Transformative Justice Research Grant
Submission Deadline: Friday, January 12, 2024 at 11:59 PM
Race and Ethnic Studies owes much of its origin to anti-racist and anti-colonial movements that transpired outside of the university. It was intended as a political education component of those struggles that would use the space and resources of colleges and universities to refine how systemic oppression was understood; to de-subjugate knowledge from the dominion of Eurocolonial disciplines or thought; to create new strategies of anti-racist activism; to train new generations of committed social justice leaders, and to generate visions of other possible worlds.
The Council for Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) at Northwestern University honors and values this original impetus and endeavors to enliven it further. To this end, CRES invites applications for grants that will fund graduate research projects committed to transformative justice. By transformative justice research, we refer to research that advances a more critical understanding of conditions that harm Black, Native and Indigenous, Latinx, and Asian American peoples as well as research that enhances our capacity to help resist or abolish those conditions. Projects that include, collaborate with, or are linked to grassroots or community-based organizing/activist initiatives are especially welcome.
ELIGIBILITY
Northwestern students in any degree-granting program of The Graduate School are eligible, including past CRES fellows. Current CRES fellows are not eligible.
THE GRANT
The Transformative Justice Research Grant provides $1,000 for research expenses. Conference travel and costs related to research presentations are not eligible.
APPLICATION DEADLINE
The application deadline for the 2023-2024 Transformative Justice Research Grant is Friday, January 12, 2024
APPLICATION PROCESS
Please submit a research proposal, two double-spaced pages maximum, that includes:
- Name, department, year in department, name of faculty advisor, and areas of research interest
- Description of planned research, how it fits into your dissertation project, how it contributes to ethnic studies and our knowledge of race, and how it speaks to transformative justice.
Applications should be submitted as a single PDF document to cres@northwestern.edu.
Applications will be judged on their scholarly merit and contribution to transformative justice: the originality, quality, clarity, and importance of the proposed research project, its relevance to the study of race and the advancement of Ethnic Studies, as well as the applicant’s ability to contribute productively to and benefit from an interdisciplinary community of scholars. Students who are awarded CRES grants will be invited to present their research and workshop their writing upon completion.
QUESTIONS?
Email us at cres@northwestern.edu