Rashawn Ray

Rashawn Ray is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He became a professor after obtaining his Ph.D. in Sociology from Indiana University - Bloomington in 2010. Ray is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and has also been mentioned by the Huffington Post.[1] Beginning in August 2017 he begin working on his first edition of Contexts magazine with fellow co-editor Fabio Rojas.[2]

Career

Ray graduated from Indiana University, Bloomington with a Ph.D. in Sociology in 2010. He now works as an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. From 2010-2012 he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley/UCSF.[3] His work pertains to social inequality and focuses on race and social activism. He is the author of Race and Ethnic Relations in the 21st Century: History, Theory, Institutions, and Policy. He will the be the co-editor of the magazine Contexts: Understanding People in their Social Worlds, a publication of the American Sociological Association, with his first issue to be released in February 2018.[2]

Awards

In 2016, Ray won University of Maryland's Research Communicator Impact Award.[4] He also has been awarded mentorship awards from the Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars Program and the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program.[5] Furthermore, he has received the Teaching in Excellence Award from the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland.[6]

Public work

Ray has written several articles for the New York Times on a wide range of social topics including race and policing,[7] healthcare,[8] parenting styles,[9] and more. He has also been featured on Fox News Cincinnati and NBC News Washington.[10] In addition to the current book he has pulibshed, Ray is working on two additional books: The Loves Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class with Dr. Kris Marsh and Bordering Chaos: Family and Work in a Racially-Diverse America with Dr. Pam Jackson.[11]

References

  1. ↑ Ph.D, Howard Henderson (24 June 2015). "AME Church Massacre and America's Inability to Acknowledge Structural Racism".
  2. 1 2 "it’s all about contexts". 21 April 2017.
  3. ↑ "Rashawn Ray - SOCY l Sociology Department l University of Maryland". socy.umd.edu.
  4. ↑ "Dr. Rashawn Ray selected as winner of the UMD 2016 Research Communicator Impact Award - SOCY l Sociology Department l University of Maryland". socy.umd.edu.
  5. ↑ "rashawn ray » Sociology - Boston University". www.bu.edu.
  6. ↑ "#DocYourChange - Document Your Change". www.docyourchange.com.
  7. ↑ "Young, Black and Male in America" – via NYTimes.com.
  8. ↑ "What's the Best Way to Break Society's Bad Habits?" – via NYTimes.com.
  9. ↑ "Is Spanking a Black and White Issue?" – via NYTimes.com.
  10. ↑ "Media Appearances – Dr. Rashawn Ray". rashawnray.com.
  11. ↑ "Bio – Dr. Rashawn Ray". rashawnray.com.


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