| 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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| 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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