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Florianne Jimenez, a current doctoral student in Rhetoric and Composition, has won the Gerard A. Hauser Award from the Rhetoric Society of America. The Hauser Award is a national award presented to an outstanding graduate student essay, to be delivered at the biennial Rhetoric Society of America conference.

Jimenez's paper, "The Sounds of Home: Ambient Sound and Necropolitics in Two NPR Podcasts,” centers on NPR’s coverage of drug-related extrajudicial killings in the Philippines under President Rodrigo Duterte. In her piece, she argues that ambient sound and podcasts offer new possibilities for distant audiences to consider violence.

She will present her paper at the 2018 Rhetoric Society of America Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the end of May, and will also be recognized during the awards ceremony.