Disability Issues Caucus
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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Top Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2021 | Jacqueline Gunning, "Memorable Messages in Emerging Adulthood Autoimmune Disease" |
| 2021 | A. Adams, "No Future for Academic Crips: An Autoethnographic Account for Neuroqueer Futurity" |
| 2020 | Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock, "An Autoethnography of Disabled Athletic Identity: Communicating Inescapable Vulnerability and Contextuality Through our Mortal Bodies" |
| 2019 | Claudia Garcia Mendoza & Thomas J. Socha, "Romantic Relationships of Characters with Disabilities in Film: A Content Analysis" |
| 2018 | Adam Davidson, "Stasis-Maintenance- (Un)productive-Presence: Parenting a Disabled Child as Crip Time |
| 2017 | Julie-Ann Scott, "There's No Center without the Margins: My Disabled Bodies' Journey to HyperEmbodiment |
| 2016 | Sarah Parsloe and Avery Holton, "#Boycottautismspeaks: Communicating a Counternarrative through Cyberactivism" |
| 2015 | Erin McAloon, “Privacy Boundaries and Visible Disabilites” |
Top Student Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2020 | Benjamin W. Mann, "Theorizing Intersectional Stigma Management Communication at the Crossroads: LGBTQIA+ and Autistic Subjectivities" |
| 2019 | Brooks Oglesby, "The Veiled Productions of Debility in Professional Wrestling" |
| 2018 | Jessica Rauchberg, "'I Promise I'm Not Stupid': An Autoethnographic Interrogation of Learning Disabilities and the Social Construction of Academic Identity" |
| 2017 | Hillary Ash, "Bound by Heredity: Disability and Reproductive Justice in "Buck v. Bell" |
| 2016 | Brandon Fletcher, "Parrhesia's Parrhesia: Tropological Labor of the Dys-/Disarticulate" |
| 2015 | Isaac Remier and Patrick Seick, “The Intersection of Disability: A Co-constructed Autoethnography of Friendship” |
Jim Ferris Award for Outstanding Achievement in Disability Communication
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2021 | jw Smith |
| 2020 | Beth Haller |
| 2019 | James L. Cherney |
| 2018 | No Nominations |
| 2017 | Kurt Lindemann |
| 2016 | Simi Linton |
| 2015 | Dawn Braithwaite and Theresa Thompson |