PhD candidate Christopher Saldaña selected for AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship

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PhD candidate Christopher Saldaña selected for AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 10/15/2021 - 12:48

Hattie Poole

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) selected School of Education PhD candidate Christopher Saldaña for the 2021–22 AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship in Education Research.

This highly selective program, designed for members of racial and ethnic groups that are historically underrepresented in educational research, offers dissertation fellowships to graduate students and provides mentoring and guidance toward the completion of their doctoral studies. An important aim of the fellowship is to enhance the racial and ethnic diversity of faculty, scholars and researchers in the field of education research.

Saldaña’s dissertation work focuses on examining K–12 school finance policy and politics in moments of fiscal crisis in the United States. His dissertation is made up of three articles, each one focusing on a unique aspect of school finance policy making during the fiscal crisis.

Read the Q&A with Chris Saldaña:

How does this fellowship benefit your research?

“This fellowship affords me the opportunity to focus almost 100 percent of my time in the upcoming year on completing my dissertation and navigating the academic job market. This means I can immerse myself in multiple data sets, methods, and research questions, begin to develop a path forward for my research and dedicate my upcoming job search to positions that are most closely aligned to my research agenda. It also means I can spend time thinking about how to shape and position my work to ensure it impacts educational policy and practice.”

What does this fellowship mean to you personally and as a scholar?

“To be honest, I was shocked when I won the award. I know the quality of proposals that are put forward by my fellow graduate students. So it is a tremendous honor to receive the AERA Minority Dissertation fellowship. It is also a testament to the amount of energy and time so many people have invested in me. I think personally, I was happier for everyone around me—my parents, my sister, and my brother, my grandparents, my extended family, and my friends, my advisor, and my dissertation committee and all of my faculty mentors and colleagues at ��ý�Ļ��Ʒ. Earning a PhD and writing a dissertation can be a daunting and isolating process. So many people have encouraged, supported and mentored me, making it so that I have never really felt discouraged, confused or alone.”

How do you envision your research impacting education as a whole?

“The goal of my research is to examine and understand whether and how current K-12 school finance policies and practices enhance or limit the opportunity of students in hard economic times. I want to use my research to offer educational stakeholders recommendations for how policies and practices at all levels might be reimagined and redesigned to offer all students high-quality opportunities to learn, regardless of their background or the economic conditions facing their community, state, or the U.S. economy.”

Congratulations, Chris!

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Michele Moses appointed as the president-elect for the Philosophy of Education Society

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Michele Moses appointed as the president-elect for the Philosophy of Education Society Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 10/15/2021 - 12:28

Hattie Poole

Michele Moses has been appointed as the new president elect for the Philosophy of Education Society and will serve as president for 2022-2023.

The Philosophy of Education Society (PES) is an international forum that promotes the philosophic treatment of educational practice, policy and research, advances the quality of teaching the philosophy of education and cultivates fruitful relationships between and among philosophers, philosophers of education and educators.

“My work can be considered a bit off the beaten path within philosophy of education, so it feels like an extra huge honor to be selected as the next president,” Moses said.

“PES has been my primary scholarly home since I first joined when I was in graduate school, on the recommendation of my mentor, Professor Ken Howe, who also served as PES president some years ago. I’m proud to follow in his footsteps in doing philosophy that is engaged in education policy issues that matter for social justice in a diverse democratic society.”

Moses is a professor of educational foundations, policy and practice at the ��ý�Ļ��Ʒ School of Education and the vice provost for Faculty Affairs. She received her PhD in Philosophy of Education and MA in Philosophy from ��ý�Ļ��Ʒ, her MEd in Higher Education from the University of Vermont, and her BA in Latin American Studies from the University of Virginia. Moses specializes in philosophy and education policy studies, with particular expertise in policy disagreements that involve race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and moral and political values. She has been a Fulbright New Century Scholar, was awarded ��ý�Ļ��Ʒ’s Hazel Barnes Prize, and was selected as a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association.

“This prestigious appointment reflects the incredible impact her groundbreaking scholarship has had in shaping our understanding of the philosophical underpinnings of many of the most important and controversial public policy issues of our times including debates about affirmative action policies in higher education, free speech on college campuses and more,” Dean Kathy Schultz said.

“From this role, she will continue to lead consequential conversations that build on the ethical commitments of the school of education and our campus as a whole.”

As president, Moses is looking forward to the annual conference in 2023 and selected colleague, Assistant Professor Terri Wilson as the program chair for the conference. Together, Moses and Wilson will work together to craft the theme of the program, invite keynote speakers, and shape the feel of the conference.

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PhD candidate Christopher Saldaña selected for AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship

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Michele Moses appointed as the president-elect for the Philosophy of Education Society

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