William A Darity Jr, Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy, Professor of African and African-American Studies and Economics and Chair, Department of African and African American Studies, Director, Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality  

Office Location: Sanford 238
Office Phone: (919) 613-7336
Duke Box: 90245
Email Address: william.darity@duke.edu

Areas of Expertise

  • Education
    • Accountability
    • Achievement
    • Racial/Ethnic Inequalities & Segregation
  • Social Policy
    • Economic Inequality and Poverty
    • Race/Ethnicity

Education:
PhD, MIT, 1978

Research Categories: Stratification Economics, Racial & Ethnic Economic Inequality, and Financial Crises in Developing Countries

Current projects: Comparative status of dalits and tribals in India with blacks in the USA , , Ethnic conflict, ethnic diversity, and economic development, , , Racialized tracking in schools, , Employment guarantees, , Relative position, happiness, and well being, , Race, religion, and health disparities

Research Description: Stratification economics; inequality by race, class and ethnicity; North-South theories of development and trade; social psychology and unemployment exposure; reparations; schooling and the racial achievement gap; financial crises in developing countries

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

  1. William Darity Jr. "Confronting Those Affirmative Action Grumbles." Capitalism on Trial: Explorations in the Tradition of Thomas E. Weisskopf. Ed. Jeannette Wicks-Lim and Robert Pollin Edward Elgar, forthcoming
  2. William Darity Jr.. "From Here to Full Employment." Review of Black Political Economy (November, 2012).  [author's comments]
  3. William Darity Jr. and Darrick Hamilton. "Bold Policies for Economic Justice." Review of Black Political Economy 39.1 (March, 2012): 79-85.
  4. William Darity Jr., Mary Lopez, Olugbena Ajilore, and Leslie Wallace. "Antipoverty Policy: The Role of Individualist and Structural Perspectives." The Oxford Handbook of The Economics of Poverty. Ed. Philip Jefferson Oxford University Press, 2012
  5. Timothy A. Diette, Arthur H. Goldsmith, Darrick Hamilton, and William Darity Jr.. "Causality in the Relationship Between Mental Health and Unemployment." Reconnecting to Work: Policies to Mitigate Long-Term Unemployment and Its Consequences. Ed. Lauren D. Appelbaum W.E. Upjohn for Employment Research, 2012

Curriculum Vitae

Bio/Profile
William A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr. is Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics at Duke University. He also serves as Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies and as Co-Director of the Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality.

Previously he served as director of the Institute of African American Research, director of the Moore Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program, director of the Undergraduate Honors Program in economics, and director of Graduate Studies at the University of North Carolina.

Darity’s research focuses on inequality by race, class and ethnicity, stratification economics, schooling and the racial achievement gap, North-South theories of trade and development, skin shade and labor market outcomes, the economics of reparations, the Atlantic slave trade and the Industrial Revolution, the history of economics, and the social psychological effects of exposure to unemployment.

He was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (2011-2012) at Stanford, a fellow at the National Humanities Center (1989-90) and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors (1984). He received the Samuel Z. Westerfield Award in 2012 from the National Economic Association, the organization's highest honor. He is a past president of the National Economic Association and the Southern Economic Association. He also has taught at Grinnell College, the University of Maryland at College Park, the University of Texas at Austin, Simmons College and Claremont-McKenna College.

He has served as Editor in Chief of the latest edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, (Macmillan Reference, 2008) and as an Associate Editor of the new edition of the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (2013).

His most recent books are Economics, Economists, and Expectations: Microfoundations to Macroapplications (2004) (co-authored with Warren Young and Robert Leeson) and a volume co-edited with Ashwini Deshpande titled Boundaries of Clan and Color: Transnational Comparisons of Inter-Group Disparity (2003) both published by Routledge. He has published or edited 12 books and published more than 210 articles in professional journals.

Darity lives with his family in Durham, N.C. where he plays harmonica in a local blues band, occasionally coaches youth sports, and especially enjoys reading science fiction and speculative fiction.

William A Darity Jr