Faculty Affiliate Zakiya Luna shared her expertise in a recent article discussing the recent Supreme Court case, highlighting the particular importance of reproductive rights for women of color.
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More young children are killing themselves: The COVID-19 pandemic is making the problem worse (Links to an external site)
Faculty Affiliate and Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development Sean Joe lended his expertise in a recent USA Today article. He discussed the increase has been noticeable among preteen Black children, particularly in the COVID-19 pandemic.
What’s behind the DOJ’s lawsuit over Texas redistricting maps (Links to an external site)
Faculty Affiliate and Associate Professor of Law Travis Crum shared his expertise in a recent article discussing the consequences of Texas’s redistricting on Black and brown communities.
Steering committee formed to guide efforts for Black youth in St. Louis (Links to an external site)
Faculty affiliate Dr. Sean Joe initiative “HomeGrown STL” has formed a Regional Steering Committee of 25 senior-level decision-makers from across the region to address the critical issues impacting Black boys & young men in the STL region.
Clever Urban Planning May Protect the Cognitive Health of Aging Populations (Links to an external site)
Faculty affiliate Michael Esposito shared his recent research with My Modern Met . He discussed the connections between urban planning and cognitive health, and how those connections are shaped by race, gender and socioeconomic status.
WUSTL Gets $17M NCI Cancer Moonshot Grant to Study Cancer Genetics in Underserved Groups (Links to an external site)
Faculty affiliate Bettina Drake and colleagues have received a $17 million National Cancer Institute grant that has a special focus on improving the diversity of research participants.
New database highlights underrepresented scholars of African archaeology (Links to an external site)
Faculty affiliate Helina Woldekiros and her collaborators recently launched a new open-access database collects and shares publications on African archaeology , broadly defined, by African and Afrodescendant scholars.
Lai to evaluate diversity training for law enforcement (Links to an external site)
Congrats to faculty affiliate Calvin Lai ! Dr. Lai has received a grant from the Department of Justice that will support his evaluation of a diversity training program for thousands of law enforcement members.
“Study: Higher COVID rates seen in MO counties housing large prison populations” (Links to an external site)
Postdoctoral affiliate Savannah Larimore conducted a #COVID19 study that found that counties with more incarcerated people had higher infection rates.
“Why many say the group redrawing Missouri’s legislative districts is doomed to fail” (Links to an external site)
Faculty affiliate Travis Crum shared his expertise with the MO House redistricting commission.
Partisanship, the economy and presidential accountability (Links to an external site)
Faculty affiliate Andrew Reeves has just published new research with colleagues that suggests “that presidential accountability is still alive”.
Analyzing mass incarceration (Links to an external site)
Faculty affiliate Sean Joe wrote a piece in Science Magazine analyzing mass incarceration and the data problems that need to be addressed to create evidence-based reforms.
COVID-19 pandemic: The impact on undocumented US families (Links to an external site)
Co-director Hedwig Lee shared her expertise in health disparities in a recent Medical News Today article discussing the particular barriers to COVID19 care and vaccination experienced by undocumented people.
Psychotic experiences in children predict genetic risk for mental disorders (Links to an external site)
Faculty Affiliate Deanna Barch ‘s new research shows that genetic risk for mental disorders is associated with brain structure and the occurrence of psychotic-like experiences in 9- and 10-year-old children.
How incarceration damages families (Links to an external site)
Co-director Hedwig Lee will be on St. Louis on the Air on Friday to discuss the collateral damage of the Criminal Justice system, which she discussed in the review she recently co-authored: “Assessing mass incarceration’s effects on families”.
Faculty Affiliate Wins Award from American Historical Association (Links to an external site)
Congratulations to faculty affiliate Douglas Flowe for his recent award from the American Historical Association for his newest book “Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York” !
“Assessing mass incarceration’s effects on families” (Links to an external site)
Co-Director Hedwig Lee co-authored a review that exposes the harm mass incarceration has on families and advocates for family-friendly interventions.
Americanist Dinner Forum: Confronting Slavery & Higher Education in St. Louis | Nov 4th @ 5PM (Links to an external site)
WashU & Slavery director Geoff Ward, Dr. Kelly Schmidt and Prof. Bryan Jack for a discussion of STL Universities Studying Slavery.
