Past Winners

Mentor Award Recipients

• 2024 – Debra Hawhee, The Pennsylvania State University
• 2023 – Leah Ceccarelli, University of Washington
• 2022 – Mary E. Stuckey, The Pennsylvania State University
• 2021 – Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis

Dissertation Award Recipients

• 2024 – Savannah Downing, College of Coastal Georgia, “Diffractive Re-membrance: Radium’s Rhetoricity in Countertemporal Memories of the Radium Girls”
• 2023 – Maryam Ahmadi, University of Georgia, “Semi-Colonial Rhetoric: Rhetorical Form and the Limits of the ‘Non-West'”
• 2022 – Sierra Mendez, University of Texas at Austin, “‘With Love from San Antonio’: Souvenir Postal Cards and Colonized/ing (Re)productions of Mexicans”
• 2021 – Florianne “Bo” Jimenez, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “Echoing and Resistant Imagining: Filipino Student Writing Under American Colonization”
• 2020 – Ryan Mitchell, “Private Parts, Public Selves: The Co-construction of Safe Sex Before the Discovery of HIV”
• 2019 – Rudo Robin Mudiwa, Indiana University: “The Prostitute as Citizen: Mobile Women, Urban Space, and the Threat of Disorder in Zimbabwe”
• 2018 – Karrieann Soto Vega, University of Kentucky: “Lolita Lebrón’s Rhetorics of Defiance to U.S. Empire”
• 2017 – Elizabeth Gardner, University of Maryland: “The Child Labor Movement’s Night Messenger Service Campaign: Rights and Reform in the Progressive Era”
• 2016 – Allison Prasch, University of Minnesota: “Constituting the Cold War Commonplace: U.S. Presidential Public Address and the Inventional Possibilities of Speaking in Situ”
• 2015 – Seth D. Long, University of Nebraska, Kearney
• 2014 – Allison Hailey Hahn, University of Pittsburgh
• 2013 – Jason Barrett-Fox, University of Kansas
• 2012 – Timothy Barney, University of Maryland
• 2011 – Carly Woods, University of Pittsburgh
• 2010 – Lisa Zimmerelli, University of Maryland
• 2009 – Kathleen Lamp, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• 2008 – L. Jill Lamberton, University of Michigan
• 2007 – Vessela Valiavitcharska, University of Texas-Austin
• 2006 – Paul Turpin, Annenberg School of Communication, USC
• 2005 – Kristine S. Bruss, University of Minnesota
• 2004 – Shevaun A. Watson, Miami University of Ohio
• 2003 – Cynthia King, University of Maryland
• 2002 – Daniel Emery, University of Iowa
• 2001 – David Hoffman, University of Iowa
• 2000 – Robert Sullivan, University of Maryland
• 1999 – Ekaterina Haskins, University of Iowa
• 1998 – Sara Newman, University of Minnesota
• 1997 – Mari Lee Mifsud, Penn State University
• 1996 – Gary Selby, University of Maryland
• 1995 – Robert Stephen Reid, University Washington

Outstanding Student Paper Awards

• 2024 – Juliana Simonfalvi, Wake Forest University, “Reconsidering Aristotle: Constitutive Rhetoric and the Naturalization of Gender Inequality in Generation of Animals“
• 2023 – Cassandra Hightower, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “‘Princess Alice, the Premier American Girl’: Press Constraints of Alice Roosevelt’s Identity and New Womanhood”
• 2022 – Shreya Singh, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “The Indian Suffragettes Photograph: Memory Across Time”
• 2021 – Jennifer Woolley, Ohio University, “Complicating Culpability: Planned Parenthood’s Historical Apologia on Margaret Sanger”
• 2020 – Natalie Bennie, Penn State University, “Enlightenment How? The Reception of Cicero and the Repetition of Judeophobia in the French Enlightenment”
• 2019 – Marissa G. Croft, Northwestern University: “An Object Worthy of the Attention of a Sensible Republican”: Establishing the Characteristics of a Revolutionary Republican Political Style through the Costume Reform Project of the Société Populaire et Républicaine des Arts (1793-1795)
• 2018 – Krista L. Klocke, Iowa State University: “Sacred Kairos and Secular Chronos: Angelina Grimke’s Negotiation of the Temporal and Eternal in the ‘Pennsylvania Hall Address'”
• 2017 – Adam Cody, Pennsylvania State University: “The Porous Polis: Comedy and Commonality in Ancient Athens”
• 2016 – Adam Cody, Pennsylvania State University: “The Political Use of the Part and the Whole in Lysias 12 Against Eratosthenes”
• 2015 – Jessica A. Kurr, Pennsylvania State University
• 2014 – Justine Wells, University of South Carolina
• 2013 – Liz Miller, University of Kansas; John Jasso, University of Pittsburgh
• 2012 – Ian Hill, University of Illinois
• 2011 – John Minbiole, Penn State University
• 2010 – Brandon Inabinet, Northwestern University
• 2009 – Matthew May, University of Minnesota
• 2007 – Benjamin Crosby, University of Washington
• 2006 – Michelle Gibbons, University of Pittsburgh
• David Tell, Penn State University
• 2005 – Randall E. Iden, Northwestern University
• 2004 – Noriaki Tajima, University of Alabama; Kristine S. Bruss, University of Minnesota
• 2003 – Ned O’ Gorman, Penn State University
• 2002 – Laura Card, University of Utah
• 2001 – Beth Manolescu, University of Illinois
• 2000 – Ekaterina Haskins, University of Iowa
• 1999 – Mari Lee Mifsud, Penn State University