DISE's Dr. Nanre Nafziger Appointed a 2025 National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow

We are proud to announce that Dr. Nanre Nafziger, DISE, is a 2025 National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. Her research topic is Contestations for Nigerian History Education in Primary and Secondary Schools: from Colonialism to Neocolonialism. This year, the selection committee, comprised of leading scholars in education research, selected 25 fellows from an extremely competitive pool of 270 education scholars.

The National Academy of Education, an honorary educational society, manages the fellowship with generous financial support from the Spencer Foundation. The fellowship has more than eight hundred alumni who include many of today’s leading education researchers.

The Academy believes the fellowship enhances the future of education research by developing new talent in the many disciplines represented by the selected scholars. Join us in congratulating Dr. Nanre Nafziger as a recipient of this prestigious fellowship award.