Awards

CWPA Outstanding Scholarship Award Winners

On behalf of Jacob Babb, Chair of CWPA Outstanding Scholarship Award Committee, I'm pleased to announce the winners for 2021 and 2022.

2021

Amanda Fields for her article, “Composing an Anti- Racism and Social Justice Statement at a Rural Writing Center.”

Committee's comments:

Committee members were particularly impressed with the openness of your article about the
collaborative process for producing an anti-racist and social justice statement. One member notes
that your “approach allowed for productive discussion about what it means to be anti-racist,”
stating further that “using a statement such as this to dismantle racism seems productive, and
these methods could be applied elsewhere.” Another member writes, “I found myself wanting to
annotate and take notes in it the way a graduate student would when reading an opus.”

Iris Ruiz for her chapter, “Critiquing the Critical: The Politics of Race and Coloniality in Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies Research Traditions.”

Committee's comments:

Committee members were particularly impressed with your critique of existing methods in the
discipline combined with your model of curanderisma to push back against the inherent white
colonialism in the discipline. One committee member notes that they enjoyed how your chapter
“offered alternative methods for inclusive practices in our field.” Another member writes that
your chapter “provides both a critique of the ‘standard’ ways of performing research...and a
model for moving forward.”

2022

Margaret Weaver, Kailyn Shartel Hall , and Tracey Glaessgen for their article, “Challenging Assumptions about Basic Writers and Corequisites at Four-Year Institutions.”

Committee's comments:

Committee members were very impressed by your critique of the corequisite model and your
argument that institutions should take into account the needs and experiences of their own
students to inform administrative decisions. One committee member notes, “The exigence for
this piece could not be more dramatic and the authors do a great job of setting the stage for the
study.” Another member writes that this article demonstrates “a lot of what WPAs have been
saying for years: Students know themselves better than what placement tests can tell us.”

Congratulations to all the winners.

I'd like to thank committee members:

Jacob Babb, Chair
Holly Anderson
Kelly Blewett
Ginny Crisco
Fangzhi He
Wendy Hinshaw
Adam Phillips
Rachel Robinson-Zetzer
Ashley Yuckenberg

CWPA Graduate Research Award Winners

Posted on behalf of Kat O'Meara, CWPA Graduate Research Award Committee Chair.

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The Graduate Research Award committee is proud to announce the winner of the 2024 CWPA Graduate Research Award for Writing in WPA Studies:

Keira M. Hambrick, for her manuscript "Instructor Assumptions and Cultural Accountability in First-Year Writing Transfer"

"Instructor Assumptions and Cultural Accountability" seeks to understand how First-Year Writing instructors think about and engage students’ prior knowledge diversity as it transfers into writing classes. The committee was especially impressed by the author's thorough and robust mixed-methods approach and by the applicability of findings to classroom, program, and institutional levels. The manuscript also details important limitations, particularly in response to power and administrative instruction structures within the university. The committee found Hambrick's work to contribute to the empowerment of WPAs, instructors, and the writing studies discipline more broadly—to practice more radically inclusive and effective teaching of increasingly diverse student populations.

Keira M. Hambrick graduated from Ohio State University in May, 2023. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Miami University Regionals in Ohio and will be starting a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of English this fall at SUNY Buffalo State College.

We also extend congratulations to the author whose manuscript received honorable mention:

Madeline Crozier for her manuscript, "Graduate Student Instructors and the Politics of Writing Assessment: An Exploratory Study"

"Graduate Student Instructors" explores the writing assessment practices of GSIs to strengthen the discipline’s preparation to support the needs and challenges of graduate students, uncovering common challenges such as time management, ethical writing assessment, negotiating identity and authority, and providing feedback. Crozier's research suggests how writing programs can better support GSIs who teach FYC courses, namely by providing more comprehensive writing pedagogy education that supports the development of writing assessment literacy.

Madeline Crozier is a fourth-year PhD candidate in Rhetoric, Writing, and Linguistics doctoral program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Special thanks to members of the 2024 Grad Research Award committee, whose feedback to authors was thoughtful, detailed, encouraging, and productive:

Michael D. Donnelly

Joseph Franklin

Heather Listhartke

Andy Jiahao Liu

Jennifer Wilson

Joe Wilson

CWPA Kenneth Bruffee Award Winners

Outstanding Scholarship Award

Kenneth Bruffee Award

CWPA Graduate Research Award for Writing in WPA Studies

Best Book Award

POCC WPA-GO Research Award

CWPA Best Book Award Winners

On behalf of Christina Saidy, Chair of the CWPA Best Book Award Committee, I'm pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 award:

Materiality and Writing Studies: Aligning Labor, Scholarship and Teaching by Holly Hassel and Cassandra Phillips.

