Draft:Duke W. Austin

From 1993 to 1998, while studying at the University of Texas at Austin, he worked as an Associate Teacher at the [https://www.firstenglishcdc.org First English Lutheran Child Development Center] in Austin, Texas.{{cite web |title=Duke Austin - Curriculum Vitae |url=https://www.csueastbay.edu/directory/profiles/soc/austinduke.html |website=California State University, East Bay}} During this period, he also served as a Summer Camp Director at [https://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/106679/Quarterman-Ranch-History/#vars!date=1886-05-01_07:48:11! Quarterman Ranch] in Amarillo, Texas (1994–1997).

From 1998 to 2000, he was a Peace Corps Volunteer and Early Education Teacher Trainer in Paraguay.

From 2001 to 2006, Austin worked as a Lead Wilderness Instructor for Outward Bound USA, having worked at the Hurricane Island Outward Bound School and Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center. He also served as a Children's Ski School Supervisor and a [https://thesnowpros.org PSIAA] Level 1 Certified Ski Instructor at Steamboat Ski Resort, from 2001 to 2003.

Duke W. Austin earned a Bachelor of Arts with Honors, magna cum laude, from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998. He majored in the [https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/plan2/ Plan II Honors Program], a rigorous interdisciplinary program that is a major in and of itself,{{cite web

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}} and received a certification in Business Administration with High Distinction. His honors thesis was titled "Sacramental Marriage: An Argument for the Inclusion of Same-Sex Couples."

Austin later pursued graduate studies in sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he earned his MA in 2008 and PhD in 2010.{{cite web |title=Alumni |url=https://www.colorado.edu/sociology/our-people/alumni |website=University of Colorado Boulder Sociology Department}} He also received a Teacher Certification from the Graduate Teacher Program. In 2008, he received the President's Inclusive Excellence Award.{{cite web |title=President's Inclusive Excellence Award |url=https://www.cu.edu/collaboration/presidents-inclusive-excellence-awards-and-grants/presidents-inclusive-excellence-1 |website=University of Colorado}} His dissertation was titled "Surviving the Next Disaster: Assessing the Preparedness of Community-Based Organizations."{{cite thesis |title=Surviving the Next Disaster: Assessing the Preparedness of Community-Based Organizations |author=Duke W. Austin |year=2010 |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/7713bbfe674d341d7c36d9ebc302a64b/1?cbl=18750&pq-origsite=gscholar|via=ProQuest }}

Austin completed a postdoctoral fellowship in 2013 at the [https://uep.yale.edu Urban Ethnography Project] at Yale University, where he worked with sociologist Elijah Anderson on projects related to race, urban life, and ethnographic methods.{{cite web |title=Duke Austin |url=https://sociology.yale.edu/people/duke-austin |website=Yale Sociology Department}}

Austin's academic work focuses on race, immigration, education, disaster preparedness, and masculinity. Since 2013, Austin has worked as a professor at California State University, East Bay in Hayward, California.{{cite web |title=Duke Austin Faculty Profile |url=https://www.csueastbay.edu/directory/profiles/soc/austinduke.html |website=Cal State East Bay}} Austin received the California State University system's Outstanding New Researcher Award for the 2016–2017 academic year in recognition of his scholarly impact and contributions to the campus and wider community,{{cite web |title=Outstanding Faculty - Duke Austin |url=https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/faculty-staff/outstanding-faculty/Pages/Austin%2CDuke.aspx |website=California State University}} and he currently serves on the PSA Council (Board of Directors) for the Pacific Sociological Association.{{cite web |title=Council – Pacific Sociological Association |url=https://www.pacificsoc.org/Council |website=Pacific Sociological Association |access-date=2024-04-01}}

Austin has co-authored and edited several books and numerous peer-reviewed articles. Notable publications include:

