Dear RSF:
Please join us next Wednesday, October 30 at 11 in the library and on Zoom for Visiting Scholar Tinu Adediran’s presentation, “Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress.” Click here for a copy of her background chapter.
Adediran is an Associate Professor of Law at Fordham University, where she’s been since 2021. She holds both an MA and PhD in Sociology from Northwestern University, a JD from Columbia University, and a BS in Social Work from Long Island University. She was a practicing attorney for several years following her graduation from law school, and since then has worked at the University of Chicago Law School, Boston College Law School and Fordham Law School as an academic. Her areas of expertise include: corporations, nonprofits, legal profession, empirical sociological studies and civil procedure.
Her book, which she is working on while at RSF, Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress (under contract, Cambridge University Press) examines how large companies have responded to social pressure and conservative backlash on race and racial inequality. Adediran’s work has won many grants and awards, including from the Center for Racial Justice at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Ford Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation. In 2023, she received the university-wide Distinguished Research Award for Interdisciplinary Studies at Fordham University.