Past Featured Research

Congratulations to Jesse Davis, Tyriesa Howell, Margot Moinester, Illana Seff, Lindsay Stark, Brian Crisp, and Matthew Gabel! Read more here.

Congratulations to Miguel Valerio, Carrie Coughlin, and S. Richard Dunham! Read more here.

Congratulations to Rithvik Ramesh for winning the Award for Best Undergraduate Research Paper Engaging St. Louis, and to Meredith Kelling and Jeremy Siow for winning the Awards for Best Graduate Research Papers in Race/Ethnicity! Read more here.

Congratulations to Tyriesa Howell, Pauline Kim, Javier Garcia-Liendo, William J. Maxwell, Paul Steinbeck, and Akiko Tsuchiya! Read more here.

CRE² Affiliates Rebecca Brady and Deanna Barch and Associate Director Cynthia Rogers recently published “The Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Neighborhood Crime on Neonatal Functional Connectivity” in Biological Psychiatry. Read more here.

Faculty Affiliate Patty Hedya recently published “The Façade of Redevelopment: Exploring hidden politics of urban improvement and erasure in McRee Town, St. Louis” in the Common Reader. Read more here.

Congratulations to Julia Fish, Hani Fish-Bieler, Fatou Kane, Gabi Senno, and Sofia Soraci! Read more here.

After a successful first year, Mindfulness in Anti-Racism, Diana Parra and Todd Braver’s Research Working Group funded through CRE², is renewed for 2022. Read more here.

CRE² Faculty Affiliate William Nomikos recently published an article titled “Peacekeeping and the Enforcement of Intergroup Cooperation: Evidence from Mali” in the Journal of Politics. Read more here.

CRE² Faculty Affiliate and Small Grant recipient Miguel Valerio recently published a co-edited volume titled Indigenous and Black Confraternities in Colonial Latin America Negotiating Status through Religious Practices in Amsterdam University Press. Read more here.

As the United States continues to navigate both an ongoing health pandemic and an epidemic of racism, public health officials and media outlets are bombarding us with conflicting advice about how to protect our well-being. The research and policies related to these recommendations, however, often fail to address racism as a health problem too. Ivan Bujan, CRE² Postdoctoral Affiliate, curates an exhibition exploring these themes. Read more here.

Jorge Llibre-Guerra, Assistant Professor of Neurology and CRE² Faculty Affiliate, was awarded a Research Working Group grant in the amount of $2,500 for “Increasing Sustained Diversity in Alzheimer’s Disease Clinical Trials.” Read more here.

Affiliates Michael Esposito, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Savannah Larimore, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sociology, were awarded a CRE² Innovation Space grant in the amount of $5,000 for “Power Lab.” Read more here.

As part of the CRE² Innovation Space the Latinx Collaborative to Reduce Stigma and Improve Mental Health Literacy, headed by Graduate Student Affiliate Nancy J. Pérez-Flores and Faculty Affiliate Leo Cabassa, has published “Effectiveness of Mental Health Literacy and Stigma Interventions for Latino/a Adults in the United States: A Systematic Review” in Stigma & Health. Read more here.

Calvin Lai, Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences and CRE² Faculty Affiliate, has received a grant from the Department of Justice that will support his evaluation of a diversity training program for thousands of law enforcement members. Read more here.

Professor of Philosophy and CRE² Faculty Affiliate Ronald Mallon recently published the article “Racial Attitudes, Accumulation Mechanisms, and Disparities” in Review of Philosophy and Psychology Read more here.

Helina Woldekiros, CRE² Faculty Affiliate and assistant professor of archaeology, and her collaborators recently launched the Bibliographic Database of African Scholarship on African Archaeology (BibDAA). The project seeks to make scholarship by African and Afrodescendant archaeologists more widely known, as one way of addressing persistent undercitation of the work of Black scholars.

CRE² Postdoctoral Affiliate Michael Park and colleagues recently published the article “Racial Discrimination and the Moderating Effects of Racial and Ethnic Socialization on the Mental Health of Asian American Youth” in Child Development. Read more here.

CRE² Graduate Student Affiliate Rene Canady and colleagues published the policy memo “Defining the Race and Ethnic Standards for Federal Statistics and Administrative Reporting.” This interdisciplinary work is meant to make researchers confront the historical use of race as a tool of injustice and alter the epistemology of race-based biomedical research. Read more here.

To unravel the role of drugs, genes, and the environment, over 11,000 children are being tracked in their teenage years in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study to determine the effects of cannabis use during pregnancy. CRE² Associate Director Cynthia Rogers appeared on PBS Nova to discuss the study. Watch here.

Small Grant Recipient Rebecca Brenner presented her findings at the Flux Congress, a developmental cognitive neuroscience conference. She is also gave an oral presentation at Washington University in St. Louis’s Neuroscience Program Retreat in September and will give a presentation at the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology in December.

CRE² Faculty Affiliates Drs. Graham Colditz and Bettina Drake, along with Li Ding and Ryan Fields, recently received funding for a Cancer Moonshot grant on Participant Engagement in Cancer Genomic Sequencing focused on three rare cancers: early onset colorectal cancer among African American patients, Multiple Myeloma among African American patients, and cholangiocarcinoma.

Through Colors of COVID, CRE² affiliates have developed transdisciplinary projects that will generate new research frameworks and methodologies to capture the challenges and insights revealed by the racially and ethnically disparate impacts of COVID-19.

In Brazil, Black women are disproportionately denied access to timely care and are made vulnerable to death by avoidable obstetric causes. However, they have not been at the center of recent initiatives to improve maternal health. Read more here.

Aggressive policing (or aggressive order maintenance policing) is prevalent throughout the United States, negatively affecting the health of those exposed to it. To address this public health issue, policymakers must promote greater data transparency and consider structural changes in the roles police institutions play in monitoring deviance. Read more here.

Shefali Chandra, Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Asian American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis’s College of Arts & Sciences, was awarded a CRE² Scholar Grant for “Penetrating America: Colonial Replay and the Making of a Supercaste.”

As a 2021 Career Enhancement Fellow, and supported by a CRE² Small Grant, Miguel Valerio, Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, will be revising the manuscript for his first book Sovereign Joy: Afro-Mexican Festive Practices, 1539-1640.