Public Address 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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Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award

Year	Award Winner
2022	Christa Olson, American Magnitude: Hemispheric Vision and Public Feeling in the United States, published by The Ohio State Press in 2021.
2021	Lisa A. Flores, Deportable and Disposable: Public Rhetoric and the Making of the “Illegal” Immigrant, (State College, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020)
2020	Stacy Sowards, ¡Sí, ella puede! The rhetorical legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers. (Austin, TX: The University of Texas Press, 2019).
2020	Bjørn F. Stillion Southard, Peculiar Rhetoric: Slavery, Freedom, and the African Colonization Movement (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2019).
2018	Leslie A. Hahner, To Become an American: Immigrats and Americanization Campaigns of the Early Twentieth Century, (Michigan State UP)
2017	Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites, The Public Image: Photography and Civic Spectatorship (University of Chicago Press)
2016	Robert E. Terrill, Double-Consciousness and the Rhetoric of Barack Obama: The Price and Promise of Citizenship (University of South Carolina Press, 2015)
2015	Shawn J. Parry-Giles, Hillary Clinton in the News: Gender and Authenticity in American Politics (University of Illinois Press).
2014	Leah Ceccarelli, On the Frontier of Science: An American Rhetoric of Exploration and Exploitation (Michigan State University Press).
2013	Dave Tell, Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America (Pennsylvania State University Press).
2012	Belinda Stillion Southard, Militant Citizenship: Rhetorical Strategies of the National Woman’s Party, 1913-1920 (Texas A&M University Press).
2011	Lisa Keränen, Scientific Characters: Rhetoric, Politics, and Trust in Breast Cancer Research (University of Alabama Press).
2010	Robert Asen, Invoking the Invisible Hand: Social Security and the Privatization Debates (Michigan State University Press).
2009	Mary E. Stuckey, Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and the National Agenda (Texas A&M University Press).
2008	Leroy G. Dorsey, We Are All Americans, Pure and Simple: Theodore Roosevelt and the Myth of Americanism (University of Alabama Press).
2007	Trevor Parry-Giles, The Character of Justice: Rhetoric, Law, & Politics in the Supreme Court Confirmation Process (Michigan State University Press).
2006	Angela G. Ray, The Lyceum and Public Culture in the Nineteenth Century United States (Michigan State University Press).
2005	Lester C. Olson, Benjamin Franklin’s Vision of American Community: A Study of Rhetorical Iconology (University of South Carolina Press).
2004	Susan Zaeske, Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women’s Political Identity (University of North Carolina Press).
2003	Kirt H. Wilson, The Reconstruction Desegregation Debate: The Policies of Equality and the Rhetoric of Place, 1870-1875 (Michigan State University Press).
2002	Davis W. Houck, Rhetoric as Currency: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Great Depression (Texas A&M University Press).
2001	Michael J. Hyde, The Call to Conscience: Heidegger and Levinas, Rhetoric and the Euthanasia Debate (University of South Carolina Press).
2000	Gerard Hauser, Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres (University of South Carolina Press).
1999	Thomas Rosteck, ed., At the Intersection: Cultural Studies and Rhetorical Studies (Guilford Press).
1998	James Darsey, The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America (NYU Press).
1997	Martin J. Medhurst, ed., Beyond the Rhetorical Presidency (Texas A&M University Press).
1996	Robert Hariman, Political Style: The Artistry of Power (University of Chicago Press).
1995	Martin J. Medhurst, ed., Eisenhower’s War of Words: Rhetoric & Leadership (Michigan State University Press).
1994	Celeste Michelle Condit & John Louis Lucaites, Crafting Equality: America’s Anglo-African Word (University of Chicago Press).
1993	James Jasinski, “The Feminization of Liberty, Domesticated Virtue, and the Reconstitution of Power and Authority in Early American Political Discourse,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 79, 146-164.

