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2012 RCA Awards
Book of the Year
Thomas M. Lessl, PhD
University of Georgia
"Rhetorical Darwinism"
Baylor University Press 2012
Dissertation of the Year
Elizabeth Molina-Markham
University of Massachusetts
"Listening Faithfully with Friends: An Ethnography of Quaker Communication Practices"
Ph.D., 2012, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dissertation Director: Donal Carbaugh
Article of the Year
Jon P. Radwan, PhD
Seton Hall University
Contact Rhetoric: Bodies and Love in Deus Caritas Est
Published in Rhetoric & Public Affairs 15:1, pp. 41-93.
Student Paper of the Year
Marissa E. Lowe, University of Illinois
"Billy Graham's Cold War Rhetoric: Evangelical and Civil Religious Revival"
Scholar of the Year Fr. James Martin, S.J.
2011 RCA Awards
Book of the Year Kristy Maddux, PhD, University of Maryland The Faithful Citizen: Popular Christian Media and Gendered Civic Identities. Baylor University Press, 2010.
Dissertation of the Year Jason R. Moyer "Luther College Not Just Civil Religion: Theology in the Cases of Woodrow Wilson, John Kennedy, and Barack Obama." Ph.D., University of Iowa, 2011. Dissertation Director: Pending
Article of the Year Andre E. Johnson, PhD, Memphis Theological Seminary "The Prophetic Persona of James Cone and the Rhetorical Theology of Black Theology"
Student Paper Award: Cathy Rosenholtz University of Missouri, Columbia "A Pastor, a Rabbi and an Imam walk into a Newscast: A Content Analysis of the Use of Religious Experts on the U.S. Evening News"
Scholar of the Year Tina Harris, PhD. University of Georgia 2010 RCA Awards
Book of the Year Michael P. Graves, Liberty University "Preaching the Inward Light: Early Quaker Rhetoric" 2009, Baylor University Press
Dissertation of the Year Walter Thomas Viner "Logic of the Heart: Alexander Campbell's Rhetoric and Hermeneutics on Christian Identity, Slavery, and Church Organization" Ph.D., University of Memphis Dissertation Director: Dr. John A. Campbell
Article of the Year Thomas M. Lessl, University of Georgia "The Innate Religiosity of Public Life: A Fortiori Argument" Journal of Communication and Religion, 32:2 (2009), 319--346 Student Paper of the Year Michael Souders, University of Kansas "Truthing it in Love: Henry Ward Beecher's Homiletic Theories of Truth, Beauty, Love, and the Christian Faith"
Scholar of the Year Dr. Richard J. Mouw President, Fuller Theological Seminary 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 "I'm a Believer: Presidential Campaign Rhetoric in an Age of Confessional Politics" Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia Dissertation Director: 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 "Seizing the Catholic Moment: Kairos and the Rhetoric of Diocesan Administration" Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh/Duquesne University Dissertation Director: Pending
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 "Choosing to Wait: Rhetorical Agency as Persuasion in the Evangelical Sexual Abstinence Movement in the United States and Africa." Ph.D., Wheaton College Dissertation Director: Pending
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 "Media, Religion, and Culture in Contemporary Korea: Production and Reception of Religious Symbolism in a Daily TV Serial" Ph.D., University of Colorado-Boulder Dissertation Director: Pending
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 of the Year Stephen Webb. The Divine Voice: Christian Proclamation and the Theology of Sound. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2004. Article of the Year: Thomas Lessl. The Mythological Conditioning of Scientific naturalism. Journal of Communication and Religion, Vol 28, 2005. [Full Text.pdf] Dissertation of the Year: Kristin Emery Saldine "Preaching God Visible: Geo-Rhetoric and the Theological appropriation of Landscape Imagery in the Sermons of Jonathan Edwards." Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary Dissertation Director: Pending
Student Paper Award: (Tie)
Scholar of the Year Ronald C. Arnett, Ph.D. Duquesne University 2004 RCA Awards Book of the Year: Quentin Schultze, Christianity and the Mass Media in America: Towards a Democratic Accommodation. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2003. Article of the Year: 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 of the Year: 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." Ph.D., Regent University Dissertation Director: Pending
Student Paper of the Year: 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 of the Year: 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). Article of the Year: 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 of the Year: 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" Ph.D., University of Kentucky Dissertation Director: Pending
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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