Alan C. Purves Award - National Council of Teachers of English

NCTE Alan C. Purves Award Past Recipients

2023

Laura C. Chávez-Moreno

The Continuum of Racial Literacies: Teacher Practices Countering Whitestream Bilingual Education

2022

Stephanie R. Toliver
Freedom Dreaming in a Broken World: The Black Radical Imagination in Black Girls’ Science Fiction Stories

Honorable Mentions:
Alicia Rusoja
“Our Community is Filled with Experts:” The Critical Intergenerational Literacies of Latinx Immigrants that Facilitate a Communal Pedagogy of Resistance

Shirin Vossoughi, Kalonji Nzinga, Allena Berry, Faith Irvine, Christopher Mayorga, and Mari Gashaw
Writing as a Social Act: The Feedback Relation as a Context for Political and Ethical Becoming

2021

Wan Shun Eva Lam, Natalia Smirnov, Amy A. Chang, Matthew W. Easterday, Enid M. Rosario-Ramos, and Jack C. Doppelt
Multimodal Voicing and Scale-Making in a Youth-Produced Video Documentary on Immigration

Honorable Mentions:

Grace MyHyun Kim and Lindy L. Johnson
Playful Practices: Reimagining Literacy Teacher Education through Game-Based Curriculum Design

Grace D. Player
“My Color of My Name”: Composing Critical Self-Celebration with Girls of Color through a Feminist of Color Writing Pedagogy

Cassie J. Brownell
Children’s Rhetoric in an Era of (Im)Migration: Examining Critical Literacies Using a Cultural Rhetorics Orientation in the Elementary Classroom

2020
Latrise P. Johnson and Hannah Sullivan
Revealing the Human and the Writer: The Promise of a Humanizing Writing Pedagogy for Black Students (May 2020)

Honorable Mention:
Monica Gonzalez Ybarra
“We Have a Strong Way of Thinking…and It Shows through Our Words”: Exploring Mujerista Literacies with Chicana/Latina Youth in a Community Ethnic Studies Course (February 2020)

Past Recipients 1998 – present