April - Dr. Berry received the Outstanding Book Chapter in Autoethnography Award at the 2024 Central States Communication Association conference for his chapter, “Mediations on the Story I Cannot Write: Reflexivity, Autoethnography, and the Possibilities of Maybe,” which appears in the second edition of the Handbook of Autoethnography.

February - Dr. Buzzanell's co-authored article, "“‘Well, I’m going to have a baby’: Navigating Safety, Stakeholders, and Strategy in Workplace Pregnancy Disclosures,” received the Central States Communication Association's 2023 Communication Studies Article of the Year Award.

March - Dr. Buzzanell was honored at Purdue University's Women's History Month Celebration, organized by the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging and the Susan Bulkeley Butler Center for Leadership Excellence.

March - Dr. Buzzanell gave the keynote address at the 2024 Global Strategic Communication Consortium (GSCC) conclave on “Ethics and Futurism."

November - Dr. Buzzanell received the 2024 Mentorship Award from the NCA’s Organizational Communication Division. As part of the recognition, she participated in the Teaching Awards panel at the convention.

November - Dr. Buzzanell received the 2024 Outstanding Article Award from NCA’s Organizational Communication Division for her co-authored article, "“A longitudinal analysis of involuntary job loss and communication resilience processes during the COVID-19 pandemic."

November - Dr. Buzzanell was honored at the 2024 NCA Convention as part of the Woolbert Woolbert Award Research Panel for her article, ““Gaining a Voice” (Buzzanell, 1994, Management Communication Quarterly),” which won the Woolbert Award in 2023.

November - Willow Craine and Bianca Siegenthaler received a NCA Top Paper award from the Health Communication Division for their paper, “‘How did I think I could do this job and who the hell put me in charge of taking care of someone's life?’: Health Care Workers’ Resilience Communication about Workplace Conditions."

March - Dr. Dean Kruzel was inducted in the Society of Behavioral Medicine's Fellows.

July - Dr. Dean Kruzel was selected to participate in the Communicating Evolving Cancer Information Ideas Lab on behalf of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), for her research contributions in cancer communication and her patient advocacy as a BRCA2 previvor. Dr. Dean Kruzel served as a member of ”Team Adaptive Uncertainty” and developed innovative research ideas to better communicate evolving cancer information, with a focus on uncertainty management. The Lab Mentors and NCI Organizers reviewed their team’s proposal and they were selected by the NCI to receive a $15,000 cash prize award, to facilitate further development of research collaborations and grant proposals.

October - Dr. Dean Kruzel's co-authored article, "Communicatively constructing resilience: Exploring family resilience in the experience of hereditary cancer," was published in Family Relations.

August - Dr. Dean Kruzel and Boumis' article, "Assessing the acceptability and appropriateness of a psychoeducational graphic novel about inherited cancer risk designed for men," was published in the Journal of Genetic Counseling.

June - Dr. Dean Kruzel and Debeck's article, "Needs of Oncology Nurse Navigators Serving Young or Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients," was published in the Journal of Oncology Navigation & Survivorship. 

November - Rana Elhendi received a NCA Top Paper award from the Ethnography Division for her paper, “Unreachable Spaces: A Postcolonial Reflection of a Humanitarian Aid Worker from Gaza.”

March - Dr. Buzzanell and Elhendi's article, “'The rubber band is already broken': An extended case study of UNDP transformative resilience framework in the context of Palestine,” was published in Communication Monographs.

November - Dr. Buzzanell and Elhendi were selected to receive the 2024 Outstanding Research Award from the South West Asian/North African, Middle East (SWANA) Caucus of the National Communication Association for their article, “'The rubber band is already broken': An extended case study of UNDP transformative resilience framework in the context of Palestine.”

March - Gashi was awarded a Summer 2024 Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the USF Office of Graduate Studies, to assist her in the completion of her dissertation, “Uprooted, displaced, resilient: Kosovar women’s narratives of organizing for survival during the Kosovo War.”

