Sponsored by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Affiliate of the National Communication Association
CALL FOR AWARD APPLICATIONS
The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI), affiliate of the National Communication Association (NCA), announces an annual competition for the Ellis-Bochner Award for best published article, essay, or book chapter in Autoethnography and Personal Narrative Research. The SSSI-NCA Affiliate welcomes nominations/submissions of published works that advance, reflect, and/or expand perspectives on autoethnography and/or personal narrative in the spirit of Ellis and Bochner’s scholarship. Submitted works will be evaluated in terms of the following criteria: (1) originality; (2) creativity and quality of narration; (3) evocative writing; (4) engagement with human emotionality and subjectivity; and (5) significance of contribution to the field and/or to social justice. The award review committee welcomes publications that experiment with novel forms of expressing lived experience, including literary, performative, autobiographical, poetic, multi-voiced, dialogic, and co-constructed representations of lived experience.
Evaluation will be administered by the following review committee:
Dr. Bryant Keith Alexander, Loyola Marymount University
Dr. Jay Baglia, DePaul University
Dr. Sandra Faulkner, Bowling Green State University
Dr. Donna Henson, Bond University
Eligibility: Single and co-authored works published in any academic or trade outlet. To be considered, a submission must have a publication date within the two calendar years prior to the year the award is given (2022 and 2023).
Method for submission: Those interested should send a PDF of their work, with a short abstract and a cover letter including the e-mail addresses and institutional affiliations of the authors as attachments to pruitjc@sfasu.edu
The application deadline is June 30, 2024. The award winner will be notified by November 1, 20224
If you have questions and comments about the award, please contact John Pruit at pruitjc@sfasu.edu
Past Award Winners
2023: Jay Baglia, “The Ontology of Oncology: Navigating Cyborgs and Assemblages Through Cancer Treatment”
2022: Julie-Ann Scott, “Disrupting Compulsory Performances: Snapshots and Stories of Masculinity, Disability, and Parenthood in Cultural Currents of Daily Life“
2021: Aisha Durham, “Wounded: Diagnosis (for a) Black Woman”
2020: Bryant Keith Alexander, Ayshia Elizabeth Stephenson-Celadilla, Katty Alhayek, Porntip Israsena Twishime, Timothy Sutton, Carmen Herna ́ndez Ojeda, and Claudio Moreira, “‘I’m Sorry My Hair is Blocking Your Smile’: A Performative Assemblage and Intercultural Dialogue on the Politics of Hair and Place”
2019: Aaron Dickinson Sachs, “Trying Tight or Splitting Up: An Adult’s Perspective of His Parents’ Same-sex Relationship Dissolution”
2018: Renata Ferdinand, “Remember Me: An Interlocking Narrative of Black Women’s Past and Present”
2017: Patrick Santoro, “Queerscape: Embodying Landscape and Rupture in Auto/ethnography”
2016: Nathan Hodges, “The American Dental Dream”
2015: Danielle Stern, “‘He Won’t Hurt Us Anymore’: A Feminist Performance of Healing for Children Who Witness Domestic Violence”
2014: Julie Novak, “Barren and Abandoned: Our Representations Left Unshared and Uncharted”
2013: Dustin Bradley Goltz, “Frustrating the ‘I’: Critical Dialogic Reflexivity with Personal Voice”
2012: Sophie Tamas, “Autoethnography, Ethics, and Making Your Baby Cry”
2011: Desireé D. Rowe, “‘I’ve Should’ve Done Target Practice’: Why Valerie Solana Missed”
2010: Larry Russell, “Learning to Walk”
2009: Nicole Defenbaugh, “‘Under Erasure’: The Absent Ill Body in Doctor Patient Dialogue”
2008: W. Benjamin Myers, “Straight and White: Talking with my Mouth Full”
2007: Christopher N Poulos, “The Ties that Bind Us, the Shadows that Separate Us: Life and Death, Shadow and (Dream)story”