Activism and Social Justice Division
Interest Group Awards
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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Activism and Social Justice Community Engagement Award
| Year | Award Winner |
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| 2022 | No Recipient |
| 2021 | Sahar Khamis, University of Maryland |
| 2020 | Shardé M. Davis, University of Connecticut |
Activism and Social Justice Pedagogy Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Satarupa Dasgupta, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Fresno |
| 2021 | Sergio Juárez, California State University, Fresno |
| 2020 | No Recipient |
Activism and Social Justice Scholarly Influence Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2022 | No Recipient |
| 2021 | No Recipient |
| 2020 | Leandra Hernandez, Utah Valley University |
Graduate Student Activist Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Savannah Greer Downing, University of Georgia |
| 2021 | Primavera L. Martinez, California State University, Fresno |
| 2020 | Joy Melody Woods, Univerity of Texas at Austin |
Top Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2022 | “#NeverAgain Means Never Again For Anyone: Jewish Memory And Legitimizing Radical Protest,” Michael F. Klajbor-Smith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 2021 | “‘Sixteen Shots and a Cover-Up!’: News Media Discourse of Chicago’s Fight for Police Reform” Stephanie Kaczynski, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 2020 | "At the intersection of method and empowerment: Lessons from a pilot Photovoice study among Human Trafficking Survivors" Sue Lockyer, San Francisco State University; Christopher "CJ" Koenig, San Francisco State University |
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2019 (tie) |
"Oscillating Scale and Articulating Regions: Exploring Power Geometries as a Genre of Activist Rhetoric in People’s Tribune’s Coverage of Benton Harbor, Michigan" Joshua Paul Ewalt, University of Utah |
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2019 (tie) |
"Reimagining Activism as Combative" Billie Murray, Villanova University |
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2018 (tie) |
"Blurring the Boundaries, Balancing the Tensions: Examining Self-Identity, Risks, Challenges, and Opportunities for Communication Scholar-Activists" Srividya "Srivi" Ramasubramanian, Texas A&M University; Alexandra Sousa, Texas A&M University |
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2018 (tie) |
"“ASHÉ!:” A Media Ecology of the 2015 University of Missouri Protests" Christina R. Foust, University of Denver; Paige Alfonzo, University of Denver |
| 2017 | "Making Claims that Matter: Heuristics for Theoretical and Social Impact in Qualitative Research" Timothy Paul Huffman, Saint Louis University; Sarah Jane Tracy, Arizona State University |
| 2016 | "Policing a Climate for Change: The Architecture of Consensus at the 2014 People’s Climate March" Nicholas S. Paliewicz, University of Louisville |
Top Student Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2022 | “Platform Coloniality: Facebook at the Intersection of Capitalism and Nation-State Internal Colonialism,” Mohammad Salih, University of Pennsylvania |
| 2021 | “#YellowPeril Supports Black Power: Performing Affective Memory Work for Solidarity,” Yena Kang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| 2020 | "Between social justice scholarship and activism: A methodological toolkit for racial outsiders," Jeff Tischauser, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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2019 (tie) |
"Calling-Out vs. Calling-In: The Internal Rhetoric of Activist Counterpublics," Joshua Ratel- Khan, Syracuse University |
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2019 (tie) |
"Advocating for a Decolonizing Reframing of 'Youth Bullying,'" Carmen Hernandez-Ojeda, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| 2018 | "Archival Ashes: Nostalgia, Video, and Queer Remains," Amrut Mishra, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| 2017 | "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Rhetorical Strategies for Environmental Protection and Cultural Resistance in the Dakota Access Pipeline Movement," Rachel Elizabeth Presley, Ohio University |
| 2016 | "'A Global Environmental Movement that Protects Us All': Whiteness, Racial Scripts, and the Southwest Organizing Project’s (SWOP) Letter to the Group of Ten," Christopher Scott Thomas, University of Iowa |