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Awards and Accomplishments

FACULTY

Dr. San Bolkan

  • Top 4 Paper for “Behavioral Indicators of Transformational Leadership in the College Classroom,” awarded by the National Communication Association’s Instructional Development Division in 2009.
  • Awarded a $2750 grant from the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Center at Bloomsburg University in 2009.
  • Named by students as one of the “Most Influential” instructors at Bloomsburg University in 2008.
  • Nominated as an “Outstanding Professor” at Bloomsburg University in 2008.

Dr. Catherine Brooks

  • Enhancing Educational Effectiveness with Technology Award for $4000 for “Computer-Mediated Communication and Cultural Learning” from the University Faculty Center for Professional Development at CSULB in 2008-2009.

Dr. Ragan Fox

  • Named one of the “Ten Best Teachers in Long Beach” by the Long Beach Post in 2009.
  • Named a “Senior Class Favorite Faculty Member” by the CSULB Office of Alumni Relations in 2009. 
  • Top 3 Paper for “Re-membering Daddy: Autoethnographic Reflections of My Father and Alzheimer’s Disease,” awarded by the Western States Communication Association’s Performance Studies Division in 2009.
  • Best Article of the Year for “Skinny Bones #126-774-835-29: Thin Gay Bodies Signifying a Modern Plague,” awarded by the National Communication Association’s Ethnography Division in 2008.
  • Top 4 Paper for “Performing Gay Identities Online, awarded by the Western States Communication Association’s Performance Studies Division in 2007.
  • Norman K. Denzin Qualitative Research Award given by NCA’s Ethnography Division and the Carl Couch Center in 2006.

Dr. Katie Gibson

  • Top Paper for “Undermining Katie Couric: The Discipline Function of the Press,” awarded by the Western States Communication Association’s Organization for Research on Women and Communication Division in 2009. 

Dr. Amy Heyse

  • Favorite Professor Commendation, awarded by the CSULB Alumni Association in 2009.
  • Favorite Professor Commendation, awarded by the CSULB Alumni Association in 2008.
  • Most Valuable Professor in the College of Liberal Arts Award by the CSULB Alumni Association in 2007.

Dr. Ann Johnson

  • Top Paper for “Missing the Joke: A Reception Analysis of Satirical Texts,” awarded by the Western States Communication Association’s Media Studies Division in 2009.

Dr. Patricia Kearney

  • Named “Centennial Scholar” in Instructional Communication Research by the Eastern Communication Association in 2009.
  • Nominated for the inaugural 2009 Instructional Communication Distinguished Article Award for a 1991 Communication Quarterly Article co-authored with Tim Plax, Ellis Hays, and then-graduate student Mimi Ivey. 
  • Named “Outstanding Alumnus” by the Department of Communication Studies in the College of Liberal Arts, West Virginia University in 2007. 
  • Named a “Top 100 Communication Scholar, 1915-2001” by Hickson, Bordon, and Turner in Communication Quarterly, 2004.
  • University-wide Distinguished Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity Award, CSULB, 2000-2001. 

Dr. Tim Plax

  • Named a “Centennial Scholar” by the Eastern Communication Association. 
  • Nominated for the inaugural 2009 Instructional Communication Distinguished Article Award for a 1991 Communication Quarterly Article co-authored with Patricia Kearney, Ellis Hays, and then-graduate student Mimi Ivey. 
  • Included in the top 25 most productive scholars in the discipline from 1915-2004.
  • Distinguished Faculty Award from the Associate Students, CSULB.
  • Ranked the 4th most frequently cited research in the Communication Studies discipline. 

Dr. Craig Smith

  • John Bakee Lecturer, awarded by the University of Memphis in 2009.
  • Faculty Mentor, awarded by the CSULB Speech and Debate Team in 2008.
  • Nicholas Perkins Hardeman Award  for Academic Leadership in 2006. 
  • Lifetime Pass, awarded by the Associated Students, CSULB in 2002.
  • Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa in 2001.
  • Outstanding Professor Award, CSULB in 2000.

Dr. Stacy Young

  • Recipient of CSULB’s Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award in 2008.
  • Named a “Senior Class Favorite Faculty Member” by the CSULB Office of Alumni Relations in 2007, 2008, and 2009.
  • Top Paper in the Nonverbal Communication Division of NCA in 2006.

CURRENT AND RECENT GRADUATE STUDENT

Josh Hoops

  • Top 4 Paper for “Intermarriage, Conventional, and/or Unique: A Dialectical Approach to Intercultural Marriage,” awarded by the Western States Communication Association’s Intercultural Communication Division in 2008.
  • Top 4 Paper for “Muslim Protest: An Emic Analysis of the Ideograph in the Danish Cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad,” awarded by the Western States Communication Association’s Rhetoric and Public Address Division in 2007.

Chris Patti

  • Top Debut Paper for “Restoring the Banished Sacred Feminine: The Da Vinci Code, Christianity, and Burke,” awarded by the Western States Communication Association’s Rhetoric and Public address Division in 2007.

Kashif Powell

  • Top 4 Paper for “E Pluribus Unum: Barack Obama’s Use of Constitutive Rhetoric,” awarded by the National Communication Association’s Public Address Division in 2009.

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