2025 Award Recipient

Raquel Muñiz
Boston College

Dr. Raquel Muñiz is the recipient of the 2025 Early Career Award. Dr. Muñiz is celebrated for her exceptional integration of education policy and law, particularly focusing on educational equity. Her research examines the impact of legal frameworks on educational practices, emphasizing marginalized groups. By analyzing policy decisions' effects on educational outcomes, her work offers both theoretical insights and practical reforms.

Dr. Muñiz actively contributes to legal education and policy reform, significantly shaping debates around educational equity. Her research bridges educational theory, policy, and law to address inequalities in K-12 and higher education. With 26 journal articles in prestigious publications including the Harvard Law & Policy Review, her cross-disciplinary expertise is widely recognized. In short, Dr. Raquel Muñiz's commitment to educational equity and innovative research profoundly impacts both academia and the practical realms of education policy and law.

The Early Career Award recognizes a scholar in the early stages of their career no later than 10 years after receipt of the doctoral degree who has conducted a distinguished program of cumulative education research in any field of educational inquiry. The winner of the award will be invited to give the Early Career Award Lecture at the following Annual Meeting. 

Past Recipients

2024 - Travis Jackson Bristol
2023 - Dominique Baker
2022 - Nelson Flores
2021 - Huriya Jabbar
2020 - Lindsay Page
2019 - Jeannette Mancilla-Martinez
2018 - Julie R. Posselt
2017 - Morgan Polikoff
2016 - Christopher Emdin
2015 - Brendesha M. Tynes
2014 - Sara Goldrick-Rab
2014 - Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
2013 - Michael N. Bastedo
2012 - Maisha T. Winn
2011 - Cynthia E. Coburn
2010 - Guofang Li
2009 - Michele Moses & Nell K. Duke
2008 - Andrew J. Martin
2007 - Jaekyung Lee
2006 - Kevin G. Welner
2005 - Amanda Datnow
2004 - Geoffrey D. Borman & Janette K. Klingner
2003 - Yong Zhao
2002 - No award presented
2001 - Stanton E.F. Wortham
2000 - Amy Stuart Wells
1999 - Peter Smagorinsky
1998 - Vanessa Siddle-Walker
1997 - Deborah Loewenberg Ball
1996 - Leona Schauble
1995 - Janet Wilde Astington
1994 - Lisa Delpit & Stephen W. Raudenbush
1993 - D. Jean Clandinin
1992 - Judith D. Singer & John B. Willett
1991 - Edward H. Haertel, Magdalene Lampert, Annemarie Palincsar
1990 - Jeannie Oakes
1989 - Kenneth Tobin
1988 - Robert Mislevy
1987 - Noreen M. Webb
1986 - Penelope L. Peterson
1985 - Robert E. Slavin
1984 - Harris M.