Honors & Awards
Barbara Bashaw
(Ed.D. ’11, M.A. ’96), Arnhold Professor of Practice in Dance Education, Director of TC’s Dance Education Doctoral Program, and Executive Director of Arnhold Institute for Dance Education Research, Policy & Leadership
(Ed.D. ’11, M.A. ’96), Arnhold Professor of Practice in Dance Education, Director of TC’s Dance Education Doctoral Program, and executive director of the College’s newly launched Arnhold Institute for Dance Education Research, Policy & Leadership, is profiled as the cover story for Dance Teacher magazine’s 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 TC’s 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 TC’s 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 TC’s 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 Hispánico and Lincoln Center’s 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 Time magazine’s list of 27 leaders who are “bridging divides” 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 TC’s Center on History and Education, is named as an Associate Editor for the American Educational Research Journal.
Kenneth Graves
(Ph.D. ’19, M.A. ’13), Adjunct Professor at Klingenstein Center for Independent School Leadership
(Ph.D. ’19, M.A. ’13), Upper School Assistant Principal for Academic Life & Director of Studies at New York City’s Ethical Culture Fieldston School and Adjunct Professor at TC’s Klingenstein Center for Independent School Leadership, receives the Dissertation of the Year Award from the AERA Advanced Studies of National Databases SIG. Graves’s dissertation, titled “Disrupting 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.”
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 Outside Money in School Board Elections: The Nationalization of Education Politics (Harvard Education Press 2019), along with his co-authors, Rebecca Jacobsen (Ph.D. ’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 TC’s 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’ Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association for The Politics of Education Policy in an Era of Inequality: Possibilities for Democratic Schooling (co-authored with Janelle T. Scott and Gary L. Anderson).
Charmagne (Cha Cha) Jones
Student Senate Vice President, master’s degree student in Applied Physiology
TC Student Senate Vice President Charmagne (Cha Cha) Jones, a master’s 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 TC’s History & Education program, is named a recipient of the National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship. Kautz’s dissertation project is titled “Punishing Promise: School Discipline and Carceral Expansion during the Era of Desegregation,” 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’s Media, Culture, & Learning Special Interest Group.
Janet Miller
Professor Emerita of English Education
Professor Emerita of English Education, is recognized at AERA’s 2020 annual meeting, held virtually, with the conference session “Light in Bleak Times: Reflections on Janet Miller’s Four Decades of Curriculum Theorizing and Praxis.”
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’s operation.
Dimitri Papanagnou
Ph.D. student in Adult Learning & Leadership
A doctoral student in TC’s 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 — who is also an emergency medicine physician, professor and medical college associate dean — 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 TC’s History & Education program, is named a recipient of the National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship. Rodriguez’s 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’s namesake, who was an advocate for stock market regulations, government ownership of railroads and various legal reforms. Subsequently, The Cat I Never Named: A True Story of Love, War, and Survival (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’s 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’s paper for AERA, of which she was the sole author, was titled “Affective Bodies: Scrapbooks, Health and Fitness in an Urban After-School Program.”
Frances Schoonmaker
(Ed.D. ’83), Professor Emerita of Education
(Ed.D. ’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’s 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. ’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. ’19), a graduate of TC’s 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 TC’s Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME) and also serves as Program Director of the College’s Black Education Research Collective (BERC) and Director of its Reimagining Education Summer Institute (RESI). His dissertation is titled “Leading While Black and Male: A Phenomenology of Black Male School Leadership.”
Thuy Hang Tran
Master’s student in Education Policy
A master’s 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’s Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Program, is named one of six recipients of the Spencer Foundation’s 2020 Mentor Awards.