Idalia Nuñez, associate professor Curriculum & Instruction, has received the Early Career Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Bilingual Education Research SIG.
This award recognizes an individual in the early stages of their career—within 10 years of receiving the doctoral degree—whose research focuses on the role of bilingualism in education, including bilingual education policy, research, and practice. The Early Career Award Committee and the BER SIG Executive Committee commended the exceptional caliber and impact of Nuñez’s scholarship.
Her research is situated at the intersection of race, bi/multilingualism and bi/literacies, border crossing, education, and social justice. She examines the school experiences of bi/multilingual students from diverse backgrounds, exploring the everyday cultural and linguistic resources they bring into K–5 biliteracy classrooms.
She will receive her award at the 2026 AERA Annual Meeting, April 8-12 in Los Angeles, CA.
