Global Communication and Social Change Division

CALLS FOR NOMINATIONS FOR AWARDS

DEADLINE: all materials must be received by 1 April 2010.

SUBMISSIONS: Nomination packages should be sent electronically to Professor Robert Huesca (rhuesca@trinity.edu) and hard copy to Trinity University, Dept. of Communication, San Antonio, TX  78212

1. LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD  The Award honors established scholars in any one or more of the research fields that pertain to the division.* A full nomination package should comprise a signed rationale from the nominator (who shall not be the person nominated), a signed supporting statement and rationale from one other person (who shall not be the person nominated), a resume of the person nominated including a complete list of his or her publications. While submissions are electronic, the Awards Committee also requires that signed hard copies of the nominator's rationale, and the supporting statement be snail-mailed.
2. BEST BOOK AWARD FOR 2008 AND 2009 The Award honors any sole or jointly authored book (edited or co-edited volumes shall not be included), carrying a date of publication from either 2008 or 2009. The Book should represent a major contribution to research in any one or more of the research fields that pertain to the division*. A full nomination package should comprise a signed rationale from the nominator (who shall not be the person nominated), a signed, supporting statement and rationale from one other person (who shall not be the person nominated), a resume of the person (or persons) whose book has been nominated including a complete list of his or her publications, a summary of the book and copies of any two chapters from it. While submissions are electronic (including copies of book chapters), the Awards Committee also requires that signed hard copies of the nominator's rationale, and the supporting statement be snail-mailed.
3. BEST JOURNAL ARTICLE AWARD FOR 2009 The Award honors any sole or jointly authored research article published in a reputable scholarly journal that carries a 2009 date of publication. The article should represent a major contribution to research in any one or more of the research fields that pertain to the division.* A full nomination package should comprise a signed rationale from the nominator (who shall not be the person nominated), a signed, supporting statement and rationale from one other person (who shall not be the person nominated), a resume of the person (or persons) whose article has been nominated including a complete list of his or her publications, and a full copy of the article. While submissions are electronic (including the copy of the article), the Awards Committee also requires that signed hard copies of the nominator's rationale, and the supporting statement be snail-mailed.

Division Mission: The Division for Global Communication and Social Change exists to encourage and debate research on issues of production, distribution, content and reception of communications media at global, "glocal," transnational, transcultural, international and regional levels. Within this purview it encompasses work across a wide variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, concerning issues of media/mediated communication in cultural, economic, political or social contexts, including strategic mediated communication for development, social change or social justice.

Robert Huesca, chair
rhuesca@trinity.edu

Health Communication Division

The Amanda L. Kundrat Health Communication Thesis of the Year Award Fund Established by Gift from the Kundrat Family

The Health Communication Division received a generous donation from the Kundrat Family to establish a fund in support of the ICA/NCA Health Communication Thesis of the Year Award in the name of Amanda L. Kundrat.  Amanda completed her master's thesis under the direction of Jon Nussbaum at Penn State University.  Amanda's thesis received the 2002 ICA/NCA Thesis of the Year Award.  The thesis research was published in a 2003 article in Health Communication (Vol. 15, pp 331-347), titled, "The Impact of Invisible Illness on Identity and Contextual Age Across the Lifespan," by Amanda Kundrat and Jon Nussbaum.

With this gift, the award will be named The Amanda L. Kundrat Health Communication Thesis of the Year Award.  The family invites all members of the Division and the Association to join them in contributing to this fund to recognize the high quality health communication scholarship by our master's students.  A call for nominations for the 2010 award will be issued in March.

Dave Buller, chair
dbuller@kleinbuendel.com 

Organizational Communication Division

THE W. CHARLES REDDING DISSERTATION AWARD

The Organizational Communication Division of the International Communication Association is pleased to announce competition for the 2010 W. Charles Redding Dissertation Award in Organizational Communication.  This annual competition includes a cash award to the winner and a certificate for the winner and his/her advisor. The award will be presented at the annual ICA convention in Singapore (June, 2010). Any dissertation project related to organizational communication is eligible for submission. The winning dissertation will be theoretically driven, methodologically rigorous, and make a significant contribution to our field.  In the spirit of Redding, the dissertation should present ideas that advance our understanding of organizing and communicating, and that make a difference in the lives of organizational members.

Rules of the competition are as follows:

1. The advisor of the dissertation should submit the dissertation to the Division Secretary. Documents to be submitted must include (a) one copy of the complete dissertation and (b) one copy of the student summary document, which is a 25-30 page paper (text) plus references, tables, graphs, etc.  Summary documents with more than 30 pages of text (12-pt. font, 1-inch margins) will not be considered.
   
   The shorter document, written by the student, should summarize the dissertation by discussing the (a) research issue/problem, (b) relevant literature, (c) key hypotheses or research questions, (d) research methods, (e) primary results, and (f) conclusions drawn from the investigation. There is no need for a letter of nomination from the advisor.
2. Because all dissertations will receive blind review by a panel of judges, the name of the author, advisor, and university should appear only in the email and title page of the full dissertation.
3. Dissertations must have been successfully defended in the 2009 calendar year.
4. Candidates for the award must be members of ICA Division 4.  Membership may be in process at the time of submission.
5. If an insufficient number of dissertations are received, the award panel reserves the right to carry over dissertations into the next annual competition.  If large numbers of submissions are made or competition is strong, Honorable Mention Awards may also be made.

Deadline for submission: Monday, 22 February 2010.
All materials must be received by midnight U.S. Eastern Standard Time on that date.

E-mail entries to Shiv Ganesh at sganesh@waikato.ac.nz with the following in the subject heading: REDDING SUBMISSION. Please submit all materials electronically in either Word or .pdf format.  Please email Shiv if you have additional questions.

Dennis Mumby, chair
mumby@email.unc.edu