2010 Award

Bryan Crable 

"Distance as Ultimate Motive: A Dialectical Interpretation of A Rhetoric of Motives " in 39: 3 (Summer 2009), pp. 213-239.

2009 Award

James Fredal

"Why Shouldn't the Sophists Charge Fees?" in 38: 2 (Spring 2008), pp. 148-170.

2008 Award

Karen E. Whedbee

"An English Plato: J. S. Mill's Gorgias" RSQ 37:1 (Winter 2007), 19-41.

2007 Co-Recipients

Jacqueline Bacon and Glen McLish

"Descendents of Africa, Sons of '76: Exploring Early African-American Rhetoric."
RSQ 36:1 (Winter 2006), 1-29.

2006 Co-Recipients

Christian Lundberg, Joshua Gunn, and Cheryl Geisler

"Ouija Board, Are There Any Communications?': Agency, Ontotheology, and the Death of the Humanist Subject, or, Continuing the ARS Conversation" and "Teaching the Post-Modern Rhetor: Continuing the Conversation on Rhetorical Agency"
RSQ 35:4 (Fall 2005): 83-113.

2006 Recipient

Patricia Roberts-Miller

"Robert Montgomery Bird and the Rhetoric of the Improbable Cause"
RSQ 35:1 (Winter 2005): 73-95.

2005 Recipient

Karen E. Whedbee

"Reclaiming Rhetorical Democracy: George Grote's Defense of Cleon and the Athenian Demagogues,"
RSQ 34:4 (Fall 2004) 71-95

2004 Recipient

Bryan Crable

Race and A Rhetoric of Motives: Kenneth Burke's Dialogue with Ralph Ellison
RSQ 33:3 (Summer 2003): 5-25.

2003 Recipient

Carol Poster

Theology, Canonicity, and Abbreviated Enthymemes: Traditional and Critical Influences on the British Receptions of Aristotle's RHETORIC
RSQ 33 (Winter 2003): 67-103.

2002 Recipient

Lindal Buchanan

"Regendering Delivery: The Fifth Canon and the Maternal Rhetor."
RSQ 32:4 (Fall 2002): 51-73.

2001 Co-Recipients

Robert Hariman and John Lucaites

"Dissent and Emotional Management in a Liberal-Democratic Society:
The Kent State Iconic Photograph."
RSQ 31:2 (Winter 2001): 5-31.

2001 Recipient

Jeffrey Walker

"Michael Psellos on Rhetoric: A Translation and Commentary on Psellos' Synopsis of Hermogenes,"
RSQ 31:3 (Summer 2001): 5-31.

2000 Recipient

Ekaterina V. Haskins

"Mimesis between Poetics and Rhetoric: Performance Culture and Civic Education in Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle."
RSQ 30:3 (Summer 2000): 7-33.

1999 Recipient

Gerard A. Hauser

"Aristotle on Epideictic: the Formation of Public Morality."
RSQ 29:1 (Winter 1999), 5-23.

1997 Recipient

Ellen Quandahl

'It's essentially as though this were killing us:' Kenneth Burke on Mortification and Pedagogy.
RSQ 27:1, (Winter 1997): 5-22.

1996 Recipient

Jack Selzer

"Kenneth Burke and the Moderns: Counter-Statement as Counter Statement."
RSQ 26:2 (Spring 1996): 19-49.

1992 Co-Recipients

Michael Bernard-Donals
Don Bialostosky
Kay Halasek and
James Zebroski

Bakhtin and Rhetorical Criticsm: A Symposium.
RSQ 22:4, (Fall 1992): 1-28.