June 2017
AERA has announced the recipients of the 2017–18 AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship in Education Research and Travel Awards. The program, targeted for members of racial and ethnic groups historically underrepresented in education research, offers dissertation fellowships to outstanding minority graduate students and provides mentoring and guidance toward the completion of their doctoral studies. An important aim of the fellowship is to enhance the diversity of faculty, scholars, and researchers in the field of education research.
The fellows’ scholarship and research address important questions in education research across several disciplines, including history, psychology, and sociology. The six new fellows and six travel awardees are in the final stages of their dissertation research across a broad range of topics in education research.
This year’s funded projects examine areas such as children’s experiences in early childhood education, literacy among marginalized youth, success in mathematics, and adolescent identity. Many of the studies examine educational issues among racial and ethnic minority students, their communities, and their schooling. These studies use a variety of theoretical frameworks and engage a range of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed research methods. It is anticipated that these studies will make a significant contribution to education research and policy as well as inform teachers, clinicians, and other practitioners who work with children, youth, and young
2017-2018 AERA Minority Dissertation Fellows in Education and Travel Awardees
Recipients
Doctoral Institution
Dissertation Title
Dissertation Fellows
Mónica González Ybarra
University of Colorado Boulder
“Here, I Already Feel Smart”: [Re]imagining Anti-Colonial Literacy Pedagogies Through Youth Participatory Action Research in an Im/migrant Housing Community
Dionna L. Latimer-Hearn
Notre Dame of Maryland University
Experience, Training, and Perspectives of Speech-Language Pathologists Serving African American English-Speaking Students
Adaurennaya C. Onyewuenyi
University of Washington
The Unexplored Voices of the “New African Diaspora”: An Examination of the Racial and Ethnic Identity Profiles, Academic Performance, Perceived Teacher Discrimination, and Immigrant Advantage of 1.5 and 2nd Generation Nigerian and Black American Adolescents
Eujin Park
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Education in Our Hands, on Their Terms: Negotiating Educational Reforms and Racializing Discourses in Immigrant Community Spaces
Maxine Roberts
University of Southern California
Mathematics Identity and Sense of Belonging in Mathematics of Successful African-American Students in Community College Developmental Mathematics Courses
Tran Nguyen Templeton
Teachers College, Columbia University
“I Know How to Take a Picture”: Young Children’s Photographic Practices and the Construction of Identity
Travel Awardees
Daniel Millán
University of California, Irvine
The Role of Family Structure and Household Transitions on the K Through 5th-Grade Educational Performance and Classroom Behavior of Latina/o Children of Immigrants
Jean H. Park
“Why Asians Succeed Here”: The History of Education in New York City’s Korean-American community, 1965–1990
Courtney Peña
Stanford University
Intersectional Approaches to Critical Pedagogy: A Look Into Theory and Praxis of CSPs
Brenda Rubio
University of Texas at Austin
Additive Teachers in Subtractive Contexts
Joanne Tien
University of California, Berkeley
Educating for Freedom: A Study of the Berkeley Experimental Schools Project, 1868–1975
Fellows are awarded a $19,000 stipend to complete their dissertation research and training. The fellows and travel awardees also receive a $1,000 stipend for travel expenses to attend the 2018 AERA Annual Meeting in New York City, where they will meet with the Selection Committee members and other senior scholars as part of a mentoring and career development workshop. Fellows and travel awardees will present their work to the education research community in a poster session during the 2018 AERA Annual Meeting.
The AERA Council established the Minority Dissertation Fellowship Program in Education Research in 1991, setting aside funds to support stipends, Annual Meeting travel, and professional development. In 2015, AERA Council voted to provide additional resources to the program through 2020, continuing its support for minority scholars into the association’s second century.
The AERA Minority Dissertation Fellows are selected based on their potential as faculty members or education research scholars, their dissertation studies’ contribution to education research, the research methodology used, and the implications of the research. Recent fellows are now faculty members at leading research institutions, including Iowa State University, the University of Hartford, the University of Colorado–Boulder, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Wyoming. Other recent fellows are conducting research at university-based research centers or applied research organizations. Their research appears in several peer-reviewed journals and has contributed to our understanding of educational issues.
“We are excited to welcome the new cohort of fellows to this program and community of education researchers,” said George L. Wimberly, AERA Director of Professional Development and Diversity Officer. “AERA is continuing its support and research capacity-building efforts for the next generation of faculty and scholars.”
The application deadline for the 2018–19 Minority Dissertation Fellowship competition is November 1, 2017. For further details about the program, eligibility requirements, and application instructions, visit the AERA Funding Opportunities webpage or email the AERA Fellowships Program at fellowships@aera.net.