The Communications Department at the NCA Convention

The department once again had a very strong presence at the National Communication
Association (NCA) convention in New Orleans, LA. 

Department members won several awards/honors at the conference. Most notably, Shiv Ganesh was selected as a Distinguished Scholar of NCA. He was among a very select group of 5 individuals inducted into this group in 2024. The association gives out the Distinguished Scholar Award for excellence in research, teaching, and service. Congratulations, Shiv. 
Among the other special award winners were the following:

Scott Stroud, Outstanding Book Award for "The Evolution of Pragmatism in India:
Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction" from the Spiritual
Communication Division

David Rooney, Christine L. Oravec Research Award in Environmental Communication
for his article (with coauthors) Long Live the Liver King: Right-wing carnivorism and the
digital dissemination of primal rhetoric published in Frontiers in Communication. 

Ellen Alley, “Excellence in Nonverbal Pedagogy Award” from the Nonverbal
Communication Division. 

Other award winners included the following top paper panel authors:
Nicholas A. Palomares, Leona Yinglang Pang, Moo Sun Kim, Caroline Murray, and
Karissa Hernandez (and others) for Misinformation and trust in machines: Algorithmic
fact-checkers are influential even on claims with established veracity from the
Communication and Social Cognition Division.

Braidyn Lazenby, Ashley Guidry, Erin Donovan, and René Dailey (and others) for
Speaking stoma: Creating a communication guide for people with an ostomy from the
Applied Communication Division.

Emily Norman for My love for humans will never fade”: Exploring new materialism, the
beheading of hitchbot, and robotics from a posthumanist perspective from the
Communication and the Future Division.

Olivia Sara Gellar for Idealizing individualism: The Civitas Institute’s threat to public
good from Freedom of Expression Division.

Xiaotong Liu, Mir Rabby, and Jeremy Martin for Artificial intelligence in higher
education: A thematic analysis of ChatGPT in discourse on top student paper panel in the
Instructional Development Division.

Nicole Butterbaugh for There should be no such thing as the Paralympics. Change my
view. A qualitative analysis of stigma management from the Communication and Sport
Division.

Jamie Jelinek for Tesla’s unethical attunements: An ambient route to accountability in an
AI-driven world on Top Student Paper panel in Rhetorical and Communication Theory
Division.

Katie Bradford (and others) for Cite it! Oral citations with the DATA framework in the
Great Ideas for Teaching Students (G.I.F.T.S) Division.

Jonathan Espinoza was selected to chair the Top Paper panel in the Activism & Social
Justice Division.

Congrats to all the award winners and to all those who helped make our quasquicentennial year
at NCA special!