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Arianne E Eason

Arianne E Eason

Dept of Psychology

developmental psychology, social psychology, cultural psychology

Tina Sacks

School of Social Welfare

racial disparities in health, social disparities of health, race and class and gender, poverty and inequality

Goldman School of Public Policy

labor and employment, race, poverty, inequality, economics of education, health disparities, social welfare policy

Dept of Sociology

sociology

Drew Jacoby-Senghor

Drew Jacoby-Senghor

Haas School of Business

intergroup processes, diversity, prejudice & discrimination, implicit bias, intergroup relations, inequality in America, economic inequality

Dept of Sociology

anticolonial politics, empire, racism, global and transnational sociology, historical sociology, social theory

john powell at lectern

john powell

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Civil rights and civil liberties, structural racialization, racial justice and regionalism, concentrated poverty and urban sprawl, opportunity based housing, voting rights, affirmative action in the United States, South Africa and Brazil, racial and ethnic identity, spirituality and social justice, needs of citizens in a democratic society

Ian Haney Lopez

Ian F. Haney Lopez

constitutional law, race relations, civil rights, race in politics, Latinos

Goldman School of Public Policy

crime, public policy, employment discrimination, labor economics, racial inequality, urban economics, criminal justice policy

Dept of City & Regional Planning

income inequality, housing, urbanization, social and spatial inequality, urban and regional economics

Dept of African American Studies

Dept of Sociology

racial ideology, politics, globalization, Latin America

Jonathan Glater

Jonathan Glater

education law, social justice, racial justice

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Jovan Scott Lewis

Dept of Geography

Jamaica and the USA, constructions and inffrastructures of poverty, inequality, race (blackness), economy, reparations

Jacob (Jake) Grumbach

Goldman School of Public Policy

democracy, labor and employment, racial justice, quantitative methods, public policy, political economy, federalism

Jennifer Anne LaFleur

School of Journalism

data journalism, investigative journalism, disability, inequality, criminal justice

Liliana V Rodriguez

Dept of Ethnic Studies

immigration, race/ethnicity, Latinx sociology, immigrant youth, inequality

Tesha Sengupta-Irving

School of Education

STEM education, learning sciences, inequality & resistance, politics of learning, case study & design-based research

Catherine Albiston

Catherine Albiston

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Dept of Sociology

inequality, social change, law, employment, legal profession, public interest law, community-engaged research / scholarship, gender, work and family issues

Denise Herd

School of Public Health

public health, epidemiology, specialty area in multicultural health, behaviorial science, social movements, race and ethnicity, medical anthropology, American popular culture

Dept of Economics

minimum wage, living wages, labor market segmentation, low wage labor markets

HEARTs Research Group

Amani Nuru-Jeter

School of Public Health

health inequities, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic position, stress and health, place and health, social determinants of health, cardiometabolic risk, birth outcomes

Jenny S. Guadamuz

School of Public Health

health inequities, pharmaceutical policy, health policy, access to healthcare, immigrant health

Dept of City & Regional Planning

Affordable housing, homelessness, access to credit, community development, the Community Reinvestment Act, neighborhood change, homeownership and mortgage finance (with a focus on low-income and minority households)

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Asian American literature, Latino/a/x and Caribbean literatures and cultures, relational race studies, digital humanities, migration, narrative

civil rights, constitutional law, legal history, law and society, administrative law