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- - The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity is a scholarly collaborative that studies the causes and consequences of inequality and develops remedies for these disparities and their adverse effects.
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- - A Q&A with the Authors of Stratification Economics and Disability Justice
    
    By Lucas Hubbard | June 30, 2025
    
    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…
    
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    William A. Darity Jr. Featured in Marketplace Discussion about the State of Black Reparations
    
    By Rachel Ruff | June 19, 2025
    
    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,…
    
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    New paper from Loneke Blackman Carr published in Eating Behaviors
    
    By Rachel Ruff | June 18, 2025
    
    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…
    
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- - How does your gift help the Cook Center?
    
    Since beginning in the mid-2010s, the Cook Center has steadily and robustly developed its research, programming, multimedia, and educational activities. In just its first decade of operations, the Center already has created a host of different working groups that have written and disseminated innumerable reports and academic papers, developed a minor in inequality studies in conjunction with the Duke History department, published multiple books, launched a podcast, and created and sustained programs to support young scholars and tenure-track researchers.
    
    Make a gift today to support the cook center

About
- - The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity is a scholarly collaborative that studies the causes and consequences of inequality and develops remedies for these disparities and their adverse effects.
Research
Education
Media
News & Events
- - A Q&A with the Authors of Stratification Economics and Disability Justice
    
    By Lucas Hubbard | June 30, 2025
    
    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…
    
    Read More...
    
    William A. Darity Jr. Featured in Marketplace Discussion about the State of Black Reparations
    
    By Rachel Ruff | June 19, 2025
    
    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,…
    
    Read More...
    
    New paper from Loneke Blackman Carr published in Eating Behaviors
    
    By Rachel Ruff | June 18, 2025
    
    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…
    
    Read More...
  - View All
Donate
- - How does your gift help the Cook Center?
    
    Since beginning in the mid-2010s, the Cook Center has steadily and robustly developed its research, programming, multimedia, and educational activities. In just its first decade of operations, the Center already has created a host of different working groups that have written and disseminated innumerable reports and academic papers, developed a minor in inequality studies in conjunction with the Duke History department, published multiple books, launched a podcast, and created and sustained programs to support young scholars and tenure-track researchers.
    
    Make a gift today to support the cook center

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