The Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity will offer a limited number of Graduate Student Conference Travel Grants of up to $1,000 to support conference travel activities related to the advancement of the CRE2 mission and three CRE2 pillars.
These grants are reviewed on a rolling basis and will be awarded until the funds are exhausted.
Tiers of Support
Presenting (Domestic): Up to $750
Presenting (International): Up to $1,000
Attending as a Participant (Domestic or International): Up to $500
Only CRE2 Graduate Student Affiliates are eligible to apply for grants under this program. You must have held Affiliate Status for at least one semester before applying for this award. Eligibility is limited to one Graduate Student Travel Award per academic year.
Proposals should include the title of the conference you are attending, location of conference, and date(s) of conference. In your proposal also indicate whether you are attending as a presenter or participant. If you are presenting, please provide the title and the description of the paper or presentation (abstract). As well, please provide a short statement about the conferences relevance to the study of race and ethnicity. If you are not presenting and are just attending the conference, please provide a brief description of how this conference will advance your studies. As well, please provide a short statement about the conferences relevance to the study of race and ethnicity. Applicants should also include a proposed budget for your travel to the conference. Proof of registration or acceptance is also required.
We are now accepting applications for the AY2024-2025.
Budget proposal should include estimated costs for registration fee, lodging fee, meals, airfare, and any other anticipated expenses.
The CRE2 Leadership Team will screen all submitted proposals to determine whether they align with the program’s goals and will review qualifying proposals.
The Center will monitor progress on Graduate Student Travel Awards. Grantees will provide an expense report upon request. Grantees will submit a final progress report and any products of the grant within one (1) month after attending the conference and will notify CRE2 of any proposals and scholarly works subsequently submitted or awarded/accepted. Potential grant products and scholarly works include publications; grant proposals; recordings; installations or exhibits; documentation of conferences, symposia, or residencies; and scholarly awards or honors.
All presentations and papers generated with the support of a CRE2 Graduate Student Travel Awards will acknowledge the program using the statement, “This work has been funded by the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity at Washington University in St. Louis Graduate Student Travel Awards program, but the views remain those of the authors.”
American Educational Research Association
Maegan B. Arney
Doctoral Student, Education
Collective Expertise
Distributed Cognition
Intersectional Identity
Team Performance
Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR)
Saria Bechara
Graduate student, Brown School
- Email: b.saria@nospam.wustl.edu
Community-Engaged Research
Ethnicity and Migration
Forced Migration
Health Disparities
Human Rights
Migration Policy
Multidimensional Deprivation
PRAXIS
Philesha Colquitt
Doctoral Student, Arts and Sciences/Anthropology
- Email: c.philesha@nospam.wustl.edu
Anthropology
Black Feminist Theory
Queer Theory
Rural Studies
Sexuality Studies
Southern Studies
African, Afropolitan, and Afropean Belongings and Identities: European Conference on African Studies
Ekua Mbrah Inkoom
PhD Student, Romance Languages and Literatures and CRE2 Graduate Assistant
- Email: e.inkoom@nospam.wustl.edu
Africa
Cultural Diplomacy
Diaspora
Migration
Public Diplomacy
Spain
Transculturalism
American Public Health Association (APHA) 2024 Annual
Meeting and Expo
Brynn Mackenzie Lau
MPH Student, Brown School
- Email: brynn.l@nospam.wustl.edu
Health Disparities
Health Equity
Health Outcomes
Health Policy and Systems
Health Services
Immigrant Health
Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR)
Jihye Lee
Doctoral Student, Brown School
- Email: jihye.l@nospam.wustl.edu
Social Policy
Poverty
Economic Integration
Child Maltreatment
Undocumented Immigrant
Refugee
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)
Northeast Modern Language Association’s (NeMLA) 56th Annual Convection
Gicela Medina
Hispanic Studies PhD Student
- Email: gicela@nospam.wustl.edu
Central America
Afro-Latinx
Migration
Gender
Literature
Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR)
Portia Nartey
Social Work PhD Student, Brown School
Community-engaged Research
Cultural Gender Norms
Economic Empowerment Interventions
Global Health
International Social and Economic Development
Sexual Risk Behaviors
Women and Girls Socioeconomic Development
American Public Health Association (APHA) 2024 Annual
Meeting and Expo
Oreoluwa Oginni
Graduate Research Assistant, Public Health
- Email: o.g.oginni@nospam.wustl.edu
Implementation strategy mechanisms
Physical activity,
Open street (ciclovia)
Nutrition programs(food-based dietary guidelines)
Qualitative methods
Latin America
Scoping review
West Indian Literature Conference
Crystal Payne
Graduate Student, English and American Literature
- Email: c.payne@nospam.wustl.edu
Black diaspora
Border Theory
Caribbean Studies
Exile
Hemispheric American Studies
Migration and movement
Postcolonial theory
2025 American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children Colloquium
Wynette Whitegoat-Ramirez
PhD Student, Brown School
- Email: whitegoat@nospam.wustl.edu
Child and family well-being in Indigenous communities
