Department of Communication Studies Faculty are recipients of numerous awards, including the following: Doris Acheme: Franklin Multicultural Curriculum Grant, University of Georgia, 2023 Maryam Ahmadi: Faculty Excellence Award, UGA, 2024 Analisa Arroyo: Study in a Second Discipline Fellow, Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, 2022 Top Paper, National Communication Association - Family Communication Division, 2019 Career Center Recognition, Contribution to Undergraduate Career Development, University of Georgia Career Center, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2020 Top Paper, National Communication Association - Health Communication Division, 2018 Faculty Excellence Award, Presented by Department of Communication Studies’ Graduate Students, University of Georgia, 2017 Top Paper, National Communication Association - Health Communication Division, 2014 Top Four Paper, National Communication Association - Family Communication Division, 2011 Barbara Biesecker: Senior Teaching Fellow, Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Georgia, Fall 2020 - Spring 2021 Spotlight Honoring Dr. Barbara A. Biesecker, Teachers on Teaching. National Communication Association Convention, November 2019 Francine Merritt Award, Women's Caucus and Feminist and Women's Studies Division, National Communication Association, 2013 Distinguished Scholar Award, The Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division, National Communication Association, 2011 John I. Sisco Excellence in Teaching Award, Southern States Communication Association, 2011 Douglas Ehninger Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award, The National Communication Association, 2007 Finalist. Outstanding Young Investigator Award, Rhetorical and Communication Theory, National Communication Association, 1997 Presidential Citation for Outstanding Service. National Communication Association. 1996 Special Spotlight Vice Presidential Panel on "The Scholarship of Barbara Biesecker," The Southern States Communication Association Annual Conference. Norfolk, Virginia. 1994 Kelly Happe: Multidisciplinary Seed Grant on the Innovation in Interdisciplinary Instruction Track, Franklin College UGA, 2024 (Collaborator Dr. Dax Ovid) Creative Research Medal for Humanities and Arts, UGA, 2019 NCA Diamond Anniversary Book Award, National Communication Association, 2014 NCA Golden Anniversary Monograph Award, National Communication Association, 2014 Best Dissertation of the Year, Women's Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh, 2003 Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 1999-2000 Cultural Studies Fellowship, Cultural Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh, 1998-1999 Selected for American Debate Tour of Israel, Committee for International Discussion and Debate, National Communication Association, November 1995 Soroya McFarlane: Multidisciplinary Seed Grant on the Rapid Interdisciplinary Proposal Track, Franklin College UGA, 2024 (Co-PIs Dr. Tamora Callands and Dr. Andrea Swatzendruber) Presidential Interdisciplinary Seed Grant, 2021 Diversity Research and Scholarship Grant (DRSG), 2021 Owens Institute for Behavioral Research (OIBR Fellow), UGA, 2021-2023 Fellow, Georgia Translational Education and Mentoring in Science Initiative, 2021-2022 CSCA Federation Research Prize, 2020 Lilly Teaching Fellow, Center for Teaching and Learning, UGA, 2020-2022 Recognition of Contribution to Student Career Development, Career Center, UGA, 2020 National Communication Association Conference (Top Paper Award), 2019 Mackensie Minniear: Chelsea Ratcliff: UGA Faculty Seed Grant in the Sciences, UGA, 2023 - 2024 Top Paper, Mass Communication Division, 2023 Top Paper, NCA Applied Communication Division, 2023 GDP Fellow, Owens Institute for Behavioral Research, UGA, 2021 - 2023 Top Paper, AEJMC ComSHER Division, 2021 Meritorious Abstract Award, Society for Behavioral Medicine, 2020 Research Award, AEJMC Mass Communication & Society Division, 2019 Top Paper, ICA Health Communication Division, 2018 Eason Prize for Graduate Student Research, AEJMC ComSHER