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Q+A: Adam Hollowell and Keisha Bentley-Edwards Dr. Adam Hollowell serves as Senior Research Associate at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity and Director of the Inequality Studies Minor at Duke University. He is also the Faculty Director of the Benjamin N. Duke Memorial Scholarship Program and Director of the Global Inequality Research Initiative. An…

Founding Director William A. Darity Jr. and Kirsten Mullen gave comments in conversation on the Marketplace Morning Report with host David Brancaccio and Marketplace’s Mitchell Hartman on the state of reparations after Tulsa’s mayor recently announced a $105 million reparations plan. Hartman has been reporting on the racial wealth gap through the lens of Tulsa,…

Faculty Affiliate Loneke Blackman Carr, Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Connecticut, published a pilot study in Eating Behaviors evaluating a 12-week online intervention called SATISFY, designed to prevent weight gain by addressing emotional eating. In collaboration with Dr. Rachel Goode (UNC-Chapel Hill), the program combined appetite awareness training with lifestyle strategies…

Faculty Affiliate Lisa Gennetian, Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Director of Graduate Studies in the Sanford PhD Program, and economist, is cited in a recent article examining how new tariffs on Chinese imports are raising the cost of essential baby gear. As prices for necessities like car seats and bassinets rise by…

Founding Director William Darity Jr. is among the many contributors to The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences double issue “Black Reparations: Insights from the Social Sciences”. The issue brings together current social science research and policy options regarding reparations for Black Americans. Darity was both featured in this conversation and was one…

Founding Director William A. “Sandy” Darity, Jr. is cited in The New Yorker for his co-authored work with economist Darrick Hamilton on the Baby Bonds proposal. The article contrasts their proposal with a new savings account initiative proposed by President Donald Trump and House Republicans. The Darity-Hamilton Baby Bonds plan, developed in 2010, would establish…

At the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, we believe that equity-driven work is not just about the research we produce but the people who shape it. This summer, we celebrate the remarkable journeys of our community members who are transitioning into new roles, programs, and stages of life. Their contributions have left a…

A new working paper by Sungmee Kim, Ph.D., Cook Center Postdoctoral Associate, sheds light on a troubling consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic’s shift to remote learning: a rise in severe child maltreatment that went largely undetected by schools. Titled “The Unintended Cost of Distance Learning: An Analysis of Child Maltreatment,” the study is part of…

In a recent Bloomberg Law article, Carliss Chatman, associate professor at SMU Dedman School of Law and faculty affiliate of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, examines Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent in the Supreme Court’s decision to deny review in Nicholson v. W.L. York, Inc. Justice Jackson, joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor,…

The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity is proud to celebrate the release of Stratification Economics and Disability Justice, a new book by Adam Hollowell, Ph.D. and Keisha Bentley-Edwards, Ph.D. Published by Cambridge University Press, explores how the activism of Black disabled leaders must be central to how we understand and address economic inequality…