Sociology PhD Candidate Selected as Center for Engaged Scholarship Fellow

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Venus Green, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology, has been selected as a 2023-24 Dissertation Fellow through the social scientist organization, Center for Engaged Scholarship.

Green’s dissertation research examines how Black and Afro-descendent domestic workers have been central to the most progressive elements of the labor movement in the United States. This research investigates how Black and African descendent domestic workers and domestic workers organizations infuse radical care work into community building efforts to mobilize support at the grassroots and federal levels for the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights and other struggles for workers’ protections and dignity. It seeks to understand how Black women’s intersectional organizing around care work within the mainstream labor movement re-envisions critical paths toward Black emancipation.

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