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 the 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,  social, and cultural 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  2006-7; articles slated for publication in the final months of 2007 may be submitted in manuscript form with a letter from the journal editor stating the intended publication schedule.

The deadline for submissions is 15 October 2007.  Nominations and self-nominations are welcome.  Send articles with a cover letter requesting consideration for the Joyce Cain Award directly to the subcommittee Co-Chairs,  listed below.  The committee requests that nominations be sent electronically, to the following addresses:

Joyce Cain Award Co-Chairs

            Nancy Kendall    University of Wisconsin – Madison,

                         Email:             nkendall@education.wisc.edu

            Bidemi Carroll Academy for Educational Development,

                        Email: bcarrol@smtp.aed.org