The March meeting of the Center for Child and Family Policy’s Equity in Research Learning Collaborative will welcome Garry Mitchell Jr., Assistant Professor of Public Policy! Drawing on an extensive organizational ethnography of a non-profit organization aimed at facilitating elite educational access for racially and economically marginalized students, this talk explores the ethical and practical […]
The Global Inequality Research Initiative (GIRI) Capstone Event is set to take place on Monday, April 21, 2025, from 11:45 AM to 1:00 PM, offering a platform for students to present their semester-long research projects. GIRI facilitates integrated study and research, preparing students for advanced academic work and professional research opportunities. The capstone course guides […]
The Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Sustainability Initiative (JEDSI) at the Yale School of the Environment (YSE) has just launched a new journal! JEDSI is a research and teaching lab, national diversity initiative, data repository, and movement-building catalyst based at YSE. Our research, teaching, and publications focus on environmental history, environmental justice, environmental attitudes and behaviors, […]
On November 14th Founding Director William A. Darity Jr. will be on a panel on Panel at the Chicago Federal Reserve. This is a virtual event, Understanding Racial Disparities in Lifetime Earnings and Life Expectancy. The panel of experts include: William Darity Jr., Sita Nataraj Slavov, Damon Jones, and Nicholas J. Hill will discuss historical changes in […]
Faculty Affiliate Jean Beaman is set to give a lecture for the second event in the Centre for Migration Studies at University of British Columbia speaker series on Migration, Racialization, and Inequality. She will present her talk, âSuspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging and Non-Belonging in Plural Societiesâ in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. This event […]
On October 11th, the 2024 German Law Journal Symposium: Legal Personhood featured a keynote address by Cook Center Faculty Affiliate Carliss Chatman. Chatman is a Professor of Law at the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law. The title of Professor Chatmanâs address was âThe Battle for Global Human Rights: Super Persons vs. Partial Persons.â […]
The Cook Center is pleased to announce that Founding Director, Dr. William A. Darity Jr. will deliver the opening keynote address at the upcoming “Behind the Data: Quantitative Approaches to Interdisciplinary Racism Research” conference. This significant event is organized by the WinRa Regional Network South, in collaboration with the University of Bayreuth and the University […]
On April 18, 2024, Cook Center Founding Director William Darity & Affiliate A. Kirsten Mullen spoke at the Inaugural Lecture for the Center for Truth, Racial Healing, and Restorative Justice at the Berkeley School of Theology. The Center at Berkley works locally and globally to offer opportunities for theological reflection, education, critique, and practice related to […]
Faculty Affiliate Dr. Kisha Daniels, an Associate Professor of the Practice of Education at Duke University, was a guest presenter for the North Carolina Department of Instructionâs Department of Education Equity and Significant Proportionality Webinar series. Originally recorded February 29, the website is now available online. The webinar link for Dr. Danielsâ talk, titled âUnderstanding […]
Faculty Affiliate Dr. Nancy MacLean, the William H. Chafe Distinguished Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University, was a featured speaker at the Freedom to Learn/Right to Learn Strategic Convening hosted by the African American Policy Forum at Columbia Law School on March 22, 2024. Dr. MacLeanâs research focuses on race, gender, labor history […]
