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.
The University of North Carolina Press announced a new book, With Faith in God and Heart and Mind: A History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Among the authors is Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at North Carolina Central University, Jim C. Harper II. Harper is a Cook Center Faculty Affiliate and Inequality Studies Instructor, having…
Faculty Affiliate Fenaba Addo, PhD, an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was recently interviewed about her work on race and policy by The Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Dr. Addo spoke about her lived experiences with student debt and the racial wealth divide, the relationship between…
When Kelly Padalino was applying to college, her plan was simple: focus on her academics but continue dancing. Her decision to attend Duke set her on a path that combined her love of the arts and public policy, and later, a new understanding of inequality.
Today, Faculty Affiliate Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy Emerita at Duke University, will speak with Professor Carol Anderson, Janai Nelson, and Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw at Columbia Law School. She will be apart of a panel, presented by The Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies and the African American…
Faculty Affiliate Carliss Chatman, Professor at SMU Dedman School of Law, wrote a column on how Tesla’s move to Texas is testing just how far modern corporate law will lean in favor of management. In 2024, Tesla strategically moved its legal home from Delaware to Texas. A move that positioned the company to benefit from…
Faculty Affiliate Keisha Bentley-Edwards, Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke University, will deliver the Richard Payne Lecture in Faith, Justice, and Health Care this Friday. The event is hosted by the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School. Her lecture, titled Black Women’s Religion and Their Health: When Individual and Institutional Factors Intersect, represents…
