PAD Award Recipients


 
2007 Public Address Division Award Recipients

Gunderson Award 2007

 
Wrage-Baskerville Award 2007
 
Nichols Award 2007
   
Lester Olson (left) presents the 2007 Robert Gunderson Award to J. David Cisneros, University of Georgia.   Lester Olson (left) presents the 2007 Wrage-Baskerville Award to Robin Jensen, Purdue University.   Susan Schultz Huxman (left) presents the 2007 Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award to Trevor Parry-Giles, University of Maryland.   Photos by Lester Olson

Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award Winners

"The Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award and the Living Tradition of Public Address" by Angela Ray, Northwestern University

 
 
 

1993

James Jasinski, University of Illinois

 

1994

Celeste Michelle Condit & John Louis Lucaites,

Crafting Equality: America's Anglo-African Word

(University of Chicago Press)

 

1995
Martin J. Medhurst, ed.,

Eisenhower's War of Words:

Rhetoric & Leadership

(Michigan State University Press)

 

1996

Robert Hariman,

Political Style: The Artistry of Power

(University of Chicago Press)

 
 
 
 

1997

Martin J. Medhurst, ed.,

Beyond the Rhetorical Presidency

(Texas A&M University Press)

 

1998

James Darsey,

The Prophetic Tradition and Radical

Rhetoric in America

(New York University Press)

 

1999

Thomas Rosteck, ed.,

At the Intersection: Cultural

Studies and Rhetorical Studies

(Guilford Press)

 

2000

Gerard Hauser,

Vernacular Voices:

The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres

(University of South Carolina Press)

             
 
 
 

2001

Michael J. Hyde,

The Call to Conscience:

Heidegger and Levinas,

Rhetoric and the Euthanasia Debate

(University of South Carolina Press)

 

2002

Davis W. Houck,

Rhetoric as Currency:

Hoover, Roosevelt, and the Great Depression

(Texas A&M University Press)

 

2003

Kirt H. Wilson,

The Reconstruction Desegregation Debate:

The Policies of Equality and

the Rhetoric of Place, 1870-1875

(Michigan State University Press)

 

2004

Susan Zaeske,

Signatures of Citizenship:

Petitioning, Antislavery, and

Women's Political Identity

(University of North Carolina Press)

             
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2005

Lester C. Olson,

Benjamin Franklin's Vision of

American Community:

A Study of Rhetorical Iconology

(University of South Carolina Press)

 

2006

Angela G. Ray,

The Lyceum and Public Culture in the

Nineteenth Century United States

(Michigan State University Press)

 

2007

Trevor Parry-Giles,

The Character of Justice: Rhetoric,

Law, & Politics in the Supreme Court

Confirmation Process

(Michigan State University Press)

   

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Robert Gunderson Award Winners (Top Student Paper/Top Debut Paper) 

 
2007 Josue David Cisneros, University of Georgia, " Bilingual in Name Only”: Dissociation, Conspiracy Rhetoric, and the Campaign for California Proposition 227"
2006 Dru Anthony Williams, University of Washington, "Staying Committed to the Mission: Epideictic Argument and George W. Bush's Performance in the 2004 Presidential Debates."
2005 Melissa Barnett Cocian, Texas State University, San Marcos, "Using Functional Theory in Social Movement Rhetoric: A Thematic, Ideological, and Feminist Analysis of Women's Suffrage Speeches."
2004 Michael Lee, University of Minnesota, "George W. Bush and the Iraq Question: Analyzing a Moral Realist Perspective."
2003 David Dzikowski, Pennsylvania State University, "Locating Herbert Hoover's Inaugural Address: Kairos and Genre in the Rhetorical Presidency."
2002 Heather Norton, Fontbonne University, "The Clinton Administration's Depiction of the Modern Militia Movement Through a Rhetoric of Crisis."
2001 B. Wayne Howell, Texas A&M University, "Samuel Seabury's Response to the First Continental Congress: Anomic Imagery in Appeals for Loyalty to Great Britain."
2000 Steven E. Martin, Pennsylvania State University, "Anti-Conspiracy and Anti-Propaganda Rhetoric in 'Joe Worker and the Story of Labor': The Use of the Comic Book Form."
1999 Christina R. Foust, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Gender Myths and the Media Coverage of Hillary Rodham Clinton's Involvement with Health Care: What is Woman's Proper Place?"
1998 A. Michele Mason, University of Maryland, "Close Reading and the Text/Context Dilemma: A Subversive Account of the 1935 Harlem Riot."
1997 Rebecca M. Townsend, University of Massachusetts, "McCarthyism's Rhetorical Norms."
1994 Susan M. Zaeske, University of Wisconsin, "The Promiscuous Audience: A Barrier to Early Woman Speakers."
1993 Jean Goodwin, University of Wisconsin, "The Appeal to Posterity."
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Wrage-Baskerville Award Winners (Top Contributed Paper/Top Paper Award)
2007 Robin E. Jensen, Purdue University, "'For while my mother knows a lot, she won't tell me a thing': Ella Flagg Young's Fragmented Rhetoric in Support of the Chicago Experiment."
2006 Lisa Keranen, Lisa Irvin, Jason Lesko, & Alison E. Vogelaar, University of Colorado, "'Myth, Mask, Sword, and Shield': Dr. John H. Marburger III's Rhetoric of Neutral Science for the Nation."
2005 Mary Carver, Wheaton College, "The Power of the Prophet Persona for Abolitionist Feminist Lucy Stone."
2004 Jason Edward Black, University of Maryland, "Constituting the 'Allotment Indian': The Role of Paternal Rhetoric in America's Dawes Act Era."
2003 John M. Murphy, University of Georgia, "The Language of Liberal Consensus: John F. Kennedy, Technocratic Reason, and the 'New Economics' at Yale University."
2002 David C. Deifell, University of Iowa, "Performing The Idea of University: The Occasion, the Crisis and the Student."
2001 Trevor Parry-Giles & Shawn J. Parry-Giles, University of Maryland, "Constructing Presidentiality: The West Wing and the Ideological Definition of Presidential Leadership."
1999 Andrew C. Hansen, Penn State University, "A Gentleman's History of Geology: The Fall and Rise of Rhetoric in Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology."
1998 Shawn J. Parry-Giles, Monmouth College & Trevor Parry-Giles, Western Illinois University, "Meta-Imaging and the Hyperreality of American Politics: The War Room and the 1992 Clinton Campaign."
1997 Mark Allan Steiner, Indiana University, "Maladroitness in the Culture Wars: Portraits of the Public in the Internal Rhetoric of Operation Rescue."
1995 John M. Murphy, North Dakota State University, "Inventing Authority: Bill Clinton, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Performance of Rhetorical Culture."
1994 Lisa Bates-Froiland & James L. Cherney, Indiana University, "The Rhetorical Function of 'Nature' in Elizabeth Cady Stanton's 'Solitude of Self.'"
1993 Gage W. Chapel, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, "Synthesizing the American Dream: The Political Rhetoric of Jack Kemp."
1991 Thomas Lessl, University of Georgia, "Francis Bacon and the Biblical Origins of the Scientific Ethos."
1986 Thomas Lessl, University of Georgia, "Heresy, Orthodoxy, and the Politics of Science."
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