Nominate: CWPA Outstanding Scholarship Award 2025/2026

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CWPA Award for Outstanding Scholarship on Writing Program Administration

 

Note: This award is for article-length works published outside of the WPA: Writing Program Administration journal.

 

The CWPA Outstanding Scholarship Award calls attention to the range and depth of scholarly work being done on writing program administration broadly understood across various publication venues. This award recognizes an outstanding article-length work published in a peer-reviewed edited collection or any refereed journal other than WPA: Writing Program Administration (copyright date, not publication date, must be 2024).

 

We encourage scholarship that meets most or all of the following criteria:

1. Uses an informed methodological, theoretical, or pedagogical perspective to present new knowledge about writing programs, writing program administration, and/or writing processes and theories relevant to WPAs;
2. Explores issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion, engages with interrogating power structures and privilege, or addresses issues of relevance to diverse institutional and research contexts;
3. Takes a generative stance that suggests ways of thinking that WPAs may use to build on or transform the ideas presented;
4. Employs empirical, observational, or theoretical evidence that illustrates real and current practices in writing programs and in institutions;
5. Speaks to the potential for replication or application in other professional or institutional contexts.

 

To nominate or self-nominate a text, please send the following attachments to Adam Phillips at adamph...@usf.edu no later than April 3rd, 2026:

1. A PDF of the text, or a link to where it may be found online, in the case of a web publication;
2. A brief statement (one page or less) that addresses how the text meets the criteria listed above;
3. Contact information (if known) for the author/s of the text nominated for consideration.

 

Inquiries can be directed to Adam, and self-nominations are welcome and encouraged.

 

The winner(s) will be announced in July 2026.

 

Members of the award committee are as follows:

 

Adam Phillips (Chair), University of South Florida, adamph...@usf.edu

Joshua Barsczewski, Muhlenberg College, joshuaba...@muhlenberg.edu

Callie F. Kostelich, Baylor University, callie_f_...@baylor.edu

Nathalie Singh-Corcoran, West Virginia University, nsin...@mail.wvu.edu

Carrie Kilfoil, Central Connecticut State University, kilf...@ccsu.edu

Carina Jiaxing Shi, University of Maryland, College Park, jsh...@umd.edu

Maureen Gokey, Russell Sage College, gok...@sage.edu

Nicholas Behn, Elmhurst University, be...@elmhurst.edu

Zoe McDonald, Sam Houston State University, znm...@shsu.edu

Alexis Teagarden, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, ateag...@umassd.edu

 

Adam Phillips, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Instruction &

Associate Director of FYC

English Department

University of South Florida

Cooper Hall, 294

He/Him/His

 

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