2020 Outstanding Dissertation Award
Deadline: December 1, 2019, 11:00 PM EST Committee Chair: Deb Palmer, University of Colorado-Boulder
The 21st Dissertation Competition is open for recent and in-progress graduates, who earned or will earn a Ph.D. or Ed.D. degree between January 2018 and December 2019. The topic of the dissertation must be related to the area of bilingual education research, and may use qualitative, quantitative, or mixed research methods. The award committee consists of scholars representing the expertise within bilingual education research, members of the Bilingual Education Research SIG in good standing, and previous winners of the award. The criteria used for evaluating the applications submitted will center on the quality of the dissertation (rigor of methodology and both theoretical and practical contributions to the field), as well as the innovations generated by the research work.
Persons interested should submit the following documents:
The awardee will be recognized during the AERA 2020 annual business meeting for the Bilingual Education Research SIG in San Francisco, receive a plaque from the AERA Bilingual Education Research SIG, and a cash award of $500.00. Please send inquiries and nominations to: Dr. Deborah Palmer at debpalmer@colorado.edu, Bilingual Education Research SIG Outstanding Dissertation Award chair, no later than 11:00 PM EST,December 1, 2019.
2020 Early Career Award Deadline: December 1, 2019 Committee Chair: Sharon Ulanoff, California State University, Los Angeles
This award recognizes an individual in the early stages of their career, no later than 10 years after receipt of the doctoral degree. The awardee’s research must focus on the role of bilingualism in education including but not limited to bilingual education policy and/or practice. Any AERA member is eligible to send a nomination to the AERA Bilingual Education Research SIG Early Career Award chair. Self-nominations are not accepted for this award.
The nomination must include:
Nominations will be evaluated on the following criteria: academic appointment (fewer than 10 years since receipt of doctoral degree), scholarship recognized for excellence in advancing the understanding of the role of bilingualism in education, and service to the field. The awardee will be recognized during the AERA 2020 annual business meeting for the Bilingual Education Research SIG in San Francisco, receive a plaque from the AERA Bilingual Education Research SIG, and a cash award of $500.00. Please send inquiries and nominations to the Bilingual Education SIG Early Career Award chair, Dr. Sharon Ulanoff at sulanof@calstatela.edu no later than December 1, 2019.
2020 Lifetime Achievement Award Deadline: December 1, 2019 Committee Chair: Elizabeth Howard, University of Connecticut
The award recognizes the lifetime achievement of an outstanding, world-class scholar (with at least 15 years in academic appointment) whose work has made a notable impact on the field of bilingual education through continuous scholarship in bilingual education research and practices, service to bilingual education at the national and local levels, and steady mentorship of students and early career scholars. The awardee's research must focus on bilingual education.
Nominations should include:
Impact will be evaluated through the following criteria: strong and continuous scholarship in bilingual education, as evidenced through articles in peer-reviewed research journals, books, and other publications, as well as grant activity; service in regional, national, and possibly international contexts; and mentorship of students and early career scholars.
The awardee will be recognized during the AERA 2020 annual business meeting for the Bilingual Education Research SIG in San Francisco, receive a plaque from the AERA Bilingual Education Research SIG, and a cash award of $500.00. Please send inquiries and nominations to the AERA Bilingual Education Research SIG Lifetime Achievement Award Chair, Dr. Elizabeth Howard (elizabeth.howard@uconn.edu) no later than December 1, 2019. 2020
Graduate Student Travel Awards Deadline: December 1, 2019 Co-Chairs: Kwangok Song, University of Kansas & Kara Mitchell Viesca, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Bilingual Education Research SIG Graduate Student Travel Award shall be presented to a graduate student to help support her/his financial costs related to the AERA meeting. Up to three graduate students currently enrolled in masters or doctoral programs will be selected by the Bilingual Education Research SIG to support travel to the annual meeting. Recipients of this travel award must have a paper accepted for presentation in the Bilingual Education Research SIG program at the AERA annual meeting.
Award Amount: $500.00 per selected graduate student presented at the SIG Business Meeting in San Francisco.
Award Criteria:
Nomination and Review Process: Award candidates may be nominated or self-nominate. Nominations must include:
Nominations must be completed and submitted electronically as a PDF to the Travel Award Committee by December 1, 2019. Please use “Graduate Student Travel Award” as the subject line of the email and send the full nomination package to Peiwen Wang at pwang24@huskers.unl.edu.
2019-2020 Graduate Student Travel Awards Committee:
Co-Chairs: Kwangok Song, ksong@ku.edu Kara Mitchell Viesca, kara.viesca@unl.edu Members: Sandra Musanti, Sandra.musanti@utrgv.edu Christine Montecillo Leider, montecil@bu.edu Patricia Venegas-Weber, Venegasp@seattleu.edu Sandra Quiñones, Quinoness@duq.edu Deon Heffington, deon@uqroo.edu.mx Zhongfeng Tian, tianza@bc.edu