Early Career Award
Early Career Award
 
Early Career Award
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2024 Award Recipient


Travis Jackson Bristol
University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Travis Bristol is the recipient of the 2024 Early Career Award. Building on his career as a teacher, Dr. Bristol is well-known for his scholarship on the preparation, recruitment, and retention of teachers of color. As a leading researcher in this area, he has authored and co-authored 22 peer-reviewed articles, several book chapters, co-edited the Handbook of Research of Teachers of Color and Indigenous Teachers, and delivered 50 invited national and international addresses. Dr. Bristol has received over $5 million in research grants and highly competitive awards including the Ford Foundation and National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowships. Dr. Bristol’s incredible impact in the education field both in terms of research and practice is exemplary.

The Early Career Award recognizes a scholar in the early stages of their career no later than 10 years after receipt of the doctoral degree who has conducted a distinguished program of cumulative education research in any field of educational inquiry. The winner of the award will be invited to give the Early Career Award Lecture at the following Annual Meeting. 

Past Recipients

2023 - Dominique Baker
2022 - Nelson Flores
2021 - Huriya Jabbar
2020 - 
Lindsay Page
2019 - Jeannette Mancilla-Martinez
2018 - Julie R. Posselt
2017 - Morgan Polikoff
2016 - Christopher Emdin
2015 - Brendesha M. Tynes
2014 - Sara Goldrick-Rab
2014 - Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
2013 - Michael N. Bastedo
2012 - Maisha T. Winn
2011 - Cynthia E. Coburn
2010 - Guofang Li
2009 - Michele Moses & Nell K. Duke
2008 - Andrew J. Martin
2007 - Jaekyung Lee
2006 - Kevin G. Welner
2005 - Amanda Datnow
2004 - Geoffrey D. Borman & Janette K. Klingner
2003 - Yong Zhao
2002 - No award presented
2001 - Stanton E.F. Wortham
2000 - Amy Stuart Wells
1999 - Peter Smagorinsky
1998 - Vanessa Siddle-Walker
1997 - Deborah Loewenberg Ball
1996 - Leona Schauble
1995 - Janet Wilde Astington
1994 - Lisa Delpit & Stephen W. Raudenbush
1993 - D. Jean Clandinin
1992 - Judith D. Singer & John B. Willett
1991 - Edward H. Haertel, Magdalene Lampert, Annemarie Palincsar
1990 - Jeannie Oakes
1989 - Kenneth Tobin
1988 - Robert Mislevy
1987 - Noreen M. Webb
1986 - Penelope L. Peterson
1985 - Robert E. Slavin
1984 - Harris M. 

 
 
Call for Award Nominations
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The submission deadline for the 2025 AERA Awards was Monday, October 28, 2024, at 11:59 pm Pacific Time. Nominations are not being accepted at this time.