https://melissawootenphd.com/new-index daily 1.0 2022-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a7dbd6129f187938d76b9c5/1518537911598-4SLUL2FK9JHKR0OO0VPY/Melissa+Wooten.jpg About Photo Courtesy of Matthew Medeiros https://melissawootenphd.com/research daily 0.75 2021-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a7dbd6129f187938d76b9c5/1622991556578-UCVP3XI56EMP5CLV6HM9/RSO+Cover.gif Research - Organizations If we stop to think about it, organizations are a major part of our daily lives. You may have gotten up this morning and gone to work. You may have used public transit to get there. You might have even stopped along the way to get coffee or breakfast at your favorite restaurant. All of these activities involved interacting with an organization. Just like people need food, air, water and shelter to survive, organizations need things too. I study how organizations get the resources they need. For example, what hiring procedures did the coffee shop use to find your favorite barista? Did the owners of the coffee shop use family money to start the business or apply for a bank loan? Studying how organizations get the resources they need might seem irrelevant to our daily lives. But we depend on organizations for things like our health (think hospitals) and financial well-being (think jobs). So if a hospital turns away a low-income, Black patient because she can't afford to pay, then the hospital's resource needs are leading to unequal health outcomes for the rich and poor & for Black and White patients. That's something we all need to be concerned about. This volume brings together scholarship that helps us understand the origins and consequences of organizationally driven racial inequalities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a7dbd6129f187938d76b9c5/1519309837734-K5J38QDKM74QLD941BXZ/63212_cov.jpg Research - Black Colleges A quarter of black Americans earn college degrees from black colleges. Notable alumni include W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Lewis, Toni Morrison, Spike Lee, and Common to name just a few. Despite such accomplishments, questions about the necessity of black colleges continue. In this book, I investigate why this is the case. I focus on how the assumptions hidden within educational and social policy make it difficult for black colleges to get the resources and respect worthy of them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a7dbd6129f187938d76b9c5/1519230157893-7975WLL4WSUAADWJ7H4Q/chemistrylabhoward.jpg Research - Fundraising Photo from Rockefeller Archive Center https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a7dbd6129f187938d76b9c5/1519310240831-0JES615ZKD4UOUL0IXN9/mainbuildingclaflinuniversity.jpg Research - Donating I learned about the small, but powerful group of industrial tycoons that gave money to black education when doing research for In the Face of Inequality. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., George Foster Peabody, and Andrew Carnegie are a few of the names I came across constantly. For my next project, I'm trying to understand how and why people like these men donated to black education. I'm especially interested in understanding the path that led to donating to issues related to black education. What type of people and organizations were these donors connected to? How did these connections facilitate donations to black education? https://melissawootenphd.com/test daily 0.75 2021-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a7dbd6129f187938d76b9c5/1524173285228-ERONNXQQ3SAHZA0EI624/howardsewingclass1900.jpg Public Engagement - The Black Organizational Experience I'm especially interested in understanding how organizations that support and sustain Black life and community get the resources they need to flourish. I've had the opportunity to write about the challenges these organizations face for the African American Intellectual History Society, franknews, histphil, and other outlets. https://melissawootenphd.com/new-page daily 0.75 2021-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a7dbd6129f187938d76b9c5/1622993250619-OQPXEA4NHHGFKCZIF7US/I+Should+Go.png I Should Go - Podcast - Talking to women about leaving… Sometimes no matter how hard you try to make a job or career work, it just doesn't. This is a podcast where women of color dive into the moments when they realized, "I Should Go" I talk to amazing women about the reasons they’ve been pulled to find a different type of work or have felt like they were pushed to leave a career they loved. 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