April - Gashi's chapter, "The Overlooked Heroines: Women's Individual and Collective Labor of Care during the Kosovo War," was published as part of the volume, "Feminist Encounters in Statebuilding: The Role of Women in making the State in Kosovo."

May - Dr. Ivancic and alum Dr. Mukherjee's article, "Safe water as empowerment, structural dilemma, and savior: conflicting discourses about arsenic groundwater contamination in West Bengal," was published in the Journal of Applied Communication Research.

April - Dr. Leon-Boys was accepted into the 2024-2025 USF Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship Progam.

November - Dr. Leon-Boys was awarded the Book of the Year award from the Latina/o Communication Studies Division and La Raza Caucus at the National Communication Association, for her book, “Elena, Princesa of the Periphery: Disney’s Flexible Latina Girl.” 

November - Dr. Leon-Boys was awarded the Book of the Year award from the Critical & Cultural Communication Studies Division’s Executive Committee at the National Communication Association, for her book, “Elena, Princesa of the Periphery: Disney’s Flexible Latina Girl.” 

July - Dr. Chris McRae's article, "Performing a Departmental Archive: Half a Century of Performance," was published in Text and Performance Quarterly.

November - Aaron Nichols received a NCA Top Paper award from the Ethnography Division for his paper, “‘Sometimes you take a step backward so you can take two forward’: An Autoethnography on the Enactment of Resilience During Downward Career Transition."

May - Dr. Pollino received the Annual Alumni Award from Temple University’s Communication and Social Influence Department.

August - Dr. Pollino's co-authored article, "Intergenerational Connections: US College Students’ Attitudes and Expectations Toward Older Adults and Aging in an Online Critical Community Engagement Project," was published in the Journal of Communication Pedagogy. 

September - Dr. Pollino, Powell, and McCormick's article, “Generative AI and the public-speaking course: A critical communication pedagogy approach,” was published in Communication Teacher.

September - Ruiz Mangual's article, “‘De eso no se habla’: the complexities of representation in Love, Victor,” was published in Critical Studies in Media Communication.

March - Willard's co-authored article, “Fashioning Zaya Wade in the Press: Authenticity, Black Femininity, and Transnormativity,” was published in the Journal of Communication Inquiry.

August - Willard's co-authored article, “RuPaul’s Drag Race: Queer Authenticity and Strategic Westernness,” was published in a special issue of Communication, Culture, and Critique, “Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media.”

November - Dr. Wilson received the 2024 Distinguished Scholar award from the National Communication Association.

August - Jared Worwood's article, "’I Thought That We Could Nurture the Nature Out of Our Son’: Making Meaning of Parenting in the Narratives of Parents of Children in Residential Treatment,” was published in the Journal of Family Communication.

April - Zavodskaia was selected to receive a 2024 USF Graduate Student Research Symposium People's Choice award for her presentation, "How do Metaphors of Time Speak for the Differences between Russians and Americans and What Translational Difficulties it Causes?".

January - Dr. Wilson was named as one of the top 1% of Communication scholars who have published nine or more articles in Communication journals between 2017 and 2021, in an study by Communication Education. 

September - USF's 2023 Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award

June - Dr. Li's article, "Not all skepticism is 'healthy' skepticism: Theorizing accuracy- and identity-motivated skepticism toward social media misinformation," was published in New Media & Society. 

August - Dr. Li received the Thomas E. Patterson Best Dissertation Award for her dissertation, "False Beliefs and 'Healthy' Skepticism: Understanding the Multilevel and Enduring Challenges of Misinformation."

August - Dr. Li’s co-authored paper, “The power of a genre: Political news presented as fact-checking increases accurate belief updating and hostile media perceptions,” was awarded the 2023 Journal Paper of the Year Award from Mass Communication & Society.   

June - Dr. Pal's co-edited book, Organizing at the Margins: Theorizing Organizations of Struggle in the Global South, was published by Palgrave Macmillan. 

