AERA Selects 29 Exemplary Scholars as 2025 Fellows
AERA Selects 29 Exemplary Scholars as 2025 Fellows
 
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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 WisconsinMadison

Courtney Bell

University of WisconsinMadison

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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