2024 Award Recipient
 

Jennifer Esposito
Georgia State University

The recipient of the 2024 Distinguished Contributions to Gender Equity in Education Research Award is Dr. Jennifer Esposito. Through her field-bending research at the nexus of race, class, gender, and sexuality, Dr. Esposito has both interrogated relationships between identity, power, and privilege and offered us methodological tools to move marginalized voices to the center. In addition to the influence of her substantial body of peer-reviewed published offerings, the profound impact of her caring tutelage ripples through the careers of hundreds of justice-oriented scholars. As a scholar, mentor, and servant leader, Dr. Esposito’s contributions should be counted as both distinguished and inspirational for us all.

Established in 2006, the Distinguished Contributions to Gender Equity in Education Research Award recognizes individuals within AERA for distinguished research, professional practice, and activities that advance public understanding of gender and/or sexuality at any level in the education community. This award will be presented to an individual whose professional career has been devoted in substantial part to the study of gender and/or sexuality in education, and who has significantly advanced the field through extraordinary leadership, scholarship, or professional practice. The AERA Committee on Scholars and Advocates for Gender Equity in Education is charged by AERA Council with serving as the selection committee for this award.

Past Recipients  

2023 - Jackie Blount
2022 - Kimberly A. Scott
2021 - Elizabeth Meyer
2020 - Jessica Ringrose
2019 - sj Miller
2018 - Kristen A. Renn
2017 - Kathryn C. Scantlebury
2016 - James L. Moore III
2015 - Charol Shakeshaft
2013 - Geraldine J. Clifford
2012 - Cynthia B. Dillard
2011 - James Earl Davis
2010 - Valerie Polakow
2009 - Sandra Harding
2008 - Annette Henry
2007 - Aída Hurtado