Kudos: Baker honored by sport management society; alumna receives mid-career award
Baker honored by sport management society
Thomas A. Baker III, an associate professor of sport management, was recently honored for his outstanding work as a reviewer. He was among 91 professionals who helped review 42 conference abstracts and 38 teaching and learning fair abstracts for the North American Society for Sport Management. Of the reviewers, Baker was among 10 named “Outstanding Reviewer.”
Alumna receives 2018 Mid-Career Contribution Award from AERA
Kakali Bhattacharya (PhD ’05), a recently promoted full professor of adult learning and leadership at Kansas State University and an alumna of UGA’s College of Education, received the Scholar of Color Mid-Career Contribution Award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
AERA’s Committee on Scholars of Color in Education Awards recognize scholars in various stages in their careers who have contributed significantly to the understanding of issues that disproportionately affect minority populations and minority scholars who have made a significant contribution to education research and development.
“Much of the work I do is not always easy to put into a sound bite, and it cannot be easily branded and commodified,” said Bhattacharya, who received her doctoral degree in educational psychology with an emphasis in research, evaluation, measurement, and statistics from UGA’s College of Education. “So, for the assessment committee to recognize my work meant that they engaged with my work deeply and felt there was value in it.”