2025-26 Center for Liberation, Anti-Racism and Belonging faculty cohort includes associate professor
María G. Rendón was selected for the 2025-26 cohort of Center for Liberation, Anti-Racism and Belonging (C-LAB) Faculty Fellows, recognizing the Department of Urban Planning & Public Policy associate professor’s leadership in advancing equity and inclusion through research and teaching.
Part of the School of Humanities, C-LAB aims to create a research justice university by fostering collaborative inquiry that analyzes race, indigeneity and migration. “We seek to support initiatives that identify research questions, explore methodologies and experiment with diverse publication dissemination methods that bring attention to and work toward social justice,” states the C-LAB website.
“I am very excited to be connected with the Center for Liberation, Anti-Racism and Belonging and be part of this year's cohort of interdisciplinary scholars — from scientists and artists and historians — whose work advances knowledge on race, Indigeneity, and migration,” Rendón says. “I know that engaging with these scholars' important work will enrich my own.”
C-LAB fellowship funding will “support my research and bring fellows together this year to share our work in progress,” she adds.
Rendón was lead author of the recent study “Social Reproduction at a Minority Serving Institution: STEM Capital Disparities among Children of Immigrants” that was published by Sage’s Sociology of Education, which also featured her as a guest on their podcast.
— Matt Coker
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