Fellows announced for Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society
The Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society has announced its 2005-06 Fellows. The five faculty members and five advanced graduate students chosen as fellows enjoy a semester free of teaching responsibilities and participate in a monthly fellows seminar around the theme “What Is Multiracial Democratic Research?” This year’s group represents the continuing interdisciplinary growth of the center, with fellows representing 11 departments and three colleges. The CDMS Faculty Fellows, their departments and projects:
- Lisa Cacho, Latina/Latino Studies and Asian American Studies, “Propositioning Inequality: Race, Space and the Politics of Privatization”
- Lynne Dearborn, architecture, “Daring to Reach for the American Dream: Judging Equity in Home-buying Processes and Outcomes for Low/Moderate-income Non-white Americans”
- Katherine Ryan, educational psychology, “Making Educational Accountability More Democratic”
- Damion Thomas, African American Studies and Research Program and kinesiology, “American Politricks: Sport, Civil Rights and the Cold War”
- Arlette I. Willis, curriculum and instruction, “Working Toward Social Justice in a Community of Practice”
CDMS Graduate Fellows
- Gregory Goodale, speech communication, “Benjamin Rush and the Space of the Young Ladies’ Academy, Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, and the St. Thomas African Episcopal Church, 1787-1794”
- Sarah M. McGough, educational policy studies, “Flexible Habits of Gender and Race: Political Agency and Identity Transformation in Schools”
- Karen Phoenix, history, “Conducting School on Our Ways: The YWCA and Americanization at Home and Abroad, 1885-1939”
- Andrea S. Wilson, educational policy studies, “Gettin Out of the Projects: The Impact of Relocation on Adolescents Formerly Residing in the Robert Taylor Homes”
- Satomi Yamamoto, sociology, “Intermediaries and Migration: The Role of Religious Not-for-Profit Organizations in Migrant Communities in the Chicago Area”
To view complete abstracts of the projects listed, go to http://cdms.ds.uiuc.edu/.
