06/02/2024

CWPA Kenneth Bruffee Award Winners

Posted on behalf of Kristi McDuffie, CWPA Kenneth Bruffee Award Committee Chair.

2023 Winner

Lisa Mastrangelo and Erin Anderson's article “Examining Retention at the SLAC: The Impact of Race, Class, and Resource Use on First-Year Writing,” published in WPA issue 46.1 (Fall 2022), has won the Kenneth Bruffee Award for 2023!

This award recognizes exceptional scholarship published in WPA: Writing Program Administration each year. Committee members valued the research-based focus on retention for first-generation and students of color and believe that it will be useful for a variety of programmatic contexts.

2024 Winner

Kaitlin Clinnin's article “Practicing Equitable and Sustainable Trauma-Informed Writing Program Administration through Disability Justice,” published in WPA issue 47.1 (Fall 2023), has won the Kenneth Bruffee Award for 2024!

This award recognizes exceptional scholarship published in WPA: Writing Program Administration each year. Committee members were impressed with the advocacy for this vital and understudied aspect of WPA work and believe this piece will support administrators and teachers for years to come.

Congratulations to all award winners, and thanks for the Kenneth Bruffee Award Committee members:

• Kristi McDuffie (Chair), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Meaghan H. Brewer, Pace University
• Beth Buyserie, Utah State Universit
• David Thomas Johnson, Western Illinois University
• Mary Lourdes Silva, Ithaca College
• Amanda Sladek, University of Nebraska at Kearney
• Alex Watkins, Austin Community College