CEHD

Awards & Recognition: Faculty & Student Honors

Celebrating promotions, tenure, new faculty, and award-winning work across CEHD.



Faculty Promotions & Tenure

Promotion

  • August Campbell – Instructional Professor
  • Susan Fields – Clinical Associate Professor
  • Melissa Fogarty – Clinical Professor
  • Rhonda Fowler – Clinical Professor
  • Paul Hernandez – Professor
  • Debra McKeown – Professor
  • Karen Rambo-Hernandez – Professor
  • Steven Riechman – Professor
  • Elizabeth Roumell – Professor
  • Erinn Whiteside – Clinical Associate Professor
  • Denise Woodard – Instructional Associate Professor
  • Jamaal Young – Professor
  • Jemimah Young – Professor

Tenure

  • Margaret Quinn – Associate Professor with Tenure

Promotion & Tenure

  • Yuming Lei – Associate Professor with Tenure
  • Christopher Thompson – Associate Professor with Tenure
  • Zhe Wang – Associate Professor with Tenure
  • John Williams III – Associate Professor with Tenure

New Faculty

Educational Administration & Human Resource Development

  • Lisa Brown – Assistant Professor
  • Chih-Pu Dai – Assistant Professor
  • Humberto de Faria Santos – Clinical Assistant Professor
  • Yeonji Jung – Assistant Professor
  • Sumi Lee – Clinical Assistant Professor
  • Hanwen Li – Clinical Assistant Professor
  • Ginger Vaughn – Professor of the Practice
  • Tekeisha Zimmerman – Clinical Assistant Professor

Educational Psychology

  • Jennifer Becnel – Clinical Assistant Professor
  • Megan Golson – Assistant Professor

Kinesiology & Sport Management

  • Jin Woo Ahn – Assistant Professor
  • Bryan Crutcher – Clinical Assistant Professor
  • Yue Du – Assistant Professor
  • Jeff Graham – Associate Professor
  • Patrick Neff – Clinical Assistant Professor
  • Bo Sandoval – Professor of the Practice
  • Matthew Scott – Assistant Professor

Teaching, Learning & Culture

  • Kenneth Flemming – Clinical Assistant Professor
  • Jose Palma – Assistant Professor
  • Neil Shanks – Clinical Assistant Professor
  • Hannah Thompson – Assistant Professor
  • Carlos Valiente – Professor
  • Xiaohan Zhu – Assistant Professor

Faculty Honors

  • Rafael Alecio-Lara – U.S. Department of Education’s Education Innovation and Research (EIR) Grant
  • Dae Seok Chai – AHRD Human Resource Development Cutting Edge Award; NSF Collaborative Research Grant
  • Cheryl Craig – ISATT Outstanding Publication Award; ScholarGPS Top 5 Highly Ranked Scholar in Teacher Education
  • Lisa Colvin – Provost Academic Professional Track Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
  • Florina Erbeli – EDGES Fellow
  • Susan Fields – AFS College Teaching Award; Provost Academic Professional Track Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
  • Daniel Hajovsky – APA Fellow; CDSPP Meritorious Contributions to the Training of School Psychologists Award
  • Beverly Irby – DKG Texas Upsilon Chapter Member in Print Award
  • ArCasia James-Gallaway – ISCHE Early Career Conference Paper Award
  • R. Malatesha Joshi – ILA William S. Gray Citation of Merit
  • Richard Kreider – Stanford University World Top Scientists List (2025 & All-Time); Scilit Top Cited Scholar List
  • Andrew Kwok – AACTE Margaret B. Lindsey Award for Distinguished Research in Teacher Education
  • Oi-Man Kwok – Division of Rehabilitation Psychology Harold Yuker Award for Research Excellence
  • Li-Jen Kuo – Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Award; World Languages Academy Grant
  • Mark LaSota – Forbes Contributor
  • Kelly Lee – CCPTP President
  • Rodrick Lucero – AERA Law and Education SIG Program Chair
  • Carly McCord – AFS 12 Under 12 Honoree
  • Anita McCormick – AFS College Teaching Award
  • Aaron Morton – NIH Loan Repayment Award to Advance Translational Research for Pediatric Muscular Dystrophy
  • Sarah Nagro – U.S. Department of Education Project VERIFY Grant
  • Jasmin Patron-Vargas – AERA Frantz Fanon Dissertation Award
  • Margaret Quinn – University of Tennessee Graduate Student Senate Outstanding Graduate Research Mentor Award
  • Karen Rambo-Hernandez – Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Award; Gifted Child Quarterly Article of the Year
  • Noelle Sweany – Provost Academic Professional Track Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
  • Ananya Tiwari – Springer Nature Council Research Advisory Board Member
  • Julie Thompson – TXAEYC Trainer of the Year
  • John Turner – AHRD 2024 Elwood F. Holton III Research Excellence Award
  • Jia Wang – AHRD 2024 Monica M. Lee Research Excellence Award
  • Erinn Whiteside – Hullabaloo U Instructor of the Year
  • Kay Wijekumar – U.S. Department of Education EIR Grant
  • John Williams III – Vanderbilt University’s Initiative for Race Research and Justice Inaugural Fellow
  • Seung Won Yoon – AHRD 2024 Monica M. Lee Research Excellence Award; Human Resource Development Cutting Edge Award
  • Jenna Yentes – SEC Faculty Travel Award

Student Honors

Current and Former Student Honors and Recognitions

  • Abdurhman Alhaji – EAHR Undergraduate Student Human Resource Development Achievement Award
  • Lisa Cantu – THECB Student Representative
  • Josh Davila – NESSIS Student Research Presenter
  • Samantha Hart-Ihnken – AERA Undergraduate Research Fellow
  • Shelby Hearn – TACUSPA President
  • Jabreon Jackson – UCEA Barbara L. Jackson Scholar
  • Chloe Kang – ESPEN Research Fellowship; DJPJ Trainee Achievement Award; KNSM Student Seed Grant
  • Aakash Kumar – Stanford University Center on Longevity Design Challenge Finalist
  • Donghyun Kim – SMA Outstanding Student Paper Award
  • Heesun Kim – AHRD Cutting Edge Award; CEHD Overall Strategic Research Award
  • Junseok Kim – Sport Marketing Association Outstanding Student Paper Award
  • Shuyu Wang – AEFP Travel Grant
  • Savanah Knezek – CEHD Dean’s Graduate Award
  • Mariam Othman – KNSM Strategic Research Award
  • Ashwini Sansare – Foundation for Physical Therapy Research Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Simon Shin – AHRD Cutting Edge Award
  • Yelim Yoo – NASSM Doctoral Research Grant