Overview

People are most familiar with the efforts RESI has put into supporting faculty and graduate research initiatives. Programs like our RESI Dissertation Research Grants program for advanced graduate students and the Interdisciplinary Faculty Seed Grant for faculty directly support research related to race and ethnicity at Texas A&M University. RESI also supports research by acting as a hub to facilitate networking amongst scholars with a shared interest in race and ethnic studies.

RESI-Led Research Projects

RESI also has a history of conducting its own research. Recent projects like the Texas Diversity Study, the Texas Rural Study (in partnership with Prairie View A&M University), and the 2021 Mutual Aid Symposium help RESI establish its own research presence at Texas A&M University.

The Emerging Visions of Learning, Voices, & Equity at HSIs (EVOLVE HSIs) Study

EVOLVE HSIs is a study initially funded by a 2022 RESI Interdisciplinary Faculty Seed Grant and is led by co-PIs Darrel Wanzer-Serrano and Ishara Casellas Connors. This project began by using a discourse tracing method to analyze the communications of three emerging Hispanic-Serving Institutions (eHSI) in the University of Texas System: UT Austin, UT Dallas, and UT Tyler. Focused on the relationship between macro-discursive, meso-discursive, and micro-discursive utterances, researchers examined how these eHSIs craft intentionality and servingness in the context of racialized organizations. The project has shifted, in its current phase, to examine data collected from interviews of administrators at around a dozen emerging-HSIs across four states. We're interested in the unique experiences of in-betweenness at eHSIs as explained from an ecological perspective.