Who We Are

From 1985 to 2017, the Movement and Media Research Action Project (MRAP) operated as a faculty-student-community collaboration committed to helping under-represented and misrepresented constituencies influence public discourse, including news media coverage. MRAP was university-based but supported community partners including trade unions, Central America solidarity groups, domestic violence survivors, welfare, housing, immigrant and language rights groups, as well as environmental, economic and climate justice organizations.

Over weekly breakfast, emerging scholar-activists, activists, and scholars engaged in movement relevant research met to discuss and revise our works-in-progress. We continue this work remotely as a multi-generational network of scholar-activists as defined by David Croteau in 2005. We miss and remember Paolo Donati, Sharon Kurtz, Bill Meinhofer, and Greg Maney. We mourn the recent loss of Bill Gamson.

See MRAP’s cultural agreements in the Resources section.