ASHR gives two student awards annually, the dissertation award and the outstanding student paper award. See a list of our past recipients.
Call for Award Nominations
Award Recipients
2007
Vessala Valiavitcharska
2006
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
2005
Paul Turpin, Annenberg School of Communication, USC
Kristine S. Bruss, University of Minnesota
Shevaun A. Watson, Miami University of Ohio
Cynthia King, University of Maryland
Daniel Emery, University of Iowa
David Hoffman, University of Iowa
Robert Sullivan, University of Maryland
Ekaterina Haskins, University of Iowa
Sara Newman, University of Minnesota
Mari Lee Mifsud, Penn State University
2007
Benjamin Crosby, University of Washington
2006
2004
2003
2002
2001
2005
Michelle Gibbons, University of Pittsburgh
David Tell, Pennsylvania State University
Randall E. Iden, Northwestern University
Noriaki Tajima, University of Alabama
Kristine S. Bruss, University of Minnesota
Ned O' Gorman, Penn State University
Laura Card, University of Utah
Beth Manolescu, University of Illinois
2000
Ekaterina Haskins, University of Iowa
Mari Lee Mifsud, Penn State University
1999
2011 ASHR Award Winners
Dissertation Award Recipients
Outstanding Student Paper Awards
1995
Gary Selby, University of Maryland
ASHR Dissertation Award
Carly’s dissertation, “Women Debating Society: Negotiating Difference in Historical Argument Cultures,” explores suffragist and education campaigner Sarah Mair’s experience with the Ladies’ Edinburgh Debating Society from 1865-1935; rhetorical critic Marie Hochmuth Nichols’ involvement as an undergraduate debater and debate coach in Pittsburgh in the 1930s and 40s; and politician Barbara Jordan’s roots in speech and debate at Texas Southern University in the 1950s. Her research findings challenge the assumption, commonly found in academic research and in wider public discourses, that women and debate are incongruous. The cases of Mair, Nichols and Jordan illustrate ways that debate should be taken seriously not only as a mode of civic engagement that allowed historically marginalized groups to access public culture, but also as a hermeneutic through which perceived differences in communicative exchange can be understood.
The ASHR selection committee praised Carly’s dissertation work as “outstanding in many respects, including the significance and uniqueness of the subject, facility with primary and secondary sources, and skillful analysis of complex material.” Further, the committee applauded Carly for her “imaginative and capable treatment of an important topic in the history of rhetoric.”
Carly’s dissertation was directed by Gordon Mitchell and supported by committee members Jessica Enoch, Kathryn Flannery, John Lyne, and Ron Zboray. Formal presentation of Carly’s award took place at the ASHR business meeting on Thursday, November 17 at 3:30pm at the National Communication Association convention in New Orleans, Louisiana.
2009
Matthew May, University of Minnesota
2008
L. Jill Lamberton, University of Michigan
2009
Kathleen Lamp, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Brandon Inabinet, Northwestern University
2010
Lisa Zimmerelli, University of Maryland
2010
Awards
ASHR Student Paper Award
"The New Heroic Wisdom in Oedipus at Colonus: An Analysis of the Rhetoric of Sophocles' Last Tragedy"