Faculty Affiliate Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe Distinguished Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University, recently saw her award-winning book Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Rightâs Stealth Plan for America reissued by Penguin Random House. A previous New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction, the latest […]
Postdoctoral associate Pak Hung Lam recently co-authored a paper in JAMA Open Network, âLong-Term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Academic Performance Among Children in North Carolina.â Dr. Lamâs research, which analyzed a robust dataset of more than 2.8 million students in North Carolina from 2001-2018, highlights the negative effects of such environmental exposure on childrenâs academic […]
The Cook Center recently received a two-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support the Centerâs research into how Black reparations will affect the wellbeing of children. The new project, in addition to comprehensively analyzing the causes of modern-day inequities that Black families with children face, will evaluate the effects of local reparations initiatives in […]
