Congratulations AAAS Faculty member Charles Athanasopoulos ("Dr. A") on recently receiving two major awards from the National Communication Association: 

• The 2026 New Investigator Award from the NCA Critical/Cultural Studies Division, given to "an emerging scholar who has taken a leadership role in CCSD by setting a new research agenda for critical and cultural studies." He previously won the 2025 CCSD Book of the Year Award for Black Iconoclasm (2024), and the 2023 CCSD Outstanding Article Award for his article on "Fanonian Slips."
   
• The 2026 Community Engagement Award from the NCA Activism and Social Justice Division, which "honors a division member who has engaged in collective action aimed at community engagement [...] that transcends the academy, going above and beyond research and teaching to impact communities in need." This award reflects Dr. A's work with the Puerto Rican Independence Party, the Black Rhetoric & Culture Collective, and the Columbus Community Abolition Collective.