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Professor Gerald Campano has been awarded the prestigious Diane Lapp–James Flood Award, a national honor from the International Literacy Association recognizing an outstanding and long-standing scholarly collaboration that has significantly shaped the field of literacy education. He shares this distinction with his collaborator and wife, Marìa Paula Ghiso, GRD'09, of Teachers College, whose joint research over many years has illuminated the experiences of multilingual students, immigrant communities, and families engaged in grassroots educational inquiry.
Their partnership—rooted in relational ethics, community knowledge, and justice centered literacy—has become a model for how sustained collaboration can transform both scholarship and practice.
This award caps an exceptional year for Campano, who was also named a 2026 Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, one of the field’s highest honors recognizing scholars for their exceptional contributions to education research. In addition, Campano and Ghiso received the AERA Division G Luis Moll Creative Work/Book Award, which recognizes outstanding scholarship on the social contexts of education, for their Methods for Community-Based Research.
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