November - Dr. Mahuya Pal received the 2023 Outstanding Edited Book Award from the Organizational Communication Division at this year’s NCA Convention for her book, “Organizing at the Margins: Theorizing Organizations of Struggle in the Global South.”

May - Elhendi and co-author Dr. Buzzanell received one of three ICA 2023 Top Paper Awards in the Organizational Communication Division for their article, "'The Rubber Band is Already Broken’: An Extended Case Study of UNDP Transformative Resilience Framework in the Context of Palestine."

April - Dr. Ivancic (co-PI) and her colleague-collaborator at USF, Dr. William Schanbacher (PI), received a $34,810 Humanities Connections Planning grant. This grant, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, funded a one-year project between faculty, students, and community members on the design of new courses and experiential learning activities related to food studies.

June - Dr. Ivancic's co-authored article, "(Dis)Organizing Sexual Harrassment: Patterns of Bystander Communication," was published in Management Communication Quarterly.

March - Dr. Buzanell's co-authored article, "Engineering Emotion Sustainably: Affective Gendered Organizing of Engineering Identities and Third Space," was published in Sustainability.

March - Received the 2023 Distinguished Alumni Scholar Award at Purdue University.

July - Received the 2023 Excellence in Reviewing Award from Human Resource Management. Award winners were selected based on recommendations from the Associate Editors as reviewers who stood out in terms of providing exceptionally high-quality reviews

November - Dr. Buzzanell was awarded the Charles H. Woolbert Research Award from NCA for the article, “Gaining a Voice: Feminist Organizational Communication Theorizing,” published in Management Communication Quarterly in 1994.

April - Dr. Ivancic and Dooling's article, "Navigating entangled shame: Examining the sociomaterialities of food assistance programs," was published in Communication Monographs.

October - Dooling was awarded the Graduate Student Research Grant to fund his work, “‘Who Threw this Party?’: Examining the Tumultuous Organization of Pride Parades.”

April - Dr. Huber, Dr. McRae, and alumni L.D. Mattson, Dr. Sanders, Dr. Magalona, Dr. Rousset, Dr. Oglesby, and Liahnna Stanley had their article, "Embodied fragments: embracing risk, failure, resistance, and pedagogical possibility," published in Text and Performance Quarterly.

March - Dr. Huber, Dr. McRae, and their colleagues' article, "Collaborative performances of and toward survival in the communication classroom and beyond: an inter-institutional performance forum," was published in Text and Performance Quarterly.

March - Dr. Pal and alum Dr. Nieto-Fernandez's article, "Politics of Transnational Feminism to Decolonize Feminist Organizational Communication: A Call to Action," was published in Management Communication Quarterly.

February - Dr. Basu and alumn Liahnna Stanley's article, "‘Chemical jail’: culture-centered theorizing of carcerality in methadone maintenance treatment and addiction recovery in the United States," was published in the Journal of Applied Communication Research.

February - Dr. Wilson, Josephine Boumis, Dennis DeBeck, Dr. Buzzanell, and alumni Dr. Hintz and Dr. Betts had their article, "A longitudinal analysis of involuntary job loss and communication resilience processes during the COVID-19 pandemic," published in the Journal of Communication.

July - Dr. Dean Kruzel's co-authored article, “Factors that differentiate cancer risk management decisions among females with pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants in PALB2, CHEK2, and ATM,” was published in Genetics in Medicine. 

October - Dr. Dean Kruzel's article, "'It’s not if I get cancer, it’s when I get cancer': BRCA-positive patients’(un)certain health experiences regarding hereditary breast and ovarian cancer risk." (Social Science & Medicine, 2016), was selected to receive the NCA Health Communication division's Distinguished Article/Chapter Award for 2023.  

December - Dr. Dean Kruzel and co-authors' paper, "Applying the framework for developing and evaluating complex interventions to increase family communication about hereditary cancer," was published in PEC Innovation.

