Published: Dec. 12, 2022

Congratulations to the CMCI Department of Communication for receiving 12 awards from the National Communication Association. 

NCA is a professional organization dedicated to advancing communication and serving the scholars, teachers and practitioners in the field. During the NCA 108th annual convention held in New Orleans in November, CMCI faculty, graduate students and alumni served as panelists, presented academic research and more. 

“These awards provide evidence that CU graduate students and faculty lead the communication field,” said Tim Kuhn, department chair. “Looking across the dozen awards, it’s clear that we’re attracting the very top PhD students to our program—and those students are able to work with some of the most innovative and devoted mentors the field has to offer.”

Two student award winners pose together

Doctoral students Sean Kenney and Nancy Maingi Ngwu win awards for top student paper and top published article, respectively, 2022 NCA convention.
Photo by Tim Kuhn, CMCI

Phaedra and Godfried

Associate Professor Phaedra C. Pezzullo and Godfried Asante, an assistant professor of communication at San Diego State University, pose for a photo at the 2022 NCA Convention in New Orleans.
Photo by Constance Gordon, San Diego State University

 

Cook and Torres

Doctoral students Warren Cook and Mikayla Torres win a top paper award in environmental communication at the 2022 NCA Convention in New Orleans.
Photo by Constance Gordon, San Diego State University

During the convention, the Department of Communication received the following recognitions and awards:

 

Faculty award recipients

  • Associate Professor Phaedra C. Pezzullo won the Daniel C. Brouwer Faculty Mentorship Award from the Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division.

  • David Boromisza-Habashi, associate chair for graduate studies and associate professor in communication, won a top paper award in language and social interaction for “Cultural Discourses of Circulation: The Case of English Public Speaking in China.”

  • Assistant Professor Amber Kelsie won a top paper award from the Activism and Social Justice Division for “Radical Rhetorics at/and the World's End: Epistemologies, Ontologies, and Otherwise Possibilities.”

Alumni award recipients

  • Alumnus Joe Hatfield (PhDComm’20) won the Dissertation of the Year Award from NCA’s GLBTQ Studies Division for "The Rhetorical Afterlife of Leelah Alcorn: A Trans* Hauntology." Hatfield is now an assistant professor of communication at the University of Arkansas.

  • Alumnus Vincent Russell (PhDComm’21) won the Best Dissertation Award from the NCA Ethnography Division for "Making Space for Marginalized Voices: Deliberative Activism in Participatory Budgeting." Russell is now an assistant professor of communication at Western Carolina University.

Fellow and graduate student award recipients

  • Doctoral student Nancy Maingi Ngwu won the top published article award in the Organizational Communication Division for “Toward a Fluid, Shape-Shifting Methodology in Organizational Communication Inquiry: African Feminist Organizational Communication Historiography.”

  • Doctoral student Blessed Ngoe received a top paper award from the Peace and Conflict Communication Division for “Hopes Ablaze: Reimagining the Revolutionary Alternative in the Ambazonian War of Independence.”

  • Doctoral student Mikayla Torres won a top student paper award from the Critical and Cultural Studies Division for “Temporal Containment: Haitian Migration, Historical Anti-Blackness, and the Constrained National Imaginary.”

  • Doctoral student Sean Kenney won a top student paper award in organizational communication for “Organizing Rhetoric: A Queer Rhetorical Historiography of Organization Studies.” 

  • Doctoral student Dustin Martinez won a top student paper award in organizational communication for “‘Let's Change’: A Critical Approach to Understanding Brand Activism as Rooted in Anti-Blackness.”

  • Warren Cook and Mikayla Torres, both doctoral students, won a top paper award in environmental communication for “The Four R’s, Ecology, and Academic Kinship: Decolonial Turns for Rhetorical Studies.”

  • Kristella Montiegel, a fellow in the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for Diversity Program, won a top paper award in the Language and Social Interaction Division for "Seeking Disconfirmation: Pre-Empting Student Misbehaviors through ‘No’-Preferring Questions."

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