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Special Issue:  Directory of Assistantships and Fellowships for Graduate Study in English and the Teaching of English: 1968-69 and Directory of the Chairmen of Freshman Composition Programs in the Nation’s Colleges and Universities. Compiled and edited by William J. Scannell.

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.  The following CCCC guidelines govern the creation, continuation, and granting of CCCC awards:

CCCC Guidelines for Submitting Proposals for New Awards
CCCC Process and Criteria for Assessing Award Continuation
CCCC Guidelines for Multiple Award Winners

Please follow the links below for detailed information on each award, criteria, and submission deadlines.

Leadership and Program Awards

Exemplar Award
Recognizes an individual who has served or serves as an exemplar for our organization. Deadline: November 1

Outstanding Teaching Award
Honors teaching and CCCC members who do their primary work in the classroom every day. CCCC offers two awards each year—one for an Emergent Outstanding Teacher and the other for a Sustained Outstanding Teacher. Deadline: July 1

Stonewall Service Award
Recognizes members of CCCC/NCTE who have consistently worked to improve the experiences of sexual and gender minorities within the organization and the profession. Deadline: November 1

Writing Program Certificate of Excellence
Awards up to 20 outstanding writing programs each year. Deadline: August 31

Publication and Scholarship Awards

Advancement of Knowledge Award
Presented annually for the empirical research publication that most advances writing studies. Deadline: July 15

James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award
Honors a graduate whose dissertation improves the educational process in composition studies, or adds to the field’s body of knowledge, through research or scholarly inquiry. Deadline: September 1

Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship
Presented annually to four works (one book, one article or book chapter, one dissertation, and one nontraditional scholarly text) published within the past two years that best make queer interventions into the study of composition and rhetoric. Deadline: August 1

Outstanding Book Award
Presented annually to the author(s) or editor(s) of two publications—one award for a single-authored or multi-authored work and one award for an edited collection of scholarly work—published up to two years previously that make an outstanding contribution to composition and rhetoric. Deadline: May 1

Outstanding Dissertation Award in Technical Communication
Given for an outstanding dissertation in Technical Communication. Deadline: October 15

Research Impact Award
Presented annually for the empirical research publication that most advances the mission of the organization or the needs of the profession. Deadline: July 15

Richard Braddock Award
Presented to the author of the outstanding article on writing or the teaching of writing in the CCCC journal, College Composition and Communication, during the year ending December 31 before the annual CCCC Convention.

Technical and Scientific Communication Awards
Accepting nominations for outstanding books and articles in technical and scientific communication in six categories. Deadline: June 1

Wikipedia Initiative Award for Contributions to Public Knowledge
Provides professional recognition for CCCC members who are engaging with Wikipedia as a form of global public scholarship. Deadline: March 1

Research Grants

Emergent Researcher Awards
These awards are intended to invest in our organization’s members by rewarding and supporting: early career researchers; writing faculty/instructors who have not had the opportunity to engage in funded research; and/or writing faculty/instructors who do not have support for research within their institutions. In addition to research funding (up to $5,000 per project), the Emergent Researcher Awards also provide research support. Deadline: September 1

Research Initiative
CCCC funds research proposals up to $8,000 each. Deadline: September 1

Travel Awards

Assistance Fund for Contingent Faculty
Presented annually to contingent faculty at two-year colleges and four-year colleges and universities to travel to the CCCC Annual Convention. Deadline: December 31

Chairs’ Memorial Scholarship
Scholarships of $750 each to help cover the costs of four graduate students who are presenting at the annual conference. Deadline: October 10

Disability in College Composition Travel Awards
Six travel awards designed to support scholarship dedicated to improving knowledge about the intersections of disability with composition and rhetoric, the value of disability as a source of diversity, inclusive practices and the promotion of access, and the value of disability as a critical lens. Deadline: October 10

Gloria Anzaldúa Rhetorician Award
Supports graduate students or first-time presenters whose work participates in the making of meaning out of sexual and gender minority experiences with up to three $750 awards for travel to the CCCC Convention. Deadline: October 10

The Luiz Antonio Marcuschi Travel Awards
Two $1,000 travel reimbursement awards are available to scholars living and working/studying in Mexico, Central, or South America who have papers accepted for presentation at the CCCC Convention. Deadline: June 15

Professional Equity Project
$500 grants, offered for part-time or adjunct faculty or independent scholars, including community partners and scholars outside of the discipline, to attend the CCCC annual convention. Priority will be given to teachers of writing with part-time or adjunct status. Deadline: November 1

Scholars for the Dream Travel Award
Encourages scholarship by historically underrepresented groups, offering up to twenty $1,000 grants in two categories for travel to the CCCC conference. Deadline: October 10

Tribal College Faculty Fellowship
CCCC offers two fellowships in the amount of $1,500 each to faculty members currently working at tribally controlled colleges or Native American-Serving Nontribal Institutions to attend the CCCC conference. Deadline: November 15

Nomination Deadline: July 15

Purpose: The Advancement of Knowledge Award is presented annually for the empirical research publication in the previous two years that most advances writing studies.

