Advisory Board
Board Chair
Son of a somewhat itinerant preacher, Craig Calhoun lived in the rural areas, small towns, big cities and suburbs of several states while growing up, but spent more of his life in North Carolina than anywhere else. He received his doctorate from Oxford University for work combining politics,…
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Mary Margaret grew up in Steubenville, Ohio, a blue-collar union town, during the heyday of steel production and union power. She spent her undergraduate years during the late sixties at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, known for its vibrant student and anti-war movements. Mary…
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Rashad Shabazz's academic expertise brings together human geography, cultural studies, gender studies, and critical race studies. His research explores how race, gender, and cultural production are informed by geography. His most recent work, Spatializing Blackness, (University of…
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Nancy Jurik is Professor Emerita of Justice & Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University. Her interests focus on work organization, entrepreneurship, and media constructions of gender and work. Her books include Doing Justice, Doing Gender: Women in…
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Scott N. Brooks is an associate professor with the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, an academic unit of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. In his role as Director of the Global Sport Institute at ASU, Brooks acts as campus liaison and…
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Monica McDermott is Associate Professor of Sociology at Arizona State University. Her latest book is Whiteness in America, an assessment of what it means to be white in the US. She is also the author of Working-Class White: The Making and Unmaking of Race Relations, an…
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Suzanne Wilson is an experienced communications professional who has enjoyed a successful career in journalism and media relations, including leadership roles as a producer and distributor of national news for a national newswire service, and as the communications director for a successful…