AERA 2025 - UC Links Related Presentations

Scholars and partners from throughout the UC Links international network will be coming to Denver, April 23-27, 2025 to participate in the annual meetings of the American Educational Research Association. 

Below are some examples of AERA posters and presentations by partners from throughout the UC Links network. This list is not exhaustive - please let us know of other presentations that we may have missed!

We are looking forward to seeing many of you from around the world in Denver this April!

Tuesday April 22, 2025

9:00am to 7:00pm

• Early Career Pre-Conference Seminar: Equity- and Justice-Oriented Early-Career Scholars — Thomas M. Philip [Chair] (UC Berkeley)

4:00 to 6:00pm

• Pre-Conference Mentoring Session With the Cultural-Historical Research SIG

       Shirin Vossoughi [Chair] (Northwestern University)

       Aria Razfar [Panelist] (University of Illinois at Chicago)

      Edward Rivero [Panelist] (Teachers College, Columbia University)

Wednesday April 23, 2025

9:00 to 10:30am

• Practical and Conceptual Tools for Teacher Learning About Equitable Classroom Discussion — Arturo Cortéz [Discussant] (UC Davis)

• Teacher Education for Local Solutions Through Global Education — Danielle Harlow [Non-presenting Author] (UC Santa Barbara)

10:50am to 12:20pm

• The Emotional Valence of Hyperrationality in STEM: Re-inscriptions and Contestations Across Two Learning Environments — Thomas M. Philip [Presenting Author] (UC Berkeley)

12:40 to 2:10pm

• Leveraging Cultural Historical Activity Theory in Higher Education to Re-Mediate the University — Kris D. Gutierrez [Discussant] (UC Berkeley)

• Remedy and Repair Through the Queering of Research, Pedagogy, and Methodologies — Jackson Gzehoviak [Chair] (UC Los Angeles)

• Queering Academia Through Student-Led Research and Learning Communities — Jackson Gzehoviak &  Micaela Bronstein [Presenting Authors] (UC Los Angeles)

2:30 to 4:00pm

• Leveraging the R in HSRIs: Research for Educational Equity at a Hispanic-Serving Research Institution — Saskias Casanova [Chair] (UC Santa Cruz)

• Fostering Sense of Belonging through an Undergraduate Research Scholars Program for Transfers at an HSRI — Saskias Casanova [Presenting Author] (UC Santa Cruz)

4:20 to 5:50pm

• Bridging STEM and Social Awareness: Perceptions of STEM Majors in Ethnic and Feminist Studies Courses — Rebeca Mireles-Rios [Presenter] (UC Santa Barbara) 

• Mixing Scales for Communal Futurity: Analyzing Immigrant Youths’ Production of an ‘Ideal Community’ — Jackson Gzehoviak [Presenting Author] (UC Los Angeles)

• Meritocracy, Backlash, and Fatalism: Tempering Discourses in Teacher Diversity Efforts — Travis J. Bristol [Presenting Author] (UC Berkeley)

Thursday April 24, 2025

8:00 to 9:30am

• Reciprocal Effects of Stereotypes and Perceived Teacher Support on Math Motivational Consequences: Gender by Race/Ethnicity — Sandra Simpkins [Non-presenting Author] (UC Irvine)

• Beyond Now: Intersectional Feminist Politics, Policy, and Research Futures in Education — Michelle Young [Presenting Author] (UC Berkeley)

• Making Space for Youth-Produced Digital Texts as Remedy in a Time of “Crisis”: Inviting in Joy and Artistic Flourishing — Glynda Hull [Discussant] (UC Berkeley)

9:50 to 11:20am

• Scarier than Fighting Wildfires: California School Board Members as Targeted Decision-Makers in the Conflict Campaign — Rebecca Levine [Presenting Author] (UC San Diego)

• Pedagogical Prefiguration: Reflections on the Student Movement for Palestine — Shirin Vossoughi [Presenting Author] (Northwestern University)

• 2024 Early Career Award Lecture: “Diasporic (Dis)Connection: The School-Based Experiences of Teachers of African Descent Across the Americas” — Travis J. Bristol [Presenter] (UC Berkeley)

1:45 to 3:15pm

• Learning Across Places and Cultures — Jackson Gzehoviak [Chair] (UC Los Angeles)

• Learning Across Lands and Languages: Indigenous Latina Design Circles for a Garden Education Project — Jackson Gzehoviak [Presenting Author] (UC Los Angeles)

