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Outstanding Dissertation or Thesis Award

The AFA Outstanding Dissertation or Thesis Award recognizes the best dissertation or thesis in the theory and practice of argumentation and forensics completed in the previous calendar year.  The candidate must be a member of AFA.  To nominate a thesis or dissertation, a letter of nomination detailing the significance of the dissertation or thesis (usually from the project advisor), a copy of the table of contents, and a representative chapter of the completed study.  Electronic submissions are preferred

Send nominations and submissions for the 2010 awards to:

Jim Dimock
Minnesota State University, Mankato
james.dimock@mnsu.edu
2009

Crystal Lane Swift, "This House Would Ethically Engage a Critical Examination of Competition and Coach Leadership in NPDA Debate." Advisor: Andrew King
2004

Doyle Srader, "The Nuremberg doctors' trial: Framing collective memory through argument." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Georgia, 2003. Advisor: Ed Panetta.
   
2006 No award given
2007

James P. Dimock, "The Place of Parliamentary Debate in a Pedagogy of Argumentation," MFA Thesis, Department of Speech Communication, Minnesota State University-Mankato