Recent Awards and Publications

Students and faculty in the Department of Educational Policy Studies are highly accomplished scholars, engaged in meaningful research and study that makes an impact on Wisconsin, the nation, and beyond. Explore the number of awards and honors we have received at the department, university, and national levels.

SoE/EPS Awards

AWARD	RECIPIENT
Michael Apple Fellowship	Abby Beneke
Sterling Fishman Memorial Award	Qing Liu
Theodora Herfuth Kubly Minority Fellowship	Rachel Johnson
Herbert Kliebard Award For Outstanding Scholarly Achievement in Educational Policy Studies	Tarsha Herelle Rachel Johnson Maria Velazquez
Mary Metz Award	Mili Bhatnagar Rachel Johson
John R. Palmer Graduate Fellowship Award	Anthony Hernandez

Other Awards

AWARD	RECIPIENT
NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship	Liz Hauck Rachel Johnson
Planetary Health Scholars Award	Yaa Ampofo
P.E.O. Scholar Award	Kelsey Dalyrymple
Deborah A. Hobbins Graduate Student Award in Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice	Regina Fuller
Foreign Language & Area Studies(FLAS) Fellowship	Kelsey Dalyrymple Alexandra Pasqualone
Edward A. Bouchet Award	Tarsha Herelle
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant	Tyler Hook
Sir James Lougheed Award of Distinction	Emily Tran
Graduate Student Service Scholarship	Claudia Triana
Wenner Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant	Tyler Hook

 

AWARD	RECIPIENT
Outstanding Research in Education Studies Award	Aaron Kinard
Outstanding Paper in Educational Studies Award	Pablo Aquiles Sanchez
Eric Flanagan Community-Engaged Scholarship Award	Abigail Robinson
Educational Policy Engagement Grants (EPEG)	Yuhan Li, Yimeng Sun, Wenwen Zhong Cristhabel Martinez

AWARD	RECIPIENT
2021 RHSU Ed-Scholars List	Bianca J. Baldridge
School of Education’s Award for Community-Engaged Scholarship	Erica Turner
Spencer Foundation Grant	Kathryn Moeller Simone Schweber
School of Education’s Excellence in Diversity Award	Linn Posey-Maddox
NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship	Diana Rodríguez-Gómez
UW-Madison “Understanding and Reducing Inequality Initiative” Award	Matthew Hora Stacey Lee
Outstanding Reviewer for 2020 from American Educational Research Association and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis	Erica Turner
Madison Education Partnership Research Award	Lesley Bartlett Linn Posey-Maddox Amy Claessens Erica Turner

Spring 2020

AWARD	RECIPIENT
NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship	Huimin Wang
NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship	Qing Liu
NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship	Choua Xiong
Center for Southeast Asian Studies’ Fellowship	Jennifer Otting
4W Engagement Grant for Emerging Scholars	Khrysta Evans
Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship	Tyler Hook
Mary Washburn Willets Award for Excellence in the Social Sciences	Tarsha Herelle

2019-2020

AWARD	RECIPIENT
Education Graduate Research Scholars (EdGRS)	Anthony Hernandez Emily Anaya Juan Medina Selah Agaba Diana Famakinwa Linda Pheng Kathy Villalon
Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council	Tyler Hook
2019 National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Foundation Research Development Award	Anthony Hernandez
Morgridge Center for Public Service Excellence in Engaged Scholarship Graduate Student Award	Marlo Reeves
National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship	Ashley Smith

Agyepong, M. (2017). The struggles of invisibility: The perception and treatment of 1.5 and 2^nd generation Black African students in the United States. In O. Ukpokodu (Ed.), Erasing invisibility: Educational excellence and social justice for African immigrants. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Amato Nocera,  “Negotiating the Aims of African American Adult Education: Race and Liberalism in the Harlem Experiment, 1931–1935,” History of Education Quarterly, 58:1.

Jordan Conwell, Spencer Postdoctoral Award

Lesley Bartlett, George Bereday Award for Best Article in Comparative Education Review 

Nancy Kendall, UW Vilas Mid-Career Investigator Award

Diana Rodríguez-Gómez

• 2020 Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) Junior Faculty Teaching Award
• 2019 Concha Delgado Gaitán Early Career Presidential Fellowship, Council on Anthropology and Education
• 2019 Honored Instructor Award, University Housing, UW-Madison

Linn Posey-Maddox, Honored Instructor Award, University Housing, UW-Madison

Stacey Lee, WARF Named Professorship

Bianca J. Baldridge, American Educational Studies Association Critic’s Choice Book Award; Spencer Foundation Scholar-In-Residence (June, 2020)

Matthew Hora, 2018 Frederic W. Ness Book Award (AAC&U)

Jacob Leonard, SOE Distinguished Achievement Award

Alexandra Pasqualone, FLAS fellowship

Allison Shepherd, Community-based Research Grant, Morgridge Center for Public Center

Ariel Borns, Fulbright Fellowship

Pamela Reyes Galgani, Fulbright Fellowship

Antonella Pappolla, Fulbright Fellowship

Choua Xiong, AAUW and Spencer Dissertation Award

Gabrielle Hernandez, 2020 Honored Instructor’s Award, University Housing, UW Madison

Huimin Wang, Spencer Dissertation Award

Jon Marino, Boren Fellowship

Regina Fuller, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholars Fellowship

Becca Meza, FLAS Scholarship

Kelsey Dalrymple, FLAS Scholarship

Khrysta Evans, 4W Women & Wellbeing Initiative’s Engagement Grant for Emerging Scholars

Qing Liu, Spencer Dissertation Award

Qing Liu, article published in the flagship journal: History of Education Quarterly

Tarsha Herelle, Department of Gender & Women’s Studies’ Mary Washburn Willets Award for Excellence in the Social Sciences

Tyler Hook, SSRC International Dissertation Research Fellowship

Yaa Ampofo, Planetary Health Graduate Scholarship

Linda Pheng, Barr Graduate Fellowship

Jennifer Otting, Center for Southeast Asian Studies Fellowship 

Matthew Farrelly, Top 10% Most Downloaded Article in Philosophy of Education

Matthew Farrelly, Summer Institute in Philosophy of Education

Eleni Schirmer, Zeidler award from the WI Labor History Society

Palmer Award: Eric Luckey

Kliebard Award

Fishman Award: Amato Nocera

Jiangnan Wang, Outstanding Education Studies Paper Award 

Mira Grinsfelder, Outstanding Research Paper in Education Studies

Tina Marshalek, Truman Scholar 

Aaron Kinard, McNair Scholar