At the 2025 Symposium, we announced several awards related to the RHM Symposium or the RHM Community.

Barbara Heifferon Graduate Student Fellowship

Given to the top paper by a graduate student at the RHM Symposium. Named in honor of Barbara Heifferon, who is known to many for her tireless commitment to graduate education. Graduate students who submit works-in-progress will automatically be considered for this award.

2025 Winner: Caitlin Baulch, “Posting for Reproductive Justice: Tactical Technical Communication and Healthcare Experts”

Judy Segal Top Paper Award

Given to the top paper submitted to the RHM Symposium, and named in honor of one of the founding mothers of RHM. Works-in-progress submissions are automatically considered for this award.

2025 Winner: Melissa, Guadrón, “The Whys & Wherefores: An Analytical Framework for Diagnosing Neoliberal Epideictic”

Mary Lay Schuster Mentoring Award

In honor of the model of mentorship and generosity, we have created this award and named it for Mary Lay Schuster.

2025 Winner: Emily Winderman

Sue Wells Reviewer Award

For a fuller explanation of the rationale for this award, see the introduction to the 3.3. issue of RHM.

2025 Winners: Julie Homchick Crowe and Janine Butler

The Edwina L. Sanders Award for Outstanding Work on the Rhetoric of Health Inequities

See here for more information on this award.

2025 Winners (for an article published in Rhetoric of Health & Medicine in 2024): McKinley Green, Val Crutcher, Océane Lune, Munira Mutmainna, Raquelle Lenoir, Andrew Schuster, Gage Urvina, and Calla Brown, “Participatory and Narrative Approaches to Research with Marginalized Communities”