Awardees
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Year
Institution
Discipline
NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
¡A Fandanguear!: Studying Son Jarocho Music Workshops as a Translingual Cultural Practice
2025
University of California, Berkeley
Translingual Music Education
NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Research Development Award
¿Y este No Era el Sueño Americano?: Displaced Puerto Rican Mothers' Agency, Resiliency, and Resistance Post-Hurricane Maria
2020
University of Colorado Boulder
N/A
NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
'If Books Fail, Try Beauty': Gender, Consumption, and Higher Education in Uganda
2012
Temple University
Anthropology
NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
'Voodoo Economics': A Study of Competition and Regulation in New Orleans Schools
2013
University of California, Berkeley
Education
NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
"An Education in Democracy": Paraprofessionals in Schools, Communities, and the Labor Movement, 1965-1980
2014
Columbia University
History of Education
NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
"An Outstanding Teacher, Civic Leader, and Author”: The Education-Activism of Jane Dabney Shackelford
2024
Michigan State University
History
NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
"College Pride, Native Pride" and Education for Nation Building: Portraits of Native Students Navigating Freshman Year
2013
Harvard University
Education
NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
"From Every Shade of Brown and Back; That Includes Black": A Critical Ethnographic Study of Racial-Spatial Politics and Pedagogies at an Urban School
2022
University of California, Los Angeles
Education
NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship
"Human Capital"?: Education, Economic Opportunity, and the Roots of the Twenty-first Century Political Divide in America
2019
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
N/A
NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
"Is this even worth it"?: Examining Mental Health Among Undocumented College Students in California
2023
University of California, Irvine
Sociology
NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
"It?s Just Our Brilliance, Uncut and Raw": The Transformative Power of a Black Teacher Fugitive Space
2022
Stanford University
Black Education
NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship
"My Story is Different"?: Centering Women of Color Student Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault
2020
University of California, Los Angeles
Higher Education
NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship
"Now We Are Here": The Impacts of Forced Family Separation at the U.S.-Mexico Border on Children's Education Experiences
2019
Harvard University
Anthropology
NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
"Those Who Wear Black Dresses": A History of Catholicism at St. Francis Mission School
2023
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
History
NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
"We, on the Other Side": Black Diaspora and Education in the Lusophone World, 1950s-1980s
2023
University of California, Berkeley
History
NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
“Arise Ghana Youth for your Country”: A Study of Young People’s Learning and Life-making Pathways amid Socio-Ecological Crisis in Ghana
2024
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Comparative Education
NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship
“I don’t know how I can do engineering and feel like I’m impacting my community”: A Comparative Case Study of the Cultural Production of Political Identity for Undergraduate Students of Color in Engineering and Computer Science.
2018
Northwestern University
Education
NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
“I’ve always had the abolitionist spirit in me”: Novice Teachers of Color, A Community of Abolitionist Praxis, & Pedagogies of Abolitionist Praxis
2024
Stanford University
Teacher Education/Teaching and Learning
NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
“In Real Life, You Have to Speak Up”: Civic Implications of Behavior Management in a No-Excuses Charter School
2016
The State University of New Jersey
N/A
NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
“MidAmerica Meets Mideast”: Arab American Identity Formation in Dearborn Schools, 1980 - 2001
2024
University of Wisconsin-Madison
History of Education