2024 AERA ANNUAL MEETING CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Virtual Platform
Place-based in Philadelphia: April 11–14
Virtual: April 25–26

Deadline for Submissions: July 31, 11:59 p.m. PT

The Call for Submissions for the 2024 AERA Annual Meeting is now open. The deadline for submissions will close on July 31 at 11:59 p.m. PT. 

The 2024 AERA Annual Meeting will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from Thursday, April 11 to Sunday, April 14, 2023 and virtually from Thursday, April 25 to Friday, April 26. The theme is “Dismantling Racial Injustice and Constructing Educational Possibilities: A Call to Action.”

The portal must be used for all paper or session submissions for consideration by a division, special interest group, or committee. Please review the Call for Submissions as it contains important information about this year's Annual Meeting theme and submission requirements.

How to Submit:

1. Please review the Call for Submissions (PDF)
2. Log in
3. Click "My AERA" at the top of the page
4. Scroll down to the 2024 Annual Meeting and click "Online program portal"

Thank you for your continued interest in participating in the AERA Annual Meeting. The AERA Meetings Team stands ready to assist you with any questions or concerns. Please contact us by e-mail at annualmtg@aera.net or phone 202-238-3200. 

Recent Publications 

Lauren Lassabe Shepherd. Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2023.

Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd positions conservative critiques of, and agendas in, American colleges and universities as an essential dimension of a broader conversation of conservative backlash against liberal education.

This book explores the story of how stakeholders in American higher education organized and reacted to challenges to their power from the New Left and Black Power student resistance movements of the late 1960s. By examining the range of conservative student organizations and coalition building, Shepherd shows how wealthy donors and conservative intellectuals trained future GOP leaders such as Karl Rove, Bill Barr, Jeff Sessions, Pat Buchanan, and others in conservative politics, providing them with tactics to consciously drive American politics and culture further to the authoritarian right and to "reclaim" American higher education.

Robert Mann. Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU. Baton Rouge, LA: Lousianna State University Press, 2023.

No political leader is more closely identified with Louisiana State University than the flamboyant governor and U.S. senator Huey P. Long, who devoted his last years to turning a small, undistinguished state school into an academic and football powerhouse. From 1931, when Long declared himself the “official thief” for LSU, to his death in 1935, the school’s budget mushroomed, its physical plant burgeoned, its faculty flourished, and its enrollment tripled.

Along with improving LSU’s academic reputation, Long believed the school’s football program and band were crucial to its success. Taking an intense interest in the team, Long delivered pregame and halftime pep talks, devised plays, stalked the sidelines during games, and fired two coaches. He poured money into a larger, flashier band, supervised the hiring of two directors, and, with the second one, wrote a new fight song, “Touchdown for LSU.”

While he rarely meddled in academic affairs, Long insisted that no faculty member criticize him publicly. When students or faculty from “his school” opposed him, retribution was swift. Long’s support for LSU did not come without consequences. His unrelenting involvement almost cost the university its accreditation. And after his death, several of his allies―including his handpicked university president―went to prison in a scandal that almost destroyed LSU.

Derrick P. Alridge, Jon N. Hale, and Tondra L. Loder-Jackson, eds., Schooling the Movement: The Activism of Southern Black Educators from Reconstruction through the Civil Rights Era. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2023.

Southern Black educators were central contributors and activists in the civil rights movement. They contributed to the movement through their classrooms, schools, universities, and communities. Drawing on oral history interviews and archival research, Schooling the Movement examines the pedagogical activism and vital contributions of Black teachers throughout the Black freedom struggle. By illuminating teachers' activism during the long civil rights movement, the editors and contributors connect the past with the present, contextualizing teachers' longstanding role as advocates for social justice. Schooling the Movement moves beyond the prevailing understanding that activism was defined solely by litigation and direct-action forms of protest. The contributors broaden our conceptions of what it meant to actively take part in or contribute to the civil rights movement.

Andrew Stone Higgins. Higher Education for All: Racial Inequality, Cold War Liberalism, and the California Master Plan. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023.

The 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education remains to this day the largest and most ambitious attempt to provide free, universal college education in the United States. Yet the Master Plan, the product of committed Cold War liberals, unfortunately served to reinforce the very class-based exclusions and de facto racism that plagued K–12 education in the nation's largest and most diverse state. In doing so, it inspired a wave of student and faculty organizing that not only forced administrators and politicians to live up to the original promise of the Master Plan—quality higher education for all—but changed the face of California itself.

