GRADUATE FACULTY PROFESSOR ADOLPH REED AWARDED 2002
"SCHOLAR OF VISION" BY CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK
Carnegie Scholars Chosen for Innovative Scholarship in Education, International
Development, Strengthening U.S. Democracy and International Peace and Security
(New York, New York - May 20, 2002) Adolph Reed, Professor of
Political Science at the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science,
a division of New School University, is one of 11 leading researchers
honored as this year's class of Carnegie Scholars. Each of the scholars, chosen
in a highly competitive process, will receive up to $100,000, for one to two
years to pursue subjects advancing the strategic work of the Corporation.
This third class of Carnegie Scholars will explore issues critical to civil
society and terrorism, multicultural challenge in liberal democracies, ethnic
conflict in Europe, race in American life, representative democracy, comparative
development, constitutional configurations of the past, color-blind affirmative
action, the sociology of military strategy and threat assessment, and the
history of foreign aid.
Reed's project is entitled "Race in American Life: What
It Is, What It Isn't/How It Works, How It Doesn't." An expert on
race and the construction of racial identities, Reed will provide an account
of race's role in American life. Working at the intersection of the new
demography of labor and the emerging politics of race, he will examine the
role of institutional relations in shaping pragmatic understandings of race
and racial difference as they evolved in the United States over the 20th century.
His study will reconstruct the dynamics of political and social relations
through which racial ideologies and common beliefs of racial difference have
taken shape in order to clarify and demystify the idea of race in contemporary
life.
At the end of each fellowship, Carnegie Scholars will submit written reports to the Corporation, which may then assist in disseminating those results. Nominators for the current class included college and university presidents, professors, provosts, vice presidents for research and heads of research institutes from universities and liberal arts colleges, as well as a broad mix from non-academic institutions. From an initial group of 100 nominees, 32 were invited to provide complete project descriptions. Eleven finalists were approved by the president and presented to Carnegie Corporation's board of trustees.
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