Graduate alum Dr. Amber Kelsie (PhD, 2020), wins Critical and Cultural Studies Division Dissertation of the Year Award from the National Communication Association

Graduate alum Dr. Amber Kelsei was recently award the 2021 Cultural Studies Division Dissertation of the Year Award from the National Communication Association. Dr. Kelsie completed her award winning dissertation, “‘I Know Who You Are’: Antiblackness in the Speculative Rhetorics of Genetic Genealogy,” in the Spring of 2020, under the direction of Dr. Brent Malin, with committee members Caitlin Bruce, Paul Johnson, Karma Chavez, and Shanara Reid-Brinkley.  Dr. Kelsie will receive her award at the annual conference of the National Communication Association in November.