Odis Johnson Jr., PhD

Administrative
08/19 – Present Founding Director, Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, and Mixed Methodologies (ICQCM), Washington University in St. Louis, MO

03/19 – Present Associate Director, Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Equity, Washington University in St. Louis, MO

01/15 – 06/19 Director of Graduate Studies, Dept. of Education, College of Arts and Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, MO

08/13 – 01/15 Interim Chair, Dept. of African American Studies, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Academic
07/19 – Present Professor, Dept. of Sociology/Dept. of Education (equal appointments), College of Arts and Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, MO

10/19 – Present Professor (Courtesy), The George Warren Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis, MO

05/15 – Present Faculty Scholar, Institute for Public Health, Washington University in St. Louis, MO

09/16 – 06/19 Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, MO (.50 appointment)

01/15 – 06/19 Associate Professor, Dept. of Education, College of Arts and Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, MO (.50 appointment)

08/13 – 01/15 Associate Professor, Dept. of African American Studies, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

07/06 – 01/15 Faculty Associate, Maryland Population Research Center, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

07/06 – 07/13 Assistant Professor, Dept. of African American Studies, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

06/04 – 06/06 Assistant Professor, School of Education, University of California, Davis, CA

The Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, Graduate Student Senate, The Graduate School, Washington University in St. Louis, 2019

Faculty Leadership Development Member, Office of the Provost, Washington University in St. Louis, 2015-2019

Outstanding Author Contribution Award, Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence, Emerald Publishing Group, 2015

Outstanding Review of Research Award, American Educational Research Association, 2013 NSF ADVANCE Faculty Diversity Fellow, University of Maryland, College Park, 2013

Ford Foundation Scholars Network on Black Masculinities, 2009 – 2013

Spencer Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2002 – 2004

Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, National Research Council, Washington, DC, 2001

Rackham Merit Fellowship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1997 – 2003

Summer Institute Fellowship, Inter-University Consortium of Political and Social Science Research, Ann Arbor, MI, 1997

Presser Scholar, The Presser Foundation, University of Tulsa, OK, 1994

1/20 – 12/22 William T. Grant Foundation (#190932) – “Institute in Critical Quantitative and Computational Training For Underrepresented Scholars (ICQCM).” (Co-PI: Ezekiel Dixon Roman [$161,610], Co-PI: Odis Johnson Jr., [$175,023], Co-PI: Ebony McGee, Vanderbilt [$63,367]) – $400,000 awarded, December 3, 2019.

01/20 – 12/22 National Science Foundation (#ECR-EHR – 1937687/1937490/1937391) – “Collaborative Research: Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, and Mixed Methods Training For Underrepresented Scholars (ICQCM).” (Principal Investigator: Odis Johnson Jr., Co-PI: Ebony McGee, Co-PI: Ezekiel Dixon Roman) – $999,996 awarded, August 15, 2019.

01/20 – 12/20 Spencer Foundation (#202000127) – “Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, and Mixed Methods Training For Underrepresented Scholars (ICQCM).” (Co-PI: Ebony McGee, Co-PI: Odis Johnson Jr., Co-PI: Ezekiel Dixon Roman) – $149,996 awarded, August 16, 2019.

01/19 – 04/20 Spencer Foundation (#201900120) – “Suburban Schools, Urban Realities? A Conference on Suburban Diversity and Opportunity” (Principal Investigator: Odis Johnson Jr., Co-PI: R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy, NYU) – $49,564 awarded, January 25, 2019.

08/18 – 07/20 National Science Foundation (#EEC-1833161) – “Race-Gender Trajectories in Engineering: The Role of Social Control across Neighborhood and School Contexts – Supplement” (Principal Investigator: Odis Johnson Jr., Co-PI: Sheretta Butler Barnes, WU) – $99,985 awarded.

08/18 – 07/20 National Science Foundation (#DRL-1800199) – “Exploring ways to use National Datasets to Promote Broader Participation of Race-Gender Groups in STEM” (Principal Investigator: Odis Johnson Jr., Co-PIs: None) – $299,999 awarded, June 19, 2018.

06/16 – 05/20 National Science Foundation (#EEC-1619843) – “Race-Gender Trajectories in Engineering: The Role of Social Control across Neighborhood and School Contexts” (Principal Investigator: Odis Johnson Jr., Co-PIs: None) – $617,202 awarded, May 6, 2016.

