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.
In her keynote address Thursday evening, Dr. Kaye Husbands Fealing relayed an astonishing fact to a room of economists: From 2011-2020, the annual number of economics PhDs awarded to black women never rose above the single digits. “It’s amazing how small these numbers are relative to the job that needs to be done,” said Dr….
Faculty Affiliate Sarah Elizabeth Gaither, PhD, the Nicholas J. and Theresa M. Leonardy Associate Professor Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke University, recently published an op-ed on multiracial identity for MSNBC. Dr. Gaither, in debunking Donald Trump’s recent comments about the racial identity of Kamala Harris, emphasized the “counterproductive and dangerous” nature of Trump’s comments and highlighted…
Cook Center Postdoctoral Associate Pak Hung Lam recent study, “Long-Term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Academic Performance Among Children in North Carolina“, has been featured by the World Economic Forum & WRAL. The study aimed to address previous limitations of relatively small or less representative samples to explore elevated exposure to ambient fine particulate…
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…
