CSER | Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race

Encuent(r)os: Text / Image Workshop and Q&A with Erika Morillo

As part of our Fall 2025 Encuent(r)os Latinx and Caribbean Studies programming series, CSER presents a text / image workshop and Q&A with photographer and author Erika Morillo! Morillo’s works are in the library collections at the Whitney, MoMA, and The International Center of Photography. Her nonfiction book, Mother Archive: A Dominican Family Memoir was a finalist for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award. Free books and dinner provided! Bring a family photo to participate in the workshop!

Roots Applications Now Open!

Roots: A Journal of Ethnicity and Race is excited to announce that it is now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 academic year! This journal rejects the rigid boundaries of traditional scholarship and welcomes the interdisciplinary creations of the larger Columbia/Barnard community. Whether you want to write, edit, design, code, or simply be part of something meaningful on campus, we encourage you to join us. Applications close on Friday, October 3rd and will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

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The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) is Columbia’s main interdisciplinary space for the study of ethnicity, race and indigeneity and their implications for thinking about culture, power, hierarchy, social identities, and political communities, in the U.S. and around the world.

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