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2024

  • Recipient, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Outstanding Scholarship Award, CSCA.

  • Recipient, Top Paper, Health Communication Division, CSCA.

  • Recipient, Top Overall Paper, Health Communication Division, CSCA.

  • Recipient, Top Overall Paper, Interpersonal and Family Comm. Division, CSCA.

2023

  • Recipient, Leslie A. Baxter Early Career Award, Family Communication Division, NCA.

  • Recipient, Early Career Award, Interpersonal Communication Division, NCA.

  • Recipient, Outstanding Dissertation Award, Interpersonal Communication Division, NCA.

  • Recipient, Bill Eadie Distinguished Scholarly Article Award, Applied Communication Division, NCA.

2022

  • Recipient, Outstanding Dissertation Award, Office of Theses and Dissertations, USF. Award given to only three dissertations completed at USF annually.

  • Recipient, Outstanding Dissertation Award, Interpersonal Communication Division, International Communication Association

  • Top 4 Paper, Health Communication Division, International Communication Association.

  • Top 4 Paper, Interpersonal Communication Division, International Communication Association.

2021

  • Recipient, Nancy Burrell Award, Interpersonal and Family Communication Division, Central States Communication Association. This award is presented to the author(s) of the Top Student paper submitted to the Interpersonal and Family Communication Interest Group.

  • Top Overall Paper, Health Communication Division, Central States Communication Association.

2020

  • Recipient, Franklin H. Knower Outstanding Article Award, Interpersonal Communication Division, National Communication Association. This award honors an outstanding article or book chapter, authored or co-authored by a member of the Interpersonal Communication Division, that has made a significant contribution to the field of interpersonal communication. It need not have been published in an NCA journal (e.g., publications in other communication, psychology, or close relationships journals are eligible) and must have been published no earlier than five years ago.

  • Top Four Paper & Top Student Paper, Family Communication Division, National Communication Association.

  • Recipient, 2020 Childfree Person of the Year Award, International Childfree Day Association. Honors a person who advocates for the acceptance of the childfree choice both personally and professionally. Coverage of Award: International Childfree Day Association

  • Participant, Doctoral Honors Seminar, National Communication Association. The National Communication Association’s Doctoral Honors Seminar brings together promising doctoral students and distinguished faculty members from across the discipline and around the nation to discuss current topics in Communication.

  • Recipient, Provost’s Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Teaching Assistant, Academy of Teaching and Learning Excellence, University of South Florida. This award recognizes the exemplary contributions to undergraduate education. Four university-wide awards are given annually.

  • Top Student Paper Award, Communication Ethics, Activism, Social Justice Division, Central States Communication Association.

2019

  • Recipient, Donald P. Cushman Memorial Award for Outstanding Scholarship, National Communication Association. The Donald P. Cushman Memorial Award recognizes the top-ranked student-authored paper from all NCA units that competitively rank papers for programming. Coverage of Award: Purdue University, UW-Green Bay, NCA, USF

  • Recipient, Arthur P. Bochner Award for Outstanding Achievement in Doctoral Studies, University of South Florida. This award is given each year to an outstanding Ph.D. student, as determined by the Department's Honors and Awards Committee from faculty nominations. Coverage of Award: Department of Communication

  • Recipient, Outstanding Qualitative Master’s Thesis Award, Master’s Education Section, National Communication Association. This award is given each year to one top qualitative master’s thesis as competitively selected by the Master’s Education Section award committee.

  • Recipient, Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award, Organization for the Society of Language, Women, and Gender. This award is given each year to one outstanding thesis concerned with communication, language and gender.

  • Top Three Finalist, Amanda L. Kundrat International/National Communication Assn. Health Communication Thesis of the Year Award. This award is given jointly by the International and National Communication Associations to the top-rated thesis completed in the prior year.

  • Top Four Paper & Top Student Paper, Family Communication Division, National Communication Association.

  • Top Student Paper, Communication Theory Division, Central States Communication Association.

2018

  • Top Three Paper, Family Communication Pre-conference, International Communication Association.

  • Top Paper All Conference, Purdue Graduate Student Association Conference

  • Top Paper and Top Student Paper, Health Communication Division, Central States Communication Association.