Lawrence D. Bobo
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August 2020 Curriculum Vitae Lawrence D. Bobo WORK ADDRESS: Office of the Dean of Social Science University Hall 3 South Harvard Yard Harvard University Executive Assistant Phone (Cherisse Haakonsen): (617) 496-3222 Faculty Assistant Phone (Kelly Deneen): (617) 496-7778 Department FAX: (617) 496-8951 EDUCATION: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ph.D., Sociology, 1984. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, M.A., Sociology, 1981. Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, B.A., Sociology, 1979. (Magna Cum Laude) HONORARY DEGREES: Doctor of Humane Letters (Honoris Causa), Loyola Marymount University, May 5, 2001. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1997. CURRENT POSITION: Dean of Social Science, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University (October 1, 2018-present). W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences and Harvard College Professor (2018-2023), Harvard University, (January 2008-present; appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Department of African and African American Studies). 1 POSITIONS HELD: Chair, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University (July 1, 2013-September 30, 2018). Acting Chair, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University, July 2010-June 2011). Martin Luther King Jr. Centennial Professor, Stanford University (September 2005-December 2007). Director, Center for Comparative Study in Race and Ethnicity, and Director, Program in African and African American Studies, Stanford University (September 2005-December 2007). Professor of Sociology, Stanford University (January 2005-August 2005). Norman Tishman and Charles M. Diker Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University (July 2001-December 2004). Acting Chair, Department of African and African American Studies and Acting Director, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Studies (July 2003-2004) Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Afro-American Studies, Harvard University (July 2002-June 2003). Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, (July 1998-June 2000). Professor of Sociology and of Afro-American Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge (July, 1997-June 2001). Professor of Sociology and Director, Center for Research on Race, Politics, and Society, University of California, Los Angeles, (July 1993-June 1997). Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, July 1, 1990-June 30, 1993. Vice-Chair, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2 July 1992-June 1993. Associate Professor of Sociology (with tenure), University of Wisconsin, Madison, July 1989-1991. Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, August 1984-June 1989. Senior Research Associate, National Academy of Science-National Research Council, Committee on the Status of Black Americans, June 1985- August 1988. (Panels on Education and on Social and Cultural Continuity and Change.) Instructor, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, June 1984 August 1984, Introductory Social Psychology. Research Assistant, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, May 1980 August 1984, project studying changes in racial attitudes. Teaching Assistant, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Summer Program, University of Michigan, Summer 1983, Intermediate Linear Models. Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan: January 1982-May 1982: The Detroit Area Study, a graduate level course on survey methodology involving the design and implementation of a citywide survey. September 1980-May 1981: Social Statistics, two graduate level courses on probability distributions, regression, the general linear model, and log-linear models. RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Race and ethnicity, social inequality, and political psychology. FELLOWSHIPS John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, 2007. Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Fellow, 2007-2008. 3 Alphonse M. Fletcher Sr. Fellow, 2nd Cohort, Fletcher Foundation, 2006-2007. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, Fellow, 1995-96. Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Fellow, 1988-89. American Sociological Association, Minority Fellowship, 1983-1984. Horace H. Rackham Pre-doctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1982-1983. HONORS AND AWARDS Elected, Phi Beta Kappa (Alumni Member), Omega Chapter of California, Loyola Marymount University, April 21, 2020. Outstanding Book Award, American Association for Public Opinion Research, (for Prejudice in Politics: Group Position, Public Opinion, and the Wisconsin Treaty Rights Dispute, 2006), May 2018. Elected, 2017 W. E. B. Du Bois Fellow, American Association of Political and Social Science. Leadership in Diversity Science Award, Office of Faculty Diversity and Development at the Diversity Research Office, University of California, Los Angeles (October 2013). Prose Award 2012, Best Single Volume Reference/Humanities and Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers (for The Oxford Handbook of African American Citizenship, 1865-present). Charles Horton Cooley-George Herbert Mead Award for a Career of Distinguished Scholarship in Sociological Social Psychology, American Sociological Association, 2012. Elected member, American Philosophical Society (Spring 2008). Elected Member (Fellow), American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fall 2007). Finalist, C. Wright Mills Book Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Spring 2007. 4 William L. Strickland ’71 Alumni Excellence Award, African American Alumni Association, Loyola Marymount University, February 24, 2007. Elected Member (Fellow), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Spring 2006). Outstanding Book Award, American Association for Public Opinion Research (for Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations, 1997 edition), May 2005. W. E. B. Du Bois Medal, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and And African American Research, Harvard University, December 2004. Elected Member, National Academy of Science (Spring 2004). Honorable Mention, Gordon W. Allport Award Competition, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, 1996. Scholarly Achievement Award, North Central Sociological Association, (for Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations, 1985 edition), 1986. Honorable Mention, Gordon W. Allport Award Competition of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, 1982. First Place, American Association for Public Opinion Research Student Paper Award Contest, 1981. W.E.B. Du Bois Outstanding Student Achievement Award, Afro-American Studies Center, Loyola Marymount University, 1979. NAMED AND OTHER MAJOR PUBLIC LECTURES Dean’s Distinguished Lecture, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University, New Brusnwick, NJ., April 4, 2019. Doris Selo Lecture, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC., February 27, 2019 Panelist, “Racism”, Annual University Forum, American Psychoanalytic Association, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, NY., January 20, 2017. Panelist, “Populism and the Future of American Politics.” American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA., November 10, 2016. 5 Panelist, “Politics, Prejudice & Polarization: Can We Cross the Divide?” Boston Museum of Science, Boston, MA., October 13, 2016. Shirley Kennedy Lecture (10th Annual), Center for Black Studies Research, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 16, 2013. Centennial Lecture, Department of Sociology, Horace Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, November 1, 2012. Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Lecture, School of Public Policy, Baruch College, City College of New York, April 24, 2012. Warren E. Miller and Philip E. Converse Lecture, Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, April 19, 2012. Keynote Address, Inaugural Conference of the University of California Center for New Racial Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, April 21, 2011. Welling Professor Lecture II, George Washington University, “Post-racialism: The Racial Divide in the Age of Obama,” April 28, 2011. Welling Professor Lecture I, George Washington University, “Obama and the Racial Divide,” April 2010. Annual Kingsley Birge Lecture, Department of Sociology, Colby College, April 19, 2010. Distinguished Lecture in the Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Northeastern University, April 1, 2010. Keynote Address, International Field Directors and Technologies Conference, Del Rey Beach Marriott, Del Rey Beach, Florida, May 18, 2009. Featured Speaker (Full Day Symposium, “Race and Racism in America”), Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA., April 3, 2009. Walker-Ames Lecturer, University of Washington, Seattle, May 15, 2007. Allen D. and Polly S. Grimshaw Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Indiana University, September 28, 2006. 6 Inaugural Lecture, Center on Urban Research and Public Policy, Washington University, St. Louis, MO. September 12, 2006 Alpha Kappa Delta Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Akron, Akron, OH., April 28, 2006. Keynote Address, African American History Month Celebration, National Academy of Science, Washington, DC., February 13, 2006. Keynote Address, Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Award Ceremony and Luncheon, Lawyers Committee on Civil Rights, San Francisco Bay Area, February 10, 2006. Keynote Speaker, Unity Month, Office of Multicultural Programs