The Samuel DuBois Cook Center is a scholarly collaborative that studies the causes and consequences of inequality and develops remedies for these disparities and their adverse effects.
Core Faculty Affiliate Keisha Bentley-Edwards led a research team in examining the way CKD and kidney failure disproportionately affect marginalized racial and ethnic populations because of structured inequalities in new paper in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. Dr. Bentley-Edwards and her research team identify a critical need for clinical trials to identify…
Faculty Affiliate Sarah E. Gaither co-authored a chapter in the Handbook of Experimental Social Psychology titled, “Social stigma and coping for people with pluralistic identities”. Dr. Gaither an her team address that pluralistic identities have become increasingly common, yet the shared stigma experiences of these groups go relatively unrecognized. They highlight the shared experiences of…
New research published in Nature Human Behaviour advances a case for child-centric Black reparations in the United States. The study, co-authored by Faculty Affiliate Lisa Gennetian, Christina Gibson-Davis, and Founding Director William A. Darity Jr. explores how reparations could specifically address long-standing disparities experienced by Black children and their families. The paper, supported by the…
Cook Center core faculty, Nancy MacLean, published an op-ed in the News & Observer titled “Duke leadership is letting down higher ed in a moment it should be fighting back.” In the piece, MacLean warns that American higher education is facing “the gravest menace to its mission in our history,” citing the Trump administration’s reported…
The Historic Durham Armory, the hopping location downtown that once featured acts from Duke Ellington to Ella Fitzgerald and was the inspiration for Ernie Barnes’ The Sugar Shack, hosted another lively event this week: A celebration of the 10th cohort of Young Scholars from the Hank and Billye Suber Aaron Young Scholars Summer Research Institute. …
Sandra Santillan first encountered the Hank and Billye Suber Aaron Young Scholars Summer Research Institute as a high school student at Hillside High School, encouraged by a teacher who recognized her strong writing skills. “I thought I was in trouble,” she says, recalling how her teacher pulled her aside. Instead, the teacher introduced her to…
