Groundbreaking UCLA Scholars to Be Honored by AERA Awards

Along with more than 200 presenters from among faculty and students in the UCLA Department of Education, the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) will also highlight UCLA alumni and faculty who are being honored by the organization.

UCLA Distinguished Professor of Education Noreen Webb will deliver the Robert L. Linn Distinguished Address at AERA on April 13.

Key Lectures at AERA

Invited talks by UCLA scholars will highlight SEIS faculty innovation. Distinguished Professor of Education Sandra Graham, recipient of the 2023 Sylvia Scribner Award, will deliver the Division C Sylvia Scribner Session on Saturday, April 13, 9:35- 11:05 a.m., and Distinguished Professor of Education Noreen Webb will deliver the Division D Robert L. Linn Distinguished Address on Saturday, April 13, 11:25 a.m.-12:55 p.m.

In addition, Dolores Delgado Bernal, professor of educational leadership for social justice at Loyola Marymount University and UCLA Education alumna, will deliver the AERA Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture on Sunday, April 14, 1:15-2:45 p.m. All three events will take place in the Michael A. Nutter Theater, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100.

UCLA alumna Dolores Delgado Bernal, professor of educational leadership for social justice at Loyola Marymount University, will deliver the Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture at AERA on April 14.

Graham is a professor in the Human Development and Psychology division in the Department of Education at UCLA and the UC Presidential Chair in Education and Diversity. In 2023, she received the Sylvia Scribner Award, given annually by AERA Division C to scholars in the field of learning and instruction in recognition of outstanding scholarship and contributions. The award recognizes a program of work that has significantly influenced thinking and research in the field of learning and instruction. Graham was elected to the National Academy of Education in 2015 and is a principal investigator on grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Webb, who serves as vice chair of the UCLA Department of Education and teaches in the division of Social Research Methodology, was honored with the AERA Robert L. Linn Award in 2023. The award recognizes the contributions of Robert L. Linn to educational measurement and assessment policy and honors a scholar whose work has resulted in a widespread positive impact on the field of educational measurement. Professor Webb was elected to the National Academy of Education in 2015, and received the Early Career Award for Programmatic Research from AERA. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and AERA.

Delgado Bernal is a professor of educational leadership for social justice at Loyola Marymount University. Her scholarship bridges the fields of education and Chicanx studies and draws from Chicana feminist and critical race scholarship to investigate education inequities, Latinx educational pathways, and student resistance. Among her numerous contributions to the field is her groundbreaking 1998 article for the Harvard Educational Review titled, “Using a Chicana Feminist Epistemology in Educational Research.” Delgado Bernal was named an AERA Fellow in 2023 and received the AERA Scholars of Color Mid-Career Contribution Award in 2010. The Critical Race Studies in Education Association honored her with the Derrick Bell Legacy Award in 2015.

Faculty Awards

Associate Professor of Education David G. García will also be honored at AERA with the Henry T. Trueba Award for Research Leading to the Transformation of the Social Contexts of Education from Division G.

Associate Professor of Education David G. García will be honored at AERA with the Henry T. Trueba Award for Research Leading to the Transformation of the Social Contexts of Education.

A triple Bruin, García is one of a few historians in the United States documenting Chicana/o community histories of education, with an interdisciplinary research trajectory that explores Chicana/o teatro as public revisionist history; the pedagogy of Hollywood’s urban school genre; and Chicana/o educational histories. García’s award-winning book, "Strategies of Segregation: Race, Residence, and the Struggle for Educational Equality" (University of California Press, 2018) exposes a separate and unequal school system and its purposeful links with racially restrictive housing covenants in Oxnard, California.

Professor García will receive the award at the Division G. Business Meeting on Saturday, April 13, 6:45 p.m., at the Philadelphia Marriott.

Alumni Awards

UCLA Education alumni who are in faculty and leadership positions across the nation will also be honored at the Annual Meeting. This is a current list at the time of this post:

Andrea Gambino, educational consultant

Media, Culture, and Learning SIG's Graduate Student Research Excellence Award for “Secondary Practices of Critical Media Literacy as a Tool for Advancing Social Justice”

Nichole M. Garcia, assistant professor of higher education and educational psychology, Rutgers-New Brunswick Graduate School of Education University

2024 AERA Scholars of Color in Education Early Career Contribution Award

Mayra Puente, assistant professor, The Gervitz School, UC Santa Barbara
Veronica Velez, associate dean for academic affairs, Woodring College of Education, Western Washington University

AERA Division J (Postsecondary Education) Outstanding Publication Award for“Platicando y Mapeando: a Chicana/Latina Feminist GIS Methodology in Educational Research”

Mary Senyonga, assistant professor, California State University, Sacramento

2024 Division G (Social Context of Education) Dissertation Award

Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, professor of Asian American studies, San Francisco State University

2024 AERA Fellow

To notify The Latest of other AERA awards for faculty and students, please contact Joanie Harmon via email at harmon@gseis.ucla.edu.