On Saturday, June 2, 2018, RSA recognized its members’ excellent scholarship, mentoring, and service at the Awards Ceremony at our conference in Minneapolis. We were pleased to honor the following members for their accomplishments and contributions. Congratulations!
2018 Dissertation Award
José Ángel Maldonado, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Title: "Diana's Confession: Precarious Rhetoric in Post-NAFTA Mexico"
Advisor: Kent A. Ono, University of Utah
2018 Book Award
Debra Hawhee, Pennsylvania State University
Title: Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw: Animals, Language, Sensation, University of Chicago Press
The George E. Yoos Distinguished Service Award
Gregory Clark, Brigham Young University
RSA Fellows, Class of 2018
Patricia Bizzell, College of The Holy Cross
Gregory Clark, Brigham Young University
Krista Ratcliffe, Arizona State University
Cheryl Geisler Award for Outstanding Mentor
Richard Leo Enos, Texas Christian University
Fellows' Early Career Award
Nathan Johnson, University of South Florida
Gerard A. Hauser Awards
Jessica Benham, University of Pittsburgh, for “No Eyes Needed: A (Re)Vision of Ekphrasis and Phantasia”
Elizabeth Bentley, University of Arizona, for “Peace as Proximity: Re-envisioning Israeli-Palestinian Peace in the Viral Cosmopolitan Imaginary”
Florianne Jimenez, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, for “The Sounds of Home: Ambient Sound and Necropolitics in Two NPR Podcasts”
Sarah Riddick, University of Texas, Austin, for “Re-Inventing Audience through Thorubos Today”
Charles Knuepper Award
Francesca R. Gentile, “Marketing the Talented Tenth: W.E.B. DuBois and Public-Intellectual Economies,” (RSQ, vol. 47, 2017: 131-157).
Outstanding Graduate Student Chapter Award
"The Ivie League," Indiana University, Bloomington