2015-2016 RSA Awards

2016 Gerard A. Hauser Scholarship

Dan Ehrenfeld - University of Massachusetts at Amherst          
“The Circulation of Rhetoric and the Question of Change: Networks, Systems, and Ecologies on an Historical Timescale”

Matthew Houdek - University of Iowa
“The Rhetorical Force of ‘Global Archival Memory:’ (Re)Situating Archives Along the Global Memoryscape”

Marnie Ritchie - University of Texas at Austin
“Cliché Clusters: Melodrama and the Rhetoric of 9/11 Refrains”

Marissa Lowe Wallace - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign    
“Evangelizing the Individual: How ‘Social Concern’ Debate Defined Evangelicalism”                

Charles Kneupper Award    

2015    Pamela VanHaitsma – Old Dominion University
“Queering the Language of the Heart: Romantic Letters, Genre Instruction, and Rhetorical Practice”

2016    Timothy R. Dougherty – West Chester University
“Lost in TransNation: The Limits to Constitutive Nationalism in the Fenian Movement”              

RSA Dissertation Award      

2015    Heidi Morse - University of California at Santa Cruz
"Minding ‘Our Cicero’: Nineteenth Century African American Women’s Rhetoric and the Classical Tradition"
Advisor: Kirsten Silva Grueza        

2016    Chris Ingraham – University of Colorado at Boulder      
“Affective Ecologies: The Cultural Public Sphere in a Digital World”
Advisor: Gerard A. Hauser                                          

RSA Book Award    

2015    Jordynn Jack - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Autism and Gender: From Refrigerator Mothers to Computer Geeks (University of Illinois Press)

 2016    Gregory Clark – Brigham Young University
Civic Jazz: American Music and Kenneth Burke on the Art of Getting Along (University of Chicago Press)

2016 Outstanding RSA Student Chapter Award

University of Nevada at Reno

2016 Fellows' Early Career Award      

Scott Graham - University of Wisconsin Milwaukee    

2016 Cheryl Geisler Award for Outstanding Mentorship            

Carolyn Miller - North Carolina State University

2016 Yoos Award    

David Blakesley - Clemson University                                            

2016 Fellows

David Blakesley - Clemson University
Lester C. Olson - University of Pittsburgh
Victor J. Vitanza  - Clemson University      

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