June - Baker, Cusanno, and Dr. Dean Kruzel's article, "Dilemmas in patient-clinician communication about do-it-yourself hormone therapy: A qualitative study," was published in Qualitative Research in Health (a Social Science & Medicine journal).

January - Dr. McElearney's article, "A performative and dialogic approach to teach group roles, group conflict, and conflict management styles," was published in Communication Teacher.

January - Dr. Leon-Boys' co-authored article, "The Teenage Latina Genius on Television: Netflix's Ashley Garcia," was published in Women's Studies in Communication.

March - Dr. Leon-Boys' book, "Elena, Princesa of the Periphery: Disney's Flexible Latina Girl," was published by Rutgers University Press.

November - Dr. Leon-Boys was selected to participate in a Top Paper Panel at the 2023 NCA Conference for her paper, "Jane the Girl-Citizen-In-Transition: Girlhood and familial citizenship in Jane the Virgin."

November - Dr. Leon-Boys' book, "Elena, Princesa of the Periphery," was selected to receive the NCA Feminist and Gender Studies Division's 2023 Bonnie Ritter Book Award.

March - USF's 2023 Global Education Faculty Award, awarded for promoting Global Education at USF and globally enhancing undergraduate courses.

March - USF's 2023 Global Education Faculty Award, awarded for promoting Global Education at USF and globally enhancing undergraduate courses.

March - Honored for service to USF's UMatter program.

March - Lay's short story, "The Fox," was published in the literary journal, beestung.

July - "The Fox" was published in the print anthology, "Best Microfiction 2023."

April - Dr. Bartesaghi's co-authored article, "Sharpiegate: Science, the state and professional vision in the constitution of weather," was published in the Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice. 

May - Dr. Jorgenson was awarded USF's Emeritus Professorship.

October - Dr. Jorgenson was inducted into the Oracle Council of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG). The award itself was presented by a department alum, Dr. Laura Ellingson.

November - Craine, Siegenthaler, and Worwood received an NCA Top Paper award from the Organizational Communication Division for their paper, "'There's going to be a tipping point where I'm not gonna be able to work': Communicative Resilience amidst Precarity in the Careers of Individuals with Autoimmune Diseases."

November - Pyatovskaya reveived an NCA Top Paper award from the Feminist and Gender Studies Division for her paper, “Russian Women, Ukraine War, and (Neglected) Writing on the Wall: From the (Im)Possibility of Word Traveling to Fail(ing) Female Alliances,” co-authored with Dr. Julia Khrebtan-Höerhager from Colorado State University.

April - Willard presented his paper,  “The Life and Death of Gay Promiscuity in When We Rise,” as part of the Top Papers in Gender Studies panel at the Southern State Communication Association convention.

October - Willard's article, “Fostering critical consciousness: Critical service learning and intersectional reflexivity in the first-year classroom,” was published in Communication Teacher. 

November - Dr. Basu received USF's 2023 Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor Award.

November - Dr. Berry's contribution to the second edition of Handbook of Autoethnography, "Meditations on the Story I Cannot Write: Autoethnography, Reflexivity, and the Possibilities of Maybe," received the Best Book Chapter Award from NCA's Ethnography Division.

September - Gesmundo was selected to receive the WLP/Bank of America East Tampa Award from USF's Women in Leadership & Philanthropy group.

May - Debeck and his co-authors's article, "An Integrated Health Belief Model: Predicting Uptake of the First COVID-19 Booster Vaccine," was published in Health Communication.

August - Gashi received a Waterhouse Family Institute Research Grant for 2023-24. This grant supported Erjona’s doctoral dissertation, tentatively titled “Mapping Narratives of War in Eastern Europe: Exploring Kosovar Women’s Communicative Organizing for Survival.” 

October - Regutti & Cerce's paper, "Guiding creators how to tell stories about mental health: A content analysis of mental health framing in the Mental Health Media Guide," was published in JCMR.

