April 2026

AERA has announced the appointment of Marybeth Gasman (Rutgers University) and Andrés Castro Samayoa (Boston College) as the new co-editors of Educational Researcher (ER) for 2027–2029.

Gasman and Castro Samayoa will succeed the co-editor team of Olusola O. Adesope (Washington State University), Brian P. An (University of Iowa), Royel M. Johnson (University of Southern California), Angela Urick (Baylor University), and Anjalé (AJ) Welton (University of Wisconsin, Madison).

During their term, the incoming editors aim to advance research that examines the intersections of AI with equity, labor, and institutional power; foster critical discussions about educational responsibility and purpose; and elevate scholarship focused on rural, Indigenous, and Global South contexts often underrepresented in the field. To support this vision, they are committed to embracing methodological diversity—including ethnography, historical scholarship, and community-based approaches—to be inclusive of multiple forms of knowledge and broaden ER’s reach.

“This team brings a remarkable depth, range, and vision to ER at a pivotal moment for the field," said AERA Executive Director Tabbye M. Chavous. "I have every confidence they will push the journal in innovative directions."

The team was appointed by AERA President Jerome E. Morris after an extensive search led by the AERA Journal Publications Committee, which makes editorial recommendations to the president. Gasman and Castro Samayoa will begin receiving new manuscripts on July 1, 2026, and officially assume the masthead on January 1, 2027.

ER is AERA’s high-impact journal that reaches widely across education research and aligned fields by publishing original research from multiple disciplines, theoretical orientations, and methodologies. It offers broad accessibility for major programmatic research and new findings of general significance to the education research community.

Marybeth Gasman, Ph.D., is the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education, Distinguished Professor, and Associate Dean for Research in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University. She also serves as the executive director of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity and Justice and the executive director of the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. She has authored or edited 36 books—including Doing the Right Thing: How to End Systemic Racism in Faculty Hiring and HBCU: The Power of Historically Black Colleges and Universities—and has published over 325 peer-reviewed articles, scholarly essays, and book chapters, as well as published over 875 opinion articles. Prior to joining Rutgers, Gasman was the Judy and Howard Berkowitz Endowed Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She received the University of Pennsylvania’s Provost Award for Distinguished Ph.D. Teaching and Mentoring, serving as the dissertation chair for over 85 doctoral students.

Andrés Castro Samayoa, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Boston College’s Lynch School of Education and Human Development, where he also serves as Ph.D. program director in Higher Education. His empirical and conceptual research focuses on Minority Serving Institutions, racial equity in higher education, and the politics of social identities and data. His research has been supported by organizations including The Spencer Foundation, AccessLex/AIR, and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, among others.