Communication Studies’ Elizabeth Eger honored with three national awards

Elizabeth Eger holding her Early Career research award from the Ethnography Division.

Elizabeth K. Eger, assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Texas State University, has been honored with three national awards for her work.

Eger has received the 2022 Anita Taylor Outstanding Published Article Award from the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender (OSCLG). The award recognizes Eger’s article, “Co-constructing organizational identity and culture with those we serve: An ethnography of a transgender nonprofit organization communicating family identity and identification,” published in the International Journal of Business Communication. OSCLG provides a forum for professional discussion, presentation of research and demonstration of creative projects in the areas of communication, language and gender.

Eger received two career awards at the National Communication Association (NCA) Convention in New Orleans. She received an Ethnography Division Early Career Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to ethnographic research, and an Organizational Communication Division Outstanding Teaching Award (Tenure-Track), which honors superlative teaching in higher education in organizational communication.

The NCA advances communication as the discipline that studies all forms, modes, media and consequences of communication through humanistic, social scientific and aesthetic inquiry. NCA serves the scholars, teachers and practitioners who are its members by enabling and supporting their professional interests in research and teaching.