About FMS
In 2000, a team of scholars began to consider the role of cultural identity in knowledge production and social change. The Future of Minority Studies Research Project (FMS) is now a transnational, interdisciplinary network of scholars and students with research bases in multiple academic institutions to study minority identity, education, and social change. Organized like a migrating laboratory, FMS meets at various locations throughout the year to share research and to support collaborative discussions on a prearranged set of theoretical and practical questions about the place of minority identity in higher education and in multicultural societies.
One goal of FMS is to make humanities departments of academic institutions more culturally and intellectually diverse. FMS has thus created a summer institute to support collaborative research and mentoring of minority scholars for leadership in the academy. FMS defines “minority” broadly to include those whose access to material and intellectual resources is limited by their social identities.
Like other FMS bases, FMS at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (FMS-UW) focuses on a particular area of research in minority studies. Since 2002, FMS at UW has made the studies of social identity as it informs literary analysis and, more recently, the writing process, its primary interests.
FMS-UW News
Conference! March 25-27
Future of Minority Studies Junior Scholars Caucus
University of Wisconsin - Madison
We are pleased to announce the first event in the Future of Minority Studies dedicated to the Junior Scholars Caucus, a group comprised of untenured faculty and graduate students. The theme of our conference will be “Bridging Divides: Identity, Social Justice, and the Future of the Academy.” Scheduled panels include “Confronting the Backlash,” a discussion regarding the recent attacks on affirmative action, as well as a workshop on grassroots activism and organizing by writer, folk singer, activist, and former member of SNCC Sy Kahn.
Other FMS Bases
Cornell University
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
University of Oregon
Stanford University
Syracuse University
