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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
"The Evolution of High School Remedial Reading Programs
in the United States."
Ph.D. Diss., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1992.
Chair: Wayne Otto |
| 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.
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"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.
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"The Staffing of High School Remedial
Reading Programs in the United States since 1920." Journal
of Reading 38 (1994): 14-22.
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"What's in a name?" Reading Horizons
34 (1993): 3-12.
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1995 No award
1996 No award
1997 Christine
Pawley
"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 |
| Book from the dissertation: |
- 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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"What to Read and How to Read: The Social
Infrastructure of Children's Reading, Osage,
Iowa, 1870-1900." Library Quarterly 68 (1998): 276-97.
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"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
"Dick and Jane Go to Church: A History of the Cathedral
Basic Readers."
Ed.D. Diss., University of Pittsburgh, 1997.
Chair: Douglas K. Hartman |
1999 No award
2000 No award
2001 Sarah A. Wadsworth
"Reading the Marketplace: The Culture of the Book
in Nineteenth-Century America."
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2000.
Chair: Donald Ross, Jr. |
| Book from the dissertation: |
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| Articles from the dissertation: |
- "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
"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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