Raceworks Scholars

Jennifer DeVere Brody studies performance, aesthetics, politics, and subjectivity as well as gender, sexuality, and contemporary culture. She is Professor of Theater and Performance Studies and Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. Read more about Professor Brody.

Expertise: Literature, theater, performance, the arts

Fields of study: Theater & Performance Studies; Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity; African & African American Studies; Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

Publications

Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood, 2018

Punctuation, 2008

Press

Publisher’s Weekly, James Baldwin’s Sole Children’s Book Comes Back into Print, 2018 

Stanford Report, Stanford Advances Complex Study of Race and Ethnicity, 2016 

Jennifer Eberhardt studies how people associate race with crime, and how these associations affect criminal justice. She is Morris M. Doyle Centennial Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Psychology, and Faculty Co-Director of SPARQ at Stanford University. Read more about Professor Eberhardt.

Expertise: Psychology, implicit bias, criminal justice, interventions

Fields of study: Psychology; Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity; African & African American Studies; Law

Publications

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do, 2019

Language from Police Body Camera Footage Shows Racial Disparities in Officer Respect (in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017)

Press

LA Times, Bias in the Justice System is Real, and the Death Penalty Reveals It, 2019

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Tackling Perception’s Effects on Behavior with “Biased,” 2019

Harry Elam studies the cultural dynamics and social politics of race in theater and performance. He is Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Theater and Performance Studies, Senior Vice Provost for Education, Vice President for the Arts, and Freeman-Thornton Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. Read more about Professor Elam.

Expertise: Theater, performance, the arts

Fields of study: Theater & Performance Studies; Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity; African & African American Studies

Publications

Black Cultural Traffic, 2005

The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson, 2004

Press

LA Times, Adapting August Wilson: How His Play ‘Fences’ Became a Movie (and why so much of his work hasn’t), 2017

Stanford Report, Stanford Arts Leadership Capitalizes on Arts Initiative Momentum, 2017

Tomás Jiménez studies immigration, assimilation, social mobility, and ethnic and racial identity. He is Associate Professor of Sociology and the former Director of the Undergraduate Program in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. Read more about Professor Jiménez.

Expertise: Literature, theater, performance, the arts

Fields of study: Sociology; Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity; Chicano/a-Latino/a Studies

Publications

Tracking a Changing America Across the Generations After Immigration (in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2018)

The Other Side of Assimilation: How Immigrants Are Changing American Life, 2017 

Press

Washington Post, The Myth of Immigrant Non-assimilation, 2018 

NPR, Fact-Checking What John Kelly Said About Immigration, 2018

Hazel Rose Markus studies how race, ethnicity, social class, gender, religion, region, and nation shape—and are shaped by—people’s thoughts, feelings, motivations, and actions. She is Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences, Professor of Psychology, and Faculty Co-Director of SPARQ at Stanford University. Read more about Professor Markus.

Expertise: Culture, identity, interventions

Fields of study: Psychology; Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity

Publications

Clash!: How to Thrive in a Multicultural World, 2014 

Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century, 2010

Press

Forbes, Racial Bias in Investing? Just Look at the Data, 2019

Good Housekeeping, What is Tiger Mom Parenting?, 2019

Ana Raquel Minian studies the history of migration between the U.S. and Mexico, the growth of migrant communities, and bi-national efforts to regulate the U.S.-Mexico border. She is Associate Professor of History and the Director of Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies at Stanford University. Read more about Professor Minian. 

Expertise: Immigration, migration, borders

Fields of study: History; Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity; Chicano/a-Latino/a Studies; Latin American Studies

Publications

Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration, 2018

Press

The New Yorker, A Historian on How Trump’s Wall Rhetoric Changes Life in Mexico, 2019

New York Times, America Didn’t Always Lock Up Immigrants, 2018

Paula M. L. Moya studies the dynamics of subordination in race, gender, sexuality, literature, and narrative. She is Danily C. and Laura Louise Bell Professor of the Humanities, Professor of English, and the former Director of the Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. Read more about Professor Moya. 

Expertise: Literature, identity, psychology

Fields of study: American Literature; Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity; Chicano/a-Latino/a Studies; Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

Publications

The Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literacy Criticism, 2016

Doing Race: 21 Essays for the 21st Century, 2010

Press

Stanford News, The ‘Close Reading’ of Multicultural Literature Expands Racial Literacy, Stanford Scholar Says, 2016 

Boston Review, Does Reading Literature Make You More Moral, 2014 

Jonathan Rosa studies language, race, youth socialization, and social inequality in urban settings and schools. He is Assistant Professor of Education at Stanford University. Read more about Professor Rosa.

Expertise: Language, identity, culture

Fields of study: Linguistics; Anthropology; Education; Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity; Chicano/a-Latino/a Studies

Publications

Raciontologies: Rethinking Anthropological Accounts of Institutional Racism and Enactments of White Supremacy in the United States (in American Anthropologist, 2019)

Looking Like a Language, Sounding Like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad, 2018

Press

WUWF, Why Labeling Antonio Banderas a ‘Person Of Color’ Triggers Such a Backlash, 2020

Stanford Report, Stanford Experts Highlight Link Between Language and Race in New Book, 2016 

C. Matthew Snipp studies the social and economic well-being of American ethnic minorities, the methodology of racial measurement, and American Indian education. He is Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Humanities and Sciences, Professor of Sociology, and Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity and Engagement at Stanford University. Read more about Professor Snipp.  

Expertise: Racial measurement, demography, poverty

Fields of study: Sociology; Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity; Native American Studies

Publications

Measuring Hispanic Origin: Reflections on Hispanic Race Reporting (in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2018)

Changes in Racial and Gender Inequality Since 1970 (in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2016)

Press

Stanford Report, Stanford Advances Complex Study of Race and Ethnicity, 2016

The Washington Post, Census Update Shows More Diverse Society as Baby Boom Generation Ages, 2015

Jeanne Tsai studies how cultural ideas and practices shape emotions, and how this affects what decisions people make, how people think about health and illness, and how people perceive and respond to others. She is Professor of Psychology and Director of Asian American Studies at Stanford University. Read more about Professor Tsai.

Expertise: Culture, emotion, mental health

Fields of study: Psychology; Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity; Asian American Studies; East Asian Studies

Publications

Should Job Applicants Be Excited or Calm? The Role of Culture and Ideal Affect in Employment Settings (in Emotion, 2018)

Leaders’ Smiles Reflect Cultural Differences in Ideal Affect (in Emotion, 2016)

Press

Newsweek, Calm Job Applicants May Be at a Disadvantage When it Comes to Getting Hired, Study Finds, 2018 

Washington Post, The Uniquely American Appeal of Donald Trump’s Favorite Insult, 2016