Asian/Pacific American Communication Studies Division & Caucus

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Interest Group Awards 2025

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.

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Research Awards

Top Paper Award

Year	Award Winner
2025	Anjana Mudambi & Haridhra Radhakrishnan, “Communicating Caste-Blindness through Frames of Colorblind Racism: Elevating the Role of American-Born Desis”
2022	Santhosh Chandrashekar, for “What’s Cooking? Caste as the (Not So) Secret Ingredient of Indian American Identity”
2022	Megu Itoh, for “(Re)theorizing Kizuna: Reimagining Relationality for More Livable Lives”
2022	Anita Silwal, for “A Salient Belief Elicitation Examining South Asian’s Mental Health”
2022	Joaquin Torre for “Tattooing Decolonial and Indigenous Futurity”
2021	Shinsuke Eguchi, “Studying AsiaPacifiQueer Communication: Autoethnographic Critique of Japanese Queer Reimagining(s) of Hawai’I”
2021	Terrie Siang-Ting Wong & Shuzhen Huang, “Complicating the ‘Asian’ in Anti-Asian Racism: China/Chinese as Signifiers in COVID-era Yellow Peril Rhetoric”
2021	Corinne Mitsuye Sugino, “Intimacy, Exoticism, and Asian/American Women: Theorizing Multiculturalism as Fetish”
2021	Euni Kim, “#StarringJohnCho: Visual Political Imagination as Critical Public Pedagogy”
2020	Tony Tran, “Camping and Communicating across Diasporic Hierarchies: Negotiating Vietnamese American Anticommunist Ideologies in Vietnamese Canadian Spaces”
2020	Syed Hussain, B. William Silcock, Helen Wieffering, and Shahbaz Aslam, “A Comparative Study on the Visual Framing of Kashmir Conflict: An Application of Social Identity Theory ”
2018	Ishani Mukherjee & Maggie Griffith Williams
2018	David C. Oh & Leilani Nishime
2018	Kevin Wang
2018	Thi Hai Ly Tran
2017	David Oh
2017	Ryan D’Souza
2017	Sarah Varabedian
2016	Yea-Wen Chen and Masato Nakazawa, “’They Don’t Know Where to Get Help’: A Case Study of Pan-Asian Organizing Discourses via Sentiment Analysis”
2016	Anuraj Dhillon and Carolyn Lin, “Exposure to Asian American Portrayals on Primetime Television: Predicting Viewer Perceptions of Model Minority Stereotypes”
2016	Alison Yeh, “Changing the Script: Social Scripts as Featured on Fresh off the Boat”
2016	Kylie Lanthorn, “Buying Progress: Producing Narratives of Modernity through Consumption in Hanoi, Vietnam”
2015	Peter Zhang, “The Human Seriousness of Interality: An East Asian Take”
2015	Mark Brians and JongHwa Lee, “Iolani Palace and the Rhetoric of Restoration”
2015	Jillian Moga, “A Defiant Presence: A Rhetorical Criticism of Vijay Iyer’s Yale Asian American Reunion Keynote Address”
2015	Elizabeth S. Parks, “Hybridized Heads: A Critical Analytic Autoethnography of Mixed Asian American and Disability Identities”
2014	Qin Zhang, “Perceived Intergroup Stereotypes, Threats, and Emotions toward Asian Americans”
2014	Koeli Goel, “Reading silences: Re-visioning an authentic past beyond a maze of curatorial choices in museums of postcolonial India’
2014	Michael Park, “Psy-zing Up the Mainstreaming of ‘Gagnam Style’: Embracing Asian Masculinity as Neo-Minstrelsy?”
2014	Siyuan Yin, “The Powerless in Contemporary China: News Representations of Rural Women and Female Migrants”
2013	Linda Dam, “Domestic Violence: A Phenomenological Approach to the Justifications and Acceptance of Controlling Behavior Among Americans of Asian Descent”
2013	Ling Yang, “The Threat of a Million Imperialists”
2013	Sumanth Inukonda, “Home and Away: Telangana Online Diaspora and Political Participation”
2012	Keeley Buehler Hunter, “Representations of Race, Class, and Gender in Fashion: A Critique of Dior’s 2007 Spring/Summer Collection”
2012	Eura Jung, “Korean Americans’ Perceptions of Racial Distances, Interracial Interaction, and Depression Level”
2012	Ling Yang, “Anti-exclusion Rhetoric of Chinese American Immigrants during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1945”
2012	Dexin Tian and Chin-Chung Chao, “Efforts to Launch Policies on Online Copyright Protection and Innovation in the U.S.: Implications to China”