10/17 – 10/18 Public Health Cubed Seed Grant, Washington University in St. Louis Institute of Public Health– Mixed Methods Analysis of Interdistrict School Transfer Program Participation and Student Health” (Co-PIs: Erin Linnenbringer, Darrell Hudson and Odis Johnson Jr.) – $15,000 awarded.

10/15 – 10/16 Public Health Cubed Seed Grant, Washington University in St. Louis Institute of Public Health– “Fatal Interactions with Police: Investigating Racial Bias” (Co-PIs: Cassandra Arroyo-Johnson, Melody S. Goodman and Odis Johnson Jr.) – $15,000 awarded.

06/14 – 01/15 National Institutes of Health – National Institute of Drug Abuse (Coeus #015200- 006) – “Identifying high-risk behaviors related to educational behavior within neighborhood contexts.” Supplement to NIH #R01DA018647, “Behavioral Technologies for Predicting HIV Risk.” (Principal Investigator: Odis Johnson Jr.) – $91,107 awarded.

05/10 – 06/12 National Science Foundation (#DRL-0941014) – “Study of Ecological Determinants of the Achievement Gap” (Principal Investigator: Odis Johnson Jr., Co-PIs: None) – $34,999 awarded.

06/10 – 06/12 Dean’s Transformative Research Award, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (Principal Investigator: Odis Johnson Jr., Co-PIs: None) – $20,000 awarded.

06/10 – 12/11 Spencer Foundation (#201000103) – “Study of Ecological and Seasonal Variation in Achievement Inequality” (Principal Investigator: Odis Johnson Jr., Co-PIs: None) – $40,000 awarded.

09/10 – 06/11 Research and Scholarship Award, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (Principal Investigator: Odis Johnson Jr., Co-PIs: None).

06/08 – 12/08 Maryland Population Research Center Seed Grant, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (Principal Investigator: Odis Johnson Jr., Co-PIs: None) – $15,000 awarded.

(Note: * = Collaboration with Current or Former Graduate Student or Postdoctoral Fellow; + = Collaboration with Undergraduate Student)

Journals
*Johnson, Jr., O., H. Ibrahim and J. Jabbari. “The Infrastructure of Black Social Control: A Multi- Level Counterfactual Analysis of Surveillance, Punishment, and Educational Inequality.” Under Review

*Jabbari, Jason and O. Johnson Jr. “Multiplying Disadvantages in U.S. High Schools: An Intersectional Analysis of the Interactions among Punishment and Achievement Trajectories.” Under Review

*Jabbari, Jason and O. Johnson Jr. “The Process of ‘Pushing Out’: Accumulated Disadvantage across School Punishment and Math Achievement Trajectories.” Youth & Society, Revise & Resubmit

*Ibrahim, Habiba, D. Barnes, S. Butler-Barnes, O. Johnson Jr. Forthcoming. “Black Girls, Strict School Dress Code and Math Course Taking in High Schools.” Social Sciences, Revise & Resubmit

*Johnson, Jr., O. and Jason Jabbari. Forthcoming. (Mis)Handling School Discipline In-House: School Resource Officers and In-School Suspensions under the Guise of Safety and Achievement. Educational Forum.

Johnson, Jr., O. Forthcoming. “Exogenous Policy, Racial Avoidance and the Qualified Relevance of Macroeconomic Change.” Teachers College Record. [JCR Impact Factor: 1.072]

Johnson, Jr., O. 2020. “Five Years Later, but Centuries in the Making: Ferguson, Racial Segregation, and Fatal Interactions with Police.” American Ethnologists, 47(1) [JCR Impact Factor: 3.053]

*Jabbari, Jason and O. Johnson, Jr. 2020. “The Collateral Damage of In-School Suspensions: A Counterfactual Analysis of High-Suspension Schools, Math Achievement and College Attendance.” Urban Education, https://doi.org/10.1177/0042085920902256 [JCR Impact Factor: 2.10]

*Ibrahim, Habiba and O. Johnson, Jr. 2020. “School Discipline, Race-Gender, and STEM Readiness: A Hierarchical Analysis of the Impact of School Discipline on Math Achievement in High School.” The Urban Review, 52(1), 75-99 [RG Impact Factor: 0.60]