• A Review of STEM Community Praxis: Toward Social Justice–Based Program Evaluation in Education— Jason N. Dorio [Author] (UC Los Angeles)

3:35 to 5:05pm

• Culture Matters: How Teachers Support Girls’ Identities in Classrooms in Northern California — José Ramón Lizárraga [Presenting Author] (UC Berkeley)

• Critical and Ethical Perspectives on the Role of Embodiment in Learning — Shirin Vossoughi [Participant] (Northwestern University)

• Exploring Critical Political Consciousness as a Mechanism of Support for Newcomer Youth — Micaela Bronstein [Presenting Author] (UC Los Angeles)

• 2025 AERA Distinguished Lecture: "Erasures and Mappings in African American Education: Tag, You Are It" — Vanessa Siddle Walker [Speaker] (Emory University)

5:25 to 6:55pm

• Ethnic and Feminist Studies Introductory Courses: Affirming Diverse Non-Binary and Gender Non-Conforming University Students — Rebeca Mireles-Rios [Presenter] (UC Santa Barbara) 

7:15 to 8:45pm

• Language and Social Processes Business Meeting: A Dialogue Toward Educational Remedy and Repair — Sabiha Sultana [Officer] (UC Santa Barbara)

Friday April 25, 2025

8:00 to 9:30am

• Latina Early Adolescents' Ethnic Racial Identity Development in a Dual Immersion School — Rebeca Mireles-Rios [Presenter] (UC Santa Barbara) 

• Storywork as a Generative Model for Educator Attunement and Learning Toward Justice and Well-Being — Thomas M. Philip [Discussant] (UC Berkeley) — Shirin Vossoughi [Chair] (Northwestern University)

• Pedagogical Stories and the Ripples they Carry: How Storywork Can Deepen Educator Praxis Over Time — Shirin Vossoughi [Presenting Author] (Northwestern University)

9:50 to 11:20am

• Patterns of Socializers’ Science Support: Retrospective Relations to Motivational Beliefs among Ethno-Racially Minoritized College Students — Nestor Tulagan [Presenting Author] (University of Rochester)

• Engaging Critical Policy Analysis as a Practice-Relevant Framework for PK-12 Educational Leaders — Michelle Young [Presenting Author] (UC Berkeley)

• Realizing the potential of participatory politics: Factors supporting youth expression of online civic voice — Ellen Middaugh [Presenting Author] & Mark Felton [Non-presenting Author] (San Jose State University)

• Lived civics in digital communities: The possibilities and challenges of civic engagement on social media — Ellen Middaugh [Non-presenting Author] & Mark Felton [Presenting Author] (San Jose State University)

11:40am to 1:10pm

• McKinney-Vento: Youth Understanding of Rights and Resources — Rebeca Mireles-Rios [Presenter] (UC Santa Barbara) 

• Examining the Relations Between Perceived Classroom Structures, Expectancy-Value Beliefs, and Subsequent Math Performance Among Latino/a Adolescents — Sandra Simpkins [Non-presenting Author] (UC Irvine) 

• Rogue Jotería Platformization: Digital Latinx Drag Pedagogy Amidst Rising Anti-Drag Legislation — José Ramón Lizárraga [Presenting Author] (UC Berkeley), Arturo Cortéz [Presenting Author](UC Davis)

• Shaping the preparation of education leaders through scholarship and administration — Michelle Young [Presenting Author] (UC Berkeley)

• Interactional Vulnerabilities and Contingencies of Dignity-ing Work in an After-School Program for Immigrant Youth’s Wellbeing — Jackson Gzehoviak [Presenting Author] (UC Los Angeles)

• Navigating AI in Education: Opportunities, Challenges, and Research Imperatives** — Thomas M. Philip [Participant] (UC Berkeley)

• Dignity-ing: Magnifying the Social Construction and Consequences of Dignity-Affirming or Dignity-Denying Micro-Interactional Moments — Shirin Vossoughi [Discussant] (Northwestern University)

1:30 to 3:00pm

• 2024 Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award Lecture: “Mutual Constitution, Learning as Movement, and Developmental Ecologies” — Kris D. Gutierrez [Presenter] (UC Berkeley)

• Leadership Preparation Program Qualities and Graduates’ Career Intentions: Evidence from a National Program Graduates’ Survey — Michelle Young [Presenting Author] (UC Berkeley)

