The Center for Citizenship, Race, and Ethnicity Studies (CREST)

The Center for Citizenship, Race, and Ethnicity Studies (CREST) serves as a place for scholars at The College of Saint Rose and across the region and nation to exchange ideas and research on issues related to the social construction of race, ethnicity, and citizenship. Through the sponsorship of two Diversity Dissertation Fellows—drawn from a highly competitive pool of national applicants—and three Residential Fellows picked from the Saint Rose faculty, CREST brings together a varied group of scholars that furthers this burgeoning area of research and teaching. CREST researchers gain insights and methodologies from a variety of disciplines, including history, political science, literature, geography, cultural studies, anthropology, Africana Studies, Latino Studies, Asian Studies, American Studies, women's studies, critical race studies, urban studies, legal studies, and communication studies—to name a few. CREST seeks to develop new and better ways to recognize, understand, and intervene in critical public policy issues, always grounding this intervention in broad-based interdisciplinary humanities scholarship.

About CREST

To help bring scholars, students, and community members together, CREST sponsors a variety of events throughout the academic year. These include the Kermit L. Hall Memorial Lecture celebrating Constitution Day, a monthly colloquia series in which CREST Diversity Dissertation and Residential Fellows, as well as area scholars present their research, less formal brown-bag lunch discussions, a lecture series, and, ultimately, an annual national scholarly conference. It is the intention of CREST's founders that these lectures and discussions help to facilitate the scholarly production of CREST fellows and members. Publication to more widely disseminate CREST research and to help make CREST a vital center for the study of citizenship, race, and ethnicity is one of the fundamental goals of the institution.