
Each year, the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity offers fellowships for select graduate students interested in the study of race/ethnicity.
The Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity supports graduate student research through two fellowship programs, for both incoming and advanced PhD students. Our goal is to foster a community of emerging scholars in the field of race and ethnicity studies, broadly defined.
The CRE2 Graduate Fellowship is a legacy program for outstanding doctoral students newly admitted to Washington University in St. Louis who are interested in the study of race and ethnicity. Meet our current fellows below.
The CRE2 Race & Ethnicity Scholars fellowship is offered annually to three graduate students whose works aligns with race, ethnicity, and equity. Based on a review of good-standing as Fellows and progress towards the degree, the fellowship is renewable for an additional year.
All CRE2 graduate student fellows participate in CRE2 sponsored events and workshops. Fellows are invited to share research or creative work in process with their cohort and Center Affiliates in both the Fall and Spring as well as take advantage of special professional development opportunities, and propose future Center programming.
- Only CRE2 Graduate Student Affiliates are eligible to apply for this fellowship. Apply to become an affiliate here.
- Graduate students at Washington University in any of the seven schools are eligible.
- Graduate students must be at the end of their first or second year of study (finishing first-year masters, finishing first-year PhD, finishing second-year PhD)
- Current CRE2 graduate fellows are not eligible for the Race & Ethnicity Scholars Program
The submission cycle is now open. Proposal submissions will be due by April 3, 2023 at 5:00pm CST. The application is available at the link below. Awards will be announced in April 2023.
2022-2023 Graduate Fellows

Jeanne Rosine Abomo Edou
Graduate Student, Hispanic studies and comparative literature
- Email: a.jeannerosine@wustl.edu
Afrofuturism
Afrorealism
Afropolitanism
Amefricanity
Critical Race Theory
Cultural Theory
Post-apocalyptic Era
Post-colonial Theory
Post-human Era

Hawa Adaweh
PhD Student, Psychological & Brain Sciences
- Email: a.hawa@wustl.edu
Child Psychiatric Disorders
Childhood Adversities
Disparities in Diagnoses
Mental Health
Psychosis

Rajnesh Chakrapani
Graduate Student, Comparative Literature International Writers Track
- Email: c.rajnesh@wustl.edu
Immigration and Migration
Social Justice
Translation
Gender
Speculative Archive
Diasporic Writing
Documentary Poetics

Zhongze Wei
PhD Student, Sociology
- Email: mark.wei@wustl.edu
Globalization
Immigration
Racial Identities
Racialization

Ronelle Williams
Graduate Student, Occupational Therapy
- Email: r.e.williams@wustl.edu
Black/African-American
Disordered Eating
Gender
Health Disparities
Psychosocial Stress
Women’s Health
2021-2022 Graduate Fellows

Dennis Boyd
Brown School

Nayive Gaytán
Arts & Sciences, Romance Languages/Hispanic Studies

Paige DeVos
Arts & Sciences, Anthropology

Haley Kaplan
School of Medicine, Occupational Therapy

Nadia Jackson-Fitch
Arts & Sciences, Sociology

Ivy Smith
McKelvey, Computational and Data Sciences