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.
Episode Summary: How can we inspire the next generation of scholars to engage with issues of social equity and justice? In this episode of Voices in Equity, the official podcast of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University, we spotlight the transformative Hank & Billye Aaron Young Scholars Summer Research Institute….
Faculty Affiliate Kristen Cooksey Stowers, assistant professor in the department of Allied Health Sciences at the University of Connecticut, was recently featured in a UConn Today article about her research on women of color living in a food swamp in North Hartford. Dr. Cooksey Stowers was the senior author on a study in the Journal…
Faculty Affiliate Henry McKoy, the senior advisor to the undersecretary for the U.S. Office of Science and Innovation, was quoted in a student article about NC State’s fifth annual Energy Week. Dr. McKoy was present to lead a conversation and workshop. “I’ve always connected sustainability to the ability of something to persist and sustain over time,”…
Founding Director William Darity Jr. co-authored a new literature review in The BMJ that directly addresses one of the most persistent critiques of reparations: the claim that no feasible plan exists. The proposal outlines direct monetary payments as the clearest economic measure of the cumulative and intergenerational effects of white supremacy. The article argues that…
Cook Center Director William A. Darity Jr. will be among the featured speakers at an upcoming public hearing hosted by the New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies (NYSCCRR) on Saturday, March 21st, 2026, in Staten Island, New York. The hearing, titled “Economic Development: Quantifying Harms,” is part of the Commission’s statewide effort to…
New research co-authored by Faculty Affiliate Sarah Gaither, Associate Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke University, explores how something as routine as demographic forms can influence feelings of inclusion and identity among marginalized communities. Published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, the study—“Enumeration or Exclusion? Demographic Forms and Latine Identity”—investigates how demographic questions may…
