AAHHE Early Career Award

The AAHHE Early Career Award recognizes faculty or staff members who demonstrate commitment and promise via their actions, research, and service to the Latinx higher education community.

 2024 AAHHE Early Career Award Recipient

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Giselle Martinez Negrette is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She holds an M.A. in Education with a concentration in Bilingual Education & TESOL from New Mexico State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As an English as a Second Language (ESL) and early childhood educator, she has worked in several different regions, including Latin America, North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Dr. Martinez Negrette’s research brings attention to the interplay of ethnic/racial considerations in language education while pointing to wider socio-political issues and representations of race in the U.S. Her work on language, mobility, and migration analyzes the impact that mobility, demographic changes, and ideologies have on the linguistic development, educational trajectories, and opportunities of linguistically diverse populations in American schools. Dr. Martinez Negrette’s research has been instrumental to support school communities in the Midwest that have been impacted by the increase in their Spanish-speaking student population in recent years. Her work has been recognized nationally and locally by the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, the National Council of Teachers of English, and the Morgridge Center for Public Service at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

 List of Past Early Career Award Recipients:

• 2023 Cinthya Salazar, PhD
• 2022 Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez, PhD and Antonio Duran, PhD 
• 2021 Sarah Rodriguez