Social Justice Institute

John Flores, assistant professor of history and Climo Junior Professor, will lead the next Social Justice Institute brown bag lunch event. On Wednesday, Oct. 1, he will present “Which Mexicans Became Americans?”—a comparison of Mexican naturalization processes in Chicago and Los Angeles between…

Rhonda Williams, associate professor of history and founder/director of the Social Justice Institute, will be a featured panelist on a plenary titled, “Cities In Revolt: Detroit, Chicago, Jackson-Mississippi, & Beyond,” Sept. 25-28 at Kalamazoo College. The panelists will examine resistance…

Timothy Black, associate professor of sociology, will present “Masculinity, Fatherhood, and Citizen Reentry: Developing a Social Justice Frame” at the next Social Justice Institute brown bag lunch. The event will be from 12:30 to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 17, in Mather House 100.

The Social Justice Institute announced the inaugural faculty, graduate and undergraduate research fellows. The institute established this grant-mining fund for seeding faculty and student research that advances social justice work from humanistic inquiry to action research. These grants were…

Case Western Reserve University's Social Justice Institute, the Environmental Health Watch and the Rid-All Green Partnership will come together again to host the “Race, Food & Justice Conference 2014: Analyzing the Urban Food Movement through a Social Justice Lens.” The two-day conference will…

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities and the Social Justice Institute will welcome Erik S. McDuffie, associate professor of African-American studies at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, to campus this week. During his talk, titled “An End to the Neglect of the Problems of the Negro…

The Case Western Reserve Social Justice Institute and Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence will present events in observance of the United Nations’ World Social Justice Day. On Friday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m. in Clark Hall 309, there will be a screening of Dying to Leave, a film that…

Janice Eatman-Williams, assistant director at the Center for Civic Engagement and Learning and a Social Justice Institute leadership team member, received a 2013 Service Award in recognition of her contributions to the Cleveland Job Corps Center. At Case Western Reserve, Eatman-Williams connects…

The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center, Social Justice Institute and Center for International Affairs will host a talk by Misty Luminais titled, “Rein in the Rhetoric: How Moral Panics over Sexuality Obscure Social Justice Issues," on Friday, Nov. 8, from noon to 1 p.m. in Thwing Center,…

Prominent poet and activist Sonia Sanchez and author Maytha Alhassen will headline the Case Western Reserve University Social Justice Institute’s 2013 Intergenerational Think Tank, “Educating for Struggle: In the Academy, Schools, Prisons and Streets.” The two-day event begins Friday, Nov. 15, in…