Higher Education for All is the first and only comprehensive account of the California Master Plan. Through deep archival work and sharp attention to a fascinating cast of historical characters, Andrew Stone Higgins has excavated the forgotten history of the Master Plan: from its origins in the 1957 Sputnik Crisis, through Governor Ronald Reagan's financial starvation and his failed quest to introduce tuition, to the student struggle to institute affirmative action in university admissions.

Bruno-Jofré, Rosa, Michael Attridge, Jon Igelmo Zaldívar (Eds).  Rethinking Freire and Illich: Historical, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives. Toronto, ON, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2023.

Published with the help of a grant from the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds provided by SSHRC. This book is a product of a SSHRC Connection grant.

Tamson Pietsch. The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2023.

In 1926, New York University professor James E. Lough—an educational reformer with big dreams—embarked on a bold experiment he called the Floating University. Lough believed that taking five hundred American college students around the globe by ship would not only make them better citizens of the world but would demonstrate a model for responsible and productive education amid the unprecedented dangers, new technologies, and social upheavals of the post–World War I world. But the Floating University’s maiden voyage was also its last: when the ship and its passengers returned home, the project was branded a failure—the antics of students in hotel bars and port city back alleys that received worldwide press coverage were judged incompatible with educational attainment, and Lough was fired and even put under investigation by the State Department.

In her new book, Tamson Pietsch excavates a rich and meaningful picture of Lough’s grand ambition, its origins, and how it reveals an early-twentieth-century America increasingly defined both by its imperialism and the professionalization of its higher education system. As Pietsch argues, this voyage—powered by an internationalist worldview—traced the expanding tentacles of US power, even as it tried to model a new kind of experiential education. She shows that this apparent educational failure actually exposes a much larger contest over what kind of knowledge should underpin university authority, one in which direct personal experience came into conflict with academic expertise. After a journey that included stops at nearly fifty international ports and visits with figures ranging from Mussolini to Gandhi, what the students aboard the Floating University brought home was not so much knowledge of the greater world as a demonstration of their nation’s rapidly growing imperial power.

Rosa Bruno-Jofré and Jon Igelmo Zaldívar. Ivan Illich Fifty Years Later: Situating Deschooling Society in his Intellectual and Personal Journey. Toronto, ON, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2022.

Published with the help of a grant from the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds provided by The Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada (SSHRC). This book is a product of a SSHRC Connection grant

AERA recently launched the 2023 Virtual Research Learning Series featuring six courses on important topics: Click Here. The courses, taught by leading experts, are appropriate for graduate students, early career scholars, and other researchers who seek to increase their knowledge and enhance research skills. The courses run June 1 through September 21. All courses will include interaction, active discussion, and Q&A with participants.

We encourage you to spread the word about these high-quality learning opportunities through division channels, as you see appropriate. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Tony Pals, Director of Communications of AERA (tpals@aera.net).

Dear AERA Graduate Student Members: 

This summer, you can join a community of education researchers and practitioners who care deeply about antiracist, culturally responsive education strategies at a discounted, graduate student rate. Come to NYC or log in virtually this July 10-13 for the 8th annual Reimagining Education: Teaching, Learning and Leading for a Racially Just Society Summer Institute (RESI) at Teachers College, Columbia University.  

As the longest-running and largest professional development institute designed to help educators prepare children for a multiracial democracy, RESI offers participants a star-studded cast of Plenary speakers, including Dr. Gholdy Muhammad, Dr. Bettina Love, Dr. Chris Emdin, Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz and many more scholars and experts. In addition, the institute offers Community Dialogue Sessions to guide you on a journey toward deeper understanding of your own racial literacy while connecting with educators from across the country and the world. This also provides hands-on Workshops to facilitate growth focused on antiracist practices. On Friday, July 14, stay with us for a Teach-In and a call to action Policy Dialogue on Race, Education and Democracy. 

Flexible Hybrid Scheduling allows you to register for Full Participation, Day Passes or Plenary Only Passes.   

Researching issues of race and education has never been more timely or more important, and opportunities to be in solidarity with caring professionals in our field are rare. See you at RESI 2023! 

For more information on our programming and curriculum visit the website; for the graduate students’ discount, go to our registration page and enter the code: Grad50! 

Executive Director, Reimagining Education Summer Institute and Advanced Certificate Program

Teachers College, Columbia University

Email: reimagineed@tc.Columbia.edu

Instagram: @reimagineedt