Racial Justice

Professor Samuel Myers Jr. has been named the inaugural Rebecca Blank Fellow by the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences (AAPSS). The AAPSS recognizes the contributions he has made to the advancement of social science and to public understanding of the human condition.

Doctoral candidate Shuyi Deng has received the 2022 ARNOVA Best Conference Paper Award for "The Cost of Color? Race-conscious Mission Statements and Nonprofit Funding," which examines the topic of racial disparities in the nonprofit sector.

Professor Samuel Myers Jr. has been awarded a two-year, $417,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study racial disparities in drowning deaths. While conventional explanations for these disparities focus on individual behaviors and characteristics,  Myers and the project team hypothesize that structural factors such as systemic racial discrimination play outsized roles in explaining the racial disparities.

New research by Assistant Professor Heather Randell concludes that dam constructions in the US have significantly contributed to land loss of Native people. Dams have flooded more than 1.13 million acres of tribal land in the US, an area larger than the state of Rhode Island.

An article co-authored by Associate Professor Tia Sherèe Gaynor, “Coming to Terms: Teaching Systemic Racism and (the Myth of) White Supremacy,” has been selected as the Journal of Public Affairs Education (JPAE) 2023 Outstanding Article.

Humphrey School PhD candidate Rebecca Walker is lead author of the study, “Making the City of Lakes: Whiteness, Nature, and Urban Development in Minneapolis,” which was published recently in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 

Professor Samuel Myers Jr. has been named the inaugural BIPOC Business Champion by Meda, the Metropolitan Economic Development Association.

Professor Samuel Myers Jr. has been named to the inaugural cohort of Distinguished Fellows at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University.

PhD student Shuyi Deng has been selected to participate in the Social Equity Summit October 6-8, 2022 in Charlottesville, Virginia.

In a new essay published in Planning Theory and Practice, Associate Professor Kathy Quick reflects on her experiences in three extended series of multi-stakeholder dialogues about policing and public safety.