By: Rachel Ruff As part of the Inequality Studies Minor, the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity offers a methods course, âHow To Study Inequality,â dedicated to examining different research methodologies through the lens of inequality. This interdisciplinary course equips students with both quantitative and qualitative research methods, helping them critically engage with how […]
We are proud to celebrate Hank & Billye Suber Aaron Young Scholar Akanke Mason-Hogans in her recognition by The Beginning Teacher Support Program. In a recent post by the Durham Public School Mentors, they displayed all nominees for the recognition. The DPS Beginning Teacher Support Program provides one-on-one service from District BT Mentors and School-Based […]
Q+A: Eric Griffith, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate within the Duke Center for the Study of Aging Postdoctoral Research Training Program Eric E. Griffith joined the Cook Center as a Postdoctoral Associate in 2021 before joining the Duke Center for the Study of Aging Postdoctoral Research Training Program in 2023. He completed his dissertation fieldwork in central […]
Arko Dasgupta is a PhD candidate in History at Carnegie Mellon University and a doctoral fellow in the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. He studies Modern India, the British Empire, early Indian immigration in the United States, and the American Civil Rights Movement. Recently, he presented a component of his dissertation […]
By: Rachel Ruff âCaste, Class, and Race: Inequality and Reparations in the US and India,â a brand-new program from Duke Immerse designed by the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, offers Duke undergraduates an opportunity to spend the spring 2025 semester exploring group-based, systemic inequality with a focus on India and the United States, […]
On Monday, August 5, the Cook Center celebrated its latest group of Hank and Billye Suber Aaron Young Scholars with a joyous evening of student research, achievement, and praise at the Washington Duke Inn. 49 students from Durham Public Schoolsâacross two cohortsâconvened to present the research on issues of inequities in health, technology, education, labor, […]
On Saturday, August 10, the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity concluded its latest gathering of the Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics (DITE) program in Durham, N.C. The program, which provides mentorship and workshops to aid the transition from junior faculty status to associate professor for economists from underrepresented groups (most notably, Black, […]
In her keynote address Thursday evening, Dr. Kaye Husbands Fealing relayed an astonishing fact to a room of economists: From 2011-2020, the annual number of economics PhDs awarded to black women never rose above the single digits. âItâs amazing how small these numbers are relative to the job that needs to be done,â said Dr. […]
By: Rachel Ruff Durham, NC â This April at Duke University’s Levine Science Research Center, students from the Global Inequality Research Initiative (GIRI) course presented their capstone projects, bringing to life their semester-long investigations into gender and development. This class, part of the broader educational programming from the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity […]
Durham, NC â Every year students at the North Carolina School of Science and Math (NCSSM) come together to showcase a yearâs worth of research projects, culminating in a significant presentation event. Among these students were four of our student researchers who presented their in-depth investigations into various issues under the guidance of esteemed Cook […]
