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News

The Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) is pleased to announce its class of 2008-2009 Fellows. These successful candidates will join CCSRE's interdisciplinary community of over one hundred Stanford faculty in developing research and teaching on topics of race, ethnicity and culture. The Fellows will have an opportunity to participate in monthly research meetings and a faculty speaker series, as well as the many conferences and events scheduled throughout the year. The Center offers four different fellowship programs.

Scholars and researchers from around the world, who share a comparative, multi-disciplinary and multi-racial approach to the study of race, ethnicity and culture, applied for the Visiting Fellows Program. The 2008-2009 scholars bring a diversity of perspectives from a variety of institutions and fields:

Luke Harris (Political Science, Vassar College) "Notes from a Child of Apartheid"
Gaye Theresa Johnson (Black Studies, History and Chicana/o Studies, UC Santa Barbara) "The Future Has a Past: Race, Politics, and Memory in Afro-Chicano Los Angeles"
Jean Kim (History, Dartmouth College) "Empire at the Crossroads of Modernity: Plantation Medicine and Hygienic Assimilation in Hawai'i"
George Lipsitz (Black Studies and Sociology, UC Santa Barbara) "Color Blindness and the Court"
Howard Winant (Sociology, UC Santa Barbara) "That Was Then; This is Now: Racial Politics in the 21st Century United States"

CCSRE also supports a group of Graduate Dissertation Fellows who join the Visiting Fellows in regular discussions of their research projects:

Jocelyn Chua (Anthropology) "Circulating Death: Suicide, Sovereignty & Productions of Affects in Kerala, South India"
Jolene Hubbs (English) "Revolting Whiteness: Race, Class, and the American Grotesque"
Valerie Jones (Psychology) "The Pressure to Work Harder: When Increased Motivation Leads to Negative Outcomes"

The CSRE Undergraduate Program provides three Teaching Fellowships to graduate students whose work addresses issues of race and ethnicity. This fellowship offers the opportunity to gain practical experience in the classroom as Teaching Assistants and teachers of small group courses.

Matthew Daube (Drama & Humanities) "Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor: Race and Ethnicity in the Emergence of Stand-up Comedy"
Doris Madrigal (Spanish) "Beyond Spanish: Ideologies of Language and Identity in Chicana/o Cultural Production"
Rand Quinn (School of Education) "Political Contention Over Institutional Arrangements in Education"

The CSRE Graduate Fellowship is in its inaugural year for new doctoral students interested in the study of the meanings, processes, and consequences of race, ethnicity, and culture. This fellowship is a three-year award for outstanding doctoral students newly admitted by a department or program.

Ellen Tani (Art and Art History)
Tristan Ivory (Sociology)
Katherine Rodela (Anthropology and School of Education)

The Fellowship Programs have been generously supported by the Offices of the Provost and the Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences.

Conferences

Education & Opportunity: A forum on the Kerner Commission Forty Year Report
The Eisenhower Foundation will co-sponsor a daylong forum at Stanford to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Kerner Commission report and to bring attention to issues of educational inequality.

Embracing Diversity: Making and Unmaking Racial, Ethnic and Cultural Difference in the 21st Century
Our 10th anniversary conference will revolve around a number of sessions that will focus on research and policy-related issues, including the following: the challenge to Brown vs. the Board of Education presented by the recent Supreme Court ruling, the struggles of immigrants in the U.S. and in other receiving nations, religious diversity, identities, and conflict, and processes of cultural discourse and production around racial difference.

November 1, 2007, McCaw Hall, Arrillaga Alumni Center
November 2, 2007, Annenberg Auditorium

Feminicide = Sanctioned Murder: Race, Gender and Violence in Global Context
This conference will examine the murders and disappearances of women in Mexico, Guatemala, and Canada occurring on an epidemic scale.

May 16-19, 2007, Tresidder, Oak West, Stanford University

Race, Inequality, and Incarceration
An intellectual summit addressing the causes, meanings, and effects of racial disproportion in the American criminal justice system with a focus on massive incarceration and racial disproportion in American prisons and jails.

April 11, 2007, The Bechtel Center, Stanford University

Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age: A Public Forum on Race-Based Drug Design
Tuesday, January 10^th, 2006 from 4 to 6pm at the Stanford Humanities Center

Policing Racial Bias Project Initial Conference
Social psychologists and law enforcement agencies examine racial bias in policing

Interdisciplinary conferences on race, ethnicity and culture
Information about past conferences organized by CCSRE

Events

2008 Autumn Quarter - Presidential Politics: Race, Class, Faith & Gender in the 2008 Election
One-time only course open to undergraduate and graduate students as well as the general public

2006 Autumn Quarter - Immigration: Rights and Wrongs
One-time only course open to undergraduate and graduate students

2005 Autumn Quarter - Confronting Katrina: Race, Class, and Disaster in American Society
One-time only course open to undergraduate and graduate students as well as the general public

Art Exhibits

Advocacy for the Women of Juarez, REDRESSING INJUSTICE, A Collaborative Art Installation