The Association for Writing Across the Curriculum and the WAC Clearinghouse are seeking nominations for awards that recognize contributions to the WAC community through scholarship and achievements.
Awardees will be recognized at the 2021 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference (IWAC). Winners will receive an engraved plaque; winners will also be listed on the AWAC website and receive a letter for their promotion and/or tenure files.
Originally, these awards were planned to be given at the 2020 IWAC Conference, with nominations due in early April. As the conference was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a new deadline will be set. Self-nominations are welcomed and encouraged. Nominations collected during 2019 will remain included.
Questions may be directed to Mike Palmquist (mike.palmquist@colostate.edu) and Michelle Cox (michelle.cox@cornell.edu).
See below for award criteria and nomination information for each award.
Publication Awards
These awards recognize significant contributions to WAC scholarship. All nominated publications must have been published in 2018, 2019, or 2020. To make a nomination, email a brief letter with the following information to the award committee chair: bibliographic information for the work being nominated; a brief (250 word) rationale for your nomination; if handy, the email address(es) of the author(s) of the work being nominated; if handy, a PDF of or link to an open-access version of the work being nominated. If the work is a non-open-access book, the award committee chair will contact the publisher for copies.
| Award | Description | Award Committee Chair |
| Best WAC Monograph | This award recognizes the best 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. | Susan Wolff Murphy, susan.murphy@tamucc.edu |
| Best WAC Edited Collection | This award recognizes the best edited collection that makes an exceptional contribution to WAC scholarship, including (but not limited to) WAC programming, administration, pedagogy, and impact. | David Russell, drrussel@iastate.edu |
| Best WAC Dissertation | This award recognizes the best dissertation that makes an exceptional contribution to WAC scholarship, including (but not limited to) WAC programming, administration, pedagogy, and impact. The dissertation must have been accepted by a degree-granting institution and the writer of the dissertation must have received the degree during 2018 or 2019. | Joan Mullin, jmulli40@uncc.edu |
| 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. | Mya Poe, m.poe@northeastern.edu |
| Best WAC Article or Chapter Focused on Pedagogy, Theory, or Practice | This award recognizes the best 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. | Heather Falconer, heather.falconer@curry.edu |
Achievement Awards
These awards recognize significant contributions of scholars who have made significant contributions to the field of WAC through scholarship, service, or innovative program administration. To make a nomination, email a brief letter with the following information to the award committee chair: the name of the nominee; a brief (250 word) rationale for your nomination; if handy, the email address of the nominee.
| Award | Description | Award committee chair |
| 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, service, and/or innovative program administration. | Bill Macauley, Jr., wmacauleyjr@unr.edu |
| Distinguished Fellow | This award recognizes distinguished scholars (i.e. scholars in field for 10 years plus) who have made significant contributions to the field of WAC through scholarship, service, or innovative program administration. | Brian Hendrickson, bhendrickson@rwu.edu |
| Diversity and Inclusion | This award recognizes scholars (i.e. graduate students, early career, and distinguished) who have promoted diversity and inclusion in the field of WAC through scholarship, service, or innovative program administration. | Regina McManigell Grijalva,drreginagrijalva@gmail.com |
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