awards

ACADEMIC HONORS

Boston College "Teacher of the Year" (awarded by Alpha Sigma Nu chapter) (2021)

Top Papers in ICA Sports Communication Interest Group (2021)

• • “The irreverent life and uncompromising death of Deadspin: Sports blogging as punk journalism”

The power of sports: Media and spectacle in American culture

• • Reviewed by: Quarterly Review of Film and Video (Mar 2021); The Journal of American Culture (Jun 2020); The New York Review of Books (Apr 2019)

Top Paper in ICA Media Industry Studies Interest Group (2019)

• • “Making (branded) news: The corporate co-optation of online journalistic production”

Bruce E. Gronbeck Political Communication Research Award (2018)

• • Hosted by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research

  • “Encoding the paranoid style inAmerican politics: ‘Anti-establishment’ discourse and power in contemporary spin” published in Critical Studies in Media Communication

Top Paper in NCA Communication & Sport Division (2018)

• • “The transformations in American sports journalism: Managing access and autonomy in the production of infotainment”

NCA Michael Pfau Outstanding Article Award (Top Article in Political Communication) (2016)

• • "The new media designs of political consultants: Campaign production in a fragmented era" published in Journal of Communication

Your ad here: The cool sell of guerrilla marketing

• • Media Ecology Association's Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form (2015)

  • NCA Visual Communication Division Book of the Year (2013)

  • Also reviewed by: Media International Australia (May 2014); The Journal of American Culture (Mar 2014); The Journal of Popular Culture (Dec 2014); Choice (Sep 2013); Inside Higher Ed (17 Jul 2013); Publisher's Weekly (11 Feb 2013)

NCA Gerald R. Miller Award (Top Doctoral Dissertation) (2011)

Top Paper in ICA Popular Communication Division (2011)

• • "The conquest of contemporary cool: Culture jamming, guerrilla marketing, and consumer governance"

NCA Donald P. Cushman Award Finalist (Top Student Paper) (2007)

Top Papers in NCA American Studies Division (2007)

• • "Ethos groceries and countercultural appetites: A case study of Whole Foods"

The Father Flynn Award (2002)

• • Highest G.P.A. in University of San Francisco graduating class

Graduate of the Year (2002)

• • University of San Francisco Department of Communication Studies

JOURNALISM HONORS

The Livingston Awards (2005)

• • Finalist, "Gambling on Iraq" (Houston Press)

  • Largest national reporting prize for journalists under 35

The Maggie Awards (2005)

• • Finalist, Best Consumer Feature: "Gambling on Iraq"

  • The Magazine Awards of the Western Publishing Association

The Lone Star Awards

• • Finalist, Feature Story: "Gambling on Iraq" (2005)

  • 1st Place, Student Print Category: "Godspell" (2004)

  • Finalist, Student Print Category: "Go, Baby, Go" (2004)

  • Texas statewide journalism prize