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WALTER R. ALLEN
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
3101A Moore Hall
University of California- Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California 90095-1521
Phone: (310) 206-7107, (310) 206-7585
Fax: (310) 825-7766 E-mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION:
1978
Postdoctoral Study, School of Public Health (Epidemiology), University of North Carolina
1975
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Chicago
1973
M.A., Sociology, University of Chicago
1971
B.A., Sociology, Beloit College
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2004-present Allan Murray Cartter Professor. Department of Education, Graduate School of Education &
Information Studies, University of California-Los Angeles. Professor. Department of Sociology,
University of California- Los Angeles.
1998Director, CHOICES: Access, Diversity and Achievement in Higher Education, Institute for Social
Science Research, UCLA
1993-97
Associate Director, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, School of Medicine, UCLA
1988Professor, Department of Sociology, UCLA
1987-89
Associate Director, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan
1979-91
Assistant, Associate and Full Professor, Department of Sociology and the Center for Afroamerican and
African Studies, University of Michigan
1974-79
Instructor to Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina
OTHER EXPERIENCE:
Visiting Appointments: Wayne State University, 1988; University of Zimbabwe, 1984-1988; Duke University, 1976;
Howard University, 1975, 1997-2001.
Consultant: African Americans in higher education; African American families and child socialization; health and quality
of life in African American communities; race, ethnicity and multicultural relations.
EDITORIAL REVIEW:
American Sociological Review, Contemporary Sociology, American Journal of Sociology, Journal of Comparative Family
Studies, Journal of Marriage and Family, Social Forces, Sociological Quarterly, Sociology of Education; Cambridge
University Press, Oxford University Press, Temple University Press, University of Chicago Press, University of California
Press.
HONORS AND AWARDS:
DeWitt- Wallace Reader’s Digest Lecture, American Educational Research Association, 2005
Special Merit Award, Association for the Study of Higher Education, 2002
DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award, American Sociological Association, 2002
Ellis Joseph Distinguished Scholar Award, University of Dayton, 1997
Harriet and Charles Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award, UCLA, 1996
Distinguished Career Award, Association of Black Sociologists, 1995
Research Excellence Award, American Educational Research Association, 1993
Council, American Sociological Association, 1991-94
President, Association of Black Sociologists, 1992-93
Elected Member, Sociological Research Association, Honorary Society for Distinguished Sociologists, 1991-present
Allerton Lecturer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1988
Faculty Recognition Award, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 1987
Senior Fulbright Lecturer, University of Zimbabwe, 1984, 1987-88
Distinguished Scholar Award, American Educational Research Association, 1987
Distinguished Leadership Award, United Negro College Fund, 1985
Postdoctoral Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation, 1982-83; National Institute of Health, 1978-79
Predoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 1971-74
Research Grants exceeding 7 million dollars: Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, C.S. Mott Foundation, Rockefeller
Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, Spencer Foundation, University of Michigan, University of North Carolina,
Cornerhouse Fund, University of California-Los Angeles, National Institute of Aging.
Listings: “100 Years of Change,” Special Issue of Black Issues in Higher Education, 1999; Marquis Who’s Who in the
World, 1996; Marquis Who’s Who in American Education, 1996; Marquis Who’s Who Among Emerging Leaders, 1989,
1990; Marquis Who’s Who in the Midwest, 1988, 1989; Marquis Who’s Who In America, 1988; Men of Achievement,
1987; Outstanding Young Men of America, 1982; Who’s Who Among Young Americans, 1976; Who’s Who Among High
School Students, 1967.
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS:
Presentations during meetings of the following associations: American Psychological Association, American
Educational Research Association, American Sociological Association, Association of Graduate Schools, Congressional
Black Caucus Foundation, Groves Conference on Marriage and the Family, International Sociological Association,
National Association for the Education of Young Children, National Council on Black Studies, National Council on Family
Relations, Population Association of America, Society for Research on Child Development, Society for the Study of Social
Problems, Southern Sociological Society, Third World Conference, Caribbean Studies Association, American Association
for the Advancement of Science, Population Association of America, American Public Health Association.
MASS MEDIA COVERAGE:
Televised Interviews: The Oprah Winfrey Show; McNeil-Lehrer Reports; CBS News with Dan Rather; ; CBS Sixty
Minutes; NBC Evening News with Tom Brokaw; Independent Television Network (London, England); ABC News
(Detroit); NBC News (Washington, DC); GLOBO (Brazil); BET (Black Entertainment Television).
Print and Radio Interviews: Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Black Enterprise, Black Issues in Higher
Education, Chronicle of Higher Education, Detroit Free Press, Jet Magazine, Le Nouvel Observateur, New York Times,
USA Today, Wall Street Journal, U.S. News and World Reports, Harpers Magazine, Playboy Magazine, Ebony Magazine;
National Black Network Radio News, KNX Radio-Los Angeles, KOA Radio-Denver, WBZ Radio-Boston; , WABC
Radio-New York City.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
“Keeping Race in Place: Racial Microaggressions and Campus Racial Climate at the University of California, Berkeley”
(with D. Solórzano and G. Carroll). Chicano Latino Law Review, in press.
“Two Steps Forward, Three Steps Back: Campus Climate, Gender, and African American Representation in Higher
Education” (with G.Y. Dinwiddie). In Ron Henderson and Carol Camp Yeakey, eds., Surmounting All Odds:
Education, Opportunity and Society in the New Millennium, pp. 547-578. Greenwich, CT: Information Age
Publishers, 2003.
African American Education: Race, Community, Inequality and Achievement – A Tribute to Edgar G. Epps, co-edited with
M.B. Spencer and C. O’Connor. London: JAI Press, Inc., 2002.
“Skin Color, Income and Education: A Comparison of African Americans and Mexican Americans” (with E. Telles and
M. Hunter). National Journal of Sociology 12, 1 (Winter 2000): 129-180.
Enacting Diverse Learning Environments: Improving the Climate for Racial/Ethnic Diversity in Higher Education (with
S. Hurtado, J. Milem, and A. Clayton-Pedersen). ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report, Volume 26, No. 8, 1999.
Washington, DC: The George Washington University, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, 1999.
Special Issue: Comparative Perspectives on Black Family Life, Journal of Comparative Family Studies, co-edited with A.
James. Volume 29, No. 1, 2 (Spring and Fall 1998).
“Physician Role Conflict and Resulting Career Changes: Gender and Generational Differences” (with C. Warde and L.
Gelberg). Journal of General Internal Medicine 11 (December 1996): 729-735.
College in Black and White: African American Students in Predominantly White and Historically Black Public
Universities, co-edited with E. Epps and N. Haniff. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1991.
The Color Line and the Quality of Life in America, co-authored with R. Farley. New York: Russell Sage Foundation,
1987. Oxford University Press, 1989.
Beginnings: The Social and Affective Development of Black Children, co-edited with M. Spencer and G. Brookins.
Hillside, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1985.