Celeste Watkins-HayEs
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Celeste M. Watkins-Hayes is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology & African American Studies at Northwestern University. In addition to her faculty appointment, Watkins-Hayes serves as a Faculty Fellow at Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research and a Visiting Summer Fellow at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California – San Francisco. Prior to coming to Northwestern, Watkins-Hayes was the Robert W. Hartley Dissertation Fellow at The Brookings Institution. Having received a two-year fellowship from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Watkins-Hayes spent the 2005-06 academic year at the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor completing revisions to her book manuscript exploring institutional change in welfare offices. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews, the study investigates how the professional, racial, class, and community identities of welfare caseworkers and supervisors shape the implementation of policy and other dynamics related to institutional change. The New Welfare Bureaucrats: Entanglements of Race, Class, and Policy Reform will be published by the University of Chicago Press. Watkins-Hayes is also working on an ethnographic study of the social consequences of HIV/AIDS for Chicago-area Black women. She has published articles in Social Problems, The Harvard Journal of African-American Public Policy, and The State of Black America, 2001. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University in June 2003. She also holds an M.A. in Sociology from Harvard and a B.A. from Spelman College, where she graduated summa cum laude in 1996.
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1812 Chicago Av Room 302
Evanston, Illinois 60208-1330
Phone: (847) 467-7768
Fax: (847) 491-9907
(African American Studies)
1880 Campus Drive, Kresge 2-320 (Office: Crowe 3-137)
Evanston, Illinois 60208-1330Phone: (847) 491-4805
Office Hours: By Appointment
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Organizations and Urban Inequality Network
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| Current Courses: Fall Quarter 2007 | |
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| Soc 201-0 Sec.20 Social Inequality | |
| Soc 476 Sec 23: Special Topics: Race, Class, and Gender |