Congratulations, Holly and Cassandra.

Below are the committee's collective comments on the book:

Recognizing the unique expertise offered by two-year college writing instructors, who often work without a formal WPA, Materiality and Writing Studies focuses on the ways that contingency and material realities shape pedagogies and classrooms. The committee appreciated the inclusion of instructor voices narrating the effects of institutional changes and material stressors on their work and the work of their students.

The book included a combination of data driven explanation and anecdotal evidence, including the interludes from various instructors at the institution. The authors employ a mixed methods design to explore the visibility of scholarship on writing curriculum/programs in the field through the analysis of journals, centering an autoethnography conducted by two of the authors about their experiences teaching in the UW system and the evolution and dissolution of that program. The patterns it revealed and the holes in scholarship it identified are telling and important to the field in terms of identifying priorities for future research and intervention. The authors connect this study strongly to other conversations (graduate curricula, labor market in higher education, defunding and divestment in public higher education in the US) and make those connections coherent.

The book has an integrated focus on DEI -- especially as it relates to students served in community colleges and their social mobility. This book tells a compelling, persuasive story about the necessity of investing the field's energy into first year writing students, teachers, programs, curricula.

I'd like to thank the Best Book Award Committee members for their time and labor on that committee:

Christina Saidy (Chair), Arizona State University, Christina.saidy@asu.edu
Beth Boswell, University of Alabama in Huntsville, brb0035@uah.edu
Lynda Dexheimer, Rutgers University, lynda.dexheimer@rutgers.edu
Amy Hodges, University of Texas at Arlington, amy.hodges@uta.edu
Jennifer Kepka, Lance Community College, kepkaj@lanecc.edu
Kim Lacey, Saginaw Valley State University, krlacey@svsu.edu
Laura J. Panning Davies, SUNY Cortland, laura.davies@cortland.edu
Lynn Reid, Fairleigh Dickinson University, lreid@fdu.edu

Best,

Lilian

Awards

CWPA Outstanding Scholarship Award Winners

2021

Amanda Fields for her article, “Composing an Anti- Racism and Social Justice Statement at a Rural Writing Center.”

Iris Ruiz for her chapter, “Critiquing the Critical: The Politics of Race and Coloniality in Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies Research Traditions.”

2022

Margaret Weaver, Kailyn Shartel Hall , and Tracey Glaessgen for their article, “Challenging Assumptions about Basic Writers and Corequisites at Four-Year Institutions.”

Congratulations to all the winners.

CWPA Graduate Research Award Winners

Keira M. Hambrick, for her manuscript "Instructor Assumptions and Cultural Accountability in First-Year Writing Transfer"

Madeline Crozier for her manuscript, "Graduate Student Instructors and the Politics of Writing Assessment: An Exploratory Study"

CWPA Kenneth Bruffee Award Winners

2023 Winner

Lisa Mastrangelo and Erin Anderson's article “Examining Retention at the SLAC: The Impact of Race, Class, and Resource Use on First-Year Writing,” published in WPA issue 46.1 (Fall 2022), has won the Kenneth Bruffee Award for 2023!

This award recognizes exceptional scholarship published in WPA: Writing Program Administration each year. Committee members valued the research-based focus on retention for first-generation and students of color and believe that it will be useful for a variety of programmatic contexts.

2024 Winner

Kaitlin Clinnin's article “Practicing Equitable and Sustainable Trauma-Informed Writing Program Administration through Disability Justice,” published in WPA issue 47.1 (Fall 2023), has won the Kenneth Bruffee Award for 2024!

This award recognizes exceptional scholarship published in WPA: Writing Program Administration each year. Committee members were impressed with the advocacy for this vital and understudied aspect of WPA work and believe this piece will support administrators and teachers for years to come.

Outstanding Scholarship Award

Kenneth Bruffee Award

CWPA Graduate Research Award for Writing in WPA Studies

Best Book Award

POCC WPA-GO Research Award

CWPA Best Book Award Winners

Materiality and Writing Studies: Aligning Labor, Scholarship and Teaching by Holly Hassel and Cassandra Phillips.

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