Dr. Rashawn Ray

Professor of Sociology and Executive Director of the Lab for Applied Social Science Research, University of Maryland

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Dr. Rashawn Ray Biography

Dr. Rashawn Ray is Professor of Sociology and Executive Director of the Lab for Applied Social Science Research (LASSR) at the University of Maryland, College Park. Currently, he is a David M. Rubenstein Fellow at The Brookings Institution. Ray is also one of the co-editors of Contexts Magazine: Sociology for the Public. Formerly, Ray was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Health Policy Research Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and he currently serves on the National Advisory Committee for the RWJF Health Policy Research Scholars Program.

Ray’s research addresses the mechanisms that manufacture and maintain racial and social inequality with a particular focus on police-civilian relations and men’s treatment of women. His work also speaks to ways that inequality may be attenuated through racial uplift activism and social policy. Ray has published over 50 books, articles, and book chapters, and 20 op-eds. His articles have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Science Advances, Social Science Research, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Du Bois Review, and the Annual Review of Public Health. Recently, Ray published the book How Families Matter: Simply Complicated Intersections of Race, Gender, and Work (with Pamela Braboy Jackson) and another edition of Race and Ethnic Relations in the 21st Century: History, Theory, Institutions, and Policy, which has been adopted nearly 40 times in college courses.

Ray has written for New York Times, Business Insider, Newsweek, The Guardian, Huffington Post, NBC News, The Conversation, and Public Radio International. Selected as 40 Under 40 Prince George's County and awarded the 2016 UMD Research Communicator Award, Ray has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, CBS, C-Span, PBS, HLN, Al Jazeera, NPR, and Fox. His research is cited in CNN, Washington Post, Associated Press, MSN, The Root, and The Chronicle. Previously, Ray served on the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington Planning Committee and the Commission on Racial Justice with Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 05/10/2024.

Dr. Rashawn Ray Videos

  • Virtual Summit: Keynote Perspectives on Health Equity
  • Dr. Rashawn Ray on the court cases that enable race-based policing
    As part of a October 26, 2018 Brookings event on the use of deadly force by police, Dr. Rashawn Ray, an associate professor of sociology at the...

Dr. Rashawn Ray Books

  • Race And Ethnic Relations In The Twenty-first Century: History, Theory, Institutions, And Policy
    Race And Ethnic Relations In The Twenty-first Century: History, Theory, Institutions, And Policy

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