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Gwendolyn Purifoye is an Assistant Professor of Racial Justice and Conflict Transformation at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs. She holds core faculty membership at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and is a faculty fellow at the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights. Her research focuses on how material infrastructures, transportation systems, and spatiality shape experiences of racially and class-marginalized communities. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from Loyola University Chicago and has conducted fieldwork in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Newark.
Her first book, Race in Motion: Public Transportation and Restricted Mobile Spaces (under contract with NYU Press), examines racialized inequalities in public transit. She has held a visiting fellowship at Brown University’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and serves on Chicago’s UN Safe Cities Project advisory board. Her work bridges academic research with community engagement, collaborating with organizations like the Metropolitan Planning Council.
Key research themes include urban sociology, ethnographic methods, and visual sociology. Her articles address transit equity, racialized mobility, and spatial justice. Awards include the 2022 visiting fellowship at Brown University. She advises on urban policy and contributes to initiatives addressing systemic racism in urban development and transportation systems.
