News: Kairos Awards Announcement!

Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, is pleased to announce its 2024 award winners! Congratulations to the winners for their outstanding achievements. Thank you, also, to our award readers for their service!

Sara E. West (Middle Tennessee University, nominated by Dr. Adam R. Pope) has been awarded the 2024 Kairos Best Webtext Award for “Student Perceptions of Anonymous Applications” published in Kairos Issue 28.1. This award recognizes the best academic webtext published during the previous calendar year.

Eric J. York (Clarkson University, nominated by Michael Salvo) has received an Honorable Mention for the 2024 Kairos Best Webtext Award for “Deceptive by Design” published in Kairos Issue 27.2. This award recognizes the best academic webtext published during the previous calendar year.

The Digital Rhetoric Privacy Collective (DRPC) has been awarded the 2024 John Lovas Award recognizing an outstanding online project devoted to academic pursuits. Congratulations to its advisory board members, Charles Woods (Texas A&M University-Commerce), Gavin P. Johnson (Texas A&M University-Commerce), Morgan Banville (Massachusetts Maritime Academy), Chen Chen (Utah State University), Cecelia Shelton (University of Maryland at College Park), and Noah Wason (SUNY Binghamton).

Dogukan B. Ozgen (University of California Santa Barbara, nominated by Dr. Karen Lunsford) has been awarded the 2024 Gail E. Hawisher & Cynthia L. Selfe Caring for the Future Award, which provides a scholarship for first-time, underrepresented scholars to travel to the Computers and Writing conference.

Kit Snyder (Texas Christian University, nominated by Drs. Jason Helms, Wendi Sierra, and Dan Williams) has been awarded the 2024 Kairos Graduate Student and Contingent Faculty Award for Service, which recognizes activities that promote excellent computers and writing pedagogy, theory, and community building.

Will Chesher (Miami University, nominated by Tim Lockridge and Elizabeth Wardle) has been awarded the 2024 Kairos Graduate Student and Contingent Faculty Award for Teaching, which recognizes the use of computers and writing pedagogies in their classroom-based practice to promote student learning.

Elena Kalodner-Martin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Massachusetts Amherst) has been awarded a 2024 Kairos Graduate Student and Contingent Faculty Award for Scholarship, which recognizes a pattern of excellent scholarship and/or the promise of future excellent scholarship.

Sincerely,

Kristi McDuffie, Awards Coordinator

Cheryl Ball and Doug Eyman, Senior Editors