Environmental Communication 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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Tarla Rai Peterson Book Award in Environmental Communication (Formerly the Christine L. Oravec Research Award in Environmental Communication (book category))
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2019 | Leilani Nishime and Kim D. Hester Williams (editors), Racial Ecologies |
| 2018 | Bridie McGreavy, Justine Wells, George F. McHendry Jr., & Samantha Senda-Cook, Tracing Rhetoric and Material Life: Ecological Approaches |
| 2017 | Tema Milstein, Mairi Pileggi, and Eric Morgan, Environmental Communication Pedagogy and Practice." |
| 2016 | Jen Schneider, Steve Schwarze, Peter K. Bsumek, and Jennifer Peeples |
| 2015 | Myria Allen, Strategic Communication for Sustainable Organizations: Theory and Practice (Springer, 2015) |
| 2014 | Anna Marie Todd, Communicating Environmental Patriotism: A Rhetorical History of the American Environmental Movement (Routledge, 2013) |
| 2013 | Emily Plec, Perspectives on Human-Animal Communication: Internatural Communication (Routledge, 2012) |
| 2011 | Brendan Larson, Metaphors for environmental sustainability: Redefining our relationship with nature (Yale University Press, 2011) |
| 2010 | Danielle Endres, Leah Sprain, and Tarla Rai Peterson, Social Movement to Address Climate Change (Cambria, 2009) |
| 2008 | Bryan Taylor, Stephen Depoe, William Kinsella, and Maribeth Metzler, Nuclear legacies: Communication, controversy, and the U.S. nuclear weapons complex (Lexington Books, 2007) |
| 2007 | Phaedra Pezzullo, Toxic tourism: Rhetorics of pollution, travel, and environmental justice (University of Alabama Press, 2007) |
| 2006 | Robert Cox |
Christine L. Oravec Research Award in Environmental Communication (journal manuscript)
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2019 | Constance Gordon & Kathleen Hunt, "Reform, Justice, and Sovereignty: A Food Systems Agenda for Environmental Communication" |
| 2017 | Tema Milstein, "The Performer Metaphor: 'Mother Nature Never Gives Us the Same Show Twice'" |
| 2016 | Bridie McGreavy, "Resilience as Discourse", Environmental Communication 10(1), 104-121 |
| 2015 | William Kinsella, Dorothy Andreas, and Danielle Endres (2015) “Communicating Nuclear Power: a Programmatic Review”, Communication Yearbook 39, 277-310 |
| 2014 | Pete Bsumek, Jen Schneider, Steve Schwarze, and Jennifer Peeples, “Corporate Ventriloquism”, Under Pressure Coal Industry Rhetoric and Neoliberalism (pp. 51-76) Palgrave Macmilliam UK. |
| 2013 | Donal Carbaugh and Tovar Cerulli (2013), “Cultural Discourses of Dwelling: Investigating Environmental Communication as a Place-Based Practice”, Environmental Communication 7(1), 4-23 |
| 2012 | Jennifer Peeples (2013), “Toxic sublime: Imagining contaminated landscapes”, Environmental Communication 5 (4), 373-392 |
| 2011 | Michael Salvador and Tracylee Clarke (2010), “The Weyekin Principle: Toward an embodied critical rhetoric”, Environmental Communication 5(34), 243-260 |
| 2010 | Ross Singer (2010), “Neoliberal style, the American re-generation, and ecological jeremiad in Thomas Friedman’s ‘Code Green’”, Environmental Communication 4(2), 135-151 |
| 2009 | Tema Milstein, “When Wales ‘speak for themselves’: Communication as a mediating force in wildlife tourism”, Environmental Communication 2(2), 173-192 |
| 2006 | William Kinsella |
Stephen P. Depoe Book Chapter Award in Environmental Communication
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2019 | Carlos Tarin, "Fronteras Tóxicas: Toward a Borderland Ecological Consciousness" |
