Distinguished Scholar Award
The NCA Distinguished Scholar Award was created in 1991 to recognize and reward NCA members for a lifetime of scholarly achievement in the study of human communication. Recipients are selected to showcase the communication profession. The award is supported by the Mark L. Knapp Distinguished Scholar Fund.
Distinguished Scholars Inductees
2023
Bernadette M. Calafell
Lisa A. Flores
Karen A. Foss
Katherine Grace Hendrix
D. Soyini Madison
2022
Robert Asen
Theodore Clevenger Jr.*
Tina Maria Harris
Charles E. Morris III
Kent A. Ono
Lynn H. Turner
2021
Tamara Afifi
Mohan Dutta
Laura Ellingson
E Patrick Johnson
Raka Shome
2020
Dawn O. Braithwaite
James Chesebro*
Dana L. Cloud
Ronald L. Jackson
Brian H. Spitzberg
Sarah J. Tracy
2019
Molefi Kete Asante
Lawrence Frey
Gary Kreps
Thomas Nakayama
Denise Haunani Solomon
2018
Wayne A. Beach
James Price Dillard
Mary Anne Fitzpatrick
2017
Ronald C. Arnett
François Cooren
Sandra Petronio
Mary E. Stuckey
Joseph B. Walther
2016
Patrice M. Buzzanell
Donal Carbaugh
Jon F. Nussbaum
Sandi W. Smith
2015
Stephen Browne
Carolyn S. Ellis
2014
Noshir S. Contractor
G. Thomas Goodnight
Alan G. Gross
Anita L. Vangelisti
2013
Michael J. Hyde
Robert L. Ivie
Gerry Philipsen
Cynthia Stohl
2012
Arthur P. Bochner
Robert Craig
John Louis Lucaites
Peter Monge
2011
Clifford G. Christians
Gail T. Fairhurst
Dennis K. Mumby
Barbie Zelizer
2010
John A. Daly
Steven W. Duck
Karen Tracy
Joseph Turow
2009
Carole Blair
Stephen E. Lucas
Michael E. Roloff
Edward Schiappa
2008
James A. Aune
Leslie A. Baxter
Charles R. Berger
J. Michael Hogan
2007
Lance Bennett
W. Norwood Brigance*
Robert Entman
Howard Giles
2006
John Waite Bowers
Brant R. Burleson
Doris A. Graber
2005
Joseph N. Cappella
Gerard A. Hauser
Martin J. Medhurst
Marshall Scott Poole
2004
Stanley A. Deetz
Robert Hariman
David R. Seibold
Frans H. van Eemeren
2002
Celeste M. Condit
Michael S. Schudson
2001
Michael Leff
2000
James R. Andrews
Robert P. Newman
Ellen A. Wartella
1999
Judee K. Burgoon
Linda L. Putnam
1998
Thomas B. Farrell
Henry W. Johnstone, Jr.
Julia T. Wood
1997
Thomas W. Benson
Lloyd F. Bitzer
Lawrence Grossberg
1996
Edwin Black
Beverly Whitaker Long
Bruce E. Gronbeck
1995
Wallace A. Bacon
A. Craig Baird*
Donald C. Bryant*
Douglas Ehninger*
Walter R. Fisher
Wilbur Samuel Howell*
Everett Lee Hunt*
Franklin H. Knower*
Marie Hochmuth Nichols*
Herbert Simons
Karl Wallace*
Herbert A. Wichelns*
James A. Winans*
Charles Woolbert*
1994
Wayne Brockriede*
James J. Murphy
David Zarefsky
1993
Jesse Delia
Roderick P. Hart
Mark L. Knapp
1992
Carroll C. Arnold
Samuel L. Becker
Ernest G. Bormann
Karlyn Kohrs Campbell
Dennis S. Gouran
Franklyn S. Haiman
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
George Kennedy
Gerald R. Miller
Robert L. Scott
*Awarded posthumously