The Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award Committee (monograph) had many excellent nominations to review this year. Books were evaluated based on the criteria of children at the center/section relevance; writing/organization; theory; impact; and new ideas/future implications.
Award:
Chiara Galli: Precarious Protections: Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum in the United States (University of California Press, 2023)
Honorable Mentions:
Casey Stockstill: False Starts: The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers (NYU Press, 2023)
Derron Wallace: The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth (Oxford University Press, 2023)