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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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- - Celebrating Transitions: Cook Center Scholars and Staff Move into New Chapters
    
    By Rachel Ruff | June 12, 2025
    
    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…
    
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    Sungmee Kim Authors Working Paper Highlighting Link Between Remote Learning and Increased Risk of Child Maltreatment
    
    By Rachel Ruff | June 9, 2025
    
    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…
    
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    Carliss Chatman Highlights Justice Jackson’s Crucial Civil Rights Dissent in Bloomberg Law
    
    By Rachel Ruff | June 5, 2025
    
    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,…
    
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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
- - Celebrating Transitions: Cook Center Scholars and Staff Move into New Chapters
    
    By Rachel Ruff | June 12, 2025
    
    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…
    
    Read More...
    
    Sungmee Kim Authors Working Paper Highlighting Link Between Remote Learning and Increased Risk of Child Maltreatment
    
    By Rachel Ruff | June 9, 2025
    
    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…
    
    Read More...
    
    Carliss Chatman Highlights Justice Jackson’s Crucial Civil Rights Dissent in Bloomberg Law
    
    By Rachel Ruff | June 5, 2025
    
    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,…
    
    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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