The study, “A Penny on the Dollar: Racial Inequalities in Wealth Among Households with Children,” by Professor Christine Percheski of the Department of Sociology and Christina Gibson-Davis of Duke University, was published in Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World…
Professor James Druckman conducted a survey through Northwestern in conjunction with Harvard, Northeastern, and Rutgers in determining the Americans’ trust in governmental institutions such as the police. This survey was administered before and after the emergence of protests against police …
Professor John Alba Cutler has been named a 2020-2021 Radcliffe Institute Fellow. This fellowship is based at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and supports 50 scholars each year. An extremely competitive program, the acceptance rate …
Professor Leslie M. Harris of the Department of History and Department of African American Studies has been named a 2020-2021 Radcliffe Institute Fellow. This fellowship is based at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and supports …
Professor Dyan Elliott, Peter B. Ritzma Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History, was named a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow.
With the fellowship, Elliott will work on her project “The Quick and the Dead: The Medieval Church …
Professor Héctor Carrillo of the Department of Sociology and Gender & Sexuality Studies Program was named a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow.
With the fellowship, Carrillo will explore the “sociology of genealogy.” He will study the sociotechnical aspects of amateur genealogy …
The study “Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Housing and Mortgage Lending Markets: A Quantitative Review of Trends, 1976-2016” examined how discrimination in housing and mortgage lending against blacks, Latinos and Asians has changed over the last 40 years by performing …
Sociology Professor Lincoln Quillian conducted a study on racial discrimination of labor markets in various countries. In the nine countries Quillian and his colleagues examined, they found evidence of hiring discrimination against non-white populations. The study, published in the journal …
Professor Onnie Rogers of the Department of Psychology is the author of a study that analyzed the ways children’s gender narratives reinforce or disrupt gender inequality. “I’m Kind of a Feminist”: Using Master Narratives to Analyze Gender Identity in Middle …
Sherwin K. Bryant, professor in the Departments of African American Studies and History, discusses his research on the Black Pacific and Afro-Andes in an interview for the African American Intellectual History Society’s Black Perspectives.
In the interview, …