Lynch School of Education Professor Ana Martínez Alemán was honored with the 2016 Outstanding Publication Award in Division J (Postsecondary Education) for Critical Approaches to the Study of Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), a book she co-edited with Estela Mara Bensimon of the University of Southern California and  Brian Pusser of the University of Virginia. The award was presented by the American Educational Research Association at their annual meeting. It recognizes scholars for specific publications judged as making substantial contributions to the literature and/or practice of higher education.