Dr. Riyad Shahjahan receives the CIES Higher Education SIG Award for the Best Research Article

Each year The Comparative and International Education Society Higher Education SIG (HESIG) recognizes the work of a scholar in the complementary areas of comparative and international Higher Education.

This year, Dr. Riyad Shahjahan and his colleague Clara Morgan, are being awarded the CIES Higher Education SIG Award for the Best Research Article entitled “Global Competition, Coloniality, and the Geopolitics of Knowledge in Higher Education. Dr. Shahjahan will be recognized at the annual Comparative and International Education Society Higher Education conference held in Mexico City.

Dr. Shahjahan's background

Shahjahan's areas of expertise are in globalization and higher education, teaching, and learning in higher education (focusing on anti-oppressive and embodied pedagogy), equity and social justice and anti/postcolonial theory. He has been conducting both empirical and theoretical work, focusing on: a) the role of international organizations (IOs) in globalizing higher education policy through empirical/theoretical analyses of IOs’ current policy initiatives (e.g., the OECD, World Bank, UNESCO, etc.), and b) rethinking the traditional objects of study/practice in higher education from global and non-western critical perspectives, particularly using anti/postcolonial theoretical perspectives. His most recent work engages global rankings, media representations, and questions of ontology in comparative and international education. 

Join us in congratulating, Dr. Riyad Shahjahan, Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education, on receiving the CIES Higher Education SIG Award for the Best Research Article. 

Below is the article.

Shahjahan, Riyad & Morgan, Clara (2016). Global competition, coloniality, and the geopolitics of knowledge in higher education. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 37 (1), 92-109.