The Scholarship & Social Justice Undergraduate Research Conference will open on Thursday, April 13th, with the faculty panel and continues on Friday, April 14th, beginning with a keynote speech followed by student presentations of their research. Starting with words from Faculty Chair, Américo Mendoza-Mori, PhD, of Harvard University’s Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights, engaging in a dialogue with Araceli Hernandez-Laroche, PhD, Professor of Modern Languages, coordinator of French Global Studies, and Founding of South Carolina Centro Latino (El Centro) at the University of South Carolina Upstate, Mneesha Gellman, PhD, Associate Professor of political science in the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College, Wade Campbell, PhD, Assistant Professor, Archeology and Anthropology, Boston University, and Michel DeGraff, PhD, Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Director of the MIT-Haiti Initiative and founding member of the Haitian Creole Academy, about the impact of identity on scholarship. For more information or to register click here.
