Hugo Canham is a member of faculty within the Department of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in South Africa. Canham is a psychologist and has worked in various capacities including heading transformation and equity initiatives at his university. He obtained degrees from the University of Cape Town, University of Natal and a doctorate from the University of the Witwatersrand. He is an affiliated researcher to the Apartheid Archive Project (AAP), Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation (NEST), and the Black Scholars Biography Project. His research centres on critical psychology across various relational spaces. His work explores racialized and gendered inequality and embodied forms of resistance by marginalised groups.
Matthew Hall is an associate professor of Policy Analysis & Management, and Training Director of the Cornell Population Center, at Cornell University. His research is focused on issues of immigrant incorporation, particularly as it relates to issues of legality and state enforcement, and examines emerging processes of racial/ethnic inequality in housing and labor markets.
Richard Johnson is Lecturer in US Politics and International Relations at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. His work focuses on race and democracy in the United States. His recent work has studied black candidates in predominantly white contexts, the racial ideas of liberal Republicans, racially polarised partisanship under the Obama and Trump presidencies, and the impact of political structures such as voting systems and legislative apportionment on the representation of political and ethnic minorities. He holds a D.Phil in Politics from Oxford University, and he has been a visiting researcher at the Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University.
Maria Krysan is Professor and Department Head (Sociology) in the Department of Sociology and the Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her research focuses on racial residential segregation and racial attitudes. Her investigations of substantive issues often connect to methodological questions about how to study this sensitive area of social life, combining closed-ended survey analysis with survey-based experiments, analyses of open-ended survey questions, focus groups, and in-depth interviews. She is co-author (with H. Schuman, L. Bobo and C. Steeh) of Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations and is responsible for a website that provides updated data on racial attitudes (http://igpa.uillinois.edu/programs/racial-attitudes).
Naa Oyo A. Kwate is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and of Human Ecology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. A psychologist by training, she has wide ranging interests in racial inequality and African American health. Her research has centered on the ways in which race produces inequalities in urban built environments in the United States, and how racism directly and indirectly affects African American health. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and she has been a fellow at the Black Metropolis Research Consortium, the Smithsonian Institution, and EURIAS/ Institute for Advanced Studies in Marseille, France. She is writing a book about fast food’s racial and spatial transition to Black neighborhoods.
G. Cristina Mora is Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley. She specializes in the study of Latino politics, racial and ethnic classification, and immigrant mobilization in Spain and the United States. Her award-winning research includes a book, Making Hispanics: How Activists Bureaucrats and Media Constructed a New American, which was published by the University of Chicago Press. The monograph is the first to document how the Hispanic panethnic category became institutionalized in the US political and media landscape. She is currently writing a book that examines Hispanic heritage politics in post-empire Spain. Her articles have appeared in venues like the American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, and Latino Studies.
Daisy Verduzco Reyes is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and El Instituto: The Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies at the University of Connecticut. She conducts research at the intersections of Latino sociology, education, politics, and sexualities. She is currently Secretary for the Sociology of Education Association and the executive committee of the New England Consortium of Latino Studies. She is a 2014-2015 Faculty Fellow of the American Association for Hispanics in Higher Education.
Alicia D. Simmons is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Colgate University. Her research examines the intersections of media, race, and politics in the United States, investigating the nature of Americans’ racial attitudes toward Blacks, their opinions about public policies that obviously or tacitly invoke race, and how these attitudes are created, triggered, altered, and reinforced by the news media. She is a multi-method scholar, employing surveys, experiments, and content analyses. Her work has appeared in journals such as Social Forces and Sociological Methodology.
Marylee C. Taylor is a social psychologist who studies Americans’ views on questions related to race and ethnicity. Her 1996 American Sociological Review article examined the impact of local black population share on White Americans’ racial attitudes. This formed the backdrop for a series of contextual studies assessing linkages of community characteristics with residents’ intergroup attitudes. Taylor’s other projects have explored such topics as science and politics in affirmative action research; Black and White employees’ reactions to workplace affirmative action; and the impact of religious affiliation on beliefs about racial inequality. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation as well as the Population Research Institute at The Pennsylvania State University, where she an Emeritus Associate Professor of Sociology.
Shatema Threadcraft is an Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. Her research focuses on the intersection of race, gender and political theory. She is the author of Intimate Justice: The Black Female Body and the Body Politic. Her research has been supported by the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, the Ford Foundation and the AAUW.
Franklin D. Wilson is the William H. Sewell-Bascom Professor of Sociology Emeritus, and has been affiliated with University of Wisconsin–Madison since 1973. He has served as Chair of both the Departments of Afro-American Studies and Sociology, and as Director, Center for Demography and Ecology, and a research affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty. He has also served as Secretary of the American Sociological Association, Co-Editor of The American Sociological Review, and Deputy Editor of Demography. Professor Wilson is a demographer, specializing in population distribution and redistribution, inequality, immigration and immigrant adoption, and race and ethnic composition of populations. His current projects include gender inequality in the labor market; labor force transitions; and occupational and earnings attainment.
