Clay Spinuzzi Honored with Alumni Recognition Award

Clay Spinuzzi, associate professor and outgoing CWRL director, has been honored with a 2008 Alumni Recognition Award by the Iowa State University Department of English.

Spinuzzi received his Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Professional Communication from Iowa State in 1999. Since then, he has received four NCTE awards for his scholarship. His first book, Tracing Genres through Organizations (MIT Press, 2003), was named NCTE's 2004 Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication. His second book, Network, is currently in press at Cambridge University Press.

Spinuzzi was also named Honored Alumnus in Spring 2006 by the University of North Texas Department of English, where he received his MA in English with emphasis in technical writing.