AERA is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2015–2016 Minority Dissertation Fellowship in Education Research and Travel Awards. The fellowship program, targeted for members of racial and ethnic groups historically underrepresented in higher education, offers doctoral fellowships to exceptional minority graduate students and provides mentoring and guidance toward the completion of their doctoral studies. The fellowship aims to support exemplary minority graduate students in hopes of enhancing the diversity of faculty at major research universities.
AERA awards each fellow up to a $19,000 stipend to study education, teaching, learning, or another education research topic. The program provides the fellows, and the travel awardees, $1,000 each for travel expenses to attend the 2016 AERA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., where they will present their research in an invited dissertation poster session, along with awardees from other prestigious fellowship programs. Members of the AERA Minority Fellowship Selection Committee will meet with the new awardees at a mentoring and career development workshop held during the Annual Meeting.
The new fellows are in the final stages of their dissertation research across a broad range of topics, including examining predictors of Head Start enrollment across racial and ethnic groups, investigating gender and racial minority representation in science and math fields, and exploring the effectiveness of statewide transfer associate degree policies.
The fellows represent several fields and disciplines in education research, including economics, human development and education, and sociology.
If you have questions about the AERA fellowship and grant programs, contact George L. Wimberly, AERA Director of Professional Development, at [email protected].
2015–2016 AERA Minority Dissertation Fellows in Education and Travel Awardees Award Recipient Doctoral Institution Dissertation Title Lydia Bentley Vanderbilt University Black Students’ Postsecondary Academic and Career Choices: Towards an Integrative Framework for Analyzing Influences on Their Decision-Making Process Janine de Novais Harvard University The Higher Learning of Race: Classroom Experiences and the Racial Imaginary Leslie Duhaylongsod Harvard University Toward Effective Citizenry: Understanding and Teaching Argumentation in the Social Studies Classroom Denisa Gandara University of Georgia A Seat at the Table: How Performance Funding Policies for Higher Education Are Designed Adrian Huerta University of California, Los Angeles “College Gets You More Respect”: Examining Gang Knowledge Versus College Knowledge for Latino Male High School Students Zoelene Hill Duke University Bridges and Barriers to Head Start: Predictors of Head Start Enrollment Across Racial and Ethnic Groups Archana Prakash University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Negotiating Modernity: Education and Translation in 19th-Century Egypt Ying Shi Duke University Stemming the Gap: Increasing Female and Minority Representation in Science and Math Fields George Spencer Harvard University Improving Postsecondary Pathways: The Impact of Statewide Transfer Associate Degree Policies
2015–2016 AERA Minority Dissertation Fellows in Education and Travel Awardees
Award Recipient
Doctoral Institution
Dissertation Title
Lydia Bentley
Vanderbilt University
Black Students’ Postsecondary Academic and Career Choices: Towards an Integrative Framework for Analyzing Influences on Their Decision-Making Process
Janine de Novais
Harvard University
The Higher Learning of Race: Classroom Experiences and the Racial Imaginary
Leslie Duhaylongsod
Toward Effective Citizenry: Understanding and Teaching Argumentation in the Social Studies Classroom
Denisa Gandara
University of Georgia
A Seat at the Table: How Performance Funding Policies for Higher Education Are Designed
Adrian Huerta
University of California, Los Angeles
“College Gets You More Respect”: Examining Gang Knowledge Versus College Knowledge for Latino Male High School Students
Zoelene Hill
Duke University
Bridges and Barriers to Head Start: Predictors of Head Start Enrollment Across Racial and Ethnic Groups
Archana Prakash
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Negotiating Modernity: Education and Translation in 19th-Century Egypt
Ying Shi
Stemming the Gap: Increasing Female and Minority Representation in Science and Math Fields
George Spencer
Improving Postsecondary Pathways: The Impact of Statewide Transfer Associate Degree Policies