A second wave member of The Scholars Network, Odis Johnson Jr., PhD, is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, where he has faculty appointments in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the School of Education as Executive Director of the Center for Safe and Healthy…
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Scholars Network Member Feature: Wizdom Powell
Scholars Network second wave member Wizdom Powell currently serves as Chief Purpose Officer at Headspace, a company that provides wellness tools in the hope of supporting lifelong mental health care. Dr. Powell’s commitment to health equity has led to national and international recognition as a top scholar of the social determinants of health inequities among…
Daphne C. Watkins Awarded Pynn-Silverman Lifetime Achievement Award
We are proud to recognize Scholars Network member Daphne C. Watkins, Ph.D. as recipient of the Pynn-Silverman Lifetime Achievement Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA). Dr. Watkins is a University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor and Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan. She is also a second wave scholar…
Derrick Brooms to be Executive Director of the Black Men’s Research Institute
We are proud to recognize Derrick Brooms as the new executive director of the Black Men’s Research Institute at Morehouse College. Brooms is a second wave scholar of The Scholars Network. The Scholars Network is an assembly of scholars committed to reshaping scholarly and public understandings of the lives of African American men and exposing the…
We’re Back! 2022 Scholars Network Conference
After a pandemic-induced hiatus, The Scholars Network on Black Masculinity is happy to announce that we are back for the 2022 Annual Conference. Held from May 20 – May 22, 2022, experts and rising scholars in the field of sociology studying Black men will convene with community organizations to discuss how the research engages and…