Celeste Watkins-Hayes
Celeste Watkins-Hayes | |
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| Born | September 11, 1974 |
| Occupation | Associate Vice President for Research and Professor of Sociology and African American Studies |
| Education | Harvard University, M.A. and Ph.D. |
| Alma mater | Spelman College, B.A. |
| Notable works | Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality and The New Welfare Bureaucrats |
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Celeste Watkins-Hayes (born September 11, 1974) an American sociologist and a scholar of urban poverty, social policy, HIV/AIDS, non-profit and government organizations, and race, class, and gender.[1] She serves as associate vice president (AVP) for research and professor of sociology and African American studies at Northwestern University.
Career
Celeste Watkins-Hayes is associate vice president (AVP) for research and professor of sociology and African American studies at Northwestern University. In her AVP role, Watkins-Hayes oversees several university research centers and institutes working in the social sciences and humanities.[2] She also created the ASCEND program, an initiative designed to support high-achieving senior faculty members as they pursue their strategic priorities. Watkins-Hayes is a former chair of the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern. She also served on the board of trustees at Spelman College for over a decade, where she assumed various leadership roles and led the search to identify the college's 10th president.[3] Watkins-Hayes currently sits on the board of directors of the Detroit Institute of Arts. [4]
Watkins-Hayes is a scholar on urban poverty, social policy, and inequality.[5] A faculty fellow at Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research (IPR) and Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health, Watkins-Hayes holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology from Harvard University. Her book, Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality, analyzes the transformation of the AIDS epidemic.[6] In addition to her academic articles and essays, Watkins-Hayes has published pieces in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Chicago Magazine.
Research
Watkins-Hayes's research focuses on urban poverty; social policy; HIV/AIDS; non-profit and government organizations; and race, class, and gender. Her first book is The New Welfare Bureaucrats: Entanglements of Race, Class, and Policy Reform (University of Chicago Press, 2009).[7]
Watkins-Hayes is currently principal investigator of the Health, Hardship, and Renewal Study. Her second book, Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality, was published by the University of California Press (August 2019).[8]
Honors
- The 2018 E. LeRoy Hall Award for Excellence in Teaching.[9]
Selected works
- Watkins-Hayes, Celeste (2019): Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality. University of California Press.
- Watkins-Hayes, Celeste (2009): The New Welfare Bureaucrats: Entanglements of Race, Class, and Policy Reform. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
References
- ^ "Celeste Watkins-Hayes". Department of Sociology at Northwestern University.
- ^ "Scholar Watkins-Hayes Named Associate Vice President For Research". Northwestern University.
- ^ Watkins-Hayes, Celeste. "The Pick and the Process: Leading a Presidential Search in the Digital Age". The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges.
- ^ "Detroit Institute of Arts announces four new board members New members bring variety of experience, expertise to DIA board". Detroit Institute of Arts.
- ^ "Celeste Watkins-Hayes".
- ^ "Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality".
- ^ "The New Welfare Bureaucrats". University of Chicago Press.
- ^ "Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality". University of California Press.
- ^ "CONGRATULATIONS TO PROFESSOR CELESTE WATKINS-HAYES". Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University.
