Top Paper
Philip Lodge (Napier University, UK)
“Towards an Institutional and Intellectual History of British Communication Studies”
Recognition
Awards
The Communication History Division recognizes outstanding research and scholarship through its annual awards. These honors are presented to faculty and student researchers whose work significantly contributes to our understanding of media and communication history.
New: Book Award
The ICA Communication History Division Book Award, sponsored and managed by the Division, invites nominations for academic books in media and communication history published in 2024, 2025, or 2026. Books should align with one or more of the scopes of the Division. Only ICA members may submit nominations, and books nominated by Communication History Division members will be given priority. Books can be single-authored or co-authored, while edited books are not eligible. Submissions open on 5 June 2026 and close on 31 August 2026.
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Top Student Paper
Victor W. Pickard (University of Illinois, USA)
“‘Whether the Giants Should Be Slain or Persuaded to Be Good’: Revisiting the Hutchins Commission and the Role of Media in a Democratic Society”
Top Paper
Deborah Lubken (University of Pennsylvania)
Top Faculty Paper
Miranda Jean Brady (University of Minnesota)
Top Paper
Deborah Lubken (University of Pennsylvania)
“The Beginning of the End: The Decline of the Churchgoing Bell in Urban America”
Top Faculty Paper
Michael Meyen (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik) & Anke Fiedler (University of Munich)
“‘The Totalitarian Destruction of the Public Sphere?’: Public Communication in the GDR”
Top Paper
Meaghan Morissa Fritz (Georgetown University) & Frank E. Fee, Jr. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
“To Give the Gift of Freedom: Gift Books and the War on Slavery”
Top Student Paper
Edgar Simpson (Ohio University)
“‘Predatory Interests’ and ‘The Common Man’: Scripps, Pinchot, and the Nascent Environmental Movement, 1908 to 1910”
Top Paper
Maureen Ryan (Northwestern University)
“Recipe for Failure: Gender and the Creation of the Home Computer Market”
Top Student Paper
Annie Rudd (Columbia University)
“Likeness Made Public: On Cartes de Visite, Circulation, and the Oldness of ‘New Media’”
Top Paper
Maira Vaca-Baquiero
“Four Theories of the Press @ 60: Moving Forward”
Top Student Paper
Gal Beckerman
“Simultaneous Observation: The Scientific Correspondence Network of Nicolas-Claude Febri de Peiresc”
Top Poster Award
Annie Rudd
“Photographic Objects: Posing and the Construction of Identity in the Victorian Portrait Studio”
Top Paper
Derek Vaillant
“’Our Hearts Were Young and Gay’: Gender Repair and the Lavender Tinge of Cold War-era U.S.-French Talk Radio”
Top Student Paper
Bernat Ivancsics
“‘Prying Loose the Information Lid’: The First Ten Years of FOIA in the United States”
Top Poster Award
Kevin Lerner
“Impudent Snobs: The Liebling Counter-Convention and the Rise of the Elite of American Journalism”
Top Reviewer Award
John Nerone
Top Paper
Brandon Storlie
“‘How Did They Ever Let Things Get to This?’: Protest Coverage and Wisconsin’s 1967 Dow Riot”
Top Student Paper
Julide Etem
“A History of Educational Film Center in Turkey”
Top Poster Award
Yuchao Zhao
“A Culture of Continuity: Intimacy Practices of Chinese Migrant Workers through a Prism of History”
Top Paper
Guobin Yang
“Media Memories and Media Generations: The Case of China’s Internet Bar Generation”
Top Student Paper
Thomas Macpherson
“Unearthing the United Artists Collection: The Contested Value of Archival Materials and the Production of Scholarship at the Wisconsin Centre for Film and Theatre Research”
Top Poster Award
Lori Roessner
“Jimmy Carter’s 1976 DNC ‘Love-In’”
Top Paper
Ana Howe Bukowski
“‘I Can't Believe I'm Meeting You:’ The Socio-Material Legacies of Radical Software”
Faculty Paper Award
Khorshed Alam
“The Changing Landscape of Bangladeshi Advertising: An Oral History of Mass Media”
Student Paper Award
Muira McCammon
“What Records Remain: Public-Sector Data Infrastructures and Traces of Tweets That Became Trash”
Top Poster Award
Melissa Greene-Blye
“War Chief, Friend of the President, Prophet, and Prohibitionist: A Case Study Examination of the Molding of the ‘Exemplar Indian’ in Historical Newspapers”
Top Paper Award
Eva Asboth
“How to research past global publics? A methodological approach combining transfer studies and communication studies”
Top Student Paper
Valentina Proust
“Beyond the Void: Reckoning with the Disappeared Detainees in Chilean Collective Memory”
Top Faculty Paper
Miira Hill & Cornelius Puschmann
“Nostalgic for a Better Democracy? How German Right-Wing Social Media Commentators (Mis)remember the Past”
Most Promising Research
Esperanza Herrero
“Marjorie Fiske (1914-1992) as a Trans-Paradigmatic Figure in Communication Research: Recovering Women to Disrupt Our Mainstream Historiographies”
Most Promising Research
Kathryn Montalbano
“Safe Harbor Protections: Shielding Ships and Speech in the United States from Nineteenth-Century Maritime Law to Contemporary Internet Policy”
Top Student Paper
Tahereh Rahimi
“The Institutionalization of Press Control in Iran During the Qajar Era”