Dear KAERA Members,
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 KAERA Awards, recognizing outstanding scholarship and contributions in the field of education research. Please join us in congratulating this year’s awardees:
Research Grant Award
- Seongryeong Yu (Old Dominion University) – “Both Are Part of Me: Korean/Korean-American Children’s Transnational Diasporic Identity”
- Kyungjin Hwang (University of South Carolina) – “Exploring Translanguaging Practices Through Korean-American Children’s Literature”
Best Conference Paper Award
- Eunjin Cho (University of Massachusetts Amherst) – “Contextualized Children’s Voices: Multilingual and Transnational Identities, Digital Literacy Practices, and Parental Ideologies”
- Yeonji Jung (University of Memphis) – “From Exploration to Co-construction: Unpacking Temporal Dynamics of AI Chatbot-Supported Knowledge Construction in Graduate Education”
Outstanding Research Paper Award
- Sun Young Lee (Wichita State University) – “Transpacific Curriculum History: Undoing the Citational Practice of Global Whiteness in Education Reforms”
- Nami Kim (University of Illinois at Chicago) – “Examining Acculturative Stress and Coping among Korean Immigrant Parents of Children with Developmental Disabilities”
- Soojin Oh Park (University of Washington) – “Transforming a Cemetery into a Garden of Languages: A Justice-Oriented, Family-Centered Framework for Cultivating Children’s Early Bilingualism and Emergent Biliteracy”
- Stanton Wortham, Clara Shim, and Deoksoon Kim (Boston College) – “Can Korea Have Academic Achievement Plus Well-being? The Case of Hyukshin Schools”
C. Rhee Scholarship
- Kyoungjin Jang-Tucci (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Michael B. Salwen Scholarship
- Andrew Chang (Vanderbilt University)
- Hyungjung Lee (Fordham University)
- Hakeoung Hannah Lee (University of Texas at Austin)
- Kyunghoon Son (Boston College)
- Jungmin Ji (University of Iowa)
- Jesse Ha (Montclair State University)
- Junhee Park (University of Iowa)
- Boram Lee (Utah State University)
We commend these scholars for their outstanding contributions and look forward to celebrating their achievements at the upcoming KAERA conference.
Thank you for your continued support of KAERA and its mission.
KAERA 2025 Annual Meeting Early Registration
We remind you to register for the 2025 KAERA Annual Meeting. Registration is required to attend the meeting and associated events. We highly recommend registering in advance. The early bird deadline is February 28, 2025.
