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Ivan Allen College alumna Thema Monroe-White and Cassidy R. Sugimoto, Tom and Marie Patton Chair in the School of Public Policy were mentioned in an article about their upcoming research on inequalities in science, published May 20, 2022 in the Rome News-Tribune. Monroe-White is an assistant professor at Berry College.
The article discussed a National Science Foundation grant they received for the research, as well as a recent paper they published on the topic in PLOS ONE.
An excerpt:
In the article, Monroe-White, Sugimoto and their co-authors note that the scientific workforce is not representative of the general population. Analyzing millions of scientific papers, they seek to understand the relationship between scientists and the topics they study. Their work is novel in its emphasis on the intersectional nature of scientists’ identities, particularly race and gender.
“Our results show that minoritized authors tend to publish in scientific disciplines and on research topics that reflect their gendered and racialized social identities,” the authors write. They argue that this “suggests a relationship between diversity in the scientific workforce and expansion of the knowledge base.”
