Insights of Anthropology

Prof. Carol Camp Yeakey

Marshall S Snow Professor
Department of Arts & Sciences
Washington University in St Louis
United States of America
Tel: 314-935-6241

Dr. Carol Camp Yeakey holds faculty appointments as Professor of Arts & Sciences and the Founding Director of the interdisciplinary program in Urban Studies and its Center on Urban Research and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis. She received her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Social Policy. Among her research awards and fellowships, she has been a Rockefeller Fellow and a Bush Fellow at the Bush Center for Child Development and Social Policy in the Department of Psychology at Yale University; a Ford Fellow of the National Academy of Education and a Dartmouth Fellow at the Center for the Study of Comparative Politics and Inter-group Relations in the Department of Sociology at Dartmouth College. Dr. Yeakey has served as Senior Research Scientist at: the Kellogg Foundation; the Children’s Defense Fund, the College Board, the Josiah Macy Foundation and the Educational Testing Service among others. Dr. Yeakey's primary area of research is social welfare policy as said policy pertains to marginalized children, young adults and families and the neighborhood contexts in which they live. Her research examine the nexus between the mal/distribution of human groups in dense urban spaces with reference to material resources and the consequential social, political, economic and cultural patterns which evolve as a result of the sufficiency or insufficiency of those resources.