The AERA Queer Studies SIG gives three awards, one travel grant, and one community activism grant per year. Under each award below are listed the previous winners.
Body of Work Award
2023: Not awarded
2022: Not awarded
2021: Cindy Cruz (University of Arizona)
2020: Ed Brockenbrough (University of Pennsylvania)
2019: Caroline Clark (Ohio State University)
2018: Kris Renn (Michigan State University)
2017: Not awarded
2016: Dennis Carlson (Miami University (Ohio))
2015: Karen Graves (Denison University)
2014: Cris Mayo (University of Illinois)
2013: Mary Bryson (University of British Columbia)
2012:
2011: Not awarded
2010: Mollie V. Blackburn (Ohio State University)
2009: Catherine A. Lugg (Rutgers University)
2008: Not awarded
2007: Not awarded
2006: James T. Sears (Pennsylvania State University)
2005: Tara Goldstein (OISE, University of Toronto)
Article of the Year Award
2023: Hevel, Michael S. & Timothy Reese Cain (2022) The queer student affairs career of Stephen Lenton, 1970-1980, Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education, 15:3, 261-278
2022: Jackson, R., Lange, A. C., & Duran, A. (2021). A whitened rainbow: The in/visibility of race and racism in LGBTQ+ higher education scholarship. Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, 7(2), 173-206.
2022, Honorable Mention: Salas-SantaCruz, O. S. (2020). Terca, pero no pendeja: Tequedad as theory and praxis of transformative gestures in higher education. Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 14(2), 23-43.
2021: LJ Slovin - Slovin, LJ (2020). What grade are you in? On being a non-binary researcher. Curriculum Inquiry, 50(3), 225-241.
2021 Honorable Mention: Tomás Boatwright - Boatwright, T. (2019). Flux Zine: Black queer storytelling. Equity and Excellence in Education, 52(4), 383-395. https://doi.org/10.1080/10665684.2019.1696254
2020: Melinda Mangin - Mangin, M. M. (2019). Transgender students in elementary schools: How supportive principles lead. Educational Administration Quarterly, 56(2), 255-288.
2019: Steve D. Mobley, Jr., and Jennifer Johnson - Mobley, S. D., & Johnson, J. (2019). "No pumps allowed": The 'problem' with gender expression and the Morehouse College "appropriate attire policy". Journal of Homosexuality, 66(7), 867-895.
2018: Elizabeth Payne & Melissa Smith
2017: Jon Wargo - Wargo, J. M. (2017). “Every selfie tells a story…”: LGBTQ youth lifestreams and new media narratives as connective identity texts. New Media & Society, 19(4), 560-578.
2016: T. J. Jourian - Jourian, T. J., Simmons, S. L., & Devaney, K. C. (2015). “We Are Not Expected” Trans* Educators (Re) Claiming Space and Voice in Higher Education and Student Affairs. Transgender Studies Quarterly, 2(3), 431-446.
2015: Roland Coloma - Sintos Coloma, R. (2013). Ladlad and parrhesiastic pedagogy: Unfurling LGBT politics and education in the global south. Curriculum Inquiry, 43(4), 483-511.
2014: Caitlyn Ryan and Jill Hermann-Willmarth
2014: Kevin Burke and Adam Greteman
2013: John Dugan - Dugan, J. P., Kusel, M. L., & Simounet, D. M. (2012). Transgender college students: An exploratory study of perceptions, engagement, and educational outcomes. Journal of College Student Development, 53(5), 719-736.
2012: Cindy Cruz: Cruz, C. (2011) LGBTQ street youth talk back: a meditation on resistance and witnessing, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 24:5, 547-558, DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2011.600270
2011: Sandra Schmidt - Schmidt, S. (2010). Queering Social Studies: The Role of Social Studies in Normalizing Citizens and Sexuality in the Common Good. Theory and Research in Social Education, 38(3), 314-335.
2010: Kathleen Rands - Rands, K. (2009). Mathematical Inqu[ee]ry: beyond 'Add-Queers-and-Stir' elementary mathematics education. Sex Education, 9(2), 181-191.
