Celeste Watkins-Hayes

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.

Celeste Watkins-Hayes
Born (1974-09-11) September 11, 1974
OccupationAssociate Vice President for Research and Professor of Sociology and African American Studies
EducationHarvard University, M.A. and Ph.D.
Alma materSpelman College, B.A.
Notable worksRemaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality and The New Welfare Bureaucrats
Website
celestewatkinshayes.com

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

References
  1. "Celeste Watkins-Hayes". Department of Sociology at Northwestern University.
  2. "Scholar Watkins-Hayes Named Associate Vice President For Research". Northwestern University.
  3. 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.
  4. "Detroit Institute of Arts announces four new board members New members bring variety of experience, expertise to DIA board". Detroit Institute of Arts.
  5. "Celeste Watkins-Hayes".
  6. "Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality".
  7. "The New Welfare Bureaucrats". University of Chicago Press.
  8. "Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality". University of California Press.
  9. "CONGRATULATIONS TO PROFESSOR CELESTE WATKINS-HAYES". Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University.
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