Broadly, I study the role of social networks in the (re)production of racial inequality in higher education. My current work is situated in three areas: science and technology studies, the academy and knowledge production, and developing critical pedagogy for methods and statistics.

Current Research

Science and Technology Studies

  • In progress: a mixed-methods project to understand perceptions of race/racism among computing undergradutes.

  • In progress: a study showing how ML technologies are used in big data projects and lead to inaccuarate knowledges about the state of racism in those fields

The Academy and Knowledge Production

  • I study how collaboration networks in the academy are racialized and lead to disporporate advantages for Whites in higher education.

Pedagogy

  • In progress: an experiment on the use of ChatGPT and effects on student writing in statistics.

  • In progress: an NSF proposal to create modules for inclusion to intro stats courses that show students how to interpret statistical data on race differences without reinforcing essentialist notions of race.

Publications

*Denotes undergraduate student **Denotes graduate student

  • Peoples, Crystal E., A. Nicki Washington, and Shaundra B. Daily. “Race and Collaboration in Computer Science: A Network Perspective.” American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, 2023, USA. https://peer.asee.org/44009

    Fairfax, Fatima**, Elyse McFalls*, Alex Rogers**, Helen Xiao*, Jabari Kwesi*, A. Nicki Washington, Shaundra B. Daily, Crystal E. Peoples, and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva. “Work in Progress: A Novel Approach to Understanding Perceptions of Race Among Computing Undergraduates.” American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, 2023, USA. https://peer.asee.org/44148

  • Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo and Crystal E. Peoples. “HWCUs: The Unbearable Whiteness of (Most) Colleges and Universities in America.” The American Behavioral Scientist 66(11):1490-1504. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642211066047

  • Felmlee, Diane H. and Crystal E. Peoples. 2016. “Gender, Friendship and” The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd ed., edited by George Ritzer. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosg017.pub2

  • Cyr, Justin, Jason Ekstrand, Nathan Meyers, Crystal Peoples, and Justin Peters. 2013. “Diagonalizing Hermitian Matrices of Continuous Functions.” The International Journal of Contemporary Mathematical Sciences 8(5):227-34. http://dx.doi.org/10.12988/ijcms.2013.13023