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Recent Honors & Awards Recieved by Communication Department Faculty 2008 (January - April) Arthur P. Bochner » Recipient, Michael M. Osborn Teacher-Scholar Award, Southern States Communication Association » Recipient, Distinguished Alumni Award, College of Arts and Sciences, California University (Pennsylvania) » President, National Communication Association Kenneth N. Cissna » Featured, Spotlight Program, “Spotlight Scholar in Language and Social Interaction,” Southern States Communication Association Carolyn Ellis » Featured, Spotlight Program, “Spotlight Panel: Carolyn Ellis,” Southern States Communication Association 2007 Elizabeth Bell » Recipient, John I. Sisco Excellence in Teaching Award, Southern States Communication Association. [“consistently demonstrating excellence in teaching communication throughout their career”] » Selected, Honorary Faculty Member, Golden Key International, International Student Honors Society. Arthur P. Bochner » Featured, Spotlight Program, “Coming to Narrative,” Southern States Communication Association. [Subject of the inaugural program of SSCA’s new Ethnography Interest Group] » First Vice-President, National Communication Association. » Featured, “Re-imagining Possibilities: Honoring the Work of Carolyn Ellis and Arthur P. Bochner.” Qualitative Inquiry [special issue of the journal honoring their work] » Award Named, “Ellis and Bochner Autoethnography and Personal Narrative Award,” Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Affiliate, National Communication Association Kenneth N. Cissna » Plenary Address, International Association for Dialogue Analysis, Dialogue Analysis XI Conference, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany. » Recipient, T. Earle Johnson – Edwin Paget Distinguished Service Award, Southern States Communication Association. » Primary Address, Symposium: 50. Jahrestag des Dialoges swischen Martin Buber und Carl R. Rogers [Symposium on the 50th Anniversary of the Dialogue between Martin Buber and Carl R. Rogers], Internationales Symposium an der Universitat Wien [International Symposium of the University of Vienna], Vienna, Austria. Rachel Dubrofsky » Outstanding Article Award, Critical and Cultural Studies Division, National Communication Association [for her article “The Bachelor: Whiteness in the Harem” in Critical Studies in Media Communication] Carolyn Ellis » Recipient, USF President’s Women’s Leadership Award, USF Women’s Status Committee » Featured, “Re-imagining Possibilities: Honoring the Work of Carolyn Ellis and Arthur P. Bochner.” Qualitative Inquiry [special issue of the journal honoring their work] » Award Named, “Ellis and Bochner Autoethnography and Personal Narrative Award,” Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Affiliate, National Communication Association » Keynote Address, “Composing Emotional, Evocative, and Literary Ethnography,” Association of Qualitative Research Association Convention of Malaysia (QRAM), Petaling Jaya, Selingor, Malaysia. » Featured, “Autoethnography.” Discussion session and High Tea at the University of Bristol, UK. Stacy Holman Jones » Recipient, Outstanding Feminist Teacher-Mentor Award, Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender. 2006 Art Bochner received the Elizabeth Andersch Award for sustained, career contributions to speech communication education from Ohio University. Art Bochner received one of USF's "Outstanding Research Achievement Awards" for 2006. Marcyrose Chvasta received the 2006 Outstanding New Teacher Award by the Southern States Communication Association. Stacy Holman Jones received the 2006 Janice Hocker Rushing Early Career Research Award by the Southern States Communication Association. Elizabeth Bell was named Gender Scholar of the Year by the Gender Studies Division of the Southern States Communication Association. 2005 Mariaelena Bartesaghi received the 2005 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Language and Social Interaction Division of the National Communication Association. Elizabeth Bell received the Distinguished Service Award from the Performance Studies Division of the National Communication Association. Art Bochner received Bernard J. Brommel Award for Distinguished Scholarly Contributions to Family Communication from the National Communication Association. Carolyn Ellis received the 2005 Distinguished Book Award (for her The Ethnographic I) from the Ethnography Division of the National Communication Association.