2022 Award and Grant Recipients

ANNE DEVEREAUX JORDAN AWARD
Beverly Lyon Clark

BOOK AWARD (FOR A BOOK PUBLISHED IN 2020)
WINNER: Dr. Ebony Elizabeth Thomas for The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to The Hunger Games, NYU Press, 2019 (Paperback Re-Print, 2020)

HONOR: Dr. Gabrielle Owen for A Queer History of Adolescence: Developmental Pasts, Relational Futures, UGA Press, 2020

EDITED BOOK AWARD (FOR A BOOK PUBLISHED IN 2020)
WINNER: Cristina Herrera and Trevor Boffone for Nerds, Goths, Geeks and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult Literature, University Press of Mississippi, 2020

HONOR: Rachel Conrad and L. Kennedy Brown for Literary Cultures and Twentieth-Century Childhoods, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

CAROL GAY AWARD
WINNER: Lauren Clark for “Welcome to Mr. Kraus’s Neighborhood: Subversive Horror in the Daniel Kraus Archive”, sponsored by Courtney Weikle-Mills (University of Pittsburgh)

HONOR: Emily Tang for “Lost in Translation: The Westernization of The Boy Who Drew Cats”, sponsored by Amy Bennet-Zendzian (Boston University) 

GRADUATE STUDENT ESSAY AWARDS
MA WINNER: Valerie Longo for “peak Softly and Wear a Gentle Mask: Vulnerability as Part-Survival, Part-Resistance”, sponsored by Dr. Sarah Minslow (California State University – Los Angeles)                

MA HONOR:Hai Nin Yeoh for " What Do the Children Say?: Children’s Voices on Gender Stereotyping in the Literature for Malaysian Classrooms ", sponsored by Dr. Huey Fen Cheong (University of Malaysia)

JUDITH PLOTZ EMERGING SCHOLAR AWARD (FOR AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN 2020)
WINNER: Amy Waite for “Teeming Stomachs and Infinite Spirals: Posthuman Anxiety in Patrick Ness’s The Rest of Us Just Live Here and John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down,”, International Journal of Young Adult Literature, vol. 1, no. 1, 2020.

HONOR: Minjin Park for “A Cognitive Approach to the Formal Aspects of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book,”, Johns Hopkins University Press, ChLA Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 3, Fall 2020, 224-243.

HONOR: Adrion Dula for “B(e)aring the Beast: Deformity, Animality, and the Ableist Gaze in French Literary Variants of "Beauty and the Beast,”, Wayne State University Press, Marvels & Tales, vol. 34, no. 2, Fall 2020, 197-220.

MENTORING AWARD
WINNER: Prof. Kimberly Reynolds, Newcastle University

PHOENIX AWARD
WINNER: Julie Otsuka for When the Emperor Was Divine, Knopf, 2002

HONOR: Linda Sue Park for When My Name Was Keoko, Clarion Books, 2002

PHOENIX PICTURE BOOK AWARD
WINNER: Allen Say for Home of the Brave, Houghton Mifflin, 2002

HONOR: Lauren Child for Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Book, Hodder, 2002

HONOR: Mordicai Gerstein for What Charlie Heard, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002

HONOR: Julius Lester for Why Heaven is Far Away, Scholastic and illustrated by Joe Cepeda, 2002

RESEARCH GRANTS

FACULTY RESEARCH GRANTS
Sunah Chung, University of Northern Iowa
Dr. Rhoda Zuk, Mount Saint Vincent University
PROJECT: Reader Response, Indigenous Picturebooks, and Public Sites

Katherine Gustafson, Indiana University Northwest
PROJECT: Novel Marketing, Novel Writing, and the Development of the Adolescent, 1715-1815

DIVERSITY RESEARCH GRANT
Tehmina Pirzada, Texas A&M University at Qatar
PROJECT: Interrogating LGBTQ Representation in South Asian Picturebooks

HANNAH BEITER GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH GRANT
Lauren Rizzuto, Tufts University
PROJECT: Research Fellowship at International Youth Library, Munich, Germany

Noah Mullens, University of Florida
PROJECT:  Charting a Comparative Queer History of Children’s Literature