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2020
James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
Homeland maternity : U.S. security culture and the new reproductive regime by Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz
Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Terrorizing gender : transgender visibility and the surveillance practices of the U.S. security state by Mia Fischer
Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression
Thanks for watching : an anthropological study of video sharing on YouTube by Patricia G. Lange
2019
James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
Debating women : gender, education, and spaces for argument, 1835-1945 by Carly S. Woods
Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Under the cover of chaos : Trump and the battle for the American right by Lawrence Grossberg
Homeless advocacy and the rhetorical construction of the civic home by Melanie Loehwing
Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression
Freedom of expression : foundational documents and historical arguments by Stephen A. Smith
2018
James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
To become an American : immigrants and Americanization campaigns of the early twentieth century by Leslie A. Hahner
Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Race, gender, and citizenship in the African diaspora : travelling blackness by Manoucheka Celeste
Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression
The taming of free speech : America's civil liberties compromise by Laura Weinrib
2017
James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
Infertility : tracing the history of a transformative term by Robin E. Jensen
Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Prison power : how prison influenced the movement for Black liberation by Lisa M. Corrigan ; Urban renewal and resistance : race, space, and the city in the late twentieth to the early twenty-first century by Mary E. Triece
2016
James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
Making photography matter : a viewer's history from the Civil War to the Great Depression by Cara A. Finnegan
Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Sexting panic : rethinking criminalization, privacy, and consent by Amy Adele Hasinoff
Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression
"Press Exceptionalism," Harvard Law Review, 127 (2014): 2434-2463 by Sonja R. West
2015
James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
Creating conservatism : postwar words that made an American movement by Michael J. Lee
Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Creating conservatism : postwar words that made an American movement by Michael J. Lee
Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression
"Snyder v. Phelps : the U.S. Supreme Court's spectacular erasure of the tragic spectacle," by Susan Balter-Reitz, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 16 (2013):651-683
2014
James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
Woman president : confronting postfeminist political culture by Kristina Horn Sheeler and Karrin Vasby Anderson
Diamond Anniversary Book Award
The communication of jealousy by Jennifer L. Bevan; The material gene : gender, race, and heredity after the human genome project by Kelly E. Happe
Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression
Letters to power : public advocacy without public intellectuals by Samuel McCormick
2013
James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
Prisoners of conscience : moral vernaculars of political agency by Gerard A. Hauser
Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Car crashes without cars : lessons about simulation technology and organizational change from automotive design by Paul M. Leonardi
Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression
Pat Arneson & David R. Dewberry, "Mapping Free Speech Scholarship in the Communication Discipline: 1969-2006," Free Speech Yearbook, 43 (2006-2009): 199-228
2012
James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
Letters to power : public advocacy without public intellectuals by Samuel McCormick
Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Advocacy : championing ideas and influencing others by John Daly
The Obama victory : how media, money, and message shaped the 2008 election by Kate Kenski, Bruce Hardy, & Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression
Leslie J. Reynard, "The Fire-Eaters Surrender to General Sherman: Savannah Newspapers 1864-65," Free Speech Yearbook 45 (2011): 111-130
2011
James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
Public forgetting : the rhetoric and politics of beginning again by Bradford Vivian
Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Reality television and Arab politics : contention in public life by Marwan Kraidy
Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression
The communication of hate by Michael Waltman and John Haas
2010
James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
Invoking the invisible hand : social security and the privatization debates by Robert Asen
Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Moving bodies : Kenneth Burke at the edges of language by Debra Hawee
2009
James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
Presidents creating the presidency : deeds done in words by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell & Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Presidents creating the presidency : deeds done in words by Karlyn Kohrs Campbel & Kathleen Hall Jamieson
2008
James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
No caption needed : iconic photographs, public culture, and liberal democracy by Robert Hariman & John Louis Lucaites
