MaraLee Grayson

AWARDS & HONORS

RACIAL LITERACY EDUCATOR/RESEARCHER/WRITER

  • Second Place, Anne Spencer Memorial Prize, 2022 
  • Finalist, Kay Murphy Prize for Poetry, 2022 
  • Pushcart Prize Nomination, 2021 - for "Kettle of Fish"
  • Sutton Award for Research in English, $6,055, California State University, Dominguez Hills, 2021 – for Antisemitism and the White Supremacist Imaginary: Contradictions and Conflations in Composition and Rhetoric
  • Pushcart Prize Nomination, 2020 - for "34 Years Later"
  • Faculty Research Grant, $6,055, California State University, Dominguez Hills, 2020 – for Building Racial Literacy into First-Year Composition: Studying a Faculty Development Program toward Equitable Writing Instruction
  • Continuous Improvement Faculty Professional Development Grant, $17,960, California State University, Dominguez Hills, 2019 – for Building Racial Literacy into First Year Composition: A Faculty Development Program toward Equitable Writing Instruction
  • Faculty Legacy Fund Grant, $2,650, California State University, Dominguez Hills, 2019 – for Building Racial Literacy into First Year Composition: Evaluating a Faculty Development Program toward Equitable Writing Instruction
  • CCCC Emergent Researcher Grant, 2019 - for "An Ideology of Apologia"
  • Mark Reynolds TETYC Best Article Award, 2018 - for "Race Talk in the Composition Classroom: Narrative Song Lyrics as Texts for Racial Literacy"
  • Doctoral Dissertation Grant, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2017 - for Racial Literacy
  • in the College Composition Classroom: Developing Discursive Practices through Critical Writing and Textual Analysis
  • Provost’s Grant for Professional Development, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2016 - for Positionality
  • and (Re)Presentation: Exploring the Narrative Self in Creative Nonfiction
  • Innovation Scholarship for Student Research, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2016 - for Racial Literacy
  • in the College Composition Classroom: Developing Discursive Practices through Critical Writing and Textual Analysis
  • Poetry Outreach Service Award, 2012
  • Goodman Fund Grant, The City College of New York, 2010 - for Legacies of Spain