Annual Theme
Each year, the STRC selects a theme that is both timely and lends itself to humanities inquiry. For 2024-2025, the theme was Anti-Racism, Transformation, and Healing through the Humanities.
Faculty Cohort
Dr. Kalyani Menon, Religious Studies
Making Hindus Right: Hindu Supremacy in the Diaspora
STRC Professional Development Fellowship
Dr. Carolina Sternberg, Latin American and Latino Studies
Inclusiveness and Equity in Chicago? An Analysis of Lori Lighfoot’s and Brandon Johnson’s Rhetoric and Policies
STRC Professional Development FellowshipView BioDr. Sanjukta Mukherjee, Women's and Gender Studies
Pedagogies of Care: An Oral History of Service Workers at DePaul University
STRC Professional Development Fellowship
Student Cohort
Sophia Burns, Sustainable Urban Development
"High Stakes, Rising Tides: Reclaiming Narratives of Urban Redevelopment Policy and Climate Justice in Atlantic City"
STRC Graduate Research Fellowship
Claudia Cisneros Méndez, Women's and Gender Studies
"Art and Culture as Resistance: Indigenous Communities Defying State Violence and Racist Repression in Peru"
STRC Graduate Research Fellowship
Elizabeth Wallace, Spanish
"With an Empathetic Lens: Understanding the Causes of Forced Migration in Mexico through Film's Storytelling"
STRC Graduate Research Fellowship
Abigail Flores, English
"Migration, Displacement and the Performance of Puerto Rican Identity in Chicago"
STRC Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Naomi Love, Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies
"Redefining Religion: Challenging Eurocentric Narratives through African American Spiritualism"
STRC Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Sifa Muderhwa, International Studies
"Green Imperialism: The Hidden Costs of the Green New Deal in the Global South"
STRC Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Chris Sifri, Sociology
"Art of Resistance: Reclamation through Art"
STRC Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Aidan Tennant, Philosophy
"Machine Realism: The Collapse of 'Bring Chicago Home' and Radical Black Politics"
STRC Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Jo Trasowech, Criminology, International Studies
"Western-Liberal Epistemology, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Postcolonial Discourse"
STRC Undergraduate Research Fellowship