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.
In the News
On the ‘ugliness’ of whiteness
A major demographic change is underway in the United States, one that will see whites lose their majority status by the year 2050. Alongside scholars of “whiteness studies,” authors such as Dave Eggers and Claire Messud have grappled with this impending reality in literary works that foreground issues of race — the white race. With her new book project, “Ugly White People: Whiteness in Contemporary American Literature,” literary scholar Stephanie Li sets out to explore how white writers display this new understanding of white racialized behavior.
Small-town mayor pushes for big changes inspired by WashU education
A recent Arts & Sciences graduate is using lessons from his time at WashU to bring change to his Louisiana hometown.
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.
WashU Institute for Public Health Summer Research Program
Applications now open for Summer 2023 Programs
2023 Summer Employment Opportunities
We are now accepting applications for our 2023 Arts & Sciences Pre-College Program staff positions.
Social hierarchies and domination
With her new book project, Faculty Fellow Lori Watson is developing a new general theory of domination that centers the experiences of people who have been historically subordinated, drawing on the work of gender theorists, critical race theorists and colonial studies.
As the right fights the teaching of race, a new AP course expands it
"A tug of war over disrupting or conserving social arrangements has long buffeted schools." Dr. Michelle Purdy writes for the Washington Post Made by History series, a special series on academic freedom sponsored by PEN America.