Highly regarded School of Education faculty members Li Chiao-Ping, Robert Enright, and Stacey Lee were appointed to prestigious WARF Named Professorships, UW–Madison announced on May 12.
These awards are made possible because of the research efforts of UW–Madison faculty and staff. Technology that arises from these efforts is licensed by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), and the income from successful licenses is returned to the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education. It’s used to fund research activities throughout the divisions on campus, including these awards.
Li (Dance Department), Enright (Department of Educational Psychology), and Lee (Department of Educational Policy Studies) are three of 11 faculty members receiving the WARF Named Professorships, which come with $100,000. These professorships honor faculty members who have made major contributions to the advancement of knowledge, primarily through their research endeavors, but also as a result of their teaching and service activities. Award recipients choose the names associated with their professorships.
Following are short bios released by the university, including each faculty member’s newly named professorship:
• Li Chiao-Ping, Sally Banes Professor of Dance, focuses on issues of social justice and equality, pushing the boundaries of traditional dance by working against gender norms and classical techniques. She has developed a highly personal statement and style and an ongoing element of her work is the negotiation of tradition and innovation, which stems from her cultural history and social environment. She is artistic director of Li Chiao-Ping Dance.
• Robert Enright, Aristotelian Professorship in Forgiveness Science, studies educational psychology and is a licensed psychologist. He is co-founder of the International Forgiveness Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to sharing knowledge about forgiveness and community renewal through forgiveness. Enright pioneered the scientific study of forgiveness, integrating philosophy, psychology, and psychotherapeutic themes into the work. He is often introduced as “the father of forgiveness research.”
• Stacey Lee, Frederick Erickson Professor of Educational Policy Studies, is an educational anthropologist, using anthropological approaches to explore the role of formal and informal education in incorporating immigrant youth into the United States. She was one of the earliest education scholars to offer a critical, socio-cultural analysis of the racialization of Asian American students in U.S. schools. She is currently exploring the way Asian American communities navigate broader racial contexts through their educational advocacy.
To learn about all of this year’s awardees, check out this report from University Communications.
Kaplan, Clark recognized with UW–Madison Hilldale Awards
David Kaplan and Laurie Beth Clark were honored in April with UW–Madison Hilldale Awards for their distinguished contributions to research, teaching, and service.
Each year, the Secretary of the Faculty recognizes four professors from across campus for these major awards, which have been given annually since the 1986-87 academic year. One faculty member each from the arts and humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, and biological sciences is selected from nominations by department chairs. The winners are awarded $7,500.
Kaplan is the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods in the Department of Educational Psychology and is an international expert in applying Bayesian statistics to educational research. This branch of statistics provides realistic and evolving understandings of probabilities, and Kaplan has applied his work to educational assessments. His research has improved the design and analysis of influential educational assessments both in the U.S. and across the globe.
“Professor Kaplan is one of the most accomplished and recognized figures within the educational statistics community,” says James Wollack, professor and chair of the Department of Educational Psychology. “All the more wonderful is that Professor Kaplan is an extraordinary colleague; he is generous with his time and expertise and is passionate about helping to create an hospitable and enriching environment for our faculty, staff, and students.”
Clark is a professor of non-static forms with the Art Department, and over the course of her 35-year career, Clark has established herself as a productive and innovative scholar, researcher, and performer in wide-ranging artistic disciplines. Her work, which blends artistic media and focuses on socially mindful collaborations, has been featured in more than 200 exhibitions, performances, and events in 47 countries on six continents. As a pioneer in what are known as non-static forms, which blend video, performance and installation, Clark developed all-original curricula for UW–Madison art courses in this field when she joined the university in 1985.
“Clark is a passionate, committed, and innovative teacher and has a stellar service record both on campus and internationally,” writes professor and chair of the Art Department Douglas Rosenberg. “She has engaged deeply to make the university a better place, from the smallest personal interaction to the larger challenge of juggling artmaking, scholarly research and publication, teaching, and administrative responsibilities.”
To learn more about all of this year’s award winners, check out this report from University Communications.
Burt inducted into Martin Luther King Jr. Collegium of Scholars
Brian Burt was inducted into the Martin Luther King Jr. Collegium of Scholars during a ceremony on March 26 at the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College.
Induction into the Martin Luther King Jr. College of Ministers & Laity honors individuals at various career stages and across a wide spectrum of influence who have shown commitment to the adaptive faithful servant-scholar moral cosmopolitan leadership tradition and selfless service to humanity, in tribute to King.
