Past SIG Awards
List of AERA-Approved Awards (PDF)
View past SIG awardees below: A–G | H–Q | R–Z | All
H-Q
Hispanic Research Issues
Award for Research in Elementary, Secondary, or Postsecondary Education
2019
Louie F. Rodriguez
University of California Riverside
Dr. Louie F. Rodriguez' contributions across the academic pipeline in serving and improving access and excellence in the education of our communities is significant and is deserving of our national recognition.
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Early Career Scholar Award
2019
Nancy Acevedo-Gil
California State University, San Bernardino
Dr. Nancy Acevedo-Gil is recognized for her significant contributions as an interdisciplinary scholar, she uses critical race theory and Chicana feminist theories to examine transitions along the higher education pipeline for Chicana/o/x-Latina/o/x students in order to interrupt racist and deficit policies, practices, and ideologies that contribute to the marginalization of Communities of Color.
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Outstanding Dissertation Award
2019
Laura Chavez-Moreno
Current institutional affiliation: UCLA, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies PhD granting Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Dissertation Title: A Critical Race Ethnography Examining Dual-language Education in the New Latinx Diaspora: Reinforcing and Resisting Bilingual Education's Racial Roots
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Inclusion and Accessibility in Educational Assessment SIG
IAEA Award for Excellent Research on Inclusion and Accessibility in Educational Assessment
2020
Magda Chia, Preetha Menon, Paulina Biernacki
Stanford University
This award recognizes the awardees' research paper that exemplifies excellent research methodology and execution, significant contribution to the literature, and commitment to inclusion and fairness in educational assessment.
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Indigenous Peoples of the Americas SIG
Bobby Wright Award for Early Career Contributions to Research in Indigenous Education
2020
Christine A. Nelson, PhD
University of Denver
This award recognizes a scholar who has developed a significant program of research and service to Indigenous communities on important issues in Indigenous education.
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Mike Charleston Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in Indigenous Education
2019
Stephanie J. Waterman
University of Toronto
"Recognizes a scholar for distinguished research, professional practice, and service that advances local and global understanding of the education of Indigenous Peoples."
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Instructional Technology SIG
Best Paper Award
2020
Ji-Eun Lee & Mimi Recker
Worcester Polytechnic Institute & Utah State University
Lee, J. & Recker, M. (2020). Predicting student performance by modeling participation in online discussions in introductory online mathematics courses. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.
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Best Student Paper Award
2020
Sean Hauze & Helina Hoyt
San Diego State University
Hauze, S. & Hoyt, H. (2020). Equitable nursing education simulation through holographic video: measuring student knowledge, skill, and motivation to learn. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.
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Best Paper Award
2019
Kyungbin Kwon
Indiana University
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Best Student Paper Award
2019
Lucas Vasconcelos
University of Georgia
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International Studies SIG
Lifetime Achievement Award
2020
Johanna Lasonen
University of South Florida
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Ivan Illich SIG
Foolish Friend Award
2020
Daniel Grego
TransCenter for Youth, Inc.
