
The Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity offers a limited number of Small Grants of up to $1,000 to support activities related to the advancement of the CRE2 mission, three CRE2 pillars, and the 2020-2023 CRE2 Programmatic Themes.
These grants are reviewed on a rolling basis and will be awarded until the funds are exhausted. The Small Grants program seeks to be responsive to the typical resource needs scholars face while undertaking research, exhibitions, and other creative works on the subjects of race and/or ethnicity. Examples include books, subventions, editing costs, research assistance, and travel for research or conferences. Small Grants are intended to help address immediate needs of the research community that may arise outside of larger grant opportunities for funding. Larger grant requests will remain the purview of other grant programs.
Only CRE2 Faculty Affiliates, Graduate Student Affiliates, Postdoctoral Affiliates, and Resident and Trainee Affiliates are eligible to apply for grants under this program. The principal investigator(s) must have applied for Affiliate status by the previous academic semester prior to submitting a grant application. Exceptions are granted for new faculty, graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and researchers, and residents and trainees who arrive during the semester of this RFP. Eligibility is limited to one Small Grant per year as principal investigator.
Proposals should be no longer than 400 words, including the identification of the basis of the scholarly activity (e.g., poster presentation of research on race/ethnicity), description of the resources needed (e.g., airfare, statistical software license), the event or where the resource will be needed (e.g., annual APPAM meeting in Denver), timing of the resource need (e.g., to secure professional editor during spring term), and the anticipated outcomes should the grant be provided (e.g., the dissemination of research, completion of final monograph draft). All Small Grant proposals that are approved for funding and involve the use of human subjects (e.g., payment or stipends to research participants) must obtain appropriate human subjects approval through the University’s Institutional Review Board before CRE2 funds are disbursed.
COVID-19 Contingencies: If the proposal includes travel plans, we encourage applicants to include one additional paragraph with an alternative research plan that does not include travel.
Proposal submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis. Awards will be announced within two weeks of submission. Project funds must be used within six months. Requests for extensions will be granted only for unexpected circumstances.
Budget items may include support for data entry, interviews, data acquisition, access to restricted-use data, travel costs related to data collection or meetings with collaborators, creative materials, and other reasonable costs. The Center will not pay for computer equipment when that computing can reasonably be accomplished with the existing equipment on campus. Note that travel-related grants may require the submission of a travel report and reimbursement of the grantee’s airfare purchase after the conference is attended. Unspent funding at the end of the grant period will revert to the CRE2 Small Grant pool unless a request for a time extension is submitted and CRE2 leadership approves the request. Budget Rationales should include outside resources (if any) that will be used to achieve the aims of the project.
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’s Associate Director will monitor progress on Small Grants. 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 the end date of their grant period 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 products generated with the support of a CRE2 Small Grant 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 Small Grant program, but the views remain those of the authors.”
Current Small Grant Awardees
Study of the Relationship of Neighborhood Crime during Pregnancy to Structural and Functional Brain Development in Neonates at Birth in a Majority Black Population

Deanna Barch
Chair and Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences Professor of Radiology

Rebecca Brady
MD/PhD Candidate
The Material World of Modern Segregation: St. Louis in the Long Era of Ferguson

Iver Bernstein
Professor of History
Filipino American Identity beyond Southern California
Mindfulness and Anti-Racism Series

Todd Braver
Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Gaps in Medical Training for Eating Disorders: A Nationwide Survey

Tashalee Brown
Fellow, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Madeline Owens Jansen
Resident Physician, School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry
The Object Selving of Laura Aguilar: Queer Chicana Opacity and the Archive Prosthetic

Jay Buchanan
Graduate Student, Art History and Archaeology
- Email: buchanan.james.g@gmail.com
Critical poetics
Feminist and queer theory
Network aesthetics
Modern and contemporary art
Political history (US and Latin America since 1850)
Queer-of-color critique
Antiracism in Research Lecture Series

Sheretta Butler-Barnes
Associate Professor, Brown School
Thesis Research: Qualitative Study on the Racial Dynamics of Bioengineering

