Workers are trying to unionize in greater numbers than expected in the Midwest
Weidenbaum Center Resident Fellow Jake Rosenfeld quoted in St. Louis Post-Dispatch
In the News
Meet our new faculty: Social sciences
This fall, 16 new researchers and instructors join 6 social science departments in Arts & Sciences. Welcome to our incoming faculty!
Still separate and unequal: How subsidized housing exacerbates inequality
New sociology research from Elizabeth Korver-Glenn in Arts & Sciences finds Black and Latino subsidized renters live in homes with more unsafe conditions while simultaneously paying more, both total cost and relative to their income.
Four Sociology Seniors Graduate With Latin Honors
Four Sociology seniors will graduate with Latin Honors this year!
WUSTL Sociology Professor Zakiya Luna Wins 2023 Distinguished Feminist Lecturer Award
The Sociologists for Women in Society recently awarded WUSTL Sociology Professor Zakiya Luna, Ph.D. this year’s Distinguished Feminist Lecturer Award. Created in 1985, this award recognizes and celebrates “members whose scholarship employs a feminist perspective.”
An honest appraisal: Q&A with Elizabeth Korver-Glenn
Elizabeth Korver-Glenn discusses her 2021 book that looks at the ways racial segregation impacts the U.S. housing market.
Six faculty members to join Arts & Sciences under Race and Ethnicity Cluster Hire Initiative
The cluster hire initiative is funded by the Office of Provost and supported by the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity.
Cunningham and Ward share Mellon Foundation grant for project on the virality of racial terror
High-Earning Men Are Cutting Back on Their Working Hours
Weidenbaum Center Grant Recipient Yongseok Shin is co-author of study highlighted in The Wall Street Journal
First Progress Report of the WashU & Slavery Project
In late Fall 2022, the WashU & Slavery Project released its initial progress report. The report surveys progress to date in this initial phase of project research and teaching, collections and project infrastructure development, and campus and community engagement.
U.S. workers are becoming more diverse in race, ethnicity and age — but companies aren't keeping up
Weidenbaum Center Grant Recipient and Vice Dean of Faculty Development and Diversity Adia Wingfield authors piece for CBS News/The Conversation
WashU faculty seek student partners in new Civil Rights & Restorative Justice Action Research Lab
The WU-CRRJ Action Research Lab led by Professors Cunningham and Ward will engage WashU undergraduate and graduate students in field research needed to investigate racially-motivated homicides in Missouri (1930-1954) in support of case investigations and restorative justice efforts led by teams of law faculty and students in the award-winning Civil Rights and Restorative Justice (CRRJ) Clinic at Northeastern University Law School.