Director's Message
Welcome to the Web site for the Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity.
The Consortium is an association of academic units and individual faculty on the University of Maryland campus whose mission is to promote, advance, and conduct research, scholarship, and faculty development that examines the intersections of race, gender, and ethnicity with other dimensions of difference.
Established in 1998 with support from the Colleges of Arts and Humanities, Behavioral and Social Sciences, the Graduate School, and the Office of the Provost, the Consortium seeks to: support, coordinate, and facilitate the activities of the many outstanding faculty and academic units at Maryland engaged in scholarship that focuses on intersections of race, gender, and ethnicity; and to build visibility both on and off-campus for our exceptional wealth of resources.
Through our affiliates, community partners, and research interest groups, we encourage an intellectual climate that supports collaboration. Through our Research Program Areas, we promote approaches that contextualize the lives and experiences of the individuals and groups that participate in our research. Through this Web site and other dissemination efforts, we develop applications of knowledge to human problems. Through a variety of research training opportunities we seek to transfer intellectual capital to upcoming generations.
We invite you to explore this Web site and familiarize yourself with our work; the work of our affiliates; and that of our faculty. Take a moment to view and print our new information sheet. Once you do, we think you'll become convinced, as we are, that the University of Maryland has exceptional resources for the study of the intersections for race, gender, and ethnicity with other dimensions of difference.
Sincerely,
Bonnie Thornton Dill
Founding Director