#  William Julius Wilson 

Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Emeritus

 

 

 



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 *Research Interests*: Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations; Urban Sociology; Social Policy.

 **William Julius Wilson** is the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Education and the Institute of Medicine. He is also past President of the American Sociological Association, and is a MacArthur Prize Fellow. In 1998 he was awarded the National Medal of Science. His books include *Power, Racism and Privilege* (1973), *The Declining Significance of Race* (1978), *The Truly Disadvantaged* (1987), *When Work Disappears* (1996), *The Bridge over the Racial Divide* (1999), *There Goes the Neighborhood* (2006, co-author), *Good Kids from Bad Neighborhoods* (2006, co-author), and, most recently, *More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City* (2009).

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