Graduate Student/Emerging Scholar Travel Award
This $500 travel grant is presented to help offset travel costs for graduate students attending the AERA Annual Meeting. Applicants must be current graduate students, must be attending the annual meeting, and will need a letter of nomination.
Exemplary Early Career Scholar Award
This award seeks to recognize outstanding scholarly work and/or contributions to the field of scholarship focused on the intersection of education and sport. Nominees should be in the early stages of an individual’s career (no later than 10 years after receipt of the doctoral degree at the time of nomination).
Kristina Navarro-Krupka Scholar-Practitioner Award
Inaugurated to honor the memory of longtime SIG member and friend Dr. Kristina Navarro-Krupka, This award seeks to identify excellence in the athletics field by recognizing the work of those RFES members engaged in both research and athletics administration practice. Nominees must work primarily in a practitioner role while also contributing research and scholarship to the SIG and broader education and sport fields.
Past Awards
Distinguished Senior Scholar Award
This award sought to honor a senior scholar’s exceptional body of work that significantly impacted research in education and sport and the RFES SIG (SIG 164). Nominees were in the mid-to later stages of their career (at least 10 years or more past the receipt of the doctoral degree at the time of nomination). The final Distinguished Senior Scholar Award was conferred in 2026.