Believe with us.
The name CRE2 was inspired by the imperative form of the verb creer in Spanish, cree, which means believe.
CRE2 brings the research force of Washington University to study how race and ethnicity are integral to the most complex and challenging issues of our time. We believe in field-defining research, innovative learning, and strategic engagement that will transform scholarship, policy, and clinical interventions where race and ethnicity are at the center.
Believe in Research
We galvanize and incubate new research architectures and vocabularies, insurgent methodologies and practices, and novel interventions.
Believe in Learning
We design next-generation learning opportunities and innovative environments that bring our community members together.
Believe in Community
We cultivate the cross-campus hub where local, national, and global citizens and leaders can connect, collaborate, and believe together.
Featured News
The Engaged City initiative to launch
The Engaged City is a collaboration between the Center for the Humanities, the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity, and the Office for Socially Engaged Practice at Washington University in St. Louis.
Over the next three years, The Engaged City will develop three central, and interrelated, projects: a cultural asset map, a community fellowship program and seed grant opportunities.
Building on the past work of The Divided City, an urban humanities initiative at Washington University in St. Louis, this new project will shift focus to highlight St. Louis’ cultural resources — and to reframe how the city sees, understands and talks about itself.
The Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Equity (CRE2) is delighted to share some exciting news —Sophia Monegro will join us in academic year 2025-2026 as our inaugural CRE2Postdoctoral Fellow!
Dr. Monegro is a literary scholar working at the intersection of Black Women’s Intellectual History, Atlantic Studies, and Dominican Studies. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Monegro is a Fulbright Student Researcher in the Dominican Republic and a Mellon Mays Fellow. Monegro’s dissertation reads the subtexts of archival documents to trace Black women’s intellectual contributions to Caribbean radicalism from Spanish colonial slavery in Santo Domingo to the Dominican Republic and Haiti in the 19th century. Working with African American descendant communities on the island and in the diaspora, Monegro’s archival preservation work and research practices are grounded in the community-based and material needs of Black Dominicans. She is expected to receive her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2025.