The Center for "Race," Culture and Social Justice

Faculty Summer Research Grants

The Center's annual Faculty Summer Research Grants are aimed at supporting research, scholarship, and curriculum development focusing on race and social justice. Recipients of these grants deliver a public lecture on the following year, either in the fall or in the spring, sharing some of the results of their research.

Academic year 2025-2026 recipients:

Annabelle Haynes 鈥淒isenchanting Disenchantment: Experimentation and the Poetics of Underdevelopment鈥

Jyoti Thapaliya "Medicaid Policy Reform and Pediatric Access to Health Care: The Role of Provider Expansion in New York"

Academic year 2024-2025 recipients:

"What a City Council Apology Tells Us 糖心传媒 Race Relations in America Today鈥

鈥淏ig Al Sears鈥 Contributions to the Musical Culture of New York City and Long Island鈥

Academic year 2023-2024 recipients:

"Pygmalion and Waifu: Exploring the Racial and Gendered Practice of Generative AI Image Making"

"The Effect of Workplace Ostracism on Physiological Responsivity and Behavioral Coping Among Minority Employees."

Academic year 2021-2022 recipients:

, "Leveraging Leadership Racioethnic Perceptions"
, "W.E.B. Du Bois and the Aesthetic Education Offered By Music"

Academic year 2020-2021 recipients

, 鈥淐ode-Meshing the Curriculum: A Student- and Faculty-Centered Framework for Social Justice鈥 

Academic year 2019-2020 recipients:

, "'Race' and 'Riots' in American Memory"
, "Rupturing the Walls of Discontent:
Racialized Borders and the Political Economy of Imperial Citizenship"

Academic year 2018-2019 recipients:
, "Facilitated difficult dialogues on systems of power, privilege and oppression"
, "Racial group differences in experiences of 鈥揳nd responses to鈥 workplace mistreatment"
, "Black and Brown confinement: Intersectional politics of mass incarceration and mass detention in contemporary America"

Academic year 2017-2018 recipients:
, "Who Are You? Mixed Emotions: The Multiracial Student Experience"
, "Interculturality: Bridging the Divide"