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Graduate and Undergraduate Research Grants Announced

Graduate and Undergraduate Research Grants Announced

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 graduate students.

Chloe Center Hosts Panel on Challenges for Migrants “From the Borderlands to Baltimore”

Chloe Center Hosts Panel on Challenges for Migrants “From the Borderlands to Baltimore”

“From the Borderlands to Baltimore: Meeting the Challenges for Migrants and Refugees Today,” on February 6, 2025, brought together migration and refugee activists and experts to share their experiences on the challenges at the U.S.-Mexico border and Baltimore alike.

Spring Events Announced, including Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates

Spring Events Announced, including Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism is pleased to announce an exciting line-up of events for the spring semester, as well as new funding opportunities.

Chloe Center Postdoctoral Fellowship Announced for 2025–2027

Chloe Center Postdoctoral Fellowship Announced for 2025–2027

The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism is pleased to announce a new two-year postdoctoral fellowship. Review of applications will begin on March 1.

Spring 2025 Courses Announced

Spring 2025 Courses Announced

The new Critical Diaspora Studies (CDS) is launching Spring 2025, and its roster of courses has now been announced. Among these courses are four new courses primarily listed in CDS, as well as a dozen other cross-listed courses.

New Chloe Center Working Groups Established

New Chloe Center Working Groups Established

The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism has announced three new working groups.

“Revolution in Our Lifetime” Exhibit Extended through July 7, 2024

“Revolution in Our Lifetime” Exhibit Extended through July 7, 2024

The exhibit “Revolution in Our Lifetime”: The Black Panther Party and Political Organizing in Baltimore, 1968–1974, on view at The Peale, has been extended through July 7, 2024.

2024 Grant and Award Winners

2024 Grant and Award Winners

At the inaugural Chloe Center symposium, Keywords for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism, on May 2, 2024, grant and award winners were announced.

The Asian Diaspora in Baltimore, Documented and Described

The 300 block of Park Avenue in Downtown Baltimore was at the center of several presentations by undergraduate students on Tuesday, December 6th. This block today is home to several businesses run by Ethiopian merchants, offering hair styling, meals, and other essentials. Yet this block historically has been the locus of the Chinese community in the city of Baltimore, which peaked in the 1960s.

Students, Faculty Imagine New Academic Program at JHU, a Department of Reparations

Students, Faculty Imagine New Academic Program at JHU, a Department of Reparations

In May 2022, the RIC faculty board voted unanimously to support the proposal for a new undergraduate major, tentatively called Critical Diasporic Studies. On Tuesday, September 13, 2022, RIC hosted a roundtable event titled “A Department of Reparations?” to further echo student demands for new curricular initiatives at JHU. Featuring eminent scholars in the fields of racial and ethnic politics and transnational cultural studies, Dr. Adom Getachew and Dr. Lisa Lowe, the roundtable sketched the contours of what new directions in the study of racism, diaspora, and indigeneity might look like in our present moment.