Faculty Excellence
Faculty Book Awards
AWARD WINNING SCHOLARLY BOOKS
Communication, Rhetoric, and Media Studies
NCA Diamond Anniversary Book Award plus two division awards
José Ángel Maldonado · Communication
Falling to My Death: Vertical Rhetorics in Neoliberal Mexico
~ Winner of the National Communication Association’s 2026 Diamond Anniversary Book
Award, along with the Latino/a Communication Studies Division Outstanding Book Award,
and the Death and Dying Division Book of the Year Award.
Publisher page | 2026 NCA National Award Winners | USF Faculty Honors
Distinguished Book Award — Philosophy of Communication Division
Nathan R. Johnson · English / Writing & Rhetoric
Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age
~ Winner of the 2022 National Communication Association Distinguished Book Award from its Philosophy of Communication Division.
Publisher page|USF award announcement
Hart Outstanding Book Award
Joshua Scacco · Communication
The Ubiquitous Presidency: Presidential Communication and Digital Democracy in Tumultuous
Times (with Kevin Coe)
~ Winner of the National Communication Association Political Communication Division Hart Outstanding
Book Award.
Publisher page — Oxford University Press
Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Book Award
Steven R. Wilson · Communication
Reflections on Interpersonal Communication Research (with Sandi W. Smith)
~ Winner of the 2022 National Communication Association Interpersonal Communication Division Gerald
R. Miller Outstanding Book Award.
Publisher page — Cognella | USF Communication publications and awards
Best Book Award — Ethnography Division
Keith Berry · Communication
Bullied: Tales of Torment, Identity, and Youth
~ Winner of the 2016 National Communication Association Ethnography Division Best Book Award.
Publisher page — Routledge
Outstanding Book Award — Organizational Communication Division
Mahuya Pal · Communication
Organizing at the Margins: Theorizing Organizations of Struggle in the Global South
(co-edited)
~ Winner of the National Communication Association Organizational Communication Division Outstanding
Book Award.
Publisher page USF Faculty Honors profile
Outstanding Book Award — Communication and Sports Division
Travis R. Bell and Janelle Applequist · Zimmerman School of Advertising & Mass Communications
CTE, Media, and the NFL: Framing a Public Health Crisis as a Football Epidemic (with Christian Dotson-Pierson)
~ Winner of the National Communication Association Communication and Sports Division Outstanding Book
Award.
Publishing page -- Bloomsbury | USF award announcement
Best Book Award — Section on Budgeting and Finance
J. Edwin Benton · School of Interdisciplinary Studies
Revenue Sources of Local Governments: Persisting Challenges and Emerging Opportunities
~ Winner of the American Society for Public Administration Section on Budgeting and Finance Best Book
Award (2025).
Publisher page — Routledge | USF CAS Faculty Honors