THE 2015 AERA DIVISION B (CURRICULUM STUDIES) AWARD RECIPIENTS
Dear Colleagues: I feel very much honored to announce the recipients for the 2015 AERA Division B Awards.
Please mark your calendars for the AERA Division B Business Meeting, Heartbreaking Loss, Radical Love, and Revolutionary Imagination, on Friday, April 17, 2015 (6:15--7:45pm; Hyatt, West Tower--Green Level, Crystal C). All the recipients for the 2015 AERA Division B Awards (i.e., Ella Baker/Septima Clark Human Rights Award, Lifetime Achievement Award, Outstanding Dissertation Award, Outstanding Service Award, Outstanding Book Award including Honorable Mention for Outstanding Edited Volume and Honorable Mention for Innovations in Curriculum Studies) will be introduced by the Award Committee Chairs. The recipient for the Ella Baker/Septima Clark Human Rights Award (Monisha Bajaj, University of San Francisco) and the recipients for the Lifetime Achievement Award (Craig Kridel, University of South Carolina; Henry A. Giroux, McMaster University) will deliver inspirational acceptance speeches (10 minutes). Certificates for Outstanding Service to Division B will be presented to Outgoing Program Co-Chairs and Section Co-Chairs. There will be some free books distributed at the Business Meeting. Our Business Meeting will be celebratory and invigorating!
On behalf of AERA Division B with more than 2000 members, I congratulate all the recipients for your extraordinary contributions to the field of curriculum studies. I am also sending my deepest appreciation and heartfelt thanks to all the Chairs and Members of 2015 AERA Division B Award Committees for the amazing wisdom, hard work, and invaluable time you put into the selection of such incomparable and worthy recipients in the midst of your crazily busy schedules.
Congratulations again to all the recipients! Many thanks again to all the recipients and award committee members for the incomparable contributions you have made to our Division B!
I am looking forward to seeing you all there!
Sincerely, Ming Fang He AERA Division B VP (2014-2017)
2015 AERA Division B Outstanding Dissertation Award Recipient:
Kerri Mesner University of British Columbia
Dissertation Title: Wrestling with the Angels of Ambiguity: Scholarship in the In-Between: Queer Theology/Performative Autoethnography
Dissertation Chair: Carl Leggo
Outstanding Dissertation Award Committee: Chair: Nathalia E. Jaramillo (njaramil@kennesaw.edu), Kennesaw State University Members: Yer J. Thao (thaoy@pdx.edu), Portland State University Cynthia Cole Robinson (robinsonc@purduecal.edu), Purdue University Calumet Seungho Moon (seungho.moon@okstate.edu), Oklahoma State University-Stillwater Horace Hall (hhall@depaul.edu), DePaul University Julie Maudlin (jmaudlin@georgiasouthern.edu), Georgia Southern University Sonia Janis (soniaelj@uga.edu), University of Georgia
2015 AERA Division B Outstanding Book Award Recipient:
Jen Gilbert
York University
Gilbert, J. (2014). Sexuality in school: The limits of education. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
2015 AERA Division B Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention
Honorable Mention for Outstanding Edited Volume:
Eve Tuck
State University of New York at New Paltz
K. Wayne Yang
University of California--San Diego
Tuck, E., & Yang, K. W. (Eds.). (2014). Youth resistance research and theories of change (Critical Youth Studies). New York: Routledge.
Honorable Mention for Innovations in Curriculum Studies:
Elizabeth de Freitas
Adelphi University
Nathalie Sinclair
Simon Fraser University
de Freitas, E., & Sinclair, N. (2014). Mathematics and the body: Material entanglements in the classroom. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Outstanding Book Award Committee:
Chair: Robert J. Helfenbein (rjhelfenbein@loyola.edu), Loyola University Maryland Members: Pauline Sameshima (psameshima@lakeheadu.ca), Lakehead University, Canada Ugena Whitlock (rwhitlo3@kennesaw.edu), Kennesaw State University Adrienne Dixson (addixson@illinois.edu), University of Illinois, Champaign, IL Walter Gershon (wgershon@kent.edu), Kent State University
2015 AERA Division B Ella Baker/Septima Clark Human Rights Award Recipient
Monisha Bajaj University of San Francisco
Ella Baker/Septima Clark Human Rights Award Committee: Chair: Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández (rgaztambide@oise.utoronto.ca), Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at The University of Toronto Members: B. Stephen Carpenter II (bsc5@psu.edu), Critical Social Media Studies, Art Education, Critical Visual Arts and Museum Studies, Critical Mixed Media Studies, The Pennsylvania State University Adam Howard (mahoward@colby.edu), Activism, Diversity, and Social Justice in Education, Colby College, 4420 Mayflower Hill, Waterville, Maine 04901-8844 Lisa (Leigh) Patel (lps@bc.edu), Journalism, Sociology of Education, Undocumented Immigration, and Decolonized Research, Boston College Troy Richardson (tar37@cornell.edu), Indigenous Philosophical Traditions, Indigenous Studies & Education, Cornell University
2015 AERA Division B Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients There are two recipients this year.
Craig Kridel University of South Carolina
Henry A. Giroux McMaster University
Lifetime Achievement Award Committee:
Chair: Dr. William Ayers (billayers123@gmail.com), AERA Division B VP (2010-2012)
Members: Beverly E. Cross (becross@memphis.edu), University of Memphis Nina Asher (nasher@umn.edu), University Of Minnesota-Twin Cities Therese Quinn (therese.quinn@gmail.com), School of Art and Art History, University of Illinois at Chicago David Stovall (dostoval@uic.edu), College of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago Patrick Camangian (pcamangian@usfca.edu), School of Education, University of San Francisco
2015 AERA Division B Outstanding Service Award Recipient
Bernadette M. Baker University of Wisconsin-Madison AERA Division B Secretary (2011-2014)