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2009 RCA Awards
Book of the Year Paul Marshall, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C., Lela Gilbert, Associate Fellow, Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C., and Roberta Green-Ahmanson, Journalist. "Blind Spot: When Journalists Don't Get Religion" 2009, Oxford University Press
Dissertation of the Year Brian T. Kaylor, James Madison University "I'm a Believer: Presidential Campaign Rhetoric in an Age of Confessional Politics" Department of Communication, University of Missouri-Columbia (chaired by Mitchell S. McKinney)
Article of the Year James M. Farrell, Ph.D. Department of Communication, University of New Hampshire "The Rhetoric(s) of St. Augustine's Confessions." Augustinian Studies
39:2 (2008), 265-291.
Student Paper of the Year Pavica Sheldon Louisiana State University "'Jesus Matters: Gender and Religiosity Impact on Forgiveness Behavior and Conflict Avoidance"
Scholar of the Year Charles Taylor, Ph.D. Emeritus Professor McGill University 2008 RCA Awards
Book of the Year Terry Lindvall, Ph.D. Virginia Wesleyan College Sanctuary Cinema: Origins of the Christian Film Industry
Dissertation of the Year Craig Maier, Ph.D. Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh/Duquesne University Seizing the Catholic Moment: Kairos and the Rhetoric of Diocesan Administration
Article of the Year Michael P. Graves, Ph. D. Liberty University "Travelers Here in this Vale of Tears: William Penn Preaches a Funeral Sermon," Quaker Studies, 12 (1), pp. 7-25
Student Paper of the Year Andrew Swenson Concordia University "Uncovering Hidden Tensions in University Discourse: A Case Study Using an Unconventional Reading of McGee's Ideograph" 2007 RCA Awards
Book of the Year Mark Allan Steiner, Ph.D. Christopher Newport University The Rhetoric of Operation Rescue: Projecting the Christian Pro-Life Message
Dissertation of the Year Christine Gardner, Ph.D. Wheaton College Choosing to Wait: Rhetorical Agency as Persuasion in the Evangelical Sexual Abstinence Movement in the United States and Africa
Article of the Year Richard Hardin, Ph.D. University of Kansas Apocalypse Then: Tamburlaine and the Pleasures of Religious Fear. Baylor Journal of Theatre and Performance, v3.2, 31-42 (2006). [Full Text.pdf]
Student Paper of the Year Ms. Katie Rush University of Georgia The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and its Quest For Unity
Scholar of the Year Michael Casey, Ph.D. Pepperdine University 2006 RCA Awards Book of the Year Peter A. Verkruyse, Ph.D. Illinois College Prophet, Pastor, and Patriarch: The Rhetorical Leadership of Alexander Campbell
Dissertation of the Year Jin Kyu Park, Ph.D. University of Colorado-Boulder Media, Religion, and Culture in Contemporary Korea: Production and Reception of Religious Symbolism in a Daily TV Serial
Article of the Year Ned O'Gorman, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne Telling the Truth: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Rhetorical Discourse Ethic. Journal of Communication and Religion, 28.2, 224-248 (2005). [Full Text.pdf]
Student Paper of the Year Ms. Penelope Helen Sheets University of Washington "Presidential Religious Speech: An historical and legal context for the use of religious language in State of the Union addresses"
Scholar of the Year Martin J. Medhurst, Ph.D. Baylor University 2005 RCA Awards Book Award: Stephen Webb. The Divine Voice: Christian Proclamation and the Theology of Sound. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2004. Jnl Article Award: Thomas Lessl. The Mythological Conditioning of Scientific naturalism. Journal of Communication and Religion, Vol 28, 2005. [Full Text.pdf] Dissertation Award: Kristin Emery Saldine. "Preaching God Visible: Geo-Rhetoric and the Theological appropriation of Landscape Imagery in the Sermons of Jonathan Edwards." Dissertation, Princeton Theological Seminary, 2004. Student Paper Award: (Tie)
Scholar of the Year Ronald C. Arnett, Ph.D. Duquesne University 2004 RCA Awards Book Award: Quentin Schultze, Christianity and the Mass Media in America: Towards a Democratic Accommodation. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2003. Jnl Article Award: David A. Frank. The Jewish countermodel: Talmudic argumentation, the new rhetorical project, and the classical tradition of rhetoric. Journal of Communication and Religion, Vol 26 (2003), pp. 163‑194. Dfrank@uoregon.edu [Full Text.pdf] Dissertation Award: Thomas J. Carmody. "Arise and Stand Forth": A Fantasy Theme Analysis of American Clergy and Their Calls for Social Action in the Nineteenth Century Anti‑dueling Movement, 1804‑1856." Dissertation, Regent University, 2004. Student Paper Award: Samuel McCormick, University of Iowa, "On Awakening the Numinous in Others." Scholar of the Year Quentin Schultze, Ph.D. Calvin College 2003 RCA Awards Book Award: Robin Riley of the University of Cincinnati, Faith, Film, and Cultural Conflict: The Case of Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ (Praeger Publications, 2003). Jnl Article Award: Nancy Eckstein (Wheaton College) and Paul Turman (University of Northern Iowa), "Children Are To Be Seen And Not Heard: Silencing Students Religious Voices In the University Classroom," The Journal of Communication and Religion 25 (2003), 166-192. [Full Text.pdf] Dissertation Award: Kevin D. Miller "Religious Identity and Discourse of the Other: A Narrative Analysis of the Subordinate Role of the Jew in the Apocalyptic Texts of Two Christian Groups," University of Kentucky, 2002. Lifetime Achievement Award: In recognition of his many scholarly and pedagogical contributions to the study of religious communication and to the field of communication more broadly, RCA's scholarship award was given to Em Griffin of Wheaton College.
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