William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, PhD
Affiliations: | 1895 | History | Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States |
| 1895-1896 | History | Wilberforce University | |
| 1897-1897 | Sociology | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States | |
| 1897-1910 | History and Economics | Atlanta University | |
| 1910- | NAACP |
Area:
sociology; stratification; race; African-American studiesGoogle:
"William Edward Burghardt Du Bois" OR "W.E.B. Du Bois"Bio:
Left academia in 1910 to be publications director of the NAACP
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community, and after completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. Du Bois' work has been influential in the domains of urban sociology and the sociology of race and ethnicity. His early studies are considered to be some of the earliest uses of statistical methods in sociology.
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Sign in to add mentor| William James | research assistant | (Neurotree) | ||
| (Undergraduate) | ||||
| Gustav von Schmoller | grad student | 1882-1882 | Universität Berlin | |
| (Visiting graduate assistant) | ||||
| Heinrich von Treitschke | grad student | 1892 | Universität Berlin (History of History Tree) | |
| Adolph Heinrich Gotthelf Wagner | grad student | 1892 | Universität Berlin (History of History Tree) | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart | grad student | 1895 | Harvard (History of History Tree) | |
| (Dissertation advisor) | ||||