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Paula D. McClain, Co-Director
Kerry L. Haynie, Co-Director
The Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Gender in the Social Sciences (REGSS) , established July 1, 2004, is an interdisciplinary center within the social sciences where scholars engaged in research in these areas can come together and engage each other through collaborative research, lectures, outside speakers, graduate student fellows, and visiting scholars. REGSS is crucial to the success of the Social Science Research Institute as these constructs--race, ethnicity, and gender--are constitutive to the social and political fabric of the United States as well as many other countries. As such, research in these areas needs to be encouraged and supported in the social sciences at Duke University.
We have an ambitious plan for REGSS, which may take several years to achieve fully. Components of REGSS include: 1) a speaker series; 2) Faculty Associates; 2) Graduate Fellows; 4) Undergraduate Fellows 5) research colloquia for graduate fellows and faculty associates; 6) one post-doctoral fellow per year; 7) faculty research grants that would be submitted jointly through the faculty person's department and REGSS; 8) linking REGSS to the Race, Ethnicity and Politics graduate concentration in political science; 9) REGSS Working Paper Series; and 10) a major conference on race, ethnicity and gender. Our intention is to make REGSS one of the premier centers of this type in the country.