Frankenberg named 2025 AERA Fellow

SSRI Associate Director Erica Frankenberg was recently named a 2025 American Educational Research Association Fellow. 

The AERA Fellows Program honors scholars for their exceptional contributions to, and excellence in, education research. Nominated by their peers, the 2025 Fellows were selected by the Fellows Committee and approved by the AERA Council, the association’s elected governing body. Frankenberg will be inducted during a ceremony at the 2025 Annual Meeting in Denver on April 24. With this cohort, there will be a total of 791 AERA Fellows.

“The 2025 AERA Fellows join a brilliant group of scholars, and they are most deserving of this honor,” said AERA Executive Director Felice J. Levine. “Their significant contributions to the education research field demonstrate the highest standards of academic excellence and scholarship.”

The 2025 AERA Fellows are:

• Roger Azevedo, University of Central Florida

• Aydin Bal, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Courtney Bell, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Catherine Bradshaw, University of Virginia

• Erica Frankenberg, Pennsylvania State University

• Liliana Garces, The University of Texas at Austin

• Louis M. Gomez, University of California, Los Angeles

• Mark Gooden, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Kimberly Griffin, University of Maryland

• Laura Hamilton, American Institutes for Research

• Joyce King, Georgia State University

• Cynthia Lewis, University of California, Santa Cruz

• Guofang Li, University of British Columbia

• Matthew Mayhew, The Ohio State University

• Ebony McGee, Johns Hopkins University

• Amanda Nickerson, University at Buffalo, SUNY

• KerryAnn O'Meara, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Erika Patall, University of Southern California

• Julie Posselt, University of Southern California

• Sadhana Puntambekar, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Kristen Renn, Michigan State University

• Deborah Rivas-Drake, University of Michigan

• Lucrecia Santibanez, University of California, Los Angeles

• William Smith, University of Utah

• Arianne Teherani, University of California San Francisco

• Linda Tillman, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• Alina von Davier, Duolingo

• Xueli Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Tara Yosso, University of California, Riverside