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Congratulation, Miriam. This is great news and especially good news for the times we're enduring now.</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, September 27, 2020 1:55 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Karen Schriver <<a href="mailto:kschriver00@gmail.com" target="_blank">kschriver00@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ATTW-L] Technical Communication's new editor: Miriam Williams</font>
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<div dir="auto">I second Karen. This is fantastic news. Congratulations, Miriam! And much gratitude, Sam!</div>
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<div>Congratulations, Miriam Williams! The field is very excited to have you as the new Editor-in-Chief of
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<div>On Sep 27, 2020, at 1:45 PM, Dragga, Sam <<a href="mailto:Sam.Dragga@ttu.edu" target="_blank">Sam.Dragga@ttu.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:white">The Board of Directors of the Society for Technical Communication is pleased to announce that Dr. Miriam F. Williams of Texas State University will assume the position of Editor-in-Chief for the journal,<span> </span><i>Technical
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<span style="background-color:white">In her professional career, Dr. Williams worked for the Texas Department of Health and Human Services Commission (DHS) as a Policy Specialist and Regulation
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<span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:white">After completing her PhD in Technical Communication and Rhetoric at Texas Tech University, Dr. Williams started her academic career at Texas State University in 2005.  She served as the Presidential Fellow
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<span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:white">Dr. Williams is an award winning scholar, including the 2020 CCCC Award for Best Article Reporting Historical Research or Textual Studies in Technical and Scientific Communication (“</span><span style="font-size:11pt">Technologies
 of Disenfranchisement: Literacy Tests and Black Voters in the US from 1890 to 1965,”<span> </span><i>Technical Communication</i><span> </span>65.4, 2018,<span> </span><span style="background-color:white">co-authored
 with Natasha N. Jones) and the 2016 CCCC Award for<span> </span></span>Best Original Collection of Essays in Technical or Scientific Communication (<i>Communicating Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Technical Communication</i>, Routledge, 2014, co-edited with
 Octavio Pimentel). <span> </span><span style="background-color:white">In 2017, she was elevated to Fellow of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW). </span><br>
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