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SGI Awards 2025

Stay tuned for announcements in the summer and fall about upcoming awards application cycles!

 

SIG Awards 2024  
(Awarded at AERA 2025 Conference)

Distinguished Research Paper Award

Every year the Mentoring SIG recognizes individuals who make outstanding contributions in mentoring research, and the Distinguished Paper Award is presented at the AERA Business Meeting.

Congratulations to this year’s recipients, Rajashi Ghosh , Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia University , and Alene Montgomery, Drexel University, for their research paper:

"Comprehending multiple identities as minoritized students in engineering: How can developmental networks grow meaning-making capacity?"

Dr. Rajashi Ghosh gave a brief presentation about their work at our SIG Business Meeting at the Denver Annual Meeting held on Friday, April 25. We hope you will join us to congratulate them and learn more about their research.

Special thanks to the review committee: 

  • Robin Brandehoff, Ph.D.
  • Shawna Daniels, Ph.D.
  • Andre’a J. Dorsey, Ph.D.
  • Beverly Irby, Ed.D.
  • Jeremy A. Magruder Waisome, Ph.D.

Rubén Garza, Ph.D., Chair, AERA Mentorship and Mentoring Practices SIG Distinguished Paper Award

Dissertation Award

Dr. Edgar LopezUniversity of Southern California, USC Pullias Center for Higher Education

Fight, Flight, or Fatigue: Examining How Latino/x Men Develop Validating Mentoring Relationships to Overcome Institutionalized Racism in Ph.D. Programs.”

This award recognizes outstanding contributions to mentorship and mentoring practice research. Recognizing a distinguished dissertation is a way to support emerging scholars, recognize the accomplishments and contributions of doctoral students, and promote research in mentoring. 

Our SIG is pleased to congratulate Dr. Edgar Lopez, whose dissertation was selected as our SIG's Dissertation of the Year.  Dr. Lopez gave a brief presentation about his work at our SIG Business Meeting at the Denver Annual Meeting held on Friday, April 25. We hope you will join us to congratulate Dr. Lopez and learn more about his research.

Special thanks to the Review Committee:

  • Robin Brandehoff, Ph.D.
  • Miriam Witmer, Ph.D.
  • Julianna E. Lopez Kershen, Ed.D.
  • Mayra Marquez-Mendez, M.Ed.
  • Virginia Snodgrass Rangel, Ph.D.

Kathleen Cowin, Ed.D.,  Chair, AERA Mentorship and Mentoring Practices SIG Dissertation Award

SIG Awards 2023 (PAST)

Distinguished Research Paper Award

Every year, the Mentoring SIG recognizes individuals who make outstanding contributions in mentoring research, and the Distinguished Paper Award was presented at the AERA Business Meeting. Congratulations to this year’s recipient Tal CarmiThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem, for his paper: “Reframing high-quality mentoring: Between teacher mentoring and visions of teaching as a profession.”

Special thanks to the review committee:

  • Dionne J. Clabaugh, EdD,  University of New Mexico
  • Ceal Craig, PhD, Retired
  • Rajashi Ghosh, PhD, Columbia University
  • Deena L. Gould, PhD, University of New Mexico
  • Rubén Garza, PhD, Retired

Rubén Garza, PhD: Chair, AERA Mentorship and Mentoring Practices SIG Distinguished Paper.

Dissertation Award

Dale K. Willson, Ph.D., Educational Leadership, Research, and Policy,  University of Colorado-Colorado Springs

 A Light in the Dark: A Qualitative Meta Synthesis of Pre-Tenure Faculty Mentorship Promising Practices  was selected for the 2023 Dissertation of the Year Award  by the Mentorship & Mentoring Practices SIG of the American Educational Research Association. Dr. Willson's research highlighted important issues that the committee felt deserved recognition and celebration.

Judges:

  • Ellen Reames, Auburn University
  • Julianna E. Kershen, Ph.D., Oklahoma University
  • Miriam Wittner, Ph.D., Millersville University
  • Robin Brandehoff, Ph.D., University of Colorado Denver
  • Virginia Snodgrass Rangel,  Ph.D., University of Houston

Kathleen Cowin, Ed.D.,  Chair, AERA Mentorship and Mentoring Practices SIG Dissertation Award

 
 
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