CRE² in the News

Faculty affiliate Andrew Reeves has just published new research with colleagues that suggests “that presidential accountability is still alive”.

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.

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.

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.

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”.

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” !

Co-Director Hedwig Lee co-authored a review that exposes the harm mass incarceration has on families and advocates for family-friendly interventions.

WashU & Slavery director Geoff Ward, Dr. Kelly Schmidt and Prof. Bryan Jack for a discussion of STL Universities Studying Slavery.

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.

Faculty affiliate Daniel Harawa of Washington University School of Law wrote an argument analysis in SCOTUSblog discussing the recent case, Wooden v. United States.

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 .

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:

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”.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”