Rudy Alamillo is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Western Washington University. His research examines cross-racial campaign appeals in the United States, with a focus on non-Hispanic White candidate appeals to Hispanic voters. Professor Alamillo’s research seeks to understand how non-Hispanic candidates racialize themselves to appeal to Hispanic voters, as well as how Hispanic voters de-racialize themselves to fit into American society. His research has appeared in Politics, Groups, and Identities and Sociology Compass, and has been covered by outlets such as NBC Latino and The Washington Post.
Ashley Brown Burns is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tulane University in New Orleans. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political economy from Williams College and masters degree and Ph.D. in public policy from the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. She specializes in social stratification, racial politics and American government. Her applied work and research focuses on the intersections of racial politics and urban policymaking, specifically affordable housing, constitutional policing, and public infrastructure development.
Hannah Brückner works on a wide range of topics related to the life course, inequality, health, gender and sexuality. Current research projects focus on the representation of academics and academic knowledge on Wikipedia and the impact of labor migration on gender inequality in Kerala (India). She has received an Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship and research grants from the National Science Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Volkswagen Foundation. Brückner, formerly a professor of Sociology at Yale University, is now Professor of Social Research and Public Policy at New York University Abu Dhabi, where she has served as Associate Dean of Social Sciences, and as Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity.
Charisse Burden-Stelly is an Assistant Professor and Mellon Faculty Fellow of Africana Studies and Political Science at Carleton College. She is a scholar of political theory, political economy, and intellectual history. She is the co-author, with Gerald Horne, of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History. She is currently working on a single-authored manuscript, The Radical Horizon of Black Betrayal: Antiradicalism, Antiblackness, and the U.S. Capitalist State, which theorizes the relationship between Antiblackness and Antiradicalism during four historical conjunctures: 1919; 1930-1937; World War II; and the McCarthy era. Her published work appears in journals including Souls, The CLR James Journal, International Journal of Africana Studies, Science & Society, and Socialism & Democracy.
William A. (“Sandy”) Darity, Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. He has served as chair of the Department of African and African American Studies and was the founding director of the Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality at Duke. He served as director of the Institute of African American Research, the Moore Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program, the Undergraduate Honors Program in economics, and director of Graduate Studies at the University of North Carolina. Darity’s research focuses on inequality by race, class and ethnicity, stratification economics, schooling and the racial achievement gap, North-South theories of trade and development, skin shade and labor market outcomes, the economics of reparations, the Atlantic slave trade and the Industrial Revolution, the history of economics, and the social psychological effects of exposure to unemployment
Cheryl Elman is Visiting Research Fellow, Social Science Research Institute, Duke University and Professor Emeritus (Sociology) at the University of Akron. She studies social inequality, human capital, and health dis/advantage in twentieth-century sociohistorical context. Her current research explores divergent modes of turn-of-the-twentieth century political economic development in the American South and potential influences on race-related differences in family structure, health, and fertility. Her most recent publications on these topics are in Demography, American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, and American Journal of Sociology.
Linnea A. Evans received her Ph.D. in Health Behavior and Health Education from the University of Michigan School of Public Health in 2017. She is currently a Health Disparities Research Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and an affiliate of the Center for Demography and Ecology. Her research examines social exclusion processes in adolescence and young adulthood that link racial and ethnic minoritized groups, particularly Black Americans, to disadvantaged health. She maintains a specific focus on how the stratification of time at the intersection of race and gender relates to stress and racial inequities in early-onset chronic health conditions.
Kathryn M. Feltey is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Akron where she has served as director of the Women’s Studies Program and co-coordinator of the Research Methods for the Social Sciences program. Her early research focused on female-headed family poverty and homelessness; domestic violence; and social policy. She is currently conducting research with colleagues exploring women’s historical migration in the U.S.
Arline T. Geronimus is a professor at the University of Michigan, with appointments in the School of Public Health, the Institute for Social Research, and the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health. An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, she holds degrees from Princeton and Harvard Universities and completed post-doctoral work at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Geronimus originated an analytic framework, “weathering” that posits that African Americans experience early health deterioration as a consequence of structurally-rooted chronic biopsychosocial stressors. Dr. Geronimus is also interested in the collective strategies marginalized communities employ to mitigate, resist, or undo the harmful effects of structural racism on their health; the trade-offs these strategies reflect; and the perturbations public policies sometimes cause in these autonomous protections.
Molly Hartsough is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Akron. She earned her B.A. in sociology from Youngstown State University in 2015. Her dissertation, “Doing Justice: Prosecutors and the Social Construction of Justice,” explores how assistant prosecutors define and enact meanings of justice in their daily work activities. Her research interests are in violence against women, particularly domestic violence and sex trafficking, and in investigating the relationships among criminal justice actors, victims, and citizens.