• Contributor and Co-editor of Impacts of Racism on White Americans in the Age of Trump (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021){{cite book |title=Impacts of Racism on White Americans in the Age of Trump |editor=Duke W. Austin, Benjamin P. Bowser |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2021 |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-75232-3 |isbn=978-3-030-75231-6 |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-75232-3}}

• Contributor and co-editor of Bringing Fieldwork Back In: Contemporary Urban Ethnographic Research (Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2012){{cite journal |title=Bringing Fieldwork Back In |journal=Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |volume=642 |year=2012 |url=https://www.aapss.org/annals/volumes/642/}}

• "Fear of a School-to-Deportation Pipeline" (Urban Education, 2023, with Patricia Maloney and SaunJuhi Verma){{cite journal |title=Fear of a School-to-Deportation Pipeline |journal=Urban Education |year=2023 |doi=10.1177/00420859231163237|doi-broken-date=3 April 2025 }}

• "The School-to-Deportation Pipeline" (Annals of the AAPSS, 2017){{cite journal |title=The School-to-Deportation Pipeline |journal=Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |year=2017 |doi=10.1177/00420859211026403 |url=https://doi.org/10.1177/00420859211026403}}

• "Hyper-Masculinity and Disaster" in Men, Masculinities, and Disasters (2016){{cite book |title=Men, Masculinities, and Disasters |publisher=Routledge |year=2016 |doi=10.4324/9781315678122 |isbn=978-1-315-67812-2 |url=https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315678122 |editor-last1=Enarson |editor-last2=Pease |editor-first1=Elaine |editor-first2=Bob }}

• "Preparedness Clusters" (Sociological Perspectives, 2012){{cite journal |title=Preparedness Clusters |journal=Sociological Perspectives |year=2012 |doi=10.1525/sop.2012.55.2.383 |url=https://doi.org/10.1525/sop.2012.55.2.383}}

His research has received media coverage, including a widely shared op-ed in The Conversation titled "Deportation threats for some students come from within schools."{{cite news |title=Deportation threats for some students come from within schools |author=Duke W. Austin, Patricia Maloney, SaunJuhi Verma |url=https://theconversation.com/deportation-threats-for-some-students-come-from-within-schools-165232 |date=October 22, 2021}}

Austin has a long history of activism. While at UT Austin, Austin became engaged in racial justice activism. In the mid-1990s, he published a letter to the editor in The Daily Texan defending a Black co-worker who experienced racial discrimination at a local restaurant.{{cite news |title = Boycott Bombay Bicycle Club |author = Duke Austin |newspaper = The Daily Texan |publisher = University of Texas at Austin |date = 1997 |url = https://thedailytexan.com |access-date = 2024-04-01 |type = Letter to the editor}} The restaurant threatened to sue him, prompting the NAACP to offer legal representation, after which the restaurant dropped the threat.{{cite news |title = Racial Incident at Restaurant Draws Public Defense |newspaper = Austin American-Statesman |date = October 4, 1997 |url = https://www.statesman.com |access-date = 2024-04-01 |type = Article}} {{cite web |title=The Villager Archive – NAACP Legal Support in Local Discrimination Case |url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/partners/AAL/browse/ |website=The Portal to Texas History |access-date=2024-04-01}} {{cite news |title = Postmarks: Responding to 'Racial Incident at Restaurant Draws Public Defense' |author = Waring |newspaper = Austin Chronicle |date = October 17, 1997 |url = https://www.austinchronicle.com |access-date = 2024-04-01 |type = Letter to the editor}}

Following Hurricane Katrina, Austin appeared on a live panel discussion on Denver’s Fox affiliate (KDVR) alongside Hilary Potter to discuss racial disparities in the disaster response. The segment was abruptly cut short for a breaking news story, an incident noted in media commentary at the time.{{cite web |title=Media Briefs: Katrina Panel Cut Short on KDVR |url=https://www.westword.com/news/media-briefs-5087911 |website=Westword |date=September 22, 2005 |access-date=2024-04-01}}

