OVERVIEW

In the summer and fall of 2002, Director Emory Elliott and Co-Principle Investigator Piya Chatterjee met with several faculty members of the UCR faculty and with Professors David Theo Goldberg, Director of the UCHRI, and Professor Philomena Essed of the University of Amsterdam who had lectured for the Center at UCR in February 2001 and whose work was greatly admired by many UCR colleagues. The result of these collaborations was the formulation of a project and proposal entitled “Cultural Cloning: The Social Injustices of Reproducing Sameness.” Proposals for this new project and for a third year on the current Ford grant were submitted in the fall of 2001 and were followed by a site visit by Dr. Fraser in November. In the spring of 2002, the Center received word that the additional funds for the “Intellectual Diversity” project were approved and that we had been awarded a three-year grant of $450,000 for the “Cultural Cloning Project.”

This new Ford Foundation award sets a new direction for the Center for much of the research that will result from this project and will involve collaborations among scholars from social sciences, arts, and humanities..