2021 Outstanding Achievement in Arts & Learning Award: 

• Dr. Liora Bresler, Professor Emerita, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2021 Arts & Learning Distinguished Dissertation Award:

• Dr. Silvia Rodriguez Vega, Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University
  • Dissertation: "Immigrant Children: Resilience and Coping with HeART" (University of California, Los Angeles)

2020 Outstanding Achievement in Arts & Learning Award:

• Dr. Peter Gouzouasis, Professor, The University of British Columbia

2020 Arts & Learning Distinguished Dissertation Award:

• Dr. Jordan Morris
  • Dissertation: "(Re)constructing Youth Offender Identities Through Digital Storytelling in a Restorative Conferencing Program" (University of California, Los Angeles)