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A Top Paper in Political Communication, Eastern Communication Association: 2023 (1st place)
“Wake up, sheeple!” Sheeple aren’t real: Cartooning conspiracies in a theater of the absurd - Netflix’s Inside Job
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A Top Paper in Political Communication, Eastern Communication Association: 2022 (2nd place)
The Statue of Trumpery: Ironic metaphor and the visual ideograph
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Wilson Scholar - John P. Wilson Fellowship, New York State Communication Association: 2021
žThe Wilson Scholar Committee may, each year, award the Wilson Fellowship to a member of NYSCA who has established an exemplary record of scholarship and service to the Association. The fellowship carries the prize of life membership in the Association. To be considered for the award, nominees must: Be members of NYSCA, have contributed a significant body of research, have a record of service to NYSCA.
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Nomination (Politics in the Gutters) - Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award, Society for Cinema and Media Studies: 2022
Honoring the memory of USC professor Katherine Singer Kovács, this award is given to an outstanding book published in the field of cinema and media studies. Books should be original works that significantly advance scholarship and thinking in the field either by opening up new lines of inquiry or by consolidating existing ones at a high level of accomplishment.
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Past Officers’ Award, Eastern Communication Association: 2020
Presented annually by the past officers of ECA to an outstanding ECA member who has not been a past ECA officer, who is a current member of ECA, 10-15 years beyond the doctorate, and who has contributed a significant body of research to the communication discipline and possesses a significant record of continuing service to ECA.
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Distinguished Research Fellow, Eastern Communication Association: 2020
Recognition of distinguished research in the field of communication to a living member of ECA with a minimum of ten consecutive years membership prior to nomination, who has a record of active and continuous service to ECA as manifested by such activities as an association officer, chairing an interest group, editing an ECA journal, etc. May be awarded annually in recognition of distinguished research. No more than 1% of the membership can be given this award in any given year.
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A Top Paper in Political Communication, Eastern Communication Association: 2020 (1st place)
The fall of the towers and the rise of political comics journalism
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A Top Paper in Political Communication, Eastern Communication Association: 2019 (2nd place)
Hey, voters! Comics!: Campaign comics, election specials and graphic biographies
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Outstanding Humanities Alumni Achievement Award, Finger Lakes Community College: 19 May 2017
Awarded for the first time in 2013, the Humanities department created the award to recognize a graduate who has distinguished him or herself professionally.
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SUNY Potsdam President’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities: 18 May 2017
A campus-level honor for distinguished service and achievement, recognizing investigation or creation which has enlarged the store of human knowledge, or has expanded the potential of human creativity. Significant and positive impact on the students of the College.
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Phi Kappa Phi, SUNY Potsdam: 18 Mar. 2017
Faculty who achieve scholarly distinction are eligible by invitation to the nation’s oldest and most selective multidisciplinary collegiate honor society.
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A Top Paper in Political Communication, Eastern Communication Association: 2016 (1st place)
Four-color politics: Ideology and the presidency in DC’s Prez 1973-2015
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Sabbatical leave (half-year) approved: 1 Sep. 2014 – 31 Dec. 2014
Sabbatical leaves shall be granted for planned travel, study, formal education, research, writing or other experience of professional value.
“Words cannot convey”: War letters as epistolic genre and key civil-military communication
