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EPOL's John Wesley Jones Awarded 2019 AERA-Division B Dissertation of the Year

by communications@education.illinois.edu (Communications Office) / Mar 1, 2019

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) recently announced its list of 2019 Division B Award recipients, to be recognized at the annual meeting in April. The Outstanding Dissertation Award has been given to EPOL student John Wesley Jones for his disseration, The Antidote to Willfulness: Manufacturing Dissent, Kony 2012, and Propaganda as a Technology of Governance (2018).