Past SIG Award Winners

2022 Winners

2022 Distinguished Career Award

Rebecca Kantor
2022 Early Career Award

Elizabeth Hadley

University of South Florida
2022 Dissertation Award

Matthew Wong

Pepperdine University
2022 Early Career Covid Relief Award

Kathryn Chapman

Michelle DeJohnette

Paul Kienlen

Jillian Lauer

Michelle Little

Soojin Park

Robin Sayers

Katie Sloan

Cynthia Wiltshire
2022 Student Travel/Covid Relief Awards Winners

Melissa Bishop

Shayna Cook

Emily Mak

Annette Pic

Zhiling Shea

Wendy Wei

2021 Winners

2021 Distinguished Career Award

Jeffrey Trawick Smith
2021 Early Career Award

Shinyoung Jeon

University of Oklahoma-Tulsa
2021 Dissertation Award

Sherri Castle

University of Oklahoma-Tulsa
2021 Early Career Covid Relief Award

Felicia Black

Kathryn Chapman

La Tricia Clark

Nneka Ibekwe-Okafor

Jillian Lauer

Xuan Li
2021 Student Travel/Covid Relief Awards Winners

Susana Beltran

Jill Claxton

Wei Dai

Cecily Davis

Heather Gerker

Paul Kienlen

Xin Li

Hyelin Park

Annette Pic

Ji Hye Park

Emily Spivey

Hanna Wickstrom

Jameelah Wright

2020 Winners

2020 Early Career Award

Kate Delaney

University of Toledo
2020 Outstanding Dissertation Award

Kathryn Boonstra

University of Wisconsin Madison
2020 Student Travel Awards Winners

Mary Lyons

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Craig Van Pay

Iowa State University

Toni Miguel

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

2019 Winners

2019 Early Career Award

Ji Young Choi

Iowa State University
2019 Outstanding Dissertation Award

Sadia Lynneth Solis

Harvard University
2019 Student Travel Awards Winners

Melissa Lee  

Amanda Lopes 

2018 Winners

2018 Early Career Award

Angela Pyle

Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
2018 Outstanding Dissertation Award

Alison Hooper

University of Alabama
2018 Student Travel Awards Winners

Ann Pradzynski 

University of Illinois–Chicago

Sondra Stegenga 

University of Oregon

2017 Winners

2017 Distinguished Career Award

Douglas Powell

Distinguished Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Purdue University

2017 Outstanding Dissertation Award

Christopher J. Wagner

Queens College-CUNY
2017 Student Travel Awards Winners

  

From Left to Right:

Emily Hoffman University of Illinois–Chicago

Alison Hooper University of Delaware

Rebecca Roji John Old Dominion University

Colleen Whittingham University of Illinois–Chicago

Kaitlin Northey Rutgers

Yixin Kelly Cui Boston University; Not pictured

2016 Winners

Distinguished Career Award

Lilian Katz

Emeritus Professor of Elementary and Early Childhood Education, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

2016 Outstanding Dissertation Award

Kristin Whyte

University of Wisconsin-Madison
2016 Student Travel Awards Winners

 

Juana Gaviria-Loaiza (left)

Rebecca Andrews (right)

2015 Winners

Early Research Career Award

Anna H. Hall

Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education, Clemson University
2015 Junior Faculty Research Enhancement Grant

Ersoy Erdemir

Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education, Boğaziçi University, Turkey

Faculty Mentor: X. Christine Wang, SUNY at Buffalo

2015 Dissertation Award

Erica Barnes

Assistant Professor, University at Albany, State University of New York

Student Travel Awards Winners

 

Christine Meng (left)

Robert Carr (right)

2014 Winners

Distinguished Career Award

Stuart Reifel
Early Research Career Award

Claire Baker
Dissertation Award

Lorelei Pisha
Student Travel Awards Winners

 

Kristy Timmons

Susie Mauck

Afshan Amjan  (Not pictured)