Ellen Berrey is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Denver and an affiliated scholar of the American Bar Foundation. Her first book, The Enigma of Diversity: The Language of Race and the Limits of Racial Justice (2015), published with University of Chicago Press, examines the push for “diversity” in higher education, urban community, and the workplace and its implications for racial equality. She is currently writing a co-authored book on employment discrimination litigation. Her research investigates the cultural politics of inequality, race, law, and organizations. For details, visit www.ellenberrey.com.
Karida Brown is a PhD candidate in the Sociology Department at Brown University. She is broadly interested in questions of racialization, diaspora, subjectivity, and the archive. Her dissertation, “Before They Were Diamonds: The Intergenerational Migration of Kentucky’s Coal Camp Blacks” takes up questions of transformations in African American subjectivity—read along the grain of the 20th century Great Migration—throughout the pre- and post-Civil Rights era. She is also the founder of the Eastern Kentucky African American Migration Project (EKAAMP), a participatory archival collection at the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://ekaamp.web.unc.edu/
Robert F. Castro is Associate Professor in the Division of Politics, Administration, and Justice at the California State University, Fullerton (CSUF). He holds a BA in Criminology, Law, and Society from UC Irvine; a PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and a JD from the UCLA School of Law where he was in the inaugural class of the program in Public Interest Law and Policy (PILP) and the Editor-in-Chief of the UCLA Chicano/a-Latino/a Law Review. He has published widely in top rated law journals like the Harvard Civil Rights and Liberties Law Review; University of Minnesota’s Law and Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice; UC Berkeley’s La Raza Law Journal; American Journal of Legal History; the Rutgers Race & The Law Review; and the Harvard Latino Law Review.
Rihao Gao completed her undergraduate work in political science and economics at the University of Southern California. She was a Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholar at Cal State University, Fullerton where she received her MA in Political Science from the Division of Politics, Administration, and Justice.
John A. Garcia is Research Professor and Director of the Resource Center for Minority Data at Institute for Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan. His research explores the development and measurement of race/ethnicity and its relationship with political behaviors and attitudes; public policies such as health, labor, immigration; as well as survey research techniques. His work has been published widely in academic journals and edited books. He is also the author of Latino Politics in America: Community, Culture, and Interests (2011), and has co-authored Latino Lives in America: Making It Home (2010) and Latinos in the New Millennium: An Almanac of Opinion, Behavior, and Policy Preferences (2011). He has been the principal or co-principal investigator on the Latino National Political Survey and Latino National Survey.
Margaret T. Hicken is a Research Investigator at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She earned her PhD in Public Health and then was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar both at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Hicken examines the social exposures and biological mechanisms that link racial group membership to health inequalities primarily in the United States. Specifically, she examines the health toll of racism, racial segregation, and neighborhood context through geneXenvironment and molecular mechanisms.
Elizabeth Hinton is Assistant Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies and the Department of History at Harvard University. After receiving her PhD from Columbia University in 2012, Hinton spent two years as a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Michigan Society of Fellows and Assistant Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. Her forthcoming book, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (with Harvard University Press), examines the implementation of federal law enforcement programs beginning in the mid-1960s that laid the groundwork for the mass incarceration of American citizens. Hinton is also the co-editor of The New Black History: Revisiting the Second Reconstruction (2011) with the late Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Manning Marable.
Jennifer L. Hochschild is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She holds Lectureships in the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Recent books, both co-authored, are Do Facts Matter?: Information and Misinformation in American Politics (2015), and Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America (2012). Hochschild held the Kluge Chair in American Law and Governance at the Library of Congress in 2011, and was a Fellow of The Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice at NYU School of Law in 2013-2014. She was founding editor of Perspectives on Politics, and is President-Elect of the American Political Science Association.
José Itzigsohn is Professor of Sociology at Brown University. His research focuses on incorporation and identity formation among Latino/a immigrants. He is the author of Encountering American Faultlines: Race, Class, and the Dominican Experience in Providence (2009), in which he analyzes the incorporation experience of Dominican immigrants and their children. He is also interested in alternative forms of economic organization and is researching industrial democracy in worker-owned enterprises in Argentina.
Hedwig Lee is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington in Seattle. She received her BS in Policy Analysis from Cornell University in 2003 and her PhD in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2009. After receiving her PhD, she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar at the University of Michigan, School of Public Health from 2009 to 2011. She is also a faculty affiliate of the Center for Research on Demography and Ecology, the West Coast Poverty Center, and the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences. She is broadly interested in the social determinants and consequences of population health and health disparities. Her recent work examines the impact of family-member incarceration on the health and attitudes of family members.
Kevin Loughran is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Northwestern University. In 2015 he was a Mellon Foundation Summer Fellow at the Black Metropolis Research Consortium. His work has appeared in City & Community and is forthcoming in two edited volumes, the Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies (Routledge) and Deconstructing the High Line: Essays on Postindustrial Urbanism (Rutgers University Press). His current research examines issues of urbanization, racialization, nature, and culture in a cross-regional study of urban parks in the post-World War II United States.
