TCU’s AddRan College of Liberal Arts has partnered with Binghamton University to host the 7th biennial Race, Ethnicity and Place Conference (REP VII).

The conference will feature a variety of presenters, who have done research pertaining to the three topics. Three hundred and fifty people from four continents, 10 nations, 36 states and 80 colleges and universities have already registered for the conference.

“The conference focuses upon topics in an interdisciplinary framework of race, ethnicity, and place,” said Andrew Schoolmaster, dean of AddRan and co-director of the event. “[The research] is presented from the perspective of an anthropologist, a sociologist, a geographer, an English professor, etc.”

John Frazier, a geography professor at Binghamton, is the founder of the REP Conference and director of the event. The first conference was held in 2002 at Binghamton with 75 people in attendance.

Fraizer said the past few conferences have had between 350 and 500 attendees. 

The event requires local, regional and national coordination. The planning and organization for the event is a two-year process. Frazier said that TCU has handled the regional and local organizational tasks.


As of Sept. 28, 46 faculty, staff and students from TCU had registered for the conference and 20 TCU students had entered a poster contest in conjunction with the event to win a cash prize.

Students in some classes can receive extra credit for volunteering at the conference.

Registration is still open for the event: the cost is $100 for students and $165 for faculty. The fee is non-refundable.

The schedule for registered guests includes two lunch speakers, three field trips led by TCU professors and a gala dinner.

Max Krochmal, assistant professor in the history department, is in charge of planning two of the three field trips around Fort Worth. The field trips will include a visit to Dealey Plaza and the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas, an African-American History and Neighborhoods tour in Fort Worth, and a tour of Latino Fort Worth.

The official program can be found on the conference’s website. The program includes specific details of the conference, the titles of the papers and posters that will be presented, the names of the lunch speakers, the field trip itineraries and the names of the presenters.

The event will be held at the Sheraton Fort Worth Hotel from Oct. 22-24.