William Julius Wilson

Affiliations:	1966	Sociology and Anthropology	Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
	1980-1996	Sociology	University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
	1996-	Sociology	Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States

Area:

Race/Ethnic/Minority Relations; Urban Sociology; Social Policy

Website:

https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/william-julius-wilson

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Bio:

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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Parents

Richard Hayes Ogles	grad student	1965	WSU
(Dissertation chair)
William Welcome Elmendorf	grad student	1966	WSU (Anthropology Tree)
(Dissertation committee member)
Francis Ivan Nye	grad student	1966	WSU
(Dissertation committee member)

Children

Daniel Breslau	research assistant	1985-1993	Chicago
Lazzaro Richard Della Fave	grad student	1971	U Mass Amherst
Michael Burawoy	grad student	1976	Chicago
Daniel B. Cornfield	grad student	1980	Chicago
Nora Cate Schaeffer	grad student	1984	Chicago
Margaret M. Weir	grad student	1986	Chicago
Edwin Amenta	grad student	1989	Chicago
Carol J. Ward	grad student	1992	Chicago
Kathryn M. Neckerman	grad student	1993	Chicago
Loïc Wacquant	grad student	1994	Chicago
Mary E. Pattillo	grad student	1997	Chicago
Sudhir Venkatesh	grad student	1997	Chicago
Mignon Moore	grad student	1998	Chicago
Vivian S. Louie	grad student	2000	Harvard
Omar M. McRoberts	grad student	2000	Harvard
Mario L. Small	grad student	2001	Harvard
Cybelle Fox	grad student	2007	Harvard
Patrick T. Sharkey	grad student	2007	Harvard
Michael P. Jeffries	grad student	2008	Harvard
Jeffrey S. Denis	grad student	2011	Harvard
Melanie R. Penny	grad student	2011	Harvard
Van C. Tran	grad student	2011	Harvard
Victor T. Chen	grad student	2012	Harvard
Cassi L. Pittman	grad student	2012	Harvard
Deirdre Bloome	grad student	2014	Harvard
Jeremy R Levine	grad student	2016	Harvard (Neurotree)

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Sampson RJ, Wilson WJ, Katz H. (2018) REASSESSING “TOWARD A THEORY OF RACE, CRIME, AND URBAN INEQUALITY”: Enduring and New Challenges in 21 st Century America Du Bois Review. 15: 13-34
Wilson WJ. (2017) Why Sociologists Matter in the Welfare Reform Debate Contemporary Sociology. 46: 627-634
Wilson WJ. (2017) Race, class, politics, and the disappearance of work: a rejoinder Ethnic and Racial Studies. 40: 1502-1507
Wilson WJ. (2016) Black youths, joblessness, and the other side of ‘Black Lives Matter’ Ethnic and Racial Studies. 39: 1450-1457
Wilson WJ. (2015) New perspectives on the declining significance of race: a rejoinder Ethnic and Racial Studies. 38: 1278-1284
Wilson WJ. (2014) Marginality, ethnicity and penality: a response to Loïc Wacquant Ethnic and Racial Studies. 37: 1712-1718
Wilson WJ. (2012) Combating Concentrated Poverty in Urban Neighborhoods Journal of Applied Social Science. 7: 135-143
Quane JM, Wilson WJ. (2012) Critical Commentary. Making the Connection between the Socialisation and the Social Isolation of the Inner-city Poor Urban Studies. 49: 2977-2987
Dawson MC, Wilson WJ. (2012) A Conversation On The Future Of Black Politics Du Bois Review. 9: 303-312
Wilson WJ. (2012) Race And Affirming Opportunity In The Barack Obama Era Du Bois Review. 9: 5-16