Carlos Alamo is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Latino/a Studies at Vassar College. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and specializes in the relationship between Caribbean and Latino/a subjectivity and identity. His teaching and research interests center on comparative racial formations, Latino/a Studies, Afro-Latino/a intellectual history, popular culture, and prison studies. He is currently in the process of completing his book manuscript tentatively titled Enlisting Race: Puerto Rico's Black Diasporic Fault Lines in an Age of Empire.
Tomás Almaguer is Professor of Ethnic Studies and former Dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. He has held formal academic appointments at the University of California at Berkeley; University of California at Santa Cruz; and the University of Michigan. Professor Almaguer's recent publications include Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California, 2nd Edition (University of California Press, 2009); “Looking for Papi: Longing and Desire among Chicano Gay Men” in Renato Rosaldo and Juan Flores (Eds.), A Companion to Latina/o Studies (Blackwell, 2007); “Revisiting Activos and Pasivos: Toward New Cartographies of Latino and Latin American Male Same-Sex Desire” with Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Carlos Decena, and Hector Carrillo in Marysol Asencio (Ed.), Latino/a Sexualities: A Reader (Rutgers University Press, 2009); “Between the Material and Cultural World of Latino Gay Men” in Michael Hames-Garcia and Ernesto Javier Martinez (Eds.), Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader (Duke University Press, 2011); and “Race, Racialization, and Latino Populations” in Daniel Hosang, Oneka Bennett, and Laura Pulido (Eds.), Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century (University of California Press, Forthcoming).
Jovonne Bickerstaff is a PhD candidate in sociology at Harvard University. She has conducted research on everyday anti-racism and how the racialization of national identity influences Black first-generation French. Her current research interests are focused on the role race, gender, and class play in intimate relationships and her dissertation examines how Black couples in enduring relationships account for their longevity. Bickerstaff holds a BS in Urban Studies and Planning and a BS in Writing and Humanistic Studies from MIT and an MPhil in Social Psychology from the University of Cambridge, St. Johns College. She is a Ford Foundation Fellow and previous National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, Cambridge Gates Scholar, and U.S. Fulbright Grantee to France.
Gérard Bouchard, member of the Royal Society of Canada and the Académie des lettres du Québec, is professor at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Trained in sociology and history, he has spent twenty-five years conducting empirical and interdisciplinary research in various fields of social and historical sciences. He is now doing comparative research on myths and collective imaginaries within a Canada Research Chair. He has authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited thirty-seven books, and has published 271 papers in scientific journals. He has also published three novels. In 2008–2009, he was a visiting professor at Harvard. He has been awarded a number of prestigious distinctions, including French Légion d'Honneur.
Ronit Dinovitzer is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto and a Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation. Dinovitzer's current research focuses on stratification in the legal profession and the social organization of lawyering.
James R. Dunn is the William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Chair in Canadian Studies at Harvard University for 2011–2012, where he holds visiting appointments in the Harvard School of Public Health and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health, Aging, and Society at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada and a Scientist at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Canada. He holds a Chair in Applied Public Health from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Public Health Agency of Canada on Interventions in Residential Neighborhoods and Population Health. His research focuses on the social determinants of health and the influence of urban housing and neighborhoods on inequalities in health and child development.
Crystal M. Fleming is Assistant Professor of Sociology at SUNY Stony Brook in New York. She earned her PhD at Harvard University (2011) and specializes in the comparative study of ethnic and racial identification and collective memory. In particular, she studies how members of historically stigmatized groups conceptualize and respond to racism and discrimination.
Nicole Arlette Hirsch is a doctoral student in Sociology at Harvard University, and is currently an Exchange Scholar at the Department of Sociology at University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include race and ethnicity, racism and antiracism, racial discrimination and the law, and comparative cultural sociology. Her current research analyzes the ways in which African Americans signal racial identity and manage stigma through humor.
Lawrence A. Hirschfeld is Professor of Anthropology and of Psychology at The New School for Social Research since 2004. He received is PhD in Anthropology at Columbia University and taught in the Departments of Anthropology and Psychology at the University of Michigan (1989–2004), where he codirected, with Richard Nisbett, the Culture and Cognition Program. His work centers on the psychological mechanisms that support cultural systems of classification, particularly those shaping representations of race and ethnicity in young children. He was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavior Sciences in Stanford (1999–2000) and was a visiting faculty member at the Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée, Groupe de Recherche sur la Cognition, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (1987–1989) and at Stanford University (2000–2001). Hirschfeld is author of Race in the Making: Cognition, Culture and the Child's Construction of Human Kinds (1998); coeditor with Riccardo Viale and Daniel Andler of Biological and Cultural Bases of Human Inference (2006); and coeditor with Susan A. Gelman of Mapping the Mind: Domain Specificity in Cognition and Culture (1994).
