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Awarded
by the History of Reading Special Interest Group of the International
Reading Association
Since 1994, the History of Reading SIG of the International
Reading Association has sponsored an annual competition for outstanding
master's or specialist's theses/dissertations in reading. The
applicant's degree can be in any discipline; however, the
thesis/dissertation must clearly be a historical research project
related to reading.
In May 1997, the dissertation award was renamed the A. Garr
Cranney Outstanding Dissertation Award in honor of the late A. Garr
Cranney of Brigham Young University, a past president and valued member
of the History of Reading SIG.
In 2004, the award was changed by the Executive Board to be
awarded every three years.
The awards are given to work that represents the best
scholarship on the history of literacy, broadly defined to include the
history of authorship, books, instruction, audiences, publishing,
spelling, reading, and writing.
The winning thesis and/or dissertation is announced at the
annual meeting of the History of Reading SIG, which coincides with the
International Reading Association's annual convention in early May of
each year.
OUTSTANDING
DISSERTATION AWARDS
1994 Arlene L. Barry
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"The Evolution
of High School Remedial Reading Programs in the United States."
Ph.D. Diss., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1992.
Chair: Wayne Otto
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Articles from
the dissertation:
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- "High
School Reading Programs Revisited." In Struggling Adolescent Readers: A
Collection of Teaching Strategies, ed. David W. Moore, Donna E.
Alvermann and Kathleen A. Hinchman (Newark, Del.: International Reading
Association, 2000), pp. 317-25.
- "Is the
Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s a 1990s Approach to Dropouts
and Illiteracy?" Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy 42 (1999):
648-59.
- "The
Staffing of High School Remedial Reading Programs in the United States
since 1920." Journal of Reading 38 (1994): 14-22.
- "What's in
a name?" Reading Horizons 34 (1993): 3-12.
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1995 No award
1996 No award
1997
Christine Pawley
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"Reading on the
Middle Border: The Culture of Print in Osage, Iowa, 1870-1900."
Ph.D. Diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996.
Chair: Wayne A. Wiegand
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Book from the
dissertation:
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- A revision
of Dr. Pawley's dissertation has been published as Reading on the
Middle
Border: The Culture of Print in Late-Nineteenth-Century Osage, Iowa
(Amherst, Mass:
University of Massachusetts Press, 2001).
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Articles from
the dissertation:
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- "What to
Read and How to Read: The Social Infrastructure of Children's Reading,
Osage,
Iowa, 1870-1900." Library Quarterly 68 (1998): 276-97.
- "Better
Than Billiards: Reading and the Public Library in Osage, Iowa, 1890-
1895." In Print Culture in a Diverse America, ed. James P. Danky and
Wayne A.
Wiegand (Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1997), pp.
173-99.
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1998
Thecla Marie Wagner Spiker
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"Dick and Jane
Go to Church: A History of the Cathedral Basic Readers."
Ed.D. Diss., University of Pittsburgh, 1997.
Chair: Douglas K. Hartman
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1999 No award
2000 No award
2001
Sarah A. Wadsworth
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"Reading the
Marketplace: The Culture of the Book in Nineteenth-Century America."
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2000.
Chair: Donald Ross, Jr.
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Book from the
dissertation:
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A revision of Dr.
Wadsworth's dissertation will be forthcoming as a book from the
University of Massachusetts Press circa 2004.
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Articles from
the dissertation:
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- "Innocence
Abroad: Henry James and the Re-Invention of the American Woman Abroad."
Edel Prize Essay. Henry James Review 22 (2001): 107-27.
- "Louisa May
Alcott, William T. Adams, and the Rise of Gender-Specific Series
Books." The Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children's
Literature 25 (2001): 17-46.
- "A Blue and
Gold Mystique: Reading the Material Text in Louisa May Alcott's
'Pansies' and Ticknor & Fields's Blue and Gold Series." Harvard
Library Bulletin 11 (2000): 55-80.
- "Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Samuel Goodrich, and the Transformation of the Juvenile
Literature Market." Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 26 (2000): 1-24.
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OUTSTANDING
THESIS AWARD
1998 Suzanna J. Iversen
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"Initial
Reading Instruction in United States' Schools: An Exploratory
Examination of the History of the Debate between Whole-Word and Phonic
Methods, 1965 through 1969."
M.A. Thesis, Ohio State University, 1997.
Advisor: Sandra McCormick
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