NCA Award Recipients to be Honored at 108th Convention in New Orleans
Washington, DC - November 14, 2022 - Each year, the National Communication Association (NCA) honors the best in academic Communication, presenting awards for outstanding scholarship, teaching, and professional service. The awards recognize a wide range of contributions to the Communication discipline.
This year, more than 30 Communication scholars will receive awards for achievements in categories that include distinguished service, excellent published scholarship, outstanding teaching, and many others.
Recipient will be honored at the NCA 108th convention in New Orleans. With the theme “Honoring PLACE: People, Liberation, Advocacy, Community, and Environment,” more than 4,000 Communication scholars, educators and practitioners are expected to descend on the Big Easy from Nov. 17-20 to attend a slate of thought-provoking seminars and presentations exploring communications’ role in hot-button issues around race, politics, gender, sexuality, and much more.
The NCA Presidential Address and Awards Presentation will begin at 5 p.m. CT on Saturday, Nov. 19, at the Sheraton New Orleans. NCA President Roseann Mandziuk will deliver her Presidential Address followed by presentation of the NCA Awards.
Congratulations to the following 2022 recipients:
Teaching Awards
Donald H. Ecroyd Award for Outstanding Teaching in Higher Education
Marcella E. Oberle Award for Outstanding Teaching in Grades K-12
Michael and Suzanne Osborn Community College Outstanding Educator Award
Scholarship Awards
Bernard J. Brommel Award for Outstanding Scholarship or Distinguished Service in Family Communication
Charles H. Woolbert Research Award
Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Donald P. Cushman Memorial Award
Douglas W. Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award
Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression
Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Awards
Golden Anniversary Monograph Award
James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
James L. Golden Outstanding Student Essay in Rhetoric Award
Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award
Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies
Mark L. Knapp Award in Interpersonal Communication
Marsha Houston Award
Stephen E. Lucas Debut Publication Award
Service Awards
Samuel L. Becker Distinguished Service Award
IDEA Awards
IDEA Scholarship Award
Distinguished Scholar Awards
For full program information: visit www.natcom.org/convention or contact B. Denise Hawkins at 202-534-1107 or bdhawkins@natcom.org.
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The National Communication Association (NCA) advances Communication as the discipline that studies all forms, modes, media, and consequences of communication through humanistic, social scientific, and aesthetic inquiry. NCA serves the scholars, teachers, and practitioners who are its members by enabling and supporting their professional interests in research and teaching. Dedicated to fostering and promoting free and ethical communication, NCA promotes the widespread appreciation of the importance of communication in public and private life, the application of competent communication to improve the quality of human life and relationships, and the use of knowledge about communication to solve human problems. NCA supports inclusiveness and diversity among our faculties, within our membership, in the workplace, and in the classroom; NCA supports and promotes policies that fairly encourage this diversity and inclusion.
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