Senior Discussant: Ofelia García, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Wintre Foxworth Johnson, University of Pennsylvania
Examining the Racial Awareness and Literate Meaning Making Practices of First Grade African American Children in an Urban Community School
Postdoctoral Discussant: Keon McGuire, Arizona State University

Ashley Smith-Purviance, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Everyday Anti-Black Girl Violence: Surviving and Learning Amidst Persistent School Violence Among Middle School Black Girls
Postdoctoral Discussant: Vincent Willis, University of Alabama

Stephanie Toliver, University of Georgia
Speculative Herstories: A Narrative Analysis Study of Black Girls’ Afrofuturist Stories
Postdoctoral Discussant: Douglas Sperry, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College

Senior Discussant: Kim Warren, University of Kansas

Zita Dixon, Brandeis University
How Did a Racially Equitable Social Program Become and Stay a State Law?: A Critical Historical Case Study of the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge (SEEK) Policymaking Process and the Hidden Bureaucrats Who Made It Happen Using Critical Race Theory
Postdoctoral Discussant: Cristina Groeger, Lake Forest College

Sara Doolittle, University of Oklahoma
The Legal Battle for Schools: Oklahoma Territory and its Role in School Segregation Law
Postdoctoral Discussant: Maureen MacLeod, Mercy College

Mahasan Offutt-Chaney, University of California, Berkeley
Discipline for the “Educationally Deprived”: ESEA and the Punitive Function of Federal Education Policy 1965-1998
Postdoctoral Discussant: Jon Shelton, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

Kimberly Ransom, University of Michigan
There Are Children Here: Examining Black Childhood in Rosenwald Schools of Pickens County Alabama (1940-1969)
Postdoctoral Discussant: Derek Taira, University of Hawaii                                              

Senior Discussant: Megan Franke, University of California, Los Angeles

Anthony Hernandez, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Pockets of Opportunity: An Analysis of Leadership at Two-Year Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs)
Postdoctoral Discussant: Yader Lanuza, University of Miami

Timothy Monreal, University of South Carolina
Hecho en South Carolina: Latinx Teachers Made In, and (Re)making, the NuevoSouth
Postdoctoral Discussant: Maribel Santiago, Michigan State University

Alyssa Morley, Michigan State University  
Reimagining Teachers’ Work: The Everyday Creativity of Primary School Teachers in Malawi
Postdoctoral Discussant: Sharon Wolf, University of Pennsylvania

Senior Discussant: Richard Lehrer, Vanderbilt University 

Amelia Farid, University of California, Berkeley
Relations between Disciplinary Practices and Conceptual Understanding in Mathematics: Leveraging Definitional Practices to Support Students’ Fraction Understanding
Postdoctoral Discussant: David Weintrop, University of Maryland

Josephine Relaford-Doyle, University of California, San Diego
Exploring the Naturalness of Natural Numbers: Do Undergraduates’ Everyday Conceptualizations of Natural Number Match the Formal Characterization?
Postdoctoral Discussant: Denis Dumas, University of Denver

Senior Discussant: Amanda Tachine, Arizona State University   

Desiree Abu-Odeh, Columbia University
The Sexual Violence Problem and Anti-Violence Work on American College Campuses, 1950 to 2000
Postdoctoral Discussant: Vincent Willis, University of Alabama

Katherine Soojin Cho, University of California, Los Angeles
How Did We Get Here? Actually, We’ve Always Been: Exploring Institutional Responses to Campus Racism and Student Activism
Postdoctoral Discussant: Jon Shelton, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

Megan Nanney, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Gendered Possibilities in Higher Education: Transfeminism, Admissions Policies, and Student Experiences at Women’s Colleges
Postdoctoral Discussant: Keon McGuire, Arizona State University

Senior Discussant: Deborah Michaels, Grinnell College 

Aldo Anzures Tapia, University of Pennsylvania
The Promise of Language Planning in Indigenous Early Childhood Education in Mexico
Postdoctoral Discussant: Bethany Wilinski, Michigan State University

Marlén Rosas, University of Pennsylvania
Indigenous Education and Power in Highlands Ecuador: Political Literacy, Archives, Authority
Postdoctoral Discussant: Emma Elliott-Groves, University of Washington

Jenny Zhang, University of California, Berkeley
Literacy in Development Discourse and Practice: The Case of Literacy Boost in Rural and Urban Indonesia
Postdoctoral Discussant: Leah Durán, University of Arizona

Senior Discussant: Michael Feuer, The George Washington University 

Jesse Chanin, Tulane University
Activism, Power, and Backlash: The United Teachers of New Orleans (UTNO) from 1972 – Today
Postdoctoral Discussant: Jeremy Fiel, University of Arizona

Adam Edgerton, University of Pennsylvania
Worth the Partisan Political Battle? Teachers’ Collective Bargaining Agreements and Student Achievement
Postdoctoral Discussant: Di Xu, University of California, Irvine

Brittany Murray, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil
Reframing Parent Involvement: PTOs and the Impact of Parent Collectives on Educational Opportunity

Postdoctoral Discussant: Martina Rau, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Senior Discussant: Matt Diemer, University of Michigan

