The application cycle for Fellowships is now closed.
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 for the Race & Ethnicity Scholar fellowships is now closed.
2025- 2026 Graduate Fellows
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)
Khoi Ngo
Graduate Student, Sociology
- Email: khoi@nospam.wustl.edu
Criminal Justice
Policing
Mass Incarceration
Racial Stratification
Law
Social Movement
Quantitative Methods
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
2024- 2025 Graduate Fellows
Cristina Correa
Phd Student, Comparative Literature- International Writers Track
- Email: c.correa@nospam.wustl.edu
Caribbean
Creative-critical
Diaspora
Ecocriticism
Grief
Latine
Poetics
Tsering Wangmo
Graduate Student, Anthropology
- Email: t.wangmo@nospam.wustl.edu
Ancestral Lands
Exile/refugees
Filmmaking and storytelling
Geopolitics
Identity and ethnicity
Christina Smiley
PhD Student, Music
- Email: c.d.smiley@nospam.wustl.edu
Classical Music
Gender
Politics
Race
Religion
Magdalena Suárez Pomar
PhD Student, Romance Languages and Literatures
Ethnicity
Indigenous Latin America
Intellectual movements
Migration
Popular Culture
Racialization
2023- 2024 Graduate Fellows
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
Anthony Nixon
Phd Student, Brown School / Public Health Sciences
Black Families
Epidemiology
Father involvement
Health Equity
Maternal and Child Health
Reproductive Justice
Social Determinants of Health
Robyn Yzelman
PhD Student, Anthropology
- Email: r.c.yzelman@nospam.wustl.edu
Environmental Activism
Indigenous Rights
Latin America
Social Movements
2022-2023 Graduate Fellows
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
Rajnesh Chakrapani
PhD Student, Comparative Literature
Immigration and Migration
Social Justice
Translation
Gender
Speculative Archive
Diasporic Writing
Documentary Poetics
Ronelle Williams
Graduate Student, Occupational Therapy
Black/African-American
Disordered Eating
Gender
Health Disparities
Psychosocial Stress
Women’s Health
Zhongze Wei
PhD Student, Sociology
- Email: mark.wei@nospam.wustl.edu
Globalization
Immigration
Racial Identities
Racialization
2021-2022 Graduate Fellows
