# Lawrence D. Bobo W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences Harvard College Professor ![boboheadshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum1481/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/sociology/files/lawrence-bobo-32.jpg?itok=7hL33xaN) location\_on William James Hall33 Kirkland StreetCambridge, MA 02138 smartphone [617-496-7778](tel:617-496-7778) email laptop\_windows [Lawrence Bobo's Website](http://scholar.harvard.edu/bobo) laptop\_windows [Department of African and African American Studies Faculty Page](http://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/lawrence-d-bobo) laptop\_windows [Assistant: Maxine Baker](/people/maxine-baker) *Research Interests*: Race; ethnicity; politics; social inequality. **Lawrence D. Bobo** is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University where he holds appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Department of African and African American Studies. He has held tenured appointments at the University of Wisconsin, UCLA, and Stanford where he was Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. His most recent book, *Prejudice in Politics: Group Position, Public Opinion, and the Wisconsin Treaty Rights Dispute* (with M. Tuan), was a finalist for the 2007 C. Wright Mills Award. In 2012, he was awarded the Cooley-Mead lifetime achievement award for distinguished scholarship from the Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological Association. - ## Geographic Areas [Africa](/geographic-areas/africa) [Latin America and Caribbean](/geographic-areas/latin-america-and-carribean) [North America](/geographic-areas/north-america) - ## Current People [Sociology Faculty](/sociology-faculty) - ## Research Clusters [Crime and Punishment](/research-clusters/crime-punishment) [Culture](/research-clusters/culture) [Inequality](/research-clusters/inequality) [Race, Ethnicity and Immigration](/research-clusters/race-ethnicity-and-immigration) [Urban Poverty and the City](/research-clusters/urban-poverty-city)