2015 NCA Award Winners
NCA Award Winners
The 2015 NCA awards will be presented to several distinguished members at the Annual Convention in Las Vegas. Award recipients will be honored at the NCA Presidential Address and Awards Presentation at 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 21, in the Amazon G room of the Rio Conference Center.
TEACHING AWARDS
Donald H. Ecroyd Award for Outstanding Teaching in Higher Education
Katherine Grace Hendrix, University of Memphis
Marcella E. Oberle Award for Outstanding Teaching in Grades K-12
Steve Meadows, Danville High School
Michael and Suzanne Osborn Community College Outstanding Educator Award
David Bodary, Sinclair Community College
Wallace A. Bacon Lifetime Teaching Excellence Award
James W. Chesebro, retired, Ball State University
William J. Seiler, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS
Bernard J. Brommel Award for Outstanding Scholarship or Distinguished Service in Family Communication
Michelle Miller-Day, Chapman University
Charles H. Woolbert Research Award
Erika L. Kirby, Creighton University, and Kathleen J. Krone, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
For their article, “’The policy exists but you can’t really use it’: Communication and the structuration of work-family policies,” published in the Journal of Applied Communication Research, 30 (2002): 50-77.
Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Michael J. Lee, College of Charleston
For his book, Creating Conservatism: Postwar Words that Made an American Movement (Michigan State University Press)
Donald P. Cushman Memorial Award
Melissa Meade, Temple University
For her essay, “In the Shadow of the Coal Breaker: Place and Landscape in the Anthracite Coal Mining Region”
Douglas W. Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award
David Zarefsky, Northwestern University
Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression
Susan Balter-Reitz, Montana State University, Billings; and M. Lane Bruner, Georgia State University
For their article, “Snyder v. Phelps: The U.S. Supreme Court’s Spectacular Erasure of the Tragic Spectacle,” published in Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 16 (2013): 651-683.
Gerald M. Phillips Award for Distinguished Applied Communication Scholarship
Timothy L. Sellnow, University of Central Florida
Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
Melissa Brough, University of California, Irvine
For her dissertation completed at University of Southern California, “Participatory Public Culture and Youth Citizenship in the Digital Age: The Medellín Model”
Advisor: Sarah Banet-Weiser and Manuel Castells
Nick Joyce, University of Maryland
For his dissertation completed at University of Arizona, “Intergroup Media Selection: Media Features and Audience’s Social Identity Motivations and Gratifications”
Advisor: Jake Harwood
Jessica Kuperavage, Pennsylvania State University
For her dissertation completed at Pennsylvania State University, “From Public Tragedy to Public Health: Public Health and the Rhetorics of Responsibility”
Advisor: Jeremy Engels
Golden Anniversary Monograph Award
Jakob D. Jensen, University of Utah; Andy J. King, Texas Tech University; Nick Carcioppolo, University of Miami; Melinda Krakow, University of Utah; N. Jewell Samadder, University of Utah; and Susan Morgan, University of Miami
For their article, “Comparing tailored and narrative worksite interventions at increasing colonoscopy adherence in adults 50-75: a randomized controlled trial,” published in Social Science & Medicine, 104 (2014): 31-40.
James A. Winans and Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
Michael J. Lee, College of Charleston
For his book, Creating Conservatism: Postwar Words that Made an American Movement (Michigan State University Press)
James L. Golden Outstanding Student Essay in Rhetoric Award
Kiah Bennett, University of Minnesota
For her essay, “The Poehler-Fey Phenomenon”
Karl R. Wallace Memorial Award
Robin E. Jensen, University of Utah
Kohrs-Campbell Prize in Rhetorical Criticism
Michael J. Lee, College of Charleston
For his book entitled Creating Conservatism: Postwar Words That Made an American Movement (Michigan State University Press)
Leslie Irene Coger Award for Distinguished Performance
Tracy Stephenson Shaffer, Louisiana State University
Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies
Joanne Gilbert, Alma College
Heidi M. Rose, Villanova University
Mark L. Knapp Award in Interpersonal Communication
Alan L. Sillars, University of Montana
Stephen E. Lucas Debut Publication Award
Lee M. Pierce, University of Georgia
For her article, “Rhetoric of Traumatic Nationalism in the Ground Zero Mosque Controversy,” published in Quarterly Journal of Speech 100 (2014): 53-80.
SERVICE AWARDS
Samuel L. Becker Distinguished Service Award
Kathleen Galvin, Northwestern University
DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR AWARDS
Stephen Browne, Penn State University
Carolyn S. Ellis, University of South Florida