Adam Hochman is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Trained in the philosophy of science, he has published extensively on the topic of racial naturalism, critiquing recent arguments for the existence of human biological races. Hochman’s work also critiques the use of “race” as a social category. He argues that there are no human races—biological or social—only groups misunderstood to be races: racialised groups. He currently holds a three year Discovery Early Career Researcher Award for his project “Social Constructionism About Race, Deconstructed”. To learn more about his work, see his website at <http://adamhochman.com>.
Dr. Cleopatra Howard Caldwell is Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education and Director of the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health at the School of Public Health, University of Michigan. She is also a Faculty Associate with the Program for Research on Black Americans at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. Dr. Caldwell has extensive experience conducting research to understand risk and protective factors for health risk behaviors and mental health among ethnically diverse adolescents. As a social psychologist with expertise in psychosocial and environmental factors influencing the health and well-being of Black populations, her research includes both intervention and basic research involving survey research techniques with adults, adolescents and families.
Mary R. Jackman is Professor Emerita and Research Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. She completed her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1972. She served on the faculty of the Sociology Department at the University of Michigan from 1973 to 1989, before moving to UC Davis. Jackman’s research is focused on long-term systems of inequality, their social organization and their varying ideologies of domination and resistance. She has been particularly interested in the ways in which political and organizational constraints drive ideological dynamics in race, class, and gender relations. She is currently investigating the ways in which systems of inequality organize the practice and social comprehension of violence. Her research has been supported by grants from the NSF and NIMH, a Research Scientist Development Award from NIMH, the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize, and a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.
Michael Jones-Correa is the President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Immigration (CSERI) at the University of Pennsylvania. He has worked and published extensively on immigrant political mobilization, inter-group relations, and the role of institutional actors in integrating immigrants into receiving societies. He is a co-principal investigator of the 2006 Latino National Survey, and the 2012 and 2016 Latino Immigrant National Election Study (LINES). Recent publications include Outsiders No More? Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation (Oxford 2013), Latinos in the New Millennium (Cambridge, 2012) and Latino Lives in America: Making It Home (Temple, 2010).
Grace Kao is IBM Professor and Chair of Sociology at Yale University. She is also Faculty Director of Education Studies and Director of the Center for Empirical Research on Stratification and Inequality (CERSI). She is also affiliated with the Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Program at Yale University. She is the Past Vice President of the American Sociological Association. Follow her on twitter @Prof_GraceKao.
Sunmin Kim is currently a Mellon Faculty Fellow and will assume the position of assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Dartmouth College in 2020. He is primarily interested in bringing insights from sociology of culture and knowledge into the studies of race and immigration in the United States. Kim is currently working on a book manuscript on the Dillingham Commission, focusing on how social scientific inquiry on immigrants in the early twentieth century led to the re-invention of the American nation through restrictive immigration policies. In addition to his Ph.D. in sociology from University of California, Berkeley, Kim received B.A. and M.A. in sociology from Seoul National University.
Helen B. Marrow is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Tufts University. She specializes in immigration, race and ethnicity, inequality and social policy, research methods, and health. She is author of New Destination Dreaming: Immigration, Race, and Legal Status in the Rural American South (Stanford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration since 1965 (Harvard University Press, 2007). Her two current research projects examine how immigration-driven diversity shapes patterns of contact, threat, trust, and civic engagement in metropolitan America, and Americans’ aspirations to live abroad.
David Mickey-Pabello earned his Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Michigan in 2019. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethnoracial Relations at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. His research broadly covers sociology of education, race/ethnicity, social inequality, demography, assortative mating, sociology of law, and specializes in affirmative action bans. His dissertation focused on the intended and unintended consequences of affirmative action bans.
Ann Morning is an Associate Professor of Sociology at New York University and a faculty affiliate of NYU Abu Dhabi. Her research interests include race, demography, and the sociology of science, especially as they pertain to census classification worldwide and to individuals’ concepts of racial difference. She is the author of The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference (2011) as well as a member of the U.S. Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations. Morning holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University and was a 2008-09 Fulbright research fellow at the University of Milan-Bicocca, a 2014-15 Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, and Visiting Professor at Sciences Po, Paris in 2019.
Rosemary Ndubuizu is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Georgetown University. She holds a Ph.D. in Women’s and Gender Studies and specializes in social welfare policy, urban politics, black feminism, political economy, and cultural politics. Ndubuizu is currently writing her first book, which explores how controlling images and negative cultural narratives about low-income black women informed and shaped the District of Columbia’s post-1970s affordable housing politics.
