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AERA Division G 2025 Award Winners
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2026 Division G Awards


Congratulations to all of our 2025 Division G Award winners. 

The call for 2026 Division G Awards will be forthcoming. 

 
 
AWARDS AND NOMINATION INFORMATION
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Distinguished Dissertation Award

This award recognizes a dissertation of exemplary conceptual, methodological and rhetorical quality on an important topic that addresses social contexts of education. Nominees must be members of AERA and must have been awarded the Ph.D. or Ed.D. between May 1, 2023 and November 30, 2024 to be eligible for nomination.

Nomination Materials – Nominations must include electronic copies of the following:

· A one-page cover letter and overview from a member of the dissertation committee that can be sent separately from the other materials as an email attachment;

· A title sheet showing the dissertation title, awarding institution, members of the dissertation committee, date of completion of the degree, and nominee’s current contact information; and

· A summary of the dissertation written in APA style not exceeding 7500 words in 12 point font, exclusive of title page, references, and appendices and without author identification.

Early Career Award

This award recognizes an individual in the early stages of her or his career no later than 10 years after receipt of the doctoral degree. The awardee’s research must focus on the social contexts of education.

Nomination Materials – Nominations must include electronic copies of the following:

· A cover letter explaining why th3 nominee is qualified to be recognized as having an exemplar early career record of research in this area;

· The nominee’s most recent curriculum vitae;

· Two representative scholarly publications by the nominee; and

· Two letters of support from individuals familiar with the nominee’s work and qualified to speak on his or her behalf in this area.

Distinguished Contributions to Social Contexts in Education Research – Lifetime Achievement Award

This award recognizes a senior scholar (or group*) who has made distinguished contributions to the systematic examination of the role of social context in education.

Nomination Materials – Nominations must include electronic copies of the following:

· A cover letter listing the applicable professional achievements of the candidate and stating the reasons that the nominee is uniquely qualified to receive the award;

· The nominee’s most recent curriculum vita;

· Two representative scholarly publications of journal or book chapter length; and

· Two letters of support from individuals familiar with the nominee’s work and qualified to speak on his or her behalf in this area.

Henry T. Trueba Award for Research Leading to the Transformation of the Social Contexts of Education

This award recognizes a scholar (or group*) who has made distinguished contributions leading to the transformation of the social contexts of education, broadly defined.

Nomination materials must include electronic copies of the following:

· A cover letter explaining why this nominee is qualified to be recognized as contributing to the transformation of the social contexts of education;

· The nominee’s most recent curriculum vitae;

· Two representative scholarly publications by the nominee relevant to this award; and

· Two letters of support from individuals familiar with the nominee’s work who can provide evidence of how the nominee has contributed to transforming the contexts under which children, youth, or adults either learn and/or teach.

Mentoring Award

This award recognizes a scholar (or group*) who has made distinguished contributions in the mentoring of students, undergraduate and Ph.D. students, as well as junior scholars, contributing to the development of a new generation of scholars who focus on social contexts of education.

Nomination materials must include electronic copies of the following:

· A cover letter describing the research contributions in this area and the reasons the nominee is uniquely qualified to receive the award;

· The Nominee’s most recent curriculum vita;

· A maximum of two letters of support from former mentees.

 

* Note on group nominations: Nominations of groups are welcome for the Henry Trueba Award, the Distinguished Contributions to Social Contexts in Education Research – Lifetime Achievement, and the Mentoring Award. If the nominees belong to a center, group, lab, etc., the nomination could be made in the name of the group. Otherwise, individuals in the collaborative group could be nominated, but the requirement is that the people or units get nominated for a program of scholarship (not for a few loosely linked papers) that speaks to the spirit of the award. The nomination letter should clearly explain the rationale.

