About the Dallas Smythe Award
The Dallas Smythe Award is given in memory of one of the great pioneers of the study of the political economy of communications and one of the great leaders in the struggle for democratic communications. At each conference, the Union for Democratic Communications honors a critical media scholar/activist whose work exhibits the spirit of engagement, democracy, teaching, and feistiness to which the UDC is committed.
Previous Dallas Smythe Award Recipients
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Safiya Noble
2023
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Chenjerai Kumanyika
2021
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George Ciccariello-Maher
2019
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Sut Jhally
2018
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Deepa Kumar
2016
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Robert A. Hackett
2015
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Yuezhi Zhao
2013
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John Downing
2012
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Robert. W. McChesney
2010
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Peter Phillips
2009
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DeeDee Halleck
2007
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Manjunath Pendakur
2006
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Vincent Mosco
2004
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Edward S. Herman
2002
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Janet Wasko
2001
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Eileen Meehan
1999
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Oscar H. Gandy, Jr
1998
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Thomas Guback
1996
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Santiago Alvarez
1993
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Herbert Schiller
1990