Communication Ethics Division
Interest Group Awards
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 Single-Author Book of the Year Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Yael Warshel, Experiencing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Children, Peace Communication and Socialization (Cambridge University Press, 2022) |
| 2022 | Ronald C. Arnett, Communication Ethics and Tenacious Hope: Contemporary Implications of the Scottish Enlightenment |
| 2021 | Margaret Mullan, Seeking Communion as Healing Dialogue: Gabriel Marcel’s Philosophy Today; |
| 2020 | Alexandra C. Klarén, On Becoming Neighbors: The Communication Ethics of Fred Rogers |
| 2018 | Ryan S. Bisel, Organizational Moral Learning: A Communication Approach |
| 2017 | Ronald C. Arnett, Levinas's Rhetorical Demand: The Unending Obligation of Communication Ethics (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2017) |
| 2016 | David Gunkel, Of Remixology: Ethics and Aesthetics After Remix (MIT 2016) |
Top Journal Article of the Year Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Clint G. Graves & Leland G. Spencer, “Against Knowing: The Rhetorical Structure of Epistemic Violence,” published in Southern Communication Journal in 2022. |
| 2022 | Deborah Eicher-Catt, "Peirce, Dewey, and the Aesthetics of Semioethics: Felt Qualities, Embodied Intensities, and the Precarity of Relational Fulfillment" published in The American Journal of Semiotics in 2021. |
| 2021 | Leda Cooks,"The Communicative Ethics of Racial Identity in Dialogue" |
| 2019 | Andrew Tinker, "Communication Ethics and Rejection of Paternalism in John Stuart Mill's On Liberty" Communication Quarterly 67.3 |
| 2018 | Kevin Healey and Richard Potter, "Coding the Privileged Self: Facebook and the Ethics of Psychoanalysis 'Outside the Clinic'" |
| 2017 | Scott R. Stroud, "Rhetoric, Ethics & the Principle of Charity," Language and Dialogue 7.1(2017), 26-44. |
| 2016 | Paula Tompkins, “Acknowledgement, Justice, and Communication Ethics,” Review of Communication 15(2015), 240-257. |
Top Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2021 | Andrew Tinker,"On the Ethics of Legal Advertising: Commerce and the Professions in Bates v. State Bar of Arizona" |
| 2020 | Craig T. Maier, "‘Let Me Walk With You’: Communicative Coaching and Communication Administration at the Crossroads" |
| 2019 | Miles Coleman, "Moral Luck and the Communicative Wrongdoing of Machines" |
| 2018 | Elizabeth S. Parks, "Ethical Listening across Difference: Inviting Hope for Sustainable Hospitality" |
| 2017 | Alexandra Klaren, "Becoming Dialogical: An Inquiry into the Communication Ethics Origins of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" |
| 2016 | Leda Cooks, “Intercultural Communication, Ethics and Activism Pedagogy” |
Top Student Paper Award
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| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2020 | Branden Ingersoll,"Unintended Consequences of Political Polarization: A Call for Dialogic Ethics" |
| 2019 | Austin Hestdalen, "Neighbors and Strangers: A Communication Ethics for the City" |
| 2018 | Benjamin Aaron Firgens, "Taking Technology Ethically: Dependency, Care and the Possibilities of Sustainable Rhetorics" |
| 2018 | Joel Lansing Reed, "Fomenting Extremism: Producin Polarization in Opposing Primaries and the Ethics of Political Advertising |
| 2017 | David impellizzeri, "Recovering the Self and Practical Reason: Charles Taylor at the Intersection of Communication Eithcs, Rhetoric, and Hermeneutics" |
| 2016 | Margaret Mullan, “Hope and History Rhyme: Other-ways of Remembering and Forgetting in Northern Ireland” |
Top Edited Book
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2019 | Michael J. Hyde, The Interruption That We Are: The Health of the Lived Body, Narrative, and Public Moral Argument (Studies in Rhetoric/Communication) |
| 2018 | Susanna, Priest, Jean Goodwin, and Michael F. Dahlstrom, Ethics and Practices in Science Communication |
Leadership & Service Recognition Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Kati Sudnick |
| 2020 | Janie Harden Fritz |
| 2019 | Michelle A. Leavitt |
| 2018 | John H. Prellwitz |
Teaching Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Leeanne M. Bell McManus |
| 2020 | Leandra H. Hernández |
| 2019 | Melba Vélez Ortiz |
| 2018 | Kevin Healy |