Merrill Whitburn, currently Professor Emeritus and formerly Louis Ellsworth Laflin Professor of English and, for 13 years, Chair of the Department of Language, Literature, and Communication, has won the Everett Lee Hunt Award of the Eastern Communication Association for his book "America's Great Age of Rhetoric, 1770-1860: Advocacy, Conceptualization, Institutionalization" (2024). He will be presented the award at the annual ECA Convention in Buffalo on March 29. Hunt was a notable professor of rhetoric at Cornell University.