Past Award Winners
Jean Flanigan Outstanding Dissertation Award | Early Career Award | Policymaker & Practitioner Award | Advancing Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Award | CUE Higher Education Award | Outstanding Service Award | Thomas A. Downes Best Paper Award | EFP Anonymous Reviewer Award | New Scholar Award
Jean Flanigan Outstanding Dissertation Award
2024 | Christopher Saldaña, Maria Adelaida Martinez Cabrera |
2023 | Sooji Kim (Honorable Mention: Brian Heseung Kim) |
2022 | Zachary Bleemer (Honorable Mention: Kylie Anglin) |
2021 | Christine Mulhern (Honorable Mention: Riley Acton and Camila Morales) |
2020 | Xiaoyang Ye (Honorable Mention: Laura Bellows) |
2019 | Julien Lafortune (Honorable Mention: Tolani Britton) |
2018 | Drew Atchison (Honorable Mention: Oded Gurantz and Elizabeth Setren) |
2017 | David Blazar |
2016 | Jeff Denning, Sarah Cohodes |
2015 | Anjali Adukia (Honorable Mention: Erika Greenberg) |
2014 | Chloe Gibbs (Honorable Mention: Matthew Kraft and Josh Hyman) |
2013 | Rajeev Darolia |
2012 | Phuong Nguyen (Honorable Mention: Eleanor Fulbeck and Cassandra Hart) |
2011 | Daphna Bassok |
2010 | Celeste K. Carruthers |
2009 | Justin Smith |
2008 | Emily Pas Isenberg, Scott Imberman (Honorable Mention: Louis-Philiipe Morin) |
2007 | Daniel W. Player |
2006 | Debbi C. Harris |
2005 | Randall Reback (Honorable Mention: Dylan Conger) |
2004 | Sean P. Corcoran |
2003 | Robert Bifulco, Tana Bishop, and Patrice Iatarola |
2002 | Anthony Rolle |
2001 | Jennifer Imazeki, Anna Lukemeyer, and Patrick J. McEwan |
2000 | Susanna Loeb and Corrine H. Taylor |
1999 | Nicola A. Alexander and Donald R. Tetreault |
1998 | Brian O. Brent, Gloria M. Rodriguez, and Ross H. Rubenstein |
1997 | Christopher Forbes Roellke |
1996 | Sheila E. Murray |
1995 | James Michael Garris, Theodore R. Gilkey, and Susan Robinson Summers |
1994 | Mary Jane Guy and Linda Hertert |
1993 | Linda Sue Geary and Joseph Michael O'Loughlin |
1992 | Patrick F. Galvin |
1991 | Teresa S. Lyons and Phillip McKenzie |
1990 | Eirikur Hilmarsson and Neil Theobald |
1989 | Michael F. Addonizio and Bruce T. Fraser |
1988 | Sharon F. Fischer and Stephen L. Jacobson |
1987 | Robert W. Ruch and Frederick D. Saul, Jr. |
1986 | Curtis A. Smith |
1985 | Betty Malen and John Strudwick |
1984 | John L. Myroon and Deborah A. Verstegen |
1983 | Robert A. Lee, Bettye MacPhail-Wilcox, and Richard A. Zollinger |
1982 | Katsuji Okachi and Mark Shugoll |
1981 | Catherine Batsche, Gayden Carruth, and Douglas Swift |
1980 | Doris Kling, Thomas R. Merchler, and Douglas Swift |
1979 | Robert P. Knight, David B. Kret, Douglas W. Otto, and Catherine Putnam |
1978 | J. Placido Garcia, Jr., Paul Herche, Marilyn A. Hopkins, Richard A. King, and Theodore S. Sergi |
Early Career Award
2024 | Alejandro Ganimian |
2023 | Tolani Britton |
2022 | Roddy Theobald |
2021 | Dominique Baker |
2020 | Eric Taylor |
2019 | Di Xu |
2018 | Christina Weiland |
2017 | Lindsay Page |
2016 | John Papay |
2015 | David Deming |
Policymaker & Practitioner Award
2024 | Anjali Desai, Claire Johnson Abbott (Honorable Mention: Kayla Bill) |
2023 | David Evans |
2022 | Jenna Conway & Jason Sachs |
Advancing Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Award
2024 | Ayesha Hashim |
2023 | Anjali Adukia |