*Jabbari, Jason and O. Johnson, Jr. 2020. “Veering Off Track in US High Schools? Redirecting Student Trajectories by Disrupting Punishment and Math Course-taking Tracks.” Child and Youth Services Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.104734 [JCR Impact Factor: 1.684]

*Johnson, Jr., O., J. Jabbari, M. Williams and O. Marcucci. 2019. “Disparate Impacts: Balancing the Need for Safe Schools with Racial Equity in Discipline.” Policy Insights from Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol 6(2), 162-169. [Impact Factor: 2.460]

*Johnson, Jr., O., C. St. Vil, K. Gilbert, M. Goodman and C. Arroyo Johnson. 2019. “How Neighborhoods Matter in Fatal Interactions between Police and Men of Color.” Social Science and Medicine, 220, January, 226-235. [JCR Impact Factor: 3.01]

*St. Vil, Christopher, A. Mitchell, N. Bounoua, O. Johnson, Jr., and C. Lejuez. 2018. “Code of the Street in Black and White: A Racial Comparison of the Code of the Street among a College Sample.” Spectrum, volume 7 (fall), no. 1, 17 – 36.

*Barnes, David and O. Johnson, Jr. 2018. “The Influence of Parent Socialization and School Environment on African-American Adolescent Males’ Mathematics Self-Efficacy and Engineering Career Trajectory.” Frontiers in Education, 1-7. DOI: 10.1109/FIE.2018.8658772 [RG Impact Factor: 0.42]

Johnson, Jr., O. 2018. “Expressive Cool and the Paradox of Black and White Males’ Neighborhood Socialization toward Education.” Youth & Society, 50(3): 299-327 [JCR Impact Factor: 2.13]

Johnson, Jr., O and M. Wagner. 2017. “Equalizers or Enablers of Inequality? A Counterfactual Analysis of Racial and Residential Test-Score Gaps in Year-Round and 9-Month Schools.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 674, 1, 240-261. [JCR Impact Factor: 2.40]

Johnson, Jr., O. 2017. “The Changing Influence of Educational Policy and Race on Metropolitan Inequality, 1970 – 2010.” The Educational Forum, 81(2), 175 – 192. [RG Impact Factor: 0.44]

Johnson, Jr., O. 2015. “Responding to School Violence: Confronting the Columbine Effect.” Contemporary Sociology, 44(4): 539-541. [JCR Impact Factor: 0.34]

Johnson, Jr., O. 2014. “Still Separate, Still Unequal. The Relation of Segregation in Neighborhoods and Schools to Test-Score Inequality.” Journal of Negro Education, 83(3): 199-215. [RG Impact Factor: 0.59]

Johnson, Jr., O. 2013. “Is Concentrated Advantage the Cause? The Relative Contributions of Neighborhood Advantage and Disadvantage to Educational Inequality.” The Urban Review, 45(5): 561-585. [RG Impact Factor: 0.60]

Johnson, Jr., O. 2012. “Relocation Programs, Opportunities to Learn and the Complications of Conversion.” Review of Educational Research, 82 (2): 131-178. (Winner of the American Educational Research Association 2013 Outstanding Review of Research Award). [JCR Impact Factor: 8.24]

Johnson, Jr., O. 2012. “A Systematic Review of Neighborhood and Institutional Relationships Related to Education.” Education and Urban Society, 44 (4): 477-511. [JCR Impact Factor: 0.972]

Chapters in Edited Volumes
Johnson, Jr., O. Forthcoming. “Why did Convergence of the Achievement Gap Stop? Macroeconomic Change, Policy, and Racial Avoidance.” In R. Ray and H. Mahmoudi, (Eds.), “Structural Racism and the Root Causes of Prejudice.” University of California Press.

Gilbert, K., R. Ray and O. Johnson Jr. 2019. “What influences adolescent male development and well-being: Implications of the limits and opportunities of social policy. Policy and Politics and Inequalities in Men’s Health.” In D. Griffith, Marino Bruce and Roland Thorpe Jr. (Eds.) “Men’s Health Equity: A Handbook.” Routledge.

Gilbert, K., R. Ray, W. Carson Byrd, J. B. Richardson, O. Johnson, Jr. 2018. “The Matter of Lives Underneath Black Male Skin: Using Theory and Media to Explore the Case of ‘Justifiable Homicides’ for Black Males.” In Inequality, Crime, and Health Among African American Males, edited by B. Marino and Darnell Hawkins. Published online: 13 Nov 2018; 171-183. Emerald Publishing.

