Awards presented at the 2002 Triennial Meeting of the Kenneth Burke Society

Lifetime Achievement Award: Timothy Crusius

Distinguished Service Award: Clarke Rountree

Emerging Scholar Award: Debra Hawhee

Top Competitive Paper: Phillip Arrington, "Theory as Verbal Act": A Burkeian Exploration of Theory's Relationship to Writing Research"

Top Competitive Student Paper, Elizabeth Weiser, "A Literary Critique of Life: Kenneth Burke's Dramatism as an Alternative to the New Criticism in America at War"