Latina & Latino Communication Studies Division
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Interest Group Awards
2025
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.
Top Student Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Javier Rivera, “No Sabo Kids and the Cringeworthiness of Insufficiency” |
| 2024 | Stephanie Colin, “Por el Amor de G- Undoing” |
| 2019 | Bernardita Yunis |
| 2017 | Victoria Alcazar |
| 2015 | Ana Gomez, “Que no te eduque la Rosa de Guadalupe; Preserving sexism through telenovelas” |
| 2014 | Bryan Thomas Walsh, “Remembering ‘The Disappeared’ along U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Histories of State-Sanction U.S. Military Violence and the Viscera of Dissident Memory” |
| 2012 | Raquel Moreira, “Casos de uma Latina sem Casa: Thoughts on Diaspora, Home, and Immigration” |
Top Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Zazil Reyes Garcia AND Leandra Hernandez, Marissa Medina, and Gabrielle Y Garzz, “Marginalized Narratives in True Crime AND Violence, Trauma, and Grievability at the U.S. Mexico Border” |
| 2024 | Eduardo Gonzalez, “The Spatial and Economic Re/Bordering of Digital and Material Space: How ICTs and Surveillance Create New Borderings for Refugees in Movement” |
| 2019 | Dr. Christopher Chavez |
| 2017 | Kimberly Perez |
| 2015 | Monica Gallegos and Chris Segrin, “Cultural Values and Satisfaction with Life: The Utility of Interpersonal Communication in Shedding Light on the Latino Health Paradox” |
| 2014 | Christopher Anthony Chavez, “’News with an accent’: Fusion, civic discourses and the re-negotiation of the Latino television viewer” |
| 2012 | Zazil Reyes García, “Faceless and mute: Disciplining women in Mexico’s El Mañanero” |
Córdova-Puchot Scholar of the Year Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Leandra Hinojoso Hernández |
| 2024 | Raquel Moreira |
| 2022 | Sarah Amira de la Garza, Arizona State University |
| 2021 | Carlos A. Tarin, The University of Texas at El Paso |
| 2020 | Josue David Cisneros, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| 2019 | Frank G. Perez, The University of Texas at El Paso |
| 2018 | D. Robert DeChaine, California State University, Los Angeles |
| 2017 | Stacey K. Sowards, The University of Texas El Paso |
| 2016 | No Award Given |
| 2015 | Karma R. Chávez, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 2014 | Richard D. Pineda, The University of Texas at El Paso |
| 2013 | Lisa A. Flores, University of Colorado, Boulder |
| 2012 | Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, Texas A&M University |
| 2011 | Roberto Avant-Mier, The University of Texas at El Paso |
| 2010 | Bernadette Marie Calafell, The University of Denver |
| 2009 | Michelle A. Holling, California State University, San Marcos |
| 2008 | Shane T. Moreman, California State University, Fresno |
Outstanding Book Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Jose Izaguirre, “Becoming La Raza: Negotiating Race in the Chican@ Movement(s)” |
| 2024 | Diana Leon-Boys, “Elena, Princesa of the Periphery: Disney’s Flexible Latina Girl” |
| 2022 | Karma Chávez, The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance, published by University of Washington Press in 2021. |
| 2021 | Lisa A. Flores, Deportable and Disposable: Public Rhetoric and the Making of “Illegal” Immigrant” |
| 2020 | Stacey Sowards, “Sí, Ella Puede! The Rhetorical Legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers” |
Outstanding Chapter/Article Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Luis M. Andrade, “‘Diez Tacos y Una Diet Coke Pa’ La Dieta’ (Ten Tacos and a Diet Coke for the Diet): A Cookbook to Reveal Colonial/Modern Impulses to Over/Not/Undereat” |
| José Maldonado, “México Pésimo: Colosio’s Metanoic and Magnicidal Leadership” | |
| 2024 | Sonya M. Alemán & Jillian M. Báez, “More than Tortillas: The Transgressive Possibilities of the Chicano-centric Party of Five Reboot in a Racially Dissonant Television Landscape” |
| Fernanda R. Rosa & Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez, “Por el Camino: The Representation of Migrant Caravans on Instagram as an Aesthetic of Otherness” | |
| 2022 | Litzy Galarza & Paulina A. Rodríguez Burciaga, “Un Puente a la Mesa: The Role of Cultural Translators in the Production of Disney/Pixar’s Coco,” in Immigrant Generations, Media Representations, and Audiences, ed. Omotayo O. Banjo (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), 155-182. |
| 2022 | José G. Izaguirre III, “Revoluciónizing América: La Revolución and Gustavo Diáz Ordaz’s 1964 Inaugural Address,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 108, no. 1 (2022): 1-23. |
| 2021 | Raisa F. Alvarado & Michelle A. Holling, “Sí, Ella Puede! The Rhetorical Legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers”, published in The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Communication |
| 2020 | Carlos Tarin, “Buen Vivir: Indigeneity, Environmental Activism, and Decolonial Organizing,” |
Teaching and Mentorship Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Sarah De Los Santos Upton |
| 2024 | Diana Martinez |
| 2022 | Amanda Martinez, Davidson College |