Johnson, Jr., O. and V. Nebbitt. 2015. “A Framework for Inquiry into Neighborhood-Institutional Relationships Related to Public Housing and Adolescent Development.” In “Adolescents and Public Housing: Addressing Psychological and Behavioral Health” (pages 4 – 19) edited by Von E. Nebbitt. New York: Columbia University Press.

Johnson, Jr., O. 2014. “Race–Gender Inequality Across Residential and School Contexts: What Can Policy Do?” In “African American Males in PreK-12 schools: Informing Research, Practice, and Policy” edited by James L. Moore and Chance W. Lewis. Emerald Publishing. (Winner of the 2015 Outstanding Author Contribution Award, Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence)

Johnson, Jr., O. 2012. “Toward a Theory of Place: Social Mobility, Proximity and Proximal Capital.” Pp. 29 – 46 in Research on Schools, Neighborhoods and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility, Presidential Volume edited by William Tate. MD: Rowman & Littlefield and the American Educational Research Association.

Books and Edited Volumes
Johnson, Jr., O. (In Progress). “When White Schools Disappeared: How Schools Made Neighborhoods Unequal.” University of Chicago Press.

Johnson, Jr., O. and L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy (In Progress). “Suburban Opportunity, Urban Realities: Race, Education and Metropolitan Inequality.” Edited Volume.

Memberships: Association of Black Sociologists
American Sociological Association
American Educational Research Association
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management

08/19 – Present Member, Nominating Committee, Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association

01/19 – 04/20 Presidential Appointment, Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award Committee, American Educational Research Association

04/15 – 04/18 Presidential Appointment, Government Relations Committee, American Educational Research Association

03/18 – 03/19 Member, AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship Selection Committee. Washington DC.

03/15 Delegation Member, AERA Capitol Hill Visit and Legislative Meetings. Washington DC, March 15 – 17.

12/17 – 06/18 Steering Committee Member, NSF DRK-12 Topical Group on Broadening Participation. National Science Foundation and Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE).

12/18 – 04/19 Advisory Board Member – Research Methodologist, NSF Award #1649717 “Broadening Participation in Neural Engineering, Bioengineering, and Systems Engineering.” PI: Felicia Jefferson, Fort Valley State University, GA.

02/18 NSF Technical Advisor, LifeSTEM Capacity Building Workshop (BP-MSI). Morgan State University, Maryland, MD. February 26-27.

09/17 NSF Technical Advisor, LifeSTEM Workshop Series Follow-up Webinars for the NSF’s LifeSTEM Programs. QEM/NSF, September 12.

08/17 NSF Technical Advisor, LifeSTEM Workshop Series Follow-up Webinars for the NSF’s LifeSTEM Programs. QEM/NSF, August 15.

06/17 NSF Technical Advisor, Broadening Participation of Minority-serving Institutions in Life STEM (BP-MSI). June 12-13, Xavier University, New Orleans, LA

06/17 NSF Technical Advisor, Broadening Participation of Minority-serving Institutions in Life STEM (BP-MSI). June 16-17, Spelman University, Atlanta, GA.

06/17 NSF Technical Advisor, Broadening Participation of Minority-serving Institutions in Life STEM (BP-MSI). June 29-30, Rutgers-Newark, Newark, NJ.

10/10 – 04/11 Senior Evaluator, Comparison of Bureau of Clinician Recruitment and Service (BCRS) Scholarship Program. National Health Service Corp (NHSC) Scholarship Program. Bureau of Clinician Recruitment, Health Resources and Services Administration (#HRS39969 – DT).

04/05 – 03/07 Program Evaluation Specialist Consultant, National Minority AIDS Council, CAER Coalition Foundation, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.

03/00 – 01/02 Program Evaluation Consultant, Academy for Educational Development and General Motors, Detroit Public Schools and the United Auto Workers Detroit, Michigan.

05/96 – 08/96 Project Assistant, United States Dept. of Education – Region IV, Atlanta, Georgia.

Policy Work
05/18 – 10/31 Director, Board of Directors, Confluence Preparatory Academies (largest charter school network in the state of Missouri)

11/17 Policy Presentation, “Fatal Interactions with Police Study: A First Look.” City of St. Louis Department of Health. 1520 Market Street St. Louis, MO, November 28, 2017.

