Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity
Faculty Director's Welcome
Welcome colleagues and friends to the intergenerational community of the Research Institute at CCSRE. The Research Institute is a core pillar of CCSRE's structure, driving knowledge production and dialogue across disciplines and schools. Our community benefits from the experiences, perspectives, and expertise of faculty (including emeriti faculty), postdoctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students, staff, practitioners, and community partners.
The CCSRE Research Institute complements the academic agenda of CCSRE through the production of pathbreaking interdisciplinary research. Building on 30 years of research excellence, the Research Institute benefits from the scholarship of over 199 affiliated faculty in 37 departments across 7 Stanford schools. The scholarship produced by Research Institute faculty and students spans the social sciences, humanities, arts, professional fields, and–increasingly–environmental sciences, life and health sciences, law, technology, and engineering. Informed by rich interdisciplinary and comparative frameworks, CCSRE scholarship redraws the boundaries of these fields to address urgent questions related to race and ethnicity. Recent scholarship produced by our faculty and students has reflected and reshaped our communities by addressing urgent questions and issues, such as:
- tallying what is owed to undocumented residents in the U.S.;
- identifying socio-ecological solutions for agricultural resilience in the face of climate change;
- understanding how language used in U.S. criminal trials could invoke and reinforce racial bias; and
- exploring the contested meanings of education in a Japanese American concentration camp.
We promote interdisciplinary engagement through various initiatives that include a faculty seminar series and Chautauqua book salons in which faculty from disparate disciplines discuss their scholarship. Topics that will be featured in the 2026-2027 programming include: The Black Power and Black Arts Movements, the politics of the Chinese during the Cold War, and building trust in diverse settings. Faculty Research Networks also stimulate the creation of innovative interdisciplinary knowledge on race and ethnicity. The Research Institute also supports graduate student research through mini-grants, dissertation fellowships, teaching appointments, and three-year fellowships supporting incoming scholars. In addition to research funding, we offer professional development opportunities for faculty and students, including an annual summer research seminar that provides cutting-edge interdisciplinary methodological training.
A core commitment of the Research Institute is mentoring across generations of scholars. We are proud to bestow a mentoring award every year to a faculty affiliate who is nominated by peers and students.
I look forward to welcoming you to our thriving community. I trust you will participate in our programs, make use of our resources, and engage in our activities to advance interdisciplinary scholarship on race and ethnicity.
Best regards,
CCSRE Director of Research
Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education
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