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Distinguished Appointments
Robert Sutherland Visitorship, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, March 2022
Banks Center for Educational Justice 2021 Distinguished Summer Scholar, University of Washington, July 2021
Visiting Distinguished Professor in Residence, PhD in Practice, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, May 2019
Fellowships
Ford Foundation Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship
Cornell University, Fall 2011-Spring 2012
Writing Fellows Dissertation Fellowship
City College, City University of New York, Fall 2006-Spring 2008
Honors and Awards
Spencer Mentor Award 2022
Spencer Foundation, Chicago
Honorary Doctorate 2021
Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, British Colombia
Outstanding Contributions to Division B 2017
Division B: Curriculum Studies, American Educational Research Association
Outstanding Edited Volume 2015: Youth Resistance Research and Theories of Change (co-edited with K. Wayne Yang)
Division B: Curriculum Studies, American Educational Research Association
Early Career Award 2014
Committee on Scholars of Color in Education, American Educational Research Association
Critics Choice Book Award 2013: Urban Youth and School Pushout: Gateways, Get-aways, and the GED
American Educational Studies Association
Outstanding Book Award 2013: Urban Youth and School Pushout: Gateways, Get-aways, and the GED
Qualitative Research Special Interest Group, American Educational Research Association
Exemplary paper award 2012
Adult Education and Literacy Special Interest Group, American Educational Research Association