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 |
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| 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 |