Honors & Awards
Barbara Bashaw
(Ed.D. 鈥11, M.A. 鈥96), Arnhold Professor of Practice in Dance Education, Director of 罢颁鈥檚 Dance Education Doctoral Program, and Executive Director of Arnhold Institute for Dance Education Research, Policy & Leadership

(Ed.D. 鈥11, M.A. 鈥96), Arnhold Professor of Practice in Dance Education, Director of 罢颁鈥檚 Dance Education Doctoral Program, and executive director of the College鈥檚 newly launched Arnhold Institute for Dance Education Research, Policy & Leadership, is profiled as the cover story for Dance Teacher magazine鈥檚 March/April issue.
Alex Bowers
Associate Professor of Education Leadership

Associate Professor of Education Leadership, is appointed as an Associate Editor to Educational Administration Quarterly, the leading peer-reviewed research journal in education leadership. Bowers is also appointed to the editorial board for AERJ (the American Educational Research Journal), among the top global research journals in education.
Melanie Brewster
Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology, Co-Founder of Sexuality, Women, & Gender Project

Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology and Co-Founder of 罢颁鈥檚 Sexuality, Women, & Gender Project, receives the 2020 Fritz & Linn Kuder Early Career Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Counseling Psychology, given by Division 17 of the American Psychological Association to an early-career psychologist. Brewster is Director of Clinical Training for 罢颁鈥檚 Counseling Psychology Ph.D. program and directs identityLORE (Laboratory for Oppression, Resilience, and Empowerment).
Patricia Dye
Ph.D. student in Dance Education

A student in 罢颁鈥檚 Dance Education doctoral program, receives a 2020 Dance Teacher Award from Dance Teacher magazine. Dye directs the Dance Department at Science Skills High School for Science, Technology & the Creative Arts and the after-school Jow-Ile-Bailar Dance Company in Brooklyn. She is also a dance faculty member for Ballet Hisp谩nico and Lincoln Center鈥檚 Middle School Arts Audition Boot Camp.
Christopher Emdin
Associate Professor of Science Education

Associate Professor of Science Education and a pioneer in the field of hip hop pedagogy, is named to of 27 leaders who are 鈥渂ridging divides鈥 in the United States.
Ansley T. Erickson
Associate Professor of History & Education Policy, Co-Director of Center on History and Education

Associate Professor of History & Education Policy and Co-Director of 罢颁鈥檚 Center on History and Education, is named as an Associate Editor for the American Educational Research Journal.
Kenneth Graves
(Ph.D. 鈥19, M.A. 鈥13), Adjunct Professor at Klingenstein Center for Independent School Leadership

(Ph.D. 鈥19, M.A. 鈥13), Upper School Assistant Principal for Academic Life & Director of Studies at New York City鈥檚 Ethical Culture Fieldston School and Adjunct Professor at 罢颁鈥檚 , receives the Dissertation of the Year Award from the AERA Advanced Studies of National Databases SIG. Graves鈥檚 dissertation, titled 鈥淒isrupting the Digital Norm in the New Digital Divide: Toward a Conceptual and Empirical Framework of Technology Leadership for Social Justice through Multilevel Latent Class Analysis.鈥
Jeffrey Henig
Professor of Political Science & Education

Professor of Political Science & Education, receives the 2020 Dennis Judd Best Book Award, given by the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, for (Harvard Education Press 2019), along with his co-authors, Rebecca Jacobsen (Ph.D. 鈥07) and Sarah Reckhow, both of Michigan State University.
Sonya Douglass Horsford
Associate Professor of Education Leadership, Co-Director of Urban Education Leaders Program (UELP) in the Department of Organization & Leadership, Founding Director of Black Education Research Collective (BERC)

Associate Professor of Education Leadership, is elected Chair of both the AERA Politics of Education Association and Leadership for Social Justice Special Interest Groups. Horsford is Co-Director of 罢颁鈥檚 Urban Education Leaders Program (UELP) in the Department of Organization & Leadership and Founding Director of the Black Education Research Collective (BERC). Later in the year, Horsford also receives the 2020 Critics鈥 Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association for (co-authored with Janelle T. Scott and Gary L. Anderson).
Charmagne (Cha Cha) Jones
Student Senate Vice President, master鈥檚 degree student in Applied Physiology

麻豆原创 Student Senate Vice President Charmagne (Cha Cha) Jones, a master鈥檚 degree student in Applied Physiology, is named to receive The Campbell Award, given by the Columbia University Alumni Association for exceptional leadership and Columbia spirit.
Matthew Kautz
Ph.D. student in History & Education

