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RESEARCH INTERESTS

In working with others to promote the goal of "social justice", I have dedicated my life to understanding the ways in which race, class and gender interact at, and between, the macro-, meso- and micro-levels of social systems. As such, some of my working questions for research include: what are the antecedents and nature of racial and gender ideologies and; how do these ideologies work to facilitate and/or prohibit the conception and execution of collective action aimed at the amelioration of racial and gender inequality? In order to answer these questions I employ mixed method research designs and cross-cultural survey methods.

RECENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Research Assistant, University of Chicago, Center for the Study of Race Politics and Culture, Department of Political Science, Mobilization, Change, and Political and Civic Engagement Project. Cathy Cohen and Michael Dawson (with funding from the Ford Foundation).

Research Assistant, University of Illinois at Chicago, Institute for Government & Public Affairs, Race and Public Policy Working Group. Tyrone Forman.

Research Assistant, University of Chicago, Center for the Study of Race Politics and Culture, Department of Political Science, Black Youth and Empowerment: Sex, Politics and Culture. Cathy Cohen (with funding from the Ford Foundation).

Interviewer, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Sociology, Chicago Area Study. Maria Krysan and Tyrone Forman (with funding from the National Science Foundation).