Winner of the 2025 Graduate Student Award for Literacy Research Excellence, Dr Marisa Segel (center), pictured with SIG #11 Chair Dr Emily Rodgers (right) and advisor Dr Jon Wargo (left).

Details of the process for the 2026 award will be published here.

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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