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Lawrence D. Bobo

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Lawrence D. Bobo
Born (1958-02-18) February 18, 1958 (age 66)
NationalityAmerican
Occupations
  • Professor
  • dean
TitleW. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences
Academic background
Education
Academic work
InstitutionsHarvard University
Stanford University
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Notable studentsCamille Z. Charles

Lawrence D. Bobo is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences and the Dean of Social Science at Harvard University. His research focuses on the intersection of social psychology, social inequality, politics, and race.[1]

Early life and education

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Bobo is the second of three sons born to Joseph R. Bobo Sr., a graduate of Meharry Medical College and once the chief of minor trauma at USC County Medical Hospital in Los Angeles, California, and Joyce Cooper Bobo, a longtime teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

His maternal grandmother was Ann Nixon Cooper, the 106-year-old Atlanta woman Barack Obama mentioned in his victory speech in Grant Park, Chicago, upon his election as president in 2008.[2] Bobo wrote of his relationship with her in a blog post for The Root at the time of her death.[3]

Bobo grew up in the San Fernando Valley, living in Pacoima when young and in Granada Hills in his teenage years, attending public schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District from kindergarten through high school. He graduated magna cum laude from Loyola Marymount University with his Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology in 1979. He received his Master of Arts degree in 1981 and Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1984, both in sociology, from the University of Michigan.[4]

Career

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Bobo has held tenured appointments in the sociology departments at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (1989–1991), University of California, Los Angeles (1993–1997), Stanford University (2005–2007), and Harvard University (1997–2004, 2008–present).

He is a founding editor of the Du Bois Review,[5] published by Cambridge University Press. He co-authored the book Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations and is a senior editor of Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles. His most recent book, Prejudice in Politics: Group Position, Public Opinion, and the Wisconsin Treaty Rights Dispute, was a finalist for the 2007 C. Wright Mills Award.

Bobo is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences[6] and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[7] and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, an Alphonse M. Fletcher Sr. Fellow, a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar. As of 2024, he chairs American Institutes for Research's board of directors.

In June 2024, Bobo authored a Harvard Crimson op-ed arguing that Harvard should sanction faculty members who "excoriate University leadership, faculty, staff, or students with the intent to arouse external intervention into University business".[8] His essay was widely criticized by faculty at Harvard and other universities, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, and the Wall Street Journal editorial board.[9][10][11] Ten members of the Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard responded to Bobo in another Crimson op-ed, calling his arguments "downright alarming" and "clear infringements on academic freedom".[12][13]

Personal life

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Bobo is married to Marcyliena H. Morgan, the Founding Director of the Hiphop Archive and Research Institute in the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

They live in the Brattle District of Cambridge, Massachusetts, in a home originally designed by Lois Howe in 1898.[14] Bobo and Morgan remodeled the home, contracting with architect Mary Ann Thompson[15] and consulting on the kitchen design with chefs Jody Adams and Aaron Sanchez. The remodeled Victorian has received recognition[16] and awards.[17]

Awards and honors

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  • Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research, The Roper Center, University of Connecticut (2021)[18]
  • Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement, American Association for Public Opinion Research (2020)[19]
  • Phi Beta Kappa (Alumni Member), Omega Chapter of California, Loyola Marymount University (2020)[20]
  • Outstanding Book Award, American Association for Public Opinion Research (for Prejudice in Politics) (2018)[21]
  • W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow, American Association of Political and Social Science (2017)[22]
  • Charles Horton Cooley-George Herbert Mead Award for a Career of Distinguished Scholarship in Sociological Social Psychology, American Sociological Association (2012)[23]
  • Outstanding Book Award, American Association for Public Opinion Research (for Racial Attitudes in America) (2005)[24]

Selected bibliography

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Books

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  • Bobo, Lawrence D.; Tuan, Mia (2006). Prejudice in Politics: Group Position, Public Opinion, and the Wisconsin Treaty Rights Dispute. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674013292.
  • Bobo, Lawrence D. (ed.) (2003). Race, Racism, and Discrimination. Social Psychology Quarterly special issue 66(4).
  • Bobo, Lawrence; O'Connor, Alice; Tilly, Chris (eds.) (2001). Urban Inequality: Evidence From Four Cities. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN 9780871546517.
  • Bobo, Lawrence; Oliver, Melvin L.; Johnson, James H.; Valenzuela, Abel (eds.) (2000). Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN 9780871541307.
  • Bobo, Lawrence D.; Sears, David O.; Sidanius, James (eds.) (2000). Racialized Politics: The Debate about Racism in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226744070.
  • Bobo, Lawrence D. (ed.) (1997). Race, Public Opinion and Society. Public Opinion Quarterly special issue 61(1).
  • Bobo, Lawrence D.; Krysan, Maria; Schuman, Howard; Steeh, Charlotte (1997). Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674745698.

