CSRPC: Directory: 2002-2003 Resident Fellows
Thomas Mitchell, Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow
Mary Pattillo, Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow
Dorian T. Warren, Visiting Dissertation Fellow
Thomas Mitchell, Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow, is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he specializes in real estate law, remedies, and rural land tenure issues. His primary research focuses on land tenure problems within poor communities in rural America . His articles appear in the Northwestern University Law Review and the Indiana University International and Comparative Law Journal. In 2002, Mitchell was awarded a $230,000 grant by the Ford Foundation to assess the wealth and social impacts of forced sales of black-owned land in the rural South. He directs the Land Tenure and Land Rights Extern Program at the University of Wisconsin , which is administered by the Land Tenure Center . Through this program, law students from several law schools spend their summers working throughout rural America in communities with extreme unmet legal needs, whose lack of access to legal services has placed their land ownership at risk. Mitchell earned his J.D. at Howard University School of Law and his L.L.M. at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
Mary Pattillo, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, is an a ssociate professor of sociology and African American studies at Northwestern University . She is also a f aculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern. Pattillo received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago . Her areas of interest include race and ethnicity (with an emphasis on class stratification), urban sociology, and qualitative methods. Her book, Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class (University of Chicago Press 1999) won the Oliver Cromwell Cox Best Book Award from the American Sociological Association. Current projects include a three-year ethnography examining the simultaneous processes of low-income housing construction and gentrification in a black Chicago neighborhood; a comparative study of the transformation of public housing in Chicago; an analysis of racial differences in the class composition of extended families; and a study of educational outcomes among black and white middle class youth. Pattillo is also co-editing a volume on the effects of mass incarceration on families and communities.
Dorian T. Warren , Visiting Dissertation Fellow, is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Yale University . He is currently writing his dissertation on the contemporary U.S. Labor Movement entitled, "A New Labor Movement for a New Century?: Multiple Identities and Organizational Change in the U.S. Labor Movement." His research interests include American politics, African-American politics, race and ethnic politics, class politics, the politics of gender and sexuality, social science methodology and social movements. His publications include: "Will the Real Perestroikniks Please Stand Up?: Race and Methodological Reform in the Study of Politics" in Perestroika: Methodological Pluralism, Governance and Diversity in Contemporary American Political Science (Yale University Press, forthcoming), edited by Kristen Renwick Monroe; Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud: Black Pride Survey 2000 with Juan Battle, Cathy J. Cohen, Gerard Fergerson, and Suzette Audam (2002), a report published by the Policy Institute of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, New York; and "Organizing at the Intersection of Labor and Civil Rights: A Case Study of New Haven" with Cathy J. Cohen in the Journal of Labor and Employment Law, vol. 2, no. 4 (Spring).
