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2024 AAEA Annual Award Winners

2024 Fellows

  • Titus Awokuse, Michigan State University
  • Oral Capps, Texas A&M University
  • Steven Deller, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Rachael Goodhue, University of California, Davis
  • Tom Marsh, Washington State University
  • Alfons Weersink, University of Guelph

2024 Appreciation Club

  • Jayson Lusk
  • Jean-Paul Chavas

2024 AAEA Annual Award Winners

*Honorable Mentions

Outstanding Master's Thesis Award


 
Tara Mittelberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Zibo Jin, University of Minnesota
Aaron Lorenz,  University of Guelph
*Audrey Rizk, University of Florida
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award Jake Smith, Iowa State University
*Sarah Smith, University of California, Davis
Distinguished Teaching Awards:
  1. Less than 10 years
     
  2. 10 or more years', Undergraduate
  3. 10 or more years', Graduate


Na Zuo, University of Arizona
*Nathan Kemper, University of Arkansas
Brian Briggeman, Kansas State University

Dixie Dalton, Virginia Tech
Distinguished Extension/Outreach Program Awards:
  1. Less than 10 years' experience
  2. 10 or more years' experience
  3. Group


Amy Hagerman, Oklahoma State University
Dawn Thilmany, Colorado State University
Maria Marshall, Purdue University
Bruce Gardner Award

 
Dana Hoag, Colorado State University
Jesse Burkhardt, Colorado State University
*Cesar Escalante, University of Georgia
Quality of Research Discovery Award




 
Laura Tiehen, USDA Economic Research Service
Dean Jolliffe, World Bank
Juan Margitic, Inter-American Development Bank
Martin Ravallion (Deceased)
*Kathleen Segerson, North Carolina State University
*Junjie Wu, North Carolina State University
*Chunhua Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Quality of Communication Award




 
Carrie Litkowski, USDA Economic Research Service Tatiana Borisova, USDA Economic Research Service  Jonathan Law, USDA Economic Research Service
Dipak Subedi, USDA Economic Research Service
Monika Ghimire, USDA Economic Research Service   Katherine Lim, USDA Economic Research Service
Kathy Kassel, USDA Economic Research Service
AAEA Mentoring Award Marc Bellemare, University of Minnesota
Publication of Enduring Quality Award Tim Haab, The Ohio State University
Kenneth McConnell, University of Maryland
Outstanding AJAE Article

 
Jared Hutchins, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
*Anne Byrne, USDA-Economic Research Service
*David Just, Cornell University
Outstanding AJAE Reviewers


 
Margaret Jodlowski, Ohio State University
William Ridley, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Colette Salemi, University of Victoria
Austin Ford Ramsey, University of Georgia
Outstanding AEPP Article


 
Joseph P. Janzen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Trey Malone, University of Arkansas
K. Aleks Schaefer, Oklahoma State University
Daniel P. Scheitrum, Cal Poly
Outstanding Choices Article
 
Dragan Milijkovic, North Dakota State University
Frayne Olson, North Dakota State University
Outstanding AETR Article




 
Jada M. Thompson, University of Arkansas
Misti D. Sharp, University of Florida
Jonathan C. Walton, University of Tennessee
*Ruiqing Miao, Auburn University
*Jerrod Penn, Louisiana State University & LSU Agricultural Center
*Loka L. Ashwood, University of Kentucky
Presidential Recognition Award  Kristen McGuire, AAEA Executive Director
Uma Lele Mentor Fellowship Suresh Kumar
McCorkle Scholarship Piyush Gandhi
Uma Lele Women's Scholarship Disha Gupta, India Gandhi Institute of Developement
AAEA Trust Travel Grants 58 people received travel grant funds from the AAEA Trust
Academic Bowl Winners

 
1st Place: LSU; Benjamin Goldstein, Riley LaSavia, Colin Raby
2nd Place: LSU; Blake Edwards, Ali Fontenot, Carlos Sandoval
3rd Place: TAMU; Maddison Esterak, Owen Gibson, John Hendrix
Outstanding Paper Competition

 
1st place: Lars Rostad, University of Minnesota
2nd place: Ryanna Tietje, The Ohio State University
3rd place: Trent Claessens, University of Guelph
Outstanding Chapter Club Iowa State University
Outstanding Creative Club Oklahoma State University
GSS Policy Communications Competition
 
1st Place: Anthony Caruso, Oklahoma State University
2nd Place: Azaz Zaman, Auburn University
3rd Place: Linge Yang, University of Connecticut
Case Study Competition

 
1st Place: University of Arkansas (Andrew Dilley, Walker Davis, Makenzie McJunkins)
2nd Place: Kansas State University (Calder McCollum, Delide Joseph, Vera Adabrah-Danquah)
3rd Place: University of Florida (Meri Hambaryan, Kelvin Amon, Chenxi Hu)
Extension Competition

 
1st place: Khashi Ghorbani, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2nd place: John Robinson, North Carolina State University
3rd place: Alexis Ghormley, Texas A&M University
Data Visualization Challenge


 
1st Place: Walter Ac Pangán, Jiyeon Kim, Priyanka Sharma for the Heartland region
2nd Place: Vidalina Abadam, Sanchita Chakrovorty, Jennifer Kennedy for the Southeast region
3rd Place: Davidson Obilor Nwaonu, Elizabeth Thilmany, Jean Pierre Zavala Varela for the Northeast region
FAMPS Poster Competition

 
Hannah Wich, Stephen F. Austin State University
Jaime Luke, Kansas State University
Kaitlyn L. Malakoff, Arizona State University