03/16 Policy Presentation, “Dispelling the Myths: Exposing Education Gaps.” William E. Doar Jr. Public Charter School for the Performing Arts, Washington DC, March 17, 2016.

01/16 Policy Presentation, “Beyond Achievement: Exposing Education Gaps.” City Garden Montessori Charter School, St. Louis, MO, January 23, 2016.

03/15 – 09/15 Member, Child Wellbeing and Education Equity Subcommittee, Ferguson Commission.

06/15 Expert Testimony, Ferguson Commission, Child Well-Being and Education Equity work Group Meeting on District Structures and Public Financing. June 19.

12/14 Professional Development Provider, Dropouts and Pushouts: Prevention and Recovery. Prince George’s County Public Schools, People Personnel Workers In- service. College Park, MD, Dec. 18.

11/13 Policy Presentation, “The Other Common Core: Supporting Excellence in High School. Prince George’s County Public Schools, Grades 2 – 9 Initiative. College Park, MD, Nov. 22.

06/13 Policy Consultation, “Intervening in the early stages of crisis: Strategizing about Black boys in the middle school years” with the Center for Law and Social Policy and the Scholars Network on Masculinity and the Wellbeing of African American Men. 2013 Gathering of Leaders Conference. Detroit, MI, June 20, 2013. (Work related to the White House Initiative for the Educational Excellence of African Americans).

05/13 Policy Consultation, “Policy Solutions to Impact Education Outcomes for Black Males: A Working Session for Researchers and Policy Advocates.” Center for Law and Social Policy and the Scholars Network on Masculinity and the Wellbeing of African American Men. Washington, DC, May 2-3, 2013. (Work related to the White House Initiative for the Educational Excellence of African Americans).

03/12 Policy Consultation, “Administration for Children and Families and the African American Community Roundtable Leadership Discussion,” U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Resources, Assistant Secretary, Gregory Sheldon. Washington, DC, March 2, 2012.

02/12 Policy Presentation, “Profile America Forum: Black Population” at BET Studios. U.S. Census Bureau, National Urban League, Marc Morial and Robert Groves. Washington, D.C., BET Studios, Feb. 1, 2012.

10/09 Policy Presentation, “A Policy Imperative: Closing the Achievement Gap.” Maryland State Legislature, Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland. Annapolis, MD, Oct. 2, 2009.

01/09 Policy Presentation, “Maryland Demographics 2009.” State of Maryland, Office of the Lt. Governor and James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, Annapolis, MD, Jan. 26, 2009.

11/08 Policy Presentation, “Race, Religion and Politics.” Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland, Annapolis, MD, Oct. 30 – Nov. 1, 2008.

11/07 Policy Presentation, “Policies that Support the Academic Development of Urban Black Males.” The Achievement Gap Summit. California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento, CA, Nov. 13 – 14, 2007.

Select Media Appearances
2020. “At ‘Sisters Friday,’ Louisville activists aim to raise awareness of Breonna Taylor’s death.” The Washington Post. By Ava Wallace, June 5, 2020, 6:48 p.m. CDT. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/05/protest-louisville-breonna-taylor/

2020. “Latino officers are helping diversify police. Can they help reform the ranks?” NBC News. By Suzanne Gamboa, June 13, 2020, 5:28 a.m. CDT. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/latino- officers-are-helping-diversify-police-can-they-help-reform-n1230351

2020. “Professor Odis Johnson Sets the Record Straight About The Killings of African-Americans By Police.” SiriusXM/Joe Madison The Black Eagle, July 15, 2020, 8:36 a.m. CDT. https://www.siriusxm.com/clips/clip/0469a9b1-fd7d-4257-ab28-f76acc8fa2aa/c97050c3-6f69- 43d2-8f84- 653dab992449 fbclid=IwAR3wkOZWCY_Ng7c4nTrpYaTlzIlM4tB22sXJ7V_VaW3qcbuQcoeaEAsvz qY

2019. “Atatiana Jefferson’s Death Reminded Us of the Work Needed to Protect Black Lives.” The Ringer. By Tyler Tynes, Dec. 13. https://www.theringer.com/year-in- review/2019/12/13/21012999/atatiana-jefferson-black-lives-matter

2019. “You promised you wouldn’t kill me. Atatiana Jefferson, Natasha McKenna and the other black women we forget.” The New York Times. By Kimberle Crenshaw, Oct. 28. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/opinion/police-black-women-racism.html

2019. “School to Prison Pipeline.” Joe Madison The Black Eagle Show, SiriusXM, Nov. 1, 9:40 a.m.

