Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social 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.

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

Professor Samuel Myers Jr. is the recipient of the inaugural Policy Field Distinguished Contribution Award from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM).

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.

Professor Samuel Myers Jr. has been appointed to serve on the U.S. Transportation Research Board (TRB) Standing Committee on Contracting Equity. He began his three-year term in April. 

Professor Samuel Myers Jr. co-edited the June 2022 special issue of the Journal of Economic Literature, "Symposium on Race and Economic Literature."

Professor Samuel Myers Jr. has been appointed to a three-year term on the Committee on Law and Justice (CLAJ) of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

Humphrey School researchers are members of three interdisciplinary teams receiving grants from the Human Rights Initiative to pursue projects in the upcoming academic year.