| 2017 | Danielle Endres, Brian Cozen, Joshua Trey Barnett, Megan O'byrne, and Tarla Rai Peterson, "Communicating Energy in a Climate (of) Crisis" |
J. Robert Cox Award in Environmental Communication and Civic Engagement
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2019 | Phaedra C. Pezzullo |
| 2018 | Gregg B. Walker |
| 2017 | James G. Cantrill |
| 2016 | Jonathan Gray |
| 2015 | Leah Sprain |
| 2014 | Pete Bsumek |
| 2013 | Stephen Depoe |
| 2012 | Susan Senecah |
Recognition of Excellence in Service
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2011 | Todd Norton |
Top Student Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2019 | Jacob Miller, "Surviving the Anthropocene calls for an ecospheric rhetoric" |
| 2018 | Kevin Calderwood, "Going Global: Climate Change Discourse in Presidential Communictions" |
| 2017 | Stephanie Marek Muller, "Where the Buffalo Roam(ed): Frontier Yearnings and the 'Last Big Buffalo Hunt' of 1926" |
| 2016 | Joshua Trey Barnett, "Ecological Thanatorhetorics: Death and Environmentalism" |
| 2015 | Piper Corp, “Surviving evolution with rhetoric: Tapping the resources of Burke’s symbol-using animal in a Latourian world” |
| 2014 | Kathleen de Onis, “Eco-delinking: Extracting natural gas advocacy rhetoric and exploring its implications for Puerto Rico and beyond” |
| 2013 | Casey R. Schmitt, “If a Text Falls in the Woods…: Intertextuality, Environmental Perception, and the Non-Authored Text” |
| 2012 | Deborah Cox Callister, “Humor as Rhetorical Strategy: Comic and Melodramatic Frames in Environmental Coalition Building” |
| 2011 | Patrick Belanger, “Defending the Fort: Michael Crichton, Pulp Fiction, and Green Conspiracy” |
| 2010 | Keally DeWitt, “The (priestly) voice of the scientist in the climate change debate: A rhetorical analysis of Dr. James Hansen’s ‘Global Warming Twenty Years Later: Tipping Points Near’” |
Top Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2019 | Haoran Chu & Janet Yang , "Emotion and the Psychological Distance of Climate Change" |
| 2018 | Ross Singer, "On Ecofeminist Theory and the Promise of Ecofeminist Communication Studies" |
| 2017 | Stephanie Marek Muller, "Where the Buffalo Roam(ed): Frontier Yearnings and the 'Last Big Buffalo Hunt' of 1926" |
| 2016 | Abel Gustafson and Ronald Rice, "Reducing the Uncertainty and Controversy about Uncertainty and Controversy Framing in Research on Climate Change Journalism" |
| 2015 | Jessica Thompson and Jose Aburto, “Ecosystem-what? Public understanding and trust in conservation science and ecosystem services” |
| 2014 | Jen Schneider, Steven Schwarze, Peter Bsumek, and Jennifer Peeples, “The strategic ambiguity of clean coal rhetoric” |
| 2013 | Teresa Myers, John Kotcher, Neil Stenhouse, Ashley Anderson, and Edward W. Maibach, “Predictors of Trust in the General and Climate Scientific Research of US Federal Scientific Organizations” |
| 2012 | Mahuya Pal and J. Jacob Jenkins, “Reimagining sustainability: An interrogation of the Corporate Knights’ Global 100” |
| 2011 | Anna Marie Todd, “Toward a Theory of Environmental Patriotism” |
| 2010 | Ross Singer, “The USDA People’s Garden Initiative and the rhetorical suppression of environmental and agro-food industry sustainability” |
Dissertation Award in Environmental Communication
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2019 | Constance Gordon, Troubling “Access”: Rhetorical Cartographies of Food (In)Justice and Gentrification |
| 2018 | Abel T. Gustafson, "The Nature and Effects of Uncertainty Frames in Science Communication" |
| 2017 | Catalina de Onis, "Energy Remix: Decolonial Discourses of Decarbonization" |
Outstanding Voice in Environmental Communication
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2019 | Catalina de Onis |