OMSA Research Initiative Grant (formerly Race Studies Grant)
The OMSA Research Initiative Grant (formerly Race Studies Grant) is accepting applications for 2009-2010.
The Race Studies Grant is intended to assist undergraduate, graduate, and professional students of color by providing financial support for scholarly projects exploring the multifaceted nature of race, race relations, ethnicity, and/or culture within the University of Chicago, the larger City of Chicago community, and/or Higher Education.
If you have ever thought of conducting original research, need helping with preparing for your BA thesis, want support to finish that really important chapter—the Research Initiative Grant is for you!!
Grant proposals are due Friday, October 16, 2009.
- Please click here for the Fall 2009 application form.
For more information, please contact Rosa Yadira Ortiz at ryo@uchicago.edu.
Past Recipients Include:
2008-2009
Jamila Celestine Michener Political understanding and actions of marginalized people
Anjanette Chan Tack Food desserts in communities of color
Michelle Hartzog Academic achievement of African American students in post-secondary education
Brittany Little History of Black women in theater and performance
Toussaint Losier Prisons, mass incarceration, and African Americans
Abimbola Oladokun The rise of anti-drug policy and criminalization of people of color and particularly women of color
Elizabeth Todd Black organizing, activism and political mobilization in Chicago
Adama Wiltshire Black identity within the Anglo/Hispanic divide
2007-2008
Rogelio Fierro "Flair advantage? Queering the educational (under)achievement of Mexican American men"
Kirstin Boswell Ford "A home-place: Self-identity and God in African American culture"
Tehama Lopez "Amazing grace: The possibility of a white double consciousness"
Jamila Michener "Neighborhood context and the politics of perception"
Elizabeth Perez "Women's work, ritual labor: cooking and conversion in Ilé Laroye"
Jonathan Rosa "Learning to hear a nation's limits: language ideologies and the fashioning of ethnoracial difference in a U.S. high school"
Fallon Wilson "Black women's political attitudes and the gender qualified social scripting of Black women's lives"
