Gail Kelly Award - Outstanding Dissertations

2010               Kristin Phillips for her dissertation Building the Nation from the Hinterlands, Participation, Poverty, and Education in Rural Tanzania, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009.

2009                Peggy Kong for her dissertation entitled Old Man Moves a Mountain: Rural Parents’ Involvement in their Children’s Schooling, Harvard U., 2008.

2008                Ernesto Treviño for his dissertation entitled Are Indigenous Schools Promoting Learning Among Indigenous Children in Mexico?, Harvard U., 2007.

2007                Kara Brown for her dissertation entitled Learning the Language: International, National, & Local Dimensions of Regional-Language Education in Estonia, Indiana University, 2006 and to David Suárez for his dissertation entitled Creating Global Citizens: The Emergence and Development of Human Rights Education, Stanford University, 2006.

2006                Susan Shepler for her dissertation entitled Constructions of Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone, University of California at Berkeley, 2005.

2005                Nancy Kendall for her dissertation entitled Global Policy in Practice: The "Successful Failure" of Free Primary Education in Malawi, Stanford University, 2004.

2004                Peiying Chen for her dissertation entitled Acting otherwise: Institutionalization of women's/gender studies in Taiwan's universities, University of Southern California, 2003.

2003                Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien for her dissertation entitled The Rise of a Woman's Human Rights Epistemic Network: Global norms and local education redefining gender politics in Japan, Stanford University, 2003.

2002                Sarfaroz Niyozov for his dissertation entitled Understanding Teaching in Post-Soviet, Rural, Mountainous Tajikistan: Case Studies of Teachers’ Life and Work, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 2002.

2001                Helen Nolan Boyle for her dissertation entitled Quranic Schools in Morocco: Agents of Preservation and Change, University of Pittsburg, 2000.

2000                Sandra Gillespie for her dissertation entitled South-South Transfer: A Study of Sino-African Exchanges, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 1998.

1999                Sandra Louise Stacki for her dissertation entitled Partnerships and Processes for Teacher Empowerment: Rays of Hope for Female Teachers in India, Indiana University, 1998.

1998                Gustavo Fischman for his dissertation entitled The Dilemma of the Second Mothers’ Teaching: Gender and Struggle over Education in Argentina, University of California at Los Angeles, 1997.          

1997                Seana M. McGovern for her dissertation entitled Education and Modern Development in Subaltern Societies: An Analysis of Academic Knowledge Production in the Field of International and Comparative Education, Penn State University, 1996.

1996                Anne Hickling-Hudson for her dissertation entitled Literacy and Literacies in Grenada: A Study of Adult Education in the Revolution and Afterwards, University of Queensland, Australia, 1995.

1995                Anthea Taylor for her dissertation entitled Negotiating Aboriginal Identity in an Urban Context: Implications for Education, University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia, 1994.

1994                Catherine Marguerite Raissiguier for her dissertation: Racial and Gender Identity Formation in the Schools: Case of Working Class Girls form Algerian and French Decent in a French Vocational School, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1993.