David McMillon, University of Chicago
A Complex Systems Approach to the School to Prison Pipeline
Postdoctoral Discussant: Chris Curran, University of Florida

Jie Min, Rice University
Neighborhood and Summer School Effects on Summer Learning
Postdoctoral Discussant: Ilana Umansky, University of Oregon

Cynthia Pollard, Harvard University  
Teaching, Learning, and Race: Identifying the Mechanisms Underlying Own- and Other-race Teacher Effects

Postdoctoral Discussant: Matthew Hirshberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Senior Discussant: Ebony McGee, Vanderbilt University 

Stephany RunningHawk Johnson, University of Oregon
Centering the Indigenous in Science Education
Postdoctoral Discussant: Anna Lees, Western Washington University

Hannah Nieman, University of Washington
Supporting Teachers to See and Treat Students as Mathematically Capable: An Examination of School-embedded Professional Learning
Postdoctoral Discussant: Shanyce Campbell, University of California, Irvine

Ashlyn Pierson, Vanderbilt University
Modeling and Modes: Broadening Participation in Science Practices for Emerging Bilinguals Postdoctoral Discussant: Diego Román, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Senior Discussant: Perla Gámez , Loyola University Chicago 

Janet Cerda, University of California, Los Angeles
Spanish and English Reading Growth Trajectories of Multilingual Students Enrolled in a Dual-Language Immersion Program: Impacts of Language Use, Motivational Processes, and Instructional Programming
Postdoctoral Discussant: Leah Durán, University of Arizona

Lily Fesler, Stanford University
Unpacking the Nudge: How Students Respond to Assistance from Remote College Counselors
Postdoctoral Discussant: Chris Curran, University of Florida

Kate Turetsky, Columbia University
When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Social: Building Stressed Students’ Social Networks Shapes Academic Persistence and Success
Postdoctoral Discussant: Leya Mathew, Ahmedabad University

Carly Robinson, Harvard University
I Believe I Can Connect: Improving Teacher-Student Relationships by Targeting Teachers’ Relational Self-Efficacy Beliefs
Postdoctoral Discussant: Maria Bolsinova, ActNext

Senior Discussant: Richard Murnane, Harvard University 

Siddhartha Biswas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
General Equilibrium Effects of Student Loans on the United States College Market
Postdoctoral Discussant: Alex Eble, Teachers College, Columbia University

Zachary Bleemer, University of California, Berkeley
Essays on the Ramifications of American Youths’ Postsecondary Schooling Decisions
Postdoctoral Discussant: Rachel Baker, University of California, Irvine

Michael Cassidy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Finding the Fit: Childhood Homelessness, Athletics, and the Microeconomics of Educational Performance
Postdoctoral Discussant: Jeremy Fiel, University of Arizona

Elise Dizon-Ross, Stanford University
The Effects of Low-Income Housing Development on School Segregation
Postdoctoral Discussant: Alex Eble, Teachers College, Columbia University

Senior Discussant: Ryan Gildersleeve, University of Denver                                        

Sherelle Ferguson, University of Pennsylvania
College Chutes and Ladders: How Undergraduates Navigate Contingencies and Institutional Demands
Postdoctoral Discussant: Rachel Baker, University of California, Irvine

Beth Hart, University of California, Davis
On the Verge: College Life in an Era of Precarity
Postdoctoral Discussant: Leya Mathew, Ahmedabad University

Senior Discussant: Frederick Erickson, University of California, Los Angeles

Maggie Dahn, University of California, Los Angeles
The Weaving of Artistic and Political Voice in Art Making about Social Issues
Postdoctoral Discussant: Martina Rau, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Joseph Maurer, University of Chicago
Learning and Teaching Musical Heritage in Immigrant Chicago
Postdoctoral Discussant: Emma Elliot-Groves, University of Washington

Senior Discussant: Ritty Lukose, New York University

Patrick Lewis, University of Chicago
Publics of Value: Youth, Language, and Higher Education in Turkey
Postdoctoral Discussant: Douglas Sperry, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College

Samiha Rahman, University of Pennsylvania
Black Muslim Freedom Dreams: Islamic Education, Migration, and Mobility in Senegal
Postdoctoral Discussant: Maryam Kashani, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Moodjalin Sudcharoen, University of Chicago
Childhoods of Anticipation: Schooling for “Alien Children” and the Imagination of a Thai National Future
Postdoctoral Discussant: Gabrielle Oliveira, Boston College

Senior Discussant: Hala Ghousseini, University of Wisconsin-Madison 

Michael Glass, Princeton University
Schooling Suburbia: The Politics of School Finance in Postwar Long Island
Postdoctoral Discussant: Hilary Falb Kalisman, University of Colorado

Thomas Loyd, Georgetown University
Black in the USSR: African students, Soviet empire, and the politics of global education during the Cold War, 1956-1976
Postdoctoral Discussant: W. Christopher Johnson, University of Toronto

Qiao Wen, Teachers College, Columbia University
Higher Education Expansion in China: Consequences for Students, Institutions, and Global Competitiveness in Science and Technology
Postdoctoral Discussant: North Cooc, University of Texas