I am pleased to announce the following awards given by the Rhetoric Society of America in 2017. All recipients will be honored at the 2018 conference in Minneapolis.
Vanessa B. Beasley, RSA Awards Chair
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
Knuepper Award
Heather Lee Branstetter,
“‘A Mining Town Needs Brothels’: Gossip and the Rhetoric of Sex Work in a Wild West Mining Community.”
RSQ 46 (2016): 381-409
Book Award
Cynthia Haynes,
The Homesick Phone Book: Addressing Rhetorics in the Age of Perpetual Conflict
(Southern Illinois University Press, 2016)
Dissertation Award
Christopher Earle,
“Dead Words: Prisoners’ Constrained Rhetorical Agency and the Possibility of Rhetorical Action,”
University of Wisconsin, co-chairs Michael Bernard-Donals and Christa Olson
RSA Fellows’ Early Career Award
Casey Boyle, University of Texas at Austin