Selected Honors & Awards

(Summer 2021) Division G – Social Context of Education Mini Research Grant Award, American Educational Research Association (AERA), Washington, D.C.

(Spring 2021) 2021 Steinhardt Champions of Equity - Racial Justice Award, New York University

(Spring 2021) Global Inclusion Faculty Mentorship Stipend, The Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity, and Strategic Innovation, New York University

 Selected Invited Panels & Workshops

(2021, April 1). Interdisciplinary Research: Conversations with Educational Researchers. University of Maryland- College Park. College Park, MD.  

(2021, February 25). Black Lives Matter Everywhere. Undergraduate Student Government of Steinhardt and the Office of Equity, Belonging, and Community. New York, NY.

(2021, February 20). “Getting Tenure” Workshop coordinator and presider. Sociology of Education Association (SEA) annual conference. Asilomar, CA. 

(2020, October 9). School in the Age of Covid Panel. NYU Wagner’s Education Policy Network. New York, NY.

(2020, March 18). Women of Color Career Luncheon. University Neighborhood High School (UNHS). New York, NY.

(2020, February 19). Navigating Predominately White Institutions as Students of Color. NYU Steinhardt Office of Student Affairs. New York, NY.

 Selected Conference Presentations

Agyepong, M. (2021, August). Model Minorities? Teachers’ perceptions of African students’ behavior and academic abilities. In Africans/Africans in North America Diasporas session. Section of Racial & Ethnic Minorities. Virtual annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA).

Agyepong, M. (2021, April). Teachers and Counselors Perceptions of Academic Abilities Among Minority Students in NYC. In Racialized and Gendered Constructions of Ability and Behavior [Symposium]. SIG-Sociology of Education. Virtual annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

Agyepong, M. (2021, April). Revisiting Proximal Host: Adding to the Conversation. In Understanding [Racial] Identity Formation Among African Immigrant Youth and Emergent Adults [Symposium]. SIG-Critical Examination of Race, Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Education. Virtual annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

Agyepong, M. (2020, April). Perceptions of identity and academic ability among African and non-African students in NYC. In Racialized and Gendered Constructions of Ability and Behavior. Panel to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Francisco, CA.

Agyepong, M. & Wong, C. (2020, April). From Afro-pessimism to Afro-generativity: Theorizing African Continental and Diasporic Liberation within Education. In The Back of Blackness. Panel to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Francisco, CA.

Agyepong, M. (2020, February). School context in the shaping of African students’ identities. In Coming to America: The diverse experiences of West African immigrants in the United States. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society (ESS), Philadelphia, PA.