2019 AAEA Annual Award Winners
2019 Fellows
- Mary Bohman, Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Kevin Boyle, Virginia Tech
- Matin Qaim, University of Goettingen
- Ian Sheldon, The Ohio State University
- Wallace Tyner, Purdue University
2019 Appreciation Clubs
Awards
Undergraduate Student Section Awards
- Academic Bowl: Louisiana State University (Colt Hardee, Erynn Heffley, Whitney McKinzie)
- Outstanding Paper Competition: Alexander Hildreth, Louisiana State University; and Elizabeth Thilmany, University of Maryland
- Outstanding Chapter Award: Iowa State University (Advisors: Amy Brandau and Ron Deiter)
Graduate Student Section Awards
- Graduate Student Case Study Competition
- Winner – Kansas State University with Chelsea Arnold, Kaitlyn Dinges, and Christina Stander
- Second Place – Purdue University with Emiliano López Barrera, Sofia K. Vielma Delano, and Jeremiah Stevens
- Third Place – Michigan State University with April Athnos, Simone Faas, and Megan Bellinger
- Graduate Student Extension Competition: Hannah Shear, Kansas State University, Mentor Dustin Pendell; Whitney Bowman, Kansas State University, Mentor Dustin Pendell; Amber Roberts, University of Minnesota, Mentor Joleen Hadrich
Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award:
Santa Felicita Rosario de Jesus, Virginia Tech; Hanna Ruder, Kansas State University; and Robert Thompson, Mississippi State University
Honorable Mentions: Ari Kornelis, Michigan State University and Angela Sweeney, University of Guelph
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation:
Ellen Bruno, University of California, Davis; Tamma Carleton, University of California, Berkeley; and David Wolf, The Ohio State University
Honorable Mention: Bixuan Sun, University of Minnesota
Distinguished Teaching Awards
- Ten Years’ Experience: Kim Morgan, Virginia Tech
- Undergraduate Teaching: Ten or More Years’ Experience: Christine Wilson, Kansas State University
- Graduate Teaching: Ten or More Years’ Experience: Thomas Hertel, Purdue University
Distinguished Extension/Outreach Program Awards
- Individual: Less than Ten Years’ Experience: Alejandro Plastina, Iowa State University
- Individual: Ten or More Years’ Experience: Glynn Tonsor, Kansas State University
- Group: Brian Briggeman, Kansas State University; Phil Kenkel, Oklahoma State University; Keri Jacobs, Iowa State University; Greg McKee, University of Nebraska; and Michael Boland, University of Minnesota
Bruce Gardner Memorial Prize for Applied Policy Analysis
Dermot Hayes, Iowa State University
Additional authors include: Edward Balistreri, John Crespi, Chad Hart, Minghao Li, Lee Schulz, David Swenson, and Wendong Zhang
Quality of Communication Award
Parke Wilde, Tufts University; Mary Marchant, Virginia Tech; and H. Holly Wang, Purdue University
Additional authors include: Yuqing Zheng, Dallas Wood, Jason P. H. Jones, Farzad Taheripour, Wallace E. Tyner, James Hansen, Wei Zhang, Jason Grant, Amanda M. Countryman, Andrew Muhammad, Yangxuan Liu, John R. C. Robinson, and W. Donald Shurley
Quality of Research Discovery Award
William Masters, Tufts University; Prakarsh Singh, Amherst College
Publication of Enduring Quality Award
Michael Carter, University of California, Davis and Christopher Barrett, Cornell University
Honorable Mention: Thomas Reardon, Michigan State University
Outstanding American Journal of Agricultural Economics Article Award:
Tim Richards, Arizona State University
Honorable Mentions: Andrew Crane-Droesch and Matthew Anderson, Julian Alston, Philip Pardey, Aaron Smith
Outstanding Applied Economic Perspectives & Policy Article Award
Brenna Ellison, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Jayson Lusk, Purdue University
Outstanding Choices Article
Farzad Taheripour, Purdue University; and Wallace E. Tyner, Purdue University
Honorable Mention: Amanda M. Countryman, Jason Grant, James Hansen, Jason P.H. Jones, Yangxuan Liu, Andrew Muhammed, John R.C. Robinson, W. Donald Shurley, Farzad Taheripour, Wallace E. Tyner, Wei Zhang, and Yuqing Zheng
Anthony Grano Scholarship
Amber Roberts, University of Minnesota
Sylvia Lane Mentor Fellowship
Vincenzina Caputo, Michigan State University
Uma Lele Mentor Fellowship
Sendhil Ramadas, ICAR-Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research
Chester O. McCorkle Jr. Student Scholarship
Louis Sears, Cornell University
AARES-AAEA Young Professional Exchange Program
- Heading North Award: Saeideh S. Khosroshahi, Latrobe University