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Interschool Seed Fund to Promote

Interdisciplinary Research on Race and Justice

Race and Justice Collaborative Seed Fund

WELCOME TO THE RACE AND JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE

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THE MISSION

Northwestern’s Office for Research, with the support of Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Education and Social Policy, the School of Communication, Medill School of Journalism, Media and Integrated Marketing Communication, the Pritzker School of Law, Feinberg School of Medicine, Kellogg School of Management, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Office for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion and the Provost’s Office, is pleased to have offered a call for proposals by faculty seeking seed funding for collaborative and interdisciplinary research. There are 22 funded proposals from 19 departments and 8 schools across Northwestern University.

Research is focused on topics related to race, ethnicity, racial or ethnic discrimination, structural racism, or approaches to reducing discrimination and promoting equity and justice at the individual, community, structural, legal or policy levels. A major goal of these funds is to facilitate connections and collaboration among faculty across the university with related research interests. To support this collaboration, funded faculty will meet quarterly over lunch (funded by the Office for Research) to discuss their individual and shared research ideas and progress.

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THE OPPORTUNITY

Individual faculty seeking interdisciplinary feedback or collaboration on ongoing or new research could request up to $5,000 from this fund. Requests for up to $20,000 were permissible when at least two faculty members from different departments or schools are collaborating on a research proposal. The primary applicants are full-time Northwestern University faculty members, but proposals may also involve part-time faculty, staff, post-doctoral fellows or graduate students.

In addition to attending quarterly lunches, funded investigators will make a final presentation to the group at a summer 2024 meeting and provide a brief financial report on the use of the funds.

REVIEWER PANEL AND ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

Emma Adam

Emma Adam

Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Education and Social Policy, School of Education and Social Policy; Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research; Professor of Psychology and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (by courtesy) and Associate Vice President for Research, Office for Research.

Megan Bang

Megan Bang

Director, Center for Native American and Indigenous Research; Professor of Learning Sciences, School of Education and Social Policy; Professor of Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences; Affiliate Faculty, Native American and Indigenous Research Center; Mellon Distinguished Scholar, Center for Imagination in the Borderlands, Arizona State University

Aymar Jean (AJ) Christian

Aymar Jean (AJ) Christian

Professor of Communication Studies, School of Communication

Nia Heard Garris

Nia J. Heard-Garris

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Attending Physician in Advanced General Pediatrics and Primary Care, Department of Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Division of Academic General Pediatrics, and Mary Ann & J. Milburn Smith Child Health Research, Outreach, and Advocacy Center at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago; Chair and founding member, Section of Minority Health, Equity, and Inclusion

Ivuoma (Ivy) Onyeador

Ivuoma (Ivy) Onyeador

Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management; Assistant Professor, Pritzker School of Law (by courtesy); Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology (by courtesy); Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research

Mary Pattillo

Mary Pattillo

Chair, African American Studies Department, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences; Harold Washington Professor, Departments of Sociology and African American Studies; Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research

Lincoln Quilian

Lincoln Quillian

Professor of Sociology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences; Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research; Chair of the Institute for Policy Research Program on Urban Policy and Community Development

Onnie Rogers

Onnie Rogers

Associate Professor of Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences; Assistant Professor, School of Education and Social Policy (by courtesy); Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research

Nitasha Sharma

Nitasha Sharma

Professor of African American Studies and Asian American Studies, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences; Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence; Program Director, Asian American Studies