We are pleased to award three years worth of Annual Awards for Best Dissertation for dissertations completed in 2020 (Award for 2021), 2021 (Award for 2022), and 2022 (Award for 2023) respectively. On behalf of CASDW-ACR, congratulations to each of you!

The winners for each year are listed below in chronological order. For more on their vital and important contributions, please read about the studies “Best Dissertation Winners” webpage.

2021 Winner (Best Dissertation submitted in 2020)

• Kim Mitchell (University of Manitoba, 2021)
• Dissertation title: The theoretical construction and measurement of writing self-efficacy

Honourable mention: Sara Doody (McGill University, 2020). Dissertation title: Interdisciplinary writing should be simple, but it isn’t: A study of meta-genres in interdisciplinary life sciences doctoral programs.

2022 Winner (Best Dissertation submitted in 2021)

• Christin Wright-Taylor (University of Waterloo, 2021)
• Dissertation title: “Sorry If My Words Aren’t Right”: Writing Studies’ Partnership with Second Language Writing to Support Translingual Students in the Anglo-Canadian Classroom

2023 Winner (Best Dissertation submitted in 2022)

• Monique Kampherm (University of Waterloo, 2023)
• Dissertation title: Masks and Caricatures: Prosopopoeia, Ethopoeia, and the Effect of Social Media on Canadian Political Leaders’ Debates

The committee members (Sara Humphreys, Dana Landry, and Diana Wegner) wish to thank each of the award nominees for their outstanding contributions to the field. The group of dissertations was invigorating and inspiring, and we look forward to seeing where, by whom, and in what ways they are taken up.