Alondra Nelson is the Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, an independent research center in Princeton, New Jersey, and president of the Social Science Research Council. She is the author or coeditor of several books, including The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation after the Genome (2016), Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History (2012), and Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination (2011). A sociologist of science and inequality, she is currently at work on a book about science and technology policy in the Obama administration.
Dina G. Okamoto is Class of 1948 Herman B Wells Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) at Indiana University. Her research focuses on the intersection of race, ethnicity, immigration, and social movements. Dina’s current projects investigate the civic and political incorporation of immigrants, the emergence of new panethnic categories, how discourse about immigrants and immigration shifts over time, and how organizations deal with increasing ethnic, racial, and language diversity. She is author of Redefining Race: Asian American Panethnicity and Shifting Ethnic Boundaries (Russell Sage Foundation, 2014) and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation and the Center for the Advanced Study of Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
Aaron Rosenthal is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Simmons University in Boston. His research focuses on American politics, with specific interests in public policy, race and politics, state and local politics, political inequality, and political behavior. Seeking insights from a wide range of scholarly and methodological approaches, he endeavors to clarify how public policies may create, perpetuate, or help to overcome political relations that run counter to the normative ideals of a just and democratic society. Prior to joining Simmons University, Aaron received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Minnesota.
Corey Stevens is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville specializing in sociology of gender, health and medicine. Her work focuses on the impact of stigma on illness experience and the social construction of health.
Kimberlee A. Shauman is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. She completed her Ph.D. in Sociology and Population Demography at the University of Michigan in 1997. Shauman is coauthor of Women in Science: Career Processes and Outcomes (Harvard University Press, 2006) and she has published articles on gender differences in STEM educational and occupational trajectories, the career causes and consequences of residential mobility among dual-earner couples, and trends in post-retirement employment. She is Principal Investigator of the NSF-funded Evaluating Equity in Faculty Recruitment, a multi-campus study that uses administrative data and computational methods to examine disparities by gender and race/ethnicity in the academic labor market. She has received grants and fellowships from the National Academy of Education, the Spencer Foundation, and the W.E. Upjohn Institute.
E. Nicole Thornton is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. Her research broadly concerns the politics of democratic inclusion across the African Diaspora, where she examines the barriers for inclusion of Afro-descended populations. Her other areas of specialization include comparative racial politics, citizenship and immigrant incorporation, nationalism and state formation, and public policy. A former Fulbright Fellow (Mauritius), she received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University.
Linda R. Tropp is Professor of Social Psychology and Faculty Associate in the School of Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. For more than two decades she has studied how members of different groups experience contact with each other, and how group differences in status affect cross-group relations. She has worked with national organizations on U.S. Supreme Court cases relevant to racial integration and equity, on national initiatives to improve interracial relations in schools, and with nongovernmental organizations to evaluate interventions designed to bridge group differences in divided societies. Tropp is coauthor of When Groups Meet: The Dynamics of Intergroup Contact (2011) and editor of the Oxford Handbook of Intergroup Conflict (2012) and Moving Beyond Prejudice Reduction: Pathways to Positive Intergroup Relations (2011).
Meta van der Linden is postdoctoral researcher and research manager at the Department of Public Administration and Sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Psychology (University of Groningen) and a Ph.D. in Political Science (University of Leuven). Using an interdisciplinary approach, she specializes in interethnic relations, integration, and research methods. Her current project examines the longitudinal outcomes and effects of integration policies on the structural and socio-cultural integration of refugees in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Barbara Wittman holds a Ph.D. in American History and Women’s Studies. Her post-doctoral research as a Senior Research Associate, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University, UK, focuses on the roles of women on expanding frontiers, livelihood strategies, and law and gender research allocation in the early nineteenth and twentieth century United States. She received the Kenneth Carroll Award from Friends Historical Association for her study of Quaker Women Itinerant Ministers, “Mary Rodman’s Register of Publick Friends, 1656-1804” (2015). As Project Director/Archivist of the Thomas and Charity Rotch Papers, Massillon Public Library (Ohio), she is expanding her 2015 publication, Thomas and Charity Rotch, The Quaker Experience of Settlement in Ohio in the Early Republic. (Cambridge Scholars Publishing. UK).
Calvin Rashaud Zimmermann is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. He is also a Faculty Member of the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO) and Faculty Affiliate of the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights. His research focuses on understanding how systems of race and gender shape the earliest school and familial experiences of young children.
