Please join us for an opportunity to meet selected grantees of the 2025 Anti-Racism Graduate Research Grants. Sponsored by the Bowman Center for Scholarship to Practice, the Anti-Racism Research Grant for Graduate Students program supports engagement in research projects focused on racism, racial equity, and racial justice while advancing graduate students' progress toward their degree.

In the fifth year of this program, the Bowman Center has awarded 19 research grants to individuals and teams comprised of University of Michigan (U-M) graduate students. Click here to view all the 2025 grantees' project abstracts.


Presenters:

Zoë Bishop (MS Student in Environmental Justice), Melissa Lewis (MS Student in Behavior, Education, and Communication), Bibi Macias (MS Student in Environmental Justice), and John Blake (MS Student in Environmental Justice, Environmental Policy & Planning, and Public Policy) — National Roadmap to Ending Utility Shutoffs

Mel Monier (PhD Candidate in Communication and Media), Jasmine Banks (PhD Candidate in Psychology), Erykah Benson (PhD Candidate in Sociology), and Janae W. Sayler (PhD Candidate in Psychology) — Love Unseen: Measuring Young Adults’ Self-Perceptions and Attitudes Regarding Desirability in Dating Contexts

Maya Glenn (PhD Candidate in Sociology) — The Black Women & Pleasure Project: The Meanings of Pleasure in Contemporary Black American Women’s Everyday Lives

Daniel Jin (PhD Candidate in American Culture) — The Meds and Eds City: Land, Labor, and the Politics of the “Public Good” in Boston, 1960–2005

Olubukola Tikare (PhD Student in Clinical Pharmacy & Translational Sciences) — A Mixed Methods Analysis of Implementation Factors within a Pharmacist and Community Health Worker-Led Intervention for Black and Hispanic Adults with Diabetes