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AERA Division B honors Lather's career achievements
Patricia Lather
The American Educational Research Association Division B, Curriculum Studies, has selected Patricia Ann Lather, a leader in feminist research, for its Lifetime Achievement Award. The professor of cultural foundations, technology and qualitative inquiry in the College of Education and Human Ecology will be honored in May 2010 at the AERA annual conference in Denver, Colorado.
"To quote Lauren Bacall, considering how young I am, I am most appreciative of this award in a field that has long been my academic home," Lather said. "I'm pleased to see its future in the capable and talented hands of those coming along, especially the students I have been privileged to work with over my 30 years of teaching in higher education."
Lather has taught qualitative research, feminist methodology, and gender and education in the School of Educational Policy and Leadership since 1988.
Her books have received critical acclaim: Getting Smart: Feminist Research and Pedagogy With/in the Postmodern (1991 Critics Choice Award); Troubling the Angels: Women Living with HIV/AIDS, co-authored with Chris Smithies (1998 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title); and Getting Lost: Feminist Efforts Toward a Double(d) Science (2008 Critics Choice Award). Her newest book is Engaging Science: Policy from the Side of the Messy (2010).
She has lectured widely and held a number of distinguished visiting lectureships. Her work examines various (post)critical, feminist and poststructural theories, most recently with a focus on the implications for qualitative inquiry of the call for scientifically based research in education.
She has held visiting positions at the University of British Columbia, Goteborg University, York University and the Danish Pedagogy Institute as well as a 1995 sabbatical appointment to the Humanities Research Institute, University of California-Irvine, for a seminar on feminist research methodology.
Among her honors is a Fulbright Scholarship to study in New Zealand in 1989, and she was elected as an AERA Fellow in 2009.
She received her B.A. in English from South Dakota State University (1970), her M.A. in American studies from Purdue (1972), and her Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from Indiana University (1983). Prior to joining The Ohio State University faculty, she taught women's studies at Mankato State University in Minnesota.
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