Pitt Communication Professor Awarded NCA 2010 Golden Anniversary Monograph Award

Lester C. Olson’s monograph is recognized as “a significant contribution to scholarship in visual rhetoric”

PITTSBURGH—Lester C. Olson, a professor in the University of Pittsburgh Department of Communication, received the Golden Anniversary Monograph Award from the National Communication Association (NCA) for his essay “Pictorial Representations of British America Resisting Rape: Rhetorical Re-circulation of a Print Series Portraying the Boston Port Bill of 1774” (Rhetoric & Public Affairs, December 2009). 

Created in 1964 to mark NCA’s 50th anniversary, the Golden Anniversary Monograph Awards are presented to the most outstanding scholarly monographs published during the previous calendar year. Up to three awards may be given each year. 

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