ELATE Graduate Student Research Award Recipients
2024-2025
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”
2023-2024
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”
2022-2023
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”
2021-2022
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”
2020-2021
Scott Storm, New York University, “Social Justice Writing Pedagogies and Literary Sensemaking: Transformation through a Professional Learning Community”
2019-2020
Russell Mayo, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Teaching English Teachers in the Anthropocene: Qualitative Case Studies of Climate Change in English Education”
2018-2019
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”
2017-2018
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”
2016-2017
Tracey Flores, Arizona State University, Tempe, “Somos Escritoras/We are Writers: Mothers and Daughters Writing, Sharing and Ways of Knowing”