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WUSTL Sociology Professor Zakiya Luna Wins 2023 Distinguished Feminist Lecturer Award

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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

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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

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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

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High-Earning Men Are Cutting Back on Their Working Hours

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Applications now open for Summer 2023 Programs

Summer Employment Opportunities

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We are now accepting applications for our 2023 Arts & Sciences Pre-College Program staff positions.

Social hierarchies and domination

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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

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"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.