RACE, TECH + CIVIL SOCIETY
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CCSRE Graduate Fellowships Expand
As New Ph.D. Minor Launches
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BY PERLITA R. DICOCHEA
April 13, 2021
The Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity will have a total of eighteen graduate students who will be part of the community as fellows. CCSRE graduate fellows include both teaching and dissertation fellows. Graduate fellows take roles in leading senior seminars, courses in the undergraduate community-based research program, and the undergraduate social justice and community engagement program. Several of the teaching fellows will assist in the Introduction to CSRE undergraduate course and help to develop a pedagogy and race workshop.
The expanded CCSRE graduate fellowship program coincides with the Ph.D. Minor launch in the 2021/2022 academic year. Any graduate student enrolled in a graduate program at Stanford may choose to minor in comparative studies in race and ethnicity (CSRE). The interdisciplinary Ph.D. will provide critical skills in race studies.
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"In our continued moment of grappling with racism and inequality around the globe, the University's commitment to training more students to be able to teach in this interdisciplinary field is crucial. We look forward to working with more graduate fellows as well as our new Ph.D. minors," Director Jennifer DeVere Brody said. |
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Dean Satz Announces New
CCSRE Faculty Director Paula Moya
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April 10, 2021
Dear members of the CCSRE community,
As you know, Jennifer Brody will finish her term as Faculty Director of CCSRE at the end of August. She leaves having launched some exciting new academic programs at the Center, including a Mellon funded Arts Practitioner Program and a Race, Tech and Civil Society initiative with HAI. I want to express my heartfelt thanks for her service, her imagination, and her commitment.
It is a pleasure to announce that, as of September 1, Paula Moya will become the Faculty Director of CCSRE. Paula is the Danily C. and Louise Bell Professor of the Humanities, and Professor of English. She is the author of The Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading and Contemporary Literary Criticism (Stanford Univ, Press) and Learning from Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles (UC Press), as well as co-editor of three important volumes in the field of race and ethnic studies. She has been a recipient of a Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, and is the Burton and Deedee McMurty University Fellow in Undergraduate Education. In 2019-20 she spent a year at the Center for the Study of the Behavioral Sciences.
I would like to thank everyone who consulted with me about this position. I was very impressed with how much the community cares about the Center and its future.
This is a very exciting time for CCSRE, as the University and the School are committed to rethinking and strengthening the resources and programs we have to understand and to address racial and ethnic inequalities, as well as to explore diverse identities. CCSRE is a critical anchor for such a project. I am delighted that Paula has agreed to take on a leadership role and help guide forward CCSRE at this important juncture.
With best wishes,
Debra Satz
Vernon R. & Lysbeth Warren Anderson Dean of the School of Humanities & Sciences
Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society, Professor of Philosophy and, by courtesy,
Political Science
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ARTS + JUSTICE WORKSHOP SERIES
Technologies of Justice
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FACULTY RESEARCH FELLOW
Chautauqua
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Rigoberto Marquéz, Associate Director of Academic Programs & Community Engaged Learning, contributes to IDEAL Staff Advisory Committee's
strategic recommendations
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The work of the committee is focused on five areas: diversity and leadership, HR policies and procedures, engagement and culture, learning and development and community engagement. |
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BY VALERIE BEEMAN AND CHRIS BLISS
April 12, 2021
Motivated by the racist incidents occurring across the nation over the last year and the light these incidents shone on the racial injustice in our country and in our community, university leadership made a major commitment to advancing racial justice at Stanford and in the broader world. Through the IDEAL initiative (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access in a Learning Environment) that began in 2019, the university is accelerating its efforts to advance a more just society through research and teaching, while at the same time looking at the university itself to make the campus more welcoming, inclusive and safe for all members.
Now, the IDEAL Staff Advisory Committee, a university-wide committee solely focused on advancing the university’s DEI commitments for staff and ensuring the consistent application of DEI strategies for the workforce, has developed a strategic framework to identify a roadmap for transformational change.
The committee is focusing its work on five areas: diversity and leadership, HR policies and procedures, engagement and culture, learning and development and community engagement.
Read the full story in Stanford | Today HERE.
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RACIAL RECKONINGS
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THE FUTURE OF THE HUMANITIES
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RACE IN MEDICINE
Speaker Series
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RACE IN MEDICINE SPEAKER SERIES
Spring '21
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May 5: Anti-Racism Workshop (no speaker)
May 26: TBD
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NEWS & EVENTS OF INTEREST |
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Stanford staffer’s illustrations help fill need for diverse characters in children’s literature |
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Molly Match, a children’s book featuring a little Black girl that was illustrated by a Stanford staffer, has sparked meaningful discussions about inclusion, diversity and equity on campus.
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BY KATHLEEN J. SULLIVAN
April 9, 2021
As an African American father, Robert Coles wanted to give his young children books with characters that looked like them, but books with Black protagonists were hard to find when his daughter and two sons were growing up in the 2000s
“It was challenging to find relatable content at that time because publishers simply didn’t have a desire to reflect cultural and ethnic diversity in their books,” said Coles, who joined Stanford in 2018 as director of creative services in Residential & Dining Enterprises.
While his children are grown, Coles knew the number of books for children and young adults featuring Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) as main characters still lag far behind those featuring whites.
According to a recent diversity survey by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, children’s and young adult books featuring BIPOC protagonists represented about 25 percent of books for kids and youth published by U.S. companies in 2019 – the last year for which statistics are available.
Read the full story in Stanford | Today HERE. |
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Farmworker Caravan - San Jose to Hollister |
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