William A Darity, Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy, Professor of African and African-American Studies and Economics  

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

Areas of Expertise

  • Education
    • Accountability
    • Achievement
    • Racial/Ethnic Inequalities & Segregation
  • Social Policy, Race/Ethnicity

Education:
PhD, MIT, 1978

Research Categories: Racial & Ethical Economic Inequality and Financial Crises in Developing Countries

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

Teaching (Fall 2009):

  • Pubpol 195.11, Selected topics
    Sanford 150, TuTh 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
  • Econ 196.11, Selected topics
    Sanford 150, TuTh 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
  • Aaas 199.11, Special topics Synopsis
    Sanford 150, TuTh 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
  • Pubpol 264s.11, Adv top in public policy
    Rubenstein 151, TuTh 04:25 PM-05:40 PM
  • Econ 295s.11, Selected topics
    Rubenstein 151, TuTh 04:25 PM-05:40 PM
  • Aaas 299s.11, Special topics Synopsis
    Rubenstein 151, TuTh 04:25 PM-05:40 PM

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. D. Hamilton, A. Goldsmith, and W.A. DarityJr. ""Shedding 'Light' On Marriage: The Influence of Skin Shade on Marriage for Black Females"." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 72.1 (October, 2009): 30-50.
  2. D. Hamilton and W.A. Darity Jr. ""Race, Wealth and Intergenerational Poverty: There Will Never Be a Post-Racial America if the Wealth Gap Persists"." The American Prospect 20.7 (September, 2009): A10-A12.
  3. W.A. Darity Jr. ""Stratification Economics: Context Versus Culture and the Reparations Controversy"." The University of Kansas Law Review 57.4 (May, 2009): 795-812.
  4. T. Green and W.A. Darity Jr. ""Under Our Skin: Using Theories From Biology and the Social Sciences to Explore the Mechanisms Behind the Black/White Health Gap"." American Journal of Public Health (forthcoming).
  5. W.A. Darity Jr.. ""Caste and Race: Parallels or Disjunctures"." Against Stigma: Studies in Caste, Race, and Justice Since Durban. Ed. B. Natrajan and P. Greenough New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2009: 400-412.

Curriculum Vitae

Bio/Profile
William A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr. is Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy Studies and Professor of African and African American Studies and Economics at Duke University.

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, doctrinal history and the social psychological effects of unemployment exposure.

He was a fellow at the National Humanities Center (1989-90) and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors (1984). 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 is Editor in Chief of  new edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, (Macmillan Reference, 2008.)

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 10 books and more than 125 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 sport, and enjoys reading science and speculative fiction.

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