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• Congratulations to “The Chancellor’s Call to Action to Address Racism & Social Injustice Research Program” Awards Recipients

  Nov 11, 2022 9:30 am by Janet HusunukpeFeatured Projects

  

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  The Center for Global Studies (CGS) congratulates Steve Witt, Director of CGS, CGS Faculty Affiliates Faranak Miraftab, Annie Abbott, Scott Althaus, Melissa Goodnight, Barbara Hug, Ellen Moodie, and Ken Salo, and former CGS Graduate Assistant Vinisha Singh Basnet, for receiving the 2022-2023 Chancellor Jones Call to Action Research Program awards. The Chancellor’s Call to Action to Address Racism & Social Justice Research Program 2022-2023 awarded 25 research programs focused on systemic racial inequalities and injustice in our communities and higher education. The $2 million grant will fund academic research and community-based knowledge focused on advancing knowledge and addressing systemic racism and racial disparity in the three critical research areas:

  1. Systemic racism and social justice
  2. Law enforcement and criminal justice reform
  3. Disparities in health and health care

  

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  Funding for awarded projects ranged from $75,000 to $24,000. Among recipients of funding, Steve Witt and co-project leaders received $75,000 for the research program “Yellow Peril Redux: From Coolies to Concentration Camps, Trade Wars, and Coronavirus.” The program seeks to amplify knowledge about anti-Asian racism expressed in US history as the fear of the “Yellow Peril,” by bringing to academic and non-academic communities’ attention discourses focused on American misrepresentations and misperceptions of East Asians that continue to create imbalances in international relations.

   

  

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  Annie Abbott, Faranak Miraftab, and Ken Salo along with other faculty of the University, also received $75,000 funding for the research program “Building a Race and Immigration Dialog on Global Exclusion (BRIDGE) with the New American Welcome Center (NAWC).” Their project seeks to understand and redress racial structures in migration policies and processes that impact NAWC’s French/Lingala, and Spanish/Mandarin/Cantonese-speaking immigrant communities.

  

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  Scott Althaus’ research program, “Creating a Sustainable and Continuously-Updating Registry of Police Shootings for Every Community in Illinois” received funding totaling $74,985 to curb racial inequalities in police use of force by providing localized, real-time data necessary to support evidence-based reforms.

   

   

   

   

  

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  Ellen Moodie and Barbara Hug, along with other co-project leaders of the project “Establishing a Community-Based Curriculum Materials Collaborative for Health Justice Science Education” received $25,000 in funding. By adopting K-12 science curriculum materials, the project focuses on health justice issues in Champaign County, a shift from the norm of amplifying only the experiences and science knowledge of those dominant (white, middle-class) groups.

  

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  Melissa Goodnight’s research project “Addressing COVID-19 Health Disparities in Partnership with Local African American Churches” received $24,936 in funding. By piloting diverse methodologies to develop and evaluate community-initiated interventions, this project seeks to address ongoing COVID-19 issues.

   

   

   

   

  

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  Vinisha Singh Basnet and other co-project leaders of the project “Building Tenant-based Capacity to Address Bed Bug Infestations in Low-Income Housing” received $74,973 to address bed bugs induced health disparities in low-income housing.

   

   

   

   

  CGS is proud to be affiliated with faculty and students addressing racism and social injustice through research.

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