Graduate Student Programs

Dissertation Support Group
An interdisciplinary group of graduate students whose dissertations are related to the study of race, ethnicity and culture meet regularly in small groups or with their dissertation “partner” to discuss research and writing. For more information about this support group please contact Dorothy M. Steele, Ed.D, Executive Director of CCSRE, at dmsteele@stanford.edu or 723-2244.

Fellowships
The Center offers Stanford graduate students two different fellowship opportunities that promote interdisciplinary scholarship and research around issues of race, ethnicity and culture. The CSRE Teaching Fellows Program is designed to provide three graduate students fellowship funding to serve as Teaching Assistants for CSRE core courses, to design and teach their own course and to have a term off for dissertation research and writing. The Research Institute’s Graduate Dissertation Fellowship provides advanced doctoral students funding to focus on the completion of their dissertation and the opportunity to participate in a vital support network of Senior and Visiting Fellows as well as Stanford faculty affiliated with the Center.

Prizes and Awards

The Ernesto Galarza Prizes for Excellence in Graduate Student Research

The Jerry I. Porras Award for Visionary Leadership

The Renato I. Rosaldo, Jr. Award

The Ernesto Galarza Prizes for Excellence in Graduate Student Research

This annual prize was initiated in 1986 to pay tribute to the pioneering scholarly work published by Dr. Ernesto Galarza, a Stanford alumnus who is generally regarded as the “Dean of Chicano Studies.” Through his research and activism on behalf of Chicanas/os that spanned five decades, Dr. Galarza inspired others to write about the condition of Latina/o people in the U.S. and his example inspired others to follow in his footsteps to promote social justice and equality. The Galarza Prizes are awarded to Stanford undergraduates and graduate students whose research reflects the spirit of Dr. Galarza.

A $500 prize will be awarded for a graduate student paper (20 to 40 pages in length). Papers should focus on some specific aspect of the Chicana/o experience. Faculty are encouraged to nominate student papers for consideration and/or students may submit papers directly to the Chicana/o Studies Program’s Galarza Prize Selection Committee no later April 20, 2003. The Selection Committee will follow up on any faculty nomination by requesting those nominated to submit their papers. All papers submitted should include a brief cover letter and should be submitted to:

Galarza Prize Selection Committee
Chicana and Chicano Studies Program
c/o Margarita Ibarra
Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity
Bldg. 240, Room 110
MC: 2152

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The Jerry I. Porras Award for Visionary Leadership

This award, named in honor of Jerry Porras, Professor Emeritus in the Graduate School of Business, recognizes students for visionary leadership within a voluntary student organization or Stanford program serving the Chicano/Latino community.

Jerry I. Porras, Lane Professor in the Graduate School of Business, Emeritus, taught courses in leadership, interpersonal dynamics, and organizational development and change. He is co-author of the best selling book, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies. Professor Porras played a critical role in the establishment of the Guiding Concilio and he also instituted the Burciaga Award Foundation in 1996. Professor Porras continues to teach in the Graduate School of Business executive programs.

Jerry I. Porras Award for Visionary Leadership 2003 Recipients
Michelle Zamora, Graduate Student, Modern Thought and Literature
Maria Elena Gonzalez, Graduate Student, Sociology

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The Renato I. Rosaldo, Jr. Award

Since 1970, Renato I. Rosaldo, Jr., the Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, has taught courses in Chicano Life and Culture, Cultural Studies, Cultural Citizenship, history, society, and Island Southeast Asia. He has served as Director of the Stanford Center for Chicano Research and Chair of the Chicana/o Studies Program. Professor Rosaldo’s books include Culture and Truth (1989) and The Anthropology of Globalization (2001’ co-editor). Professor Rosaldo is also an award-wining poet. In its 2000 contest for literary excellence, the Latino Literary Magazine El Andar awarded Renato Rosaldo the first prize for poetry. In the fall of 2003 Renato will join his wife, Professor Mary Pratt, as a professor of Anthropology at New York University.

This newly established award honors Professor Renato Rosaldo and recognizes an undergraduate or graduate student who best exemplifies the intellectual interests, creative work and values exhibited by Professor Rosaldo.

For more information:

Frances Morales
Director, El Centro Chicano
Phone: 723-2088
Email: fmorales@stanford.edu