Outstanding Publication Award
2025 Sanders, C. R. (2024). A forgotten migration: Black Southerners, segregation scholarships, and the debt owed to public HBCUs. The University of North Carolina Press.
2023 DeAngelo, L., Schuster, M. T., & Lachaud, Q. A. (2021). The faculty role in grooming and gatekeeping students' of color potential along the professoriate pipeline. The Review of Higher Education, 44(4), 493-521.
2021 Jeong, S., Litson, K., Blaney, J., & Feldon, D. F. (2020). Shifting gears: Characteristics and consequences of latent class transitions in doctoral socialization. Research in Higher Education, 61, 1027-1053
2019 Sverdlik, A., Hall, N., McAlpine, L., & Hubbard, K. (2018). The PhD experience: A vreview of the factors influencing doctoral students’ completion, achievement, and well-being. International Journal of Doctoral Studies, 13, 361-388.
Jaeger, A. J., & Dinin, A. J. (Eds.). (2017). The postdoc landscape: The invisible scholars. Academic Press.
2015 Rockinson-Szapiw, A. J., & Spaulding, L. S. (2014). Navigating the doctoral journey: A handbook for strategies of success. Rowman & Littlefield.
Feldon, D. F., Maher, M. A., Hurst, M., & Timmerman, B. (2015). Faculty mentors’, graduate students’, and performance-based assessments of students’ research skill development. American Educational Research Journal, 52(2), 334-370. https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831214549449
Nerad, M., & Evans, B. (Eds.). (2014). Globalization and its impacts on the quality of PhD education: Forces and forms in doctoral education worldwide. Springer.
2013 Feldon, D. F., Peugh, J., Timmerman, B., Maher, M. Hurst, M. Strickland, D., Gilmore, J., & Stiegelmeyer, C. (2011). Graduate students’ teaching experiences improve their methodological research skills, Science, 333(6045), 1037-1039.
Outstanding Dissertation Award
2023 Annie M. Wofford, University of California, Los Angeles
Rewriting the script for equity-minded graduate school pathways: Examining mechanisms of mentoring and psychosocial development in computing disciplines.
2020 Mayra S. Artiles Fonseca, Virginia Tech University
2018 Catherine Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University
2016 Angela Hooser, University of Florida
2014 Julie Posselt, University of Michigan
2012 Erin D. Crede, Virginia Tech University
2012 Honorable Mention: Kimberly A. Truong, University of Pennsylvania and Baaska Anderson, University of North Texas
Student Travel Award
2025 Rudisang Motshubi
2024 Josh Wallace, Nnog Tran
2023 Karly Ball, Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr., and Suzan Yesil Hafizoglu
2019 Roxana Chiappa
2018 Denver Fowler
2016 Lisa Hoon
2015 Stacia Cedilla and Wei-Ling Sun
For award enquiries, please contact:
Dr. Stephanie Lezotte, lezotte@rowan.edu