February 2025
Major award lectures will be given at the forthcoming 2025 AERA Annual Meeting by the 2024 AERA Award Winners. These scholars who were honored at last year’s award ceremony and exemplify the best of significant science and scholarship in the field.
Kris D. Gutiérrez (University of California – Berkeley) will deliver the 2024 Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award Lecture, titled “Mutual Constitution, Learning as Movement, and Developmental Ecologies.” In her lecture, she will explore how the analytic frame of mutual constitution helps us avoid the tendency to separate individuals and practices from one another and the activities in which they participate and help to co-construct.
Travis J. Bristol (University of California – Berkeley) will deliver the 2024 Early Career Award Lecture, titled “Diasporic (Dis)Connection: The School-Based Experiences of Teachers of African Descent across the Americas.” His talk will trace his experiences around Diasporic connections and share emerging research on the school-based experiences of teachers of African descent across four Latin American countries.
Gregory J. Cizek (University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill) will deliver the 2024 E. F. Lindquist Award Lecture. His lecture, titled “Seven Questions for Educational Measurement Specialists,” will posit seven questions that challenge diverse but common practices in educational measurement.
Leah P. Hollis (Pennsylvania State University) will give the 2024 Social Justice in Education Award Lecture, titled “Ain’t I an Academic? Ancestral Whisperings on Workplace Bullying.” Her lecture will examine how workplace bullying hurts higher education for individuals and the institution itself.
The times and dates of this lecture series are as follows:
For additional information about these lectures and the 2025 Annual Meeting program, see the AERA website. The program can be viewed without logging in.