April 2024

Nine AERA members, including AERA Immediate Past President Tyrone C. Howard, have been elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The AERA researchers are among 250 other members elected. The announcement was made by the Academy on April 24.

Joining Howard are AERA Fellows Megan Bang (recipient of the AERA Scholars of Color Mid-Career Contribution Award), Prudence Carter (AERA 2019 Brown Lecturer), Heather C. Hill, Ernest Morrell, and Sonia Nieto (recipient of the AERA Scholars of Color Distinguished Career Contribution Award and AERA Social Justice in Education Award). Along with Carter, Long served among AERA’s select distinguished Centennial Scholars.

The elected AERA members are:

	Megan Bang, Northwestern University
	Prudence Carter, Brown University
	David Gillborn, University of Birmingham
	Heather C. Hill, Harvard Graduate School of Education
	Tyrone C. Howard, University of California, Los Angeles
	Bridget Terry Long, Harvard Graduate School of Education; National Bureau of Economic Research
	Ernest Morrell, University of Notre Dame
	Sonia Nieto, University of Massachusetts Amherst
	Uri Joseph Wilensky, Northwestern University

The academy is an honorary society founded in 1780, which is dedicated to recognizing excellence and relying on expertise to advance the public good. New elected members are accomplished individuals from the nonprofit, private, and public sectors.

"AERA extends its warmest congratulations to these scholars for this honor," said Executive Director Felice J. Levine. "Their election into the academy brings important awareness to the field of education research and its applications to advancing the common good."

More than 14,500 members have been elected since the academy’s founding. Howard joins several other AERA past presidents who are members of the academy, including, Deborah Loewenberg Ball, James A. Banks, Linda Darling-Hammond, Vivian L. Gadsden, Kris D. Gutiérrez, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Carol D. Lee, Na’ilah Suad Nasir, Lauren B. Resnick, Lee S. Shulman, Catherine E. Snow, William F. Tate IV, and Vanessa Siddle Walker.