Rene Canady
Phd Student, Sociology
- Email: c.janet@wustl.edu
Black Health Resistance
Bioethics
Biomedical racism
Healthcare
Liberation theory
Social inequality
Whereas Hoops: Scholarship, Art, and Activism for Basketball in Forest Park

Noah Cohan
Assistant Director of American Culture Studies

John Early
Senior Lecturer, Sam Fox School
2021-2022 Research Conference Support

Akilah Collins-Anderson
PhD Student, Public Health Sciences
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Approaches to Popular Dance in Research and Pedagogy

Joanna Das
Assistant Professor of Dance, Performing Arts Department
- Email: joanna.d.das@wustl.edu
African Diaspora
Critical Race Theory
Dance
Popular Performance
Racial Capitalism
US History
Whiteness
A Zooarcheological Perspective of the Early and Late Atlantic Slave Trade’s Social and Economic Disruption in West Africa

Paige DeVos
Arts & Sciences, Anthropology
Crime and Racial Capital

Trevor Gardner
Associate Professor, School of Law
Intersections: A Workshop on Black and Indigenous Sound in the Early Atlantic World

Lauren Eldridge Stewart
Assistant Professor of Music
- Email: leldridgestewart@wustl.edu
Art Economies, Diaspora, Genre, Pedagogy, Sampling, Transnationalism

Esther Viola Kurtz
Assistant Professor of Music
- Email: ekurtz@wustl.edu
African Diasporic Music and Dance
Afro-Latin America
Capoeira Angola
Decolonization
Ethnomusicology
Racial Politics
Radical Humanism
Genealogies of Ethnic and Jewish Studies in the Academy

Maxwell Greenberg
Friedman Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies, Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Research Assistance for “Fetishizing Trial” and “Race on Appeal” Articles

Daniel Harawa
Assistant Professor of Practice, Director, Appellate Clinic
Forgiveness as a Promoter or Antagonist to Social Activism in Black Adults

Patrick Hill
Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Email: patrick.hill@wustl.edu
discrimination; health; identity development; marginalization; purpose in life; well-being

Megan Wilson
Graduate Student, Psychological & Brain Sciences
- Email: meganwilson@wustl.edu
Activism
Discrimination
Health disparities
Intergenerational discrimination
Purpose in life
Development of a Theoretical Model to Move Towards Equity in Occupational Therapy

Catherine Hoyt
Instructor, Occupational Therapy
- Email: hoytcr@wustl.edu
Child development
Early intervention
Occupational therapy
Sickle cell disease
Intersectional Denunciations of Sexual Assault and the Police in Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You and Édouard Louis’ Histoire de la violence

Salvador Lopez-Rivera
Graduate student, Romance Languages and Literatures
Study of the Reverend James M. Lawson, Jr. Papers

Paige McGinley
Associate Professor of Performing Arts
The Greek Nation at Home and Abroad: How Domestic Attitudes toward Immigrants Shape Greek Foreign Policy

William Nomikos
Assistant Professor of Political Science
- Email: wnomikos@wustl.edu
African Politics, Civil War, Experimental Methods, Ethnic Conflict, International Relations, Legacies of Colonialism, Peacekeeping
Historical Intervention, Racialization, and Attitudes about Asylum Seekers

Garrett Pekarek
PhD Student, Sociology
Latinx Reproductive Control: Racialized Biopolitics and Intersectional Resistance

Ella Siegrist
Graduate Student, Sociology
Language of Instruction & Ethnic Prejudice in Malaysia

Jeremy Siow
Graduate Student, Political Science
Indigenous and Black Confraternities in Colonial Latin America: Negotiating Status through Religious Practices

Miguel Valerio
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Contesting Queer Geographies: Violence and Refuge in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Zeles Vargas
Graduate Student, Anthropology
Afro-Brazilian Mothers’ Caregiving for Children with Congenital Zika Syndrome in Bahia, Brazil

Eliza Williamson
Lecturer, Latin American Studies
- Email: eliza.williamson@wustl.edu
Care
Childbirth
Disability
Feminist Theory
Health Disparities
Health Policy
Reproduction
Mother Knows Best? Understanding Mothers’ COVD Vaccine Refusal

Maggie Wood
PhD Student, Sociology