January 2016 CURRICULUM VITAE: Wendell Bell Personal Data: Office mailing address: Department of Sociology P.O. Box 208265 FAX: 203/432-6976 Yale University E-mail: [email protected] New Haven, CT 06520-8265, USA Married: Lora-Lee Edwards, Fresno, California, June 15, 1947. Military Service: Lt (jg), U.S. Navy, Naval Aviator, active duty 1943-46, Philippine theater. Reserve Squadron, 1947-49, Associated Volunteer Unit (A), Naval Air Station, Oakland #3 at Fresno, CA. Education: Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1952. M.A., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1951. B.A., Social Science (highest honors), California State University, Fresno, 1948 (President, Student Association, 1947-48, and class valedictorian). (Graduate work at CSUF, fall 1948). V-5 Naval Aviation Cadet Program, various colleges and universities, 1943-44. Other: M.A. (hon.), Yale University, 1963. Fields of Interest: Futures Studies and Social Change, Human Values and Global Ethics, Altruism and Morality, Ethnicity and Nationalism (Caribbean, Western Europe, American society, and comparatively worldwide). MAJOR POSITIONS HELD 1995-present Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Yale University. And Consulting Futurist-Sociologist, Author, Lecturer. 2003-present Fellow, The Henry Koerner Center, Yale University. 2000-05 Senior Research Scientist, Center for Comparative Research, Yale University. 1963-95 Professor of Sociology, Yale University. [Also, I served as Chair of the Department of Sociology, 1965-69; Director, Comparative Sociology Training Program, 1969-77 (established a graduate program involving research abroad); Director of Undergraduate Studies, 1976-83 (reorganized undergraduate curriculum); Director of Graduate Studies, 1984-89 & 1994. Additionally, I helped establish the Yale Program, now Department, of 2 African American Studies, served on its Executive and Advisory Committees, and taught joint courses in its programs of study for many years.] 1957-63 Associate Professor to Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles. [Director, West Indies Study Program, 1960-63 (established a research project and a doctoral program for both American and West Indian students.)] 1954-57 Associate Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. 1952-54 Assistant Professor of Sociology (and Acting Director, Survey Research Facility), Stanford University, CA. 1949-51 Teaching Assistant, University of California, Los Angeles. OFFICES HELD 2002-05 Advisor, the Executive Board, Research Committee 07 (Futures Research), International Sociological Association. 1988-89 Member, Council, Caribbean Studies Association. & 1978-81 1979-80 President, Caribbean Studies Association. 1979-82 Member-at-Large, Section (K) on Social, Economic, and Political Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science. 1970-79 Member, Executive Committee of the Comparative Interdisciplinary Studies Section, International Studies Association. 1978-79 Vice President, Caribbean Studies Association. 1970-73 Member, Advisory Council, International Studies Association. 1970-71 Vice President, International Studies Association. 1966-69 Member, Division of Behavioral Sciences, National Research Council—National Academy of Sciences (Executive Committee, 1968-69), Washington, D.C. 1962-64 Member, Advisory Council, Pacific Sociological Association. 1960-61 Vice President, Pacific Sociological Association. MAJOR FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS 3 2014 Received an Inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Futures Research for most distinguished contributions to forward-oriented sociology. Other Inaugural awardees were: Ulrich Beck, Fernando H. Cardoso, Johan Galtung, and Eleonora B. Masini. 2011 Received the “Laurel” award from the Foresight Network for outstanding services to futures thinking. Past recipients include Richard Buckminster Fuller, Herman Kahn, Alvin Toffler, and H.G. Wells: http://news.yale.edu/2012/04/04/futurist-wendell-bell-receives-laurel-award 2008 My 2-volume work, Foundations of Futures Studies, was selected by the Association of Professional Futurists as the second most important futures work in recent times. 2005 Received an award as “Outstanding Alumnus” from the College of Social Sciences, Fresno State University, Fresno, CA, October 13. 2005 Received a “Lifetime Achievement Award” for “outstanding achievement and acknowledgement of his many contributions to the field of futures studies and to the well being of humankind,” from the World Futures Studies Federation at its conference in Budapest, Hungary, August 20-24. 2002 Recognized by Dr. Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University, “for vision, dedication, and distinguished qualities of leadership” in helping to found Yale’s Department of African American Studies. 