Center Fellows

The Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society offers fellowships to UIUC faculty and graduate students. Fellowships provide release time for one semester, during which fellows will be in residence conducting research across the broad area of "multiracial democracy."

The Center particularly encourages projects that involve research on how Americans live and work together in a multiracial democracy. Additionally, the Center encourages projects that focus on a comparative analysis of multiracial relations within U.S. democracy, address policy issues, and projects that are interdisciplinary. All research projects are expected to have substantial focus on U.S. domestic racial life, including connections to communities in Illinois. The Center also supports projects that examine U.S. domestic racial life in a global context.

Both faculty and graduate students fellows are required to participate in a biweekly seminar and present at the CDMS annual spring symposium. The CDMS seminar is designed to discuss participants' research interests and emphasizes interdisciplinary commonalities and differences.

Fellowship application guidelines are announced in December and application are due in February.