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Curriculum Vitae

William A. Darity

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Box 90245, Durham, NC 27708-0245 +1 919 613 7336 (office)
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Education

Ph.D.Massachusetts Institute of Technology1978
B.A.Brown University1974
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Samuel Z. Westerfield Award, National Economic Association, January, 2012
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, July, 2011- June, 2012
Residency Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences
Kenneth G. Elzinga Distinguished Teaching Award, Southern Economic Association
Recent Grant Support

  • An Innovative Model for Examining the Financial Impact of COVID-19 on Small Businesses in Durham, City of Durham, 2023/11-2026/12.      
  • An Innovative Model for Examining the Racial Wealth Gap and Small Business Development, Walmart, Inc, 2022/10-2025/11.      
  • Analyzing the interlocking nature of Inequality: A comprehensive research program for the 21st Century, JPB Foundation, 2022/11-2025/10.      
  • Addressing Structural Barriers to Economic Inclusion for Children and Families - Elevating and Accelerating Promising Approaches, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2023/10-2025/10.      
  • Broadening Participation in STEM Faculty: A Program to support the Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics (DITE) 2022-2025, National Science Foundation, 2019/05-2025/08.      
  • General Operating Support, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, 2021/11-2024/11.      
  • The Role of Wealth in the Social Determinants of Health Disparities, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2021/09-2023/09.      
  • Income Supplements versus Building Wealth, Ford Foundation, 2021/05-2023/06.      
  • Are Gifted Programs Beneficial to Underserved Students? An Examination of Malleable Factors and Conditions Associated with Beneficial Academic and Social-Emotional Outcomes for Students., Department of Education, 2019/07-2023/06.      
  • Radcliffe Fellowship, Harvard University, 2022/09-2023/05.      
  • Samuel DuBois Cook Center Program Grant, Southern Reconstruction Fund, 2022/06-2023/05.      
  • Making Black Reparations in America, William T. Grant Foundation, 2021/06-2023/05.      
  • Religion, Spirituality and CVD Risks: A Focus on African Americans, National Institutes of Health, 1R01-MD011606-01A1, 2017/09-2023/05.      
  • Pandemic Divide Conference, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2022/08-2023/02.      
  • Race and Underserved Communities: COVID-19 and its Economic and Social Impact on Black-Owned Small Business in Durham, North Carolina, JPB Foundation, 2021/05-2022/04.      
Selected Recent Invited Talks

Race, Ethnicity, and Wealth Inequality, Afro-Latin@ Forum Conference, New York City, October 23-25  
weeklong series of lectures on affirmative action, heatlh disparities, reparations, and discrimination, Pennsylvania State University, March 24-28  
After Slavery: The Case for Reparations, Durham County Public Library, August 07, 2014  
Race, Ethnicity, and Economic Inequality, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, April 29, 2014  
From Here to Full Employment, Elon University, January 08, 2014  
Samuel Z. Westerfield Address:From Here to Full Employment, National Economic Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, January 12, 2012   [From Here to Full Employment]
"Affirmative Action Around the World", Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, Delhi INDIA, January 03, 2011  
Affirmative Action Around the World, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, Delhi INDIA, 3 January 2011  
"Racial and Caste Inequality: A Comparative Analysis", December 31, 2010  
Racial and Caste Inequality: A Comparative Analysis, 31 December 2010  
"Recent Developments in the Economics of Discrimination", December 28, 2010  
Recent Developments in the Economics of Discrimination, 28 December 2010  
First Annual Derrick Gondwe Memorial Lecture, Bucknell University, October 16, 2006  
John Kenneth Galbraith Memorial Lectures, Harvard University, October 15, 2006  
Gorlin Distinguished Lecture, Oakland University, April 06, 2006  
Doctoral Theses Directed

Dania Frank, (2009 - 2013)  
Ashley Brown, (2008 - 2013)  
Publications (listed separately)

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