SIG Award


SIG - Bilingual Education and Research

Select Award:

Lifetime Achievement Award

Early Career Award

Dissertation Award in Bilingual Education Research

 

Lifetime Achievement Award

2025 Award Winner


Alfredo J. Artiles
Stanford University

In honor of lifelong dedication to the field of Bilingual Education Research, Policy, and Practice.

2024 Award Winner


Miriam E. Ebsworth
New York University Steinhardt

In honor of lifelong dedication to the field of Bilingual Education Research, Policy, and Practice

2023 Award Winner 
 

Patricia Gándara
University of California, Los Angeles

In honor of lifelong dedication to the field of Bilingual Education Research, Policy, and Practice
2022 Award Winner 
 

Maria E. Franquiz
The University of Texas at Austin

In recognition of an outstanding, world-class scholar whose work has made a notable impact on the field of bilingual education through continuous scholarship in bilingual education research and practices, service to bilingual education at the national and local levels, and steady mentorship of students and early career scholars
2021 Award Winner 
 

Jeff MacSwan
University of Maryland
2020 Award Winner 
 

Kenji Hakuta, Ph.D.
Stanford University

For Outstanding Contributions and Influence on the Field of Bilingual Education Research, Policy and Practice

Early Career Award

2025 Award Winner


Kate Seltzer
Rowan University

In recognition of scholarship and contributions to the field of Bilingual Education Research, Policy, and Practice.

2024 Award Winner


Rebecca E. Linares
Rowan University

In honor of scholarship and contributions to the field of Bilingual Education Research, Policy, and Practice

2023 Award Winner 
 

Juan Freire
Brigham Young University

In recognition of scholarship and contributions to the field of Bilingual Education Research, Policy, and Practice.
2022 Award Winner 
 

María Cioè-Peña
Montclair State University

In recognition of outstanding early contribution to research advancing the role of bilingualism in education
2021 Award Winner 
 

Blanca Caldas Chumbes, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota
2020 Award Winner 
 

Mary Amanda (Mandy) Stewart, Ph.D.
Texas Woman's University

For Exceptional Contributions to Research in Second Language Literacy Development; Biliteracy and Bilingualism; Adolescent Literacy; and Multicultural Literature
2019 Award Winner 
 

Dr. Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon
Arizona State University

In recognition of her scholarship and contributions to issues of equity and access in Bilingual Education Research, Policy, and Practice

Dissertation Award in Bilingual Education Research

2025 Award Winner


Cory Alan Buckband - First Place
Arizona State University

In recognition of outstanding dissertation research: "Three Languages, Many Multilingualisms: Exploring the Cultural Production of Eliteness in a Trilingual Elementary Charter School"

Koeun Park - First Place
University of Hawai'i - West O'ahu

In recognition of outstanding dissertation research: "Youth Counter-Storytelling: The Educational Experience of Refugee-Background K'Nyaw Youths in Korean Dual Language Bilingual Education"

Nancy Domínguez-Fret - Second Place
Northern Illinois University

In recognition of outstanding dissertation research: "Sowing Seeds of Resistance: Heritage Spanish Teachers Engaging in Testimonio and Critical Action Research"

Emily Holtz - Third Place
Texas A&M University

In recognition of outstanding dissertation research: "Gentrification of Educational Programs: A Critical Race Spatial Analysis of Programming Allocation for Linguistically Diverse Students in Texas"

2024 Award Winner


Francesca Smith - First Place
American University

In recognition of outstanding dissertation research: "Asset-Based Biliteracy: Recentering Emergent Bilingual Students in Dual Language English Reading Instruction"

Jasmine Alvarado - Second Place
University at Buffalo-SUNY

In recognition of outstanding dissertation research: "What Counts as Family Engagement in Schools? Raced, Classed, and Linguicized Relations Between Families and a Two-Way Dual Language Bilingual Program"

Gladys Y. Aponte - Third Place
Arizona State University

In recognition of outstanding dissertation research: "Teaching in the "home language" is not enough: Navigating Spanish raciolinguistic ideologies in a dual language bilingual program"

Martha Sandstead - Honorable Mention
Oregon State University

In recognition of outstanding dissertation research: "Transformative Pedagogies of Voice: Creating the Conditions for Voice in Multilingual Students' Writing"

2023 Award Winner 
 

Lilly Padia - First Place
Erikson Institute

In recognition of outstanding dissertation research: "Communicative Justice: Bilingual Non-Speaking Children and (their) Families: Languaging Beyond the Spoken Word"

Khánh Lê - Second Place
Queen's College

In recognition of outstanding dissertation research: "Cùng vói nhau chung tay: A collaborative project with Vietnamese American youth"

Cristhian Fallas Escobar - Third Place
University of Texas at San Antonio

In recognition of outstanding dissertation research: "Latina/o Bilingual Teacher Candidates' Negotiation of Raciolinguistic Ideologies"
2022 Award Winner 
 

Lakeya Omogun - First Place
University of Washington

Relocating to America: Nigerian Immigrant Youth Languages and Language Practices

Jennifer Phuong - Second Place
Swarthmore College

Teacher Collaboration in Bilingual Special Education: An Exploration of Race, Language, and Disability

Mitchell Ingram - Second Place
The University of Texas at Austin

Entre broma y broma la verdad se asoma: The mobilization of third grade emergent bilinguals' cultural capital around sites of humor
2021 Award Winner 
 

Bingjie Zheng - First Place
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Appropriating and Legitimating Chinese-English Dual Language Learning: A Multisite Ethnographic Study of Language Policy, Repertoires, and Socialization

Zhongfeng Tian - Second Place
University of Texas San Antonio

Translanguaging Design in a Mandarin/English Dual Language Bilingual Education Program: A Researcher-Teacher Collaboration
2020 Award Winner 
 

Erica Saldívar García, Ed.D. - First Place
New York University

"Racioliteracies: Race and Subjectivity in the Teaching of Spanish to Bilingual Latinx Students" 

 

Chris K. Chang-Bacon, Ph.D. - Second Place
University of Virginia

Monolingual Language Ideologies: Rethinking Equity and Language Policy in Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) Teacher Education

 

María Cioè Peña, Ph.D. - Third Place
Montclair State University

"Yo Soy Su Mama:" Latinx Mothers Raising Emergent Bilinguals Labeled As Dis/Abled
2019 Award Winner 
 

Dr. Laura Carolina Chavez-Moreno - First Place
University of Wisconsin-Madison

In recognition of her outstanding dissertation research: "A Critical Race Ethnography Examining Dual-language Education in the New Latinx Diaspora: Reinforcing and Resisting Bilingual Education's Racial Roots"

 

Dr. Laura Hamman-Ortiz - Second Place
University of Wisconsin, Madison

In recognition of her outstanding dissertation research: "Reframing the Language Separation Debate: Language, Identity, and Ideology in Two-Way Immersion"

 

Dr. Idalia Nunez - Third Place
The University of Texas at Austin

In recognition of her outstanding dissertation research: "Literacies of Surveillance: Transfronterizx Children Translanguaging Identity Across Borders, Inspectors, and Surveillance"