Professor Ellen Berrey | Sociologist | University of Toronto
Description: Ellen Berrey is a cultural sociologist and the author of The Enigma of Diversity and Rights on Trial.
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Ellen Berrey, PhD, is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto and an affiliated scholar of the American Bar Foundation. Her research explores the cultural dynamics of race and racism, law, organizations, and social movements.
Her first book, The Enigma of Diversity: The Language of Race and the Limits of Racial Justice (University of Chicago Press 2015) was awarded the 2016 Herbert Jacob Book Prize of the Law & Society Association, the 2016 Distinguished Book Award of the American Sociological Association (ASA) Sociology of Law section, and the 2016 Mary Douglas Book Prize Honorable Mention of the ASA Sociology of the Culture section. You can read about it in the New Yorker. Her Salon article, "Diversity Is for White People
Her most recent book, with Robert Nelson and Laura Beth Nielsen, Rights on Trial: How Workplace Discrimination Law Perpetuates Inequality (University of Chicago Press 2017) was awarded the 2018 Distinguished Book Award, Honorable Mention, of the American Sociological Association (ASA) Sociology of Law section. It was featured in an Author-Meets-Critics session at the June 2018 meeting of the Law & Society Association. For more, visit the book website and check out chapter 1 .
Professor Ellen Berrey | Sociologist | University of Toronto