Lawrence D. Bobo

Lawrence D. Bobo
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Michigan
Academic work
Institutions	Harvard University

Lawrence D. Bobo is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. He holds appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Department of African and African American Studies.^[1][2] His research focuses on the intersection of social inequality, politics, and race.

Career

His research has appeared in the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Social Psychology Quarterly, and Public Opinion Quarterly. He is a founding editor of the Du Bois Review,^[3] published by Cambridge University Press. He is co-author of the award-winning book Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations (Harvard University Press, 1997, with H. Schuman, C. Steeh, and M. Krysan) and senior editor of Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles (Russell Sage Foundation, 2000, with M. L. Oliver, J. H. Johnson, and A. Valenzuela). His most recent book Prejudice in Politics: Group Position, Public Opinion, and the Wisconsin Treaty Rights Dispute (Harvard University Press, 2006, with M. Tuan) was a finalist for 2007 C. Wright Mills Award. He is currently working on the Race, Crime, and Public Opinion project.

Professor Bobo is an elected member of the National Academy of Science^[4] as well as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences^[5] and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, an Alphonse M. Fletcher Sr. Fellow, a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar. He has received research grants from the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Spencer Foundation. He has held tenured appointments in the sociology departments at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the University of California, Los Angeles, and at Stanford University where he was Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.

Selected bibliography

Books

• Bobo, Lawrence D.; Sears, David O.; Sidanius, Jim (2000). Racialized politics: the debate about racism in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226744070.
• Bobo, Lawrence D.; Oliver, Melvin L.; Johnson, James H.; Valenzuela, Abel (2000). Prismatic metropolis: inequality in Los Angeles. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN 9780871541291.
• Bobo, Lawrence D.; O'Connor, Alice; Tilly, Chris (2001). Urban inequality: evidence from four cities. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN 9780871546500.

Book chapters

• Bobo, Lawrence D.; Smith, Ryan A. (1994), "Antipoverty policy, affirmative action and racial attitudes", in Danziger, Sheldon H.; Sandefur, Gary D.; Weinberg, Daniel H., Confronting poverty: prescriptions for change, New York Cambridge, Massachusetts: Russell Sage Foundation Harvard University Press, pp. 365–395, ISBN 9780674160811.

Journal articles

• Bobo, Lawrence D. (May 1997). "Introduction: race, public opinion, and the social sphere". Public Opinion Quarterly. Oxford Journals. 61 (1): 1–15. doi:10.1086/297784.
• Bobo, Lawrence D.; Dawson, Michael C. (March 2004). "Statement from the editors: scholarship above the veil". Du Bois Review. Cambridge Journals for the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. 1 (1): 3–6. doi:10.1017/S1742058X04040020.
• Bobo, Lawrence D.; Fox, Cybelle (December 2003). "Race, racism, and discrimination: bridging problems, methods, and theory in social psychological research". Social Psychology Quarterly, special issue: Race, Racism, and Discrimination. American Sociological Association via JSTOR. 66 (4): 319–332. JSTOR 1519832.
• Bobo, Lawrence D.; Dawson, Michael C. (March 2005). "Statement from the editors: the quiet before the storm". Du Bois Review. Cambridge Journals for the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. 2 (1): 1–4. doi:10.1017/S1742058X05050010.
• Bobo, Lawrence D. (March 2006). "Editorial introduction: KATRINA: unmasking race, poverty, and politics in the 21st century". Du Bois Review. Cambridge Journals for the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. 3 (1): 1–6. doi:10.1017/S1742058X06060012.
• Bobo, Lawrence D.; Dawson, Michael C. (Spring 2007). "Editorial introduction: IMMIGRATION: crossing borders and crosses to bear". Du Bois Review. Cambridge Journals for the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. 4 (1): 1–3. doi:10.1017/S1742058X07070014.
• Bobo, Lawrence D. (Spring 2011). "Somewhere between Jim Crow & post-racialism". Dædalus, special issue, Race, Inequality & Culture, volume 2. MIT Press for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 140 (2): 11–36. doi:10.1162/DAED_a_00091.

Papers

• Bobo, Lawrence D.; et al. (2000). Multi-city study of urban inequality, 1992-1994: (Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, and Los Angeles). Chicago: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Working paper no. 2535.

References

1. Profile page: Lawrence D. Bobo, Harvard University
2. Profile page: Lawrence D. Bobo (faculty), Harvard University
3. Dubois Review, Harvard University
4. Lawrence D. Bobo , African American History Program, National Academy of Science. Accessed September 1, 2011
5. Eight scholars elected to academy of arts and sciences, Stanford Report, April 24, 2006. Accessed September 1, 2011

External links

• Lawrence D. Bobo CV
• Recent Papers by Lawrence D. Bobo
• Harvard University Department of Sociology
• Harvard University Department of African and African American Studies