Eligibility: A work eligible for the 2026 award will have been published in calendar year 2024 or 2025. To be eligible for the award, a nominee must be a member of CCCC and/or NCTE at the time of nomination. To nominate a publication for the award, the author, editor, publisher, or reader must be a CCCC and/or NCTE member.

Award Specifics: Nominations must be received by July 15, 2025, and must include a brief statement of the work’s contribution to the profession (Note: You do not need to send copies of the nominated publication with the nomination.). Please send the statement of the publication’s contribution to the CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award Committee at cccc@ncte.org.

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Advancement of Knowledge Award Winners

2025 Winner

Todd Craig, “K for the Way”: DJ Rhetoric and Literacy for 21st Century Writing Studies

2024

Rebecca Hallman Martini, Disrupting the Center: A Partnership Approach to Writing across the University

2024 Honorable Mention
Stephanie West-Puckett, Nicole I. Caswell, and William P. Banks, Failing Sideways: Queer Possibilities for Writing Assessment

2023

Aja Y. Martinez, Counterstory: The Rhetoric and Writing of Critical Race Theory

2023 Honorable Mention
Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Languaging Myths and Realities: Journeys of Chinese International Students

2022
Huatong Sun, Global Social Media Design: Bridging Differences Across Cultures

2021
Isabel Baca, Yndalecio Isaac Hinojosa, and Susan Wolff Murphy (Eds.), Bordered Writers: Latinx Identities and Literacy Practices at Hispanic-Serving Institutions

Kate Vieira, Writing for Love and Money: How Migration Drives Literacy Learning in Transnational Families

2020
Laura Gonzales, Sites of Translation: What Multilinguals Can Teach Us About Digital Writing and Rhetoric

2020 Honorable Mention
Shyam Sharma, Writing Support for International Graduate Students: Enhancing Transition and Success

2019
Brice Nordquist, Literacy and Mobility: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Agency at the Nexus of High School and College

2018
Eric Darnell Pritchard, Fashioning Lives: Black Queers and the Politics of Literacy

2017
Iswari P. Pandey, South Asian in the Mid-South: Migrations of Literacies

2016
Laurie E. Gries, Still Life with Rhetoric: A New Materialist Approach for Visual Rhetorics

2015
Stephanie L. Kerschbaum, Toward a New Rhetoric of Difference

2014
Scott Wible, Shaping Language Policy in the U.S.: The Role of Composition Studies

2013
Patrick W. Berry, Gail E. Hawisher, and Cynthia L. Selfe, Transnational Literate Lives in Digital Times

2012
Mya Poe, Neal Lerner, and Jennifer Craig, Learning to Communicate in Science and Engineering: Case Studies from MIT

Reaching Publics and Informing Policies through the Research Center

How can rhetoric and writing educators inform policies and practices related to the public interest? This web seminar examines the research center as one answer to this question. Research centers are associative enterprises that attempt to solve scholarly and societal problems that cannot be adequately addressed by individuals. These centers often function as change agents by emphasizing collaboration and conducting research focused on publics. During this web seminar, participants will:

• Investigate different research center models.
• Share best practices for research center projects.
• Develop a language for describing research methods and projects that invites, and benefits from, cross-disciplinary connections.
• Generate strategies for reaching publics and informing policies.

These four objectives will be introduced through a brief statement by web seminar facilitators Brian Gogan, Megan O’Neill, Kelly Belanger, and Ashley Patriarca, respectively. Discussion will follow the introductions.

Brian Gogan, Megan O’Neill, Kelly Belanger, and Ashley Patriarca are authors of “Research Centers as Change Agents: Reshaping Work in Rhetoric and Writing,” published in the December 2010 issue of CCC as well as a supplemental Directory of Rhetoric and Writing Research Centers.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the free CCCC virtual event on Wednesday, February 2, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. EST.

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