Dr. Cynthia Hewitt is the Avalon Professor of Sociology and Director of the International Comparative Labor Studies Program (ICLS) at Morehouse College. Dr. Hewitt is also a member of the faculty of the African American Studies Program and the sustainability minor. She was the founding director of Morehouse Pan-African Global Experience (MPAGE) study abroad program. Her areas of specialization are the political economy of the world-system; race/class/gender inequality; sustainable development and environmental sociology. Dr. Hewitt’s current research and projects focus on employee ownership; worker organizing for collective bargaining and unions; the historical and contemporary impact of matriarchal and patriarchal authority structures; and learning-while-learning digital education to address secondary education-for-all in Africa.

Dr. Hewitt’s publications include “Employee Ownership for Black Workers: Closing the Racial Wealth Gap” (ICLS, 2023); “Economic Justice: The Untapped Power of Georgia’s Public Sector Workers” (ICLS, 2022); “The Political Economy of Black Business Development: African American Urban Representation and Black Business Prosperity” (Challenge, 2006); “African American Concentration in Jobs: the Political Economy of Job Segregation and Contestation in Atlanta” (Urban Affairs Review, 2004); “Person, Place, Sector, or Skills? Why Job Segregation Leads to Wage Inequality among African Americans” (Social Science Research, 2001).

Dr. Hewitt holds her BA from Brown University, her MA from Howard University and her Ph.D. from Emory University.