The Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine’s (ARSTM) Article of the Year Award recognizes the most outstanding rhetoric of science and technology-related article published the preceding calendar year.
The award committee is now accepting applications for works published in the 2020 calendar year!
Criteria for selection include:
- How well the article extends and/or enacts practical and theoretical knowledge related to the rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine
- The article’s potential for cross-disciplinary fertilization and/or public engagement
- The article’s potential for teaching future generations of rhetoric of science, technology, and medicine scholars
- The overall quality of writing and thinking
Nominations should be sent by someone well acquainted with the nominee’s work. Self-nominations are encouraged. The nomination must include:
- A cover letter recommending the article for the award (limited to two pages and providing a detailed rationale for the nomination)
- A copy of the article being nominated
Note: Lead authors who have won previously cannot be nominated again within 5 years.
Submission deadline: Sunday, August 15, 2021
To submit, upload materials to this Qualtrics survey.
2021 award committee chair: Sarah Singer
Previous Awardees
2019
Jennifer Edwell, Sarah Singer, Jordynn Jack
Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Edwell, M., Singer, S., & Jack, J. (2017). Healing Arts: Rhetorical Techne as Medical (Humanities) Intervention. Technical Communication Quarterly, 27(1), 50-63. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2018.1425960
2018
Melissa Carrion
Department of Writing and Linguistics, Georgia Southern University
Carrion, M. (2017). “You need to do your research”: Vaccines, contestable science, and maternal epistemology. Public Understanding of Science, 27(3), 310-324. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662517728024
Katy Rothfelder and Davi Johnson Thornton
Department of Communication Studies, Southwestern University
Rothfelder, K. & Johnson Thornton, D. (2017). Man interrupted: Mental illness narrative as a rhetoric of proximity. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 47(4), 359-382. https://doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2017.1279343
2017
Bridie McGreavy
Department of Communication and Journalism, University of Maine
McGreavy, B. (2016). Resilience as discourse. Environmental Communication, 10(1), 104-121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2015.1014390
2016
Judy Z. Segal
Department of English, University of British Columbia
Segal, J. Z. (2015). The rhetoric of female sexual dysfunction: Faux feminism and the FDA. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 187(12). doi: 10.1503/cmaj.150363
2015
Michelle Gibbons
Department of Communication, University of Cincinnati
Gibbons, M. (2014). Beliefs about the mind as doxastic inventional resource: Freud, neuroscience and the case of Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 44(5), 427-448.
Lauren R. Kolodziejski
Department of Communication, California Polytechnic State University
Kolodziejski, L. R. (2014). Harms of hedging in scientific discourse: Andrew Wakefield and the origins of the autism vaccine controversy. Technical Communication Quarterly, 23(3), 165-183.
2014
John Lynch
Department of Communication, University of Cincinnati
Lynch, J. (2013). “‘Prepare to believe’: The Creation Museum as embodied conversion narrative. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 16(1).
2013
Risa Applegarth
English Department, University of North Carolina Greensboro
Applegarth, R. (2012). Rhetorical scarcity: Spatial and economic inflections on genre change. College Composition and Communication, 63(3), 453-483.
Kenneth Walker
English Department, University of Arizona
Lynda Walsh
English Department, University of Nevada, Reno
Walker, K. & Walsh, L. (2012). “‘No one yet knows what the ultimate consequences may be’: How Rachel Carson transformed scientific uncertainty into a site for public participation in Silent Spring. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 26(1), 3-34.
2012
S. Scott Graham
English Department, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Graham, S. S. (2011). “Dis-ease or disease? Ontological rarefaction in the
medical-industrial complex. Journal of Medical Humanities, 32(3), 167-187.