Later in 2005, a University of Colorado at Boulder student government leader, Mebraht Gebre-Michael, received a racist death threat in an anonymous email.{{cite web |title=CU student leader gets threatening e-mail |author=George Merritt |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2005/11/16/cu-student-leader-gets-threatening-e-mail/ |website=Denver Post |access-date=2024-04-01}} Austin collaborated with the Black Student Alliance to organize campus protests and authored a letter to the editor in the Boulder Daily Camera criticizing the university’s insufficient response.{{cite web |title=CU Boulder Student Protests and Response to Racist Threats |url=https://www.dailycamera.com/ |website=Boulder Daily Camera |access-date=2024-04-01}}

In Colorado in the mid-2000s, Austin was active in the anti-war movement. In 2007, he was arrested during a peaceful sit-in at Congressman Mark Udall’s office as part of the Occupation Project to protest the Iraq War.{{cite web |title=Peace Activists Launch The Occupation Project: Campaign of Civil Disobedience to End Iraq War Funding |publisher=Democracy Now! |date=February 6, 2007 |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2007/2/6/peace_activists_launch_the_occupation_project |access-date = 2024-04-01}} {{cite web |title = Nuclear Resister #146 |publisher = The Nuclear Resister |date = November 28, 2007 |url = https://www.nukeresister.org/wp-content/uploads/resister/nr146.pdf |access-date = 2024-04-01 |quote=Relevant information on page 6 under subheading 'March 8.'}}

Later that year, he co-founded Students for Peace & Justice, a student-led organization focused on anti-war activism and social justice, and in 2008 he co-founded the Alliance for Real Democracy, a coalition of anti-war groups that protested at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.{{cite web |last=Plunkett |first=Chuck |date=June 23, 2008 |title = Arapahoe County mulls protest rules |publisher = The Denver Post |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2008/06/23/arapahoe-county-mulls-protest-rules/ |access-date = 2025-04-03}}{{cite web |title = Recreate 68 protesters split weeks before convention |publisher = The Denver Post & The Associated Press |date = June 28, 2008 |url = https://www.denverpost.com/2008/06/28/recreate-68-protesters-split-weeks-before-convention/ |access-date = 2025-04-03}}{{cite web |last=Burnett |first=Sarah |title = US Protesters, Police Educate, Gear Up for Convention |publisher = Rocky Mountain News & Banderas News |date = July 2008 |url = https://www.banderasnews.com/0807/nw-gearupfordnc.htm |access-date = 2025-04-03}}{{cite web |last=Urie |first=Heath |date=August 14, 2009 |title = Arrest count tops 150 for Democratic National Convention |publisher = Daily Camera |url = https://www.dailycamera.com/2009/08/14/arrest-count-tops-150-for-democratic-national-convention/ |access-date = 2025-04-03}}{{cite web |last=Morgan |first=Ryan |date=August 14, 2009 |title = Boulder activists among protesters at Cuernavaca Park |publisher = Daily Camera |url = https://www.dailycamera.com/2009/08/14/boulder-activists-among-protesters-at-cuernavaca-park/ |access-date = 2025-04-03}}

Austin grew up in Amarillo, Texas. He now lives in California with his life partner, Julie Kessler, and their two children.

• [https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/faculty-staff/outstanding-faculty/Pages/Austin%2CDuke.aspx California State University Outstanding Faculty Profile]
• [https://www.csueastbay.edu/news-center/experts/austin-duke.html Cal State East Bay News Center Faculty Profile]
• [https://www.csueastbay.edu/directory/profiles/vitae/soc/austin%2Cduke_cv_20241.pdf Full CV – Cal State East Bay]
• [https://www.csueastbay.edu/directory/profiles/soc/austinduke.html Faculty Profile at Cal State East Bay]
• [https://sociology.yale.edu/people/duke-austin Yale Sociology Profile]
• [https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=w0GDeWgAAAAJ Google Scholar]
• [https://theconversation.com/deportation-threats-for-some-students-come-from-within-schools-165232 The Conversation Op-Ed]

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