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Sonja L. Lanehart, Ph.D.
Brackenridge Endowed Chair in Literature and the Humanities
Honors/Awards
Grants Received
Lanehart,
Sonja L. (with Daniel Hickey, Allan Cohen, Sybilla Beckmann, and
Denise Mewborn. "Multi-Level Assessment for Enhancing Mathematical
Discourse, Curriculum, and Achievement in Diverse Elementary School
Classrooms." 2005-08. National
Science Foundation ROLE Grant, $929,140.
Lanehart, Sonja L. (with William Kretzschmar and Bridget Anderson).
"Roswell Community Language Project." 2003. Roswell Convention and
Visitors Bureau, $10,000.
Lanehart, Sonja L. (with William Kretzschmar). 2002-04. "Atlanta
Speech Sample." National Science Foundation SBR Grant #0233448,
$54,834, Undergraduate
Research Supplement, $5000.
Lanehart, Sonja L. 2000-01. "Language Uses in the African American
Community: Regional Variation and National Use." Institutional
Allowance Grant, National Academy of Sciences/ Ford Foundation,
$2500.
Lanehart, Sonja L. 1999-00. "Language and Uses of Identity of
African Americans." Matching Funds Grant, University of Georgia,
$2500.
Lanehart, Sonja L. 1999-00. "Language and Uses of Identity of
African Americans." Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship,
National Academy of Sciences, $30,000.
Lanehart, Sonja L. 1999-00. "Sociocultural and Historical Contexts
of African American Vernacular English [book project]. CHA Faculty
Research Fellowship, University of
Georgia, 2-course release.
Lanehart, Sonja L. 1998-00. Lilly Teaching Fellowship, University of
Georgia, $2000 and a course release.
Lanehart, Sonja L. 1998-99. For honoraria for participants in State
of the Art conference on "Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of
African American Vernacular English." CHA Conference, Performance,
and Exhibition Grant, University of Georgia, $1500.
Lanehart, Sonja L. 1998-99. "Sociocultural and Historical Contexts
of African American Vernacular English" [conference]. Office for the
Vice-President for Academic Affairs' State of the Art Conference
Grant, University of Georgia, $14,971.
Lanehart, Sonja L. and Joan Kelly Hall. 1998-99. "Preservice
Teachers' Beliefes and Attitudes about Language Variation and
Linguistically Diverse Students." Deans' Forum Collaborative Grant,
University of Georgia, $1000.
Lanehart, Sonja L. 1997-98. "Language, Literacy, and Uses of
Identity" [book preject]. Center for Humanities and Arts Faculty
Research Fellowship, University of Georgia, 2-course release.
Lanehart, Sonja L. 1995. Summer Research Grant, University of
Georgia, Department of English, $3000.
Lanehart, Sonja L. 1994-95. Language, Literacy, and Uses of
Identity. Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Grant, Woodrow Wilson
National Fellowship Foundation, $15,000.
Recognition and Outstanding Achievements
Honorable Mention for Sista, Speak! Black Women Kinfolk
Talk about Language and Literacy in the 2003 Myers Outstanding
Book Award competition sponsored by the
Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in
North America, 2003.
Ford Foundation Fellow, 1999.
Lilly Teaching Fellow, 1998.
Deans' Forum Fellow, 1997.
Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society, 1990.
Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, 1990.
Horace H. Rackham Merit Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1990.
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, Woodrow Wilson
National Fellowship Foundation, 1990.
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for Minorities, National
Research Council (designate--I declined the offer to accept the
Mellon fellowship).
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