October - Dr. Joshua Scacoo and the Center for Sustainable Democracy was awarded a $150,000 grant through the U.S. Department of State to implement a two-week journalism and democracy program for 15 journalists, in partnership with USF and the U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Brazil.

November - Dr. Bartesaghi's article, “'It's not enough to hold that power': The Gendering of Advice in Corporate Discourse," was published in Advancing Women in Leadership Journal.

November - Dr. Bartesaghi's article, "Considering Observation," was published in Constructivist Foundations.

August - Dr. Buzzanell received the 2022 USF Outstanding Research Achievement Award for her publications, a signed book contract, receiving two top national and international awards, and a ranking in the top 2% of cited scientists in the world by a recent Stanford University study.

December - Purdue University's Title IX Distinguished Service Award. The award was presented in honor of the 50^th anniversary of the enactment of Title IX, to individuals who have made significant contributions to the advancement of gender equity in education.

Dr. Buzzanell received the 2022 Distinguished University Professor Award from USF's Office of the Provost.

July - Hawley presented his co-authored paper, "Visual Peer Review: Examining Students' Parts of Speech Comments vs. Grade," at the 2023 Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) EdMedia + Innovate conference in Vienna, Austria.

October - Hawley received both the 2022 Global Excellence Award and the 2022 Virtual Global Exchange Early Adopter Recognition from USF World. The Global Excellence Award was presented for Hawley's work in promoting global student sucess with study-abroad programs in Florence, Paris, and Barcelona.

November - Hawley and his colleagues were awarded a three-year, $297,000 National Science Foundation grant, to fund their project, "Using Behavioral Nudges in Peer Review to Improve Critical Analysis in STEM Courses."

April - Pyatovskaya's co-authored article, “Austria at the Crossroads of History: Choosing between Comfort and Conscience during the War in Ukraine,” was published in EuropeNow.

March - Pyatovskaya's co-authored article, ”The West thinks that Russians, suffering from sanctions, will end up abandoning Putin – but history indicates they won’t,” was published in The Conversation.

June - Pyatovskaya's co-authored article, "Putin’s propaganda is rooted in Russian history – and that’s why it works," was published in The Conversation.

June - Pyatovskaya (PI) and Dr. Patrice Buzzanell (co-PI) received a $5,450 grant from the Waterhouse Family Institute for their project, “Disruption, Resilience, and Change: Lessons of Asian American Nonprofit Organizing During COVID-19 Pandemic.” 

September - Pyatovskaya's co-authored article, "Giorgia Meloni - the political provocateur set to become Italy's first far-right leader since Muccolini," was published in The Conversation.

Pyatovskaya received both the Department of Communication Student Research Grant and the CAS Student Success Scholarship.

August - Dr. Durham’s essay, “Unmasking the Strongblackwoman in Mentoring,” was part of ICA’s forum, “Prying the Doors Open: Women of Color Mentoring in the Field of Communication," which won the 2022 Apex Award for Publication Excellence in Magazines, Journals & Tabloids - Electronic. 

August - Anderson's and Scacco's article, "Information Environments and Support for COVID-19 Mitigation Policies," was published in American Behavioral Scientist.

July - Willard's article, "Reframing performance’s ontology: hybridity in contemporary performance art’s ontology," was published in the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media.

May - Dr. Basu and Parameswari Mukherjee's article, "India's COVID vaccine gestures: from maitri to coloniality," was published in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.

November - Dr. Dubrofsky's book, “Authenticating Whiteness: Karens, Selfies, and Pop Stars,” was published with the University Press of Mississippi.

May - Dr. Spinazola and Dr. Purnell co-edited “Narrating Estrangement: Autoethnographies of Writing Of(f) Family,” which was then published by Routledge.

May 4th - Dr. Woodruffe's article, "Conversations With My Son: A Poetic Autoethnography of Black Mothering Experiences," was published in Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies.

February - Dr. Whitworth's article, "Bodies in dialogue: offering a model for queer oral history," was published in Text and Performance Quarterly.

