Celeste Watkins-Hayes

Celeste Watkins-Hayes is an American sociologist and a scholar of urban poverty, social policy, HIV/AIDS, non-profit and government organizations, and race, class, and gender. Dr. Watkins-Hayes is a nationally recognized scholar that utilizes qualitative methods to illuminate issues that limit human potential. Her scholarship speaks directly to current policy debates regarding healthcare, safety nets, inequality, and the AIDS epidemic, as well as discussions about transformative leadership among women.

Celeste Watkins-Hayes
OccupationProfessor of Public Policy and Sociology
EducationHarvard University, M.A. and Ph.D.
Alma materSpelman College, B.A.
Notable worksRemaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality and The New Welfare Bureaucrats
Website
celestewatkinshayes.com

Career

Celeste Watkins-Hayes holds a highly prestigious University Professorship in Diversity and Social Transformation, the Jean Fairfax Collegiate Professorship in the Ford School of Public Policy, and is a professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan.[1]

Prior to her arrival at the University of Michigan, Watkins-Hayes was a professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University, a faculty fellow at Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research, and an Associate Vice President for Research where she created the ASCEND faculty development initiative and oversaw several research centers and institutes.[2] Watkins-Hayes is a former chair of the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern.

In addition to her academic appointments, Watkins-Hayes also served on the board of trustees at Spelman College for over a decade, where she assumed various leadership roles and led the search to identify the college's 10th president.[3] Watkins-Hayes currently sits on the board of directors of the Detroit Institute of Arts.[4]

Watkins-Hayes holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology from Harvard University. Her book, Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality, analyzes the transformation of the AIDS epidemic.[5] In addition to her academic articles and essays, Watkins-Hayes has published pieces in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Chicago Magazine.

Research

Watkins-Hayes's research focuses on urban poverty; social policy; HIV/AIDS; non-profit and government organizations; and race, class, and gender. Her first book is The New Welfare Bureaucrats: Entanglements of Race, Class, and Policy Reform (University of Chicago Press, 2009).[6]

Watkins-Hayes is currently principal investigator of the Health, Hardship, and Renewal Study. Her second book, Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality, was published by the University of California Press (August 2019).[7]

Honors
  • Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality is the 2020 Co-Winner of the Distinguished Book Award bestowed by the American Sociological Association Section on Sex and Gender and winner of the Eliot Freidson Outstanding Publication Award from the ASA’s Medical Sociology Section.[8]
  • The 2018 E. LeRoy Hall Award for Excellence in Teaching.[9]

Selected works

References
  1. "Watkins-Hayes joins U-M Sociology and the Ford School of Public Policy". Ford School of Public Policy.
  2. "Scholar Watkins-Hayes Named Associate Vice President For Research". Northwestern University.
  3. Watkins-Hayes, Celeste. "The Pick and the Process: Leading a Presidential Search in the Digital Age". The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges.
  4. "Detroit Institute of Arts announces four new board members New members bring variety of experience, expertise to DIA board". Detroit Institute of Arts.
  5. "Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality".
  6. "The New Welfare Bureaucrats". University of Chicago Press.
  7. "Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality". University of California Press.
  8. "Congratulations to Celeste Watkins-Hayes for two ASA awards!". Ford School of Public Policy.
  9. "CONGRATULATIONS TO PROFESSOR CELESTE WATKINS-HAYES". Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University.
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