Dr. Zamani-Gallaher’s teaching, research, and consulting activities largely include psychosocial adjustment and transition of marginalized collegians, transfer, access policies, and women in leadership.Dr. Zamani-Gallaher is a 2022 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Fellow and the 2022 recipient of the Diverse Champions Award from Diverse Issues in Higher Education. She received 2021 Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center Faculty of the Year Award at Illinois and was the College of Education 2020 Distinguished Senior Scholar Awardee at Illinois. In 2019, she was awarded by NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, Community College Research and Scholarship Award and that same year the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students (NISTS) Transfer Catalyst Award.In 2018, she was recognized with the Senior Scholar Award from the Association of College Personnel Administrators (ACPA) - College Educators International and the Founder's Service Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Council on Ethnic Participation (CEP). Zamani-Gallaher was the Council for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC) 2017 Senior Scholar Award recipient, also is an ACPA Diamond Honored (2017). She's the recipient of the 2009 Mildred B. Garcia Senior Exemplary Scholar Award from the of ASHE-CEP. Zamani-Gallaher is a past president of the Council for the Study of Community Colleges (2013-2014) an affiliate council of the American Association of Community Colleges and served as Director of Research and Scholarship for ACPA (2015-2018).