reflexivity, and Relational Consciousness in Embodied Subjectivity” in Communicology: The New Science of Embodied Discourse. Deborah Eicher-Catt and Isaac E. Catt [Eds.] (Madison Teaneck, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press) |
Distinguished Journal Article Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Meredith Neville-Shepard, “'Better Never Means Better for Everyone': White Feminist Necropolitics and Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale," published in Quarterly Journal of Speech in 2023 |
| 2022 | Deborah Eicher-Catt, The Pennsylvania State University, "The Aesthetics of Communication: Poetic Iconicity, the Voice of Enunciation, and the Art of Conversation," published in Language and Semiotic Studies in 2021 |
| 2021 | No award given |
| 2020 | Thomas A. Discenna, “Rhetoric’s Ghost at Davos: Reading Cassirer in the Rhetorical Tradition,” Rhetorica 23, no. 3 (2014): 245–66. |
| 2018 | John Dowd, "Moments that Matter: Educational Entanglements and Ecologies of Action," Review of Communication 17 (2017) 3-17. |
| 2016 | Jason Hannan |
| 2015 | Garnet C. Butchart, “The Uncertainty of Communication as Revealed by Psychoanalysis,” Review of Communication 13 (2013): 66-84. |
| 2014 | Jason Hannon, “Alasdair MacIntyre’s Contribution to Communication Theory,” Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication 4 (2012): 183–198. |
| 2013 | Garnet Butchart, “Camera as Sign: On the Ethics of Unconcealment in Documentary Film and Video,” Social Semiotics 23 (2012): 675-690 |
| 2012 | Isaac E. Catt, “The Signifying Worls between Ineffability and Intelligibility: Body as Sign in Communicolog0y,” Review of Communication 11 (2011): 122-144. |
Top Edited Book Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Peter Zhang, Grand Valley State University, “Interality” |
| 2021 | No award given |
| 2020 | No award given |
| 2019 | No award given |
| 2018 | Andrew R. Smith, Isaac E, Catt, and Igo E. Klyukanov, eds., Communicology for he Human Sciences: Lanigan and the Philosophy of Communication (New York: Peter Lang, 2018) |
| 2016 | Briankle G. Chang and Garnet C. Butchart |