Chance Lewis, Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Urban Education, is the 2013 recipient of the Carlos Vallejo Memorial Award for Lifetime Scholarship from the American Education Research Association (AERA). He also was selected to serve as a visiting scholar by the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Lewis will receive the Vallejo Award formally at the AERA’s annual meeting in April in San Francisco. The honor is given each year to one scholar/practitioner who illustrates efforts in producing scholarship that advances multicultural and multiethnic education (broadly defined) within all educational, cultural, societal and social settings, contexts, levels and locations; and who demonstrates commitment to underserved communities beyond scholarship with evidence of improving the practical conditions experienced by multicultural/multiethnic communities.
As visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin, Lewis will provide a series of lectures in urban education for the university community, K-12 community and Madison, Wisc., community. His visit is part of an ongoing program to celebrate outstanding contributions of minority scholars in education, strengthen and build additional ties between faculty on the UW-Madison campus and minority scholars throughout the nation and extend the number of role models for undergraduate and graduate students.