The Chloe Center offers annual graduate research and travel grants of up to $3,000 for Hopkins PhD students to fund research during the summer or academic year. The research should concern racism, immigration, and colonialism, broadly construed. All disciplines and methodologies are welcome. The goal is to support early research to explore field sites, research modalities, and theoretical questions in preparation for more extended dissertation research.
Applications for these grants typically open in March of each academic year, with the awards disbursed at the end of the spring semester.
Current Grantees
In 2025–2026, the following students were awarded graduate research and travel grants.
Emmanuel John A. Awine
“British Administrative Practices and the Construction of Ethnic Stereotypes in Raided Communities in the Gold Coast, and Burkina Faso, 1874-1960”
Department: History
Mentor: Didier Gondola
- Hans Frex
- “Navigating Grief: Two Immigrant Narratives of Black Maternal Mourning in Chile”
- Mentor: Gisela Heffes, Modern Languages & Literatures
- Minah Kang
- “Staging Pacific: Hawai‘i, the Institute of Pacific Relations, and Regional World Making”
- Mentor: Robbie Shilliam, Political Science
- Mateus Mendonça
- “Entangled Platforms: Migration Infrastructures and the Transnational Class Formation of Brazilian Food Delivery Workers”
- Mentor: Beverly Silver, Sociology
Previous Grantees
In 2024–2025, the following students were awarded graduate research and travel grants.
- Adenugba Omotayo Adenkule
- Mentor: Clara Han, Department of Anthropology
- Title: The Evolution of Blackgold: Ecologies of Water, Sound, and Legality in Ogoni, Nigeria
- Rini Barman
- Mentor: Clara Han, Department of Anthropology
- Title: Entanglements of Heritage Brews with Tribal Women in Postcolonial Assam: Studying Masculinity, Racialized Labor and Community Practices in Northeast India
- Ga Eun Cho
- Mentor: Erin Aeran Chung, Department of Political Science
- Title: To Make Leave or Let Stay: Mass Emigration and Development in South Korea
Call for proposals
The Chloe Center invites applications from PhD students in the humanities and social sciences at Johns Hopkins University for its annual graduate research and travel grants. Grants up to $3,000 are available to fund research during the upcoming summer or academic year. The research should concern racism, immigration, and colonialism, broadly construed. The goal is to support early research to explore field sites, research modalities, and theoretical questions in preparation for more extended dissertation research. All disciplines and methodologies are welcome (if IRB approval is necessary, please note this in application).
To apply, please send:
- a two-page application describing the research project
- a one-page bibliography with at least five books or articles that have inspired this research
- a proposed budget with estimated costs in tabular format.
Please also include a current CV and the name of a JHU faculty recommender/mentor.
The call for applications is currently closed. It will reopen in the Spring 2026 semester.
All grant recipients will be expected to present their research findings in the Spring semester, as well as an interim written research report in the Fall semester.