NCA Golden Anniversary Monograph Award: Lester C. Olson, "Pictorial Representations of British America Resisting Rape: Rhetorical Re-Circulation of a Print Series Portraying the Boston Port Bill of 1774," Rhetoric & Public Affairs 12 (2009): 1-35.

Article of the Year Award, NCA Visual Communication Division: Davi Johnson, "Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1963 Birmingham Campaign as an Image Event," Rhetoric & Public Affairs 10 (2007): 1-25.

NCA Golden Anniversary Monograph Award: Anne Terea Demo, "The Afterimage: Immigration Policy after Elian," Rhetoric & Public Affairs 10 (2005): 27-50.

NCA Golden Anniversary Monograph Award: Cara A. Finnegan, "Recognizing Lincoln: Image Vernaculars in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture," Rhetoric & Public Affairs 8 (2005): 31-58.

NCA Golden Anniversary Monograph Award: John M. Murphy, "'Our Mission and Our Moment': George W. Bush and September 11th," Rhetoric & Public Affairs 6 (2003): 607-632.

Article of the Year Award, NCA Critical/Cultural Studies Division: Brian L. Ott and Eric Aoki, "The Politics of Negotiating Public Tragedy: Media Framing of the Matthew Shepherd Murder," Rhetoric & Public Affairs 5 (2002): 483-505.

NCA Golden Anniversary Monograph Award: Erik Doxtader, " Making Rhetorical History in a Time of Transition: The Occasion, Constitution, and Representation of South African Reconciliation," Rhetoric & Public Affairs 4 (2001): 223-260.

NCA Golden Anniversary Monograph Award: Stephen E. Lucas, "The Rhetorical Ancestry of the Declaration of Independence," Rhetoric & Public Affairs 1 (1998): 143-184.

Council of Editors of Learned Journals, Best New Journal of 1998: Rhetoric & Public Affairs