2024 Awardees:

• Lifetime Achievement Award: Jeffrey R. Henig
• Outstanding Dissertation Award in Educational Policy and Politics: Rachel Williams
• Outstanding Long Policy Report in Educational Policy and Politics Award: Bianca N. Haro, Jamelia Harris, Hoang Pham, Mary Louise Frampton, Lawrence Winn, Jeremy Prim, Danfeng Soto-Vigil Koon, Seenae Chong, Danielle Huddlestun, and Cecelia Jordan

2023 Awardees:

• Early Career Award in Educational Policy and Politics: Kevin Lawrence Henry, Jr.
• Outstanding Short Policy Report in Educational Policy and Politics Award: Mollie T. McQuillan, Sherie Hohs, Jennifer Herdina, Xue Gong, and Erin K. Gill
• Outstanding Dissertation Award in Educational Policy and Politics Award: Qualitative: Eupha Jeanne Daramola
• Outstanding Dissertation Award in Educational Policy and Politics Award: Quantitative: Rachel M. Perera

2022 Awardees:

• Early Career Award in Educational Policy and Politics: Tolani Britton
• Outstanding Dissertation Award in Educational Policy and Politics: Tasmin Dhaliwal
• Outstanding Policy Report in Educational Policy and Politics Award: Katharine O. Strunk, Aliyah Mcilwain, Chanteliese Griskell, Chris Torres, Erica Harbatkin, and Samantha Cullum

2021 Awardees:

• Lifetime Achievement Award: Jeannie Oakes and Linda Darling-Hammond
• Outstanding Dissertation Award in Educational Policy and Politics: Dana Nickson
• Outstanding Policy Report in Educational Policy and Politics Award: Rebecca Davis and Brooks Bowden

2020 Awardees:

• Early Career Award in Educational Policy and Politics: Huriya Jabbar
• Outstanding Dissertation Award in Educational Policy and Politics: Brendan Bartanen
• Outstanding Policy Report in Educational Policy and Politics Award: Desiree Carver-Thomas

2019 Awardees:

• Lifetime Achievement Award in Educational Policy and Politics: Henry Levin
• Outstanding Dissertation Award in Educational Policy and Politics: Megan Austin
• Outstanding Policy Report in Educational Policy and Politics Award: Tammy Kolbe and Kieran Killeen

2018 Awardees:

• Outstanding Dissertation Award: Jennifer Seelig, Northwestern University – “North of Highway 8: An Ethnographic Study of a School-Community Relationship in Rural Wisconsin”; Rachel White, University of Southern California – “Donut Devourers, Fish Fanatics, Politicians, and Educators: Faces and Voices of State Education Policymaking"
• Outstanding Policy Report (Short) Award: Jeannie Oakes, Anna Maier and Julian Daniel – “Community Schools: An Evidence-Based Strategy for Equitable School Improvement”
• Early Career Award: Lindsey Page, University of Pittsburgh

2017 Awardees:

• Outstanding Dissertation Award: Daniella Hall, Pennsylvania State University – “Local Control as Resistance: Policy and Practice of Autonomous School Boards"; Marialena Rivera, University of California, Berkeley – “Inequity and Privatization in School District Facilities Financing: A Mixed Methods Study”
• Outstanding Policy Report (Long) Award: Ron Zimmer, Gary Henry, Adam Kho – “The Effects of School Turnaround in Tennessee's Achievement School District Innovation Zone”
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Gary Orfield, University of California, Los Angeles

2016 Awardees:

• Outstanding Dissertation Award: Daniela Torre, Vanderbilt – “How Classroom Context Impacts the Academic Achievement of English Learners in a New Immigrant Destination”; [Honorable Mention] DeeAnn Grove, University of Iowa – “An Issue of ‘Special Opportunity’: The Politicalization of Education in Presidential Election Campaigns, 1968-2012”
• Outstanding Policy Report Award: Daniel Losen, Cheri Hodsen, Michael Keith, Katrina Morrison, and Shakti Belway – “Are We Closing the School Discipline Gap?”
• Judith Scott-Clayton, Columbia University

2015 Awardees:

• Outstanding Dissertation Award: Huriya Jabbar, UC Berkeley – “The Rising Tide: School Choice and Competition in Post-Katrina New Orleans”; [Honorable Mention] Katharina Destler, University of Washington – “Creating a Performance Culture: Informal Institutions and Educational Reform”
• Outstanding Policy Report Award: Morgaen Donaldson and Casey Cobb, UConn – “An Evaluation of the Pilot Implementation of Connecticut’s System for Educator Evaluation and Development”
• Lifetime Achievement Award: David Cohen, University of Michigan; Milbrey McLaughlin, Stanford

2014 Awardees:

• Outstanding Dissertation Award: Miya Warner, Columbia University – “Small High Schools and Big Inequalities: Course-taking and Curricular Rigor in New York City”; [Runner-Up] Nathaniel Malkus, University of Maryland – “Beneath the District Averages: Intradistrict Differences in Teacher in Teacher Compensation Expenditures”
• Outstanding Policy Report Award (Short): Tina Trujillo & Michelle Renée – “Democratic School Turnarounds: Pursuing Equity and Learning from Evidence”
• Early Career Award: Erica Frankenberg