Achievement

Multidisciplinary collaborations within IGERT: Bringing culture back in -- new approaches to the problems of black youth: Faculty member Orlando Patterson and IGERT trainee Ethan Fosse have produced a wide-ranging edited volume on culture and poverty, forthcoming from Harvard University Press, featuring contributions from scholars in the fields of economics, sociology, education, public policy, and the humanities. Contributors include seven current students and recent graduates of the IGERT program: Andrew Clarkwest (IGERT 9870661), Nathan Fosse, David Hureau, Joshua Mitchell, Jacqueline Cooke-Rivers, Van C. Tran, and Queenie Zhu. IGERT faculty participants include Kathryn Edin, Ronald Ferguson, Robert Sampson, and Christopher Winship.