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 Cook Center is proud to announce that Core Faculty and Director of the Inequality Studies Minor Adam Hollowell has been named one of 12 finalists for Judith Deckers Prize at Duke! The Judith Deckers Prize is a recently established award at Duke University that recognizes excellence in undergraduate teaching. It aims to celebrate and promote outstanding…
On October 11th, the 2024 German Law Journal Symposium: Legal Personhood featured a keynote address by Cook Center Faculty Affiliate Carliss Chatman. Chatman is a Professor of Law at the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law. The title of Professor Chatman’s address was “The Battle for Global Human Rights: Super Persons vs. Partial Persons.”…
Cook Center Faculty Affiliate Dr. Prentiss Dantzler, Director of the Housing Justice Lab at the University of Toronto, contributed to a recent article discussing Canada’s housing crisis and how immigrants are unfairly blamed. He emphasized that the housing crisis has been ongoing for years and that politicians often use immigrants as scapegoats instead of addressing…
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…
