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2025 AAEA Annual Award Winners

*Indicates a Honorable Mention 

Outstanding Master's Thesis Award Chandrakant Agme University of Arizona
  Binayak Kunwar Purdue University
  Armen Khachatryan Kansas State University
Honorable Mention *Kumar Bolakhe University of Tennessee
     
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award Youngho Kim   University of Maryland
  Trinh Pham  Cornell University
  Madeline Turland  University of California, Davis
Honorable Mention *Jhih-Yun Liu University of Minnesota
     
Distinguished Teaching Award - 9 or less years
-Undergraduate
Misti Sharp
 
University of Florida
 
Distinguished Teaching Award - 10 or more years
-Undergraduate 
Aleksan Shanoyan
 
Kansas State University
 
Distinguished Teaching Award - 10 or more years
-Graduate 
Michael Boland
 
University of Minnesota
 
Distinguished Extension/Outreach Program Award
- Less than 10 years experience 
Yangxuan Liu  University of Georgia

 
Honorable Mention *Christa Court  University of Florida
     
Distinguished Extension/Outreach Program Award
- 10 or more years experience 
Michael Langemeier 
 
Purdue University
 
Distinguished Extension/Outreach Program Award
- Group 
University of Arizona
team led by Dr. Frisvold
University of Arizona 
     
Bruce Gardner Award Matthew P. Rabbitt USDA-Economic Research Service
Honorable Mention *Colin Andre Carter University of California, Davis
  *Carlos Zurita North Dakota State University
  *Yasin Yildirim North Dakota State University
  *Sandro Steinbach North Dakota State University
     
Quality of Research Discovery Award  Alex Hollingsworth  The Ohio State University
     
Quality of communication Award 

 
Johan Swinnen
Loraine Ronchi
Thomas Reardon
International Food Policy Research Institute
World Bank Group
Michigan State University
     
Publication of Enduring Quality Award Rick Horan Michigan State University
  Eli P. Fenichel Yale University
  Carlos Castillo-Chavez Arizona State University
  M. G. Ceddia Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
  Gerardo Chowell Georgia State University
  Paula A. Gonzalez Parra Universidad Autónoma de Occidente
  Graham J. Hickling
 
Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
and University of Tennessee-Knoxville
  Garth Holloway University of Reading
  Benjamin Morin Vassar College
  Charles Perrings Arizona State University
  Michael Springborn University of California, Davis
  Leticia Velazquez Rice University
  Cristina Villalobos University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
     
AAEA Mentoring Award Tom Hertel Purdue University
     
Outstanding AJAE Article Award



 
François Bareille


Raja Chakir
 
University of Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Paris Saclay Applied Economics, Palaiseau, France. and RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment, Italy
University of Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Paris Saclay Applied Economics, Palaiseau, France
     
Outstanding AJAE Reviewer Award Lingxiao Wang Texas A&M University
  Andrew Rosenberg USDA-Economic Research Service
  Jeffrey Michler University of Arizona
  K Aleks Schaefer Oklahoma State University
     
Outstanding AEPP Article Award

 
Samuel D. Zapata
Xavier Villavicencio
Anderson Xicay
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University
Honorable Mention



 
*Jennifer Ifft
*Todd H. Kuethe
*Gregory Lyons
*Alexander Schultz
*John Y. Zhu
Kansas State University
Argus Media
Purdue University
George Washington University
University of Kansas
     
Outstanding Choices Article Award

 
Wen Liu,
Gulcan Onel
Pilar Useche
University of Florida
University of Florida
University of Florida
Honorable Mention

 
*Stephen Devadoss
*William Hall
*Jeff Luckstead
Texas Tech University

Washington State University
     
Outstanding AETR Article Award
 
Anukul Bhattari
George C. Davis

Virginia Tech
Honorable Mention
 
*Chanden Westover
*Tanner McCarty
Utah State University
Utah State University