Research

CAAMPP focuses on providing non-partisan research on Public Policy issues affecting African Americans and other people of color in Virgnia and the world. Explore the research of our Faculty Scholars below.  

Education

• Virginia’s CROWN Act: It’s the Law, So How Do We Use It?, P.I.: Cynthia Salley Nicholson, Ph.D., School of Education (SESL) 

Criminal Justice

• ​The Decriminalization of Marijuana Use and its Potential Effects on the Well-being of African Americans, P.I.: Leah J. Floyd, Ph.D., Department of Psychology
   

• HB246 and Securing Input from Historically Marginalized Populations, P.I.: Austin Ashe, Ph.D., Department of Sociology
   

Healthcare

• Ten Years of ACA: Its Effects on Racial Disparities in Children’s Health Care Access and Implications for African Americans, P.I.: Yuying Shen, Ph.D., Sociology Department

Housing

• Choice Neighborhood Initiative:  A Tale of St. Paul’s Redevelopment Project, P.I.: Sharon T. Alston, Ph.D., School of Social Work

Economic

• The study of successful contemporary African American and minority entrepreneurs in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area, P.I.: James Curiel, Ph.D., Department of Sociology
   
• Economic Stimulus Programs for Small Businesses Due to COVID-19: Perceptions, Participation and Progress for African Americans, P.I.: Sally Sledge, Ph.D., School of Business, Professor of Management 

Community

• ‘No Grass for Grassroots: Evaluating State Funding for Community Development Agencies in Norfolk’, P.I.: Colita Nichols Fairfax, Ph.D., School of Social Work