Grant for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Migration
Deadline: November 27th, 2023
This grant supports projects and initiatives that demonstrate a substantial engagement with questions of race, ethnicity, and/or immigration across Latin America, Caribbean, U.S. Latinx communities, and the Latin American diaspora around the world. Projects focused on race, ethnicity, and/or migration of a comparative and transcultural nature, connecting Latin America and the Caribbean to other regions of the world are also welcome. Grants for collaborative and public facing projects are especially welcome.
Prior REM grants have included student films, photographic and art projects and exhibits, online archives, research trips, reading groups, speakers, and other activities.
Most awards fall between $500-$3000. There is a maximum of $4000.
For students: The activities funded by the grant must be completed before graduation from Brandeis.
This grant is not intended to replace funding for research and travel through the Jane’s grant, or LACLS’s support for student programming, for which monetary support is ongoing during the academic year.
If you have an idea with the thematic areas of the grant but are unsure of how to express it or have any questions, please be in touch with us. We would love to work with you to support your idea.
Deadline for applications for 2023-2024: November 27th, 2023. This grant application may be submitted via this form.
Proposals will be evaluated by a panel of LACLS faculty and students. The committee may follow up with requests for more information as part of the decision-making process. All applicants will be notified by December 15, 2023.
Grant recipients will be asked to share their results with a short report, presentation, or performance.
Please contact Mangok Bol (mbol@brandeis.edu) or Elizabeth Ferry (ferry@brandeis.edu) with any questions.
Past recipients
Fall 2023
| Recipient | Project |
|---|---|
| Logan Shanks’24, AAAS/WGS (B.A) |
Black:Queer curatorial laboratory project |
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Cyrenity Augustin, ‘24 LACLS/English (B.A) |
Virgin Islands photography project |
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Ana Loza Perez’24 LACLS/Economics (B.A) |
"We are all mestizos” research project |
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Armando Viscardo-Benites’23 Social Policy (Ph.D) |
Events with Americo Mendoza-Mori and Ricardo Godoy |
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Shelley Polanco Politics/AAAS (B.A) |
Student film project |
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Hong Zhang (Anthropology, PhD) |
Research in Buriticá, Colombia |
Fall 2022
| Recipient | Project |
|---|---|
| Jolecia Saunderson ’24 AAAS, WGS & Politics (B.A) | The Chamber of Flowers and Wishes: An Afro-Latinx Ethnography |
| Parker Thompson, ’23 History (B.A) | The “Always Been” Archival and Curatorial Project |
| Shelley Polanco, ’24 AAAS/Politics (B.A) | Brandeis Latinx Portrait Project |
Spring 2022
| Recipient | Project |
|---|---|
| Camila Martinez ’22 ECON/POL (B.A) |
“Launching a Literature About and By Dominicans Book Club” |
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Daniella Castillo Vasquez, ‘22 WGS/PSYC (B.A) & Catherine Romero ’22 SOC/LACLS |
“Diasporic Intimacies: A Short Documentary Film” |
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Michala Coates ’23 AAAS/WGS (B.A) |
“The Roles of Black Women in Society the Pursuit of Erotic Power for Women of the Black Diaspora” |
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Patricia Alvarez Astacio, Assistant Prof. of ANTH, Greg Childs, Assistant Prof. of Hist., |
“Collaborative Documentary Film on Sugar Plantations in Puerto Rico and Cuba” |
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Dalia Wassner, Director of HBI, Maria Duran, Assistant Prof. of Latinx Cultural Studies. |
HBI Project on Latin American Jewish & Gender Studies, “Beyond Trauma: Roots and |