Activism and Social Justice Division
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Interest Group Awards
2021
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.
Activism and Social Justice Community Engagement Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Satarupa Dasgupta |
| 2024 | Andre Johnson |
| 2023 | Leandra Hinojosa Hernández |
| 2022 | No award given |
| 2021 | Sahar Khamis |
| 2020 | Shardé M. Davis |
Activism and Social Justice Pedagogy Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Raisa Alvarado |
| 2024 | Emily Krebs |
| 2023 | Angela Denise Mensah nee Prater |
| Ellen W. Gorsevski | |
| 2022 | Satarupa Dasgupta |
| 2021 | Sergio Juárez |
| 2020 | No award given |
Activism and Social Justice Scholarly Influence Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2025 | No award given |
| 2024 | Ahlam Muhtaseb |
| 2023 | Dana L. Cloud |
| 2022 | No award given |
| 2021 | No award given |
| 2020 | Leandra Hernandez |
Graduate Student Activist Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Samuel Ajala |
| 2024 | Naim Aburaddi |
| 2023 | Cassidy D. Ellis |
| 2022 | Savannah Greer Downing |
| 2021 | Primavera L. Martinez |
| 2020 | Joy Melody Woods |
Top Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Shannon Burth, Srividya Ramasubramanian, Alexandra Scrivner, and Fuhaid Alajmi, “How Student Journalists Shape Global Social Movements: Analyzing Gaza Solidarity Encampments Across 14 Campus Newspapers” |
| 2024 | John Vilanova, “Spectacular Whiteness: The Tactics and Mediation of White Protests for Black Lives” |
| 2023 | Deborah Thomson, “Decontainment: HB2 Fallout and the Fight for Trans Rights” |
| 2022 | Michael F. Klajbor-Smith, “#NeverAgain Means Never Again For Anyone: Jewish Memory And Legitimizing Radical Protest” |
| 2021 | Stephanie Kaczynski, “‘Sixteen Shots and a Cover-Up!’: News Media Discourse of Chicago’s Fight for Police Reform” |
| 2020 | Sue Lockyer & Christopher “CJ” Koenig, “At the intersection of method and empowerment: Lessons from a pilot Photovoice study among Human Trafficking Survivors” |
| 2019 | Joshua Paul Ewalt, “Oscillating Scale and Articulating Regions: Exploring Power Geometries as a Genre of Activist Rhetoric in People’s Tribune’s Coverage of Benton Harbor, Michigan” |
| Billie Murray, “Reimagining Activism as Combative” | |
| 2018 | Srividya “Srivi” Ramasubramanian & Alexandra Sousa, “Blurring the Boundaries, Balancing the Tensions: Examining Self-Identity, Risks, Challenges, and Opportunities for Communication Scholar-Activists” |
| Christina R. Foust & Paige Alfonzo, ““ASHÉ!:” A Media Ecology of the 2015 University of Missouri Protests” | |
| 2017 | Timothy Paul Huffman, Saint Louis University & Sarah Jane Tracy, Arizona State University, “Making Claims that Matter: Heuristics for Theoretical and Social Impact in Qualitative Research” |
| 2016 | Nicholas S. Paliewicz, “Policing a Climate for Change: The Architecture of Consensus at the 2014 People’s Climate March” |
Top Student Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Juliet Letteney, “Donning the Den of Degeneracy: Détournement in T-Shirt Rhetoric as Solidarity in Academic Freedom” |
| 2024 | Abigail Burns, “The Rhetorics of Weaponized Ignorance” |
| 2023 | Jessica Lauren Chaplain, “‘Pay up, Pay up, Pay up for Loss and Damage’: Forging Climate Justice Coalitions and Solutions at COP27” |
| 2022 | Mohammad Salih, “Platform Coloniality: Facebook at the Intersection of Capitalism and Nation-State Internal Colonialism” |
| 2021 | Yena Kang, “#YellowPeril Supports Black Power: Performing Affective Memory Work for Solidarity” |
| 2020 | Jeff Tischauser, “Between social justice scholarship and activism: A methodological toolkit for racial outsiders” |
| 2019 | Joshua Ratel- Khan, “Calling-Out vs. Calling-In: The Internal Rhetoric of Activist Counterpublics” |
| Carmen Hernandez-Ojeda, “Advocating for a Decolonizing Reframing of ‘Youth Bullying'” | |
| 2018 | Amrut Mishra, “Archival Ashes: Nostalgia, Video, and Queer Remains” |
| 2017 | Rachel Elizabeth Presley, “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Rhetorical Strategies for Environmental Protection and Cultural Resistance in the Dakota Access Pipeline Movement” |
| 2016 | Christopher Scott Thomas, “‘A Global Environmental Movement that Protects Us All’: Whiteness, Racial Scripts, and the Southwest Organizing Project’s (SWOP) Letter to the Group of Ten” |