Current NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellows
Current recipients of the NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship follow. To learn more about each project, click on the recipient’s name. Visit this page for more information about the NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship.
We Have Everything We Need: Ancestral Healing Informing Pathways to Collective Liberation in the Lives of Youth of Color
University of Colorado
Waterbearers Against the Dark: Black Women of the South Carolina Sea Islands and the (Re)Construction of Black Education
University of Maryland
Making Choices or Making Options? Race, Community, and Collective Action to Transform School Options
University of Chicago
The Revolutionary Power of Tradition: Educational Cadres in Village Schools and Decolonization
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Segregation Academies: The Impact of "Whites-Only" Private Schools
Boston University
Revising Roles, Transforming Trajectories: Evaluating Community College Baccalaureate Programs' Implications on Educational Access and Equity
University of California, Los Angeles
How Does Colombian Ethnoeducation Engage the Natural World as a More-Than-Human Pedagogical Partner?
University of Texas
Tejiendo Saberes: Indigenous Survivance Pedagogies as Digital World Practices
University of California, Santa Cruz
The Secondary Diaspora: Black Women in NCAA Division I Basketball
University at Buffalo, SUNY
Teacher Housing Initiatives: An Embedded Case Study of Race, Place, and the School-Housing Nexus
University of Colorado
Hoʻomalu ʻĀina Maui: A Critical Place-based Education Approach to Wildfire Mitigation and Land Stewardship
University of California, Davis
Combatting Hidden Ledgers: How Students (en)Counter Racialized Burdens in the Financial Aid Process
University of California, Davis
Archiving Brazilian Negritude: Oral History and Black Informal Education during the Military Dictatorship (1985)
Pennsylvania State University
Synthesizing Psychometrics and Causal Inference: Applications of Latent Variable Models to Treatment Heterogeneity, Psychological Networks, and Learning Transfer
Harvard University
Violent Crimes, Classroom Quality, and Child Learning and Development: Investigating the Effects of Community Violence on Education Outcomes
University of California, Irvine
Reconceptualizing Inclusion through the Lived Experiences of Disabled Students in Contexts of Forced Displacement: A Comparative Case Study
Teachers College, Columbia University
Uplifting Black Queer Youth Voices and Dreams in Education Safety Discourses
University of Wisconsin-Madison
How Public Housing Redevelopments Affect Local School Composition and Quality
Boston College
Exploring the Dynamics of a Culturally Sensitive School-Based Social-Emotional Learning Program for Rural Chinese Children: Evaluating Effectiveness, Mediators, and Moderators
University of Chicago
The social role of language education amidst ongoing conflict: Hebrew-language education for adult Palestinians in Jerusalem
New York University
Mission and Revolution. The Contentious Meanings of Catholicism, Secular Education, and Peasant Religiosity in Mexico's Post-revolutionary Educational Reform (1910-1940)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Water Futures: Black Relations with Water as Knowledge in Southeast North Carolina
University of Oregon
Teaching logic for social justice: Connecting advanced mathematics and logic to an abolitionist perspective
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Seeing Through Space: ASL Fluency and Spatial Cognition in Education
Gallaudet University
Teaching “The Spirit of Virginia”: History Curricula and the Long Civil Rights Movement, 1919-1965
Boston University
Problematizing the Panacea: Early Childhood Educators' Experiences, Perceptions, and Priorities in the Context of Californias’ Universal Preschool Rollout
University of California, Santa Cruz
From Seeds to Giant Sequoia Trees: Exploring the Formative role of Equitable Geoscience Pedagogy for Black womens’ thriving
Vanderbilt University
Resettlement Schools and the Sacred and Secular Politics of Korean Unification
Teachers College, Columbia University
Translating Ethnic Studies: Examining the Racial Literacies of Multilingual Newcomer Immigrant Youth and Their Ethnic Studies Teachers
Stanford University
Implementing Indigenous Studies Curriculum Standards: Case Studies of a Complicated Curricular Process
University of Oregon
Latinx Youth as AI Designers: Building Their Communities' Present and Future
University of California, Irvine
Becoming the “Mystical Unicorn”: Understanding the Racialized Illegality Experiences of Undocumented Asian College Students in California
University of California, Los Angeles
¡A Fandanguear!: Studying Son Jarocho Music Workshops as a Translingual Cultural Practice
University of California, Berkeley
Beyond exclusion: A historical examination of Chinese international student protests during the Chinese Exclusion Era (1882-1943)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign