Lessons in Public Scholarship
Weidenbaum Center Grant Recipient Adia Wingfield co-launches The Program in Public Scholarship
In the News
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
Cunningham and Ward share Mellon Foundation grant for project on the virality of racial terror
Weidenbaum Center Grant Recipients David Cunningham and Geoff K. Ward received a prestigious Mellon Foundation grant award. The Weidenbaum Center provided administrative support to assist them with their grant application.
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.
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.
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.
Recipes for a very Arts & Sciences Thanksgiving
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, faculty members share recipes that they will include at their dinners.