About
The Center on Race, Religion, and Urban Life (CORRUL) is dedicated to advancing the scholarly understanding of race, religion and other urban issues to enable the development of more humane and sustainable cities. CORRUL aspires to understand urban life and improve relationships among the many racial, ethnic, and religious groups that make cities their home.
Vision
To make urban areas more humane and sustainable by conducting scholarly research that informs public life. Mission
To generate knowledge through scholarly research, to make our findings relevant to other academics and the general public, and to teach students how to incorporate this form of intellectual engagement into their professional lives.
The mission is accomplished by:
- creating a theoretical framework that links the significance and relevance of race and religion in urban life
- conducting scholarly research that informs civic engagement
- creating and delivering educational programs that train and mentor scholars from the undergraduate to the postdoctoral level
- facilitating the dissemination of knowledge to the scholarly community and beyond
Our mission is inspired by empirical observations that race, ethnicity and religion are often used to sort people in urban areas, distribute resources, populate organizations, galvanize politics and fuel conflict. Categorization also provides identity and meaning, shifts through migration, strengthens communities and leads to social change. CORRUL’s strength derives from its multidisciplinary approach to problem solving while engaging students through rigorous training that stresses both academic and applied social science. Focus Areas
Program focus areas generally divide into the following themes:
