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Please join the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Workshop as they host Carolyn Barnes, Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. Session title and abstract forthcoming.

Carolyn Barnes is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. Her research agenda broadly explores the social and political implications of social policy on low-income populations in the areas of childcare policy, family services and supports for young children. Her book, State of Empowerment: Low Income Families and the New Welfare State (University of Michigan Press), is an in-depth organizational ethnography that examines how publicly funded after-school programs shape the political behavior of low-income parents. She has published in peer-reviewed journals including Policy Studies Journal, the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Children Youth Service Review, and Race and Social Problems. Barnes has initiated a new line of interdisciplinary research that examines how social policy implementation reproduces racial inequality in rural southern communities.