College of Education and Human Development

Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Chhuon receives National Association for Multicultural Education’s 2015 Carl A. Grant Presidential Research Award

Vichet Chhuon was recently named as the recipient of the National Association for Multicultural Education’s 2015 Carl A. Grant Presidential Research Award. This honor is awarded to an exemplary multicultural educator who has demonstrated a long-term scholarly commitment to multicultural education; whose research addresses the multiple facets of human diversity, and the ways by which complex multicultural issues manifest themselves in U.S. schools and society; and whose scholarship breaks new ground in our thinking about multiculturalism.

Previous winners of this prestigious award include Thomas Philips, H. Richard Milner IV, Luis Moll, and Gloria Ladson-Billings.