Laura K. Muñoz, associate professor of history and ethnic studies, won the 2025 American Educational Research Association's (AERA) Division F New Scholar's Book Award for Desert Dreams: Mexican Arizona and the Politics of Educational Equality.
The biennial award recognizes quality research in the history of education, featuring books that "expand, complicate, shift, or disrupt our understanding of existing and burgeoning topics and areas within the history of education.”
Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, the book chronicles seventy-five years of Mexican American efforts to attain educational equality in Arizona, from its territorial period in the nineteenth century to the post–World War II era.
Muñoz will be recognized at the AERA annual meeting in Denver this April.
