Call for 2025 Critics’ Choice Book Award Nominations*
The AESA 2025 Critics’ Choice Book Award Selection Committee (CCBASC) announces the call for book nominations to be considered for the 2025 Critics’ Choice Book Award (January 31-May 1, 2025). Book recipients of the award will be honored at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Studies Association in Albuquerque, NM (October 29 – November 2) and be displayed in our Book Exhibit room.
The CCBA Selection Committee is eager to identify and bring attention to texts that are of general appeal, interest and significance to the area of Foundations of Education. Through an open nomination process, we hope to produce a broad range of nominated titles across all areas of the Foundations of Education, including scholarship that provides a historical, philosophical, sociological and/or cultural context for educational inquiry. We seek to maintain the spirit of the Critics’ Choice Book Award (outlined in the AESA bylaws) as a way to highlight outstanding contemporary publications, which may be of interest and professional use to AESA members in their scholarship and teaching.
ONLY CURRENT AESA MEMBERS ARE ALLOWED TO NOMINATE BOOKS; one book nomination per member. Publishers may not nominate books. Only 12 books will be selected to win the Critics’ Choice Book Award, and of those 12 awards, only 3 can go to non-AESA members. Books with a publication date earlier than 2022 will not be considered for the 2025 Critics’ Choice Book Award. Self-nominations are allowed. To nominate a text, please include the full citation (APA Style) as well as a brief rationale (no more than 100 words) outlining how the book demonstrates excellence according to the following criteria: 1) relevance to Foundations of Education and the mission of AESA; 2) originality of research; 3) scholarly or intellectual impact on the field; and/or 4) significance of the topic.
Please submit all nominations by May 1, 2025, to Ellie Blair, Chair of the CCBA Selection Committee, at
ejblair@wcu.edu. In order to expedite the review process, it is requested that individuals making a
nomination (or the author(s) of the nominated book) simultaneously request that the publisher send 4
review copies to the following address:
Dr. Eleanor Blair
43 SOURWOOD COURT
SAPPHIRE, NC 28774
(PLEASE NOTE THAT BOOKS MUST BE SENT FEDEX OR UPS).
If, however, books are sent through the United State Postal Service (USPS), they should be sent to:
Dr. Eleanor Blair
P.O. BOX 3001
Cashiers, NC 28717
