The purpose of this competition is to encourage and give recognition to undergraduate-level scholarship in communication and to offer undergraduate students the opportunity to present their work at the 74th Annual Pennsylvania Communication Association (PCA) Convention.
Graduate Winners
Professional Civility During an Era of Institutional Change Within Museums
Susan Carr, Duquesne University
Reconceiving the Internal Brand in the Postmodern Moment as Communication in a Burkean and Bakhtinian Comedic Frame
Joshua Hill, Duquesne University
Undergraduate Winners
One Nation under God: The Rhetoric of American Exceptionalism in the Inaugural Address of Barack Obama
Joshua Pilat, Penn State University-New Kensington
Hypochondria as a Problem of Language
Allison Blumling, Juniata College