Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity (CRGE) records
Collection
0592-UA
The Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity (CRGE) is an organization originating from the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, College Park campus. It was founded in 1998 as a university-wide interdisciplinary research center of its kind focused on advancing qualitative and mixed-methods research to promote and advance intersectional scholarship and transfer knowledge to the next generation of scholars.
The collection materials date from 1997 to 2023 and include flyers, publications, and initiative information of various events, programs, and seminars organized and hosted by CRGE.
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1.5 Linear Feet (1 record box)
The documents in this collection include publications from CRGE’s newsletter, Research Connections and Intersection & Inequality, annual reports, and flyers for various events and lectures dating from 1997 to 2023. Events and lectures include the CRGE Colloquiums, the Qualitative Research Interest Group (QRIG) programs, the Ethnic Minority Achievement Awards, and the Intersectional Qualitative Research Methods Institute (IQRMI) conferences.
The Consortium on Race, Gender and Ethnicity (CRGE) is a university-wide, interdisciplinary research organization and academic unit at the University of Maryland, College of Arts and Humanities. Its mission centers on research, mentorship, and collaboration to uncover, understand, and prompt intersectional scholarship on race, gender, ethnicity, and other spheres of identities and communities and how they affect, reinforce, and influence one another. CRGE aims to examine the “dimensions of inequality through the lived experiences of historically underrepresented minorities” to support underrepresented minority scholars through outreach, mentoring, and education and research experiences.
CRGE was founded by University of Maryland Professors, Drs. Bonnie Thornton Dill and Ruth Enid Zambrana in 1998 to support the growing field of intersectional scholarship. Major research projects include the CRGE Interdisciplinary Scholarship Program (CrISP), a two-year graduate fellowship program (2002), the Qualitative Research Interest Group (QRIG), a grant submission and funding working group in collaboration with the Maryland Population Research Center (2012), and the Intersectional Qualitative Research Methods Institute (IQRMI), a week-long program (2017).
In addition to these major projects, CRGE has hosted forums and symposiums related to race, gender, ethnicity, social justice, and other dimensions of inequality. CRGE provides, through its website, resources for intersectional scholarship and bibliographies via its Intersectional Research Database along with annual publications, Research Connections and Intersection & Inequality.
In recognition of CRGE’s work, CRGE has received the National Council for Research on Women (NCRW) Research and Scholarship Award for “outstanding research that advances knowledge and understanding of women and girls in society (2010)” and the President’s Commission on Ethnic Minority Issues (PCEMI) Non-Instructional Unit Service Minority Achievement Award for “outstanding accomplishments and contributions (2017).”
This collection was transferred to the University of Maryland Libraries by the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity (CRGE) organization at the University of Maryland on April 5, 2023.
These materials were received by the University of Maryland Libraries in 2023. They arrived in two record-size boxes and were consolidated into one archival-quality box. Original folders were kept when possible. Folders with labels falling off were replaced with acid-free folders.
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