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The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism is an interdisciplinary forum focusing on the intersections of empire, migration, and racial hierarchy. To explore these issues, the center hosts the Critical Diaspora Studies major, workshops and symposia, facilitates student publications, and offers research grants.
The Critical Diaspora Studies major will enable students to study the connections, solidarities, and dissonances between geographical and cultural areas of study.
The Chloe Center supports interdisciplinary or post-disciplinary research on racial formation, migration and diaspora, state violence, and radical social movements, among many other topics.
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Over Fall Break 2025, ten Hopkins undergaduates enrolled in the course “Introduction to Critical Diaspora Studies” travelled to Tucson, Arizona, to participate in a experiential education opportunity. This is a report on this delegation.
Undergraduate students in the Spring 2025 Critical Diaspora Studies semester course Freedom Education: Embodied Speculative History of Maryland Schools for African Americans in the 1800s brought to life the daily patterns of Black education during Reconstruction through the execution of two original short films.
The Chloe Center will host an opening reception for the fall semester on the afternoon of Thursday, September 4. Prospective and current Critical Diaspora Studies undergraduate majors are also invited to attend an open house on Friday, August 22 at 2:45pm in Mergenthaler 266.