We at the Howe Center for Writing Excellence are proud to announce that our very own Will Chesher, graduate assistant director with Howe Writing Across the Curriculum, is a recipient of the 2022-2023 CCCC Emergent Researcher Award. The recipients of this award were announced at the annual conference held in Chicago, Illinois.

The CCCC Emergent Researcher Award, presented by the Conference on College Composition & Communication, is awarded to emerging scholars in the field of writing and writing instruction for projects which promote the discussion of topics related to literacy and writing instruction, both in and out of formal education. According to the CCCC website, the Emergent Researcher Awards are “intended to invest in our organization’s members by rewarding and supporting early-career researchers, especially faculty/instructors who have not had the opportunity to engage in funded research, and faculty/instructors who do not have support for research within their institutions.”

Chesher’s proposal, titled Leveraging Our Expertise: A Digital Archive of WAC Work Outside of Higher Education, seeks to digitize a corpus of interviews conducted by Peter Berkow in the late 1990s and early 2000s with Writing Across the Curriculum scholars discussing the importance of writing outside of higher education. The digitized interviews will be hosted on the WAC Clearinghouse website to be available for other scholars to access and use in their own research when considering the impact of Writing Across the Curriculum outside of higher education.

We’d like to extend our congratulations to Chesher and all of the other award recipients, and we look forward to their future contributions to the field of Writing Across the Curriculum.