For more information on award winners, visit: https://wac.colostate.edu/community/awards/recipients-2023/
Best WAC Monograph
This award recognizes an authored book (including books by multiple authors) that makes an exceptional contribution to WAC scholarship, including (but not limited to) WAC programming, administration, pedagogy, and impact.
Heather M. Falconer, University of Maine: Masking Inequality with Good Intentions: Systemic Bias, Counterspaces, and Discourse Acquisition in STEM Education
The book is available in open-access formats on the WAC Clearinghouse.
Best WAC Edited Collection
This award recognizes an edited collection that makes an exceptional contribution to WAC scholarship, including (but not limited to) WAC programming, administration, pedagogy, and impact.
Cristina Hanganu-Bresch, University of the Sciences, Michael J. Zerbe, York College of Pennsylvania, Gabriel Cutrufello, York College of Pennsylvania, and Stefania M. Maci, University of Bergamo (Eds.): The Routledge Handbook of Scientific Communication
View the book at Routledge.
Honorable Mention: Chris M. Anson, North Carolina State University, and Pamela Flash, University of Minnesota (Eds.): Writing Enriched Curricula: Models of Faculty-Driven and Departmental Transformation
The committee also recognizes Writing Enriched Curricula: Models of Faculty-Driven and Departmental Transformation (The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado), edited by Chris M. Anson and Pamela Flash, with an honorable mention. This is an excellent resource for WAC faculty looking to bring writing-enriched curriculums to their institutions as it combines both big-picture discussions of frameworks as well as specific accounts and examples.
The book is available in open-access formats on the WAC Clearinghouse.
Outstanding WAC Dissertation
This award recognizes a dissertation that makes an exceptional contribution to WAC scholarship, including (but not limited to) WAC programming, administration, pedagogy, and impact.
Lauriellen Stankavich, Southern Adventist University
Best WAC Article or Chapter Focused on Research
This award recognizes a research-based article or chapter that makes an exceptional contribution to WAC. Nominated work should primarily offer the methodology and results of a research study, even if the findings have programmatic, theoretical, or pragmatic implications.
Dana Driscoll and Omar Ahmed Yacoub, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
“Threshold Genres: A 10-Year Exploration of a Medical Writer’s Development and Social Apprenticeship Through the Patient SOAP Note” reports on a case study—the longest longitudinal study in the field.
Best WAC Article or Chapter Focused on Pedagogy, Theory, or Practice
This award recognizes an article or chapter that makes an exceptional contribution to WAC scholarship in the areas of pedagogy, theory or practice. Nominated work should primarily offer us theoretical ways of approaching WAC work, discussions of program design and operation, or insights regarding pedagogy, even if this work is based in research.
Angela Rounsaville, University of Central Florida, Rebecca Lorimer Leonard, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Rebecca S. Nowacek, Marquette University
“Relationality in the Transfer of Writing Knowledge”
Achievement Awards
These awards recognize contributions to the field of WAC through scholarship, service, or achievement.
Early Career Contributions to the Field
This award recognizes early career scholars (i.e. graduate students and scholars in the first nine years of their academic career) who have made significant contributions to the field of WAC through scholarship or service.
Lindsey Harding, University of Georgia
Outstanding Contributions to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Field
This award recognizes scholars who have promoted diversity and inclusion in the field of WAC through scholarship and service.
Swan Kim, Fordham University, and LaKeisha McClary, George Washington University
Please also view our Distinguished Fellows Awards winners: https://wac.colostate.edu/community/awards/fellows/
Dr. Kristen Welch, Professor of English, Spartanburg Methodist College
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