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Language and Social Processes SIG
Dr. John J. Gumperz Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Scholarship
2020
Dr. Kris D. Gutiérrez
University of California, Berkeley
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Emerging Scholar Award
2020
Dr. Emily Machado
University of Washington
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Dr. John J. Gumperz Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Scholarship
2019
Dr. Arlette Willis
University of Illinois
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Emerging Scholar Award
2019
Chris Bacon
Boston College
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Emerging Scholar Award
2019
Katie Bernstein
Arizona State University
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Latina/o/x Research Issues SIG
Award for Research in Elementary, Secondary, or Postsecondary Education
2020
Frank Hernandez
Southern Methodist University
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Early Career Scholar
2020
Amanda R. Morales
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Outstanding Dissertation Award
2020
Theresa Burruel Stone
Sonoma State University
Honorable Mention
Gisselle Martinez Negrette
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jennifer Bucalo
Rutgers University
Oscar E. Patron
Indiana University, Bloomington
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Leadership for School Improvement SIG
Dissertation of the Year Award
2020
Bryan A. VanGronigen
University of Virginia
Finalist for Dissertation of the Year Award
Mollie McQuillan
Northwestern University
Sarah M. Doerrer
Loyola Marymount University
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Dissertation of the Year
2019
Mary Bussman
University of Minnesota
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Finalist for Dissertation of the Year
2019
Joshua Kahn
University of Oregon
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Leadership for Social Justice
Social Justice Dissertation Award
2020
Dr. Shaneé Adrienne Washington
Boston College
"Family-School-Community (Dis)Engagement: An Indigenous Community's Fight for Educational Equity and Cultural Reclamation in a New England School District"
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Social Justice Teaching Award in Educational Administration
2020
Frank Hernandez
Southern Methodist University
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"Bridge People" Award
2020
Sonya Douglass Horsford
Teachers College, Columbia University
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Social Justice Dissertation Award
2019
Dr. Chelsea Tracy-Bronson
Stockton University
Inclusive Education in Practice: District-Level Special Education Administrators' Leadership
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Social Justice Teaching Award in Educational Administration
2019
Dr. Detra Johnson
University of Houston
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Social Justice Teaching Award in Educational Administration
2019
Dr. Erin Atwood
Texas Christian University
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"Bridge People" Award
2019
Dr. Melanie Carol Brooks
Monash University
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Learning and Teaching in Educational Leadership SIG
Robert Kottkamp Outstanding Dissertation Award
2020
Dr. Susan Slear
Auburn University
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Literature SIG
Dissertation Award
2020
Saba Khan Vlach
University of Texas at Austin
Presented at the 2020 AERA Annual Meeting
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Lives of Teachers SIG
Best Paper Award
2020
Jeremy Glazer, Ph.D.
Rowan University, College of Education
Tales out of school: Tracing perspective change through the stories of former teachers Teaching and Teacher Education Volume 90 April 2020
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Michael Huberman Award for Excellence in Outstanding Scholarship on the Lives of Teachers
2019
Beatrice Ãvalos
University of Chile, Santiago
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Media, Culture, and Learning SIG
Best Empirical Paper
2020
Adam Sherlock
Spy Hop Productions
Gabriella Huggins
Spy Hop Productions
Nathan Phillips
University of Illinois at Chicago
Virginia Killian Lund
University of Illinois at Chicago
"We Drink the Water:" Teen Filmmakers (Re)Producing Media and Place on the Move
Sara Grummert
University of California Riverside
Siduri Haslerig
The University of Oklahoma
(A)Politicizing College Game Day: Examining veiled political messaging in sport media
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Early Career Award
2020
Ioana Literat
Teachers College, Columbia University
Best Empirical Pape
2019
Ioana Literat, Yoo Kyung Chang, Daniel Ahn, Man Su, Weiying Zhu
Teachers College, Columbia University
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Graduate Student Research Excellence Award
2019
Deborah Silvis
University of Washington - Seattle
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Graduate Student Research Excellence Award Finalist
2019
Tamar Brown
Fordham University
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Mentorship and Mentoring Practices SIG
Dissertation of the Year
2020
Meredith R. Naughton
Colorado State University
"When People Push Us, It Just Makes Us Feel Better": A Multi-Case Exploration of the Tools, Relationships, and Contexts of Near-Peer Mentoring for College
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Distinguished Mentoring Research Paper Award
2019
Dea Marx
University of Missouri-Kansas City
"I Belong in This Space": Culturally Sustaining Mentorship for Latinx Students in a Predominately White Institution
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Middle Level Education Research SIG
Richard "Dick" Lipka Lifetime Achievement Award
2020
David Strahan
Western Carolina University
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Graduate Student Award
2019
Katie Walker
Texas Women's University
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Vincent A. Anfara, Jr. Outstanding Middle Level Education Research Award
2019
Steven B. Mertens
Illinois State University
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Mixed Methods Research SIG
Outstanding Dissertation Award
2019
Elisabeth Kutscher
The George Washington University
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Outstanding Dissertation Award - 1st runner up
2019
Emma Bullock
Utah State
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Outstanding Dissertation Award - 2nd runner up
2019
Thomas Nobili
University of Bridgeport
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Moral Development and Education SIG
Moral Development and Education Promise Award
2020
Amy Banas
University of California, Berkeley
Athletes, Moral Reasoning, and the Drive to "Be Aggressive!"