A Ph.D. student in 罢颁鈥檚 History & Education program, is named a recipient of the National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship. Kautz鈥檚 dissertation project is titled 鈥淧unishing Promise: School Discipline and Carceral Expansion during the Era of Desegregation,鈥 focusing especially on Boston, Massachusetts.
Ioana Literat
Assistant Professor of Communication, Media & Learning Technologies Design

Assistant Professor of Communication, Media & Learning Technologies Design, receives the Early Career Award from AERA鈥檚 Media, Culture, & Learning Special Interest Group.
Janet Miller
Professor Emerita of English Education

Professor Emerita of English Education, is recognized at AERA鈥檚 2020 annual meeting, held virtually, with the conference session 鈥淟ight in Bleak Times: Reflections on Janet Miller鈥檚 Four Decades of Curriculum Theorizing and Praxis.鈥
Silvia Alves Nishioka
Ph.D. student in Counseling Psychology and Counseling Program Assistant

A fourth-year doctoral student in Counseling Psychology and Counseling Program Assistant, receives a Teachers College Student Leadership Award for her outstanding work as a student in the Student Support & Counseling team in Student Affairs, collaborating in the development and refining of the office鈥檚 operation.
Dimitri Papanagnou
Ph.D. student in Adult Learning & Leadership

A doctoral student in 罢颁鈥檚 Adult Learning & Leadership program, receives the Macy Faculty Scholars Award, provided by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation to fund projects that improve health by advancing the education and training of health professionals. For his project, Papanagnou 鈥 who is also an emergency medicine physician, professor and medical college associate dean 鈥 is developing a curriculum to help medical students and practitioners cope with the constant element of surprise in their work.
Alexa Rodriguez
Ph.D. student in History & Education

A Ph.D. student in 罢颁鈥檚 History & Education program, is named a recipient of the National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship. Rodriguez鈥檚 dissertation engages with social and transnational approaches to investigate the execution of education policies aimed at modernizing the Dominican Republic during the U.S. occupation from 1916 to 1924.
Amra Sabic-El-Rayess
Associate Professor of Practice in Education Policy & Social Analysis

Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Education Policy & Social Analysis, receives the 2020 Samuel Untermyer Award, given by the Untermyer Gardens Conservancy for reflecting the bravery of the award鈥檚 namesake, who was an advocate for stock market regulations, government ownership of railroads and various legal reforms. Subsequently, (Bloomsbury, 2020), a memoir by Sabic-El-Rayess, a survivor of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is named a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection and receives six starred reviews, reserved for books of exceptional quality.
Carrie Safron
Ph.D. student in Movement Sciences

A doctoral student in Movement Sciences, receives this year鈥檚 Lawrence F. Locke Graduate Student Paper Award from the Special Interest Group for Research on Learning and Instruction in Physical Education of the American Educational Research Association. Safron鈥檚 paper for AERA, of which she was the sole author, was titled
Frances Schoonmaker
(Ed.D. 鈥83), Professor Emerita of Education

(Ed.D. 鈥83), Professor Emerita of Education receives the Agatha Award for Best Middle Grade/Young Adult Mystery for her 2019 novel, The Last Crystal (book three of her The Last Crystal Trilogy, published by Auctus Publishers).
Laura Smith
Professor of Psychology & Education

Professor of Psychology & Education, is elected to Fellow status in the American Psychological Association by the APA Council of Representatives. Smith鈥檚 work focuses on social inclusion/exclusion and emotional well-being, social class and poverty, anti-racism and Whiteness, and participatory action research.
Phillip Smith
(Ph.D. 鈥19), Research Fellow with Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME), Program Director of Black Education Research Collective (BERC), Director of Reimagining Education Summer Institute (RESI)
(Ph.D. 鈥19), a graduate of 罢颁鈥檚 Education Leadership Program in the Department of Organization & Leadership, receives both the Outstanding Dissertation Award from AERA Division A and the Distinguished Dissertation Award from AERA Division G. Smith is a Research Fellow with 罢颁鈥檚 and also serves as Program Director of the College鈥檚 Black Education Research Collective (BERC) and Director of its Reimagining Education Summer Institute (RESI). His dissertation is titled 鈥淟eading While Black and Male: A Phenomenology of Black Male School Leadership.鈥
Thuy Hang Tran
Master鈥檚 student in Education Policy

A master鈥檚 degree student in Education Policy, is awarded a $10,000 Davis Project for Peace Fellowship to support her work building a youth after-school learning center and implementing a summer peace program in her home village in Vietnam.
Cally L. Waite
Associate Professor of History & Education

Associate Professor of History & Education and Director of the Social Science Research Council鈥檚 Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Program, is named one of six recipients of the Spencer Foundation鈥檚 2020 Mentor Awards.