Dina Feitelson Research Award


The Dina Feitelson Research Award is an award established in 1997 by the International Reading Association to honor the memory of Dina Feitelson, the Israeli educator, who died in 1992.

Criteria for award

The award recognizes an outstanding empirical study published in English in a refereed journal. The work should report on one or more aspects of literacy acquisition, such as phonemic awareness, the alphabetic principle, bilingualism, or cross-cultural studies of beginning reading.
Works may be submitted by the author or anyone else.

List of recipients

YearRecipientsWorks
1997Darlene M. Tangel
Benita A. Blachman
“”, Journal of Reading Behavior
1998Peter J. Hatcher
Charles Hulme
Andrew W. Ellis
“”, Child Development
1999William E. Tunmer
James W. Chapman
“”, British Journal of Educational Psychology
2000Jill Fitzgerald
George W. Noblit
“”, Journal of Literacy Research
2001Susan B. Neuman“”, Reading Research Quarterly
2002Nell K. Duke“”, Reading Research Quarterly
2003Barbara A. Wasik
Mary Alice Bond
“”, Journal of Educational Psychology
2004Anne McGill Franzen
Ellen Adams
Cynthia Lanford
“”, Journal of Educational Psychology
2005Darrell Morris
Janet W. Bloodgood
Richard G. Lomax
Jan Perney
“”, Reading Research Quarterly
2006Carol McDonald Connor
Frederick J. Morrison
Leslie E. Katch
“”, Scientific Studies of Reading )
2007Terrence Tivnanto
Lowry Hemphill
“”, The Elementary School Journal
2008Pia Rebello Britto
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Terri M. Griffin
“”, Reading Research Quarterly
2009Catherine F. Compton-Lilly“”, Reading Research Quarterly
2010Deborah Wells Rowe"", Research in the Teaching of English
2011Lisa Hammett Price
Anne van Kleec
Carl J. Huberty
"", Reading Research Quarterly
2012Sheila W. Valencia
Antony T. Smith
Anne M. Reece
Min Li
Karen K. Wixson
Heather Newman
"", Reading Research Quarterly
2013Michael J. Kieffer"", American Educational Research Journal
2014Shayne B. Piasta
Yaacov Petscher
Laura Justice
"", Journal of Educational Psychology
2015Lori E. Skibbe
Samantha W. Bindman
Annemarie H. Hindman
Dorit Aram
Frederick J. Morrison
"", Reading Research Quarterly
2016Susan Hopewell
Kathy Escamilla
"", Journal of Literacy Research
2017Lea M. McGee
Hwewon Kim
Kathryn S. Nelson
Mary D. Fried
"", Reading Research Quarterly
2018Maren Aukerman
Lorien Chambers Schuldt
"", Reading Research Quarterly
2019Dani Kachorsky
Lindsey Moses
Frank Serafini
Megan Hoelting
"", Literacy Research and Instruction
2022Seung-Hee Claire Son
Kirsten R. Butcher
Lauren Aimonette Liang
"", The Elementary School Journal
2022Mary-Claire Ball
Erin Curran
Fabrice Tanoh
Hermann Akpé
Shakhlo Nematova
Kaja K. Jasińska
"", Journal of Educational Psychology
2023Marianne Rice
Florina Erbeli
Christopher G. Thompson
Mary Rose Sallese
Melissa Fogarty
"", Reading Research Quarterly
2024Amber Lawson"", Reading Research Quarterly
2025Jackie E. Relyea
James S. Kim
Patrick Rich
Jill Fitzgerald
"", Journal of Educational Psychology