2019. “Wash U Institute aims to train more data scientists of color.” National Public Radio-St. Louis. By Shahla Farzan, Sept. 8. https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/wash-u-institute-aims-train- more-data-scientists-color#stream/0

2019. “Deaths of Ferguson activists lead some to believe something sinister is at play.” Fox News. By Ryan Gaydos, March 18. https://www.foxnews.com/us/puzzling-number-of-men-tied-to- ferguson-protests-have-died

2019. “Puzzling number of men tied to Ferguson protests have since died.” Chicago Tribune. By Jim Salter. March 18. https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-ferguson-activist-deaths- black-lives-matter-20190317-story.html

2019. “Puzzling number of men tied to Ferguson protests have died.” Associated Press. By Jim Salter. March 17. https://www.apnews.com/436251b8a58c470eb4f69099f43f2231.

2019. “Puzzling number of men tied to Ferguson protests have died.” New York Times. By Jim Salter. March 17. https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/03/17/us/ap-us-ferguson-activists- deaths.html

2019. “Puzzling number of men tied to Ferguson protests have died.” Cleveland Banner. By Jim Salter. March 17. https://hosted.ap.org/clevelandbanner/article/436251b8a58c470eb4f69099f43f2231/puzzling- number-men-tied-ferguson-protests-have-died.

2019. “Hispanic males most likely to have a fatal interaction with police in segregated neighborhoods. Crowd-sourcing data set creates a more accurate view of fatal interactions with police in lieu of federally collected data, says University at Buffalo social work researcher.” By Bert Gambini. February 7. http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2019/02/008.html

2019. “Diverse neighborhoods could reduce police shootings of Blacks, Hispanics: Study.” The Crime Report, By J. Gabriel Ware. January 11. https://thecrimereport.org/2019/01/11/diverse- neighborhoods-could-reduce-police-shootings-of-blacks-hispanics-study/

Courses Taught

• Neighborhood, Schools, and Social Inequality (Graduate & undergraduate)
• Introduction to Research Methods (Undergraduate)
• Political Economy of Urban Education (Graduate & undergraduate)
• Education and Public Policy in the U.S. (Graduate & undergraduate)
• Identity Literacy: An Introduction to Cultural Competence in a Diverse World (Undergraduate)
• Doctoral Seminar: Studying the Complex Dimensions of Urban Educational Settings
• The Evaluation of Social Programs: Context and Early Intervention in the Cognitive Development of African American Youth (Graduate & undergraduate)
• Applied Policy Analysis (Undergraduate)
• Theory, Methods and Policy Research (Undergraduate)
• African Americans and the City: 1897-2000 (Undergraduate)
• Urban Poverty and Culture (Undergraduate Honors)
• Quantitative Methods (Graduate)

University and College
11/19 – Present Member, Social Policy Institute Steering Committee, Washington University in St. Louis

09/19 – Present Faculty Representative, Board of Trustees Research and Graduate Affairs Committee, Office of the Chancellor, Washington University in St. Louis.

02/16 – Present Member, Common Reading Program (First Year Reading Program) Steering Committee, Residential Life, Washington University in St. Louis

05/15 – Present Member, Standing Committee for Facilitating Inclusive Classrooms, Office of the Provost, Washington University in St. Louis

05/20 Member, Faculty Achievement Awards Advisory Committee, Office of the Chancellor, Washington University in St. Louis

09/19 – 02/20 Member, Strategic Metrics, Academics, Rankings and Teaching (SMART) Committee, Office of the Provost, Washington University in St. Louis

01/19 Member, Chancellor Fellowship Selection Committee, Graduate School, Washington University in St. Louis

01/17 – 07/18 Member, Chair Search Committee, African and African American Studies Department. Office of the Vice Provost/Office of the Dean

06/15 – 12/18 Co-Chair, Identity Literacy Implementation Committee for new university- wide required course. Responsible for course pilot and assessment. Office of the Provost, Washington University in St. Louis

09/15 – 12/16 Member, Race/Identity/Social Justice Institute Task Force, Office of the Provost, Washington University in St. Louis

04/15 – 07/16 Member, Danforth IRB Advisory Committee, Office of the Provost, Washington University in St. Louis

09/14 Program Founder, University of Maryland Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in African American Studies approved by the State of Maryland Higher Education Commission, Sept. 25, 2014.

