CrISP Program Goals and Description
Beginning Fall 2002, the Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity will offer two graduate fellowships for graduate students interested in the intersections of race, gender, and ethnicity. The goals of this exciting program are to:
- Attract exceptionally talented graduate students who have an interest in interdisciplinary ideas, a desire to study issues of race, gender, and ethnicity, and the ability to creatively utilize the breadth of faculty and research resources available on this campus;
- Increase the visibility and impact of research and scholarship on these issues by enhancing affiliated departments' resources for recruitment and support of highlyqualified graduate students;
- Create an innovative training program – with the potential to become a national model – for the next generation of campus scholars and leaders who are helping to reconceptualize epistemological, theoretical, and methodological approaches to the study of the intersections of race, gender, and ethnicity, with other dimensions of difference, identity, and inequality.
The CrISP program will bring together the talents and resources of faculty from the many different CRGE-affiliated departments and programs to focus collectively upon the selection, training, and preparation of a cadre of graduate students with the potential to become national and international leaders of intersectional scholarship. The program will be most attractive to students with well-developed ideas who, in addition to developing expertise in their discipline, are also looking for an original, flexible, and innovative environment in which to learn the craft of interdisciplinary scholarship. Graduate programs affiliated with the Consortium will be invited to submit nominations of outstanding students that, in their opinion, would benefit from an experience that emphasizes research and administration in this area of study. A committee consisting of CRGE faculty and representatives of several affiliate departments and programs will select fellowship recipients.
Students will receive a $12,131 CrISP fellowship and an additional half time assistantship from CRGE that qualifies them for health insurance. In return, students will work 10 hours a week at the Consortium engaging extensively in the experience of interdisciplinary scholarship. They will be given an opportunity to learn firsthand the processes of research, publication, and administration through a partnership with CRGE faculty. Students will be included in all Consortium activities such as brown bags, the yearly retreat, and special seminars sponsored by the Consortium and its RIGs. Since the Consortium itself does not offer courses, the CRGE faculty mentors would be available to work with the students' departmental advisor to help design a course of study complimentary to the students' interests and departmental expectations.