Jordin Clark at WSCA
2020 Western States Communication Association Convention
Katie Gibson: “A Rupture in the Courtroom: Collective Rhetoric, Survivor Speech, and the Subversive Potentiality of the Victim Impact Statement”
~Top Paper Award in ORWAC
Ziyu Long: “Tuishou (Pushing Hands) as Women’s Entrepreneuring from the Margin: A Feminist Institutional Work Analysis of Women’s Start-up Experience in China”
~ Top Paper Award in Organization Communication
Ziyu Long: “The Quarter-Life Crisis Before Graduation: An Explorative Study of Competing Discourses in GenZ’ Everyday Career Narratives”
~Top Paper Award in Organization Communication
Taylor Weigel: “Shifting Expectations: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Creation of an Enclaved Public Screen Through Instagram Stories”
~Top Debut Paper in Rhetoric, Culture, and Advocacy
Andrew Gilmore: “United by (Manchester) United: Re-theorizing Intercultural and Interpersonal Communication for Sojourner Survival”
~Top Paper Award in Communication Theory and Research
Kristin Slattery: “There’s No Luck Out Here’: Colonial Legacies in Wind River”
~Top Student Paper in Media Studies
2019 National Communication Association Convention
Emily Amedée: “(Re)Communicating the University: Women and the Land Grant Promise”
~Top Student Paper, American Studies Division
Ben Pettis: “Finstas, Young Adults, and Stardom: The Construction and Presentation of Identities on Instagram”
~ Top Paper Award, NCA Master’s Education Section
2019 Western States Communication Association Convention
Savanna Renee Depew: “Home is where the Work is: The Role of Businesses in the Creation of a Sense of Belonging for Diasporic Communities”
~Top Student Paper
2018 National Communication Association Convention
Juliet SooGin Letteney: “The Polysemous Border between North and South Korea: Metaphors for Unification at the Demilitarized Zone”
~James L. Golden Outstanding Student Essay in Rhetoric from the National Communication Association
Thomas R. Dunn: Queerly Remembered: Rhetorics for Representing the GLBTQ Past (2016, University of South Carolina Press)
~Book of the Year by the NCA GLBTQ Communication Studies Division
Elinor Light:”Aesthetic Ruptures: Viewing Graffiti as the Emplaced Vernacular”
~NCA Visual Communication Division’s Outstanding Article of the Year Award
Dr. Karrin Vasby Anderson named Editor-Elect of the Quarterly Journal of Speech
Dr. Greg Dickinson named Editor-Elect of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
2018 Western States Communication Association Convention
Dr. Elizabeth Williams, co-authored with Andrew Ishak: “Exploring the Mindsets of Resilience in High Reliability Organizations”
~Top Paper Award from the Communication Theory and Research Interest Group
Jed Chalupa: ““Scapegoating to Preserve Hegemonic Ideology: An Examination of Criminal Minds’ Representation of Sex Work as a Means of Hegemonic Maintenance.”
~Top Paper Panel in ORWAC Division
Hayley Blonsley: “Facing the Rise of Modern Fascism: Disrobing White Supremacy in the Alt-Right Movement”
~Top Paper Panel in the Freedom of Expression and Political Communication Division for WSCA
2017 National Communication Association Convention
Dr. Tom Dunn: New Investigator Award from NCA’s Critical Cultural Studies Division
Dr. Allison Prasch: Golden Anniversary Monograph Award
~“Toward a Rhetorical Theory of Deixis,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 102, no. 2 (2016): 166-193.
Dr. Karrin Anderson: “Political Pornification Gone Global: Teresa Rodreguez as Fungible Object in the Spanish Regional Elections.”
~ Political Communication Division Top Paper Panel (coathored with Ignacio Moreno)
Dr. Elizabeth Williams: Outstanding Edited Volume Award from the Organization Communication Division
Hailey Otis: “An Inflammatory Femme and a Queer Black Feminist Form: Ashleigh Shackelford’s Queering of Fat Activism Through the Polemic.”
~Top Paper Panel Award, Feminist and Women’s Studies Division
2017 Western States Communication Association Convention
Dr. Katie Gibson: “Memetic Celebration and ‘The Notorious R.B.G.’: Reimagining Feminist Dissent and Mobilizing Feminist Practice.”
~Top Paper, Organization for Research on Women and Communication
Hailey Otis: “Fat, Queer, and Visible: Tess Holliday and the Queering of Fat Acceptance Rhetoric.”
~Top Paper Panel, Organization for Research on Women and Communication
Jordin Clark: “Protesting Power Structures: Bodies in Space during the Black Friday Protest.”
~Top Paper Panel, Freedom of Expression and Political Communication
