Lawrence D. Bobo
W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences
Biographical Note
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. His research focuses on the intersection of social inequality, politics, and race.
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: Social Science Research on Race 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 as well as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 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.
Recent Papers
Bobo, Lawrence D. and Michael C. Dawson. 2009. "A Change Has Come: Race, Politics, and the Path to the Obama Presidency."Du Bois Review 6(1): 1-14.
Bobo, Lawrence D. 2009. "Obama and the Burden of Race"Focus Magazine 37(4): 16-17.
Bobo Blog: From The Root.com
Bobo Blog Classics
11/16/2009
Courses Offered This Academic Year
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African & African American Studies 16 ( Fall ) |
Sociology of the Black Community | Catalog #73035 |
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Sociology 98B ( Fall ) |
Junior Tutorial: Race and Crime | Catalog #75945 |
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African and African American Studies 147 ( Spring ) |
Racial Identity, Politics, and Public Policy | Catalog #2929 |
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Sociology 183 ( Spring ) |
Race and Ethnic Relations | Catalog #70535 |
A Sampling of Courses Offered in Other Years
| Sociology 185 | Race and Crime in America: Conference Course |
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| African & African American Studies 146 | Black America in Transition |
| Sociology 248 | Race, Politics, and Social Inequality |
| African & African American Studies 147 | Racial Identity, Politics, and Public Policy |
| W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research |
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| Department of African and African American Studies |
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