Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows Named For 2023
Program Supports Promising Scholars Completing Dissertations Related To Ethics And Religion The Institute for Citizens & Scholars has named 21 Fellows to the 2023 class of the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. The Newcombe Fellowship, funded by the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, is the largest and most prestigious award for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities […]
Preamble: Richard Haass
In this urgent moment for the nation, we can strengthen democracy—together. In Preamble, Citizens & Scholars president Raj Vinnakota sits down for 15-minute conversations with diverse thought leaders—across traditional divides—on the new ideas shaping a more perfect Union. Here, Raj sits down with Richard Haass, a veteran diplomat, a prominent voice on American foreign policy, and president of […]
Civic Learning Round-Up: April
C&S Fellows Savannah and Sultan Smalley organized a tree planting at a Philadelphia high school to help tackle environmental justice in their hometown. In this series, Citizens & Scholars compiles the best recent articles, reports, and research from around the civic learning field. Stay up-to-date on the latest news, trends, and developments in efforts to build effective citizens. Youth Civic […]
High School Siblings Tackling Environmental Justice One Tree at a Time
Savannah Smalley, center, and her brother Sultan, to her right, work with a team to plant trees at Samuel Fels High School in Philadelphia, PA. In their hometown of Philadelphia, Sultan and Savannah Smalley noticed a difference. When they passed through the wealthier neighborhoods, the leaves and trees were lush. In lower income areas, there […]
Complicate the Narrative: Rajiv Vinnakota on the Keen On Podcast
Citizens & Scholars President Rajiv Vinnakota was a guest on the Keen On podcast, hosted by Andrew Keen, which features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode Raj talked about the need to complicate the narrative if […]
Civic Learning Round-Up: March
In this series, Citizens & Scholars compiles the best recent articles, reports, and research from around the civic learning field. Stay up-to-date on the latest news, trends, and developments in efforts to build effective citizens. New C&S Report: Mapping Civic Measurement The Institute for Citizens and Scholars has released Mapping Civic Measurement, a comprehensive civic measurement landscape review and a first-of-its-kind framework […]
Fellows You Should Know: Women’s and Gender Studies
Here are 10 scholars from the Citizens & Scholars network and beyond who are broadening the perspectives and understanding of women and gender in the United States. Rosie Bermudez Assistant Professor, Department of History, UC San Diego Career Enhancement Fellow 2017 Dr. Bermudez is a Chicana social historian of the twentieth-century United States and an interdisciplinary […]
Coming Together: A Conversation with Rajiv Vinnakota
Rajiv Vinnakota , President Citizens & Scholars president Rajiv Vinnakota appeared on the Philanthropy Masterminds podcast to talk about the importance of cross-partisan collaboration when cultivating the next generation of effective citizens. The conversation, hosted by DonorSearch, ranged from Raj’s own experience that shaped his view of civic duty to the importance of building “unlikely alliances” in funding, programming, […]
Promising Scholars Named 2023 Women’s Studies Fellows
Since its beginnings, women’s and gender studies has been a field that examines the crossroads of societal forces and the many factors that shape them. Scholars across disciplines—from U.S. History to sociology, literature to political science—have shaped the way we all understand how gender shapes our lives. The new class of emerging scholars named 2023 […]
From the Beginning: An Imprint on Women’s Studies
It was the mid-1970s. America was still grappling with the civil rights movements of the 1960s. For the field of women’s studies, this was the beginning. “There was this foment,” recalls C&S Fellow Estelle B. Freedman, recipient of a 1974 Women’s Studies Fellowship and the Edgar E. Robinson Professor in U.S. History at Stanford University. “I can remember […]