09/14 – 01/15 Member, General Education Faculty Diversity Board, Undergraduate Studies, University of Maryland

03/14 – 01/15 Member, McNair Program Advisory Board, University of Maryland

02/14 – 01/15 Member, Provost Fiscal Task Force, Subcommittee on Academic Policies and Budget Impact, Office of the Provost, University of Maryland

08/13 – 01/15 Member, Chairs and Directors Council – College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland

02/12 – 01/15 Member, McNair Graduate Fellowship Selection Committee, Graduate School, University of Maryland

02/13 Member, Search Committee for Associate Dean for Research, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland

02/13 Member, College Academic Council, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland

09/07 – 06/11 Member, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Teaching Committee – Responsible for college level curriculum policy.

(Note: * = Collaboration with Current or Former Graduate Student or Postdoctoral Fellow; + = Collaboration with Undergraduate Student)

Scientific Meetings
“Breonna Taylor, George Floyd: Race-Gender & Fatal Interactions with Police (FIPS),” Panel: Racializing Police Violence. Invited Presidential Session at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Aug 10, 2020, 10:30 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. PDT

*“The Process of ‘Pushing Out’: An Intersectional Analysis of the Interactions Among School-To- Prison and STEM Pipelines.” Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Sat, August 8, 2020, 8:30 to 10:10am PDT (10:30am to 12:10pm CDT)

Session Chair and Discussant, Society for the Study of Social Problem Annual Meeting, Session 117 “Restorative Justice, Education, and Schools.” New York, NY, August 11, 2019.

*”The Collateral Damage of in-School Suspensions: A Counterfactual Analysis of High-Suspension Schools, Math Achievement and College Attendance.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), Sheraton Denver Downtown, CO, November 9, 2019.

*”Redirecting the School-to-Prison Pipeline to the STEM Pipeline: A Cross-Pipeline Analysis of Suspension and Math.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Canada, April 6, 2019.

“Race, Gender, Place and Fatal Interactions with Police.” Presentation made at the Annual meeting of Ethnographic Futures, Washington University in St. Louis, Bryan Cave Courtroom Law School, Anheuser-Busch Hall, March 15, 2019.

“Race, Gender, and the Contexts of Unarmed Fatal Interactions with Police.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Philadelphia, PA, August 12, 2018.

“The School to Prison Pipeline and the Global Imperative in STEM.” Refereed paper presented at the World Education Research Association. Westin Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa, August 3 – 5, 2018.

“DRK-12 Broadening Participation Topical Group Synthesis Project.” National Science Foundation and Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE). Washington Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC. June 7, 2018.

*“Race, gender, social control and STEM readiness.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society. Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, MN, March 22-25, 2018.

*“Understanding the Intersection of the STEM and School-to-Prison Pipelines: A Hierarchical Analysis of the Impact of School Discipline on STEM Outcomes in High School.” NSF Engineering Education and Centers 2017 Grantees Conference. American Society for Engineering Education/NSF. Arlington VA, October 29 – 30, 2017.

“Race, Gender, and the Contexts of Unarmed Fatal Interactions with Police.” Institute for Public Health 2017 Annual Conference. Eric P. Newman Education Center, Washington University in St. Louis Medical Campus. September 27, 2017.

“Equal Educational Opportunity, Neighborhoods, and Geospatial Dimensions of Schools and Schooling.” Invited Presidential Session of the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom Level, 301 A&B. San Antonio, TX. May 1, 2017.

“Researcher, Scholar, and Public Intellectual.” Invited presentation at the 2017 AERA Undergraduate Student Education Research Training Workshop. Marriott Rivercenter, 3rd Floor, Conference Room 9 (101 Bowie Street). San Antonio, TX. April 29, 2017.

Session Chair and Discussant, “Gender Activism, Advocacy, and Policy Formation.” Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. San Antonio, TX. April 27, 2017.

*“Race-Gender Trajectories in Engineering Science: Career Determining Social Processes of Schools and Neighborhoods in Existing Research.” Midwest Sociological Society, Milwaukee WI. March 30 – April 2, 2017.

