Wayne Danielson Award
Award for Distinguished Contributions to Communication Scholarship
Dr. Zizi Papacharissi (2018)
Professor of Political Science
Communication Department Head
University of Illinois-Chicago
Her work focuses on the social and political consequences of online media.
Dr. Pamela J. Shoemaker (2017)
Professor Emerita
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Syracuse University
Her books include Mediating the Message in the 21st Century (with Steve Reese), Gatekeeping (with Tim Vos), News Around the World (with Akiba Cohen), and How to Build Social Science Theories (with James Tankard and Dominic Lasorsa).
Dr. Sharon Dunwoody (2016)
Professor Emerita
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Wisconsin-Madison
As a scholar, Dunwoody focuses on the construction of media science messages and on how those messages are employed by individuals in service to learning and acting.
Dr. Michele Hilmes (2015)
Professor Emerita
Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hilmes’ research examines the relationship of radio and television to national cultures, and how programs speak to audiences across cultural boundaries, as well as radio and what she calls "soundwork" – long-form features, documentary and drama.
Dr. Michael D. Slater (2014)
Professor,
School of Communication,
The Ohio State University
Slater's research has focused on media effects on beliefs and behavior and persuasion processes, primarily but not exclusively in the domain of public health, such as substance abuse and cancer prevention.
Sonia M. Livingstone (2013)
Professor, Department of Media and Communications
London School of Economics
Taking a comparative, critical and contextualised approach, Livingstone's research asks why and how the changing conditions of mediation are reshaping everyday practices and possibilities for action and identity in public and private spheres.
Dr. Ellen Wartella (2012)
Professor, Department of Communication Studies
Northwestern University
A leading scholar of the role of media in children’s development, Wartella is a former dean of the College of Communication.
Dr. Robert M. Entman (2011)
Professor, School of Media and Public Affairs
George Washington University
Entman has written numberous books on political communication, race relations and the media, media bias and framing, and public opinion.
Dr. Raymond D. Kent (2010)
Professor of Communicative Disorders Emeritus
The University of Wisconsin Madison
A prolific author and researcher, Kent has examined neurogenic speech disorders in children and adults, speech development in infants and young children, acoustic analyses of speech and theories of speech production.
Dr. Sandra Ball-Rokeach (2009)
Professor, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
Annenberg School for Communication
University of Southern California
Ball-Rokeach received her doctorate in sociology, and has edited and authored numerous books on the mass media.
Dr. Bruce Gronbeck (2008)
Professor Emeritus
Department of Communication Studies
The University of Iowa
Gronbeck has performed extensive research in rhetorical and media studies with an emphasis in contemporary television and politics.
Dr. David Bordwell (2007)
Professor Emeritus
Department of Communication Arts
University of Wisconsin-Madison
A film theorist and historian, Bordwell has written extensively on cognitive film theory, the historical poetics of film, and the history of art cinema, Hollywood and East Asian film styles.
Dr. Jack M. McLeod (2006)
Professor Emeritus
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Wisconsin-Madison
McLeod helped to mold the Schoolf of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin into one of the top research and doctoral training programs in the country.
Professor Ben H. Bagdikian (2005)
Dean Emeritus
Graduate School of Journalism University of California at Berkeley
Begadikian, a media critic, journalist and educator, has written extensively about the centralization of media ownership by corporations.
Dr. Michael Schudson (2004)
Professor
Department of Communication
University of California-San Diego
A sociologist by training, Schudson has written extensively about the American news media, advertising, popular culture and cultural memory.
Dr. Joanne Cantor (2001)
Professor
Department of Communication Arts
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Cantor examined the psychology of media and communications, and how media and the use of digital tools affects productivity, creativity and emotional health.
Dr. Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. (2000)
The Annenberg School of Communication
University of Pennsylvania
Gandy made vital contributions in the field of the political economy of information, as well as on subjects including privacy, race, information technology and media development.
Dr. Everett Rogers (1999)
Professor
Department of Communication & Journalism
The University of New Mexico
Rogers originated the "diffusion of innovations" theory that strives to explain how, why, and and at what rate ideas and technology spread through cultures.
Dr. Kathleen Hall Jamieson (1998)
Dean
Annenberg School of Communication
University of Pennsylvania
Jamieson has authored numerous books on political communication and advertising and presidential discourse, and served as chair of the Communication Studies Department (1986-1989) at The University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Jose Marques de Melo (1997)
University Chair Professor & Dean
School of Communication and Fine Arts
University of Sao Paulo Brazil
The first to earn a doctorate in journalism from a Brazilian university, De Melo has taught several generations of journalists and supervised the studies of over 100 postgraduates.
Dr. Adam Kendon (1996)
Research Associate
Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania
Kendon developed a framework for understanding guestures after studying sign systems of Aboriginal Australians and Papua New Guineans.
Dr. Elihu Katz (1995)
Trustee Professor
Annenberg School for Communication
University of Pennsylvania
An elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Katz's work includes research on the functions and effects of mass media in different social systems.
Dr. Herbert I. Schiller (1994)
Professor Emeritus
University of California, San Diego
His numerous books and articles in scholarly and popular journals made him a key figure both in communication research and in the public debate over the role of the media in modern society.
Dr. W. Charles Redding (1993)
Professor Emeritus
Department of Communication
Purdue University
Credited as the "father" of organizational communication, Redding was a central figure in establishing the discipline as a field of study in universities.
Dr. James W. Carey (1992)
Former Dean
College of Communications
University of Illinois
Carey, a media critic and theorist, examined the ability of communications to shape culture, including examining how the telegraph enabled the growth of capitalism.
Dr. George Gerbner (1991)
Dean Emeritus
Annenberg School of Communications
University of Pennsylvania
After serving in World War II and working as a journalist, Gerbner became a scholar and developed "cultivation theory," which examines the long-term effects of television.
