Awards and Honors

Jacqueline M. Cofield’s work has been recognized nationally and internationally across education, arts, and interdisciplinary scholarship, including multiple awards for her dissertation research, Fulbright recognition, and fellowships supporting arts-based inquiry and cultural leadership.

As a result of my track record of excellent performance in academics and research, I have received multiple awards, honors, and recognition. I have also received grants and fellowships from prestigious institutions.

These include the following:

Research Experience

2026 Outstanding Dissertation Award, Division B: Curriculum Studies, AERA
2026 Outstanding Dissertation Award, Critical Educators for Social Justice (CESJ) SIG, AERA
2026 Outstanding Dissertation Award, Arts & Learning Special Interest Group, AERA
2026 Emerging Scholar Award recipient for the Twenty-First International Conference on the Arts in Society at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
2025-28 Fulbright Specialist-U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs: Selected through a competitive, peer-reviewed process to join the Roster for international project-based collaborations in education, arts, and cultural research.
2025 Valentine-Cosman Research Fellowship, The Strong National Museum of Play
2025 Selected Participant, Black Studies Summer Seminar (BLK-S3tudies), Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
2025 Selected Participant, Curriculum Inquiry Journal Fellowship and Writers Retreat
2025 Selected Participant, Black Ecologies: Art, Performance, and Evolution Summer Institute, Black Arts Consortium, Northwestern University
2025 Emerging Scholar Award for the Twentieth International Conference on the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2025
2025 Selected participant, "Examining Arts Leadership: History, Theories and Creative Breakthroughs," The New Art School Modality at Hauser & Wirth Gallery, New York
‘Write to Change the World’ OP-ED Project writing scholarship, 2024
Apple Podcast (Beyond Beauty) Arts Category Top 30, July, 2024
Hunter College AANAPISI Project (HCAP) Faculty Seminar Series, 2024
Teachers College Record Writing for Publication Workshop Finalist, 2024
Office of the Vice President for Diversity and Community Affairs Independent Grant, 2024
American Education Research Association, Grad Student Conference Travel Grant, 2024
Teachers College, Columbia University Dean’s Grant for Student Research, 2024
Whitney Museum of American Art, Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow, 2024
Sotheby’s Art Noir Jar of Love Fund Grant, 2023
Fulbright Alternate, Ireland Arts-Based Research Grant, 2023
Emerging Scholar Award for the Eighteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, 2020
Teachers College, Columbia University Arts & Humanities Committee for Diversity, Community, and Social Justice Grant Recipient, 2023
AERA Division B Graduate Student Pre-Conference Seminar, 2023
Podcast Beyond Beauty: Women Artists of the Global South was one of two selected by Columbia University Libraries in 2022 for development and distribution support, 2022
Provost's Grant for Conference Attendance and Presentation, 2022
Department of Curriculum & Teaching, Teachers College, Columbia University continued scholarship, 2022
3-year Full Doctoral Fellowship from TC Department of Curriculum & Teaching, “Teachers College Minority Scholarship, Gayles-Felton Endowed Scholarship, Dorothy L. Dorman Endowed Scholarship” 2019-2022
Dr. Isaac Gottesman Featured Contribution to Critical Thought and Praxis from the Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis, 2021.
Education Pioneers Summer Fellowship Finalist, 2020.
Meyer J. and Norma L. Ragir Foundation Scholarship, 2020.
Discovery TV-SScience Channel, Science Superhero Superstar Award, 2018
PBS American Masters Inspiring Women Recognition, 2018.
Exemplary Leadership Award, Give1 Project, Dakar, Senegal, 2016
2-year Graduate Fellowship from NY Department of Education & CUNY at CCNY 2004-2006.

Jacqueline M. Cofield, Ed.D