“More than 100 St. Louis children participate in Washington University Moderna vaccine trial” (Links to an external site)
Faculty Affiliate Jason Newland & the entire team at the Washington University School of Medicine are playing a key part in the vaccine trials for children under 12 years old.
A hypothetical-filled argument proves how tricky it is to define an “occasion” (Links to an external site)
Faculty affiliate Daniel Harawa of Washington University School of Law wrote an argument analysis in SCOTUSblog discussing the recent case, Wooden v. United States.
Indigenous Knowledge & Sustainability (Links to an external site)
Faulty affiliate Kellie Thompson, director of the Brown School’s Kathryn M. Buder American Indian Studies Center, is organizing an “Indigenous Knowledge & Sustainability” forum that was highlighted by STL Public Radio .
Latina artists in St. Louis use art to express shared connections with Black Americans (Links to an external site)
Faculty affiliate Karma Frierson shared her expertise on the doubly marginalized experience of AfroLatinx people in a recent STL Public Radio piece. Read more here:
Prof John Baugh Delivers Web Talk On Linguistic Imperialism And Linguistic Profiling (Links to an external site)
Faculty affiliate and renown linguist John Baugh gave an international web talk at Aligarh Muslim University in India titled “Linguistic Imperialism and Linguistic Profiling in Global Perspective”.
WashU faculty look to advance scholarship on legacies of racial violence (Links to an external site)
Faculty affiliates Geoff Ward and David Cunningham and Co-director Hedwig Lee have co-edited a special issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science titled “Legacies of Racial Violence: Clarifying and Addressing the Presence of the Past”.
Ssewamala receives $3.2M to address HIV stigma among Ugandan teens (Links to an external site)
Faculty affiliate Fred Ssewamala was recently awarded a $3.2 million grant by the National Institute of Mental Health to address HIV stigma’s impact on low rates of medication adherence and viral suppression among adolescents in Uganda.
Missing People and the Politics of Worthiness (Links to an external site)
Faculty affiliate, Rebecca Wanzo, shared her expertise in a local news piece discussing the ways American media bestows a lack of worthiness on POC and LGBTQ people through her juxtaposition of the Gabby Petito case with the cases of missing POC and LGBTQ people.
Expanding Epidemiological Risk Testing (Links to an external site)
Genetic Technologies Limited, a Genomics/AI health business, announced a collaboration with Washington University Institute of Public Health and faculty affiliate and world-renowned epidemiologist Graham Colditz to enable expanded risk testing for populations of African descent.
Making Vaccine and Pandemic Information Accessible (Links to an external site)
Faculty affiliate, Julia López, and her other Washington University School of Medicine Infectious Diseases Division Spanish-speaking colleagues are participating in STL Juntos : a STL organization that helps connect Spanish speakers w/ both resources to navigate the pandemic & health professionals.
WashU & Slavery Seeks Postdoctoral Fellow (Links to an external site)
The WashU & Slavery Project is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to help advance collaborative project research, teaching, and engagement and work closely with the project director and participating faculty, staff, and students. For more information and to apply go to the position announcement here.
A Scholar in the Game (Links to an external site)
Faculty affiliate and small grant recipient, Noah Cohan discusses his project Whereas Hoop and the lack of basketball courts in Forest Park, “The problem… is systemic racism, along with… redlining.”
Vaccine Trials and Studies in Local Schools (Links to an external site)
Faculty affiliate Jason Newland is working with the National Institute of Health and CDC to complete COVID-19 Vaccine trials and testing studies in local school districts.
Concerns as Hospitals Continue to be Overburdened (Links to an external site)
Faculty affiliate Karen Joynt Maddox shares about the crisis in hospitals as care is being rationed due to the COVID19 pandemic.
“Everyone focuses on the U.S. Supreme Court. But state supreme courts affect as many rights and lives.” (Links to an external site)
Faculty affiliate James Gibson was recently interviewed in the Washington Post about the overlooked significance of state supreme courts in shaping the rights and lives of people.
