The Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism offers annual undergraduate summer research awards of up to $2,000. Applications for these awards open in the spring and are due March 31.
The Chloe Center supports 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.
Students are expected to offer a public presentation, in addition to a written summary, of their research in the fall semester following their summer research. Summer research awards may be used to extend research completed in a CDS or other course and/or to begin research toward a CDS honors thesis.
Previous awardees
In 2024, the following students were recipients of the Summer Research Award:
- Rachel Baffoe-Bonnie (’26): Spirit Possession or Depression? Black Immigrants’ Alternative Mental Health Healing Strategies: A Preliminary Ethnographic Case Study
- Vanessa Han (’26): The Structural Undercurrents of Korean and Black Relations in Baltimore
- Ethan Tan (’25): Organizing Chinese Community in Twentieth Century Baltimore
- Angela Tracy (’25): Filipino Diaspora: Unraveling Colonial Legacies and Military-Industrial Dynamics