Matthew W. Hughey is Assistant Professor of Sociology and affiliate member of African American Studies and Gender Studies at Mississippi State University. He received his PhD from the University of Virginia (2009) where he served as a research fellow with the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies and worked as an Instructor for the Departments of Sociology, Media Studies, and African American Studies. He specializes in the study of racial identity formation, racialized organizations, and the production, distribution, and reception of mass media representations of race. He is the author of the forthcoming White Bound: White Nationalists, White Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race (Stanford University Press) and is co-editor of The Obamas and a (Post) Racial America? (Oxford University Press, 2011), Black Greek-Letter Organizations, 2.0: New Directions in the Study of African American Fraternities and Sororities (University Press of Mississippi, 2011) and 12 Angry Men: True Stories of Being a Black Man in America Today (The New Press, 2010). His recent research appeared in journals such as Ethnic and Racial Studies, the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Social Problems, Symbolic Interaction, and The Sociological Quarterly. He is currently at work on a book about the content, criticism, and consumption of “White savior films.”
Anthony Abraham Jack is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University and an Associate Doctoral Fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy. He holds fellowships from the Ford Foundation and the National Science Foundation, and is a graduate student affiliate at the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University. His primary research focuses on the demographic and cultural shifts at elite colleges and universities that have adopted class-based affirmative action measures and the experiences of lower-income undergraduates. Other research areas include anti-racism and destigmatization.
Michèle Lamont is the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is also a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, where she co-directs the program Successful Societies. Her recent publications include Social Knowledge in the Making (coedited with Charles Camic and Neil Gross, 2011), Reconsidering Culture and Poverty (coedited with David Harding and Mario Small, Annals of the American Academy of Social and Political Science, 2010), How Professors Think: Inside the World of Academic Judgment (2009), and Successful Societies: How Institutions and Culture Affect Health (coedited with Peter A. Hall, 2009).
Ron Levi holds the George Ignatieff Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto, where he is Associate Professor of Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, and is cross-appointed to the Departments of Political Science and Sociology. He is also a Fellow in the Successful Societies Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. His research interests include the sociology of state power, human rights, and global justice regimes; and diasporic experiences of law, crime, citizenship, and the state.
Dorothy E. Roberts is the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Northwestern University School of Law, with joint appointments in the Departments of African American Studies and Sociology (by courtesy) and the Institute for Policy Research. She is the author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (1997), Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (2002), Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (2011) and co-editor of six books on gender and constitutional law. She has been a Fellow at Harvard's Program in Ethics and the Professions, the Hastings Center, and Stanford's Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and a Fulbright scholar at the Centre for Gender and Development Studies in Trinidad-Tobago.
Leanne S. Son Hing is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Guelph. She received her PhD (2000) in Psychology from the University of Waterloo. Son Hing studies social justice issues from an organizational and social psychological perspective. In particular, she is interested in how people's prejudices and their concerns with meritocracy affect responses to societal inequalities. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Son Hing's work has been published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Judith Taylor is an Associate Professor at University of Toronto, jointly appointed in the Departments of Sociology and Women and Gender Studies. She is a social movements scholar with a focus on how communities mobilize, and with what effects; and on the relationship between intergenerational relations and social change efforts.
Geoff K. Ward is Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. His work examines the racial politics of social control, including the racial history of juvenile justice, contemporary juvenile and federal court processes, and racial and ethnic group representation in justice-related occupations. He serves on the steering committees of the national Racial Democracy, Crime, and Criminal Justice Network and the Center for New Racial Studies at UC. His work appears in various academic journals and anthologies and he is the author of The Black Child-Savers: Racial Democracy and American Juvenile Justice (University of Chicago, 2012), a study linking the rise and fall of Jim Crow juvenile justice to the embattled racial politics of American liberal democracy.
Jessica S. Welburn is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include race and ethnicity, cultural sociology, the sociology of the family, and qualitative methodology. Her contribution to the Du Bois Review is part of an ongoing collaboration with Michèle Lamont (Harvard University) and a team of international researchers exploring the destigmatization strategies of groups in the United States, Brazil, and Israel. Welburn is also currently working on a book manuscript that explores how African Americans who grew up in middle income households in New Jersey conceptualize their mobility prospects. In addition, she is working on a study of intergenerational downward mobility among the African American middle class in Detroit.
William Julius Wilson is Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. He is a recipient of the 1998 National Medal of Science, and was awarded the Talcott Parsons Prize in the Social Sciences by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003. Past President of the American Sociological Association, Wilson has received forty-two honorary degrees, including honorary doctorates from Princeton, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth, New York University, and the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. A MacArthur Prize Fellow from 1987 to 1992, Wilson has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Education, the Institute of Medicine, and the British Academy.