“I am extremely humbled by this recognition,” says Burt, an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, and a research scientist with Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory.
Burt’s scholarship in the area of diversity, equity, and inclusion is in part an extension of the important efforts King led as a pioneer and advocate in this domain, inspiring generations of people.
Having received multiple awards and recognitions, Burt is an accomplished researcher who uses qualitative methodological approaches to study the experience of graduate students and the institutional policies and practices that influence students’ pathways.
His current research falls into two strands: understanding team-based science and exploring the experiences of underrepresented graduate students of color in engineering. Through his research, Burt seeks to provide new ways to understand science participation and the experiences that might promote or turn students away from science pathways.
“Dr. Burt’s recent recognition into the Martin Luther King Jr. Collegium of Scholars is a testament as to why the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis sought to bring him to UW–Madison,” says Jerlando Jackson, the Vilas Distinguished Professor of Higher Education who chairs the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, and leads the Wei LAB. “Likewise, his contributions across the university and School of Education, including the Wei LAB, over the next several decades, promises to make this a special place to work and learn.”
Three receive NAEd/Spencer fellowships and awards
The National Academy of Education (NAEd) announced the recipients of its 2020 Dissertation Fellowships, and Research Development Awards in a news release posted on June 10.
And once again, scholars within UW–Madison’s School of Education were well represented in this annual announcement.
Faculty members Jordan A. Conwell (Department of Educational Policy Studies) and Diego Román (Department of Curriculum and Instruction) were named NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellows, while Kathryn Kirchgasler (Department of Curriculum and Instruction) received an NAEd/Spencer Research Development Award.
The 30 Postdoctoral Fellowships were selected from a pool of 229 early-career scholars and provide winners $70,000 to focus on their research and attend professional development retreats. The Research Development Awardees were chosen from the pool of 2020 NAEd/Spencer Dissertation and Postdoctoral semifinalists. The award will provide these scholars with a research stipend and will fund them to attend the 2020 NAEd/Spencer Fall Fellows Retreat and Annual Meeting, and the 2021 AERA Annual Meeting.
The program provides funding and professional development to early-career researchers whose projects address critical issues in the history, theory, or practice of formal or informal education, at the national and international levels.
Conwell is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Department of Educational Policy Studies at UW–Madison. His research focuses on trends in and consequences of racial, social class, and gender inequality in education, with a particular interest in the multigenerational roles of families and finances in these educational processes, as inputs for children and as outputs for adults. Conwell’s work that’s being funded is titled, “All in the Family: New Perspectives on the Returns to College Quality.”
Román is an assistant professor in bilingual/bicultural education within the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. research interests are located at the intersection of applied linguistics, bilingual education, and science education. Specifically, he investigates the implicit and explicit ideologies reflected in the design and implementation of bilingual and science education programs, particularly on how environmental topics are taught to multilingual students. Román’s work being funded it titled, “The Role of Language in Teaching Local Environmental Issues to Emergent Bilingual Latinx Students in Wisconsin.”
Kirchgasler is an assistant professor of science education with the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Her work investigates relations of power, inequity, and exclusion in STEM, health, and environmental education, with a focus on these fields’ underexamined histories of racialization and coloniality. Kirchgasler’s work that’s being funded is titled, “Tracking by Triage: How Science Education Began Dividing Populations by Perceived Health Needs.”
School of Education recognizes top faculty and staff
The School of Education’s highly regarded national reputation is due, in large part, to the dedication and talent of its faculty, staff, and students.
In April, the School congratulated the recipients of its 2020 Distinguished Achievement Awards:
• Ann Wallace Distinguished Academic Staff Award — Mariana Castro, Wisconsin Center for Education Research
• University Staff Distinguished Achievement Award — Greg Dierks, Department of Kinesiology
• Award for Community-Engaged Scholarship — Annalee Good, Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative
• Dick & Julie Daly Award for Education Student Staff Achievement — Lauren Hoffarth, Morgridge Center for Public Service
• University Staff Distinguished Achievement Award — Jacob Leonard, Department of Educational Policy Studies
• Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award — Fredrick Stonehouse, Art Department
• Ann Wallace Academic Staff Distinguished Achievement Award — Beth Tryon, Morgridge Center for Public Service
• Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award — Xueli Wang, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis
• Excellence in Diversity Award — Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis
To learn much more about all of this year’s award winners, check out this 2020 Distinguished Achievement Awards web page.
