2024–25 CRES Sansone Fellows and Call for Proposals

2025–26 Community Research Partnership (CRP), Sansone Funding Program

2024–25 Recipients of the CRES CRP Funding

The Institute for Critical Race and Ethnic Studies is honored to announce the selection of the 2024–25 CRES Community Research Partnership Fellows. With excitement we share our congratulations to Marina Sorochinski, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice and Homeland Security, in The Lesley H. and William L. Collins College of Professional Studies, and Robert Fanuzzi, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of English, in St. John's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, who have received this unique funding opportunity for their collaborative research with community organizations outside the University.

The institute’s Sansone Funding Programs recently created by the Mary C. Sansone Fellowship Endowment Fund and the Zachary Sansone Fellowship Endowment Fund support CRES fellows in conducting research that best articulates solutions to problems created by systemic racism. These two fellowships are named in memory of Mary C. Sansone and her husband Zachary, whose shared passion for righting wrongs led the Sansone Foundation to support this social justice-related research and programming in the CRES Institute.

2025–26 Call for Proposals  

The CRES Institute is currently accepting proposals for the 2025–26 Community Research Partnership Award (PDF). The CRES Community Research Partnership is open to St. John’s graduate students, faculty, administrators, and staff interested in conducting participatory action research, activist research, or other CRES-type methodology models to address systemic racism and the intersecting forms of oppression that accompany it. 

The overall goal of those working in this collaborative space is to foster equal research partnerships between members of the St. John’s University community and community-based advocates that generate and amplify new knowledges about the intractable nature of systemic racism, and develop equitable and inclusive community-based approaches for social change. Submissions should be sent to [email protected] for consideration. 

Save the Dates

A Q&A webinar will be held for faculty, administrators, and staff on Thursday, March 27, and for graduate students on Monday, March 31.