April - Dr. Scacco received the Judith S. Trent Award for Early Career Excellence in Political Communication from the 2022 Central States Communication Association's Political Communication Interest Group.

August - Dr. Scacco received the 2022 USF Outstanding Research Achievement Award for his contributions and publications on political communication and its implications for leadership, governance, and democracy.

October - Dr. Scaccoo received the 2022 NCA Political Communication Division's Hart Outstanding Book Award for his book, "The Ubiquitous Presidency: Presidential Communication and Digital Democracy in Tumultuous Times."

October - Dr. Joshua Scacco (CO-PI) and Dr. Loni Hagen (PI), a faculty colleague in the School of Information, received a $55,320 grant from Cyber Florida for their “Online Information Environment Analysis” project.

March - Todd received a Gustav Friedrich Award and a Top Paper award from the 2022 Central States Communication Association's Communication Interest Group for her paper, "Engaging Toward Equity: Repositioning Precarity at the Forefront of Student Needs d/Discourse in Higher Education." Additionally, Todd received the CSCA Past Officers Graduate Student Debut Paper Award for the paper.

November - McCormick received an NCA Top Paper Award from the Instructional Development Division for her paper, "Do You Measure Up? A study of graduate student academic comparison, privacy management, and perceived program competition."

November - McCormick and Nichols received an NCA Top Paper Award from the Instructional Development Division for their paper, "Going Through it or Growing Through It: Reactive and Anticipatory Resilience in Undergraduate Students Following a Shift in Learning Modality."

November - Dr. Ivancic and Dooling received an NCA Top Paper Award from the Organizational Communication Division for their paper, "Navigating Entangled Shame: Examining the Sociomaterial Realities of Food Assistance Programs."

November - Dooling received an NCA Top Paper Award from the Ethnography Division for his paper, "Surviving Time: Witnessing the Fragments of Sexual Assault."

November - Russell received an NCA Top Paper Award from the Interpersonal Communication Division for her paper, "Learning to Love My(Trans)self & You: The Implications of Multiple Goals Theory for Transgender & Gender Nonconforming Romantic Partners Who Communicate About GenderAffirming Identity Needs with Cisgender Partners."

November - Doyle received an NCA Top Paper Award from the Game Studies Division for her paper, "Transforming the Online Gaming Community One Woman at a Time: Applying Materiality to Illustrate Women’s Sexual Harassment Experiences."

November - Siegenthaler, Worwood, and Craine received an NCA Top Paper Award from the Health Communication Division for their paper, "Patterns of Disruptions: Complexities of Discursive-Embodied Triggers and Resilience Responses of Individuals with Autoimmune Diseases."

November - Worwood received the NCA's 2022 Outstanding Thesis Award for his thesis, "'I Thought that We Could Nurture the Nature Out of Our Son': Making Meaning of Parenting in the Narratives of Parents of Children in Residential Treatment," published in Theses and Dissertations in 2021.

November - Dr. Leon-Boys was awarded the 2021-22 USF Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award.

October - Dr. Dean Kruzel's and alum Dr. Davidson's co-authored article, "Developing theory-driven narrative messages with personal stories: A step-by-step guide," was published in the Journal of the Psychological, Social, and Behavioral Dimensions of Cancer.

September - Dr. Wilson and co-author Dr. Sandi Smith were awarded the 2022 NCA Interpersonal Division's Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Book Award for their book, "Reflections on Interpersonal Communication Research," published by Cognella in 2019.

Dr. Friedman received the 2021 Undergraduate Teaching Award from USF's Office of the Provost.

December - Ambar’s edited book, "Post-AIDS Discourse in Health Communication: Sociocultural Interpretations," was published by Routledge. Co-Editor Dr. Patrick Dillon is a Ph.D. alumnus of the Department. The book has chapters written by current and former graduate students (Dr. Jaime Robb, Liahnna Stanley, Nivethitha Ketheeswaran, and Brianna Cusanno) and Department Affiliate Faculty colleague Dr. Nancy Romero-Daza. 

