Visual Communication Division Call for 2016 Award Nominations

Visual Communication Division Call for 2016 Award Nominations

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS -- VISUAL COMMUNICATION DIVISION ANNUAL RESEARCH
AWARDS

The Visual Communication Division of the National Communication
Association is accepting nominations for its annual Visual Communication
Research Excellence Awards, to be presented at the Division meeting at
the annual NCA convention in Philadelphia. An award for an outstanding
Article or Book Chapter, outstanding Book, and outstanding Dissertation
will be presented this November. Eligible works must have been published
(or in the case of a dissertation, completed) between September 2015 and
August 2016, and must be authored by a member of the NCA Visual
Communication Division. At least one author must be a division member if
multiple authors contributed to the work.

Nominated research must directly address issues of concern to the study
of visual communication in a critical, historical, cultural,
pedagogical, applied, or theoretical sense. We welcome submissions from
various perspectives, including but not limited to rhetorical, media
studies, visual literacy, critical cultural studies, ethnographic, and
nonverbal communication perspectives. A selected panel of scholars of
visual communication will jury the submissions. Self-nominations are
encouraged.

Nominees for the article/chapter or dissertation awards should submit an
electronic copy of the submission as well as a letter of recommendation
to the committee. Nominees for the book award should mail 3 hard copies
of the book and a letter of recommendation to the committee. (Book
nominees may send an electronic copy of the recommendation letter, if
preferred.) Please send submission materials to Claire Sisco King, chair
of the Research Committee. Electronic submissions should be emailed to
claire.s.king@vanderbilt.edu, and hard copies of books should be mailed
to PMB 503, 230 Appleton Place Nashville, TN  37203-5721.

Please direct any queries to claire.s.king@vanderbilt.edu.

Deadline for submissions is August 31, 2016.