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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.

The Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity Announces its 2007-2008 Fellows

The Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) is pleased to announce its Fellows for 2007-2008. Four visiting faculty and eight Stanford graduate students will be provided the space and resources needed to work on their research, writing, and teaching projects.

This year the Research Institute of CCSRE will host four visiting faculty and support four Stanford graduate students.

Visiting Fellows may be junior or senior faculty members, from other universities in the U.S. and around the world, whose research and scholarship is in the areas of race, ethnicity, and culture. The following are the 2007-2008 Visiting Fellows and the research projects they will be working on while as Stanford:

Gabriela F. Arredondo, Associate Professor, Latin American and Latina/o Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz. Her current research project explores a variety of inter-racial contacts between Mexicans and non-Mexicans in order to understand how such experiences contributed to contemporary conceptions of race and gender.

Eric Avila, Associate Professor, Chicana/o Studies and History, UCLA. His second book project The Folklore of the Freeway: Highway Construction and the Making of Race in the Modernist City explores how freeways engender subjective expressions of social identity.

Dorothy E. Roberts, Kirkland & Ellis Professor, Northwestern University School of Law; Professor, Northwestern University Departments of African American Studies and Sociology (by courtesy). Her project “Race Consciousness in Law, Politics, and Biotechnology” examines the relationship between the emergence of race-based biotechnologies and political contests over race consciousness in social policy.

Mark Q. Sawyer, Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies, UCLA; Director, UCLA Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics. His project “Nationhood, Race, and Blacks in the Americas” provides a discussion of the evolution of conceptions of race and racial politics in the Americas that attends to questions of the state and black agency.

Harvey Young, Assistant Professor, Theatre Department, and (by courtesy) Performance Studies, Radio/Television/Film, and African American Studies, Northwestern University. His book project Embodying Black Experience: Performing the Past in the Present investigates how select artists use performance to access and replay historical experiences of the black body.

The Graduate Dissertation Fellowship (GDF) program seeks to create a supportive intellectual community for students and to encourage comparative scholarship that crosses traditional academic disciplinary boundaries. The following is a list of the 2007-2008 Graduate Dissertation Fellows and their dissertation titles:

Mireille Le Breton, Doctoral Candidate in French and Italian; “North African Youth, Contest Identities and Cultures in Contemporary France”

Roselyn Lee, Doctoral Candidate in Communication; “Gendered and Raced ‘Bodies’ on the Net: Revealing and Challenging Social Identity Threat in Computer-mediated Communication”

David Nussbaum, Doctoral Candidate in Social Psychology; “Defensiveness in the Classroom”

Michelle Young-Mee Rhee, Doctoral Candidate in English; "Slant in Asian American Poetry and Fiction"

Frank Samson, Doctoral Candidate in Sociology

Amy Cynthia Tang, Doctoral Candidate in English; "Postmodern Repetitions: Race and the Politics of Form in Contemporary U.S. Literature"

The CCSRE Teaching Fellows Program is designed to provide three graduate students, whose work addresses issues of race and ethnicity, an opportunity to gain practical experience in the classroom as TAs and teachers of small group courses. The students selected for 2007-2008 and their dissertation titles are:

MarYam Hamedani, Doctoral Candidate in Psychology; “Interdependence in the Land of the Free”

Julie Minich, Doctoral Candidate in Spanish and Portuguese; “National Bodies/Embodied Nations: Reading Disability in Chicana/o, Mexican and Spanish Cultural Production”

Marcela Muñiz, Doctoral Candidate in Education; “The Politics of Diversity: How Affirmative Action Policies are Interpreted and Enacted in Faculty Hiring Decisions”