Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
Forecasted
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration supports social science researchers studying how race, ethnicity, nativity, and legal status shape U.S. outcomes to deepen understanding of a pluralist society.
Funder: Russell Sage Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): October 2026 (Invited proposal) | July 2027 (Letter of inquiry)
Funding Amounts: Not specified
Summary: Supports investigator-initiated social science research on how race, ethnicity, nativity, and legal status shape U.S. social, economic, and political outcomes.
Key Information: PIs and co-PIs must generally hold a doctorate; students cannot apply.
Description
The Russell Sage Foundation’s Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration program supports innovative, investigator-initiated research examining how race, ethnicity, nativity, and legal status—and their interactions with other social categories—shape social, economic, and political outcomes. Research may concern immigrants, U.S.-born racial and ethnic minorities, or native-born whites, and may focus on race, ethnicity, immigration, or a combination of these issues.
Building on the Foundation’s previous Immigration and Cultural Contact programs, the program encourages multidisciplinary perspectives and methods responding to changes in the composition of the U.S. population. It seeks productive dialogue among different social science traditions, stronger social science data, theory, and methods, and a deeper understanding of how to achieve the American ideals of a pluralist society.
