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Speaker: Lawrence Bobo, Harvard University Lawrence D. Bobo is the Norman Tishman and Charles M. Diker Professor of Sociology and Afro-American Studies at Harvard University. He is senior editor for Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles (2000, Russell Sage Foundation), co-editor for Urban Inequality in the United States: Evidence from Four Cities (2001, Russell Sage Foundation), co-editor of Racialized Politics: The Debate on Racism in America (2000, University of Chicago Press), co-author of Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations (1997, Harvard University Press). He served as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar (2000-2001), a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1988-1989), and as a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation (1995-1996). He has received major research grants from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation. His research has appeared in Public Opinion Quarterly, Social Psychology Quarterly, the American Political Science Review, Social Forces, the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and the Journal of Social Issues. He has appeared on the Today Show, the CBS Sunday Morning Program, Nightline, on CNN, on NBC News and in numerous other print (e.g. The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, U.S.A. Today, and Newsweek), radio, and televised interview outlets. He has just completed a book manuscript entitled Prejudice in Politics to be published by Harvard University Press. He is currently working on two book manuscripts, one on race and crime and a second on contemporary racial ideology in the U.S. |