The Graduate Student Award for Literacy Research Excellence is an award intended for recent graduates of doctoral programs. Doctoral students who have successfully defended a literacy-related dissertation between September 1, 2023 and August 31, 2024 will be able to apply for the award. Applications are now open. Applications must be received by January 6, 2025. The awardee will be announced March 15, 2025. The application is available here.

Past Winners:

• 2025: Marisa Segel, Boston College. Runners up: Ashley Stack, Texas A&M University, & Elizabeth Zagata, University of Connecticut 
• 2024: Patrick Burke from Dublin City University
• 2023: Cheryl Lyon, University of Connecticut, and Lori Bruner, University of Alabama
• 2022: Alison Douglas from Northern Illinois University (click here to see research abstract) & Vilma Liliana LePelch from George Mason University (click here to see research abstract)
• 2021: Amarilis Castillo from Texas State University San Marcos. Click here to view her research abstract.
• 2020: Catherine Lammert from the University of Iowa