CUE Higher Education Award
2023 | Laura Perna |
2022 | Judith Scott-Clayton |
2021 | Sue Dynarski |
Outstanding Service Award
2024 | Lydia Ross |
2023 | Carrie Conaway |
2022 | Joyce Levenson |
2021 | Lawrence O. Picus |
2020 | Amy Ellen Schwartz |
2019 | Angela Hull |
2018 | Robert Goertz |
2017 | Susanna Loeb |
2016 | Carolyn Herrington |
2015 | Helen Ladd |
2014 | Dan Goldhaber |
2013 | James Wyckoff |
2012 | Thomas Downes |
2011 | Jewell Gould |
2010 | David Figlio |
2009 | James Guthrie |
2008 | Jay Chambers |
2007 | Richard Rothstein |
2006 | Edwin E. Steinbrecher |
2005 | Leanna Stiefel |
2004 | Henry M. Levin |
2003 | David Monk |
2002 | Van D. Mueller |
2001 | Margaret E. Goertz |
2000 | Eugene P. McLoone |
1999 | Robert Berne |
1998 | Allan R. Odden |
1997 | William J. Fowler, Jr. |
1996 | Will S. Meyers |
1995 | Bettye MacPhail-Wilcox |
1994 | Kern Alexander |
1993 | Richard A. Rossmiller |
1992 | G. Alan Hickrod |
1991 | Arthur E. Wise |
1990 | K. Forbis Jordan |
1989 | George R. Babigian |
1988 | H. Thomas James |
1987 | Charles S. Benson |
1986 | William P. McClure |
1985 | Roe L. Johns |
Thomas A. Downes Best Paper Award
2024 | Sarah Fuller, Douglas Lauen, Fatih Unlu |
2023 | Sarah Komisarow |
2022 | Drew Atchison, Kristina L. Zeiser, Salma Mohammed, David S. Knight, and Jesse Levin |
2021 | Beth Schueler |
2020 | Christina LiCalsi, Umut Özek, David Figlio |
2019 | Elizabeth Friedman, Michael Hill, and Cassandra Hart |
2018 | Joshua Hyman |
2017 | Seth Gershneson |
EFP Anonymous Reviewer Award
2024 | Olivia Chi, Brennan Mange, Krista Ruffini |
2023 | Brendan Bartanen |
2022 | Lucy Sorenson |
2021 | Daniel Mangrum |
2020 | Michel Grosz |
New Scholar Award
2021 | Danielle Sanderson Edwards, Lena Shi |
2020 | Heather McCambly, Camila Morales |
2019 | Nicholas Wright, Brendan Bartanen |
2018 | Paul Bruno, Cameron Anglum, Xiaoyang Ye |
2017 | Rachel White, Ayesha Hashim, Luis A. Rodriguez |
2016 | Emily Kern, Elizabeth Friedmann, Zachary Mabel |
2015 | Alex Smith, Melinda Adnot, Michael Naretta |
2014 | Di Xu |
2013 | Andrew Barr, Sa Bui |
2012 | Pre-doctoral award: Niu Gao, Pre-doctoral award honorable mention: Quentin Brummet Post-doctoral award: Steven Hemelt |
2011 | Elizabeth Dhuey, Rekha Balu, Justin Smith |
2010 | Seth Gershenson |
2009 | Jason Fletcher, Lawrence Miller |
2008 | Scott Imberman, Michael Goetz |
2007 | Kaviat Mittapalli, Katharine O. Strunk |
2006 | Colin Chellman, Ashley Raduege Broer |
2005 | Daniel Player |
2004 | Eric Isenberg |
2003 | KyungHee Lee |
2002 | Randall Reback |
2001 | Doctoral: Bruce Baker Pre-doctoral: Frank Papa, Lisa Ray, Mary Harris, Rebecca Gates |
2000 | Doctoral: Ron Zimmer with John Jones, Chris Roelke Pre-doctoral: Robert Bifulco |
1999 | Doctoral: Jennifer King Rice, Julie Berry Cullen, Brian O. Brent Pre-doctoral: Sharon B. Whigham, Jeff E. Hoyt, Kieran M. Killeen, Samid Hussain |
1998 | Doctoral: Michael Petko, Yasser Nakib, Michelle Moser with Ross Rubenstein Masters: Jonathan Travers |
1997 | David Figlio, Lois Yachetta, Richard Phelps, Sarah Burke |
1996 | Jaekyung Lee, Gail Sunderman, J. Russell Higham |
1995 | Rick Fenner, Gloria J. Murray, Catherine Sielke |
1993/4 | Nicola Alexander, Laura Argus with Daniel Rees, Thomas Downes with Mona Shan |
1991 | Pat Galvin |