Tyler McCormick is Assistant Professor of Statistics and Sociology at the University of Washington. He is a Senior Data Science Fellow in the UW eScience Institute and a core faculty member in the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences. He does work in Bayesian statistics, particularly focusing on data with high-order dependence structure (e.g. social networks) and in situations with non-standard sampling designs. Tyler holds a PhD in Statistics from Columbia University.
Mircea A. Platon is Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at University of Toronto. Between 2012-2013 he was a researcher at the Centre for Philosophy, Religion, and Social Ethics (CPRSE) in Toronto. In 2012 he received his PhD in History from the Ohio State University at Columbus, where he was awarded a Presidential Fellowship. His articles have appeared in French History, Intellectual History Review, History of Political Economy, Historia Social y de la Educación, and Fascism.Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies. His research focuses on the history of modernization discourses and practices in early modern and modern history. He is currently writing a book on the role played by transnational fascist and anti-communist networks in the creation of the post-WWII international order.
Laurence Ralph is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Anthropology and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Laurence’s research interests include: Gang Formations; Urban Anthropology; Disability; Medical Anthropology; Masculinity; Race; Theories of Violence; Popular Culture; and Hip Hop. Laurence’s book, entitled Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago (2014), received the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) in 2015.
Gabriel R. Sanchez is Associate Professor of Political Science, and Executive Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy, at the University of New Mexico. He is also Director of Research for Latino Decisions and the Director of the American Economic Association Summer Training Program. His research explores the relationship between racial/ethnic identity and political engagement, Latino health policy, and minority legislative behavior. His work has been published in a wide range of academic journals and he is also a co-author of Hispanics and the U.S. Political System: Moving Into the Mainstream (2007), and has a forthcoming book entitled Latinos and the 2012 Election: The New Face of the American Voter. Sanchez has been the principal or co-principal investigator on several large-scale surveys, including the RWJF-CHP National Latino Health and Immigration Survey (2015).
Shannon Sanchez-Youngman is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at University of New Mexico. Her dissertation focuses on the intersection of maternal and child health policies and social welfare policies across the American states from 1992-2010. Her work analyzes the determinants of state policy choices to either adopt redistributive reforms or to adopt policies aimed at punitive behavioral modification among low-income mothers. In particular, Sanchez-Youngman examines how health and social justice movements potentially moderate the impact of racialized social structures on punitive social policy choices.
Maya Sen is Assistant Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University. Sen writes on issues involving the political economy of U.S. race relations, law and politics, and statistical methods. Her articles have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Theoretical Politics, the Journal of Legal Studies, and Judicature, and have been covered by The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Public Radio, MSNBC, and other outlets. Sen graduated in 2012 with her PhD from the Department of Government, Harvard University. She also holds an AM in Statistics and an AB in Economics from Harvard and a JD from Stanford Law School. More information can be found at http://scholar.harvard.edu/msen.
Greta Fowler Snyder is a Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington in Wellington, New Zealand. Trained as a political theorist, her research focuses on cultural politics, identity, and social movements. She is currently working on a manuscript, tentatively entitled Beyond Stereotype and Romance: American Culture, Multivalent Recognition Politics, and Racial Equity, that draws on recognition theory to illuminate the political, economic, and psychological significance of a particular strand of contemporary black cultural politics: what some have called the “post-black” movement. At the same time, the book revises our ideas about what recognition politics is and what it can accomplish in light of this example. Her work has been published in The Journal of Politics, Polity, and Souls.
Edward D. Vargas is a Postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Women’s Health and Health Disparities Research in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include the effects of poverty and inequality on the quality of life, focusing specifically on health, education, and social policy, and how these factors contribute to the well-being of vulnerable families. He also investigates the methodological issues involved in the quantitative study of race and ethnicity.
Christopher Wildeman is Associate Professor of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University. Prior to joining Cornell’s faculty in 2014, he was Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale University. His research considers the consequences of mass imprisonment for inequality, with emphasis on families, health, and children. He is also interested in child welfare, especially as it relates to child maltreatment and foster care. He is the 2013 recipient of the Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology, and his first book Children of the Prison Boom: Mass Incarceration and the Future of American Inequality (with Sara Wakefield) was published by Oxford University Press in 2013.
Vickie D. Ybarra is a RWJF Scholar and recent PhD graduate in Political Science at the University of New Mexico. She studies immigration policy, immigrant political engagement, social/structural determinants of health and well-being, and Latino politics. She holds previous degrees in Nursing and Public Health from the University of Washington, and has over two decades of experience in community health. She formerly served as Washington State’s first Chair of the Governor’s Council on Health Disparities, and in that role delivered the state’s first plan to eliminate health disparities to the state legislature in 2010.
