These faculty-led workshops were designed to support graduate student research on race and ethnicity, build research community across disciplines, and aid in the professional development of Brown graduate students.

Kindly RSVP to [email protected] for any one or all of the seminars listed below.

Exams – Thursday, February 27, 10:00am-12:00pm
Robert Self (Professor of American History, Chair of History, Brown) on how to think about and prepare for comprehensive exams.

Teaching – Monday, March 2, 3:00pm-5:00pm
Leisy Abrego (Professor of Chicano/a Studies, UCLA) on how to teach under complex conditions, reach your students, challenge and inspire them.

Publishing – Monday, March 9, 10:00am-12:00pm
Matthew Guterl (Chair of American Studies, Professor of Africana Studies and American Studies, Brown), on how to get journal articles, books, and op-eds on race and ethnicity published.

Grants – Friday, April 3, 10:00am-12:00pm
Laura López-Sanders (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Brown) on how to write successful grants.

Writing – Friday, May 1, 10:00am-12:00pm
Austin Jackson (Assistant Director of The Writing Center and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Nonfiction Writing Program, Brown) on how to approaching writing and how to keep writing through writing blocks.