Assistant Professor Alaina Brenick was recently awarded her PI’ed grant from University of Potsdam, Kooperationsförderung für die USA und Russland, with Co-Investigator Maja K. Schacher (University of Potsdam), The Development of Intergroup Relations in the Classroom: Understanding Context, Child Characteristics, and Consequences. The project will fund their travel to NY to meet around the International Academy for Intercultural Research Biennial Conference.  Alaina and Maja will meet with a number of European collaborators (Dr. Karen Phalet, Co-PI) as well as a team of researchers at CUNY Grad Center Race, Ethnicity, and Migration program in preparation of a grant proposal for the EU’s Research and Innovation Staff Exchange Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme.

The award will also fund Alaina’s travel to the University of Potsdam to conduct site visits for an upcoming project, carry-out analyses from a previous project, Social Integration and Socio-Emotional Adjustment of Early-Adolescent Turkish Immigrants in Culturally Diverse Schools in Germany, and to work on an invited book chapter, “The Development of Intergroup Relations in the Classroom: Understanding Context, Child Characteristics, and Consequences, to appear in an edited volume on children and prejudice.

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