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ARSTM Book Award

2025 Book Award Winner: Heather Woods

How Smart Homes Change Us Inside and Out. University of Alabama Press.

Honorable Mentions:

Danielle Endres, Nuclear Decolonization: Indigenous Resistance to High-Level Nuclear Waste Siting. Ohio State University Press

Donnie Sackey, Trespassing Natures: Species Migration and the Right to Space. Ohio State University Press.

Previous Book Award Winners

2024: Emily Winderman, Allison Rowland, and Jennifer Malkowski

Covid and… How to do Rhetoric in a Pandemic, Michigan State University Press, 2023.

2023: Armond R. Towns

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On Black Media Philosophy, University of California Press, 2022.

Honorable Mention:

  • Jenell Johnson, Every Living Thing, Penn State University Press, 2023.

2022: Stephanie R. Larson

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What It Feels Like: Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture, Penn State University Press, 2022.

2021: Allison L. Rowland

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Zoetropes and the Politics of Humanhood, The Ohio State University Press, 2020.

Honorable Mention:

  • Nathan R. Johnson, Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age University of Alabama Press, 2020.
  • Heidi Yoston Lawrence, Vaccine Rhetorics, The Ohio State University Press, 2020.

2020: John Lynch

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The Origins of Bioethics: Remembering When Medicine Went Wrong, Michigan State University Press, 2019.

Honorable Mention:

  • Emma Bloomfield, Communication Strategies for Engaging Climate Skeptics, Routledge, 2020.
  • Morgan G. Ames, The Charisma Machine, MIT Press, 2019.

2019: Christa Teston

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Bodies in Flux: Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty, University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Honorable Mention:

  • Amy Koerber, From Hysteria to Hormones: A Rhetorical History, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018.
  • Ian E. J. Hill, Advocating Weapons, War, and Terrorism: Technological and Rhetorical Paradox, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018.