Qualitative Research Interest Group presents

 Celeste Watkins-Hayes

Celeste Watkins-Hayes is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology & African American Studies at Northwestern University. In addition to her faculty appointment, Watkins-Hayes is a Faculty Fellow at Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research and Cells to Society (C2S): The Center on Social Disparities and Health.  Her areas of research specialization are urban poverty; social policy; HIV/AIDS; formal organizations (non-profit and government); and race, class, and gender.  She has published articles in Social Problems, the Harvard Journal of African-American Public Policy, and The State of Black America, 2001 and has been profiled in Essence and USA Today Weekend magazines. With Mario Small, Watkins-Hayes is the organizer of the website Urban Orgs: New Thinking on Organizations, Inequality, and Urban Conditions. Watkins-Hayes received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University in June 2003. She also holds an M.A. in Sociology from Harvard and a B.A. from Spelman College, where she graduated summa cum laude in 1996.