Public Dialogue and Deliberation 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 | Julia Simoes, “Fostering Voice, Inviting Dialogic Transformation: Exploring Emergent Communication Practices in Community Collaboration Efforts” |
| 2024 | Yanitza A. Cruz Crespo, “Analyzing the Deliberative Nature of Online Messages about Vaccination: A Comparative Study of the Pro- and Anti-Vaccination Messages” |
| 2023 | No award given. |
| 2022 | Nicholas Aranda, “Material Affordances, Agency, & Attunement in Deliberation: Wedding New Materialist Aims with Deliberative Practice” |
| 2021 | Tate Adams, “Practical Tools, Critical Grindstone: (Re)Constructing a Critical-Pragmatic Model for Deliberative Democratic Responses to Climate Change” |
| 2020 | No award given. |
| 2019 | Vincent Russell & Therese Gardner, “Publicity and Transparency for Social Justice and Equity in Denver Participatory Budgeting” |