Invitation for Nominations

for the

Joyce Cain Award for

Distinguished Research on African Descendants

Each year, the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) recognizes an outstanding scholarly article that explores themes related to people of African descent, with its Joyce Cain Award. This Award was created in 2000 to honor to memory of Joyce Lynn Cain, a colleague whose scholarship on African descendants reflected her dedication to introducing individuals across ethnic boundaries to African culture.

The Award is conferred on an outstanding scholarly article that

explores themes related to people of African descent; the article may report research concerning Africans in any part of Africa, or in the Diaspora (African descendants in the Americas, Europe, and other venues), in contemporary or historical contexts;

fulfills the requirements of academic excellence; originality; and methodological, theoretical, and empirical rigor; and

reflects the scholarly purpose of the Society: comparative, cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, and international/global studies contributing to the interpretation of developments in education in their broad and interrelated economic, political, and social contexts.

To be eligible for the Award, articles must be written by a member of the Comparative and International Education Society. Articles must be published in a refereed journal in the calendar years 2003 or 2004; articles slated for publication in the final months of 2004 may be submitted in manuscript form with a letter from the journal editor stating the intended publication schedule.

The recipient of the Joyce Cain Award will be honored at the 2005 CIES Annual Meeting. The recipient will briefly present the Award-winning article to the Society.

The deadline for submissions is 1 November 2004. Nominations and self-nominations are welcome. Send articles with a cover letter requesting consideration for the Joyce Cain Award directly to each committee member listed below:

Edith Mukudi, Chair of the Joyce Cain Committee
2131 Moore Hall
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
PO Box 951521
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521
USA
mukudi@gseis.ucla.edu

M. Christopher Brown
400 Rackley Building
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802-3203
USA

Francis Boakari
School of Education
University of the Incarnate Word
4301 Broadway Street # 478
San Antonio, TX 78209-6318
USA

Thomas Clayton
1231 Patterson Office Tower
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0027
USA

With questions, contact Edith Mukudi, Chair of the Joyce Cain Committee.