Eligibility: Faculty (contingent and tenure-line) and librarians at Texas Southern University. Graduate Students are not eligible for this program.

Recipients must agree to share their work with the Center for Africana Futures and the Texas Southern Community. Research Fellows must also agree to serve as reviewers and mentors for future research fellows.

CAF is part of DEFCon

DEFCon is a consortium that supports the growth of the digital ethnic studies field, which brings together critiques of racial capitalism, community-engaged approaches to research, and digital humanities methodologies. Complementing work in discrete fields like Black and Latinx digital humanities, digital ethnic studies draws on the affordances of ethnic studies, an interdisciplinary examination of difference that foregrounds race, ethnicity, and indigeneity through a comparative framework. Through digital methods, digital ethnic studies explore connections and divergences between people of color and Indigenous people in the U.S., articulated through various digital genres, including digital archives, social media, and data visualization. Moreover, digital ethnic studies places community-engaged research practices integral to ethnic studies at the forefront and its commitment to research with (not on) communities.

Please direct questions to Dr. Toniesha L. Taylor (CAF Director) at toniesha.taylor@tsu.edu