Panel Discussion: Hostile Terrain 94 (Links to an external site)
Faculty affiliate Ila Sheren shared her expertise in a panel discussion on “Hostile Terrain 94”: a global pop-up exhibition that gives representation to the thousands of migrants who died crossing the US–Mexico border since the mid-1990s. Read more here: https://tinyurl.com/sheren-cre2
Butler-Barnes receives NSF grant to study impact of racial violence (Links to an external site)
Faculty affiliate Sheretta Butler-Barnes has received a three-year $697,914 National Science Foundation grant for a project titled “Collaborative Research: Black Parents’ Racial Socialization Competencies and Youth Outcomes in Response to Racial Violence.”
“We’re losing generations” (Links to an external site)
Faculty affiliate and national expert on Black suicide Dr. Sean Joe speaks to the need to address the growing crisis of suicide among young people of color.
“Black Horror Scholars Tell The Root What You Should Know About Candyman” (Links to an external site)
Faculty affiliate, Rebecca Wanzo, shared her insights & expertise on the cultural & historical significance of the new film Candyman in a recent “The Root” article.
“Dems’ Voting Rights Act update is very good — and maybe too late” (Links to an external site)
Faculty affiliate Travis Crum was cited in a recent MSNBC article discussing the passing of the historic John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act .
Addressing Rising Rates of Gestational Diabetes, Especially Among POCs (Links to an external site)
Faculty affiliate Ebony Carter discussed the pressing need to curb the increasing rates of gestational diabetes, particularly in pregnant people from racial and ethnic minority populations,” in a recent, co-authored editorial.
Scans show the physical marks of poverty on kids’ brains (Links to an external site)
Faculty affiliate Deanna Barch and colleagues’ research points to a lasting link between brain underdevelopment and poverty and associated factors (stress, etc).
Understanding the Afghanistan Crisis (Links to an external site)
Faculty affiliate William Nomikos offers his expertise in post-conflict power-sharing agreements and factors that increase the likelihood of success in helping others understand the crisis in Afghanistan.
Research to explore how genes, other factors affect cardiometabolic disease risk (Links to an external site)
Faculty Affiliate Dr. Lisa de las Fuentes of Washington University School of Medicine is a co-investigator on a new $8.8 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant studying interaction of specific genes with demographic and lifestyle factors.
WashU faculty look to advance scholarship on legacies of racial violence (Links to an external site)
CRE2 Co-director Hedwig Lee, Faculty Affiliate Geoff Ward, and David Cunningham have co-edited a special edition of The American Academy of Political and Social Sciences’ The Annals titled “Legacies of Racial Violence: Clarifying and Addressing the Presence of the Past”.
Faculty Affiliate Rafia Zafar edits an African American Review special issue (Links to an external site)
Faculty Affiliate Rafia Zafar co-edited a special issue of The African American Review on Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance and a leading advocate for Puerto Rican and Cuban independence from Spain.
Webster Groves kills two-family zoning, some promise more to come (Links to an external site)
Faculty Affiliate Patty Heyda was cited in a St. Louis Today article discussing the necessity of pairing zoning with good urban planning.
The Africa Institute’s Global Ghana brings the Black Star nation into focus (Links to an external site)
Faculty Affiliate Jean Allman will be one of the leading scholars in the African Institute, Sharjah’s Global Ghana initiative.
As Mask Mandates Return, Health Experts Bemoan Slowing Vaccine Rates (Links to an external site)
Faculty Affiliate Karen Joynt Maddox was cited in a Tennessee Tribune article discussing the necessity of increasing vaccination rates.
Insights on Neural Response to Racist Threats (Links to an external site)
Preview of CRE2 Associate Director Dr. Cynthia Rogers recently published findings on neutral responses to racist threats.
Faculty Affiliate wins a 2021 Online Eisner Award (Links to an external site)
Faculty Affiliate Rebecca Wanzo won Best Scholarly Work for her book The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging.
Overpolicing Erodes Communities, Research on New Strategies is Mixed (Links to an external site)
Co-director Hedy Lee presented that over-policing is “often targeted at people who have done nothing illegal” and leads “to chronic stress that puts wear and tear on the body over time”.