• Spanish Bilingual Preservice Teachers’ Leveraging Cultural Practices of Youth: A Change Laboratory Intervention — Edward Rivero [Presenting Author] (Teachers College, Columbia University)

3:20 to 4:50pm

• Material and Identity Play in a School-Based Maker Space: A Case Study — Lee Martin & J.C. Leapman [Presenting Authors] (UC Davis)

• Attuning to the Vibes of Learning Ecologies: Toward Developing Intuitive Educators — Edward Rivero [Presenting Author] (Teachers College, Columbia University)

• Understanding Self and Other through Language: Linguistic Autobiographies of White, English-dominant Middle School Students — Jin-Sook Lee [Presenting Author] (UC Santa Barbara)

• Co-Designing Collective Learning for Ethnic Studies Teacher Education — Shirin Vossoughi [Discussant] (Northwestern University)

• Place-Based Design for Joyful Transdisciplinary Socio-Ecological Sensemaking: Emerging Stories and Expanding Possibilities — Shirin Vossoughi [Non-presenting Author] (Northwestern University)

5:10 to 6:40pm

• AERA Presidential Address — Janelle Scott [Speaker] (UC Berkeley)

7:00 to 8:30pm

• Democratic Citizenship Education and Political Polarization: Nuances and Perspectives — Ellen Middaugh [Chair] (San Jose State University)

Saturday April 26, 2025

9:50 to 11:20am

• Conviviendo por y con Luis C. Moll [Conviviality for and With Luis C. Moll]: Bridging Funds of Knowledge, Vygotsky, and Educational Equity — Kris D. Gutierrez [Chair] (UC Berkeley)

• Keeping Q’anjob’al Separate: Indigenous Language Ideologies in Diaspora Among Newcomer English Learners — Jackson Gzehoviak [Presenting Author] (UC Los Angeles)

• AI in Multilingual Teacher Development: Preservice Teachers’ Critical Reflections and Pedagogical Transformations — Edward Rivero [Presenting Author] (Teachers College, Columbia University)

• Una historia como ninguna otra: Historical Context and Key Contributions Luis and his life and learning at UCSD’ Lab — Michael Cole [Presenting Author] (UC San Diego)

11:40am to 1:10pm

• Reducing Chronic Absenteeism: Lessons from Community Schools — Rebecca Levine [Non-presenting Author] (UC San Diego)

• 2025 Wallace Foundation Distinguished Lecture: “Education for Flourishing: Building Initiatives and Partnerships for More Just and Sustainable Futures” — William R. Penuel [Presenter] (University of Colorado, Boulder)

1:30 to 3:00pm

• “You Didn’t Go By Choice!”: Exposing Latinx STEM Push Out at a Hispanic-Serving Research Institution — Rebeca Mireles-Rios [Presenter] (UC Santa Barbara)

• “I Just Want to Help My Community:” A Refugee Narrative of Transnational Transformational Resistance — Jackson Gzehoviak [Presenting Author] (UC Los Angeles)

3:20 to 4:50pm

• The Schooling Paradox: Reimagining Futures of Learning in Times of Challenges and Hope—Michael Cole [Presenter] (UC San Diego)

5:10 to 6:40pm

• Understanding the lived textures and temporalities of impact within justice-oriented research on learning — Shirin Vossoughi [Presenting Author] (Northwestern University)

Sunday April 27, 2025

8:00 to 9:30am

• Building River Futures Through Art and Advocacy — Jackson Gzehoviak [Presenting Author] (UC Los Angeles)

• Using Phenomenological Processes to Unearth Understudied Challenges to Enacting Equity-and-Social-Justice-Centered Teacher Preparation — Thomas M. Philip [Presenting Author] (UC Berkeley)

9:50 to 11:20am

• Embodied intersectionality and emotion Theorizing complex embodiment of Latinas with learning disabilities learning math— Rebeca Mireles-Rios [Presenter] (UC Santa Barbara)

• Toward Possible Futures: Responding to and Resisting the Invisibility of Latinx Communities Across Institutions — Kris D. Gutierrez [Chair] (UC Berkeley)

• If Not Now, When?: Challenging Language Norms During Preservice Student Teaching — Jin-Sook Lee [Presenting Author] (UC Santa Barbara)

11:40am to 1:10pm

• Factors Shaping Participation and Outcomes of Participation From Childhood Through Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood — Ellen Middaugh [Discussant] (San Jose State University)