Speech Communication at UGA

Communication Studies Awards

The faculty and our current and former graduate students have won numerous top paper awards at national and international conferences and we have served in many leadership positions. A short list of examples is provided below:

Student
Ann Neville Miller won the 2007 NCA G. R. Miller Dissertation Award
K. Laura Keck won the 2006 Thesis of the Year Award, International Communication Association, Interpersonal Communication Division.
S. Brown-Givens won the 2002 Dissertation of the Year Award by the NCA Black Caucus.
Ashley Duggan, won the Thesis of the Year: ICA/NCA Health Comm.
Kathryn Greene won the NCA Dissertation Award.
Kathryn Greene was the Chair of the NCA Health Communication Division.

Faculty
V. S. Freimuth, Past Chair, Health Communication Division
J. Hale is currently the chair of the Southern Communication Association
J Hale is past Chair of the Interpersonal Communication Division, National Communication Association.
V. S. Freimuth, from 1996-2003 was Director of Communication at the CDC
T M. Harris, past Chair of the Intercultural Division (1998-1999).
J. Monahan is past Chair of the Information Systems Division, International Communication Association.
J. Monahan won the University’s Creative Research Medal, 2007
J.A. Samp won an Outstanding Female Faculty Award in 2001.
J.A. Samp is presently the Secretary for Interpersonal Communication Division, National Communication Association.
T. M. Harris was the recipient of the Georgia Board of Regents’ 2005 Award for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning .
D. Rubin Editor of Communication Education, 2003-2006.
L. Shen, Thesis of the Year: ICA/NCA Health Communication Division (2003).
V. S. Freimuth Distinguished Career Award, American Public Health Association, 2004.
V. S. Freimuth, (1999) NCA/ICA Outstanding Health Communication Scholar Award.
VJ. Monahan won the ICA Young Scholar Award.