About the Center

Established in November 1996, the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) at Stanford University houses two interdisciplinary undergraduate programs and a research institute. CCSRE is located on Stanford’s campus in the main quad and is directed by C. Matthew Snipp, the Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Humanities and Sciences in the Department of Sociology.

The Center also serves as an umbrella institute for seven other institutes, centers, and programs at Stanford, on topics ranging from race, ethnicity, and politics to international migration to Jewish Studies. In addition, CCSRE has played a vital role in the Faculty Development Initiative, an effort by the Office of the Provost to bring leading young as well as established scholars of race and ethnicity to Stanford. As of 2014-2015, twelve new faculty members have joined Stanford in departments ranging from Sociology to Drama to Political Science to Education.

Both the teaching and research carried out at CCSRE are based on interdisciplinary and comparative approaches for understanding the complex factors of race and ethnicity and how they have deeply shaped the course of history and the social fabric of the contemporary world.

 

Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity: The Research Institute is dedicated to the production of leading-edge research on race and ethnicity across the disciplines and across national boundaries. Its faculty affiliates and graduate fellows are drawn from Stanford's School of Humanities and Sciences as well as the Schools of Education, Law, Business, and Medicine. The Research Institute's Faculty Director, Hazel Rose Markus, is the Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences in the Department of Psychology.

The institute sponsors fellowship programs, faculty and graduate student seminars, research networks, endowed lectures, conferences, workshops, events, and the Stanford University Press’s book series in Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies.

 

Undergraduate Programs: Informed by the research and intellectual agenda of the Research Institute, the Center houses two interdepartmental Undergraduate Programs in race and ethnic studies.

Program in African and African American Studies
This program offers students the option to major or minor in African and African American Studies. The Faculty Director is H. Samy Alim, Professor of Education. For information about the program, please contact Associate Director Dr. Cheryl Brown at 650-723-3781 or by email.
 
Program in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity
This program offers majors and minors in five areas:
  • Asian American Studies
  • Chicano/a-Latino/a Studies
  • Comparative Studies
  • Jewish Studies
  • Native American Studies

The Faculty Director is Tomás Jiménez, Associate Professor of Sociology. For more information, please contact Student Services Specialist, Jordan Gray at 650-724-2088 or jlgray@stanford.edu.