November - Dr. Huber's book, "Communicating Social Justice in Teacher Education: Insights from a Critical Classroom Ethnography," was published by Routledge. 

November - Dr. James received the 2021 NCA Women's Caucus Francine Merritt Award. The Women’s Caucus offers the Francine Merritt Award to someone who has made a difference in the field of communication through her/his mentoring, service, advocacy, teaching, and scholarship.

Statement by the NCA Woman's Caucus: The Women's Caucus mission is “to advocate for women's improved status, voice, and opportunities in the discipline. In doing so, we are committed to exploring the diversity and complexities of women's lives in terms of their academic and professional experiences.” We feel Navita's life work is exemplar of this kind of a difference.

November - Dr. Woodruffe received the 2021 NCA Donald P. Cushman Memorial Award. The Donald P. Cushman Memorial Award honors the top-ranked student-authored paper from all NCA units that competitively rank papers for programming at the NCA Annual Convention.

November - Dr. Woodruffe received the 2021 NCA John Warren Top Student Paper Award. The John Warren Top Student Paper Award honors Dr. Woodruffe's "Conversations with My Son: A Poetic Autoethnography of Black Mothering Experiences."

November - Dr. Woodruffe received an NCA Top Paper Award from the Ethnography Division for her paper, "Conversations with My Son: A Poetic Autoethnography of Black Mothering Experiences."

November - Dr. Durham received 2021 NCA Marsha Houston Award. The award honors Dr. Marsha Houston, noted African American feminist communication scholar, who was instrumental in helping raise and duly ensure recognition of the collective academic voices of African American women and other women of color in conventional feminist communication. This award is given to a junior to mid-level career woman scholar whose scholarship and research, teaching, service and advocacy to academe and their local communities (especially as it pertains to activism) embodies critically examining social justice issues, diversity/inclusion, equity. 

November - Dr. Durham received the 2021 IAANI Ellis-Bochner Autoethnography and Personal Narrative Research Award for her publication, “Wounded: Diagnosis (for a) Black Woman.” Dr. Durham received her award from the International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative (ISAN) during the January 2022 conference. A copy of her book chapter is available online.

June - Dr. Buzzanell received the 2021 ICA Steve Chaffee Career Achievement Award.

November - Dr. Buzzanell received the 2021 NCA Samuel L. Becker Distinguished Service Award.  The award is presented to the person judged to have made the greatest contribution to the association and to the profession during their career and is generally, but not necessarily, given to a person who has made a number of contributions during their career. 

November - Dr. Buzzanell received an NCA Top Paper Award from the Organizational Communication Division for her paper, "Identity through Affective Solidarity: Understanding the Communicative Construction of Identity in Online Men’s Rights Spaces."

November - Dr. Wilson received the 2021 NCA Mark Knapp Award in Interpersonal Communication. The Mark L. Knapp Award in Interpersonal Communication recognizes career contributions to the study of interpersonal communication.

Dr. Sereno was awarded the 2021 Undergraduate Advising Award from USF's Office of the Provost.

November - Dooling received an NCA Top Paper Award from the Ethnography Division for his paper, "Strutting Toward the Grave: Narrating the Heteropatriarchal Lifespan."

November - Dr. Dubrofsky received an NCA Top Paper Award from the Performance Studies Division for her paper, "Authenticity as a Strategy of Whiteness."

November - Dr. Wilson, Baker, Viera, Dr. Richter, and Dr. Scacco received an NCA Top Paper Award from the Communication and Military Division for their paper, "Analyzing News Media Framing of The Military-Civilian Divide."

August - Dr. Josh Scacco's co-authored paper, “Securing the guardrails of democracy? Accountability and presidential communication in the 2020 election,” was published in the Quarterly Journal of Speech's "Forum: Division, discord, and democracy: A forum on the 2020 U.S. Presidential Campaign."