Scholarship and Social Justice Conference

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This year's Scholarship and Social Justice Undergraduate Research Conference will take place on April 18th and 19th, 2024

 

Thursday April 18th
3:00 - 4:30 pm
Parlor Room, First Floor, Phillips Brook House

Faculty Panel:
Faculty Chair: George Aumoithe, Assistant Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Panelists: 
Fushcia-Ann Hoover, Radcliffe-Salata Climate Justice Fellow, Harvard, UNC Charlotte
J.T. Roane, Visiting Scholar in the Charles Warren Center for STudies in American History, Harvard, Rutgers
Teona Williams, Presidential Postdocutoral Fellow, Rutgers

Friday April 19th
8:30 - 3:00 pm
Student Organization Center at Hilles (SOCH)

Breakfast & Networking Event

Welcome and Keynote: Marcos Luna, Salem State University, Professor of Geography and Sustainability 

Student Panels

Lunch + Poster Review

Student Panels

Closing

 

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History of the Conference
Since 2015, the Scholarship and Social Justice  (SSJ) conference is led by the Harvard College Center for Public Service & Engaged Scholarship and Harvard Foundation for Intercultural & Race Relations. SSJ has welcomed undergraduate students from private and public institutions across the nation. With each year of this conference, we continue to be impressed with the rigor and depth of the research undertaken by undergraduate scholars from across the country. 

 

Purpose Statement

This conference seeks to bring staff, faculty and undergraduates together to celebrate the engaged scholarship, and reflective learning. 

The purpose of this conference is:

  • to honor scholarship which focuses on challenges facing society with regard to equity and inclusion and historically marginalized and under-represented communities

  • to illuminate community-engaged research which reflects qualities of reciprocity and mutuality in the co-creation of scholarship, in addition to being transdisciplinary and inclusive of knowledge from outside the academy 

  • to provide undergraduate researchers an opportunity to engage in academic discourse and research dissemination

For student scholars, this is an opportunity to engage in academic dialogue with peers and faculty mentors. For faculty, this conference presents an opportunity to explore about how other disciplines conduct research that creates new knowledge and understanding about equity and social justice and to be inspired by the next generation of scholars. In particular, we hope that this conference will encourage historically underrepresented students to pursue careers in the academy.