2015 PAD Award Winners are:

Wrage-Baskerville Award (top contributed paper)
Maegan Parker Brooks, Willamette University, “Embracing the Interruptive Voice: Rhetoric, Race, and Public School Deliberation.”

Robert Gunderson Award (top contributed student paper)
Paul McKean, University of Illinois, “Constituting an Economy of Heroes: The Rehabilitation of an Economic Idiom in Ronald Reagan’s 1981 Economic Recovery Campaign.”

Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award

Shawn J. Parry-Giles, University of Maryland, for Hillary Clinton in the News: Gender and Authenticity in American Politics (University of Illinois Press).

Benson-Campbell Dissertation Research Award

Michael J. Steudeman, University of Maryland

Top Paper Panelists, with Vice-Chair Lisa Keränen