A prize of US$1,000 is awarded by the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR) for the best article published in Rhetorica during each biennium . The prize is announced at the Biennial Congress of the Society.
Past Winners
2019 Brandon Katzir, "The Truth of Reliable : Saadya Gaon, Arabic Rhetoric, and the Challenge to Rhetorical Historiography", in Rhetorica 35, 2. 161-188
2017 Travis D. Williams, "Mathematical Energeia: Rhetoric of Early Modern Mathematical Notation", in Rhetorica 34, 2: 163–211
2015 Emanuele Berti, Ricercatore universitario di Lingua e Letteratura Latina at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, for his article “Le controversiae della raccolta di Seneca il Vecchio e la dottrina degli status” in Rhetorica 32. 2. 99-147 https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.1525/rh.2014.32.2.99.pdf
2013 Brad L. Cook,"Swift-boating in Antiquity: Rhetorical Framing of the Good Citizen in Fourth-Century Athens," Rhetorica 30.3, 2012. 219-251. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/RH.2012.30.3.219
2011 Virginia Cox, “Leonardo Brunion Women and Rhetoric: De studiis et litteris Revisited,”Rhetorica 27.1, 2009. 47-75. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.1525/rh.2009.27.1.47.pdf
2009 Lahcen E. Ezzaher, “Alfarabi’s Book of Rhetoric: An Arabic- English Translation of Alfarabi’ sCommentary on Aristotle’s Rhetoric” in Rhetorica 26.4, 2008. 347-391.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.1525/rh.2008.26.4.347.pdf