The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery is committed to eradicating racism in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and in academia broadly. As WID is part of those systems, we have a responsibility to take action, make change, educate ourselves, confront racism, and build a more anti-racist organization.
To that end, this page provides links to resources and collections to help WIDites to begin or continue anti-racist work in the lab, in the classroom, in mentorship, in recruiting and hiring, and in every day work in the academy. If you have resources you wish to share here, please submit them in a ticket at comms.wid.wisc.edu.
This document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein in May, 2020, is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now.
This commentary focuses on the factors that are associated with underrepresentation of African Americans in evolutionary science careers.
This paper’s results highlight how understanding the underrepresentation of women and racial minorities in STEM requires examining both racial and gender biases as well as how they intersect.
For 21 days, do one action to further your understanding of power, privilege, supremacy, oppression, and equity.
This paper uses the rise in mass violence between 1870 and 1940 as an historical experiment for determining the impact of ethnic and political violence on economic activity, namely patenting. The findings imply that ethnic and political conflict may affect the level, direction, and quality of invention and economic growth over time.
