| 1 | Name: | Dr. William Julius Wilson | |
| Institution: | Harvard University | ||
| Year Elected: | 1990 | ||
| Class: | 3. Social Sciences | ||
| Subdivision: | 301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Living | ||
| Birth Date: | 1935 | ||
William Julius Wilson is Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. His teaching and research interests include urban poverty, urban race and class relations, and social inequality in cross-cultural perspective. He is the author of Power, Racism, and Privilege; The Declining Significance of Race; The Truly Disadvantaged; When Work Disappears; and The Bridge Over the Racial Divide. In 2006 he published There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America. A sociologist with a Ph.D. from Washington State University, Dr. Wilson has previously served on the faculties of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1965-71) and the University of Chicago (1972-96) and directed the latter's Center for the Study of Urban Inequality. A MacArthur Prize Fellow and the recipient of the 1998 National Medal of Science, Dr. Wilson has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the National Academy of Education, and the Institute of Medicine. His current projects include studies of race and the social organization of neighborhoods, the effects of high-risk neighborhoods on adolescent social outcomes, and the effects of welfare reform on poor families and children. In 2017 he won the SAGE-CASBS Award. | |||