ELATE Graduate Student Research Award Recipients
2025
Brandon J. Watkins, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, “Play is Our Protest, Literacy Engagement is Our Game: Black Boys, Gaming, and Liberatory Literacies”
2024
Rubén A. González, Stanford University, “Developing & Enacting an Abolitionist Praxis: Novice Teachers of Color & A Community of Abolitionist Praxis”
Honorable Mention: Anthony Voulgarides, Hunter College, City University of New York, “Youth Media Production as a Vehicle for Civic: Action A Case Study”
2023
Emma P. Bene, Stanford University, “Developing Racial Literacies on Social Media: Exploring White Adolescents’ Interactions with Race-Related Texts on TikTok and Instagram”
Sandra M. Saco, Arizona State University, “How Latinx Student Books Clubs Engage Latinx YAL in the ELA Classroom”
2022
Neisha Terry Young, Drexel University, “How Black Immigrant Youth Use Critical Multiliteracies to Navigate the Interrogation of Dominant Discourses in a Space Designed for Discourse Disruption”
2021
Ankhi G. Thakurta, University of Pennsylvania, “Navigating Precarious Terrains: A Practitioner Study of Youth and Facilitator Engagement in a Girl-Centered Asian American Civic Literacy Education Collective”
2020
Scott Storm, New York University, “Social Justice Writing Pedagogies and Literary Sensemaking: Transformation through a Professional Learning Community”
2019
Russell Mayo, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Teaching English Teachers in the Anthropocene: Qualitative Case Studies of Climate Change in English Education”
2018
Rae L. Oviatt, Michigan State University, East Lansing, “Exploring Arts-Based Inquiry and Multimodal Composing for Participatory Learning and Civic Participation for Transforming Critical Professional Development”
2017
Chris Bacon and Joelle Pedersen, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, “‘It’s Like Close Reading for Identity’: A Framework for Writing as Discourse with Teachers of Linguistically Diverse Learners”
2016
Tracey Flores, Arizona State University, Tempe, “Somos Escritoras/We are Writers: Mothers and Daughters Writing, Sharing and Ways of Knowing”