Around the School …
• David Bell this spring received the National Achievement Award for Athletic Trainers from the Pediatric Research in Sports Medicine Society (PRiSM). Bell is a national leader in examining the risks associated with sports specialization and youth athletics. He is an associate professor with the Department of Kinesiology‘s athletic training program, and director of the Wisconsin Injury in Sport Laboratory (WISL). He was honored for his outstanding contributions in the education of providers in the field of youth sports medicine nationwide.
• Jeremy Stoddard and Diana Hess are co-authors of a report that received the Outstanding Paper Award from the American Educational Research Association’s Social Studies Research special interest group (SIG). Stoddard, the lead author, is an associate professor with the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, while Hess is dean of the School and the Karen A. Falk Distinguished Chair of Education. Paul Fitchett, with the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, is also a co-author. Their paper being recognized is titled, “Teaching about the 2018 mid-term elections: A national survey of social studies teachers.”
• Jerlando Jackson is the co-author of a report that received a best paper recognition at the 2020 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT) Conference. Jackson is the Vilas Distinguished Professor of Higher Education and chair of the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis. He also is the director and chief research scientist of Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory. The paper being recognized is titled, “The iAAMCS Ecosystem: Retaining Blacks/African-Americans in CS PhD Programs.” (View the report here.) Co-authors on the report are Jeremy Waisome and Juan Gilbert, both with the University of Florida’s Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering.
• Carlyn Mueller was selected to receive an Outstanding Dissertation Award from an American Educational Research Association (AERA) special interest group (SIG). She was recognized by the Special and Inclusive Education Research SIG for her dissertation, “Beyond Stigma: Disability Identity in School Contexts.” Mueller, whose research is informed by her personal experience as a disabled scholar, will be joining the School of Education prior to the fall 2020 semester as an assistant professor with the Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education.
• Lisa Gralnick was recognized by the American Craft Council (ACC) as a 2020 College of Fellows Honoree. According to an ACC news release, Gralnick “is a contemporary American metalsmith, studio jeweler, and academic whose work challenges the monetary, cultural, and personal value of objects by transforming metals into objects of thought provoking visual beauty.” She has been a faculty member with the School of Education’s Art Department since 2001.
• Diana Rodríguez Gómez this spring was named the winner of the 2020 Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP) Junior Faculty Teaching Award. Rodríguez Gómez is a native of Colombia who became an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy Studies in January 2019.
• Each May, the UW–Madison Division of the Arts celebrates artistic achievement, recognizes service to the arts, and supports arts research by bestowing the Awards in the Creative Arts. And once again, artists associated with the School of Education were recipients of these honors. Fred Stonehouse received the Creative Arts Award and Leslie Smith III was recognized with the Emily Mead Baldwin Award in the Creative Arts. Nominations for these awards are juried by a panel of seven previous recipients of the Awards and campus arts research administrators.
• The School of Education’s Erica Halverson and Kate Vieira are two of 13 faculty members from across campus to be recognized with a 2020 UW–Madison Distinguished Teaching Award, which are designed to recognize the university’s finest educators. Halverson, who was honored with a Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, is a professor with the School of Education’s highly ranked Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Vieira, an associate professor with the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and the Susan J. Cellmer Distinguished Chair in Literacy, received a Van Hise Outreach Teaching Award.
• A book from John Rudolph, a professor and chair of the Department of Curriclum and Instruciton, was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2019. Rudolph’s book is titled, “How We Teach Science: What’s Changed, and Why It Matters,”which was published by Harvard University Press.
• Nicole Louie received the Early Career Publication Award from the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Research in Mathematics Education Special Interest Group (SIG). Louie, an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction, was honored for her 2018 paper, “Culture and ideology in mathematics teacher noticing,” published in the journal Educational Studies in Mathematics.
• Diego Román was selected as a 2020 Somos Profssional Development Award recipient, alongside Katya Garza, a junior CLS certificate student majoring in neurobiology and Spanish. Román is an assistant professor with the No. 1-ranked Department of Curriculum and Instruction. He received the award, given by UW–Madison’s Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Program, for a project titled “Are bilingual books being written for Latinx children? Examining authors’ uses of Spanish-English translanguaging in children’s fiction books.”
• Natalie Zervou received the First Book Program award through the Center of the Humanities at UW–Madison to complete her manuscript, “Choreographing the Greek Crisis: Performing National Identity in the Age of Austerity.” This award provides support to junior faculty in the humanities so that they may complete their manuscript projects. Zervou is an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Dance Department.