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Dr. Kendall Gerdes Receives Outstanding Book Award

Sensitive Rhetorics BookJoin us in congratulating Dr. Kendall Gerdes for receiving the CCCC Outstanding Book Award for Sensitive Rhetorics: Academic Freedom and Campus Activism.

"Kendall Gerdes’s Sensitive Rhetorics is grounded in the spirit of our field: a deep commitment to supporting students and the work they hope to do in the world. Throughout Sensitive Rhetorics, Gerdes makes a powerful case against the dismissive and belittling claims that students are too sensitive and argues that it is our sensitivity that enables rhetorical transformation in the first place. We believe Sensitive Rhetorics is a vital and necessary advancement in how rhetoric and composition theory help us imagine new ways of being, thinking, and responding to the world around us."

- 2025 CCCC Selection Committee

Read more about her tremendous achievement here.

Congratulations, Dr. Gerdes!

Last Updated: 2/25/25