The National Center for Institutional Diversity has selected six faculty members from the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint campuses for Anti-Racism Research & Community Impact Faculty Fellowships.
The fellowship provides instrumental support to early-career faculty to advance their anti-racism scholarship.
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The fellowship aims to address a critical need — to successfully advance in the tenure and promotion process while concurrently supporting recipients’ efforts to use their expertise to fight systemic racism through policy advocacy, practice, teaching or community partnerships.
It provides funding to support research and public engagement that align with the aims of the initiative.
“It is often assumed that scholarship can make an impact on the personal lives of the individuals under study and in the public more generally. That assumption is often untested and unexamined, even by those who produce scholarship for that purpose,” said Alford Young Jr., faculty director of the Anti-Racism Collaborative and associate director of the Center for Social Solutions.
“In supporting early-career scholars who are intentional about impact, this initiative establishes a foundation for examining precisely what kind of impact can be made through scholarship, how effective that impact might be, and how future scholarly efforts might build upon these early achievements.”
Young also is a University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Edgar G. Epps Collegiate Professor of Sociology, and professor of sociology and of Afroamerican and African studies in LSA; and professor of public policy in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
The NCID is home to the Anti-Racism Collaborative, a space created to facilitate U-M community engagement around research and scholarship focused on racial inequality, racial justice and anti-racist praxis.
The 2024 Anti-Racism Research & Community Impact Faculty Fellows and their projects are:
- Yousif Hassan, assistant professor of public policy, Ford School; Data Governance in Africa: Decolonizing data infrastructures and imaginaries of the future.
- Lisbeth Iglesias-Rios, research investigator for epidemiology, School of Public Health; Precarious employment as a social determinant of cardiovascular disease in farmworkers.
- Nancy Khalil, assistant professor of American culture, LSA; Mitigating Inequities in Accreditation of Religious Institutions.
- Ariangela Kozik, assistant professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, LSA; and assistant professor of internal medicine, Medical School; Addressing Knowledge Gaps in Biomedical Science Training: Uprooting Scientific Racism from our Understanding of Human Variation & the Microbiome.
- Jennifer LaCosse, assistant professor of psychology, College of Arts, Sciences and Education, UM-Flint; A Community-Based Approach to Supporting Flint Parents’ Knowledge and Promotion of STEM.
- Amny Shuraydi, assistant professor of behavioral sciences, College of Arts, Sciences and Letters, UM-Dearborn; Observing Arab American, Middle Eastern, and Muslim Experiences in the Context of Greater Diversity on Campus and in the Community.
