E. Jennifer Monaghan - Honors and Awards

Honors and Awards

Presented “Reading for the Enslaved, Writing for the Free: Reflections on Liberty and Literacy” as the American Antiquarian Society’s annual James Russell Wiggins Lecture on the History of the Book in American Culture (fall, 1998).

Elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society, April 1995.

Awarded a Wolfe Fellowship by Brooklyn College of CUNY, 1994-1995, for a year free of teaching to work on her book in progress, “Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America.”

Awarded the 1992 biennial “best article” prize by the History of Education Society for “‘She loved to read in good Books’: Literacy and the Indians of Martha’s Vineyard, 1643-1725,” published in the 1990 History of Education Quarterly.

Presented the inaugural Esther Clarke Wright Lecture, “Literacy in Eighteenth-Century New England,” at Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, October 1990.

Interviewed for the series, “Leaders in Reading Research and Instruction” by Richard D. Robinson, “An Interview with Dr. E. Jennifer Monaghan,” Reading Psychology: An International Quarterly 11 (1990): 151-58.

Awarded the 1989 Constance Rourke Prize by the American Studies Association for “Literacy Instruction and Gender in Colonial New England,” published in the 1988 American Quarterly.

Elected associate member, Darwin College, Cambridge University, England. Took up residence April-June 1988.

Co-awarded the biennial “Outstanding Dissertation Award” presented by the Society for the Study of Curriculum History for her dissertation, “Noah Webster’s Speller, 1783-1843: Causes of Its Success as Reading Text,” April 1983.