University of Wisconsin–Madison

Waverly Duck, PhD | Morse Scholar Alumni

Waverly Duck, PhD

Morse Scholar Alumni 2013-2014

Current Position

North Hall Chair Endowed Professor of Sociology
University of California-Santa Barbara

 

About

Waverly Duck is an urban ethnographer and the North Hall Chair Endowed Professor of Sociology. He is the author of No Way Out: Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing (University of Chicago Press, 2015), a finalist for the Society for the Study of Social Problems 2016 C. Wright Mills Book Award. His second book on unconscious racism, Tacit Racism, co-authored with Anne Rawls (also with the University of Chicago Press), was the 2021 winner of the Charles Horton Cooley Book Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction and the 2022 Book Award winner for the North Central Sociological Association. He also co-authored and curated a new book with Anne Rawls and Kevin Whitehead, titled Black Lives Matter: Ethnomethodological and Conversation Analytic Studies of Race and Systemic Racism in Everyday Interaction (Taylor and Francis, 2020). Like his earlier work, his current research investigates the challenges faced by socially marginal groups. However, his work is more directly concerned with the interaction order of marginalized communities and how participants identify problems and what they think are viable solutions.

Education

1998BASociologyWayne State University
2002MScCommunity Health ServicesWayne State University School of Medicine
2005PhDSociologyWayne State University
2007-2021PostdocYale University
2013-2014Morse ScholarMajor Professor: Doug Maynard, PhDWaisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison

News

Videos

Anti-Racism Speaker Series: Dr. Waverly Duck

“A Nation Divided: The High Cost of Tacit Racism in Everyday Life”

No Way Out: Precarious living in the shadow of poverty, policing, and drug dealing

Selected Publications

Duck, W., Rawls, A. (2023). Black and Jewish: “Double Consciousness” Inspired a Qualitative Interactional Approach that Centers Race, Marginality, and Justice. Qual Sociol 46, 163–198 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11133-023-09535-9

Jones-Brown, D., Fuller, K. M., Reck, P., & Duck, W. (2021). Why we should stop using the term “Black-on-Black crime”: an analysis across disciplines. Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice, 19(3–4), 311–338. https://doi.org/10.1080/15377938.2021.1976694

Warfield Rawls, Anne and Duck, Waverly.: Tacit Racism is Institutionalized in Interaction in the US: What about Elsewhere?. In: Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften, Jg. 15 (2021), Nr. 2, S. 210-228. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/21789.

Rawls, Anne, Kevin Whitehead, & Waverly Duck. (2020). Black Lives Matter: Ethnomethodological and Conversation Analytic Studies of Race and Systemic Racism in Everyday Interaction. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, New York, NY.

Warfield Rawls, A. & Duck, W. (2020). Tacit Racism. The University of Chicago Press.

Waverly Duck, Anne W. Rawls. (2020). Interactional expectations reconfigure in the time of Covid-19. Implications for the uncertainty of social «reality», on “Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa, Rivista quadrimestrale” 2/2020, pp. 207-216, doi: 10.3240/97806

Rawls, Anne, Waverly Duck, and Jason Turowetz. (2018). “Problems Establishing Identity/Residency in a City Neighborhood during a Black/White Police-citizen Encounter: Reprising Du Bois’ Conception of Submission as Submissive Civility.” City and Community 17(4): 1015-1015.

Duck, W. (2017). The Complex Dynamics of Trust and Legitimacy: Understanding Interactions between the Police and Poor Black Neighborhood Residents. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 673(1), 132-149. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716217726065

Rawls, A. W., & Duck, W. (2016). “Fractured Reflections” of High-Status Black Male Presentations of Self: Nonrecognition of Identity as a “Tacit” Form of Institutional Racism. Sociological Focus, 50(1), 36–51. https://doi.org/10.1080/00380237.2016.1218215