Graduate Certificate

The Certificate in Race, Diaspora and Indigeneity offers University of Chicago graduate students an opportunity to receive a training in the concepts and categories that orient the study of race, diaspora, and Indigeneity. These three foundational concepts have shaped the modern world and continue to reverberate in contemporary thought, action, culture, and policy. Given the interdisciplinary and transnational approaches needed to study race, diaspora, and Indigeneity rigorously, the certificate program allows students to examine these concepts beyond the specific course of study undertaken within their respective MA or PhD program. 

RDI Certificate Requirements

• RDIN 40100 and RDIN 40200, two course proseminar sequence offered Winter and Spring
• Two additional RDIN courses
• A capstone research paper or project on a theme or topic related to race, diaspora, and/or indigeneity. This project/paper must be advised by a faculty member in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity or advised by a faculty member from another department approved by Professor Leora Auslander. This paper/project can be an MA thesis, or a paper completed in one of the courses taken above.
• Presentation of capstone research paper or project at the end of the year symposium. Each spring, RDI will host a half-day symposium in which certificate students will present their research.
• Certificate students are encouraged to attend and participate in RDI’s public workshops and lectures.
• Complete the RDI certificate confirmation form and submit to RDI’s student affairs administrator no later than Friday of the first week of the quarter in of intended graduation  

Contacts

Faculty Contact: Leora Auslander (lausland@uchicago.edu)
Administrative Contact: Jacqueline Gaines (jgaines@uchicago.edu)