TAA Council Awards

Nominate yourself or a colleague for one of seven TAA Council Awards. These awards, which recognize individual achievements in writing or in service to TAA or fellow authors, are selected each year by the TAA Council of Fellows and Awards Committee. 

The deadline for nominations is April 15, 2025.

Service Awards

Writing Awards

View Awards Criteria

Click here for a list of previous Council Award winners.

Questions? Contact Kim Pawlak at [email protected].

Service Awards

Author Mentoring Award

Keedy-Anderson Award

Keedy-Anderson is a service award for TAA members who display devotion to TAA and/or the authoring community through continuous acts of support and service. The award is named for founding member Mike Keedy, and charter member Paul Anderson, both of whom exemplified service to TAA and authors. The award will typically be conferred on someone late in their career who has served over a long period of time. Learn more

Writing Awards

The Social Justice Award

The Social Justice Award recognizes individuals that make a significant contribution to authoring or educating academic authors in social justice, human rights, and/or diversity, equity, and inclusion. Learn more

Council of Fellows

The TAA Council of Fellows honors distinguished authors who have a long record of successful publishing. Any author whose textbook or other instructional and academic works have established his/her presence in scholarly publishing over time, who has been innovative in the presentation of material, is qualified for nomination into the TAA Council of Fellows. Induction into the Council of Fellows is the premier honor bestowed by TAA. Learn more

Council Award Criteria

Author Mentoring Award

The TAA Author Mentoring Award recognizes an individual with a long and distinguished record of mentoring authors—either through TAA or individual efforts.

Nominations
Candidates may be nominated by any member of TAA, but need not themselves be a TAA member. Candidates may not self-nominate for this award.

A minimum of two letters of nomination should be submitted. Letters should describe how the nominee was successful in mentoring multiple authors or academics over a sustained period of time. Examples of mentoring success should be provided. You may also include any specific diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

Award Criteria
Candidates are judged on two primary factors:

• Description and examples of a long history of mentoring successes.
• Evidence of mentoring multiple authors and/or academics.

Selection Process
The TAA Council established and authorized the TAA Council of Fellows and Awards Committee to have responsibility for seeking and evaluating nominations and establishing the process that is followed each year. Deadlines for nominations and other information relevant to the award are posted on the TAA website. In general, deadlines are in January or February each year for the awards to be presented at that year’s Annual Conference.

Awards are made at the discretion of the TAA Awards Committee, which may choose to grant a maximum of one award per year.

The Keedy-Anderson Service Award

The Keedy-Anderson Service Award recognizes individuals with a long record of providing service to authors, to TAA, or to the individual’s discipline, either through TAA, another organization, or through individual efforts. Strong nominees promote TAA to their colleagues, at their university, or within the authoring community. The award is named for Paul Anderson and Mike Keedy, two charter members of TAA who exemplified service to TAA and authors.

Nominations
Anyone may nominate him/herself or a colleague for the Keedy-Anderson Service Award and must present evidence to reflect the criteria.

Award Criteria

• Service to TAA. Successful candidates contributed to the success of TAA over a sustained period of service. Such accomplishments may include activities in membership, public advocacy, or committee service. Multiple accomplishments in these areas should be part of the nomination letter.
• Service to the Authoring Community. Successful candidates enhanced the lives and careers of authors through TAA, another professional organization, or through individual efforts. Such accomplishments may include activities such as teaching, mentoring, leading diversity, equity or inclusion initiatives, or otherwise serving authors.

Selection Process
The TAA Council established and authorized the TAA Council of Fellows and Awards Committee to have responsibility for seeking and evaluating nominations and establishing the process that is followed each year. 

The Committee typically selects one awardee annually but may determine in any given year that no awards are given, or that two candidates are to be awarded.

The Social Justice Award

The Social Justice Award recognizes individuals that make a significant contribution to authoring or educating academic authors in social justice, human rights, and/or diversity, equity, and inclusion. Strong nominees have the following characteristics: have authored a work or works that address issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in a meaningful way or have provided trainings or other efforts to improve how academic authors address issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in their writing.

Nominations 
Candidates may nominate themselves or a colleague for this award and must present evidence to reflect the criteria. Candidates are not required to be members of TAA.  A letter with detail supporting the nomination should be submitted to the Committee.

Award Criteria 
A successful nominee’s work must demonstrate a significant contribution to authoring or providing knowledge/training with attention to social justice, human rights, and/or diversity, equity, and inclusion. This may include an influential journal article, a textbook, book chapter, presentation/webinar, providing training, or developing other resources of value to academic authors. Information should be provided that outlines the significance of the work either to its discipline, in social justice, or in diversity, equity, or inclusion.  

Selection Process 
The TAA Council established and authorized the TAA Council of Fellows and Awards Committee to have responsibility for seeking and evaluating nominations and establishing the process that is followed each year. If necessary, consultation with the CDEI can be part of the selection process. The committee strives to select one awardee annually but may determine in any given year that no awards are given, or that two candidates are to be awarded.

TAA Council of Fellows

The TAA Council of Fellows honors distinguished authors who have a long record of successful publishing. Any author whose textbook or other instructional materials have established his/her presence in the marketplace over time, who has been innovative in the presentation of material, is qualified for nomination into the TAA Council of Fellows. Induction into the Council of Fellows is the premier honor bestowed by TAA.

Council of Fellows members are chosen by a TAA Selection Committee based on a set of criteria which includes their:

• Level of participation in TAA activities
• Teaching excellence
• Quality and quantity of textbooks (if textbook authors)
• Quality and quantity of professional journal articles, monographs and edited books (if academic authors)

Applications must include documentation in support of the Council of Fellows Criteria. 

 View the current Council of Fellows