Our SIG has a long and storied history of pushing the envelope in educational research both  in general and with regard to curriculum studies in particular. Our commitment is to build an intellectual, creative, and kindred home for people to find their audience, and a receptive and excited audience at that. 

We provoke the connections and contradictions between and among a range of exploratory and imaginative practices of curriculum and cultural studies. We support and promote transdisciplinary scholarship that draws from multiple fields of study to de-stabilize commonly held assumptions in the study of experience, working within and beyond contemporary curriculum discourses and longstanding epistemological boundaries. 

Members pursue curriculum inquiry in ways that are widely inclusive and certainly not limited to critical, feminist, postmodern perspectives, and performative, auto-ethnographic, and arts-based approaches to ask sociocultural, political, and existential questions. This is the best place to find other scholars who are like-minded in crossing borders, redefining the post in post-research, prioritizing subjugated knowledge, reaching towards well-studied and justice-oriented practices.

I am excited to serve as the new elected Chair of the Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies (CICCS) SIG. The legacy of CICCS has been an impactful one, pushing the curriculum and education field in creative ways, and I am honored to be part of this trajectory. I look forward to supporting the innovative scholarship and intellectual thought of CICCS members, and recognize the amazing work of critical scholars in our field. I am also thrilled to collaborate with our leadership team to organize our upcoming 2025 conference program and events:

Program Chair: Dr. Brittany Aronson, Penn State University

Treasurer: Dr. Kirsten Robbins,

Secretary: Dr. Racheal Banda, Miami University

Also, a special thank you to the former chair Reagan Mitchell and his leadership team, Alycia M. Elfreich, Annie Daly, and Francisco Medina, for all their work.

Please be on the lookout for new information and updates for our upcoming AERA annual meeting. I hope to see folks in Denver, Colorado in 2025! 

In solidarity,

Ganiva Reyes

Chair: Ganiva Reyes, Miami University

Program Chair: Brittany A. Aronson, Penn State University 

Treasurer: Kirsten Robbins, SUNY Oneonta

Secretary: Racheal M. Banda, Miami University