{"id":2656,"date":"2023-10-16T14:50:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T18:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/ric\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2023-10-16T15:41:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T19:41:55","slug":"students-and-faculty-present-at-first-of-two-community-engaged-research-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/ric\/2023\/10\/16\/students-and-faculty-present-at-first-of-two-community-engaged-research-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Students and Faculty Present at First of Two Community-Engaged Research Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Ga Eun Cho<\/strong>
PhD student
Political Science & RIC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday, October 13, over 20 participants gathered for the first<\/a> of two community-engaged learning conversations planned for Fall 2023 through the proposed undergraduate major Critical Diaspora Studies (CDS) in the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event featured presentations by Dr. Erin Aeran Chung<\/strong>, Dr. Shawntay Stocks<\/strong>, and Vanessa Han<\/strong> (\u201926), Angela Tracy<\/strong> (\u201925), and Ethan Tan<\/strong> (\u201925), moderated by Kobi Khong<\/strong> (\u201924). All have been actively involved in community-engaged learning and research in Baltimore.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The presenters discussed their experiences with community-engaged learning, how it has shaped their intellectual development, what challenges they have faced, and what tips they would offer for future and aspiring projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Chung discussed the importance of community-engaged learning in the context of the development of RIC, CRAAV, and the CDS major. She emphasized the importance of community-engagement as the centerpiece of what connects RIC, CRAAV<\/a>, and CDS, and indicated how the curriculum design for the new CDS will center around community engagement, rather than being a peripheral extension of the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Stocks, the Associate Director of Fellowships and Community Engagement of Inheritance Baltimore, highlighted the importance of being attentive to the needs, history, and experiences of the community researchers engage with. She stressed that researchers must always understand the positionality of the researcher vis-\u00e0-vis the community and engage in critical reflexivity about the research and its purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next, Ethan Tan, who had taken part in the community-engaged Humanities Research Lab: Asian Diasporas in Baltimore<\/a>, led by Dr. Yumi Kim<\/strong> in Fall 2022, shared his experience interviewing Chinese Americans to understand the history and importance of Chinese restaurants in immigrant life. Tan reflected that he was compelled to engage more deeply with the community and individuals\u2019 family histories because of the scarcity of archival or other sources to represent such an integral part of the immigrant community. For Tan, the struggle to do justice to the vulnerable and personal knowledge he was entrusted with was the main challenge for conducting research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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