Cynthia Lucas Hewitt, Ph.D.

Department of Sociology

Assistant Professor

Morehouse/G.E.N.E.S.I.S. Project Website

Education:
B.A., Brown University, 1978
M.A., Howard University, 1986
Ph.D, Emory University, 1997
Ph.D Dissertation: "Job Segregation, Ethnic Hegemony and Earnings Among African Americans in Atlanta"

Courses Taught:

Introduction to Sociology (HSOC 101)
Political Sociology (HSOC 414 )
Social Inequality (HSOC 302)

Principles of Sociology (HSOC 294)

Race and Ethnic Relations

Statistics

Sustainable Development

Women in Society

Research Interests:

The International Political Economy of Entrepreneurship and Racial Inequality in the Ownership of Capital, Pan-Africanism and Development, and Globalization, with a focus on the impact of culture and social norms. Area studies of Ghana, Guinea, Jamaica, and U.S. Black Belt Cities (such as Atlanta).

Selected Publications:

2002, "Racial Accumulation on a World-Scale: A World-Systems Analysis of Racial Inequality and Employment, Review - The Fernand Braudel Center, 25, 2:2002.

(With Mamadi Matlhako), 1999, "Regional economic integration and African identity: history education in poast-apartheid South Africa," The Journal of Developing Societies, volume: 15, No. 2 (November).

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Last Updated: 08.19.2002