 
 
Prior Division G Awardees
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Distinguished Dissertation Award
 
2024   Rhoda Rae Gutierrez & Maya Senyonga
2023   Mayra Puente & Dawn Demps
2022    Aja Reynolds & Sharim
2021    Cierra Presberry
2020    Phillip A. Smith
2019   Laura Chávez-Moreno
2018   Natalie Davis
2017   Eve Louise Ewing
2016   Shameka N. Powell
2015   Derron Wallace
2014   Ee-Seul Yoon
2013   Enid Rosario-Ramos
2012   Yeon Sun (Ellie) Ro
2011   Amna Latif
2010   Ebony O. McGee
2009   Curtis Brewer
2008   Anthony L. Brown & David E. Kirkland
2007   Menthia P. Clark
2006   Tryphenia Peele-Eady
2005   Stephanie Jones & K. Wayne Yang
2004   Lilia D. Monzo
2003   Rowhea Medhat Elmesky
     
Early Career Award
2024    Grace D. Player
2023   Derron Wallace
2022    Royel Johnson & Sophia Rodriguez
2021    Limarys Craballo & Adai Tefera
2020    Juan F. Carrillo
2019   Edward Brockenbrough
2018   Nichole Joseph & Rita Kohli
2017   Subini Ancy Annamma
2016   David E. Kirkland
2015   Django Paris
2014   Thomas M. Philip
2013   Sherick Hughes
2012   H. Samy Alim
2011   Anthony L. Brown & Thandeka K. Chapman
2010   Shaun R. Harper
2009   Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy
2008   Guofang Li
2007   Zeus Leonardo
2006   Na’ilah Suad Nasir
     
Distinguished Contributions to Social Contexts in Education Research - Lifetime Achievement Award
2024   Prudence Carter
2023   Tara Yosso & Kofi Lomotey
2022   (no award given)
2021   (no award given)
2020    Ofelia García
2019   George W. Noblit
2018   Sarah Michaels
2017   Carol D. Lee
2016   Richard Ruiz
2015   William Tate
2014   Kris D. Gutiérrez
2013   Ray McDermott
2012   David W. Johnson
2011   Pauline Lipman
2010   Jean Anyon
2009   Etta Ruth Hollins& Frederick Erickson
2008   Hugh "Bud" Mehan
2007   Henry Levin & Vera John Steiner
2006   Sonia Nieto
     
Henry T. Trueba Award for Research Leading to the Transformation of the Social Contexts of Education
2024   Thea Renda Abu El-Haj & David G. García 
2023   María Paula Ghiso, Gerald Campano, & members of the Communities Advancing Research in Education (CARE) Initiative
2022    Joanne Larson
2021    Uma Jayakumar
2020    Angela Valenzuela
2019   Pauline Lipman
2018   Collective - Edmund "Ted" Hamann, Victor Aurelio Zuñiga Gonzalez, & Juan Sánchez García
2017   Maria E. Franquiz
2016   Cynthia B. Dillard
2015   Erica Meiners
2014   Kris D. Gutiérrez
2013   Individual - Martha Montero-Sieburth
Collective - Diversity in Mathematics Education (DiME): University of Wisconsin at Madison; University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Los Angeles. Project PIs: Thomas P. Carpenter, Megan L. Franke, & Alan H. Schoenfeld
2012   Guadalupe Valdés
2011   Tom L. Humphries
2010   Norma González
2009   Angela Calabrese Barton
     
Outstanding Mentoring Award 
2024   Jill Koyama 
2023   Particia Baquedano-López
2022    Bic Ngo
2021    Cinthia Salinas
2020    Luis Urrieta
2019   Rachel Endo & Dorinda J. Carter Andrews 
2018   Kakali Bhattacharya & Tyrone Howard
2017   George W. Noblit
2016   Na’ilah Suad Nasir
2015   Marjorie Orellana
2014   Alfredo J. Artiles & David M. Bloome
2013   Joseph Tobin
2012   Celia Genishi & Cynthia Lewis
2011   Carl Grant & Maria Torres-Guzman
2010   María Fránquiz
2009   (no award given)
2008   Jabari Mahiri & Kenneth G. Tobin
2007   Eugene E. Garcia
2006     Judith Green