Faculty Directory

Wargo, J.M. (2022). Gendered Genius Hour: Tracing Young Children’s Uptake of Expert across the Nexus of Personal Digital Inquiry. Research in the Teaching of English, 56(3), 275-300.

Wargo, J.M. (2021). ‘Sound’ civics, heard histories: A critical case of young children mobilizing digital media to write (right) injustice. Theory and Research in Social Education. 49(3), 360-389. https://doi.org/10.1080/00933104.2021.1874582

Wargo, J.M., Brownell, C., & Oliveira, G. (2021). Sound, Sentience, and Schooling: Writing the Field Recording in Educational Ethnography. Anthropology & Education Quarterly. 52(3), 315-334. https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.12365

Wargo, J.M. & Alvarado, J. (2020). Making as worlding: young children composing change through speculative design. Literacy. 54(2), 13-21. https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12209

Wargo, J.M. (2019). Sounding the Garden, Voicing a Problem: Mobilizing Critical Literacy through Personal Digital Inquiry with Young Children. Language Arts. 96(5), 275-285.

Wargo, J.M. & Clayton, K.* (2018). From PSAs to reel communities: exploring the sounds and silences of urban youth mobilizing digital media production. Learning, Media & Technology. 43(4), 469-484. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2018.1534859

Wargo, J.M. (2018). Writing with Wearables? Young Children’s Intra-Active Authoring and the Sounds of Emplaced Invention. Journal of Literacy Research. 50(4), 502-523. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1086296X18802880

Wargo, J.M. (2017). Rhythmic rituals and emergent listening: Intra-activity, sonic sounds, and digital composing with young children. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 17(3), 392-408. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1468798417712573

Wargo, J.M. (2015). “Every Selfie Tells a Story…” LGBTQ youth lifestreams and new media narratives as connective identity texts. New Media and Society, 19(4), 560-578. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1461444815612447

• Co-Investigator + Boston Team Leader 2022-Present Sensory Stories of Environmental Stewardship: A Cross-Coastal Constellation of Children Cultivating, Crafting, and Communicating Nature Narratives, Canada New Frontiers in Research Fund (with Cassie Brownell, PI and Kathleen Schenkel, Co-PI) $187,460 
• Principal Investigator 2021-Present Preparing Anti-Racist English Language Arts Teacher Educators: Examining the “for-s,” “in-s,” and “of-s” of Teaching for Justice,” NCTE, $2,465 
• Principal Investigator + Project Team Leader 2021-Present Teaching for Justice: Examining the Collaborative ‘for-s,’ ‘in-s,’ and of-s’ of Anti-Racist Professional Teaching Dyads, Boston College – Collaborative Fellows Grant, $84,010 
• Principal Investigator 2020-2022 (In)Human Histories: Exploring How Inclusive Educational Policy Shapes the Teaching of LGBTQ History in Elementary Social Studies, National Academy of Education / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, $70,000 
• Principal Investigator 2017-2019 Civic MakEY: Exploring Early Learning and Civic Action through Makerspace Technologies and Project Based Learning, Boston College – Research Incentive Grant (RIG), $15,000
• BC Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) “Called to Serve” Cohort 2018-2019
• AERA Division K (Teacher Education) Early Career Faculty Pre-Conference Event 2017
• Boston College – Research Incentive Grant (RIG) 2017-2019
• University Enrichment Fellowship, Michigan State University 2011-2016
• Cultural Heritage Informatics [CHI] / MATRIX Fellowship 2015-2016
• MSU Department of Teacher Education, Travel Fellowship 2011-2016
• Teacher Education Dissertation Enhancement Fellowship 2014-2015
• Teacher Education Research Enhancement Fellowship 2013-2014
• Eastern Michigan University Human Equality Research Grant 2013-2014
• MSU College of Education, Summer Research Renewable Fellowship 2012-2014
• MSU Residential College of Arts and Humanities Fellowship 2012-2014
• MSU College of Education, Fellowship to Enhance Global Understanding 2013
• MSU College of Education, Urban Education Retention Fellowship
  

• Jan Hawkins Award (Honorable Mention) 2022 
• LRA Early Career Achievement Award 2021 
• Children’s Literature Assembly (CLA) Early Career Award 2021 
• NCTE Language Arts Distinguished Article Award 2021
• Divergent Award for Excellence in 21st Century Literacies Research 2020
• ELATE National Technology Leadership Initiative (NTLI) 2019
• CAE Concha Delgado Gaitán Presidential Fellowship 2018
• NCTE Promising Research Award (Honorable Mention) 2017
• AERA Queer Studies SIG Article of the Year Award 2017
• College Composition & Communication Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer 2017 Scholarship’s Dissertation Award
• AERA Language and Social Processes SIG Emerging Scholar Award 2016
• International Literacy Association’s Inaugural 30 Under 30 Recipient 2015
• College Composition & Communication Gloria Anzaldúa Rhetorician Award 2015
• Indiana University Courson- Greeves Essay Award 2008
  The Rote of Alle Wikkedness: Un-Kyndley Similitude and Langland’s Tree of Charity
• Hutton Honors College “Work in Process” Thesis Award 2008