Cassi Pittman Claytor

Dr. Cassi Pittman Clatyor is the Climo Junior Professor of Sociology at Case Western Reserve University and the Acting Co-Director of the African and African American Studies Minor. Her research focuses on how racial minorities, particularly Blacks, manage contemporary forms of racism with the goal of uncovering how contemporary processes of social exclusion and inequality function to disadvantage racial minorities.

She has investigated Blacks’ experiences “shopping while Black” in retail settings, as well as their experiences of discrimination in the mortgage market. Additionally, she has served as the research lead on a national study of retail racism commissioned by Sephora.

While an assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University she has been awarded the Woodrow Wilson Foundation's Early Career Enhancement Fellowship and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research’s Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellowship at Harvard University. Pittman Claytor received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. She was born and raised in Cleveland, OH.