Who We Are
Who We Are

Purpose

The purpose of Division C is to advance knowledge about learning and instruction, to encourage scholarly inquiry related to learning and instruction, and to promote the use of research to improve learning and instruction in order to serve the public good.
 
Division Officers
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Division C Officers and Committee Chairs (2024-2025)

Vice-President (2024-2027)
Helenrose Fives
fivesh@montclair.edu     

Program Co-Chairs (2025)
P.G. Schrader, Co-Chair
pg.schrader@unlv.edu

DeLeon Gray, Co-Chair
dlgray2@ncsu.edu

Secretary (2024-2026)
Young-Suk Kim
youngsk7@uci.edu

Communications Director & Webmaster (2024-2025)
Jeremy Riel
jriel2@uic.edu

 Graduate Student Committee (2024-2025)Danielle Berry, Co-Chair
berrydn@ou.edu

Rebecca Myers, Co-Chair
myersr1@montclair.edu

Equity and Inclusion Committee (2024-2027)
Whitney McCoy, Chair
whitney.mccoy@duke.edu  

Section 1A: Literacy (2025)
Bianca Nightengale-Lee, Co-Chair
bnightengalelee@fau.edu

Bessie Dernikos, Co-Chair
bdernikos@fau.edu

Section 1B: Humanities, Social Science, and Fine Art (2025)
Amy Mueller, Chair
almueller@ou.edu

Section 1C: Mathematics (2025)
Tracy Dobie, Chair
tracy.dobie@utah.edu

Mika Munakata, Co-Chair
munakatam@montclair.edu

Section 1D: Science (2025)
Christine Bae, Co-Chair
clbae@vcu.edu

Imogen Herrick, Co-Chair
iherrick@ku.edu

Section 1E: Computer Science and Engineering (2025)
Mimi Recker, Chair
mimi.recker@usu.edu

Jenefer Husman, Co-Chair
jhusman@uoregon.edu

Section 2A: Cognition and Motivation (2025)
Carlton Fong, Co-Chair
carltonfong@txstate.edu 

Chris Rozek, Co-Chair
crozek@wustl.edu

Section 2B: Learning and Motivation in Social Contexts (2025)
Cristina Zepeda, Co-Chair
cristina.zepeda@vanderbilt.edu

Allison Zengilowski, Co-Chair
azengilowski@lehigh.edu

Section 3A: Learning Environments (2025)
 Matthew Bernacki, Co-Chair
mlb@unc.edu

Alyssa Emery, Co-Chair
aemery@iastate.edu

Section 3b. Technology (2025)
Pasha Antonenko, Co-Chair
p.antonenko@coe.ufl.edu

Natalie King, Co-Chair
natalieking@gsu.edu

 

 
 
Division C Award Committees
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Jan Hawkins Award (2025)
P.G. Schrader
pg.schrader@unlv.edu

Cynthia Carter Ching
ccching@ucdavis.edu

Outstanding Early Career Research Award (2025)
Victor Law
vlaw@unm.edu

Benjamin Heddy
heddy@ou.edu

Graduate Student Research Excellence Award (2025)
Tzu-Jung Lin
lin.1653@osu.edu

Michael Thomas
micthom@uic.edu

 
 
Division C Development Committees
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Graduate Student Seminar (2025)
Lauren Mims
lcm9999@nyu.edu

Miray Seward
mirays@search-institute.org

Addison Duane
addison.duane@berkeley.edu

New Faculty Mentoring Program (2025)
Katie Muenks
kmuenks@utexas.edu

Stephen Aguilar
aguilars@rossier.usc.edu

 

 

Mid-Career Mentoring Program
Rayne Sperling
rsd7@psu.edu

Doug Lombardi
lombard1@umd.edu

   

   
 
 
Profile of Division C Members
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Division C promotes the study of learning and instruction in formal and informal settings across the lifespan and among diverse populations. 
 
 
Committees
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Structure & Governance
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AERA Division C Bylaws as amended at the 2012 annual meeting on 4/14/12

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