CRE² in the News

CRE2 Faculty Affiliate Michael Esposito and CRE2 Research and Program Assistant Solome Haile coauthored a paper recently published in the ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

The Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE²) at Washington University in St. Louis has announced the three winners of its inaugural St. Louis High School Student Paper Awards. 

The Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2) at Washington University in St. Louis has announced six recipients of the 2023 CRE2 Faculty Fellowships.

Faculty Affiliate Calvin Lai recently published an article in Psychological Science that shows a more robust correlation between traffic stop discrepancies and the relative number of white people in a community.

CRE2 Faculty Affiliate and recent Seed Grant recipient Lindsay Stark co-authored piece in The Lancet titled “Prevention of conflict-related sexual violence in Ukraine and globally”.

Congrats to Faculty Affiliate Ebony Carter for winning the Big Ideas: A Data-Driven Innovation Competition

“The Magic of Black Girls: Black Girl Magic is a space to reclaim identity and the story of Black girlhood,” writes CRE2 Faculty Affiliate and Small Grant recipient Sheretta Butler-Barnes in a co-authored a piece in Psychology Today discussing her research on Black girls and adolescence.

CRE2 Associate Director Darrell Hudson was featured in a piece discussing his work that utilizes various methods to analyze racial/ethnic health inequalities.

Supported by a CRE2 Small Grant, Jeremy Siow recently published the working paper “Bilingual Instruction and Political Discrimination of Ethnic Outgroups: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Malaysia” in American Political Science Association’s Comparative Politics.

CRE2 Small Grant and recipients Noah Cohan and John Early published the artist’s book “Whereas Hoops,” as a part of their funded research project, “Whereas Hoops: Scholarship, Art, and Activism for Basketball in Forest Park.”

In the Neighborhood Branding Project, Ariela Schachter, assistant professor of sociology and CRE2 Faculty Fellow, combs through Craigslist ads to uncover how the online rental market reflects and intensifies inequality along racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic lines.

CRE2 Affiliates Rebecca Brady and Deanna Barch and CRE2 Associate Director Cynthia Rogers recently published “The Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Neighborhood Crime on Neonatal Functional Connectivity” in Biological Psychiatry.

Faculty Affiliate Iver Bernstein recently co-authored a piece in The Common Reader titled “The Material World of Modern Segregation: St. Louis in the Long Era of Ferguson.”

Faculty Affiliate Patty Hedya recently published “The Façade of Redevelopment: Exploring hidden politics of urban improvement and erasure in McRee Town, St. Louis” in the Common Reader.

Congrats to Faculty Affiliate Fred Ssewamala on being awarded a $5 million, Launching Future Leaders in Global Health training grant from the National Institutes for Health to foster the next generation of global health scientists.

Congratulations to Faculty Affiliate Diana Montaño for receiving the Alfred B. Thomas Book Award for her newest book, Electrifying Mexico Technology and the Transformation of a Modern City.

Faculty Affiliate William Nomikos recently published an article titled “Peacekeeping and the Enforcement of Intergroup Cooperation: Evidence from Mali” in the Journal of Politics.

Faculty Affiliate Gmerice Hammond was recently interviewed about how Black women’s intersectional oppression can impact their cardiological and mental health and the steps they can take to improve their well-being.

Graduate Student Affiliate Ella Siegrist recently published a piece in the St. Louis American discussing the need for reproductive justice for incarcerated parents.

Faculty Affiliate Ariela Schachter recently co-wrote an op-ed in Newsweek based on her recent co-authored publication on MENA erasure.