The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism is pleased to announce its 2025 research awards for undergraduate students and travel and research grants for pre-candidacy graduate students at Johns Hopkins University. Grants will be awarded on a competitive basis, and students from all humanities and social science disciplines are encouraged to apply.

The Chloe Center will issue undergraduate summer research awards of $2,000 each and graduate travel and research grants (summer or academic year) of up to $3,000 each. Grants will be evaluated based on the quality of the proposal, fit with core themes of the Chloe Center, student’s academic standing, and relationship of the proposed research to the student’s long-term academic and professional goals.

Undergraduate Summer Research Awards

The Chloe Center is seeking to support undergraduate research that falls into at least one of the four tracks of the Critical Diaspora Studies major: Migration and Borders; Global Indigeneities; Empires, Wars, and Carceralities; Solidarities, Social Movements, and Citizenship. Research projects that consider the history and present of Johns Hopkins University and Baltimore in terms of racism, immigration, and colonialism are also welcome.

See application requirements here.

Graduate Research and Travel Grants

The Chloe Center is seeking to fund graduate research and travel during the summer or academic year that concerns racism, immigration, and colonialism, broadly construed. All disciplines and methodologies are welcome (if IRB approval is necessary, please note this in application). Only graduate students who have not yet advanced to candidacy are welcome to apply, and this grant should be used to explore field sites, research modalities, and theoretical questions in preparation for more extended dissertation research.

See application requirements here.

There will be a workshop on best practices for the graduate applications, featuring current grantees, on Wed., March 12, 12:30pm to 2:00pm in Mergenthaler 431 (revised location). Prospective applicants are encouraged to attend.

All graduate and undergraduate applications are due via e-mail to [email protected] by 11:59pm on March 31, 2025.