Photo illustration by Aaron Marin for TIME. Our Founding Director and Duke Sanford School professor, Dr. William “Sandy” Darity Jr. has been recognized by Time Magazine as one of 18 Black leaders working to end the racial wealth gap for his work on baby bonds. Dr. Darity’s work, focusing on reparations and economic policies to…
Dr. Lisa Gennetian, Cook Center Faculty Affiliate and Professor of Public Policy with the Sanford School, has been recognized as a Duke Centennial Trailblazer, an initiative by Duke University to honor 100 years of accomplishments and recognize “the faculty and staff leading us into the next century”. Read the full story here. Dr. Gennetian is…
Cook Center Associate Director of Research Dr. Keisha Bentley-Edwards, Director of the Health Equity Working Group for the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity and an Associate Professor in Medicine with the School of Medicine, spoke on a panel of experts at December’s Duke Research Town Hall who convened to discuss building inclusion into…
Cook Center Founding Director Dr. William A. Sandy Darity, Jr., the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics at Duke University, was recently named to the inaugural cohort of Distinguished Fellows for the Southern Economic Association (SEA). Dr. Darity was honored in November 2023 at the annual Southern…
Faculty Affiliate Dr. Sarah E. Gaither, Nicholas J. and Theresa M. Leonardy Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, recently published two papers. “Parent and self-socialization of gender intergroup attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors among ethnically and geographically diverse young children,” which explores the roots of gender bias in children and adults, was published…
Faculty Affiliate Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe Distinguished Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University, recently delivered keynote addresses at both the annual national Summit of the Law Firm Antiracism Alliance (along with Stacey Abrams and Professor Carol Anderson) and the inaugural national conference of the Critical Legal Collective (along with Jobs with…
Durham, NC — Dr. Adam Hollowell, a senior researcher affiliated with the Duke University Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, recently delivered a guest lecture for Dr. Kunfeng Pan’s class at Renmin University of China. Dr. Hollowell’s lecture, titled “Understanding Whiteness,” explored several key concepts related to the construct of whiteness and its impact…
Durham, NC — On November 28, the Rubenstein Library at Duke University buzzed with energy as students from the Fall 2023 Global Inequality Research Initiative (GIRI) course on Digital Bias and Machine Learning presented their capstone projects, which ranged from the practical use of algorithms in various fields to critical analyses of their societal impacts….
Durham, NC — The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University recently hosted a notable guest lecturer, Dr. Kunfeng Pan, as part of its “History of Inequality” course. This course, an integral part of the Center’s Inequality Studies minor, delves into social inequalities and has been focusing on African American history and…
Cook Center Founding Director William A. “Sandy” Darity Jr. was recently featured on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Research and Policy’s Poverty Research and Policy Podcast. On the December 5th episode, Dr. Darity, along with A. Kirsten Mullen, discussed what a reparations program for Black Americans would look like, topics that the two authors…