The Coalition sponsors three awards:
* The Kathleen Ethel Welch Outstanding Article Award
* The Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award
* The Nan Johnson Outstanding Graduate Student Award
The Kathleen Ethel Welch Outstanding Article Award
The Kathleen Ethel Welch Outstanding Article Award is presented biannually in odd-numbered years for work in the field of composition and rhetoric to recognize outstanding scholarship and research in the areas of feminist pedagogy, practice, history, and theory. The award carries a $100.00 honorarium and will be presented biannually at the Wednesday evening meeting of the Coalition at the Conference on College Composition and Communication.
An eligible work must have been published in the two years previous to the year of the award. (For example, a work eligible for the 2011 award will have been published in calendar year 2009 or 2010.) Single or multiple authored articles are eligible. We welcome nominations from authors, editors, publishers, or readers. To be eligible for the award, a nominee must be a member of CWSHRC at the time of nomination.
CWSHRC Award Committee Review Criteria:
* Is the work relevant to and may it be situated within the broadly defined fields of feminist research in Composition and Rhetoric?
* Does the work demonstrate a fair and balanced research agenda in the form of feminist inquiry: archival, historical, classroom-based, community based, empirical, or theoretical work?
* Is the need for this research within the field clear and compelling?
* Is this research problem couched within existing scholarship of the field?
* Does the scholarship provide a framework by which the field may be advanced by other researchers?
* Does the work make a substantial contribution to the field?
Nominations must be received by January 1 of the award year (eg 2011 for the 2011 award) must include three (3) copies of the article (pdfs or photocopies of the printed article) and a brief (500 words) nominating statement.
Barbara L’Eplattenier
Dept of Rhetoric and Writing
University of Arkansas–Little Rock
2801 S. University Ave
Little Rock, AR 72204
Contact Barb L’Eplattenier (bleplatt [at] ualr.edu) for additional information.
The Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award
The Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award is presented biannually in even-numbered years for work in the field of composition and rhetoric to recognize outstanding scholarship and research in the areas of feminist pedagogy, practice, history, and theory. The award carries a $100.00 honorarium and will be presented biannually at the Wednesday evening meeting of the Coalition at the Conference on College Composition and Communication.
An eligible work must have been published in the two years previous to the year of the award. (For example, a work eligible for the 2010 award will have been published in calendar year 2008 or 2009.) Single or multiple authored books, as well as edited volumes, are eligible. We welcome nominations from authors, editors, publishers, or readers. To be eligible for the award, a nominee must be a member of CWSHRC at the time of nomination.
CWSHRC Award Committee Review Criteria:
* Is the work relevant to and may it be situated within the broadly defined fields of feminist research in Composition and Rhetoric?
* Does the work demonstrate a fair and balanced research agenda in the form of feminist inquiry: archival, historical, classroom-based, community based, empirical, or theoretical work?
* Is the need for this research within the field clear and compelling?
* Is this research problem couched within existing scholarship of the field?
* Does the scholarship provide a framework by which the field may be advanced by other researchers?
* Does the work make a substantial contribution to the field?
Nominations must be received by January 1 of the award year (eg 2010 for the 2010 award) and must include three (3) copies of the book and a brief (500 words) nominating statement.
Barbara L’Eplattenier
Dept of Rhetoric and Writing
University of Arkansas–Little Rock
2801 S. University Ave
Little Rock, AR 72204
Contact Barb L’Eplattenier (bleplatt [at] ualr.edu) for additional information.
The Nan Johnson Outstanding Graduate Student Award
The Nan Johnson Outstanding Graduate Student Award is presented biannually in odd years to a graduate student working in the field of composition and rhetoric to recognize outstanding scholarship and research in the areas of feminist pedagogy, practice, history, and theory. The award is designed to assist students who would like to attend the Feminisms and Rhetorics conference by providing a $100.00 travel stipend and conference registration. To be eligible for the award, a nominee must be a member of CWSHRC at the time of nomination.
CWSHRC Award Committee Review Criteria:
* Student must be an accepted presenter at the conference
* Student must be a Coalition member
* Student must provide a letter describing the ways in which their research is consistent with the conference theme and the mission of the Coalition
* Students should provide a letter from a faculty member in their program indicating support for the application and that they do not have other significant financial support for the conference
Date for submission is Sept 1 of conference years; please send applications to:
Lisa Mastrangelo, Chair, CWSHRC Graduate Student Award
English Department
The College of St. Elizabeth
2 Convent Road
Morristown, NJ 07960
Contact Lisa Mastrangelo (lmastrangelo [at] cse.edu) for additional information.