Center for the Study of Race + Ethnicity in America, Brown University

Applications Now Open

The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University is now accepting applications for its Fall 2026 Visiting Faculty Fellowship.

This fellowship fosters interdisciplinary exchange and provides scholars with access to Brown’s rich academic resources, while creating meaningful opportunities to share research with a broader scholarly community.

Fellows will be fully integrated into the intellectual life of CSREA—engaging with faculty, students, and affiliated scholars while advancing their own research projects.

Application Deadline: Friday, April 10, 2026

Learn more and Apply Now through the link in our bio

We’re incredibly grateful for the overwhelming response to our upcoming AI Symposium on April 3—we are officially SOLD OUT.

The conversations around AI, ethics, creativity, and society are more urgent than ever, and we’re honored to curate a thoughtful and inspiring group of speakers to engage with these topics. We can’t wait to learn from each of them and from the community that will be in the room.

If you couldn’t join us, we invite you to also follow our LinkedIn page. We’ll be sharing key insights, highlights, and reflections from the event in the weeks ahead.

What do young people think about artificial intelligence—and how is it shaping their world?

At the AI Symposium on April 3, join Roberto Gonzalez, Executive Director of STEAM Box RI, for “Youth Perspectives on AI: Listening Session with STEAM Box Education.”

This session centers the voices of high school students who are actively creating, producing, and leading conversations about technology through STEAM Box VS, a top-ranked education podcast. Together, they’ll share their perspectives on AI—what excites them, what concerns them, and what they want adults to understand about growing up alongside these tools.

Grounded in STEAM Box’s mission to expand access and opportunity in STEM education, this conversation invites us to listen, learn, and rethink how we engage the next generation in shaping our technological future.

📅 April 3, 2026
🔗 Register now — link in bio

🎶 This week, CSREA’s Interdisciplinary Opportunities Graduate Research Fellow Marcus Grant will be leading two exciting performances:

📍 PVD World Music at 195 District Park

Wednesday, 9/4 | 6–8pm

Free and open to the public

Outdoor performance by the pedestrian bridge

📍 Courtland Club, Federal Hill

Sunday, 9/7 | 6pm + 8:30pm

Reservations recommended (sets often sell out quickly)

We invite our community of students, faculty, and friends to join in supporting Marcus and experiencing his work live!

Are you an artist, writer, media maker, or practitioner whose work critically explores race, ethnicity, and/or indigeneity in the U.S. and/or comparatively with the Americas?

The CSREA Practitioner Fellowship at Brown University is now accepting applications for Spring 2026!

Join a community of creatives, engage with scholars, and contribute to transformative conversations in this virtual fellowship.

Deadline: April 17, 2025

Register Now through the link in our bio

Join us NEXT WEEK for a thought-provoking conversation on the future AI!

Dr. Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and former Deputy Assistant to President Biden, will explore the intersection of AI, policy, and the future of governance with insights from Brown University’s own Dr. Prudence L. Carter (CSREA) and Dr. Suresh Venkatasubramanian (DSI).

CSREA is excited to co-host this event with the Provost’s Office and the Data Science Institute as part of the Lemley Family Leadership Lecture Series.

🔗 Register through the link in our bio to secure your spot for this must-see discussion on the future of AI!

Today! CSREA Director Tricia Rose will speak on her ‘How Systemic Racism Works’ project at the Tory Burch Foundation
Summit alongside other women change-makers like labor leader Dolores Huerta and MacArthur Foundation Fellow Jacqueline Woodson. Tricia will appear during Session 2 at 11AM ET.

Join the livestream now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25wpiGFADAQ

Starting now! Join us for our inaugural Dr. Jean Shim Yun Lecture on Asian-American Studies--featuring Beth Lew-Williams of Princeton University History. Follow us on Twitter for event highlights. https://csrea.link/jsy

Center for the Study of Race & Ethnicity on Twitter “Starting at noon! Join us for our inaugural Dr. Jean Shim Yun Lecture on Asian-American Studies--featuring of . Follow this thread for event highlights. https://t.co/MaQk70GnCf”

There's half an hour left of Writing for a Broken World with Nnedi Okorafor! Join our lively discussion of Africanfuturism and the power of speculative fiction. csrea.link/wbw

Time for a giveaway! We've partnered with the Brown Bookstore
to share free copies of Nnedi Okorafor's Binti Trilogy ahead of Writing for a Broken World on 3/17. Stop by Thayer St. to pick up a book. Learn more about the event: http://csrea.link/wbw

Opportunity Highlight - Practitioner Fellowship: CSREA invites artists, media makers, and writers pursuing creative or nonfiction projects to apply for a semester-long fellowship beginning Spring '23. Apps due 2/28. Learn more and apply: https://www.brown.edu/academics/race-ethnicity/programs-initiatives/csrea-fellows-program/practitioner-fellows