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
| 1998 | BA | Sociology | Wayne State University |
| 2002 | MSc | Community Health Services | Wayne State University School of Medicine |
| 2005 | PhD | Sociology | Wayne State University |
| 2007-2021 | Postdoc | Yale University | |
| 2013-2014 | Morse Scholar | Major Professor: Doug Maynard, PhD | Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
News
- Russell Sage Foundation taps UCSB social scientists for fellowships
March 18, 2024 - Summer presentations on groundbreaking research are open to all
June 26, 2024 - Pitt’s Waverly Duck wins Scholarly Achievement Award for book ‘Tacit Racism’
March 26, 2022 - Read an Excerpt from “Tacit Racism” by Anne Warfield Rawls and Waverly Duck
September 8, 2020 - Waverly Duck Wins Charles Horton Cooley Book Award
August 12, 2021
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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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Warfield Rawls, A. & Duck, W. (2020). Tacit Racism. The University of Chicago Press.
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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
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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.
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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
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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