Research Programs and Opportunities

CoDaC supports the basic, applied, and theoretical research activities of UO faculty and graduate students, and also organizes interdisciplinary research activities, in these areas:

 

Campus Climate and Student Understandings of Race

RIT Presentation 1

RIT Presentation 2

Conversation About Race

This CoDaC-sponsored interdisciplinary Research Interest Team (RIT) conducted on-campus research on UO's campus climate for diversity and UO student understandings (or concepts) of race.

RIT members included Holly Arrow (Associate Professor, Psychology), Ellen Scott (Assistant Professor, Sociology) and Jocelyn Hollander (Assistant Professor, Sociology), along with graduate researchers Chuck Tate (Psychology) and Clintin Storber (Psychology).

The Campus Climate RIT work followed up on the 2001 UO Campus Climate Survey and Assessment conducted by Dr. Susan Rankin (Senior Diversity Planning Analyst, The Pennsylvania State University).

The RIT research provides new information about how UO students understand and experience social constructs such as "race," "ethnicity," and "diversity," and also catalogues specific student recommendations on enhancing campus climates for diversity.

Campus Climate Research Interest Team - Presentations

Campus Climate and Student Understandings of "Race" (May 2005)
Presenters: Holly Arrow, Jocelyn Hollander, Ellen Scott, & Chuck Tate

Student Conversations About Race and Diversity: A Focus Group Approach (January 2005)
Leader: Holly Arrow

Other CoDaC Interdisciplinary Research Groups - Reading Group Presentations

Ongoing Engagement: Challenges and Successes in an Interdisciplinary Reading Group in the College of Education (January 2005)
Leader: Linda Forrest

Between Two Worlds: Resilience in Immigrant Girls (February 2005)
Leader: Debra Eisert

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Research Institute (February 2005)
Leader: Shoshana Kerewsky

Critical Study of National, Racial, Gendered & Classed Identities in Travel Narratives (March 2005)
Celia Tagamolila Bardwell-Jones, Ph.D. student in Philosophy
Michael Wood, Ph.D. student in East Asian Literatures
Leader: Liz Bohls

Graduate Summer Research Awards & Annual Conference

CoDaC, with sponsorship support from the Graduate School and the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity, provides competitively-awarded summer stipends for outstanding UO graduate student research projects on issues directly related to the Center's mission.

Applications may be for a portion of research projects already underway (such as theses or dissertations), or to launch a new project. Recipients of that year's Graduate Summer Research Awards are expected to participate in CoDaC's annual Graduate Research Conference the following year.

CoDaC also hosts workshops and activities throughout the year to honor and benefit the Graduate Summer Research Award winners.

Please consult the request for proposals for application information, and take a moment to review the abstracts of each years' award-winning projects.

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