Malissa Alinor is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia. Her current research projects investigate how racial discrimination impacts the work, emotion, and health of people of color. She is also a mixed-methodologist and conducts research on race, gender, and social psychology. She is currently a recipient of the Southern Regional Educational Board Dissertation Award and previously received the American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship Program Award.
Farid Asey has a PhD in Social Work from the University of Toronto. His dissertation research offered an exploration of racialized public servants’ lived experiences with racial discrimination at work in British Columbia. He holds a Joint Honours BA from the University of Waterloo and a MA from the University of British Columbia. Farid is a refugee to Canada, an experience that continues to shape his research interest in uncovering institutionalized racism and policy attitudes as sediments of colonial thinking. He frequently engages with bureaucrats and bureaucracies to generate new knowledge on equity, diversity, and inclusion as discursive devices that manage the script of difference in Canada.
Stanley R. Bailey is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. His research focuses on ethnoracial boundary dynamics and inequality, principally in Latin America. His work appears in the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, and Social Forces, and he is author of Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil (Stanford University Press, 2009).
Rosa Emilia Bermúdez Rico is Professor of Social Sciences at Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia. She is the Director of the research group in Ethnoracial and Labor Studies in Various Social Contexts. She received her PhD in Population Studies from El Colegio de Mexico.
A historian of Latin America and the Caribbean who specializes in the study of comparative slavery and race relations, Alejandro de la Fuente is the Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University. He is the director of the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research and the editor of the “Afro-Latin America” book series at Cambridge University Press. He is the author of Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (2020, with Ariela J. Gross); Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century (2008), and A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba (2001).
Alexis C. Dennis is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) and a predoctoral trainee at the Carolina Population Center. Her research investigates racial and socioeconomic disparities in health. Her dissertation examines how access to material and coping resources and exposure to social contextual stressors across an early portion of the life course contribute to the development of racial and ethnic disparities in mental health among U.S. adults. Dennis holds a BA in Communication Studies and a MPH in Health Behavior from UNC, as well as a Certificate in Documentary Studies from Duke University.
Adam Hochman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Trained in the philosophy of science, he has published extensively on the topic of racial naturalism, critiquing recent arguments for the existence of human biological races. Hochman’s work also critiques the use of “race” as a social category. He argues that there are no human races—biological or social—only groups misunderstood to be races: racialised groups. He currently holds a three-year Discovery Early Career Researcher Award for his project “Social Constructionism About Race, Deconstructed”. To learn more about his work, see his website at http://adamhochman.com.
Ana María Mosquera Guevara received her BA in Foreign Trade from Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia, and is completing a second degree in Foreign Languages.
Amaka Okechukwu is Assistant Professor of Sociology at George Mason University. She received her PhD in Sociology from New York University and specializes in research on social movements, race, urban sociology, and Black communities. She is the author of the award-winning To Fulfill These Rights: Political Struggle over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions (2019). She has recently served as a Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellow and an African American Digital Humanities Scholar at the University of Maryland-College Park. Previously, Okechukwu worked in public history at Brooklyn Historical Society and Weeksville Heritage Center.
Mary Pattillo is the Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, and a Faculty Affiliate at the Institute for Policy Research, at Northwestern University. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago.
Thomas F. Pettigrew is Dickson Emeriti Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He also taught at Harvard (1954–1980) and the University of Amsterdam (1986–1991). He has published 450 books and articles that have been cited 55,000 times. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Senior Fulbright Scholar, and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, and Stanford’s Research Institute for Race and Ethnicity. He received the ASA’s highest awards for race relations research and social psychology as well as SPPSI’s Lewin Award and twice its Allport Intergroup Research Award. Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences presented him its Centennial Medal and the University of California its Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award. Pettigrew has also been honored with seven lifetime achievement awards from psychological and sociological organizations.
Justine E. Tinkler is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Georgia. She employs experimental, survey-based, and qualitative research methods to understand the micro-level processes that create and reinforce gender and race inequality. Tinkler’s current projects include studies of people’s reactions to the enforcement of sexual misconduct laws and the role of gender and race bias in the workplace.
Deniz Uyan is a PhD student in the department of sociology at Boston College. Her research contributes to the fields of race and ethnicity, global and transnational sociology, and social theory. Her dissertation project studies the historical and contemporary antecedents regarding the movement to add a new Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) race category to the 2020 decennial census.
