2026 Stephen A. Freeman Award RecipientS: "Climate Humanities in the L2 Classroom: Radical Possibilities for an Uncertain Future"

Francisca Aguiló Mora, Ph.D. (Columbia University) and Almudena Marín Cobos, Ph.D. (Barnard College)

Published in Radical Teacher, A Socialist, Feminist, and Anti-Racist Journal on the Theory and Practice of Teaching, Winter 2025

“The study presents an argument that language education and language proficiency should be reimagined as an integral part of society’s multidisciplinary discussions around climate change and sustainability – but without perpetuating traditional colonialist perspectives. Their vision provides an inspiring answer to the question of how language can evolve to fit our times.”

Past Recipients

2024: Chiann Karen Tsui, Ph.D., German International School, Portland; Paul A. Garcia, Ph.D., University of Kansas (emeritus); Lucian Rothe, Ph.D., University of Louisville; Michael B. McCloskey, Bunker Hill Middle School (NJ) 

“Creating safe space: Diverse instructional materials for world language learners” NECTFL Review, 2023.

2023: Tasha Austin, Ph.D., University at Buffalo 

“Linguistic Imperialism, Countering anti-Black racism in world language teacher preparation” Journal for Multicultural Education, 2022

2022: Kristin Davin, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Charlotte 

“Critical Language Testing: Factors Influencing Students’ Decisions to (Not) Pursue the Seal of Biliteracy” Harvard Educational Review, 2021.

2020: Susan A. Hildebrandt, Ph.D., Illinois State University & Pete Swanson, Ph.D., US Air Force Academy 

"Re-examining Teacher Candidate Performance on World Language edTPA as a Consequential Assessment" NECTFL Review, 2019

2019: Carolina Bustamante, Ph.D., SUNY Old Westbury, NY 

"TPACK and Teachers of Spanish: Development of a Theory-Based Joint Display in a Mixed Methods Research Case Study." Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2017.

2018: Francis J. Troyan, Ph.D., The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; Laurent Cammarata, Ph.D., Faculty Saint-Jean, University of Alberta, Canada; Jason Martel, Ph.D., Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

"Integration PCK: Modeling the Knowledge(s) Underlying a World Language Teacher’s Implementation of CBI", Foreign Language Annals, 2017.

2017: Tony Houston, Bryant University 

"Managing Depth and Breadth in the Business Spanish Course,” Hispania, 2015.

2016: Mary Caitlyn Wight, SUNY Geneseo 

“Students with Learning Disabilities in the Foreign Language Learning Environment and the Practice of Exemption” Foreign Language Annals, 2015

2015: Cynthia Chalupa and Heiko ter Haseborg, West Virginia University 

“Improving Student Motivation through Autonomous Learning Choices, " NECTFL Review, 2014

2014: Maximilian Aue (posthumous award), Peter Hoeyng, Marianne K. Lancaster, Hiram H. Maxim and Caroline Schaumann, Emory University

“Overcoming Curricular Bifurcation: A Departmental Approach to Curricular Reform,” Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2013

2011: Lina Lee, University of New Hampshire

2009: Jason J. Goulah, DePaul University

2008: Bonnie Adair-Hauck, University of Pittsburgh; Eileen W. Glisan, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Keiko Koda, Carnegie Mellon University; Elvira Swender, ACTFL; S. Paul Sandrock, Wisconsin Dept. of Public Instruction

2007: Teresa Pica, University of Pennsylvania

2006: N. Ann Chenoweth, University of Texas “Pan American, & Kimmaree Murday, Indiana University“ Purdue University

2005: Wynne Wong, Ohio State University, & Bill VanPatten, University of Illinois at Chicago

2004: Bonnie Adair-Hauck, University of Pittsburgh Richard Donato,University of Pittsburgh

2003: Terry A. Osborn, University of Connecticut

2002: Linda Quinn Allen, Iowa State University

2001: Anita Vogely, SUNY Binghamton

1999: Olenka Bilash, University of Alberta

1998: Elizabeth Knutson, U. S. Naval Academy

1991: Marva Barnett,  University of Virginia

1990: Robert Terry, University of Richmond

1989: Jay Siskin, Northwestern University; Emily Spinelli, University of Michigan at Dearborn

1986: Charlotte Cole, Floy Miller,Walpole (MA) High School

1985: Walter Blue, Donald Rice, Tamara Root, Hamline University

1984: Renate A. Schulz, University of Arizona

1983: Heidi Byrnes, Stefan Fink, Aureila Roman,Georgetown University

1982: Claire Kramsch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1981: James M. Hendrickson, Lansing Community College

1979: Diane W. Birckbichler, Ohio State University; Alice C. Omaggio, ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages & Linguistics

1978: I.S.P. Nation, Victoria University

1977: Christina Bratt Paulston, Howard R. Selekman

1975: Thomas P. Carter, Dalhousie University

1974: Robert J. Elkins, Theodore B.Kalivoda, Genelle Morain,University of Georgia

1973: H. Ned Seelye, J. Lawrence Day

1971: Michael Agatstein, Wheatley School

1970: Frank Otto, Ohio State University

1969: Sidney R. Smith, University of North Carolina