Lucas Hubbard

Lucas Hubbard is an associate in research at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center, where he writes articles and press releases to help illuminate and broadcast the Cook Center’s research, in addition to helping edit reports produced by the Center. His first book, co-edited with and featuring many contributions from Cook Center colleagues, was The Pandemic Divide: How COVID Increased Inequality in America (Duke University Press, October 2022).

A writer, editor, and researcher, Lucas has published work in Defector, trampset, Brilliant Flash Fiction, INDY Week, Paste, and other outlets, and his academic writing has been published in Springer Reference and the Duke Journal of Economics. His most recent book, co-edited with William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen, is The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice (University of California Press, May 2023).