+“Identity Literacy: Designing a Course to Explore Identity and (In)Equality” with Jill Stratton and Chelsea Whitaker. NASPA Annual Conference. San Antonio, TX. March 13, 2017.

“Great Equalizers or Conduits of Inequality? A Counterfactual Analysis of Year-Round and 9- Month Schooling within Neighborhood Contexts.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association. Chicago, IL, August 24, 2015.

“Expressive Cool and Racial Differences in the Neighborhood Socialization of Male Adolescents toward Education.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA., April 2014.

“Great Equalizers or Conduits of Neighborhood Disorganization: A Counterfactual Analysis of Year-round and Nine-month Schooling.” African American Studies Dept. University of Maryland, College Park, Nov. 20, 2013.

“Race-Gender inequality across residential and school contexts.” Commissioned paper presentation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Black Sociologists, New York, NY, Aug. 10, 2013.

“The Ghetto’s Legacy: Where is the Educational Freedom?” Invited presentation at the AERA Sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation: Long struggle for freedom and education. San Francisco, CA, April 26, 2013.

“Race-Gender inequality across residential and school contexts: Implications for mathematics, science, and reading performance of Black and Latino males.” Commissioned paper presentation. STEMing the Tide: NSF Symposium on Males of Color. Warrenton, VA, June 3, 2013.

“When Might Neighborhood Social Disorganization Matter to Achievement Inequality?” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Black Sociologists, Denver, CO, Aug. 16-18, 2012.

“Neighborhood Collective Socialization and School Effects on Adolescents’ Masculinity, Achievement Ideology and Grades.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Black Sociologists, Denver, CO, Aug. 16-18, 2012.

“Neighborhood Determinants of Seasonal Variation in Racial, Social-class and Gender Achievement Gaps.” Presentation at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA, April 9, 2011.

Symposia and Conferences Convened/Chaired
Co-Chair, “ICQCM Inaugural Virtual Symposium: Critical Methodologies for a Critical Moment” with Ebony McGee (Vanderbilt University) and Ezekiel Dixon Roman (Univ. of Pennsylvania). Aug. 3 & 4, 2020

Co-Chair, “Suburban Schools, Urban Realities: A Conference on Metropolitan Change and Inequality”, with Prof. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy (New York University) and funded by the Spencer Foundation. March 25 – 27, 2020, Washington University in St. Louis. (Postponed)

Chair, “Color of Policing Symposium (COPS): Youth, Education and Activism” funded by the Lowenthal Symposium Series Fund. April 19 and 20, 2018, Washington University in St. Louis.

Invited Talks (Partial List)
“Let’s Talk: A discussion on Race in America Today.” University of Louisville Health System. Jun 7, 2020.

“#ShutDownSTEM Connecting Race and Policing to STEM Inequities.” McKelvey School of Engineering, Education, Engineering & Race Seminar Series. July 30, 2020

“The Double Edge of School Safety: Moving from Intersecting (In)Justices to Healthy Schools.” Johns Hopkins University, March 13, 2020.

“Symposium on Schools, Prisons, and Concentrated Poverty”, Johns Hopkins University, Oct. 3, 2019.

“Does filling the STEM pipeline require draining the school to prison pipeline?” University of Memphis, September 13, 2019.

“A Counterfactual Analysis of Social Control’s Impact on Educational Inequality”, University of Pennsylvania, January 17, 2019.

“Schooling since Kerner: From Compensatory to Repressive State Apparatuses.” Address given at the Slaughter Foundation Symposium, “The State of Black America 50 years after Kerner.” University of Maryland, College Park, Sept. 19, 2018.

“Uncomfortable Truth about Race, Poverty, and Health in America.” Big Brothers Big Sisters of America National Conference. Marriott Grand Hotel, St. Louis, MO, June 28, 2018.

“Broadening Participation through NSF Funded Research: Theory, Design & Methodologies.” Fort Valley State University, April 9, 2018.

“Fatal Interactions with Police Study: A First Look.” City of St. Louis Department of Health. 1520 Market Street St. Louis, MO, November 28, 2017.

“Educational Disparities: Are we (Researchers) Making Progress?” Presented at the University of Michigan Bicentennial Symposium, “Impact on Inequality: Contribution of Michigan Social Science.” Horace G. Rackham School of Graduate Studies. Ann Arbor, Michigan, November 19, 2017.