Book chapters

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  • Bobo, Lawrence D.; Smith, Ryan A. (1994), "Antipoverty policy, affirmative action and racial attitudes", in Danziger, Sheldon H.; Sandefur, Gary D.; Weinberg, Daniel H. (eds.), Confronting poverty: prescriptions for change, New York Cambridge, Massachusetts: Russell Sage Foundation Harvard University Press, pp. 365–395, ISBN 9780674160811.

References

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  1. ^ "Lawrence D. Bobo". Harvard University. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  2. ^ "Barack Obamas Rede - Lawrence Bobo: "Obama machte meine Grossmutter berühmt"". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). 2016-12-30. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
  3. ^ Bobo, Lawrence (2009-12-23). "The Ann Nixon Cooper I Knew". The Root. Retrieved 2023-02-13.
  4. ^ "Biographical Note". scholar.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
  5. ^ Dubois Review, Harvard University Archived 2011-08-07 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Lawrence D. Bobo Archived 2011-08-20 at the Wayback Machine, African American History Program, National Academy of Sciences. Accessed September 1, 2011
  7. ^ Eight scholars elected to academy of arts and sciences, Stanford Report, April 24, 2006. Accessed September 1, 2011
  8. ^ Bobo, Lawrence D. (June 15, 2024). "Faculty Speech Must Have Limits". The Harvard Crimson. Archived from the original on June 16, 2024. Retrieved June 18, 2024.
  9. ^ Robinson, Tilly R. (June 18, 2024). "Harvard Faculty Slam Social Science Dean's Proposal to Limit Faculty Speech". The Harvard Crimson. Archived from the original on June 18, 2024. Retrieved June 18, 2024.
  10. ^ "Harvard's Dean of Speech Sanctions". The Wall Street Journal. June 19, 2024. Archived from the original on June 19, 2024. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
  11. ^ Adler, Jonathan H. (June 16, 2024). "A Frightening View of Free Speech and Academic Freedom at Harvard". Reason. Archived from the original on June 18, 2024. Retrieved June 18, 2024.
  12. ^ Flier, Jeffrey S.; Maskin, Eric S.; Pinker, Steven A. (June 19, 2024). "From the Leadership of CAFH: Don't Punish Faculty Speech". The Harvard Crimson. Archived from the original on June 20, 2024. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
  13. ^ Cristantiello, Ross (June 19, 2024). "Harvard dean's essay arguing for limiting faculty speech causes uproar". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on June 20, 2024. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
  14. ^ "Lois Lilley Howe: Pioneer Career Woman, Architect, Cambridge Citizen". History Cambridge. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
  15. ^ "Maryann Thompson FAIA (2005)". Boston Society for Architecture. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
  16. ^ "A Victorian with a Modern Twist". Wall Street Journal. 2011-02-17. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
  17. ^ "Boston Society of Architects Awards 2010". awards.architects.org. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
  18. ^ "2021 Warren J. Mitofsky Award Winner Lawrence D. Bobo | Roper Center for Public Opinion Research". ropercenter.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
  19. ^ "Lawrence D. Bobo and Robert L. Santos Win AAPOR Awards - AAPOR". www-archive.aapor.org. Retrieved 2023-01-25.
  20. ^ University, Loyola Marymount. "2020 Induction - Loyola Marymount University". academics.lmu.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-25.
  21. ^ "Past Book Award Winners - AAPOR". www.aapor.org. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
  22. ^ "Four Former Fellows Elected to AAPSS". casbs.stanford.edu. 9 January 2017. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  23. ^ "Lawrence Bobo honored by ASA". Harvard Gazette. 2012-08-23. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  24. ^ "Past Book Award Winners - AAPOR". www-archive.aapor.org. Retrieved 2023-01-25.
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