Distinguished Career Contribution Award Felicia Moore Mensah Teachers College, Columbia University
Dr. Felicia Moore Mensah is the recipient of the 2024 Scholars of Color in Education Distinguished Career Contribution Award. Dr. Mensah’s research agenda focuses on addressing issues of diversity and equity within science teacher education. Through this research, she advances scholarship that attends to creating equitable and just science teacher preparation programs, science curricula, and science pedagogies. This includes producing scholarship on mentoring and supporting junior science education scholars to advance science education and science teacher education research and praxis. Through her research, she has furthered the field’s understandings of the impact that Eurocentric science culture, racism, and other inequities in science teacher preparation programs have had on Black and Brown students’ access to and engagement within science.
The Scholars of Color Distinguished Career Contribution Award is awarded to a senior-level scholar, usually 20 years or more after their receipt of the doctoral degree. Scholars of Color Mid-Career Contribution Award Francesca Lopez Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Francesca Lopez is the 2024 recipient of the Scholars of Color in Education Mid-Career Contribution Award. Dr. Lopez’s prolific work focuses on asset pedagogies, language learning and Latino English learners, and education policy related to race. She conceptualizes asset-based pedagogies as practices that incorporate students’ culture and language into the classroom teaching process, that are grounded in teachers’ critical awareness of the contexts of oppression in which students and their families live. Her research employs a “race-reimagined” perspective that, rather than enumerating deficits students bring, views students as bringing assets to the classroom that can be capitalized on in curriculum and pedagogy.
The Scholars of Color Mid-Career Contribution Award is awarded to a scholar who is beyond the first level of professional appointment and for whom at least 10 years have passed since receipt of the doctoral degree. Scholars of Color Early Career Contribution Award Nichole Margarita Garcia Rutgers University
Dr. Nichole M. Garcia is the recipient of the 2024 Scholars of Color in Education Early Career Contribution Award. Her advocacy for BIPOC students is present across her scholarship and praxis. Her groundbreaking comparative study employed Critical Race Transformative Convergent Mixed Methods to examine the academic achievement, attitudes, and expectations of Chicanx and Puerto Rican college-educated nuclear families. Dr. Garcia’s work draws upon Critical Theory, Critical Race Theory, QuantCrit and Women of Color Feminisms. Currently, Dr. Garcia investigates the impact of disaster-related experiences on Latinx undergraduate students, employing mixed methods guided by disaster capitalism to understand its effects on their psychosocial, social, and academic development in higher education. The Scholars of Color Early Career Contribution Award is awarded to a scholar who is within the first ten (10) years of their career after receipt of the doctoral degree. These three awards are intended to recognize (1) scholars at different stages in their careers who have made significant contributions to the understanding of issues which disproportionately affect minority populations, and (2) minority scholars who have made a significant contribution to educational research and development. The AERA Committee on Scholars of Color in Education is charged by AERA Council with serving as the selection committee for these awards.
Distinguished Career Contribution Award 2023 - William A. Smith 2022 - Alfredo J. Artiles 2021 - Zeus Leonardo 2020 - María Estela Brisk 2019 - Patricia A. Edwards 2018 - Rubén Donato 2017 - Antonia Darder 2016 - Walter R. Allen 2015 - Patricia C. Gándara 2014 - Award not given 2013 - Jo-ann Archibald 2012 - Celia S. Genishi 2011-Henry T. Frierson 2010 - Carol Camp Yeakey 2009 - Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner 2008 - James D. Anderson 2007 - Karen Swisher 2006 - Sonia Nieto 2005 - Donna Ford 2004 - Enrique "Henry" T. Trueba 2003 - Okhee Lee 2002 - Samuel S. Peng 2001 - Richard R. Valencia 2000 - Joyce King 1999 - Flora Rodriguez Brown 1998 - Walter G. Secada 1997 - Valerie Ooka Pang 1996 - James Banks 1995 - Ronald Takaki 1994 - Edmund Gordon 1993 - Carl Grant
Mid-Career Contribution Award 2023 - Thandeka K. Chapman 2022 - Sonya Douglass Horsford 2021 - Megan Bang 2020 - Adrienne Dixson 2019 - Karolyn Tyson 2018 - Kakali Bhattacharya 2017 - James L. Moore III 2016 - Sherick A. Hughes 2015 - Kevin K. Kumashiro 2014 - Janelle T. Scott 2013 - Sharon Nelson-Barber 2012 - Christine Jean Yeh 2011 - Jerlando F. L. Jackson 2010 - Dolores Delgado Bernal 2009 - Cynthia Hudley 2008 - Carol D. Lee and Francisco A. Rios 2007 - Kris Gutierrez 2006 - Madonna G. Constantine 2005 - Maria E. Franquiz 2004 - Michèle L. Foster 2003 - No award presented 2002 - No award presented 2001 - Christian J. Faltis 2000 - Lin Goodwin 1999 - Kofi Lomotey 1998 - Asa G. Hilliard III 1997 - Jacqueline Jordan Irvine 1996 - Celia Genishi 1995 - Christine Sleeter 1994 - Kenji Hakuta 1993 - Concepcion M. Valadez
Early Career Contribution Award 2023 - Mildred Boveda 2022 - Krystal L. Williams 2021 - Bianca Baldridge 2020 - Jessica Harris 2019 - Aydin Bal 2018 - Nicole M. Joseph 2017 - María C. Ledesma 2016 - Roberto G. Gonzales 2015 - Ebony O. McGee 2014 - Dorinda Carter Andrews and Eve Tuck 2013 - Vichet Chhuon 2012 - Brendesha M. Tynes 2011 - Bic H. Ngo 2010 - Valerie Kinloch 2009 - Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy 2008 - Lamont A. Flowers 2007 - Tyrone C. Howard & Michele S. Moses 2006 - Rich Milner 2006 - Gregory Tanaka 2005 - Cornel D. Pewewardy 2004 - Linda C. Tillman 2003 - Xin Ma 2002 - M. Christopher Brown II 2001 - Alfredo J. Artiles 2000 - William F. Tate 1999 - John W. Young 1998 - Vivian L. Gadsden 1997 - Oscar Kawagley 1996 - Donna Yvette Ford 1995 - Gloria Ladson-Billings 1994 - Ana Maria Villegas 1993 - Violet Harris
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