1. Journal Article of the Year Award 2022, Ethics Division, National Communication Association, “Peirce, Dewey, and the Aesthetics of Semioethics: Felt Qualities, Embodied Intensities, and the Precarity of Relational Fulfillment,” The American Journal of Semiotics, 37(3-4), 2022, 161-192.
2. Journal Article of the Year Award 2022, Philosophy of Communication Division, National Communication Association, “The Aesthetics of Communication: Poetic Iconicity, the Voice of Enunciation, and the Art of Conversation,” Language and Semiotic Studies, 7(3), 2022, 161-190.
3. Philosophy of Communication Division Outstanding Book Award 2021, National Communication Association, Recovering the Voice in Our Techno-Social World: On the Phone (Lexington Press, Rowman & Littlefield, 2020).
4. Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction 2021, Media Ecology Association for my book, Recovering the Voice in Our Techno-Social World: On the Phone (Lexington Press, Rowman & Littlefield, 2020).
5. Professor Emerita, The Pennsylvania State University, 2020.
6. Finalist, Research and Creative Accomplishment Award, Penn State York, 2020.
7. Finalist, University College Service Award, Penn State, Spring 2018.
8. Pennsylvania State University Alumni Teaching Fellow Award, Alumni Association, April 2016.
9. James H. Burness Award for Excellence in Teaching, Penn State York, April 2015.
10. Donald Ecroyd Research and Scholarship Award 2012, Pennsylvania Communication Association, October 2012.
11. Top Paper, Philosophy of Communication Division, Eastern Communication Association Convention, “A Feminist Hermeneutic of the Communicative Body,” Boston, MA, April 2012.
12. Top Article Award 2011, Philosophy of Communication Division, National Communication Association, “Recovering the Voice of Embodied Dialogue: Edward Sapir’s Contribution to Communicology,” The International Journal of Communication, special issue on Normative Foundations of Cultural Dialogue, 20(1-2), 2010: 9-34.
13. Top Paper, the Philosophy of Communication Division, National Communication Association Conference, “What E-Prime “is Not:” A Semiotic Phenomenological Reading,” San Francisco, CA, November 2010.
14. Faculty Academic Advisor of the Year Award, Penn State York, 2005.
15. Fellow, International Communicology Institute (elected), July 2000. The ICI is a consortium of scholars and professional practitioners of Communicology from around the world.