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.
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Top Paper Award
| Year |
Award Winner |
| 2023 |
Shanara Reid-Brinkley, "Coalition Building in the Belly of the Beast: Black Movement Expansion and the Politics of Allyship in Competitive Policy Debate" |
| 2022 |
Matthew Salzano & Damien Pfister, "Caught in the Crossfire: Apple Airdrop and the Digital Infrastructures of Rhetoric and Argumentation" |
| 2021 |
John Banister, "Textualism, the Universal Audience, and Inventional Constraints in the Roberts Court’s Voting Rights Jurisprudence" |
| 2020 |
Timothy Michaels and Matt Corr, "Debate’s Digital Crossroads: Exploring the Possibilities of Virtual Reality for Competitive Debate" |
| 2013 |
Justin Eckstein, “Yellow Rain: The Acoustics of Strategic Maneuvering” |
| 2012 |
Susan Sci, “Enacting Reverence: The Role of Affect in the International Freedom Center Controversy” |
Top Student Paper Award
| Year |
Award Winner |
| 2023 |
Carter Reed, "Judicial Apologia in Trump v. Hawaii" |
| 2020 |
Cimmiaron Alvarez, "Who to Tell: Communication Privacy Management and Self-Disclosure of Sexual Victimization within the Collegiate Forensics Community" |
| 2016 |
Timothy Bill |
| 2015 |
Pascal Gagné, “Transmographs: The Semblance of Political Signification in Affect” |
| 2014 |
Spencer Harris |
Top Panel Award
| Year |
Award Winner |
| 2023 |
"Social Justice Perspectives on Transformative Approaches to Argumentation: How Debate Challenges Limited Freedom of Expression" - Natasha Brown, Robert Green, Shavonne Shorter, Erin Brummett, & Sharmine Herbert |
| 2019 |
"Surviving in a Changing Bureaucracy: Strategizing Methods of Re-Legitimizing Speech and Debate Programs" - Chair: Katie Marie Brunner Panelists: Stephen P. Hagan, William Heinze, Deano A. Pape, Erica Lamm Respondent: Larry G. Schnoor |
| 2016 |
Trent Webb |
Article of the Year Award
| Year |
Award Winner |
| 2021 |
Kristopher Copeland & Ant Woodall, "'This is Who I am and This is What I’m Carrying': Examining Self-Disclosure in Forensics" |
| 2020 |
Nick J. Sciullo, "The Racial Coding of Performance Debate: Race, Difference, and Policy Debate" |
Book of the Year Award
| Year |
Award Winner |
| 2021 |
Tiffany Lewis, Uprising: How Women Used the US West to Win the Right to Vote Michigan State University Press (2021) |
| 2020 |
Emma Frances Bloomfield, Communication Strategies for Engaging Climate Skeptics |
Top Paper in Argumentation
| Year |
Award Winner |
| 2019 |
Sarah Dweik, Matthew Parnell, Joseph Provencher, "The Conflict of Callouts: Surviving Competitive Confrontation in Modern Collegiate Debate" |
| 2016 |
Sean Kennedy |
| 2015 |
Stephen Llano, “The Tournament is a Singularity” |
Top Paper in Forensics
| Year |
Award Winner |
| 2016 |
Keith Bistodeau |
| 2015 |
Kristopher Copeland and Kendrea James, “My College Education Has Come From My Participation in the Forensics Team” |
