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AERA: Arts Based Educational Research Special Interest Group
Outstanding Dissertation Award

The Arts Based Educational Research (ABER) special interest group for the 
American Educational Research Association (AERA) would like to announce its 
sponsorship of the ABER Outstanding Dissertation Award for the best Doctoral 
Dissertation that explores, is an exemplar of, and pushes the boundaries of 
arts based educational research. The award is intended for students who have 
graduated in the year preceding the award. A maximum of one award per year 
is available.

The winner will receive an "Outstanding Dissertation" award at the ABER 
business meeting at the 2010 AERA annual meeting in Denver, Colorado from 
April 30th to May 4th. The winner will also be invited to present highlights from 
her or his dissertation at this meeting. In addition, a short paper highlighting 
his/her work will be published in the International Journal of Education and the 
Arts http://ijea.asu.edu/. The ABER Sig will support the winner's conference 
fee and provide $500.00 to assist with travel to AERA to present at the 
conference.

Application deadline: Friday, January 1, 2010. Must have graduated in 2009.

Submission requirements:

1. A cover letter with:
        - Applicant’s name and contact information.
        - Information about the school, program, and committee and 
           supervisor's names (and examiners where applicable) under which 
the       dissertation was completed.
        - Dissertation title
        - Defense date and Graduation date

2. A copy of the signed committee acceptance of the dissertation and/ or a 
letter from the supervisor stating the completion of the degree and date of 
defense.

3. A short essay of no more than 3000 words, excluding references and 
abstract,
outlining the title, intents, theoretical framework, methodology and findings of 
the study, and the significance of the research for arts based educational 
research. A 100 – 150 word abstract should be included in the same file. The 
essay should be ready for blind review with no mention of the author’s name 
or institutional affiliation.

4. A current copy of the applicant’s curriculum vitae.

5. An electronic version of the dissertation for final review (to be submitted 
upon request).

How to submit:

For the first round of the award review process, all materials will be sent via 
email attachments. Please follow the criteria below.

The essay should be typed, double-spaced (including quotations, footnotes, 
and references) in APA style, with ample margins, and should comply with the 
specified length limitations. The author's name and affiliation should appear on 
the cover letter, and only on this document, to ensure anonymity in the 
reviewing process. An abstract of 100-150 words should be included in the 
same file as the 3000 word essay, on a separate page. 

In the email subject window please write [YOUR LAST NAME] ABER Award 
Submission 2010. 
All attached files should follow this format with the addition of a number 
assigned according to the list above: LAST NAME ABER Award Submission 2010
[1], LAST NAME ABER Award Submission[2], etc. for numbers 1 through 4 as 
outlined above.

If your submission is successful in advancing to the finalist round, you will also 
be asked to upload your entire dissertation in PDF format to a secure website. 
Additional information will be provided upon receipt of items 1 - 4.

Send all materials electronically via email attachments to co-coordinators:

Dr. Ruth Leitch	Dr. Monica Prendergast
Co-Coordinators ABER Dissertation Award	

EMAIL: [log in to unmask]

ABER WEBSITE: http://www.aber-sig.org
                              
SELECTED PAST RECIPIENTS OF THE ABER Outstanding Dissertation Award 
(PhD/Present Affiliation):

2009 Dr. Barbara Bickel (University of British Columbia/Southern Illinois 
University)
Living the Divine Spiritually and Politically: Art, Ritual and 
Performative/Pedagogy in Women’s Multi-faith Leadership

2008 Dr. Kathleen Vaughan (York University/Concordia University)
Finding Home: Knowledge, Collage, and the Local Environments

2007 Dr. Pauline Sameshima (University of British Columbia/Washington State 
University)
Seeing Red: A Pedagogy of Parallax (An Epistolary Bildungsroman on Artful 
Scholastic Inquiry)

2006 Dr. Christina Marin (Arizona State University/New York University)
Breaking Down Barriers, Building Dreams: Using Theatre For Social Change to 
Explore the Concept of Identity with Latina Adolescents