2001 Foundations of Futures Studies, vol. 1, was selected as among the Best Books on the Future, 1996-2000, Future Survey’s Super 70, February 2001, pp.35-36 (See The Futurist, May-June 2001, pp. 42-49). 2000 Recipient of a Warner Bloomberg Award for distinguished and exceptionally creative contributions in the fields of future studies and urban issues. 2000 Selected to the Roosevelt High School Hall of Fame, Fresno, CA. 1997 My book, Foundations of Futures Studies, vol. 1, was selected one of the top ten futures books by Future Survey (January 1997). 1988 Distinguished Alumnus Award for 1988, Fresno State University, Fresno, CA. 1987 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Calif. State University, Northridge, CA (April). 1985 Visiting Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (in residence, January 10 to July 17, 1985). 4 1985 Meritorious Service Award, Caribbean Studies Association. 1978-79 Social Science Research Council Research Grant to complete research on democracy in Jamaica. 1969-77 National Institute of Mental Health Training Grant in Comparative Sociology (Grant No. 5-T0l-MH12133). 1969-72 National Science Foundation grant (GS-2637) for a comparative study of nationhood, social stratification, and the ideology of equality. (Paris, France). 1966-68 Russell Sage Foundation grant for a study of the sociology of the future (with James A. Mau). 1963-64 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA. 1961-64 Carnegie Corporation of New York grant for a comparative study of political change (with political scientist James S. Coleman and others). 1960-63 Carnegie Corporation of New York grant for a study of elites, nationalism, and social change in the British Caribbean. 1959-60 Grant from the Fund for Adult Education, Ford Foundation, for a study of public leadership in the United States (with R. J. Hill, and C. R. Wright). 1956-59 Faculty Research Fellow, Social Science Research Council, for a study of political change and leadership in Jamaica. 1951-52 Pre-Doctoral Research Training Fellow, Social Science Research Council, for a study in the methodology of urban analysis. CONSULTING (Selected examples only) 1990-2006 Advisory Council, The Institute for Global Ethics, Camden, ME. 2003-present Member, Design Council, Shaping Tomorrow (www.shapingtomorrow.com). 2002 Member, External Review Committee, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., Canada, December 8-11. 2000 Participant, Humanity 3000 Symposium, Foundation for the Future, Seattle, WA, August 12-16. 2000 Consultant, Ralph Appelbaum Associates, Inc., designing the Indiana State Museum's Futures Gallery (a new permanent exhibit on the future). 1999 Participant, Humanity 3000 seminar, Foundation for the Future, Seattle, WA, Sept. 26-29. 5 1999 Consultant, World Water Vision Project, World Commission on Water for the 21st Century, Global Water Resource, UNESCO. 1999 Consultant, U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century, co-chairs: Gary Hart and Warren Rudman, Arlington, VA, June 10-11 (an assessment of U.S. national security challenges from now until the year 2025). 1996 Consultant, "State of the Environment Report: Social Trends," for the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (complement to the North American Free Trade Agreement), dealing with Canada, the United States, and Mexico. 1995 Consultant, Federal Bureau of Investigation, attempt to profile the "Unabomber" based on an analysis of his manuscript, "Industrial Society and Its Future," signed "FC." 1990 Consultant, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM. (Study of possible inadvertent human intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant repository for nuclear waste in New Mexico over the next 10,000 years). 1989-91 Consultant, Culturally-Appropriate Dispute Resolution Procedures for the Judiciary of Hawaii, Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies, University of Hawaii, Manoa. 1987-89 Member, Commission on Connecticut's Future (Gubernatorial appointee). 1986 Consultant, Hill and Knowlton, Inc., Chicago, Il. (Eight-City Mothers' Opinion Poll on high-touch and high-tech toys, aimed at increasing the attraction of non-violent toys). 1979-85 External Examiner in the Sociology of Development, University of the West Indies (Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago), B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees. 1979 Consultant, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. Project on global awareness of college students. 1978 Consultant, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, Washington, D.C. 1978 Consultant on the future of corrections, National Institute of Law