Dawn O Braithwaite, Willa Cather Professor and Chair of Communication Studies, will receive the James Ferris Award for Contributions to Communication and Disability Studies from the National Communication Association Disability Issues Caucus (2015).
Dawn and co-honoree Teresa Thompson, University of Dayton, are two of the earliest disability communication researchers in the communication discipline and published the Handbook of Communication and People with Disabilities: Research and Application. The selection committee “recognized their important contributions to the field.”
The award will be presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association in Las Vegas in November.
