For Immediate Release
March 6, 2025

Contacts:
Tony Pals, tpals@aera.net
(202) 238-3235

Marla Koenigsknecht, mkoenigsknecht@aera.net
(202) 238-3233

AERA Selects 29 Exemplary Scholars as 2025 Fellows

WASHINGTON, March 6, 2025—The American Educational Research Association (AERA) has announced the selection of 29 exemplary scholars as 2025 AERA Fellows. The AERA Fellows Program honors scholars for their exceptional contributions to, and excellence in, education research. Nominated by their peers, the 2025 Fellows were selected by the Fellows Committee and approved by the AERA Council, the association’s elected governing body. They will be inducted during a ceremony at the 2025 Annual Meeting in Denver on April 24. With this cohort, there will be a total of 791 AERA Fellows.

“The 2025 AERA Fellows join a brilliant group of scholars, and they are most deserving of this honor,” said AERA Executive Director Felice J. Levine. “Their significant contributions to the education research field demonstrate the highest standards of academic excellence and scholarship.”

The 2025 AERA Fellows are:

Roger Azevedo University of Central Florida	Aydin Bal University of Wisconsin–Madison	Courtney Bell University of Wisconsin–Madison	Catherine Bradshaw University of Virginia	Erica Frankenberg Pennsylvania State University	Liliana M. Garces University of Texas at Austin
Louis M. Gomez University of California, Los Angeles	Mark Anthony Gooden Teachers College, Columbia University	Kimberly Griffin University of Maryland	Laura Hamilton American Institutes for Research	Joyce King Georgia State University	Cynthia Lewis University of California, Santa Cruz
Guofang Li University of British Columbia	Matthew Mayhew The Ohio State University	Ebony O. McGee Johns Hopkins University	Amanda Nickerson University at Buffalo, SUNY	KerryAnn O'Meara Teachers College, Columbia University	Erika Patall University of Southern California
Julie Posselt University of Southern California	Sadhana Puntambekar University of Wisconsin–Madison	Kristen Renn Michigan State University	Deborah Rivas-Drake University of Michigan	Lucrecia Santibañez University of California, Los Angeles	William A. Smith University of Utah
Arianne Teherani University of California San Francisco	Linda Tillman University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill	Alina von Davier Duolingo	Xueli Wang University of Wisconsin–Madison	Tara J. Yosso University of California, Riverside

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