The School for Cultural and Social Transformation is pleased to announce that Andrea Baldwin (she/her), associate dean of research, was recognized as a recipient of the 2024 Afro Utah Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Excellence Award. This program aims to validate and respect the significant contributions from individuals of Afro descent working toward the advancement of […]
Read MoreUtah Business and Living Color Utah recently honored Dr. Edmund Fong at their sixth annual Living Color gala. These awards honor individuals who are doing the work to create a more equitable and inclusive future for Utah, an enterprise Dr. Fong was actively engaged in during his six-year term as chair of the ethnic studies […]
Read MoreBaodong Liu is a nationally recognized expert on race, voting rights and U.S. elections. He provided key expert witness testimony in court hearings on the state of Alabama’s redistricting map, testimony that made its way into a subsequent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that found the map unconstitutional.
Read MoreWilliam A. Smith will receive the 2023 Albert B. Fritz Civil Rights Worker of the Year Award on Friday, Oct. 27, 2023, from the NAACP Salt Lake Branch Life Membership and Freedom Fund.
Read MoreProfessor Armando Solórzano collected the speeches made by city officials, religious leaders and community members at the march and created an archive of interviews, newspaper clippings and analysis surrounding the event.
Read MoreOn Sept. 14, 2023, join us at the Black Cultural Center to engage with Phillis Wheatley Peters’ complex life and even more complex legacy as the second Colonial American woman—and the first of African descent—to publish a book of poetry.
Read MoreEthnic Studies’ Liu served as an expert witness in a consequential voting rights case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah Provost Mitzi M. Montoya announced that Ruma Chopra has accepted an offer to serve as dean of the School for Cultural and Social Transformation.
Read MoreSmith’s research focuses on racial battle fatigue, a framework he created to describe the cumulative emotional, psychological, physiological and behavioral effects of racial micro- and macro-level aggressions experienced by people of color.
Read MoreWilliam Smith ranked in the top 200 educational scholars in the United States for public influence.
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