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Alan C. Purves Award

2025 Recipient:

Dr. Lindsey W. Rowe

Heteroglossia and Community Translanguaging in an English-Medium Classroom: Multilingual Elementary Students’ Use of Multiple Voices in Digital Texts

Dr. Lindsey W. Rowe is an Assistant Professor of Literacy in the Department of Education and Human Development at Clemson University’s College of Education. Her research interests include multilingualism, translanguaging, writing, elementary literacy, digital composing, ethnography, and discourse analysis, primarily focusing on the language and literacy practices of bi/multilingual elementary school students, as well as teacher preparation and development for work with bi/multilingual learners.

Honorable Mentions:

Lakeya Afolalu

More than My Race: Deconstructing Racial Identity Categories through Digital Literacies

Dr. Lakeya Afolalu is an Assistant Professor of Language, Literacy, and Culture in the College of Education at the University of Washington. Raised between her Nigerian and African American cultures, she embodies a hybrid identity reflected in her research, which focuses on African immigrant and transnational youth’s languages, literacies, and identity formations across home, digital, and community spaces. Her scholarship has appeared in several journals, such as the Journal of Literacy Research, Research in the Teaching of English, and Teachers College Record. In 2022, she received the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association’s Bilingual Education Research SIG, and she was a 2020–2022 Cultivating New Voices among Scholars of Color Fellow. A fierce advocate for making research accessible and a creative writer, her public scholarship has been featured on TEDx, The Seattle Times, ESSENCE Magazine, and NPR Radio. Dr. Afolalu also serves as the Founder and Executive Director of LitiArts. This nonprofit organization supports youth identities and socioemotional well-being through literacy programs and arts based partnerships with communities and schools. As a former elementary and middle school teacher, she continues to draw on her students’ wisdom in everything she does. Far from a self-made woman, she stands on the shoulders of those who came before her in her communities across Detroit, New York, and Nigeria, ensuring these stories are included in literacy and language research, too.

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Melissa Schieble and David J. Connor

Applying a Critical Disability Studies Lens to Young Adult Literature: Disrupting Ableism in Depictions of Tourette Syndrome

Melissa Schieble is Professor of English Education at Hunter College and is a member of the doctoral faculty in Urban Education at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has published several articles, book chapters and books related to critical approaches to teaching youth literature and fostering critical conversations in English language arts classrooms. Her research has been published in English Journal and English Education and in 2021 she was awarded the ELATE James N. Britton Award. Professor Schieble teaches courses on critical approaches to teaching reading and literature for the undergraduate and MA programs in English Education at Hunter College.

David J. Connor, EdD, is a Professor Emeritus of Hunter College (Learning Disabilities Program, Instructional Leadership Program) and the Graduate Center (Urban Education Program), City University of New York. He has published numerous articles, book chapters, and books. His academic interests include inclusive education, disability studies, critical special education, and pedagogy. For more information, see .

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.