2020 National Communication Association Awards
The Department of Communication Studies is respected as a leader in communication research and graduate student education.
This year, faculty and graduate students throughout the department have been recognized by the National Communication Association (NCA) for their excellence in teaching, scholarship and service. Their work in these areas is shaping the field of communication and helping to train students at all levels.
“The range of honors received at this year’s national conference is really quite impressive. Once again, faculty and graduate students in the department have been recognized by our peers for excellence in research, teaching, and service,” said Department of Communication Studies Chair Craig Scott.
2020 National Communication Association Awards
Rick Cherwitz
Wallace A. Bacon Lifetime Teaching Excellence Award
This award recognizes retired NCA members at any grade level, from kindergarten through graduate, who have demonstrated a long-term commitment to teaching. In addition to the Bacon Award (2020), Cherwitz has also received the Karl Wallace Memorial Award (1978), the Douglas Ehninger Distinguished Scholar Award (1995) and the Donald H. Ecroyd Award for Outstanding Teaching (2012) from NCA.
Stacey Sowards
Marie Hochmuth Nichols award (Public Address)
Outstanding Book award (Latina/o Communication Studies)
Bonnie Ritter Outstanding Feminist Book award (Feminist and Gender Studies)
Sowards book, “Sí, Ella Puede!: The Rhetorical Legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers” was honored with all three of these awards.
Dawna Ballard
Outstanding Service Engagement Award
Organizational Communication Division
Keri Stephens
Organizational Communication Division Edited Book of the Year
“New Media in Times of Crisis”
Josh Barbour, Jeff Treem
Bill Eadie Distinguished Article Award
Applied Communication Interest Group
“Analytics and expert collaboration: How individuals navigate relationships when working with organizational data”
Emily Van Duyn
Best Dissertation Award from the Political Communication Division
"Networked Silence: Political Dissent in a Digital Era"
Advisor: Talia Stroud
JhuCin (Rita) Jhang
Sandra Petronio Family Communication Dissertation Award
"She did not come out, but we have come to terms" -- Family reconciliation of challenged expectations when a young adult child is gender and sexual minority/Tongzhi: Multiple perspectives”
Advisor: Madeline M. Maxwell
Kate Rich
James L. Golden Outstanding Student Essay in Rhetoric Award
“Uncanny Demonstration: Holographic Cyborg Politics in Hologramas Por La Libertad.”
Faculty mentors: Johanna Hartelius and Mike Butterworth
Anastazja Harris, Keri Stephens and Courtney Powers
Top Paper
Training and Development Division
“Trainers at the Crossroads: Recovering from Inadvertent Equivocation During a Client Needs Assessment and Development Project”
Dawna Ballard, Dron Mandhana, Matthew McGlone, Ana Aguilar and Dina Inman-Ramgolam
Top 4 Paper
Group Communication Division
“All action and no talk: A multimethod investigation of routinized adaptation in interprofessional critical teams.”
Jeff Treem
Top 4 Paper
Organizational Communication Division
“Driven by Fear: An Analysis of Fear Factors Predicting ESM Platform Use”
Andrew A. Coolidge
Top Student Paper Award
Interpersonal Communication Division
“Subversive or Sexist: The effects of perceived gender on interpretations of disparaging and subversive humor”
Top Papers Session (Master's Education Section)
“Strategists and Tacticians: Co-Creation of Offensive Humor in Improv Comedy”
Clayton L. Terry
Top Student Paper Award
Instructional Development Division
“Toward a Model of Rhetorical-Relational Growth: Dynamic Flexibility and Deweyan Instructional Development”
Shuting Yao
Top Student Paper Award
Interpersonal communication Division
“It’s not you, It’s me: Face Work of Disengagement Language in Dating Relationship”
Delaney Harness
Top Student Paper Award
Organizational Communication Division
“Paradigms and Paradoxes: Beyond the Extant Approaches to Transparency”
Katie Lever
Top Student Paper
Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division
“Ideology in Practice”: Conceptualizing the NCAA’s Student-Athlete as an Ideograph
Courtney Powers
Top Submission Award
Great Ideas for Teaching Division
“Identifying Crossroads in Organizational Culture: Conducting a Mini Cultural Analysis of an Organization”
