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Adia Harvey Wingfield

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My research focuses on racial and gender inequality in professional occupations. Specifically, I examine the ways established concepts such as tokenism, emotional labor, and DEI impact Black workers, particularly in jobs where they are underrepresented. Previous research projects have studied how Black men navigate their employment prospects in culturally feminized occupations like nursing; ways economic and cultural shifts affect Black health care workers; and how fundamental aspects of modern work maintain racial inequalities. I have published my work in peer-reviewed sociology journals including but not limited to American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, and American Journal of Sociology, and in mainstream outlets like Harvard Business Review, Slate, and The Atlantic. I am also the author of several books, most recently Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It.

Awards

  • Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award, Washington University in St. Louis, 2022
  • Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award, American Sociological Association, 2022
  • Distinguished Career Award, Race, Gender, and Class Section of the American Sociological Association, 2021.
  • C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2019.
  • Richard A. Lester Award for Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations, Princeton University, 2013.

Relevant Publications

  • Wingfield, A. H. (2023). Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Perpetuates Racism and What We Can Do to Fix It. New York, Amistad/Harper Collins.
  • Wingfield, A.H. & Chavez, K.. (2020). Getting In, Getting Hired, Getting Sideways Looks: Organizational Hierarchy and Perceptions of Workplace Racial Discrimination. American Sociological Review, 85 (1), 31-57
  • Wingfield, A.H. (2019). Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Institution

Washington University in St Louis

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Sociology

Education

  • PhD (Sociology), Johns Hopkins University
  • MA (Sociology), Johns Hopkins University
  • BA (English), Spelman College

Country

United States

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