Child maltreatment prevention
CSWE 2024 Annual Program Meeting: It is time to act. Indigenous knowledge sovereignty and environmental justice
Mustafa Rfat
PhD Student in Social Work, Brown School
- Email: m.rfat@nospam.wustl.edu
Refugees/immigrants
Disability
Education
Economic Empowerment
Mental Health
28th IPSA World Congress of Political Science
Deidi Olaya Rodriguez
PhD Candidate, Brown School- Social Work
- Email: deidi.o@nospam.wustl.edu
Feminist economics, Bargaining Power, Gender, Global social policy, Intimate partner violence (IPV), Latin America
Northeast Modern Language Association’s (NeMLA) 56th Annual Convention
Andre’A Roper
PhD, English and American Literature
- Email: a.l.roper@nospam.wustl.edu
African American Literature
African Diaspora
Eco-criticism
Education
Ethics
Humanitarianism
Postcolonial Studies
American Educational Research Association Annual Conference
Molly Schneider
Doctoral Student, Sociology
Critical Race Theory
Social Movements
Culture
Legacies of Racial Violence
Education
Reproduction of Inequality
Reparations
Health City Design 2024 (HCD 2024) International Congress
Milena Franco-Silva
PhD Student, Brown School
- Email: f.milena@nospam.wustl.edu
Active Mobility
Built Environment
Health Disparities
Livability
Urban Health
APSAC’s 32nd Colloquium
Yadira Tejeda
Graduate Student, Brown School of Social Work
- Email: t.yadi@nospam.wustl.edu
Latinx Families
Child Welfare System
XXIX Annual Juan Bruce-Novoa Mexican Studies Conference
Francisco Tijerina
Graduate Student, Romance Languages and Literatures/Hispanic Studies
- Email: francisco@nospam.wustl.edu
Contemporary
Energy
Extractivism
Latin America
Literature
Minerals
Oil
American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting
Tsering Wangmo
Graduate Student, Anthropology
- Email: t.wangmo@nospam.wustl.edu
Ancestral Lands
Exile/refugees
Filmmaking and storytelling
Geopolitics
Identity and ethnicity
2025 American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children Colloquium
Wynette Whitegoat-Ramirez
PhD Student, Brown School
- Email: whitegoat@nospam.wustl.edu
Child and family well-being in Indigenous communities
Child maltreatment prevention
National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, NASPA Annual Conference
David Balmaceda
Doctoral Candidate in Applied Linguistics | Graduate Certificate in Higher Education | Former Fulbright Grantee 2013-2015
- Email: dbalmaceda@nospam.wustl.edu
Applied Linguistics
Gender and Second Language Enrollment
Language and Education
Language and Global or Transnational Mobility
Language Acquisition and Use
Language Program Development
The penn jewish studies graduate student conference
Daria Berman
PhD Candidate, History
- Email: b.daria@nospam.wustl.edu
Critical Race Theory
Cultural Flows and History
Diaspora
Ethnicity and Migration
Gender
Law
Religion
Rhtyhm Changes
Varun Chandrasekhar
PhD Student, Music
- Email: c.varun@nospam.wustl.edu
African-American Studies
Black Modernism
Existentialism
Jazz
Music Theory
Phenomenology
Estudios Afrolatinoamericanos – University of cartagena de Indias
Jeanne Rosine Abomo Edou
Graduate Student, Hispanic studies and comparative literature
Afrofuturism
Afrorealism
Afropolitanism
Amefricanity
Critical Race Theory
Cultural Theory
Post-apocalyptic Era
Post-colonial Theory
Post-human Era
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Laura Evers
PhD Student, English and American Literature
- Email: e.laura@nospam.wustl.edu
20th century African American Autobiographies and Novels
Documentary Film
Documentary Poetics
Intermediality/multimodality
Pedagogical Practices
Visual Culture
Reaction and Resistance, Imagining possible futures in the Americas
Viviana Ghiglino Gonzales
Former MA Student, Anthropology
- Email: g.viviana@nospam.wustl.edu
Global Pharmaceuticals
Clinical Trials
Scientific Disparities
Health Disparities
Anthropology of Peru
Anthropology of development
Indigenous-Latin America
MELUS (The Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States)
Naomi Kim
Graduate Student, English
- Email: naomi.kim@nospam.wustl.edu
Asian American Studies
Critical Race Theory
Ethnicity and Migration
Korean diaspora
Religion and Literature
SOCIETY FOR PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY ANNUAL CONVENTION
Messi Lee
PhD Student, Division of Computational and Data Sciences
- Email: hojunlee@nospam.wustl.edu
Language
Machine Learning
Quantitative Methods
Stereotyping and Prejudice
Dance Studies Association Conference
Tess Losada Miner
MFA Candidate in Dance, Performing Arts Department
- Email: l.tess@nospam.wustl.edu
Bicultural Straddling
Choreography
Dance Education
Liminality
Mixed Race Experience
Modern/Contemporary Dance
Ritual in Dance
Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention
Maegan B. Arney
Doctoral Student, Education
Collective Expertise
Distributed Cognition
Intersectional Identity
Team Performance
Cartographies of movement- dance studies association Conference
Lourdes del Mar Santiago Lebron
MFA Dance Graduate Student, Performing Arts Department
Caribbean Dance Traditions
Dance (Physical Practice)
Critical Dance Studies
Embodied Practices in Research
Puerto Rican
Queer Latine Performance
Feminism in the Caribbean
Southeast asia research group (SEAREG) 2023 Winter
Jeremy Siow
Graduate Student, Political Science
Comparative Politics
Political Socialization
Southeast Asia Politics
Ethnic and Race Politics
Education Policy
Quantitative Methods
American Comparative LITERATURE Association CONFERENCE
Francisco Tijerina
Graduate Student, Romance Languages and Literatures/Hispanic Studies
- Email: francisco@nospam.wustl.edu
Contemporary
Energy
Extractivism
Latin America
Literature
Minerals
Oil