From June to July 2024, Jayel Gant, a Ph.D candidate in Tisch's Department of Performance Studies, traveled to Missouri to conduct oral history interviews and field research with roller skaters in the Midwest. Jayel Gant was a recipient of the CRS Research Travel Grant Initiative and their travel and research was supported by Tisch's Center for Research & Study.
The Center for Research & Study Research Travel Grant is designed to support eligible PhD candidates, graduate, and undergraduate senior students in good academic standing in the three CRS departments to partake in research that pertains to and enriches their area of study.