Sociology & Anthropology
Simone Durham
Office: Jenkins BSSC Room 408
Simone.Durham@morgan.edu
Ph.D. (Present), Sociology, University Of Maryland, College Park
M.A. (2016), Sociology, Morgan State University
B.A. (2014), Sociology, Morgan State University
Honors: Summa Cum Laude, Award for Creative Writing
Concentrations: Anthropology, Criminal Justice
Race – racism, racial inequality, critical race theory, intersectionality, racial socialization
(particularly in relation to Black populations).
Social Psychology – symbolic interactionism, meaning making, narratives, mental health &
wellness, identity, emotions
Collective Behavior & Social Change – social justice, Black social movements, prospectus,
collective memory and imagination, collective identity
Qualitative Methods – interviews, ethnography, autoethnography, content analysis, critical
discourse analysis, focus groups
Mayer N. Zald Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Student Paper Award (2022),
Collective Behavior and Social Movements section of the American Sociological Society, Paper
title: “Not in this Lifetime: The Black Millennial Imagination and Impacts of Black Lives Matter
on Racial Dynamics in the U.S.”
this Lifetime: Black Millennial Reflections on Extant and Future Impacts of the Black Lives
Matter Movement”
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Allen, Shaonta’, Simone N. Durham, and Angela Jones. (Under contract). Black Lives
Matter: A Reference Handbook. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
Articles
Durham, Simone N. (2023). “Black Lives Matter and Imagined Futures of Racial Dynamics in
the US” Social Movement Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2023.2204425
Durham, Simone N. (2022). “#BlackLivesMatter News Coverage: Examining Racial Projects
and Hegemonic Imagery.” Understanding and Dismantling Privilege 12(1):6-27.
https://www.wpcjournal.com/article/download/21126/14424
Works in Progress
Durham, Simone N. “Racial Equality or Black Liberation? Black Millennial Perspectives On
#BlackLivesMatter as a Racial Project.” Target journal: Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
Durham, Simone N., Shaonta’ Allen, and Korey Tillman. "Desensitization or Moral Shock? The
Dilemma of Black Death Imagery During Black Liberation Movements." Target journal: Du Bois
Review.
Loblack, Angelica C. and Simone N. Durham. “Our White Mothers: A Dual Auto-Ethnography
of Black Multiracial Reflective Resistance.” Target journal: Journal of Family Theory & Review.
Book Chapters
Durham, Simone N. (2022). “Black Lives Matter in Polarized News Media: Politics, Policing,
Prejudice, and Protest.” Chapter 9 in Systemic Racism in America: Sociological Theory,
Education Inequality, and Social Change (1st Edition), edited by Rashawn Ray and Hoda
Mahmoudi. New York: Routledge.
Ray, Rashawn and Simone N. Durham. 2020. “Trump doesn’t Tweet Dog Whistles, He Barks
with the Dogs: Crimmigration as a Racial Project through the Lens of Trump’s Twitter.” Pp.
179-197 in Crimmigrant Nations: Resurgent Nationalism and the Closing of Borders, edited by
Robert Koulish and Maartje van der Woude. New York: Fordham University Press.
Contact Information
Morgan State University
1700 East Cold Spring Lane
NEW Martin D. Jenkins Hall,
Behavioral and Social Science Center (BSSC), Rm. 226.3
Baltimore MD 21251
P: (443) 885-3518
Contact Information
Morgan State University
1700 East Cold Spring Lane
NEW Martin D. Jenkins Hall,
Behavioral and Social Science Center (BSSC), Rm. 226.3
Baltimore MD 21251
P: (443) 885-3518