Alan C. Purves Award
2026 Recipients:
Robert Petrone, Adrianna 骋辞苍锄谩濒别锄 Ybarra, and Nicholas Rink.听
“Native Youth Re-Learning Their Language to Story the Future: Examining Indigenous Language Revitalization, Relationality, and Temporalities”
Robert Petrone is a creative nonfiction writer and Professor of English Education at the University of Missouri. He is the author of three books which focus on the intersections of critical youth studies and education. He is currently revising a coming-of-age memoir, Used Cars, which explores growing up amidst parental disability, secrecy, and shame.
Adrianna 骋辞苍锄谩濒别锄听Ybarra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bilingual and Literacy Studies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She 鈥媎raws on decolonial methodologies and testimonio to story the lived experiences, knowledges, and language and literacy practices of students and preservice teachers of Color to directly inform humanizing literacy education research.
Nicholas Rink is a teacher at an alternative high school on a Native American reservation, where he teaches classes in English, the local tribal language, Native arts, and traditional Indigenous sports and games. His work has been published in Harvard Educational Review, he received a Geneva Smitherman Cultural Diversity Grant from NCTE, and he has presented at the World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education. He is also currently involved in coordination of Fire in the Mountains Festival, which brings together听heavy metal music with suicide prevention and Indigenous Ways of Knowing-Being-Doing on the Blackfeet Reservation.
Honorable Mention:
Sophia Tatiana Sarigianides
“Mourning Working-Class Identities through Young Adult Literature in an English Education Classroom”听
The Alan C. Purves Award is presented annually to the author(s) of the article from the previous year’s volume judged as likely to have the greatest impact on educational practice.
起点传媒Alan C. Purves Award Past Recipients
2025 Lindsey W. Rowe
Honorable Mentions:
Lakeya Afolalu
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Melissa Schieble and David J. Connor
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2024
Min-Young Kim and Sanghee Ryu
Honorable Mention:
Danielle Filipiak
2023
Laura C. Ch谩vez-Moreno
2022
Stephanie R. Toliver
Honorable Mentions:
Alicia Rusoja
Shirin Vossoughi, Kalonji Nzinga, Allena Berry, Faith Irvine, Christopher Mayorga, and Mari Gashaw
2021
Wan Shun Eva Lam, Natalia Smirnov, Amy A. Chang, Matthew W. Easterday, Enid M. Rosario-Ramos, and Jack C. Doppelt
Honorable Mentions:
Grace MyHyun Kim and Lindy L. Johnson
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Cassie J. Brownell
2020
Latrise P. Johnson and Hannah Sullivan
(May 2020)
Honorable Mention:
Monica Gonzalez Ybarra
(February 2020)