Timothy & Cynthia Shanahan Outstanding Dissertation Award
The International Literacy Association (ILA) Timothy & Cynthia Shanahan Outstanding Dissertation Award honors an outstanding doctoral student who focused their research in the reading field or who conducted related research with implications for reading. Interviews with the winning scholar are published each year in Reading Research Quarterly.
Sponsored by Timothy and Cynthia Shanahan
Deadline: March 30, 2023
Guidelines
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Recent recipients
2022
2021
Yukie Toyama, University of California, Berkeley
What Makes Reading Difficult? An Investigation of the Contribution of Passage, Task, and Reader Characteristics on Item Difficulty, Using Explanatory Item Response Models
2020
John Strong, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Effects and Social Validity of a Text Structure Intervention for Reading and Writing
2019
Courtney Hattan, Illinois State University, Normal
Prompting Rural Students’ Use of Background Knowledge and Experience to Support Comprehension of Unfamiliar Content
Completed dissertation for the University of Maryland, College Park, chaired by Dr. Patricia Alexander
2018
Elena E. Forzani, Boston University, MA
How Well Can Students Evaluate Online Science Information? Contributions of Prior Knowledge, Gender, Socioeconomic Status, and Offline Reading Ability
2017
Laura Northrop, Cleveland State University
Breaking the Cycle: Cumulative Disadvantage in Literacy
2016
Julie Learned, University at Albany, State University of New York
"Feeling Like I'm Slow Because I'm in This Class": Secondary School Contexts and the Identification and Construction of Struggling Readers
2015
Meghan Liebfreund, Towson University
Success with Informational Text Comprehension: An Examination of Underlying Factors
For additional information, contact ILAAwards@reading.org.