Past Awards

2006-2007

Eric Pritchard, is the 2006 Melville Award Winner for his paper "'If I Could Take All My Parts With Me': A Critical Narrative of Black Queer Literacies, Agency, History, and Imagination"

and congratualtions to:

Tim Laquintano ("The Rise of Deconstruction in Composition and Rhetoric") & Mira Shimabukuro ("No Island Is an Island: Territorializing Literacy in the Pacific"), tied for honorable mention as strong runners up.

Congratulations to Melvin Hall, dissertator in our Composition and Rhetoric PhD program, who has been awarded the David L. Boren Graduate Fellowship for a year of study in Morocco, to begin Fall 2006. Mel will be engaged in intensive language study at the Ibn Battuta Language Center for Advanced Arabic, focusing on Arabic rhetoric texts, and will also be studying with Dr. Mohammed El-Ouali, a specialist in Arabic rhetoric and the comparative study of Aristotelian and Arabic rhetorics.

Best wishes to Mel as he embarks on this exciting intellectual and physical journey!

2005-2006

Eric Pritchard: CCCC Scholar for the Dream Award, 2005 & The University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Humanities "HEX" Award, 2006

Alice Robison: University Capstone PhD Teaching Award, 2006

Kate Vieira: UW-Madison Early Excellence in Teaching Award, 2005

Corey Mead: UW-Madison Early Excellence in Teaching Award, 2004

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