Wrage-Baskerville Top Paper Award

Year	Award Winner
2023	Jeffrey Nagel and Scott Varda, “Deliberative Possibilities and Epideictic Dimensions of Quotidian Public Address: Reading the Comment Sections with Michael Sam.”
2022	Leslie Harris, "Sex Trafficking as Transnational Flow: Protecting White Womanhood as a Rhetoric of Containment"
2021	Elizabeth Gardner & Rebeca Garcia Hernandez, "Child Workers Asserting a Bolivian Childhood in the Debate over the Código Niña, Niño y Adolescente."
2021	Luke Winslow & Rebecca Lanier, "Thinning the Heard: COVID-19, Immunity, and the Rhetoric of Trumpian Catastrophe."
2020	Timothy Barney, "End of History/End of Geography: Time, Space, and the Meaning of 1989 in President George H.W. Bush's Post-Cold War Foreign Policy Rhetoric"
2020	Matthew Houdek, "Recontextualizing Responsibility for Justice: The Lynching Trope, Racialized Temporalities, and Confronting Structural Violence"
2020	Anita Mixon, "Irene McCoy Gaines as Ruth Hannah McCormick's Rhetorical Black 'Voice'"
2018	Jansen B. Werner & Leslie J. Harris, "Recognition, Shame, and Racial Justice: Black American Appeals for Inclusion at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition."
2017	Emily Kofoed, "Crafting Rhetorica Precedent: Citizenship Controversy in the Matter of Toboso-Alfonso."
2016	Kelly Jakes, “Songs of Sovereignty: Folksinging and Hegemonic Masculinity in Liberation France.”
2015	Maegan Parker Brooks, “Embracing the Interruptive Voice: Rhetoric, Race, and Public School Deliberation.”
2014	Brian Ott, Hamilton Bean, and Kellie Marin, “Securitization in the Era of Control Society: Modulating Mood and Message at The CELL.”
2013	Tiffany Lewis, “Earning Rights and Enacting Freedom: Washington Woman Suffragists’ Appropriation of Mountaineering and Wilderness Discourses.”
2012	Josue David Cisneros, “Citizenship beyond Borders? Rhetorics of Hybridity and Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Immigrant Protests.”
2011	Timothy Barney, “‘Gulag-Slavery, Inc.’: The Power of Place and the Rhetorical Life of a Cold War Map.”
2010	Ronald J. Zboray & Mary Zboray, “I Have Said My Say: Ordinary Women and Partisan Speech Making in the Antebellum Era.”
2009	Tammy Vigil, “FDR’s 1932 Commonwealth Club Address: Building Ethos by Offering Stability through Change.”
2008	Eric S. Jenkins, “The Towers of Babble and the Passage of the USA Patriot Act.”
2007	Robin E. Jensen, “‘For while my mother knows a lot, she won’t tell me a thing’: Ella Flagg Young’s Fragmented Rhetoric in Support of the Chicago Experiment.”
2006	Lisa Keranen, Lisa Irvin, Jason Lesko, & Alison E. Vogelaar, “‘Myth, Mask, Sword, and Shield’: Dr. John H. Marburger III’s Rhetoric of Neutral Science for the Nation.”
2005	Mary Carver, “The Power of the Prophet Persona for Abolitionist Feminist Lucy Stone.”
2004	Jason Edward Black, “Constituting the ‘Allotment Indian’: The Role of Paternal Rhetoric in America’s Dawes Act Era.”
2003	John M. Murphy, “The Language of Liberal Consensus: John F. Kennedy, Technocratic Reason, and the ‘New Economics’ at Yale University.”
2002	David C. Deifell, “Performing The Idea of University: The Occasion, the Crisis and the Student.”
2001	Trevor Parry-Giles & Shawn J. Parry-Giles,”Constructing Presidentiality: The West Wing and the Ideological Definition of Presidential Leadership.”
1999	Andrew C. Hansen, “A Gentleman’s History of Geology: The Fall and Rise of Rhetoric in Charles Lyell’s Principles of Geology.”
1998	Shawn J. Parry-Giles & Trevor Parry-Giles, “Meta-Imaging and the Hyperreality of American Politics: The War Room and the 1992 Clinton Campaign.”
1997	Mark Allan Steiner, “Maladroitness in the Culture Wars: Portraits of the Public in the Internal Rhetoric of Operation Rescue.”
1995	John M. Murphy, “Inventing Authority: Bill Clinton, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Performance of Rhetorical Culture.”
1994	Lisa Bates-Froiland & James L. Cherney, “The Rhetorical Function of ‘Nature’ in Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s ‘Solitude of Self.’”
1993	Gage W. Chapel, “Synthesizing the American Dream: The Political Rhetoric of Jack Kemp.”
1991	Thomas Lessl, “Francis Bacon and the Biblical Origins of the Scientific Ethos.
1986	Thomas Lessl, “Heresy, Orthodoxy, and the Politics of Science.”

