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National Communication Association 2026

November 19, 2026 / New Orleans, LA

We're celebrating authors, editors, and friends of the press at NCA 2026!

Browse new books and journal issues in communication below, or check out our complete list in the field.

Use conference coupon code SCF26 to save 40% on books and journal issues when you order on our website through December 31, 2026. Customers in the UK and Europe can order books with this code when ordering from Mare Nostrum Group.

If you are looking to connect with any of our editors about your book project, see our editors’ specialties and contact information. To submit a book proposal, consult our submissions guidelines and submission portal.

Cover of Cleansing the Nation features a photograph of people gathered holding red and white flags. There is smoke around the crowd and a dark cloud of smoke rising in the background.
Cleansing the Nation

India, the Hindu Modern, and Mediations of Gender

Raka Shome

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Winner of the 2026 Teresa Award for the Advancement of Feminist Scholarship, ICA

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On the Way to Theory

Lawrence Grossberg

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Unspooled

How the Cassette Made Music Shareable

Rob Drew

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Winner of the 2026 Popular Media and Culture Division’s Outstanding Book Award, ICA

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The Center Cannot Hold

Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO

Jenna N. Hanchey

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Co-Winner of the 2024 Outstanding Monograph Award, Organizational Communication Division, NCA; Chapter 3 ("Haunted Reflexivity") has been named a co-winner of the 2024 Ellis-Bochner Autoethnography and Personal Narrative Research Award, SSSI, NCA

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Media Hot and Cold

Nicole Starosielski

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