Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, is pleased to accept nominations for its 2025 Awards at this submission link!
Visit the nomination form or the Kairos website to see details about the following awards, all due by March 15, 2025! Winners will be recognized at the May 2025 Computers and Writers Conference (need not be present to win).
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The Kairos Best Webtext Award for the best academic webtext published in the previous calendar year (the webtext does not have to be published in Kairos).
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The John Lovas Award for an outstanding online project (blog, podcast, etc.) devoted largely to academic pursuits.
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The Kairos Awards for Graduate Students and Contingent Faculty (teaching, scholarship, and service categories) to recognize outstanding contributions in teaching, scholarship, and service to the field of Computers and Writing by graduate students and contingent faculty.
We are also extremely pleased to announce the creation of this Mentorship Award to recognize the legacy of Bill Hart-Davidson.
The Bill Hart-Davidson Mentorship Award
Bill Hart-Davidson was one of the earliest supporters of Kairos, joining the inaugural editorial board and serving until his passing in 2024. In the field of writing studies, Bill was known for his kindness, his prescient consideration of future technological challenges such as AI and computer-based agents, and his ability to carefully consider an issue from all sides and rhetorically problem-solve and bridge gaps between people and ideas. Bill was a force for good in the world, and his philosophy of giving—"when in doubt, give more"—has become an aspirational model for us all. Bill was particularly known for his mentorship, which was indeed a kind of giving, and one that we all need at some points in our lives. He provided support, caring, politically savvy advice, and solid approaches for research and scholarship.
The Bill Hart-Davidson Mentoring Award honors Bill’s legacy by recognizing stellar individuals who (often quietly, and with little fanfare) provide the key supports that sustain us as teachers, as scholars, as designers and artists who work rhetorically to further our understanding of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy. Any member of our community can be nominated for this award; nominees need not be at any particular stage of their career to be considered. The key criterion is whether the nominee exhibits Bill’s philosophy of giving.
In your nomination letter and supporting documentation (if any), please address the following:
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Evidence of mentorship. Who has this person mentored and what forms has this mentorship taken? Where has the mentorship taken place? How have these activities impacted the mentee and computers and writing as a field?
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Evidence of giving. Mentorship, of course, involves giving time, and giving advice. But there may well be other kinds of giving that can be important. Please provide any narratives or other evidence of the nominee’s approach to giving.
Submission Guidelines
We invite you to nominate outstanding mentors by submitting nominations via this Google form and provide the following:
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The name of the nominee
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The nominee’s contact information
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A statement of nomination (either from an individual who knows the person well or a self-nomination)
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A current CV for the nominee
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Any supporting documentation (could be URLs for sites that contain the documentation or additional testimonials/narratives)