NCA National Awards

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Each year, NCA honors the best in Communication, presenting awards for outstanding scholarship, teaching, and professional service, as well as the NCA Legacy Scholarship. The awards recognize a wide range of contributions to the Communication discipline. The Call for Nominations for NCA awards is issued in February.

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James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address

NCA Awards for Outstanding Scholarship
The Award and fund were established by students, colleagues, and admirers of those two distinguished Cornell University professors. The Annual Award is presented to scholarship that has been...

James L. Golden Outstanding Student Essay in Rhetoric Award

NCA Awards for Outstanding Scholarship
This award was created as an essay competition to encourage and support student research. The essay should focus on the history, theory, or criticism of rhetoric. The award can be given to...

Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award

NCA Awards for Outstanding Scholarship
Award was established by Mrs. Wallace and the family of the late distinguished rhetorical scholar, and is given to foster and promote philosophical, historical, or critical scholarship in rhetoric...

Leslie Irene Coger Award for Distinguished Performance

NCA Awards for Outstanding Scholarship
The Coger Award was first presented in 1994, and is given to persons who have contributed an outstanding body of live performances. The award may be given to directors, producers, teachers, or...

Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies

NCA Awards for Outstanding Scholarship
The Heston Award is given for outstanding published research and creative scholarship in interpretation and performance studies. The scholarship recognized by the award may be published in any NCA...

Mark L. Knapp Award in Interpersonal Communication

NCA Awards for Outstanding Scholarship
The Mark L. Knapp Award in Interpersonal Communication recognizes career contributions to the study of interpersonal communication. The award recognizes individuals who have made significant...

Marsha Houston Award

NCA Awards for Outstanding Scholarship
Established by the NCA Executive Committee in 2020 and first conferred in 2021, the award honors Dr. Marsha Houston, noted African American feminist communication scholar who was instrumental in...

Orlando L. Taylor Distinguished Scholarship Award in Africana Communication

NCA Awards for Outstanding Scholarship
The Orlando L. Taylor Distinguished Scholarship Award in Africana Communication honors a scholar whose body of work demonstrates a sustained commitment to the study of African American and/or the...

Stephen E. Lucas Debut Publication Award

NCA Awards for Outstanding Scholarship
The Lucas Debut Publication Award seeks to encourage and reward new scholars in the communication discipline. It aims to identify and hold up for praise a contribution to the discipline by an author...