Rachel Allison is Associate Professor of Sociology and affiliate of Gender Studies at Mississippi State University. She earned a PhD in Sociology from the University of Illinois-Chicago. Her research focuses on racial and gender inequalities in sport, with a particular focus on U.S. women’s sport. She is the author of Kicking Center: Gender and the Selling of Women’s Professional Soccer with Rutgers University Press, and other research that has been published in Sociology of Sport Journal, Qualitative Sociology, and Sociological Forum.
Caroline R. Efird is a PhD candidate in Health Behavior at the Gillings School of Global Public Health and a National Research Service Award predoctoral fellow at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests focus on using interdisciplinary and anti-racist research methods to promote health-equity. Her dissertation and current research seek to illuminate how the racialized social system of Whiteness influences White Americans’ health-related beliefs and outcomes.
Reynolds Farley earned his degree in demography at the University of Chicago in 1964. He taught at Duke University and, since 1967, has been a faculty member at the University of Michigan. His research and writing focus upon United States population trends with an emphasis upon racial and urban issues. He regularly teaches a course about Detroit. He maintains a website focused upon the history and future of Detroit: www.Detroit1701.org.
Jason Hackworth is Professor of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. His focus is broadly on race and political economy in North American cities. He is the author of numerous articles and three books: The Neoliberal City (2007, Cornell University Press), Faith-Based (2012, University of Georgia Press), and Manufacturing Decline (2019, Columbia University Press).
John Hagan is John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University and the American Bar Foundation. He is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Canada, and recipient of the Stockholm Prize in Criminology. He is the author of the Princeton University Press book, Who Are the Criminals? The Politics of Crime Policy from the Age of Roosevelt to the Age of Reagan, the Cambridge University Press book with Josh Kaiser and Anna Hanson, Iraq and the Crimes of Aggressive War, and with Wenona Rymond-Richmond of Dafur and the Crime of Genocide.
Daniel Herda is Associate Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at Merrimack College. His interests include immigration, race and ethnic relations, survey research, and social psychology. His work has appeared in Social Forces, Public Opinion Quarterly, Sociological Perspectives, and Social Science Research.
Chris Knoester is Associate Professor of Sociology at The Ohio State University. He is an emerging sociology of sport researcher and longtime sociology of family scholar, with three dozen peer-reviewed publications. His family research has appeared in journals such as Social Forces, Journal of Marriage and Family, Sex Roles, Social Science Research, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Journal of Family Issues, Community, Work, & Family, and Family Relations. His sports and society work has been published in Sociology of Sport Journal, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and Leisure Sciences. His expertise has been featured in outlets that include The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes, US News & World Report, Salon, UPI, CNN, Yahoo!, and The Conversation.
Bayley J. Marquez is Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park and an Indigenous scholar from the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019. Her research interests include settler colonial theory, Indigenous education, Black education, the history of education, abolitionist university studies, and critical ethnic studies. Her work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, The National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, and the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues. She has received a number of awards including the College of Arts and Humanities Junior Faculty Summer Fellowship and a UMD Independent Scholarship, Research, and Creativity Award. Her co-written work has been published in the edited volume Health and Social Issues of Native American Women and she has articles forthcoming in American Quarterly and Feminist Formations.
Bill McCarthy is the Dean of the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University Newark. His most recent research focuses on legal cynicism, crime, and policing in Chicago. Papers on these topics have appeared in Criminology, The Annual Review of Law and Social Science, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
B. David Ridpath, EdD, is Associate Professor of Sports Business at Ohio University and its prestigious Sports Administration Program. Prior to Ohio, he was an Assistant Professor of Sport Administration at Mississippi State University and has over fifteen years of experience in intercollegiate athletics in administrative and coaching capacities at Marshall University, Weber State University, and Ohio University. Dr. Ridpath is cited often by major media outlets such as the New York Times, Time Magazine, CNN, and ESPN as an expert on intercollegiate athletic matters. Dr. Ridpath has appeared before Congressional committees and has served as an expert witness in numerous cases involving intercollegiate athletics and college athlete rights. He has authored over thirty academic journal articles, ten book chapters, and two books. His latest book is entitled Alternative Models of Sport Development in America: Solutions to a Crisis in Education and Public Health.
Christopher Rogers is a doctoral candidate in sociology specializing in Critical Race Theory, Abolition, and Care at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. As an Instructor, Chris teaches Race & Ethnicity and Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Currently titled “The Hospital Won’t Save Us: An Exploration of Racism and Care as an act of Liberation,” Chris’ dissertation exists in the duality of exploration and imagination. He explores how and why hospitals are sites of racial violence in which Black people will always experience inadequate care because racism is a permanent fixture in society. Secondly, he imagines newer healthcare infrastructures by developing a concept around care, theoretically reimagining what care is and how it should be administrated to ensure the health and well-being of all Black people.
Emilce Santana is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University. She received her BA in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2013 and her PhD in sociology with a specialization in population studies from Princeton University in 2019. Her research interests include cross-ethnoracial relationships, colorism, and immigrant integration.
Arthur L. Whaley is an independent scholar who has served as a research/evaluation consultant for community-based programs serving Black youth in New York City. He has held several administrative, faculty, and staff positions at various universities over the past thirty-five years. He received his MS (1983) and PhD (1986) in clinical psychology from Rutgers—The State University of New Jersey. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Psychiatric Epidemiology Training Program (1991-1994) in the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. He also completed a MPH (1990) in general public health and a DrPH (2000) in epidemiology at Columbia University. His main research is the study of cognitive and cultural factors in the mental and physical health problems of underserved ethnic/racial populations,0 especially African Americans.
