(photo courtesy U of Minnesota)
Vichet Chhuon, alumnus of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School and current Associate Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at University of Minnesota, won two prestigious awards in 2015. He won the Carl A. Grant Research Award from the National Association for Multicultural Education and the Early Career Award from the Association for Asian American Studies.
The National Association for Multicultural Education’s Carl A. Grant Presidential Research Award is given 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. The Early Career Achievement Award from the Association for Asian American Studies is given in recognition and appreciation for Chhuon’s many contributions to Asian American and Pacific Islander studies, including outstanding and innovative research.
Vichet Chhuon is an Associate Professor in the Curriculum and Instruction Department with a courtesy appointment in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Minnesota Twin-Cities. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Education at UC Santa Barbara in 2008. He is among the pioneering generation of scholars in the U.S. who specifically situates Cambodian American youth experiences in urban schools from a critical-race perspective. His other major research areas are in culturally responsive approaches to human development and urban education. Chhuon has published over 20 articles in top peer-reviewed journals including Anthropology and Education Quarterly; Journal of Language, Identity, and Education; Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement; Magis: International Journal of Research in Education; and The Urban Review.