Robert Gunderson Top Student Paper Award

Year	Award Winner
2023	Katherine Kountz, “Democratic Education and the Cultural Politics of the Unschooling Movement.”
2022	Lauren Seitz, "Constituting the People in a Pandemic: The Anti-Health Pass Rhetoric of France's National Rally"
2021	Joshua Smith, "Transforming Land, or, what Bears Ears National Monument Teaches Us about Rhetoric and Colonialism."
2020	Brittany Knutson, "Legal Matters in Christine Blasey Ford's Testimony: Toward a Feminist New Materialist of Deixis"
2020	Gabriela Tscholl, "'We Are Going to Define Our Freedom': Dissociative Definition in Bobby Seale's April 16, 1968 Speech Delivered at the Kaleidoscope Theater"
2020	Yishan Wang, "The Eulogistic Circulation of Ideal Gendered Citizenship at the Crossroads of the Past and Present: Rearticulating 'Her' as a 'Hero' of a Nation"
2018	Jonathan M. Smith, "King, Du Bois, and Attitudes Toward Change."
2017	Daniel Devinney, "Obama's Constructed Audiences: A Constitutive Analysis of the 2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address and the 2008 Obama Coalition."
2016	Lauren Harris, “More Beef, Less Bull: The Intersection of Agrarian and Expediency Ideologies in Recent Congressional Campaigns.”
2015	Paul McKean, “Constituting an Economy of Heroes: The Rehabilitation of an Economic Idiom in Ronald Reagan’s 1981 Economic Recovery Campaign.”
2014	Courtney Travers, “The Presence of Aesthetic Pasts: The Rhetorical Invention of Jacqueline Kennedy in Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue.”
2013	Allison M. Prasch, “Reagan at Pointe du Hoc: Deictic Epideictic and the Persuasive Power of ‘Bringing Before the Eyes.’”
2012	Paul Henrickson, “‘This Experiment upon the Theory of Human Rights’: America’s Founding as a Human Rights Republic.”
2011	Adam Gaffey, “The Rhetoric of Visualizing Washington’s Union: Commemoration, Flags, and the ‘Farewell Address,’ 22 February 1862.”
2010	Sean Luechtefeld, “A Petition in Boots: Jacob Coxey’s Constitution of Citizenship in 1894.”
2009	Kashif Powell, “E Pluribus Unum: Barack Obama’s Use of Constitutive Rhetoric.”
2008	Eric S. Jenkins, “The Towers of Babble and the Passage of the USA Patriot Act.”
2007	Josue David Cisneros, “Bilingual in Name Only”: Dissociation, Conspiracy Rhetoric, and the Campaign for California Proposition 227.″
2006	Dru Anthony Williams, “Staying Committed to the Mission: Epideictic Argument and George W. Bush’s Performance in the 2004 Presidential Debates.”
2005	Melissa Barnett Cocian, “Using Functional Theory in Social Movement Rhetoric: A Thematic, Ideological, and Feminist Analysis of Women’s Suffrage Speeches.”
2004	Michael Lee, “George W. Bush and the Iraq Question: Analyzing a Moral Realist Perspective.”
2003	David Dzikowski, “Locating Herbert Hoover’s Inaugural Address: Kairos and Genre in the Rhetorical Presidency.”
2002	Heather Norton, “The Clinton Administration’s Depiction of the Modern Militia Movement Through a Rhetoric of Crisis.”
2001	B. Wayne Howell, “Samuel Seabury’s Response to the First Continental Congress: Anomic Imagery in Appeals for Loyalty to Great Britain.”
2000	Steven E. Martin, “Anti-Conspiracy and Anti-Propaganda Rhetoric in ‘Joe Worker and the Story of Labor’: The Use of the Comic Book Form.”
1999	Christina R. Foust, “Gender Myths and the Media Coverage of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Involvement with Health Care: What is Woman’s Proper Place?”
1998	A. Michele Mason, “Close Reading and the Text/Context Dilemma: A Subversive Account of the 1935 Harlem Riot.”
1995	Rebecca M. Townsend, “McCarthyism’s Rhetorical Norms.”
1994	Susan M. Zaeske,”The Promiscuous Audience: A Barrier to Early Woman Speakers.”
1993	Jean Goodwin, “The Appeal to Posterity.”

Benson Campbell Dissertation Prospectus Research Award

Year	Award Winner
2023	Morgan DiCesare, "Archival Care: 1970s Transfeminist Pasts and Futures"
2023	Andrew Parayil Boge, “Brown Peril: Rhetorics of South Asian American Racialization, 1900-1939”.
2022	Kristen Einertson, "Self-Determination for the Baltics: The Joint Baltic American National Committee's Foreign Policy Rhetorics of the Late Cold War Period"
2022	Lionnell "Badu" Smith, "Too Tired to Codeswitch: Analyzing the Prophetic Rhetoric of Critical Black Language Awareness"
2021	Corinne Mitsuye Sugino"Familiar Foreigners: Multicultural Rhetorics of Asian American Racialization"
2021	Natonya Listach"'Lifting as We Climb': A Rhetorical Analysis of the Speeches of Hallie Quinn Brown"
2020	Ashley Garcia, "(Re)Scripting the Black-Activist-Athlete: Remembering the Racialized Politics of Sport in the NFL’s Protests During the National Anthem"
2018	Lindsay Harroff, "Reimagining the National Community through Truth and Reconciliation: A Rhetorical Analysis of Truth Commissions in South Africa, Kenya, and the U.S."
2017	Katie Lind, "The Unbearable Loss of Beings: Curating, Documenting, and Resisting Anthropogenic Extinction"
2016	Katie Irwin, "'Freeing Our Latent Power': Rural Women and Emergent Rhetorical Agency, 1920-1929"
2015	Michael J. Steudeman
2014	Elizabeth Gardner, "'Too Bad to be Told Their Mothers': Scientific Objectivity and Morality in the Progressive Era Night Messenger Service Reform Campaign"
2013	Kelly Jakes
2012	Erik Johnson

Outstanding Article Award

Year	Award Winner
2022	Dean Mundy, "From Relationship Management to Change Empowerment: Shifting Public Relations Theory to Prioritize Publics. Journal of Public Relations Research, 33(6), 504-525.

Outstanding Manuscript Award

Year	Award Winner
2022	Maria Isabel Espinoza & Melissa Aronczyk, A Strategic Nature: Public Relations and the Politics of American Environmentalism, published by Oxford University Press in 2021.

Outstanding Educator Award

Year	Award Winner
2022	Timothy Coombs