PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 25, No. 18, April 6, 2006

Fellows announced for CDMS

The Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society has announced its 2006-07 fellows. The four faculty members and five advanced graduate students selected will have a semester free of teaching responsibilities during which they will be in residence conducting research across the broad area of “multiracial democracy.” Fellows also participate in a biweekly seminar and make a presentation at the center’s annual spring symposium. The CDMS seminar is designed to discuss participants’ research interests and emphasizes interdisciplinary commonalities and differences.

The center 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.

This year’s fellows represent the continuing interdisciplinary growth of the center representing eight departments and four colleges.

The CDMS Faculty Fellows, their departments and projects:

• Elizabeth M. Delacruz, art and design and Gender and Women’s Studies Program, “Civic Friendship and Expressions of Local Culture in a Former Military Town in East Central Illinois”
• Travis L. Dixon, speech communication, “Understanding News Coverage of Hurricane Katrina: The Impact of News Frames and Stereotypical News Coverage on Viewer’s Conceptions of Race and Victimization”
• Laura Lawson, landscape architecture, “Democracy in Place/Place-making in Action: Re-visioning the Neighborhood Public Landscape in Urban Communities”
• Cameron McCarthy, Institute for Communications Research, curriculum andinstruction and educational policy studies; “Globalizing Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in Theory, Method and Policy”
  

CDMS Graduate Fellows:

• Matthew Gambino, Medical Scholars and history, “Mental Health and Ideals of Citizenship: Patient Care at St. Elizabeths Hospital (Washington, D.C.) in the 20th Century”
• Erin Murphy, sociology, “Resisting Violence in the Age of Empire: Anti-Imperialism and the Phillippine-American War”
• Michael K. Rosenow, history, “Worked to Death: The Rituals of Dying and the Politics of Death Among Workers, 1877-1924”
• Aisha L. Sobh, history, “Identity and (Be)-longing: Muslim Participation in American Society: 1965-2001”
• Sujey Vega, anthropology, “Significant Spaces: Mexican Immigrant Settlement and Non-immigrant Perceptions in Greater Lafayette”

For more information on  the projects listed, go to http://cdms.ds.uiuc.edu/.

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