News from the Center

We are thrilled to announce that CES was just awarded a 3-year grant from the Mellon Foundation for $558,000!”

We are tremendously proud of the fellows who recently completed their CES fellowship. All have exciting plans for next year and beyond.

We want to extend our heartfelt congratulations to three former CES fellows for their latest awards & achievements!

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2024-2025 dissertation fellowship. This year, we selected seven fellows and three honorable mentions.

CES is releasing the first in a promised series of research agendas that are intended to influence the kinds of questions that scholars—both graduate students and …

Joseph van der Naald, a 2023-2024 CES Fellow, is the co-author of a report documenting recent trends in unionization patterns.

This has been an eventful year for our Center! We just completed the selection of our eighth cohort of fellows — bringing the total number of people we have supported to 49.

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2023-2024 dissertation fellowship. This year, we selected seven fellows and four alternates.

Daanika Gordon, a CES Fellow in 2017-2018, has just published a book, Policing the Racial Divide: Urban Growth Politics and the Remaking of Segregation.

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2022-2023 dissertation fellowship. This year, we selected seven fellows and two alternates.

Read CES Fellow Tiana Wilson’s excellent op-ed in the Washington Post, discussing how to restore the radical origins of International Women’s Days.

The Sociology Department at Wellesley College is seeking to hire a two-year Mellon postdoctoral fellow who would join the College in July 2022.

Read an interview in The Nation with CES Fellow George Aumoithe, where he discusses the economic roots of the crisis American hospitals face, and why we must do better.

Read CES Fellow Justine Modica’s excellent op-ed in the Washington Post, discussing the role government must play in raising wages for child care workers.

Our CES 2022-2023 dissertation fellowship application portal is now open!

We are delighted to announce the winners of the CES 2021-2022 dissertation fellowship.

Vartan Gregorian who died on April 14th was the longtime head of the Carnegie Corporation and former President of Brown University,

A number of friends of the Center have drafted a petition to President Biden requesting the cancellation of student debt.

CES Fellow Nantina Vgontzas’ latest article argues that the left must vie for control over the algorithms, data, and infrastructure shaping our lives.

Fred Block’s latest article, published in Nonprofit Quarterly, breaks down the myth that social science professors are all leftist radicals.

George Aumoithe, (a 2017 CES Fellow), has written an Op-Ed, published in the Washington Post.

Newly appointed CES Fellow, Isaac Jabola Carolus, has gained press attention in California for his research on home health workers.

Joss Green (a 2019 CES Fellow) and Woods Ervin research the work experiences of trans women of color.

The Blum Center at the UCSB has an opening for an Equity Research Postdoctoral Scholar.

CES fellow Jessica Katzenstein has written an important report on the militarization of U.S. policing.

Meet our CES fellows for 2020-2021, and read about their proposed projects.

Apply now to be a presenter at the scholar-activist conference at UC Berkeley March 12-14, 2020.

The Judicial Ruling in the Caster Semenya Case.

CES mourns the death of Erik Olin Wright.

CES has received a grant from the Hewlett Foundation.

Robert Dunn’s argument on the impossibility and undesirability of “value free” social science.

On a recent August weekend, we held the second CES dissertation workshop

Read the op-ed by Idit Fast, a 2018-2019 CES Fellow and Ph.D. student in Sociology at Rutgers University.

On the weekend of September 8-10, the Center for Engaged Scholarship held their first dissertation workshop at Costanoa Lodge in Pescadero, California.

Professor M.V. Lee Badgett, from the University of Massachusetts at Amhert, writes that scholarly work matters in how we change hearts, minds and policy.

Our first article in a new series discussing how the global academic community is diminished whenever there are attacks on academic freedom.

Meet our CES fellows for 2017-2018, read about their proposed projects and obtain a list of our esteemed reviewers.

The Center for Engaged Scholarship wishes to thank our colleagues who generously gave of their time to serve as reviewers.

They’re investing millions to convert students to their free market ideology and feed the pipeline to their think tanks and institutes.

On April 22nd, thousands of people gathered across the nation to express their opposition to the anti-science orientation of this Administration.

The Center for Engaged Scholarship is proud to announce that Professor Aldon Morris from Northwestern University has joined our Advisory Board.

Social science researchers were connected to June 27th Supreme Court abortion decision.

New research spotlights political donation changes and the role of donors in both the Republican and the Democratic Parties.

The Turkish government has launched a campaign of repression against academics who signed a petition in support of a peace.

The first phase of our 2016-2017 Fellowship Application Process has now ended!

The Koch’s are using their billions to advance their market fundamentalist agenda at public universities.

The Koch brothers are supersizing their already hefty investments into college students’ hearts and minds.

John Hope Franklin was an exemplary engaged scholar, helping to teach us about race and the meaning of America.

Did American Psychological Association leaders collaborate with the government’s torture program?

Student protests lead to resignation of the President and Chancellor at the University of Missouri.