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2010
James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
Invoking the invisible hand : social security and the privatization debates by Robert Asen

Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Moving bodies : Kenneth Burke at the edges of language by Debra Hawee

2009
James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
Presidents creating the presidency : deeds done in words by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell & Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Presidents creating the presidency : deeds done in words by Karlyn Kohrs Campbel & Kathleen Hall Jamieson

2008
James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
No caption needed : iconic photographs, public culture, and liberal democracy by Robert Hariman & John Louis Lucaites

Diamond Anniversary Book Award
No caption needed : iconic photographs, public culture and liberal democracy by Robert Hariman & John Louis Lucaites; and Democracy as discussion : civic education and the American forum by William M. Keith

2007
Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression
The character of justice : rhetoric, law, and politics in the Supreme Court confirmation process by by Trevor Parry-Giles

James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
Toxic tourism : rhetorics of pollution, travel, and environmental justice by Phaedra C. Pezzullo

Diamond Anniversary Book Award
The character of justice : rhetoric, law, and politics in the Supreme Court confirmation process by by Trevor Parry-Giles

2006
James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
The lyceum and public culture in the nineteenth-century United States by Angela G. Ray

Diamond Anniversary Book Award
The lyceum and public culture in the nineteenth-century United States by Angela G. Ray

2005
Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression
Trumping religion : the new Christian right, the free speech clause, and the courts by Steven P. Brown

James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
Disciplining gender : rhetorics of sex identity in contemporary U.S. culture by John M. Sloop

Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Comparing media systems : three models of media and politics by Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini

2004
Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression
Free speech on trial : communication perspectives on landmark Supreme Court decisions by Richard A. Parker

James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
Signatures of citizenship : petitioning, antislavery, and women's political identity by Susan Zaeske

Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Picturing poverty : print culture and FSA photographs by Cara A. Finnegan

2003
Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression
Critiquing free speech : First Amendment theory and the challenge of interdisciplinarity by Matthew Bunker

James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
The Reconstruction desegregation debate : the politics of equality and rhetoric of place, 1870-1875 by Kirt H. Wilson

Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Postfeminist news : political women in media culture by Mary Douglas Vavrus

2002
Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression
Freedom of the air and the public interest : First Amendment rights in broadcasting to 1935 by Louise M. Benjamin

James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
Democratic dissent & the cultural fictions of antebellum America by Stephen J. Hartnett

Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Selling the free market : the rhetoric of economic correctness by James A. Aune

2000
James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
Speaking into the air : a history of the idea of communication by John Durham Peters

Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Angelina Grimké : rhetoric, identity, and the radical imagination by Stephen Howard Browne

1999
James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address
Rhetoric in ancient China, fifth to third century, B.C.E. : a comparison with classical Greek rhetoric by Xing Lu

Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Avoiding politics : how Americans produce apathy in everyday life by Nina Eliasoph
Remembering to forget : Holocaust memory through the camera's eye by Barbie Zelizer