Bianca Baldrige, Harvard University
Nelson Flores, University of Pennsvylania
Ozan Jaquette, University of California, Los Angeles

Nicole Panorkou, Montclair State University
Derek Taira, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Nancy Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania
Leigh Patel, University of Pittsburgh

Senior Discussant: Nancy Beadie, University of Washington
Session Chair: Darris Means, University of Pittsburgh 

Matthew Gardner Kelly, Pennsylvania State University
Taxing Inequality: The Rise of District Property Taxation and the Making of Educational Inequality, 1830-1950

T. Philip Nichols, Baylor University
The Mediated Mind: Cold War Politics, Human Ecology, and the Making of ‘Media Literacy’

Senior Discussant: Thomas Bailey, Teachers College, Columbia University
Session Chair: Russell Rumberger, University of California, Santa Barbara

Tolani Britton, University of California, Berkeley
Postsecondary Educational Trajectories of Formerly Incarcerated Persons

Joe Curnow, University of Manitoba
Learning from, with, and towards Abolitionist Imaginaries

Adela Soliz, Vanderbilt University                                     
Understanding the Effect of State Investments in Community and Technical Colleges

Senior Discussant: Timothy San Pedro, The Ohio State University
Session Chair: Conra Gist, University of Houston

Kelsey Dayle John, University of Arizona
Ask the Horses: Considerations for Indigenous Animal Methodologies

Nicholas Limerick, Teachers College, Columbia University     
Contesting Expertise and the Struggle over Institutionalized Indigenous Education in Ecuador

Senior Discussant: Christopher Lubienski, Indiana University
Session Chair: Rosalind Horowitz, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Elena Aydarova, Auburn University                   
“Science of Reading” Reforms and Teacher Education Policies: Interactions Among Advocacy Coalitions and Policymakers

Roseann Liu, Wesleyan University                                         
The Color of Money: Why Racial Equity in School Funding is So Difficult to Achieve

Carrie Sampson, Arizona State University
The Politics of District Governance and Equity among BIPOC School Board Members

Senior Discussant: Benjamin Justice, Rutgers University
Session Chair: Geoff Saxe, University of California, Berkeley

Charles H. F. Davis III, University of Michigan                         
Advancing Community-Centered Understandings of Safety: A Digital Ethnography of #PoliceFreePenn

Diana Rodriguez-Gomez, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Schooling in (Il)legal Economies: A Comparative Study of Educational Experiences in the Midst of the Drug War

Senior Discussant: Yong Zhao, University of Kansas
Session Chair: Lois Weis, University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Susannah C. Davis, University of New Mexico                       
Resistance as Engagement in Self, Institutional, and Social Transformation (RESIST): Understanding Agency in Individual and Collective Learning and Change

Bayley Marquez, University of Maryland
Teaching Slavery and Settlement: Plantation Pedagogy in Currents of Conquest

Blanca Vega, Montclair State University
Higher Education and Student Affairs (HESA) Administrators’ Experiences with Undocumented Students and Related State Policies

Senior Discussant: Margarita Azmitia, University of California, Santa Cruz
Session Chair: Lorrie Shepard, University of Colorado Boulder

Maria Magdalena Isac, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Culturally Inclusive Schools: Celebrating Diversity, Teaching Common Values and Fostering Intercultural Competence Among Youth    

David Liebowitz, University of Oregon
Rethinking Principal Effects on Student Outcomes

Ericka Weathers, University of Pennsylvania
Under or Over Representation of Black Students in Special Education? An Exploration of Special Education Decision Points

Hye-Young Yun, University of California, Los Angeles
Supporting Victims of School Bullying: What Types of Help are Beneficial?

Senior Discussant: Arnetha Ball, Stanford University
Session Chair: Darris Means, University of Pittsburgh

Natalie Davis, Georgia State University                           
Leveraging Black Children’s Sociopolitical Understandings in Justice-Oriented Elementary Teaching

Justin Grinage, University of Minnesota                                   
Racial Melancholia and Education: A Critical Ethnographic Study of Racism, Trauma, and Resistance in the Aftermath of Tragedy in Minneapolis

Seanna Leath, University of Virginia                                     
Towards a Developmental Model of Thriving: Bridging Academic, Social, and Psychological Wellbeing among Black College Women to Increase STEM Retention

Senior Discussant: Megan Franke, University of California, Los Angeles
Sesssion Chair: Geoff Saxe, University of California, Berkeley

Michela Musto, University of British Columbia
Constructing Exceptionalism: How Schools Shape Middle Schoolers’ Beliefs About Intelligence

Xiaoming Zhai, University of Georgia 
Does AI Have a Bias? A Critical Examination of Scoring Bias of Machine Algorithms on Students from Underrepresented Groups in STEM

Senior Discussant: Adam Laats, Binghamton University
Session Chair: Ofelia Garcia, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Dara Walker, Pennsylvania State University                             
High School Rebels: Black Power, Education, and Youth Politics in the Motor City, 1966-1973

Yidi Wu, Elon University                                                        
Activism in Bloom: Campus Dissent in 1957 and China’s Century of Student Protests

Pengfei Zhao, University of Florida                                     
Changing Fate: The Cultural Revolution’s Rural Youth in Transition to Post-Mao China