Congratulations to the two co-winners of RhetCanada’s Michael Purves-Smith Student Paper Award for 2021:
- Maab Alkurdi, for her paper “Bitterly Rhetorical: Terror in the Autobiography of Zainab Salbi”
- Shannon Lodoen, for her paper “Where is ‘Here’ and Who is ‘We’? Rhetorically Constructing a Unified Canada”
Congratulations as well to Maša Torbica, who won the Honourable Mention prize for her paper “Connective Activism: #Ottawapiskat and the Third Space of Sovereignty”
There were a number of outstanding papers this year, so the committee’s work was especially challenging. Thanks to all who presented!