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Dr. Clifford Christians, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Dr. Linda Steiner, of the University of Maryland, are the winners of the 2011 James W. Carey Media Research Award competition sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research (www.cccsir.com).
Kristi Brownfield, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, is the First Place winner of the 2011 Carl J. Couch Internet Student Research Award.
Nicole L. Defenbaugh (Bloomsburg University) won the 2011 Denzin Award with her work, “Coming Out of the Ill (Water) Closet: Performing Illness Identity Along the Healthy/Ill Binary.”.
Brian Kaylor (James Madison University) won the 2011 Gronbeck Award with his book, Presidential Campaign Rhetoric in an Age of Confessional Politics.
Michael Ian Borer (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) won the 2011 Maines Award with the article, “From Collective Memory to Collective Imagination: Time, Place, and Urban Redevelopment.”