Outstanding Article Award

Year	Award Winner
2025	Anirban Baishya, “Viral Nationalism: Right wing Media and the Aesthetics of Distributed Participation”
2024	Hsin-Yen Yang, “Cute Politics!: Articulating the Kawaii Aesthetic, Fandom, and Political Participation”
2023	David C. Oh & Shinsuke Eguchi, for “Racial Privilege as a Function of White Supremacy and Contextual Advantages for Asian Americans,” published in Communication, Culture and Critique in 2022.
	Meng Li, for “‘Only Mother Is the Best in the World’: Maternal Guilt, Migrant Motherhood, and Changing Ideologies of Childrearing in China,” published in Journal of Family Communication in 2021.
2022	Corinne Sugino, for “Foreign Intrusions: An Exploration of Asian American Historical Memory Through Food-Related Discourses,” published in Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies in 2021.
2021	Andy Kai-chun Chuang, “A Local Gay Man/Tongzhi or A Transnational Queer/Qu-er/Kuer:(Re)organizing My Queerness and Asianness through Personal Reflection” published in De-whitening intersectionality race, intercultural communication, and politics
2020	Shinsuke Eguchi, “Sticky Rice Politics: Impossible Possibilities of Queerness in and Across Yellow Fever and Front Cover” published in Women’s Studies in Communication
2019	Rohini Singh

Outstanding Book Award

Year	Award Winner
2025	Darshana Sreedhar Mini, for “Rated A: Soft-porn cinema and Mediations of Desire in India,” published by the University of California Press, 2024.
2024	David C. Oh & Seong Jae Min, for “Navigating White News: Asian American Reporters at Work”
2023	David C. Oh, for “Whitewashing the Movies: Asian Erasure and White Subjectivity,” published by University of California Press in 2022.
	Shinsuke Eguchi, for “Asians Loving Asians: Sticky Rice Homoeroticism and Queer Politics,” published by Peter Lang in 2021.
2022	Elaine Jingyan Yuan, for The Web of Meaning: The Internet in a Changing Chinese Society” published by University of Toronto Press in 2021.
	Hsin-I Cheng, for “Cultivating Membership in Taiwan and Beyond: Relational Citizenship” published by Lexington Books in 2020.
2021	Chin-Chung Chao & Louisa Ha, Asian Women Leadership: A Cross-National and Cross-Sector Comparison
2020	Eun-Jeong Han, Min Wha Han, & JongHwa Lee, Korean Diaspora Across the World: Homeland in History, Memory, Imagination, Media, and Reality

Student Awards

Top Student Paper Award

Year	Award Winner
2025	Hsuan-I Huang & Zhi Luo, “Defining Border: Stoppage and Mobility in Discourses of Leaving China”
2024	Jeehyun Jenny Lee, “Collective Branding: Transnational Korean Women Content Creators’ Identity Branding for the Self and Collective on Social Media”
	Anh Alan Tuan Nguyen, “Greater Regarding Interethnic Tensions in the Asian/American Politics: Rhetorical Transactions of Challenging “Chinese Virus” Discourses in Vietnamese Diasporic Media”
	Joaquin Torre, “On Food Sovereignty: Locating Environmental Justice in and through Indigenous Feminism”
	Muyao Jiang, “The Janus-faced Memory of Mobility: The Chinese American Museum as an Urban Memory Place”
2020	Colby Miyose, “Herbivore Boys and Carnivore Girls: Kimi no Na wa and the Shift to the Omnivorous Person”
2020	Md Khorshed Alam, “Branding Hijab: Construction of a Moral Consumer in Bangladeshi Advertising”

Graduate Student Travel Awards

Year	Award Winner
2019	Colby Miyase
2019	Doris Acheme
2019	Valerie Biwa
2019	Pavitra Kavya
2017	Chenjie Zhang
2017	Chendan Lui-Laughton
2017	Emi Kanemoto
2016	Noorie Baig
2016	Yeng (Alice) Cheng
2015	Elizabeth S. Parks
2015	Jenny Ungbha Korn
2015	Natasha Shrikant

Career Awards

Distinguished Scholar Award

Year	Award Winner
2025	David C. Oh
2021	Kent A. Ono

Faculty Mentorship Award

Year	Award Winner
2025	Yea-Wen Chen
2023	Rona Tamiko Halualani
2021	Shinsuke Eguchi
2020	Lisa K. Hanasono
2020	Satoshi Toyosaki
2019	David Oh

Early Career Award

Year	Award Winner
2024	Darshana Sreedhar Mini
2021	Claire Shinhea Lee’puti
2021	Dhiman Chattopadhyay
2019	Tiara Na’puti

Asian Pacific American Communication Studies Division Secretary Award

Year	Award Winner
2020	Marissa Doshi