History & Historiography (F)


Division F Graduate Student Paper Award

Call for Division F (History and Historiography) Graduate Student Paper

Submission Deadline: November 15, 2024 

Division F (History and Historiography) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) is pleased to invite proposals for the Graduate Student Paper Award. This award celebrates and recognizes quality graduate research in the history of education. Reflecting the Division’s commitment to advancing knowledge about the history of education and developing historians of education, this grant program seeks to support the research of doctoral students in the field. We invite papers that expand, complicate, shift, or disrupt our understanding of existing and burgeoning topics and areas within the history of education. Past awardees are listed on our website.

The Graduate Student Paper Award

Division F awards a biennial award for the best graduate student paper presented at AERA in the field of educational history. Nominations by faculty, graduate advisors, discussants, chairs, and self-nominations by students are welcome. The paper must have been presented during either the 2023 or 2024 meeting, and the presenter must be active member in Division F. The grantee is invited to receive the award at the AERA Annual Meeting in April 2025. Information on funded projects will appear on the Division F website, social media forums and announced in AERA Highlights.

Application Process

The Selection Committee is chaired by Dr. Vincent Willis.

Proposals should include the following documents:

  • a one-page title sheet that includes the title of your paper, your contact information: Name, institutional affiliation (if any), preferred mailing address, phone number, email address; and
  • a two-page maximum Curriculum Vitae; and
  • the research paper, which should be between 7,500 and 10,000 words, inclusive of notes.

To submit, please email the delineated documents as PDF files to the Awards Committee chair, Dr. Vincent Willis (vwillis@ua.edu) by November 152023 11:50 pm PST. Awardees will be announced by February 15, 2025.