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 award given |
| 2021 | Sahar Khamis, University of Maryland |
| 2020 | Shardé M. Davis, University of Connecticut |
Activism and Social Justice Pedagogy Award
| Year | Award Winner |
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| 2022 | Satarupa Dasgupta, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Fresno |
| 2021 | Sergio Juárez, California State University, Fresno |
| 2020 | No award given |
Activism and Social Justice Scholarly Influence Award
| Year | Award Winner |
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| 2022 | No award given |
| 2021 | No award given |
| 2020 | Leandra Hernandez, Utah Valley University |
Graduate Student Activist Award
| Year | Award Winner |
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| 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 |
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| 2022 | Michael F. Klajbor-Smith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “#NeverAgain Means Never Again For Anyone: Jewish Memory And Legitimizing Radical Protest” |
| 2021 | Stephanie Kaczynski, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “‘Sixteen Shots and a Cover-Up!’: News Media Discourse of Chicago’s Fight for Police Reform” |
| 2020 | Sue Lockyer, San Francisco State University & Christopher "CJ" Koenig, San Francisco State University, "At the intersection of method and empowerment: Lessons from a pilot Photovoice study among Human Trafficking Survivors" |
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2019 |
Joshua Paul Ewalt, University of Utah, "Oscillating Scale and Articulating Regions: Exploring Power Geometries as a Genre of Activist Rhetoric in People’s Tribune’s Coverage of Benton Harbor, Michigan" |
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Billie Murray, Villanova University, "Reimagining Activism as Combative" |
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2018 |
Srividya "Srivi" Ramasubramanian, Texas A&M University & Alexandra Sousa, Texas A&M University, "Blurring the Boundaries, Balancing the Tensions: Examining Self-Identity, Risks, Challenges, and Opportunities for Communication Scholar-Activists" |
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Christina R. Foust, University of Denver & Paige Alfonzo, University of Denver, "“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, University of Louisville, "Policing a Climate for Change: The Architecture of Consensus at the 2014 People’s Climate March" |
Top Student Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
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| 2022 | Mohammad Salih, University of Pennsylvania, “Platform Coloniality: Facebook at the Intersection of Capitalism and Nation-State Internal Colonialism” |
| 2021 | Yena Kang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “#YellowPeril Supports Black Power: Performing Affective Memory Work for Solidarity” |
| 2020 | Jeff Tischauser, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Between social justice scholarship and activism: A methodological toolkit for racial outsiders" |
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2019 |
Joshua Ratel- Khan, Syracuse University, "Calling-Out vs. Calling-In: The Internal Rhetoric of Activist Counterpublics" |
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"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 |