April 2024
Nine ÐÜèÊÓÆµmembers, including ÐÜèÊÓÆµImmediate Past President Tyrone C. Howard, have been elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The ÐÜèÊÓÆµresearchers are among 250 other members elected. The was made by the Academy on April 24.
Joining Howard are ÐÜèÊÓÆµFellows Megan Bang (recipient of the ÐÜèÊÓÆµScholars of Color Mid-Career Contribution Award), Prudence Carter (ÐÜèÊÓÆµ2019 Brown Lecturer), Heather C. Hill, Ernest Morrell, and Sonia Nieto (recipient of the ÐÜèÊÓÆµScholars of Color Distinguished Career Contribution Award and ÐÜèÊÓÆµSocial Justice in Education Award). Along with Carter, Long served among AERA’s select distinguished Centennial Scholars.
The elected ÐÜèÊÓÆµmembers are:
The academy is an honorary society founded in 1780, which is dedicated to recognizing excellence and relying on expertise to advance the public good. New elected members are accomplished individuals from the nonprofit, private, and public sectors.
"ÐÜèÊÓÆµextends its warmest congratulations to these scholars for this honor," said Executive Director Felice J. Levine. "Their election into the academy brings important awareness to the field of education research and its applications to advancing the common good."
More than 14,500 members have been elected since the academy’s founding. Howard joins several other ÐÜèÊÓÆµpast presidents who are members of the academy, including, Deborah Loewenberg Ball, James A. Banks, Linda Darling-Hammond, Vivian L. Gadsden, Kris D. Gutiérrez, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Carol D. Lee, Na’ilah Suad Nasir, Lauren B. Resnick, Lee S. Shulman, Catherine E. Snow, William F. Tate IV, and Vanessa Siddle Walker.