News: ARSTM 2026 Award Winners

Please join ARSTM leadership in congratulating this year’s Book and Article of the year award winners as well as the runners up!

Competition for this year’s awards was strong and these winners exemplify ARSTM members’ innovative and careful thinking.

Book of the Year
Winner: Ashley Cordes, Indigenous Currencies: Leaving Some for the Rest in the Digital Age (MIT Press, 2025)

Honorable Mention: Lisa L. Phillips, Olfactory Rhetoric: Sniffing Out Environmental Problems (Ohio State University Press, 2025)

Article of the Year
Winner: Priyanka Ganguly, "Maternal Nutrition Indicator Ambiguity: The Impact of Power Assemblages in Transnational Spaces of Communication Design," Technical Communication Quarterly 35, no.1 (2026): 1-20.

Honorable Mention: Rachael Jordan and Avery Edenfield, "Queer Potential in Professional Communication: ‘Queer Use’ & Terms of Service," Technical Communication Quarterly 34, no. 4 (2025): 455-471.

We’d also like to extend a special thank you to this year’s award committees. ARSTM runs on member service and this award wouldn’t be possible without their help!

Book of the Year:
Emily M. Winderman, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Donnie Johnson Sackey, University of Texas, Austin
Heather S. Woods, Kansas State University

Article of the Year:
S. Marek Mueller, Texas State University
Cecilia Cerja, Sewanee, University of the South
David Rooney, University of Wyoming
Jacob Greene, Arizona State University

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