CCCC Emergent Researcher Award
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CCCC Emergent Researcher Award supports emergent researchers with funding and mentoring for literacy and writing instruction studies that contribute to scholarly and public discussions.
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Funder: National Council of Teachers of English
Due Dates (Anticipated): September 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Up to $5,000 per project for up to two years
Summary: Supports emergent researchers with funding and mentoring for studies that inform scholarly and public discussions of literacy and writing instruction.
Key Information: Applicants must not have received previous CCCC research funding, and principal investigators must be CCCC members at submission.
Description
The CCCC Emergent Researcher Award is funded by the National Council of Teachers of English and administered by the Conference on College Composition and Communication. It invests in emergent researchers, especially faculty and instructors who have lacked opportunities for funded research or institutional research support. Projects should contribute to discussions of literacy and writing instruction within and beyond formal education, helping CCCC and its members become a clear, trusted public voice on writing.
The program welcomes diverse perspectives and methodologies, including historical, archival, rhetorical, qualitative, quantitative, ethnographic, and textual research. It values innovative studies, extensions of existing research, investigations in new settings, synthesis, and confirmation or replication of important findings. Recipients or teams are matched with established scholars for mentoring on project design, methodology, writing, and circulation. Projects must produce work for both scholarly and specifically identified public audiences.
