2012-2013 SCHOLARS & FELLOWS
IRRPP provides funding to UIC faculty members who conduct engaged and policy-relevant research on race and ethnicity. Faculty Fellows are awarded course releases. Faculty Scholars win grants that cover research costs. And Policy and Social Engagement Fellows work with Chicagoland partners on a community action project. To learn more about our funding programs click here.
- Valerie Borum, Social Work
Understanding the Social-Cultural Role of Ethnic Culture as a Protective and Promotive Factor Against Suicide in African American Women
- Claire Decoteau, Sociology
Ukuphanta/Getting By: South African Women in the Informal Economy
- Miriam Ezenwa, Nursing
Mayday for Pain: Public Discourse and Advocacy for Change
- Christine Martin, Criminology, Law & Justice
The Impact of Race and Ethnicity on Points of Release from the Juvenile Justice System
- Gayatri Reddy, Anthropology/Gender and Women’s Studies
The "African" Diaspora in India: Exploration of Race, Masculinity, and Class Politics in Contemporary Hyderabad
- Federico Waitoller, Special Education
Equity in Inclusive Education
- Andy Clarno, Sociology/African American Studies
The Empire's New Walls: The Politics of Enclosure in South Africa and Palestine/Israel
- Sharon Collins, Sociology
The New Black Corporate Executive: Assimilated Insiders, Diversity Managers, and Race Wo/men
- Claire Decoteau, Sociology
Ukuphanta/Getting By: South African Women in the Informal Economy
- Miriam Ezenwa, Nursing
Mayday for Pain: Public Discourse and Advocacy for Change
- Lorena Garcia, Sociology/Gender and Women’s Studies
Partnering and Parenting Among the Newly Latina/o Middle Class
- Carmen Giurgescu, Nursing
Green Spaces, Psychological Stress, and Preterm Birth in Pregnant African American Women
- Marisha Humphries, Educational Psychology & Cassandra McKay, Social Work
Developing Multidisciplinary Pre-Service Training as an Integrated Approach to Social-Emotional Learning
- Zitlali Morales & Victoria Triner, Curriculum and Instruction
The Language Ideologies of Teachers Serving Linguistically Diverse Learners
- Bharati Prasad, Nursing
Comparative Effectiveness Research to Enhance Outcomes in African Americans with Obstructive Sleep Apnea
- Gayatri Reddy, Anthropology/Gender & Women’s Studies
The "African" Diaspora in India: Exploration of Race, Masculinity, and Class Politics in Contemporary Hyderabad
- Paul Schewe, Criminology, Law, and Justice & Alicia Matthews, Nursing
Effects of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation on Experience of Hate Crimes in Chicago
- Shannon Zenk, Nursing
Disparities in Diet and Depression: A Test of Jackson’s Hypothesis in a Multiethnic Urban Sample.
- Patrisia Macias, Sociology
Sarah Lawrence College
Professor Macías-Rojas is a member of the sociology faculty at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. Her research interests are in the area of race, migration, and the law. She is currently writing her first book, Laws of Exclusion: Criminalizing Immigrants in the Post-civil Rights Era. The work investigates the convergence of immigration and criminal law within U.S.-Mexico border enforcement and traces this convergence to the rights revolution of the 1960s when the formal recognition of rights for migrants led to a greater intersection between immigration and crime control. Dr. Macías-Rojas is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, Andrew Mellon Program in Latin American Sociology, Social Science Research Council, and Center for Latino Policy Research at the University of California-Berkeley. Prior to earning her doctorate in sociology at UC Berkeley, she was trained as a community organizer at the Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO) in Oakland, CA. She is a native of the Pilsen neighborhood on Chicago's Southside.
