Portrait by Red Works
Fellowships
Ford Foundation Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship
Cornell University, Fall 2011-Spring 2012
Writing Fellows Dissertation Fellowship
City College, City University of New York, Fall 2006-Spring 2008
Honors and Awards
Outstanding Edited Volume 2015
Youth Resistance Research and Theories of Change (co-edited with K. Wayne Yang)
Division B: Curriculum Studies, American Educational Research Association
Early Career Award 2014
Committee on Scholars of Color in Education, American Educational Research Association
Critics Choice Book Award 2013
Urban Youth and School Pushout: Gateways, Get-aways, and the GED
American Educational Studies Association
Outstanding Book Award 2013
Urban Youth and School Pushout: Gateways, Get-aways, and the GED
Qualitative Research Special Interest Group, American Educational Research Association
Exemplary paper award 2012,
Adult Education and Literacy Special Interest Group, American Educational Research Association