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.
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 Carliss Chatman, Professor at SMU Dedman School of Law, co-authored a commentary in Bloomberg Law with Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci examining the governance challenges behind Disney’s reversal on suspending Jimmy Kimmel Live! The authors argue that such “whiplash” decisions highlight the risks of treating corporate values as flexible rather than foundational. They emphasize…
We are excited to announce that Quran Karriem, former Postdoctoral Associate at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center, has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. Dr. Karriem is a media theorist, electronic musician, and installation artist whose work explores the intertwined…
Faculty Affiliate Prentiss Dantzler recently co-authored an op-ed in Metropolitics titled “Visible Minorities, Visible Risk: Toronto’s Unequal Eviction Burden”, which analyzes how the housing crisis in Toronto disproportionately impacts racialized communities. In the piece, they highlight how eviction risks are unequally distributed across socioeconomic and racial lines, emphasizing the urgent need for policy reforms that…
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