News

Lewis Ellison featured on UGA’s COEfyi – “Educators must unplug their ideas about students’ tech abilities” (2020)

Lewis Ellison & Marva Solomon featured in National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) “Digital Storytelling and the Digital Divide” (2019)

Review of Lewis Ellison, Tisha, and Marva Solomon’s Research in the Teaching of English article, “Counter-Storytelling vs. Deficit Thinking around African American Children and Families, Digital Literacies, Race, and the Digital Divide.”  (2019)

Lewis Ellison awarded the 2017 UGA Early Career Faculty Research Grant

Family and Community Literacies Research Speaker Symposium with Dr. Shirley Brice Heath (2017)

Lewis Ellison – Divine Inspiration – SUNY Albany (2017)

Lewis Ellison selected to serve on the International Literacy Association’s Digital Literacies Task Force (2017)

Lewis Ellison awarded the 2016 Literacy Research Association Early Career Achievement Award

Lewis Ellison selected from over 2,000 applicants to join the Organizing for Action Digital Content Production Fellowship (2016)

Lewis Ellison awarded the 2015-2016 National Academy of Education: Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship

Lewis Ellison awarded the 2015 Digital Champions Fellowship (under heading ‘Applause’)

NCTE Announces its 2012 Promising Researcher Award Winner, Tisha Y. Lewis, Ph.D. (page 2)

Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award Finalist. The International Reading Association (2011)

Scholars of Color Transitioning into Academic Research Mentoring Program. Literacy Reading Association (2010-2012)

Cultivating New Voices among Scholars of Color Program. The National Council of Teachers of English Research Foundation (2008-2010)

J. Michael Parker Award. Literacy Research Association. (formerly the National Reading Conference) (2008)

Dissertation Research Fellowship Award. University at Albany, State University of New York (2008)

Ethnicity, Race and Multilingualism Scholarship. Literacy Research Association (2008)

Graduate Student Organization Distinguished Service Award. University at Albany, State University of New York (2005)

Initiatives for Women Gloria R. DeSole Award. University at Albany State University of New York. (2003)

Ph.D. Reading Fellowship Cochrane Fellowship Award. University at Albany, State University of New York. (2001-2005)