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Kairos Awards
Kairos Award Winners
Every year since 1997, we have presented the Kairos awards (Best Webtext, Best Blog, and the GA/Adjunct Awards) at the annual Computers and Writing Conference. The locations of the C&W conferences where Kairos awards have been presented are listed here:
- C&W 2009: Davis, CA (University of California at Davis)
- C&W 2008: Athens, GA (University of Georgia)
- C&W 2007: Detroit, MI (Wayne State University)
- C&W 2006: Lubbock, TX (Texas Tech University)
- C&W 2005: Palo Alto, CA (Stanford University)
- C&W 2004: Honolulu, HI (Kapiolani Community College and University of Hawaii, Manoa)
- C&W 2003: West Lafeyette, IN (Purdue University)
- C&W 2002: Normal, IL (Illinois State University)
- C&W 2001: Muncie, IN (Ball State University)
- C&W 2000: Fort Worth, TX (Texas Womens' University)
- C&W 1999: Rapid City, SD (South Dakota School of Mining and Technology)
- C&W 1998: Gainesville, FL (University of Florida)
- C&W 1997: Honolulu, HI (Kapiolani Community College and University of Hawaii, Manoa)
Kairos Best Webtext Winners
2009: Melanie Yergeau, Kathryn Wozniak, and Peter Vandenberg: "Expanding the Space of f2f: Writing Centers and Audio-Visual-Textual Conferencing"
2008: James P. Purdy and Joyce R. Walker: "Digital Breadcrumbs: Case Studies of Online Research"
2007: Michael Salvo and Thomas Rickert: "...And They Had ProTools"
2007 Finalist: Kristin L. Arola and Cheryl Ball: "From 'They Call Me Doctor?' to Tenure"
2006: Madeleine Sorapure: "Between Modes: Assessing Student New Media Compositions"
2006 Finalist: The WIDE Research Center Collective: "Why Teach Digital Writing?"
2005: Michael J. Cripps: "#FFFFFF, #000000, #808080: Hypertext Theory and WebDev in the Composition Classroom"
2005 Finalists: Meredith W. Zoetewey: "Disrupting the Computer Lab(oratory): Names,Metaphors, and the Wireless Writing Classroom" and Brian Houle, Alex Kimball, and Heidi McKee: "Boy? You Decide Girl? You Decide: Multimodal Web Composition and a Mythography of Identity"
2004: Adrian Miles (Ed.): "Violence of Text: An Online Academic Publishing Exercise"
2004 Finalists: Daniel Anderson: "Prosumer Approaches to New Media Composition: Consumption and Production in Continuum" and Charles Lowe: "Copyright, Access, and Digital Texts"
2003: Anne Wysocki: "A Bookling Monument"
2003 Finalists: Michael J. Cripps: "Between Linear and Nonlinear: The Research Essay as Hypertext" and Lisa Gye: "Half Lives"
2002: Joyce Walker: "Textural Textuality"
2002 Finalists: Collin Brooke: "Perspective" and Michael Salvo: "Deafened to Their Demands"
2001: Jeff White: "Hypersuasion and the New Ethos: Toward a Theory of Ethical Linking"
2001 Finalist: Mike Palmqust and Luann Barnes: The Online Writing Center Consortium
2000: Jane Love: "MOO-Scream on its wayves to WOOmb SCREAMS" and Victor J. Vitanza: "CompoZing com_PLI_cating Processes"
2000 Finalists: John Barber and Dene Grigar, with Hugh Burns: "Computers and Writing 2000" and Mark Dennard: "Neglected Pockets"
1998: Mike Palmquist, Will Hochman, Beth Kolko, Emily Golson, Jonathan Alexander, Luann Barnes, and Kate Kiefer: "Hypertext Reflections: Exploring the Rhetoric, Poetic, and Pragmatics of Hypertext"
1998 Finalists: Doug Brent for "Rhetorics of the Web: Implications for Teachers of Literacy" and Sandye Thompson's "Speaking of the MOOn: Textual Realities and the Body Electric."
1997: Karen McGrane Chauss: "Reader as User: Applying Interface Design Techniques to the Web"
1997 Finalists: Keith Dorwick: "Rethinking the Academy: Problems and Possibilities of Teaching, Scholarship, Authority, and Power in Electronic Environments" and Johndan Johnson-Eilola: "Stories and Maps: Postmodernism and Professional Communication"
John Lovas Memorial Weblog Winners
Beginning in 2004, in conjunction with KairosNews, Kairos began awarding its annual Best Academic Weblog, which was renamed in 2006 as the John Lovas Memorial Weblog Award in honor of scholar, teacher, and blogger John Lovas.
2009: Dennis Jerz: Jerz's Literacy Weblog
2008: Alex Reid: "Digital Digs"
2007: Elizabeth Losh: "VirtualPolitik"
2006: Clancy Ratliff: "CultureCat: Rhetoric and Feminism"
2005: Collin Brooke: "Collin vs. Blog"
2004: Jenny Edbauer: "Stupid Undergrounds: I Found It on the Street"
Kairos Awards for Graduate Students and Adjuncts
These three awards, presented annually at C&W since 2001, carry a $500 award and are generously sponsored by Bedford/St. Martins. (In some years, only two awards were presented.)
2009: Krista A. Kennedy (Research), Annette Vee (Teaching) Rik Hunter (Service)
2008: Jim Ridolfo (Research), Jentery Sayers (Teaching), Melanie Yergeau (Service)
2007: Dundee Lackey (Teaching), Phill Alexander (Service)
2006: Dan Keller (Research), Andréa Davis (Teaching), Karl Stolley (Service)
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2003: Cheryl Ball (Research), Erin Karper (Service)
2002:
2001: Patricia Freitag Ericsson (Research), Jennifer Bowie (Teaching), John Walter (Service)