Kairos is pleased to announce its 2025 award winners! Congratulations to them for their outstanding achievements, and thanks, also, to our award readers for their service!
The 2025 Kairos Best Webtext Award, recognizing the best academic webtext published in the previous calendar year, was awarded to: S. Cavar and ulysses/constance bougie for “port-man-toes: the aroace – queercrip – transmad – neuroqueer erotics of digital collaboration” which you can find here (https://tinyurl.com/y2bz2az2) in Kairos 28.2!
And an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Kairos Best Webtext Award was awarded to: Joshua DiCaglio; Gwendolyn Inocencio, Jessie Cortez, Hannah Mailhos, and Connor Hearron for “Wikipedia as editorial microcosm: Stalled Wikipedia Articles and the Teaching of Applied Comprehensive Editing” which you can find here (https://tinyurl.com/3vpt8we4) in Kairos Issue 29.1!
The 2025 John Lovas Award recognizing an outstanding online project devoted to academic pursuits was awarded to Derek Mueller’s blog Earth Wide Moth, which you can find here: (https://www.earthwidemoth.com/blog/)
The 2025 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, was awarded to Thais Rodrigues Cons!
We are still seeking donations to support winners in future years, send funds via Venmo to Kairos Senior Editor @Cheryl-Ball-1 (mark as HSCF) or contact kairosrtp for more donation options.
The 2025 Kairos Graduate Student and Contingent Faculty Award for Service, recognizing activities that promote excellent computers & writing pedagogy, theory, & community building, was awarded to Elena Kalodner-Martin!
The 2025 Kairos Graduate Student and Contingent Faculty Award for Teaching, recognizing the use of computers & writing pedagogies in classroom-based practice to promote student learning, was awarded to Zakery R. Muñoz!
And finally, the 2025 Kairos Graduate Student and Contingent Faculty Award for Scholarship, recognizing a pattern of excellent scholarship and/or the promise of future excellent scholarship, was awarded to Mehdi Mohammadi!
Big congratulations to all our award winners!
– The Kairos Awards Team