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AERA Annual Meeting
2026 Meeting Details
Theme: "Unforgetting Histories and Imagining Futures: Constructing a New Vision for Education Research"
Date: Wednesday, April 8 – Sunday, April 12, 2026
Location: Los Angeles, California
2026 AERA Award Recipients
Idalia Nuñez
Early Career Award, Bilingual Education Research SIG
Paul Bruno
Outstanding Reviewer Award, AERA Open and Educational Researcher
Justin Kern
Outstanding Reviewer Award, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics
Devon Hedrick-Shaw
Outstanding Dissertation Award (Third Place), Bilingual Education Research SIG
Leslie Ellis
Foster-Polite Scholarship, Division A
Taiylor Rayford
Alumna EPSY Ph.D. ’25 and current EPSY research assistant
2026 Division E Outstanding Dissertation Awardee in Human Development
Destiny Williams-Dobosz
Alumna EPSY Ph.D. ’25 and current postdoctoral researcher at Boston College
2026 Outstanding Dissertation Award from AERA SIG #27: Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender
Aigul Rakisheva
Travel Award, Environmental Education SIG
AERA Newly Elected Positions
Rochelle Gutiérrez
AERA Council Member-At-Large, 2026-2029
Yoon Pak
AERA Division F (Historical Inquiry in Education) Vice President, 2026-2029
AERA Fellows
James D. Anderson
Richard C. Anderson
Debra D. Bragg
Hua-Hua Chang
Anne Haas Dyson
Jennifer C. Greene
Rochelle Gutiérrez
Lilian G. Katz
Thomas A. Schwandt
William T. Trent
AERA Division Officers & Committee Members
Jon Hale
- AERA Council Member, 2023-2026
Paul Bruno
- Editorial Board Member, AERA Open Journal
- Editorial Board Member, American Educational Research Journal
- Editorial Board Member, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis Journal
Jessica Gladstone
- Program Co-Chair, Division C, Section 2a
Gloriana González
- Chair, Lesson Study Special Interest Group
- Editorial Board Member, Review of Educational Research Journal
Hanna Kim
- Communications Team Newsletter Editor & Graduate Student Representative, International Studies SIG
Jennifer Nelson
- Co-Chair, Awards Committee, Organizational Theory SIG
NCME Division Officers & Committee Members
Justin Kern
- Co-chair, Educators of Measurement SIG
Join us at our AERA Reception!
Saturday, April 11, 2026
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Hotel Indigo Downtown LA
Olympic Terrace, 4th Floor
899 Francisco St.
Los Angeles, CA 90017
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EPSY Alum Recognized with AERA Outstanding Dissertation Award
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Mar 3, 2026, 16:30 by communications@education.illinois.edu (Communications Office)Full story
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