Dissertation of the Year Award
2023: Salas-SantaCruz, O. (2022) Learning to Be: Trans-Latinidad, Race, Indigeneity, and Inclusion [Doctoral dissertation, The University of California, Berkeley]
2022: Reid, S. K. (2021). A Case Study Exploring the Agency of Black LGBTQ+ Youth in NYC's Ballroom Culture. [Doctoral dissertation, Teachers College, Columbia University].
2022 Honorable Mention: Lange, A. C. (2021). How transgender students get in, pay for, and explore gender in college. [Doctoral dissertation, University of Iowa].
2021: Dirk J. Rodricks (University of Toronto) - "This body has fought hard to be here!" – Unearthing Mishritata using drama to map the multiple minoritization of queer/Desis/South Asians in Toronto.”
2021 Honorable Mention: James Joshua Coleman (University of Pennsylvania) - Restorying painful histories: Critical literacy, the imagination gap, and the affective lives of queer educators
2020: Antonio Duran (Ohio State University) - An Intersectional Grounded Theory Study Examining Identity Exploration for Queer Collegians of Color at Historically White Institutions
2019: Ryan Schey (Ohio State University) - Youth's queer-focused activism in a secondary classroom: Pedagogy, (un)sanctioned literacy practices, and accountability
2018: Eli Kean (Michigan State University) - Conceptualizing Gender, Contextualizing Curriculum: A Case Study of Teacher Education Coursework
2017: Hélène Frohard-Dourlent (University of British Columbia) - Muddling through together”: Educators navigating cisnormativity while working with trans and gender-nonconforming students
2016: Jacob McWilliams - Trans*literacies: Designing for Gender Fluency and Transmedia Literacy in the Elementary Classroom
2015:
2014: Susan Woolley (University of California, Berkeley) - Identity and Difference: Negotiating Gender and Sexuality in High School Contexts
2014: Jason Garvey (University of Maryland) - Identity and philanthropy: Designing a survey instrument to operationalize lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer alumni giving
2013: Tonya Callaghan (University of Calgary) - Holy homophobia: Doctrinal disciplining of non-heterosexuals in Canadian Catholic schools
2012: Jennifer Michelle DeCoste (Penn State): Queering sex education: Rural sex educators' perceptions of queer issues
2011: Julia Heffernan (University of Oregon) - The sound of silence: Educators managing and reproducing heteronormativity in middle school
2010: Mary J. de Leon-Denton (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) - The lived experiences of lesbian/gay/[bisexual/transgeder] (LG[BT]) educational leaders
2009: Vanessa Russell (OISE, University of Toronto)
2008: David V. Ruffolo (OISE, University of Toronto)
2006: Jill Hermann-Wilmarth
2005: Kevin Graziano
Eric Rofes Graduate Student Travel Grant
2023: Torie Wheatley
2022: Pablo Montes
2021: Justin Andrew Gutzwa, Bishop Owis, & Lindsay Cavanaugh
2020: Lee Iskander
2019: Kate Reid
2018: Shawna Carroll
2017: Paulina Abustan & Adam Crawley
2016: Bridget Lee Maher & William Toledo
2015: Sam Stiegler & Andres Castro Samayoa
2014: Helene Frohard-Dourlent
2013: Jason Garvey
2012: Susan Wooley
2011:
2010: Not awarded
2009: Darla Linville
2008: Kris Wells
2007: Elizabeth J. Meyer
2006: Julie Schell
2005: Lori Macintosh
Dennis Carlson Community Activism Grant
2023: Affinity (Chicago)
2022: The San Diego Black LGBTQ Coalition and Casa Arcoiris, an LGBTQ+ Migrant Shelter. (San Diego)
2021: The Zebra Coalition (Orlando)
2020: El/La Para TransLatinas (San Francisco)
2020: Queens of the Castro (San Francisco)
2019: Youthline (Toronto)
2018: Health Outreach to Teens (HOTT; New York)
2018: FIERCE (New York)
2017: Pride Center San Antonio