Awards 

2012 Division Award Winners 

Division A: Administration, Organization, and Leadership
Annual Dissertation Award: Catherine O’Brien
Emerging Scholar Award: Alex J. Bowers
Excellence in Research Award: Perry Zirkel

Division B: Curriculum Studies
Ella Baker/Septima Clark Human Rights Award: Lisa Lee and Barbara Ransby
Lifetime Achievement Awards: George Willis and Cheryl Craig
Outstanding Book Award: John G. Richardson, Justin J.W. Powell,
Daniel Tröhler, and Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti
Outstanding Dissertation Award: Katy Swalwell

Division C: Learning and Instruction
Graduate Student Research Award: To be determined
Jan Hawkins Early Career Award: Tobin White
Sylvia Scribner Award: Peter Smagorinsky
Outstanding Poster Award: Malcolm Cunningham

Division D: Measurement and Research Methodology
Award for Significant Contribution to Educational Measurement and
Research Methodology: Andre A. Rupp, Jonathan Templin, Robert
A. Henson
Outstanding Quantitative Dissertation Award: Nuo Xi
Robert L. Linn Distinguished Address Award: Edward Haertel
Early Career in Measurement and Research Methodology Award:
Roy Levy

Division E: Counseling and Human Development
Outstanding Dissertation Award in Counseling: Talisha Lee
Outstanding Dissertation Award in Human Development: David S.
Yeager
Outstanding Research in Counseling Award: Noah E. Borrero,
Christine J. Yeh, Crivir I. Cruz, Jolene F. Suda
Outstanding Research in Human Development Award: Ming-Te Wang,
Thomas Dishion, Elizabeth Stormshak, John Willett, David S.
Yeager, and Gregory M. Walton

Division G: Social Context of Education
Early Career Award: H. Samy Alim
Lifetime Achievement Award: David W. Johnson
Outstanding Dissertation Award: Yeon Sun (Ellie) Ro
Henry T. Trueba Award for Research Leading to the Transformation of
the Social Contexts of Education: Guadalupe Valdés
Mentoring Award: Celia Genishi (Teachers College) & Cynthia Lewis (University
of Minnesota)

Division H: Research, Evaluation, and Assessment in Schools
Outstanding Dissertation Award: R. Burcu Kaniskan
Outstanding Publication for Advances in Methodology Award:
Michael A. Gottfried
Outstanding Educational Program Evaluation Study Award: Stacey
S. Merola, Thomas Horwood , Allison Nebbergall, Kazuaki Uekawa,
Katerina Passa, Amy R. Mack, Jing Sun
Outstanding Instructional Research or Alternative Reports
Publication Award: Elana Gray and Paul Favaro
Outstanding Assessment Training or Statistical Summary Publication
Award: Christine Leydon, Kathy Black, Karla Zahner, Nathan
Myers, Kim Larsh, Joseph O’Reilly
Outstanding Planning, Policy, or Management Research Award:
Rachel Durham and Erik Westlund

Division I: Education in the Professions
Distinguished Career Award: LuAnn A. Wilkerson
Best Paper by a New Investigator Award: Anne Deketelaere, Sofie
Kuppens, Eva Ceulemena, Lisa De Jonghe, Agnes De Munter, and
Paul Deleyn
Best Paper by an Established Investigator Award: Anthony R. Artino
and Steven R. Durning
Division J: Postsecondary Education
Dissertation Award: Michael Stephen Hevel and Ozan Jaquette
Exemplary Publication Award: Robert A. Rhoads and Katalin Szelényi
Exemplary Research Award: Thomas R. Bailey
Outstanding Poster Award: Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi

Division K: Teaching and Teacher Education
Exemplary Research in Teaching and Teacher Education Award: Lily
Orland-Barak
Early Career Award: Felicia Moore Mensah and Peter Youngs
Outstanding Dissertation Award: Hosun Kang and Amanda Morales
Mid-Career Award: Carmen
Martínez-Roldán
Research on Innovations in Addressing Issues of Diversity in Teaching
& Teacher Education Awards: ACCELA (Access to Critical Content
and English Language Acquisition), University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
Legacy Award: Miriam Ben Peretz

Division L: Educational Policy and Politics
Outstanding Dissertation Award: Kendra Bischoff
Outstanding Policy Research Report Award: Julie Marsh, Matthew
Springer, Daniel McCaffrey, Kun Yuan, Scott Epstein, Julia Koppich,
Nidhi Kalra, Catherine DiMartino, Art (Xiao) Peng
Early Career Award: Cory Koedel and Katherine Strunk