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Outstanding Book Award
2020
Jacob Fay
Harvard University
Meira Levinson
Harvard University
Democratic Discord in Schools: Cases and Commentaries in Educational Ethics
Wiel Veugelers
University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht
Education for Democratic Intercultural Citizenship
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Moral Development and Education Promise Award
2019
Ji Hye Kim
The University of Iowa
Cultural Meanings of Helping Others: Adolescent Prosocial Development in the United States and South Korea
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Outstanding Book Award
2019
Georg Lind
University of Konstanz
How to Teach Morality: Promoting Deliberation and Discussion, Reducing Violence and Deceit
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Motivation in Education SIG
Paul Pintrich Memorial Award
2020
Dajung Diane Shin
Korea University
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Paul Pintrich Memorial Award
2019
Cora Parrisius
University of Tubingen
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Multicultural/Multiethnic Education: Theory, Research, and Practice SIG
Dr. Carlos J. Vallejo Memorial Award for Emerging Scholarship
2020
Lydiah Kiramba
University of Nebraska- Lincoln
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Dr. Carlos J. Vallejo Memorial Award for Exemplary Scholarship
2020
Dave Louis
Texas Tech University
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Dr. Carlos J. Vallejo Memorial Award for Lifetime Scholarship
2020
Maya Kalyanpur
University of San Diego
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Carlos J. Vallejo Memorial Award for Emerging Scholarship
2019
Jemimah L. Young
University of Iowa
Susan V. Bennett
University of South Florida St Petersburg
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Carlos J. Vallejo Memorial Award for Exemplary Scholarship
2019
Christopher B. Newman
Azusa Pacific University
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Carlos J. Vallejo Memorial Award for Lifetime Scholarship
2019
Omiunota Nelly Ukpokodu
University of Missouri-Kansas City
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Music Education SIG
Outstanding Early Career Award in Music Education
2020
Adam Kruse
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
For your 2020 AERA Paper "We Been Livin' it Forever": Culturally Responsive Teaching in a Hip Hop Class
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Narrative Research SIG
Early Career Award
2020
Dr. Sumer Seiki
University of San Francisco School of Education
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Outstanding Publication Award
2020
Dr. Trish Morita-Mullaney
Purdue University
Morita-Mullaney, T. (2018). The intersection of language and race among English learner (EL) leaders in desegregated urban midwest schools: A LangCrit narrative study. Journal of Language, Identity & Education, 1-17.
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Early Career Award
2019
Lee Shaefer
McGill University
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Early Career Award
2019
Sean Lessard
University of Alberta
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Outstanding Publication Award
2019
Cheryl Craig, JeongAe You, Yali Zou, Rakesh Verma, Donna Stokes, Paige Evans, Gayle Curtis
Texas A&M University, College Station
Cheryl Craig, JeongAe You, Yali Zou, Rakesh Verma, Donna Stokes, Paige Evans, & Gayle Curtis. (2018). The embodied nature of narrative knowledge: A cross-study analysis of embodied knowledge in teaching, learning and life. Teaching and Teacher Education, (71), 329-340.
