Awards
Graduate Student Scholarship Award, 2011 — University of Minnesota, Department of Communication Studies
Nominated for the Donald P. Cushman Memorial Award (top student paper overall), National Communication Association 2009 – “Entering the Rhetorical Situation: On the Place of Time in Rhetorical Studies.”
Top Student Paper in Gender Studies Division, Southern States Communication Association 2006 – “Reflected Memory: A New Look at Holocaust Survivor Testimonies”
1st Runner Up, Carl Couch Internet Research Award for 2006 – “Redesigning Knowledge: Wikipedia as a Collaborative Knowledge Center"
Convention Papers
“Rhetoric as Epistemic (Ontological): Toward a Moral Theory of Responsibility.” – National Communication Association, November 14-17, 2010.
“Entering the
Rhetorical Situation: On the Place of Time in Rhetorical Studies.” – National Communication Association, November
12-15, 2009.
“Compromising
(and) Presidential Leadership: How Bill Clinton failed Gays in the Military” –
National Communication Association, November 12-15, 2009.
“What Can We
Learn from the California Gay Marriage Debates?” – National Communication
Association, November 12-15, 2009.
“Specters of Stonewall” – National
Communication Association Convention, San Diego, November 21-24, 2008.
“Go Blog It on the Mountain:
Integrationist Rhetoric and the Process of Circulation” – National
Communication Association Convention, Chicago, November 12-15, 2007.
“Rethinking the
‘Doldrums’: A Case for the 1898 Senate Hearing on Woman Suffrage” – National
Communication Association Convention, San
Antonio, November 16-19, 2006
“Brokeback Mountain(s): Reading Identity in an
American Touchstone” – National Communication Association Convention, San Antonio, November 16-19, 2006
“Redesigning
Knowledge: Wikipedia as a Collaborative Knowledge Center”
– National Communication Association Convention, San Antonio, November 16-19, 2006
“Reflected
Memory: A New Look at Holocaust Survivor Testimonies” – Southern States
Communication Association Convention, April 5-9, 2006 Dallas, Texas