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 year 2005; articles slated for publication in the final months of 2005 may be submitted in manuscript form with a letter from the journal editor stating the intended publication schedule.

The deadline for submissions is 10 November 2005.  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.  The committee requests that nominations be sent electronically, to the following addresses:

Edith Mukudi, Chair                    mukudi@gseis.ucla.edu

M. Christopher Brown              mcb161@psu.edu

Thomas Clayton                         tmclay@pop.uky.edu

Tatiana Melguizo                        melguizo@usc.edu