The Catholic Education SIG Dissertation Award recognizes outstanding achievement and contribution to the field of Catholic education. The purposes of the SIG are to support, promote, and disseminate information, research, and evaluation of Catholic education written from a diverse set of perspectives, including interdisciplinary and international issues.
Past Recipients
2025: Kathleen Sellers (Duke University)“If you are going to last in this profession, you have to be yourself”: Qualitative portraits of critical educators in urban secondary schools
Honorable Mention: Jeremy Divinity (Loyola Marymount)“Reclaiming Black Spirit: Redefining Social Justice Leadership with and for Black Youth in Jesuit Secondary Schools”
2023: Antonio Felix (Loyola Marymount University)
“Si no yo, ¿entonces quién?”: Testimonios of Latino/a Catholic School Teachers in Under-Resourced Urban Catholic Schools
2021: Angelo Rizzo, SJ (University of San Francisco)Inclusive Service Delivery in Jesuit Secondary Education: A Case Study of the Rodriguez Learning Services Program at Manresa Prep
2019: Julie W. Dallavis (University of Notre Dame)Does a School’s Mission Matter? Examining Explicit Statements and Underlying Beliefs2017: Robert Jean LeBlanc (University of Pennsylvania)Literacy, Strategy, and Identity in Interaction: Vietnamese and Mexican Immigrant Students in Urban Catholic Schooling
2015: Jennifer Aguilar (Loyola Marymount University)Latinas' Access to Advanced Placement Courses: A Case Study of a Catholic Female Single Sex High School
2013: R. Joseph Waddington (University of Michigan)Urban Catholic Schools in Expanding Charter School Markets: Enrollment Shifts and School ClosuresUrsula Aldana (University of California, Los Angeles)College Dreams, Corporate Work Study, Brotherhood and Belonging: How Urban High Schools Structure Opportunity for Low Income Latino and African American Male Youth
2011: Christian Dallavis (University of Michigan)Extending Theories of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: An Ethnographic Examination of Catholic Schooling in an Immigrant Community in Chicago
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Past Recipients2024: Hoffsman Ospino, Boston College
2022: Ronald J. Nuzzi, Catapult Learning, LLC