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Nancy Deutsch (PhD04) Receives Scholar Award Nancy Deutsch (PhD04), an assistant professor of education at the University of Virginia, was the first person to be awarded the Emerging Scholar Award by the Out-of-School Group of the American Education Research Association (AERA). Deutsch received the award at the annual meeting of the AERA, the most prominent international organization for education researchers, in San Diego in April.Deutsch recently released a new book, Pride in the Projects: Teens Building Identities in Urban Contexts, based on her doctoral research in the Human Development and Society Policy program at the School of Education and Social Policy. She was also a co-author of two chapters in the 2005 book A Place to Call Home: After-School Programs for Urban Youth by SESP professor Barton Hirsch. Pride in the Projects, published by New York University Press, explores how teenagers in U.S. inner cities grow up and discover their identities against a background of chaos and caring. Deutsch sees special importance in the relationships forged through settings such as after-school programs. The book highlights the qualitative research Deutsch completed over four years as a doctoral student doing fieldwork at the East Side Boys and Girls Club in a large Midwestern city as part of an evaluation under Hirsch’s direction. At the Curry School of Education, Deutsch’s research interests include adolescent development, after-school programs for at-risk youth and qualitative research methods. “My research interests involve the contextual study of adolescent lives and identities. I am interested in the process of adolescent learning and development as it unfolds within local environments so we can understand how to create settings that better support youth, especially those at risk due to economic or sociocultural factors,” she states of her web page. Two of her current projects at the Curry School of Education are the Institute of Education Sciences Predoctoral Fellowship, a training program for the next generation of education researchers, and the Risk and Prevention in Education Sciences Program, which trains students in education research that relates to the contribution of school and out-of-school settings on the development of children and young people. by Marilyn Sherman  E-mail this story
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