2010 Awards - Congratulations!!
The SWCA Awards Committee, comprised of Shanti Bruce, Rusty Carpenter, and Michael Pemberton, is pleased to announce the winners. The committee received many excellent proposals and was heartened to see so much good work going on among tutors and directors. The committee wishes to congratulate all of the nominees.
SWCA Tutor Award Winner: Denise Pichardo
Ms. Pichardo is a Professional Writing and Religious Studies major at
St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens, FL. In addition to tutoring and
providing leadership in her university center, Ms. Pichardo is founder and
co-coordinator of a satellite writing center at an urban high school. She
was a curator for NCTE's National Day on Writing, she is a regular
contributor to PeerCentered, and she has presented at writing center
conferences.
SWCA Achievement Award Winner: Kate Pantelides
Ms. Pantelides is a doctoral student studying composition and rhetoric at
the University of South Florida. As director of the University Writing Center,
Ms. Pantelides has transformed her center from an English department
specific, one-room operation to a thriving, library-based, university-wide
endeavor. She organized and chaired the Florida Regional Writing Center
Conference in April 2008. She directed centers at two previous institutions,
and she has presented at numerous writing center conferences.
SWCA - 2012
The Southeastern Writing Center Association is pleased to announce that we are accepting nominations for the following annual awards.
Awards will be presented at the 2012 SWCA conference to be held at Eastern Kentucky University, February 16-18. We hope to see you there!
SWCA Achievement Award
The SWCA Achievement Award recognizes the outstanding, sustained body work of a writing center director or supervisor to a particular writing center, SWCA, and/or the writing center community at large.
SWCA Tutor Award (3 categories)
SWCA Tutor Awards recognize leadership, commitment, and overall excellence of individuals working in an SWCA writing center. Individuals can be nominated in one of three categories:
Undergraduate Tutor
Graduate Tutor
Professional Tutor (for non-students employed as tutors)
To nominate someone for an SWCA Award, email the following information to Sydney Davis Richardson, SWCA Awards Committee Chair, at sydney.richardson@salem.edu. Self-nominations are welcome. All nominations must be submitted by December 1st. Once nominations are received, nominees will be asked to put together applications for their respective awards.
1. Nominee's name
2. Award (choose one)
SWCA Achievement Award
SWCA Undergraduate Tutor Award
SWCA Graduate Tutor Award
SWCA Professional Tutor Award
3. Nominee's institutional affiliation, email address, and phone number
Contact the awards chair with any questions.
Note: If you are nominating someone, please give the nominee ample time to put together the application. Nominees must be SWCA members or come from SWCA member institutions.
The SWCA Awards Committee is pleased to announce the winners and wishes to congratulate all of the nominees.
Awards Process
2011 Awards - Congratulations!!
SWCA Achievement Award Winner
Aileen Valdes,
St. Thomas University
Karen Mejia,
St. Thomas University
Neil Simpkins,
Agnes Scott College
Beth Burmester,
Georgia State University
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Southeastern Writing Center Association
SWCA Professional Tutor Award Winner
SWCA Undergraduate Tutor Award Winners
2012 Awards - Congratulations!!
SWCA Undergraduate Tutor Award Winner
Aryanne Schommer (St. Thomas Univ.)
Achievement Award Winner
Kimberly Abels (UNC-Chapel Hill)
Professional Tutor Award Winners
Jared White (Univ. of South Florida)
Trisina Dickerson graduated from Westminster College in Salt Lake City with a B.A. in English and is currently pursuing a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of South Florida. She has taught both undergraduate composition and creative writing class and currently serves as Assistant Writing Center Coordinator. Her work has been published in Ellipsis, Scribendi, and Sweet: A Literary Confection and is forthcoming in the Louisville Review.
Graduate Tutor Award Winners
Nirmal Trivedi is a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech, where he is an Assistant Director of the Communications Center and teaches courses in American Literature, Composition and Rhetoric, and Literary Nonfiction. His research interests include American culture during the 19th century, U.S. Empire Studies, visual culture, postcolonial studies, and digital pedagogy.
Jennifer Forsthoefel is the Associate Director of the Georgia State University Writing Studio where she has worked as a tutor since 2007. She received a B.A. in English and an MEd in Secondary English Education from the University of Florida. She completed her M.A. in Literary Studies from Georgia State University. Jennifer is currently a PhD student in Rhetoric and Composition and a freshman Composition instructor at GSU. Her research interests include writing center studies, writing program administration, feminist theory and methodology, and composition theory and pedagogy.
