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, namely 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 during the calendar year January 1, 2009 – December 31, 2009; articles slated for publication in the final months of 2009 may be submitted in manuscript form with a letter from the journal editor stating the intended publication schedule.

The deadline for submissions is 13 November 2009.  Nominations and self-nominations are welcome.  Send articles with a cover letter requesting consideration for the Joyce Cain Award directly to the subcommittee Chair, Kimberly King-Jupiter, at the following address: jupiteki@lewisu.edu