Greetings
from the Founding Director, Bonnie Thornton Dill, Ph.D.
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
