Teaching Race Graduate Fellowship

As part of the Mellon Centering Race Consortium, Brown University, Stanford University, and Yale University will jointly organize a speaker series for PhD students under the auspices of a new Teaching Race Graduate Fellowship. Graduate fellows will receive a modest stipend for participating in remote and in-person workshops exploring theory and praxis in anti-racist pedagogy, with a special emphasis on concrete strategies for supporting difficult conversations in the classroom. 

In Zoom sessions held approximately four times per semester, a faculty affiliate of one of the host research centers will speak to a topic or text that they find challenging to teach and how they teach it. Fellows will engage with faculty presenters and peers across all three universities through Zoom sessions, an online post forum, and in-person meetings at their home institution. Fellows will consider a range of strategies for teaching sensitive and timely material, build community with graduate students and faculty across the three universities, and may have an opportunity to participate in the Centering Race Consortium Plenary Conference in Fall 2024, to be held at Yale University. Fellows will also be asked to complete a working project (e.g., draft syllabus or lesson plan) to present at the final in-person meeting and on the group discussion board.

Guest speakers will include faculty from Brown, Stanford, Yale, and the University of Chicago. Fall presenters include Hi'ilei Hobart (Yale) and Matt Guterl (Brown). 

This initiative is part of the Centering Race in the Arts & Humanities Consortium (CRC) funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Stanford applicants may address questions to Dr. Annie Atura Bushnell at atura [at] stanford.edu (atura[at]stanford[dot]edu).