As Director of Learning Adventures Child Care Centre, Dr. Eliza Pinnegar has continued her work exploring the experiences of children. She began her research journey while earning her undergraduate degree, presenting at conferences as well as being published for that work. After working with first graders she went on to graduate school, working with Dr. D. Jean Clandinin. She attended community events at AERA. Her focus has been on school age children and their families experiences inside school settings and outside. She has a passion for, and has been an active member of the Narrative Research community. She has enjoyed serving in informal and formal capacities, advising budding narrative researchers, reviewing for journals, serving as program Chair narrative articles and contributing to the overall knowledge of the field.
Dr. Amy Boniface is the Education Program Director for the Bachelor's Degree in Elementary and Special Education at Paradise Valley Committee College, in Arizona. She teaches a variety of teacher preparation courses including Literacy, Science Methods, Curriculum, Assessment, and Foundations of Education. Her research interests include using the Narrative Research Methodology to explore experiences of teachers integrating technology into their curriculum and instructional strategies. Currently, Amy is working with Dr. Vicki Ross on research involving experiences of beginning teachers and teacher candidates who enter the classroom full time before they are credentialed. In the AERA Narrative Research SIG, she has served as Secretary and proposal reviewer and is currently the Chair Elect.
Dr. Ramona Maile Cutri is an associate professor at Brigham Young University’s Teacher Education Department. Her current research contributes a criticality to research on eLearning including how it can facilitate or complicate critical pedagogy and equity issues. She also publishes on the emotional work involved in multicultural teacher education and negotiating affective polarization. Cutri’s passion for multicultural and equity issues stems from her own experiences as a child of mixed ethnicities who grew up in poverty. In the AERA Narrative Research SIG, she has served as program chair, member of the recruitment committee, proposal reviewer, session discussant, and session chair.
Meghan L. Gowin, EdD is an Assistant Professor at Erikson Institute in Chicago, IL. As an arts-based qualitative researcher, she uses multiple modes of creative representation to reflect on her positionality and to craft her story as a cis Black queer woman engaging in critically informed research methodologies within this time and space. Her scholarship centers Black feminist thought and endarkened feminist epistemology within early childhood settings, specifically highlighting the diverse lived experiences of Black early childhood educators through arts-based qualitative inquiry methods including, but not limited to, narrative inquiry, autoethnography, endarkend storywork, photovoice, and poetic inquiry.
Kim is an Assistant Commandant for the Corps of Cadets—Texas A&M University at Galveston—where she supervises the well-being, leadership training, and discipline of over 350 future merchant mariners. Kim’s research interests focus on the juxtaposition of self-directed learning and using the written word as a primary learning resource. She earned a BS in Aerospace Engineering (TAMU, 1984), an MBA (UTSA,2003), an MEd in Curriculum and Instruction (TAMU, 2016), and a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in mathematics education (TAMU, 2023). After retiring from the Air Force, Kim taught high school mathematics in public and private schools for seven years. Married and the mother of two adult children, she enjoys baking, needlework, water sports, and snow skiing.
2022 Award Committee Members will be announced forthcoming!