About EMR Scholars
EMR Scholars seminars are collaborative and interdisciplinary opportunities for deep academic engagement. Each one welcomes a small cohort of committed undergraduate students who complete readings and attend a 2-hour workshop with a guest facilitator. EMR first launched the Scholars program in 2022.
Seminar participants commit to completing an assigned set of readings and attending the full two-hour session in person. All reading materials will be provided by EMR.
Selection notes: EMR Scholars accepts 5 students per seminar. Selection is based on a student’s holistic preparation and statement of interest. Members of previous seminars can apply again, but we will prioritize applicants who have not yet participated.
Upcoming Seminars
9/19/2025: We are delighted to welcome Sony Coranez Bolton (Amherst College) to offer the next EMR Scholars Seminar on Sony’s new book Dos X: Disability and Racial Dysphoria in Latinx and Filipinx Culture, in person on Monday, November 3rd, 12-2PM.
Interested students must apply, and five students will be selected, with priority going to students who have not participated in past EMR Scholars offerings.
The application is here: tinyurl.com/EMR-Scholars-2025. Applications are due Fri., October 10th!
Past Seminars
AY 2024-25:
“The Ins & Outs of Literary Anthologies,” with Dr. Dohra Ahmad (Professor of English, St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) who will discuss the process of compiling her two anthologies: Rotten English (Norton 2007) and The Penguin Book of Migration Literature (Penguin Classics 2019).
“Model Minority Masochism and the Cultural Politics of Resentment,” led by Takeo Rivera (Boston University). The seminar will be focused around his recent monograph: Model Minority Masochism.
AY 2023-24:
“Global Indigeneity and Social Media Activism: What Does It Mean to be Indigenous in the 21st Century?” with sociolinguistic scholar-activist Serafín Coronel-Molina (Indiana University).
“When was the Afro-Asian Century?: Diaspora, Debate, Decolonization” led by Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe (Hunter College).
AY 2022-23:
“Diaspora and Belonging in Afro-Latinx Studies” with Kaysha Corinealdi (Emerson College).
“Global Indigeneities and Disaster Capitalism” with Jorge Sánchez Cruz (Harvard).
“Transnational Migrations” with Lowell Brower (University of Wisconsin-Madison).
“Ethnic and Migration Studies: Convergences and Conversations” with Barbara Sostaita (University of Illinois at Chicago).
Spring 2022:
“Asian American, Pacific Islander, and Latinx Intersections,” with Professor Paula Park (Wesleyan University).