UW–Madison’s Mollie McQuillan, an assistant professor with the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, received the Emerging Scholar Award from the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Division A, which focuses on administration, organization, and leadership.
McQuillan’s work examines the intersection of educational policy, social relationships, and health of gender-expansive students and educators.
This award is given by Division A in recognition of a pre-tenure scholar who is in the first five years of their career in the professoriate and who has made outstanding contributions to the field of leadership, administration, or organizational theory.
McQuillan also recently earned the Outstanding Policy Report Award from AERA’s Division L, the Education Policy and Politics division. For this honor, McQuillan co-authored a policy report on LGBTQ+ students’ well-being and inclusive practices with UW–Madison doctoral students Xue Gong and Erin Gill, and two staff members with the Madison Schools.