1985 NCA Award Winners
NCA Award Winners by Year
Scholarship Awards
Charles H. Woolbert Research Award
- Michael Leff & G. P. Mohrmann, “Lincoln at Cooper Union: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Text.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 60 (1974): 346-458; and “Lincoln at Cooper Union: A Rationale for Neo-Classical Criticism.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 60 (1974): 459-467.
Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression
- Thomas Tedford, Freedom of Speech in the United States (Southern Illinois University Press, 1985).
Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Awards
- Kathy Lynn Harbert, The Pennsylvania State University. “A Neuropsychological Framework for the Assessment of Competing Theories of Rhetoric as Epistemic,” (Gerard A. Hauser, advisor).
- Lester Clarence Olson, University of Wisconsin. “Emblems of American Community: A Study in Rhetorical Iconology,” (Edwin Black, advisor).
- Roger C. Pace, The Pennsylvania State University. “The Role of Communication in Consensus Formation: A Descriptive Analysis of Interaction Differences between High and Low Consensus Groups,” (Herman Cohen, advisor).
Golden Anniversary Book Award
- Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Packaging the Presidency (Oxford University Press, 1984).
James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
- Thomas O. Sloane, Donne, Milton and the End of Humanist Rhetoric (University of California Press, 1985).
Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award
- John Poulakos
Service Awards
Robert J. Kibler Memorial Award
- Dennis S. Gouran
Samuel L. Becker Distinguished Service Award
- Wilbur S. Howell