Symposium Honoring Professor Allison Davis Day 2

This event will highlight the groundbreaking work of W. Allison Davis, the first Black tenured faculty member at a predominantly white university. The University of Chicago’s Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity and the Division of the Social Sciences will host this symposium.

 

Friday, April 26, 2024
The Quadrangle Club

Welcome Remarks: Waldo E. Johnson, Jr. 9:00 AM

Graduate Student Panel 9:10-10:15 AM
Panelists will be recipients of the Allison Davis Graduate Research Award

Race and the Academy 10:30-11:45 AM
Cathy J. Cohen, David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor and Chair, Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity
Margaret Beale Spencer, Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, Department of Comparative Human Development
Waldo E. Johnson, Jr., Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and Vice Provost, Diversity and Inclusion
Gina Samuels, Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, and Faculty Director, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture

Education and Race 1-2:15 PM
Barbara T. Bowman, founder and past President of the Erickson Institute in Early Childhood, Director of Early Childhood for CPS, and long-time friend of Allison Davis
Mary Pattillo, Harold Washington Professor and Chair, Sociology at Northwestern, Ph D UChicago Sociology, and prominent expert on urban neighborhoods
Onnie Rogers, currently of Northwestern psychology, who will join UChicago as Associate Professor of Comparative Human Development, an expert on cultural stereotypes, identity formation and educational inequities
Stephen Raudenbush, Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology and Chair, Committee on Education

Concluding Remarks 2:15 PM