Dear Colleagues,
The CWPA Graduate Research Award Committee is pleased to announce its 2025 award winner and honorable mention recipient! Please join us in celebrating their outstanding achievements.
The 2025 CWPA Graduate Research Award for Writing in WPA Studies, recognizing outstanding scholarship by graduate students writing on issues in writing program administration, was awarded to: Ethan Voss for "Leading Through Uncertainty: Navigating Personal and Collective Crises as Writing Program Administrators."
Ethan Voss is a second-year PhD student in the Joint Program in English and Education (JPEE) at the University of Michigan. Throughout his academic career, Ethan has served as the Graduate Assistant of Michigan State University’s First-Year Writing Program and as a member of WPA-GO’s Mentorship Committee. His research interests include writing program administration, first-year writing, teacher education, and critical writing pedagogies.
An Honorable Mention for the 2025 CWPA Graduate Research Award was awarded to: Jagadish Paudel for "Rhetoric of Multilingualism: WPA’s Initiatives in Enacting Linguistic Justice."
Jagadish Paudel, Ph.D. (University of Texas at El Paso), is a Postdoctoral Writing Fellow at Clemson University, South Carolina, US. His work focuses on second language writing and multilingual writers, writing program administration, Non-Western rhetorics, and Generative AI. With experience across Nepal, the U.S.–Mexico border, and South Carolina, he brings a transnational perspective to writing studies. He is the immediate past Chair and current mentor of the WPA-GO. He also serves as an editor for the Practices & Possibilities book series at the WAC Clearinghouse.
Big congratulations to Ethan and Jagadish!
The 2025 CWPA Graduate Research Award Committee
Andy Jiahao Liu (Chair), University of Arizona
Michael D. Donnelly, Ball State University
Joseph Franklin, New York City College of Technology
Callie Kostelich, Texas Tech University
Heather Listhartke, Winthrop University
Jennifer Wilson, Rice University
Joseph Wilson, Syracuse University