2026 Brown Lecture Call for Nominations
2026 Brown Lecture Call for Nominations
 
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Call for Nominations
2026 Annual Brown Lecture in Education Research

DEADLINE: February 17, 2026


The American Educational Research Association (AERA) seeks nominations for the 23rd Annual Brown Lecture in Education Research. This public Lecture features important research that advances understanding of issues related to equality and equity in education. The Lectureship was inaugurated in 2004 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, in which the U.S. Supreme Court took scientific research into account in issuing its landmark ruling. The Lecture will be delivered by a distinguished scholar notable for producing significant research or lines of research related to equality in education. The lecturer receives a $1,000 honorarium.

Members of the education research community are encouraged to submit nominations.

All nominations must include the following:

  • A brief curriculum vitae/resume highlighting scholarship and research relevant to the Lectureship (no longer than two-pages). 
  • A one-page statement on the nominee, the nominee’s research, and how the nominee’s research meets the objectives and purposes of the Lectureship.

Nominations can be submitted by e-mail to brownlecture@aera.net.

The Brown Lecture Selection Committee is comprised of the AERA President, President-Elect, Chair of the Social Justice Action Committee (SJAC), Executive Director, Diversity Officer, and two additional SJAC members. The chair of SJAC chairs the selection process.

PAST BROWN LECTURERS

2025  James A. Banks, University of Washington, Seattle 2013 


Gary Orfield, University of California, Los Angeles

2024  Elise Boddie, University of Michigan  2012 


Vanessa Siddle Walker, Emory University

2023  Leslie T. Fenwick, Harvard University 2011 
Gloria J. Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin, Madison
 
2022 
John Diamond, Brown University
 
2010  Kenji Hakuta, Stanford University
2021 
 Lori Patton Davis, The Ohio State University
 

   
 2009 

Luis C. Moll, University of Arizona

2020 


William F. Tate IV, University of South Carolina

2008 

Stephen W. Raudenbush, University of Chicago

2019 


Prudence L. Carter, University of California, Berkeley

2007 

Margaret Beale Spencer, University of Chicago

2018 


H. Richard Milner IV, Vanderbilt University

2006 

Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford University

2017 


Alfredo Artiles, Arizona State University

2005 

Claude M. Steele, Stanford University

2016 

Marta Tienda, Princeton University

2004 

Edmund W. Gordon, Teachers College, Columbia University

2015 


Teresa L. McCarty, University of California, Los Angeles

 

 

2014 


James D. Anderson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign