CWPA Committee Members

The Best Book Award Committee is charged with:

1. Updating call and criteria for selection as needed and informed by changes in scholarship
2. Soliciting nominees for the annual CWPA Best Book Award
3. Seeking diverse nominations in topics and/or authors’ positionality
4. Reaching out to authors whose work would fit the diversity requirements for nominations
5. Selecting a recipient for the award from among the nominees

Committee Members:

• Christina Saidy (Chair), Arizona State University, Christina.saidy@asu.edu
• Beth Boswell, University of Alabama in Huntsville, brb0035@uah.edu
• Lynda Dexheimer, Rutgers University, lynda.dexheimer@rutgers.edu
• Amy Hodges, University of Texas at Arlington, amy.hodges@uta.edu
• Jennifer Kepka, Lance Community College, kepkaj@lanecc.edu
• Kim Lacey, Saginaw Valley State University, krlacey@svsu.edu
• Laura J. Panning Davies, SUNY Cortland, laura.davies@cortland.edu
• Lynn Reid, Fairleigh Dickinson University, lreid@fdu.edu 

The Graduate Research Awards Committee is charged with:

1. Updating call and criteria for selection as needed and informed by changes in scholarship
2. Soliciting nominees for the annual CWPA Graduate Research Awards
3. Seeking diverse nominations in topics and/or authors’ positionality
4. Selecting recipients for the awards from among the nominees

Committee Members:

• Katherine O'Meara (Chair), St. Norbert College, kat.omeara@snc.edu
• Michael D Donnelly, Ball State University, mddonnelly@bsu.edu
• Joseph Franklin, New York City College of Technology, joseph.franklin39@citytech.cuny.edu
• Heather Listhartke, Winthrop University, h.listhartke@gmail.com,
• Robby Nadler, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), robby.nadler@vuw.ac.nz
• Andy Jiahao Liu, International Foundations Writing Program of the University of Arizona, liu.jiahao@connect.um.edu.mo
• Jennifer Wilson, Rice University, jsw@rice.edu
• Joseph Wilson, Syracuse University, jwilso56@syr.edu

The Kenneth Bruffee Award Committee is charged with:

1. Updating call and criteria for selection as needed and informed by changes in scholarship
2. Soliciting nominees for the annual CWPA Kenneth Bruffee Award, the award for the best article published in WPA: Writing Program Administration
3. Unless such work was not published in the journal in the prior year, prioritizing articles on diversity topics\
4. Selecting a recipient for the award from among the nominees

Committee Members:

• Kristi McDuffie (Chair), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, kmcduff@illinois.edu
• Meaghan H. Brewer, Pace University, mbrewer2@pace.edu
• Beth Buyserie, Utah State University, beth.buyserie@usu.edu
• David Thomas Johnson, Western Illinois University, dtjohnson2@wiu.edu
• Mary Lourdes Silva, Ithaca College, mlourdes1013@gmail.com
• Amanda Sladek, University of Nebraska, Kearney, sladekam@unk.edu
• Alex Watkins, Austin Community College, Alexandra.watkins@austincc.edu

The Nominating Committee is charged with:

1. Soliciting nominees for vacant Executive Board and Vice President positions
2. Determining a slate of candidates from the nominations for the CWPA election in the spring
3. Writing a description of the process for soliciting and selecting candidates for the election

Committee Members:

• Ryan Shepherd (Chair), Northern Illinois University, rpshepherd@gmail.com
• Sonja Andrus, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College, sonja.andrus@uc.edu
• Kristi Murray Costello, Old Dominion University, kcostell@odu.edu
• Jolivette Mecenas , California Lutheran University, jmecenas@callutheran.edu
• Michael Pak, University of Hawaii - West Oahu, pakm@hawaii.edu
• Missy Phegley, Southeast Missouri State University, missyphegley@gmail.com
• Robin Snead, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, robin.snead@uncp.edu

The Recruitment Committee is charged with:

1. Increasing membership in new and underserved populations within the organization
2. Producing PR promotion materials for targeted audiences
3. Connecting to individual formal and informal WPAs at all types of institutions
4. Connecting to regional or national organizations for specific groups of WPAs: HBCU Consortium, TYCA regionals, SLACs, …
5. Briefly surveying those individuals for 1) their expectations from CWPA, 2) reasons they do not join

Committee Members:

• Stephanie Hassan Richardson (Chair), University at Albany, Shassanrichardson@albany.edu
• Sara Humphreys, University of Victoria, shumphreys@uvic.ca
• Atinut Inthajak, Columbia College, ainthajak@columbiasc.edu
• Matthew Kenerly, Coppin State University, mkenerly@coppin.edu
• Sarah Lonelodge, Eastern New Mexico University, sarah.lonelodge@enmu.edu
• Joe Zeccardi, St. Mary's College of California, jaz4@stmarys-ca.edu
• William Walker, University of Mississippi, w.h.walker1993@gmail.com