Marian Meyers, Georgia State U, was presented with the Gender Scholar of the Year Award for 2011 by the Gender Studies Division of the Southern States Communication Association at its annual meeting in May in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Linda L. Putnam, U of California - Santa Barbara, has been honored with the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award for the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM).  The Lifetime Achievement Award is given to a scholar whose life’s work has spanned decades and made outstanding contributions to the scholarship of conflict management and resolution.  Dr. Putnam is known for her work on negotiation and conflict management in labor-management arenas, discourse patterns, environmental conflicts, and intractable disputes.  She will receive her award at the annual IACM Conference in Istanbul, Turkey, July 3-6, 2011.

Grant, D., Hardy, C., & Putnam, L. L. (Eds.). (2011). Organizational discourse studies, Vol. 1-3. London:  Sage.  These three volumes  contain 48 articles and chapters that serve as "major works" and chronicle the history and development of discourse studies in organizations.  Interdisciplinary in nature, Volume 1 covers theoretical developments, especially antecedents, scene setting articles, theoretical approaches, and critiques while Volume 2 focuses on methods, namely, narratives and stories, critical discourse analysis, irony and rhetoric, types of texts, and
reflexivity.  Volume 3 focuses on applications and contexts with an eye to identity and gender, emotion and humor, participation and resistance, and organizational change.  The volumes form a compendium of articles and chapters draw from management, communication, and linguistics.