Race and Ethnicity
FACULTY PUBLICATIONS
Carla Shedd, Ph.D
Dr. Carla Shedd is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University whose research and teaching focus on: race and ethnicity, criminalization and criminal justice, education, law, social inequality, and urban policy.
Volume 10, Issue 3: “Countering the carceral continuum: The legal of mass incarceration,” p.865 – 868
Additional Publications:
“Race, Ethnicity, and Youth Perceptions of Criminal Injustice.” (Co-Author with John Hagan and Monique R Payne)
“First and last words: Apprehending the social and legal facts of an urban high school shooting.” (Co-Author with John Hagan and Paul Hirschfield)
Karolyn Tyson, Ph.D.
Karolyn Tyson is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Georgetown University. Her program of research centers on understanding racial inequality in educational outcomes and how race matters in the educational experience of American students and their families. She uses qualitative research methods to study the critical role of institutions and the ways in which people make sense of and respond to their environments. By investigating the interplay between institutions and actors, her research has revealed important mechanisms driving racial disparities in schooling outcomes.
Volume 58, Issue 3: “The power of the accused: rights mobilization and gender inequality in school workplaces” pp. 415 – 451
Additional Publications:
“The More You Talk, the Worse It Is: Student Perceptions of Law and Authority in Schools.” (Co-Author with Doreet Rebecca Preiss, Richard Arum, Lauren B. Edelman, and Calvin Morrill)
“In-services and Empty Threats: The Roles of Organizational Practices and Workplace Experiences in Shaping U.S. Educators’ Understandings of Students’ Rights.” (Co-Author with Jason Thompson, Richard Arum, Lauren B. Edelman, and Calvin Morrill).
Alyssa Newman, Ph.D.
Alyssa M. Newman is a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Georgetown. Her research currently focuses on the intersection of race and assisted reproductive technologies, as well as on institutional solutions to racial health disparities. She has also published extensively on multiraciality, exploring the topic through a variety of research projects related to collective identity formation, biology and genetics, the intersection of mixedness and masculinity, immigration, and family relationships and reproduction.
Volume 36, Issue 3: “Moving Beyond Mistrust: Centering Institutional Change by Decentering the White Analytical Lens” p.231-233
Volume 6, Issue 2: “Black sperm donors: motivations and hesitations,” p.231-233
Volume 38, Issue 8: “Mixing and Matching: Sperm Donor Selection for Interracial Lesbian Couples,” p.710-724
Additional Publications:
“Institutional Problems, Individual Solutions – The Burden on Black Physicians.”
“Desiring The Standard Light Skin: Black Multiracial Boys, Masculinity And Exotification.“
Corey D. Fields, Ph.D.
Corey D. Fields received his Ph.D. in sociology 2011 from Northwestern University. His research explores the role of identity – at both the individual and collective level – in structuring social life, and contributes to the ongoing analysis of the relationship between identity, experience, and culture. His work draws on a cultural perspective – across a range of methodological approaches – that emphasizes the role of meaning and recognizes that identities are enacted in specific social contexts.
Additional Publications:
“Drinking from a Full Cup: Race, Racism, and Discrimination in Contemporary Social Psychological Research.” (Co-Author with Verna M. Keith and Justine Tinkler)
“Talking About It and Being About It.”(Co-Author with Rahsaan Mahadeo, Lisa Hummel, and Sara Moore)