CCCC 2008 Award Recipients

CCCC offers numerous grants and awards for travel, research, publications, programs, and service, to name a few. All CCCC awards are given annually and are presented at the CCCC Convention each year. Please follow the links below for detailed information on each award, criteria, and submission deadlines. Please click here for a complete listing of CCCC grants and awards and links to their criteria and submission information.

James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Disseration Award
CCCC congratulates Katherine E. Tirabassi, Keene State College, New Hampshire, for her dissertation “Revisiting the Current-Traditional Era: Innovations in Writing Instruction at the University of New Hampshire, 1940-1949,” which has won the 2008 Award. Read the abstract.
Richard Braddock Award
Michael Carter received the 2008 award for his article, “Ways of Knowing, Doing, and Writing in the Disciplines,” February 2007, College Composition and Communication. Read the abstract. -- Read the full text (subscribers only).

Exemplar Award
The 2008 CCCC Exemplar Award was presented to Patricia Bizzell. Please click here for more information on Patricia Bizzell.
Outstanding Book Award
Congratulations to the 2008 Award winner, Sharon Crowley, for her book Toward a Civil Discourse: Rhetoric and Fundamentalism published by University of Pittsburgh Press in 2006.
Scholars for the Dream Travel Awards
The 2008 recipients are:

Qwo-Li Driskill, Michigan State University, East Lansing
Crystal M. Hills, Georgia State University, Atlanta
Donna Hunter, Stanford University, California
Aja Y. Martinez, University of Arizona, Tucson
Natalie A. Martínez, Arizona State University, Tempe
Leslie D. Norris, Rappahannock Community College, Glenns, Virginia, and Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
Kathryn Ortiz, University of Arizona, Tucson
Andrea Osteen, California State University, Fresno
Melissa Berry Pearson, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Staci M. Perryman-Clark, Michigan State University, East Lansing
Chairs' Memorial Scholarship
The 2008 recipients are:

J. James Bono, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Rasha Diab, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hyechong Park, Ohio State University, Columbus
Kate Vieira, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Outstanding Dissertation Award in Technical Communication
Congratulations to Lara Varpio, University of Ottawa, Ontario, for her dissertation, “Mapping the Genres of Healthcare Information Work: An Interdisciplinary Study of the Interactions Between Oral, Paper, and Electronic Forms of Communication,” the 2008 Award winner. Read the abstract.
In addition, an Honorable Mention was presented to Huiling Ding for her dissertation, "Rhetoric of a global epidemic: Intercultural and intracultural professional communication about SARS."
Writing Program Certificate of Excellence
The 2007-2008 recipients are:

The University of Denver, Writing Program
University of Toronto Scarborough, Writing Centre
Tribal College Faculty Fellowship
The 2008 recipient is Nathan Jenkins, Haskell Indian Nations University.