Annual Theme
Each year, the STRC selects a theme that is both timely and lends itself to humanities inquiry. For 2023-2024, the theme was Stories for Racial Justice and Healing.
Faculty Cohort
Rocío Ferreira
Women Shoot: Poetics of Political Violence
in Contemporary Peruvian Culture
STRC Faculty Research Fellowship
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Juan Mora-Torres
Mexicans in Babylon: Barrio Making in Chicago’s West Side, 1917-1983
STRC Faculty Research Fellowship
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Student Cohort
Laura Carvajal
Escaping Antihaitianismo:
Analyzing Antihaitianismo in Popular Culture and Its Societal Impact
STRC Graduate Student Research Fellowship
Shannan Moore
Black Digital Spaces:
Theorizing Resistance in the Wake of Racist Technology
STRC Graduate Student Research Fellowship
Gabriela Córdova
Calladita No Te Ves Más Bonita:
Cultural Practices within Latina Women’s Advocacy
STRC Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Jael Davis
She Was There Too:
Enslaved Black Women, Agency, and Community
STRC Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Laszlo Katona
Writing The Wake:
Archives, Absence, and Aesthetics in Black Historiographical Critique
STRC Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Krystal Morgan
Hidden in Plain Sight:
A Qualitative Analysis of The U.S. Public Health Service's Syphilis Study and Contemporary Issues of Iatrophobia in Black Women
STRC Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Lila Nambo
The Bracero Program’s Legacy on its Participants: Positive or Negative?
STRC Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Samara Smith
“Imagining The Black Queer Feminine Through Lemonade: Art Production as a Mode of Knowledge Production”
STRC Undergraduate Research Fellowship