Achievement

Led by faculty member Michele Lamont, this is an interdisciplinary project that draws together social scientists who analyze anti-racist strategies used by stigmatized groups in Brazil, Israel, and the United States. With funding from NSF (non-IGERT) and the US-Israel Bi-National Science Foundation, the group has completed gathering and coding over 160 interviews in each of the sites, and is preparing a special issue of the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies, as well as a synthetic comparative volume. In April, the group held a two-day conference at Harvard to present and discuss their research with the community, which included papers from IGERT students Christopher Bail, Jeff Denis, Graziella Moraes de Silva, and Jessica Welburn. IGERT faculty participants include Michele Lamont, Jennifer Hochschild, and William Julius Wilson.