Communication Assistant Professor Receives Outstanding Book Award

ARHU's Kristi Maddux wins 2011 book award from Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender.

ARHU's Kristi Maddux wins 2011 book award from Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender. Origionally posted on the Department of Communication website...

Assistant professor Kristy Maddux has received the 2011 Outstanding Book Award from the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender. The award is for The Faithful Citizen: Popular Christian Media and Gendered Civic Identities published by Baylor University Press. Read more about the book and view a video discussion with the author at www.kristymaddux.com.In The Faithful Citizen, Maddux argues that popular Christian media not only communicate avenues for civic engagement but do so in profoundly gendered terms. Her detailed interrogation of popular Christian movies, books, and television shows exposes five competing models of how Christians should behave in the civic sphere as their gendered selves.
 The award committee noted that Maddux's book "was chosen as the most thought provoking and well written out of a competitive pool of submissions." The committee was especially impressed, they revealed, with how Maddux's book "pushes the field to explore rhetoric, religion, and gendered identities."

Maddux will receive her award at the convention of the OSCLG, October 13th-16th in Evanston, Illinois, where she will also present a discussion of her research.