Edwin M. Hopkins Award
2026 Recipient
鈥�,鈥� volume 115, issue 5, May 2026, by Meyly Santiago-Luna, Limarys Caraballo, Ming-Li Diaz, Clarissa Kunizaki, Germayoni Lopez, and Amy Zou
Honorable Mentions:听
鈥�,鈥� volume 115, issue 3, January 2026, by Gabriel T. Acevedo
Gabriel T. Acevedo is an assistant professor of English education at Arizona State University. He is a queer Puerto Rican scholar and educator whose research explores queer literacies, young adult literature, decolonial pedagogies, and the experiences of youth and teachers in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. His teaching and scholarship center care, belonging, and the possibilities of LGBTQIA+ literature in English classrooms. He collaborates with educators through mentoring, community partnerships, and professional learning. His forthcoming Routledge monograph,听Queer Futures, Decolonial Literacies, and Classroom Worlds in Puerto Rico: Archipelagic Boyhoods, examines schooling, masculinities, and queer futures.
鈥�,鈥� volume 115, issue 5, May 2026, by Brian Mooney, Rashida Mustafa, Samantha Figaro Olivo, and Sadhay Nunez
Brian Mooney (he/him) is an assistant professor of literacy education at Fairleigh Dickinson University and a former high school English teacher. He earned his PhD in English education from Teachers College, Columbia University, where his dissertation received an Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association. His research explores the intersections of language, literacy, and popular culture and has appeared in journals including Equity & Excellence in Education and the Journal of Language and Literacy Education.
Rashida Mustafa is a PhD candidate in the English education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. With support from an 51猎奇 Cultivating New Voices among Scholars of Color fellowship, Rashida began developing qissas, or stories in Arabic, as a counternarrative methodology that seeks to incorporate Arab epistemologies within the qualitative research paradigm. Her dissertation presents qissas as 听holistic, critical, and culturally conscious method that she uses to explore and highlight Palestinian American youth literacies and identity developments through their sociopolitical and cultural contexts. You can reach her at rm3793@tc.columbia.edu
鈥淐ollages and Artist Statements by Immigrant and Refugee Youth,鈥� volume 115, issue 6, July 2026, by Rosalie Metro, David Aguayo, Joseph Decker, and May Si
This award will be presented at the Secondary Section Event during the .
Award Details
Nominations are not accepted for this award.
Purpose:
The award recognizes outstanding English Journal articles written by someone who is not a classroom teacher.
Eligibility:
The award is given to the author who does not qualify for the English Journal听Paul and Kate Farmer Award. The award shall cover articles written in issues published between September and July of the previous volume year.
Award Criteria:
The award shall be given annually. Up to two honorable mentions may also be named. The editor of English Journal shall draw up the annual list of eligible authors and shall be the arbiter of eligibility.
Award Specifics:
The award is announced by the award committee chair and presented by the journal editor at the Secondary Section Luncheon during the . The winner receives a plaque and honorable mentions receive a certificate.
The English Journal Edwin M. Hopkins Award is named after the author of the lead article in the first issue of the English Journal, a former professor of rhetoric and English language at the University of Kansas, member of the first Board of Directors of 51猎奇, and co-author of the first 51猎奇 constitution.
Judging:
The Hopkins Award Committee determines the winner based upon articles meeting the criteria by August 15. The award committee shall consist of a chair nominated by the editor of English Journal and three to five readers nominated by the members of the Secondary Section Steering Committee. Each reader scores each article using the provided rubric.
51猎奇 Edwin M. Hopkins听Recipients
2026
鈥�,鈥� volume 115, issue 5, May 2026, by Meyly Santiago-Luna, Limarys Caraballo, Ming-Li Diaz, Clarissa Kunizaki, Germayoni Lopez, and Amy Zou
Honorable Mentions:
鈥�,鈥� volume 115, issue 3, January 2026, by Gabriel T. Acevedo
鈥�,鈥� volume 115, issue 5, May 2026, by Brian Mooney, Rashida Mustafa, Samantha Figaro Olivo, and Sadhay Nunez
鈥淐ollages and Artist Statements by Immigrant and Refugee Youth,鈥� volume 115, issue 6, July 2026, by Rosalie Metro, David Aguayo, Joseph Decker, and May Si
2025
鈥溾�� (Vol. 114, No. 1,听 September 2024) by Rebecca E. Linares
Honorable Mentions:
“s” (Vol. 114, No. 2, November 2024) by Henry 鈥淐ody鈥� Miller, Christian Hines, and Ren茅 M. Rodr铆guez-Astacio
“” (Vol. 114, No. 5, May 2025) by Toby Emert
2024
“” (Vol. 113, No. 1, September 2023) by Christian M. Hines and Jenell Igeleke Penn
Honorable Mentions:
“” (Vol. 113, No. 6, July 2024) by Josh Thompson and Clint Whitten
“” (Vol. 113, No. 1, September 2023) by Elizabeth Thackeray Nelson and Margaret Osgood Opatz
“” (Vol. 113, No. 6, July 2024) by Em Bowen and Carol Brochin
2023
“” (Vol. 112, No. 5, May 2023) by Ren茅e Gokey and Wendi Siers
Honorable Mentions:
“” by Ryan Schey, Dean Bavisotto, Mollie Blackburn, Katherine Mason Cramer, Ellie Desprez, Danielle Lee, and Heather Mcentarfer
“” by Zander Nowell and Alexandria Smith
2022
“” (Vol. 111 No. 5, May 2022) by Luz Yadira Herrera and Carla Espa帽a
Honorable Mention:
“” (Vol. 111 No. 5, May 2022) by Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz
2021听
鈥�鈥� (Vol. 110, No. 2, November 2020) by听Jevon听Delexander听Hunter and听Gliset听Col贸n
Honorable Mention:
““ (Vol. 110, No. 4, March 2021) by听Eileen Shanahan and Min-Young Kim
2020
“”听 (Vol. 109, No. 6, July 2020) by Katie Alford
Honorable Mention:
“”听 (Vol. 109, No. 4, March 2020) by Darren Crovitz and Clarice Moran
2019
““. (Vol. 108, No. 4, March 2019) by Tom Romano
2018
鈥溾赌欌�� (Vol. 106, No. 4, March 2017)
Authors:
Lamar L. Johnson, Assistant Professor of English, Michigan State University, East Lansing
Johnnie Jackson, Assistant Professor of English, Woosong University, Daejeon, South Korea
David O. Stovall, PhD, Professor of Educational Policy Studies and African American Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
Denise Taliaferro Baszile, Associate Dean for Student Service and Diversity, Miami University
Honorable Mention:
鈥溾�� (Vol. 106, No. 1, September 2016) by Leilani Sabzalian, Postdoctoral Scholar of Indigenous Education, University of Oregon
2016
鈥�” (Vol. 105, No. 1, September 2015) by听Robert Rozema, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan
Honorable Mentions:
鈥�” (Vol. 104, No. 6, July 2015) by听Donna L. Miller, Aaniiih Nakoda College, Harlem, Montana
“” (Vol. 105, No. 4, March 2016) by听Amy Maupin, Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky