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2025 Winners of the AESA Critics’ Choice Book Award

Abad, M.N., & Conchas, G.Q. (Eds.) (2025). Repertoires of racial resistance: Pedagogical dreaming in transborder educational space. Myers Education Press.

Aggarwal, U. (2024). Unsettling choice: Race, rights, and the partitioning of public education. University of Minnesota Press.

Castillo, W., & Strunk, K.K. (2025). How to QuantCrit: Applying critical race theory to quantitative data in education. Routledge.

Chávez-Moreno, L.C. (2024). How schools make race: Teaching Latinx racialization in America. Harvard Education Press.

Cruz, A.L. (Ed.) (2025). Culture, deafness & music: Critical pedagogy and a path to social justice. Brill.

Harris, J.C. (2024). Hear our stories: Campus sexual violence, intersectionality, and how we build a better university. Stanford University Press.

Jack, A.A. (2024). Class dismissed: When colleges ignore inequality and students pay the price. Princeton University Press.

Medina, Y., & Blair, E. (2024). Social foundations of education reader: Critical essays on teaching, learning, and leading (Volume II). Peter Lang.

Paglayan, A.S. (2024). Raised to obey: The rise and spread of mass education. Princeton University Press.

Singh, M.V. (2024). Good boys, bad hombres: The racial politics of mentoring Latino boys in schools. University of Minnesota Press.

Slovin, L.J. (2024). Fierce, fabulous, and fluid: How trans high school students work at gender nonconformity. New York University Press.

Tieken, M.C. (2025). Educated out: How rural students navigate elite colleges—and what it costs them. The University of Chicago Press.

Critics' Choice Book Awards


Each year, a committee of AESA members selects a number of titles it regards as outstanding books that may be of interest to those in educational studies. These books are designated as AESA Critics’ Choice Award winners and are displayed prominently at the annual meeting.

The Critics’ Choice Award serves to recognize and increase awareness of recent scholarship deemed to be outstanding in its field and of potential interest to members of the Association.

Any inquiries regarding this award can be directed to the award Chair:
Eleanor Blair
Western Carolina University
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