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Outstanding Dissertation Award
2019
Momina Khan
University of Saskatchewan
Dissertation Title: O Canada, Whose Home and Native Land? An Autobiographical Narrative Inquiry into the Critical Role of Curriculum in ldentity Affirmation
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Online Teaching and Learning SIG
Research Best Paper Award
2020
Hamdan Alamri
King Saud University - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Sunnie Lee Watson
Purdue University
Victoria Lynn Lowell
Purdue University
William R. Watson
Purdue University
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Best Research Paper Award
2019
Peter Shea
University at Albany, State University of New York
Temi Bidjerano
Furman University
Effects of Online Course Load on Degree Completion, Transfer, and Dropout
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Best Research Paper Award
2019
Tadd Farmer & Victoria Lowell
Purdue University
Enhancing Academic Self-Efficacy in Online Settings: A Systematic Review
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Organizational Theory SIG
Best Annual Meeting Paper Award
2020
Brian P. Rowan & Mark White
University of Michigan and University of Oslo
In recognition of academic and intellectual excellence towards enhancing theoretical and scholarly developments in the field of Organizational Theory for your paper: Organizing an Industry: The Common Core State Standards Initiative as an Innovation Network
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Best 2019 AERA Annual Meeting Paper Award
2019
Julie A. Marsh, University of Southern California Taylor N. Albright, University of Southern California Katrina E. Bulkley, Montclair State University Kate Kennedy, University of Southern California
In recognition of academic and intellectual excellence towards enhancing theoretical and scholarly developments in the field of Organizational Theory for your paper: Kaleidoscope of School Options: Differentiating School Missions, Values, and Practices in Los Angeles
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Out-of-School Time SIG
Emerging Scholar Award
2020
Dr. Ryan D. Heath
Syracuse University
Mr. Ishmael A. Miller
University of Washington
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Emerging Scholar Award
2019
ANNIE McNAMARA
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
FOR OUTSTANDING COMMITMENT TO THE OUT-OF-SCHOOL TIME FIELD
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Scholar Award
2019
DR. ANDREA VEST ETTEKAL
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
FOR OUTSTANDING COMMITMENT TO THE OUT-OF-SCHOOL TIME FIELD
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Paulo Freire SIG
The Paulo Freire Legacy Award
2020
Donaldo Macedo
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Politics of Education SIG
Outstanding Dissertation Award
2020
Dr. Richard Paquin Morel
Northwestern University
Test Questions: Organizing, Motivation, and Mobilizing Opposition to Accountability Testing
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2019 Outstanding Dissertation in the Politics of Education
2019
Dr. Stephanie Forman
University of Washington
"Leading for Equity: How Education Leaders Navigate Conflicts to Implement Dual Language Immersion Policies"
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2019 Outstanding Dissertation in the Politics of Education - Honorable Mention
2019
Dr. Kathryn Bassett Hill
Columbus University
"Black parents, vigilance, and public schools: Trust, distrust and the relationships between parents and schools in New York City"
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Professional Development School Research SIG
Claudia A. Balach Teacher Researcher Award
2020
Carolyn Zierenberg
David Phanthai
David Van Natten
Dominic Isaac
Emily Sommer
Emmanuel Valadez
Kevin Inlay
John F. Kennedy High School, Sacramento CA
Shannon Pella
California State University, Sacramento
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Graduate Scholar Dissertation Award
2020
David C. Curlette
Georgia State University
Mary Elizabeth Higgins
The Pennsylvania State University
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Professors of Educational Research SIG
Outstanding Paper Award
2020
Huey-Li Li
The University of Akron
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Qualitative Research SIG
Outstanding Qualitative Research Book Award
2020
Aaron Kuntz
University of Alabama
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The Outstanding Qualitative Research Dissertation Award
2020
Maureen Flint
The University of Georgia LEAP
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The Outstanding Qualitative Research Dissertation Award
2019
Travis M. Marn
Southern Connecticut State University
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Queer Studies SIG
Article of the Year Award
2020
Melinda Mangin
Rutgers University
"Transgender Students in Elementary Schools: How Supportive Principals Lead," Educational Administration Quarterly
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Body of Work Award
2020
Ed Brockenbrough
University of Pennsylvania
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Dissertation of the Year Award
2020
Antonio Duran
Auburn University
An Intersectional Grounded Theory Study Examining Identity Exploration for Queer Collegians of Color at Historically White Institutions
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Article of the Year Award
2019
Jennifer M. Johnson
Temple University
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Article of the Year Award
2019
Steve D. Mobley Jr.
University of Alabama
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Body of Work Award
2019
Caroline Clark
The Ohio State University
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Dissertation of the Year Award
2019
Ryan Schey
Auburn University
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