Division, 2017 Overall Conference Top Paper, D.C. Health Communication Conference, 2017 Roger Stahl: Willson Center Faculty Research Grant, 2022 German Public Television (ZDF) featured interview, 2021 Electronic Gaming Monthly featured interview, 2020 Willson Center Faculty Research Grant, 2019 Top Scholar Paper in Visual Communication, National Communication Association, 2018 Welch Visiting Artist and Scholar at Georgia State University, 2016 Visiting Fellow at the University of Queensland School of Political Science and International Studies, 2013 National Radio Project featured academic, syndicated on 140 North American radio stations, 2013 Willson Center Faculty Research Grant, 2013 Keynote Speaker at the 209th anniversary of the founding of the Demosthenian Literary Society, 2012 Visiting Scholar, NYU Tisch School of Art, 2011 Willson Center Faculty Research Grant, 2009 Belinda Stillion Southard: Recipient, Marie Hochmuth Nichols Book Award for How to Belong. National Communication Association, Public Address Division, 2019 Co-Recipient, Top Paper Panel, National Communication Association, Health Communication Division, 2017 Recipient, Faculty Excellence Award, voted for by Department of Communication Studies Graduate Student Body, 2015 Recipient, UGA Provost Summer Teaching Initiative, $7500, 2014 Recipient, UGA Provost Summer Research Grant, $5000, 2013 Recipient, Marie Hochmuth Nichols Book Award for Militant Citizenship. National Communication Association, Public Address Division, 2012 Recipient, Winifred Bryan Horner Book Award, Honorable Mention, for Militant Citizenship, Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, 2012 Fellow, Teaching Academy Fellows Program, University of Georgia Teaching Academy, 2011-2012 Indiana University Overseas Conference Fund Award, International Conference on Rhetorical Citizenship, 2008 Bjørn Stillion Southard: Recipient, Marie Hochmuth Nichols Book Award for Peculiar Rhetoric: Slavery, Freedom, and the African Colonization Movement. National Communication Association, Public Address Division, 2020 Affordable Course Materials Grant, University of Georgia, 2019 Sachiko Terui: Top Paper. Top Papers in Training, Development, and Learning Division, National Communication Association Conference, 2023 Teaching Self-Care to the Oncology Family Caregiver with Transdisciplinary, Telehealth, Treatment Program. Faculty Research Seed Grant, Sponsored by the College of Communication and Fine Arts, University of Memphis, TN. Role: Co-Principal Investigator. Period: 06/01/2021-06/30/2022. $5,000, 2021 Research Community for Impacting Sustained Housing for Homeless in Memphis. Community of Research Scholars Grant, Sponsored by the Division of Research & Innovation, University of Memphis, TN. Role: Principal Investigator. Period: 12/01/2020-04/30/2021. $2,500, 2020 Dean’s Outstanding Research Award, College of Communication and Fine Arts, University of Memphis, 2020 Distinguished Research Achievement, Division of Research & Innovation, University of Memphis, 2020 Water Safety Research Community. Community of Research Scholars Grant, Sponsored by the Division of Research & Innovation, University of Memphis, TN. Role: Co-investigator. Period: 11/01/2019-12/31/2020. $5,000, 2019 Top Paper, Training and Development Division, National Communication Association, 2018 Promoting Transformative Community Change for Equitable Health: Peer Training and Intervention for Pre-exposure HIV Prophylaxis. Sponsored by Waterhouse Family Institute. Role: Lead Principal Investigator. Period: 07/01/2018-4/30/2020. $10,000, 2018 Developing a Health Literacy Assessment Tool for HIV Patients without Functional Literacy. Faculty Research Seed Grant, Sponsored by the College of Communication and Fine Arts, University of Memphis, TN. Role: Lead Principal Investigator. Period: 11/01/2018-5/31/2020. $5,000, 2018 Health Spaces and Technologies Research Community. Community of Research Scholars Grant, Sponsored by the Division of Research & Innovation, University of Memphis, TN. Role: Co-investigator. Period: 11/01/2018-12/31/2019. $2,500, 2018
