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2021 AAEA Annual Award Winners

2021 Class of Fellows


Will Martin

International Food Policy
Research Institute

Alfred Parks

Prairie View A&M University

Timothy Richards

Arizona State University


Jutta Roosen

Technical University of Munich



Ralph Christy
Cornell University
 

2021 AAEA Award Winners

Outstanding Master's Thesis Award



 
Molly Delcurto, Montana State University
Benjamin Norton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Betty Thomas, Mississippi State University

Honorable Mention: Gabriel Blair Fontinelee
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

 
Christina Korting, University of Delaware

Honorable Mentions: Susanna Berkouwer, Yang Yu
Distinguished Teaching Awards:
Less than 10 years
10 or more years', Undergraduate
10 or more years', Graduate

Cesar Escalante, University of Georgia
Jason Bergtold, Kansas State University
Zhifeng Gao, University of Florida
Distinguished Extension/Outreach Program Awards:
Less than 10 years' experience
10 or more years' experience
Group
 


Wendong ZhangIowa State University
Nick Paulson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Farmdoc Daily Live Coronavirus and Agriculture (Scott Irwin, Jim Baltz, Ryan Batts, Lee Bynum, Jonathan Coppess, Brenna Ellison, Bryan Endres, Todd Gleason, Keith Good, Todd Hubbs, Hongxia Jiao, Dale Lattz, Nick Paulson, Gary Schnitkey, Bruce Sherrick, Cathy Strick, and Brad Zwilling)
Bruce Gardner Award
 
Vida Abadam, USDA (Shawn Arita, Mary Ann Ball, Vince Breneman, Joseph Cooper, Gustavo Ferreira, Georgi Gabrielyan, Essence Hales, Joy Harwood, Deirdre Holder, Ashley Hungerford, Robert Johansson, Kent Lanclos, Callie McAdams, Sharon Raszap, Pete Riley, Phil Sronce, Thomas Gajnak, Rena Yuan, Roger Cryan, and Charles Stephens also of USDA, Economic Research)

Pat Westhoff, University of Missouri (Julian C.R. Binfield, Sera Chiuchiarelli, Deepayan Debnath, Scott Gerlt, Hoa T.K. Hoang, Lauren Jackson, Youngjune Kim, John Kruse, Abigail Meffert, Seth Meyer, Marc Rosenbohm, Byung Min Soon, Wyatt Thompson, Patrick Westhoff, Jarrett Whistance, Peter Zimmel)
Quality of Research Discovery Award

 
Scott Irwin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Kristen McCormack and James H. Stock from Harvard)

Honorable Mention: Sherzod Akhundjanov (Muyang Ge and Eric C. Edwards)
Quality of communication Award Johan Swinnen (John McDermott)
AAEA Mentoring Award Lisa House, University of Florida
Publication of Enduring Quality Award Nigel Key, USDA (Elisabeth Sadoulet and Alain de Janvry)
Outstanding AJAE Article Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, Cornell University for 
"The Role of Nonfarm Influences in Ricardian Estimates of Climate Change Impacts on US Agriculture"
Outstanding AJAE Reviewers
  1. Leah Bevis, The Ohio State University
  2. Daniel Brent, Pennsylvania State University
  3. Alexandra Hill, Colorado State University
  4. Jonathan McFadden, University of Oklahoma
Outstanding AEPP Article Joseph JanzenUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Nathan HendricksKansas State University for
"Are Farmers Made Whole by Trade Aid”
Outstanding Choices Article Jason Grant, Virginia Tech; Shawn Arita, USDA-OCE; Charlotte Emlinger, Virginia Tech; Sharon Sydow,  USDA-OCE; Mary A. Marchant, Virginia Tech for
"The 2018-2019 Trade Conflict: A One-Year Assessment and Impacts on U.S. Agricultural Exports"
Presidential Recognition Award  Kathleen Liang, North Carolina A&T
Anthony Grano Scholarship Chellie Hogan, Oklahoma State University
Deven Brand, Kansas Farm Management Association
Uma Lele Mentor Fellowship P. Venkatesh, Indian Agricultural Research Institute
McCorkle Scholarship Karin Wu, University of Wisconsin
AAEA Trust Travel Grants 21 Early Career Professionals and Graduate Students
2021 Academic Bowl Winners Louisiana State University (Team 1)
Colt Hardee
Michael Younis
Erin Matherne