Diamond Anniversary Book Award
No caption needed : iconic photographs, public culture and liberal democracy by Robert Hariman & John Louis Lucaites; and Democracy as discussion : civic education and the American forum by William M. Keith
2007
Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression
The character of justice : rhetoric, law, and politics in the Supreme Court confirmation process by by Trevor Parry-Giles
James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
Toxic tourism : rhetorics of pollution, travel, and environmental justice by Phaedra C. Pezzullo
Diamond Anniversary Book Award
The character of justice : rhetoric, law, and politics in the Supreme Court confirmation process by by Trevor Parry-Giles
2006
James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
The lyceum and public culture in the nineteenth-century United States by Angela G. Ray
Diamond Anniversary Book Award
The lyceum and public culture in the nineteenth-century United States by Angela G. Ray
2005
Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression
Trumping religion : the new Christian right, the free speech clause, and the courts by Steven P. Brown
James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
Disciplining gender : rhetorics of sex identity in contemporary U.S. culture by John M. Sloop
Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Comparing media systems : three models of media and politics by Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini
2004
Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression
Free speech on trial : communication perspectives on landmark Supreme Court decisions by Richard A. Parker
James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
Signatures of citizenship : petitioning, antislavery, and women's political identity by Susan Zaeske
Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Picturing poverty : print culture and FSA photographs by Cara A. Finnegan
2003
Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression
Critiquing free speech : First Amendment theory and the challenge of interdisciplinarity by Matthew Bunker
James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
The Reconstruction desegregation debate : the politics of equality and rhetoric of place, 1870-1875 by Kirt H. Wilson
Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Postfeminist news : political women in media culture by Mary Douglas Vavrus
2002
Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression
Freedom of the air and the public interest : First Amendment rights in broadcasting to 1935 by Louise M. Benjamin
James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
Democratic dissent & the cultural fictions of antebellum America by Stephen J. Hartnett
Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Selling the free market : the rhetoric of economic correctness by James A. Aune
2000
James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
Speaking into the air : a history of the idea of communication by John Durham Peters
Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Angelina Grimké : rhetoric, identity, and the radical imagination by Stephen Howard Browne
1999
James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
Rhetoric in ancient China, fifth to third century, B.C.E. : a comparison with classical Greek rhetoric by Xing Lu
Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Avoiding politics : how Americans produce apathy in everyday life by Nina Eliasoph
Remembering to forget : Holocaust memory through the camera's eye by Barbie Zelizer
This award recognizes an outstanding book on a topic relevant to the section. For more information about CITAMS, the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology, sponsor of this award, click here.
2020 Citizens at the gates : Twitter, networked publics, and the transformation of American journalism by Stephen R. Barnard; Race after technology : abolitionist tools for the new Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin (honorable mention); Ghost work : how to stop Silicon Valley from building a new global underclass by Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri (honorable mention)
2019 The digital street by Jeffrey Lane; Watch me play : Twitch and the rise of game live streaming by T. L. Taylor
2018 Disruptive fixation : school reform and the pitfalls of techno-idealism by Christo Sims
2017 Masters of uncertainty : weather forecasters and the quest for ground truth by Phaedra Daipha; Networked publics and digital contention by Mohamed Zayani
2016 Magazines and the making of America : modernization, community, and print culture, 1741–1860 by Heather Haveman; Seeing like a rover : images in interaction on the Mars exploration Rover mission by Janet Vertesi
2015 Captive audience : the telecom Industry and monopoly power in the new gilded age by Susan Crawford
2014 Networked : the new social operating system by Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman
2013 Coding places by Gina Neff and Yuri Takhteyev
2012 Alternative and activist new media by Leah Lievrouw
2011 News at work : imitation in an age of information abundance by Pablo Boczkowski (online version here)
2010 The power of the Internet in China : citizen activism online by Guobin Yang
2009 Wired shut : copyright and the shape of digital culture by Tarleton Gillespie
2008 The wealth of networks : how social production transforms markets and freedom by Yochai Benkler; From counterculture to cyberculture : Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the rise of digital utopianism by Fred Turner (special mention)
2007 Internet politics by Andrew Chadwick
2006 New media campaigns and the managed citizen by Philip Howard
2005 The creation of the media : political origins of modern communications by Paul Starr