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William A. Darity, Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy

William A. Darity

William A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. He has served as chair of the Department of African and African American Studies and was the founding director of the Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality at Duke. 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. at Chapel Hill.

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 visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation (2015-2016), 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, Politico 50 recognition in 2017, and an award from Global Policy Solutions in 2017. 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 2006 edition of the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (2013).

His most recent book, coauthored with A. Kirsten Mullen, is From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century (2020). Previous books include For-Profit Universities: The Shifting Landscape of Marketized Education (2010) (co-edited Tressie McMillan Cottom), Economics, Economists, and Expectations: Microfoundations to Macroapplications (2004) (co-authored with Warren Young and Robert Leeson), and Boundaries of Clan and Color: Transnational Comparisons of Inter-Group Disparity (2003) (co-edited with Ashwini Deshpande).He has published or edited 13 books and published more than300 articles in professional outlets.

Darity lives with his family in Durham, N.C. where he plays blues harmonica, occasionally coaches youth sports, and especially enjoys reading science fiction and speculative fiction. (On leave, 2015-2016)

Contact Info:
Office Location:  238 Sanford Inst Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:  +1 919 613 7336
Email Address: send me a message
Web Page:  https://socialequity.duke.edu/

Teaching (Spring 2024):

  • PUBPOL 435.01, GLOBAL INEQUALITY RESEARCH Synopsis
    East Duke 209, W 10:20 AM-12:50 PM
    (also cross-listed as AAAS 425.01, ECON 436.01, POLSCI 425.01, RIGHTS 444.01, SOCIOL 442.01)
  • PUBPOL 645.01, GLOBAL INEQUALITY RESEARCH Synopsis
    East Duke 209, W 10:20 AM-12:50 PM
    (also cross-listed as AAAS 642.01, ECON 541.01, POLSCI 642.01, RIGHTS 642.01, SOCIOL 642.01)
Teaching (Fall 2024):

  • PUBPOL 304.02, ECON OF THE PUB SEC Synopsis
    Sanford 04, F 10:20 AM-11:10 AM; Sanford 04, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
    (also cross-listed as ECON 338.02)
  • PUBPOL 435.01, GLOBAL INEQUALITY RESEARCH Synopsis
    Gray 228, Tu 10:20 AM-12:50 PM
    (also cross-listed as AAAS 425.01, ECON 436.01, POLSCI 425.01, RIGHTS 444.01, SOCIOL 442.01)
  • PUBPOL 645.01, GLOBAL INEQUALITY RESEARCH Synopsis
    Gray 228, Tu 10:20 AM-12:50 PM
    (also cross-listed as AAAS 642.01, ECON 541.01, POLSCI 642.01, RIGHTS 642.01, SOCIOL 642.01)
Education:

Ph.D.Massachusetts Institute of Technology1978
B.A.Brown University1974
Specialties:

Development Economics
Economics of Education
Economic History
History of Economics
Research Interests: Stratification Economics

Current projects: skin shade, labor market and marriage market outcomes, , caste and race, , job tenure versus work experience, , disconnected youth, , ethnic diversity, ethnic conflict, and economic development

Areas of Interest:

Stratification Economics, Inequality

Keywords:

Abortion, Induced • Adolescent • Adult • Africa • African Americans • African Continental Ancestry Group • Age Factors • Aged • Allostasis • Attitude • Bias (Epidemiology) • Biology • Case-Control Studies • Cities • Cohort Studies • Confidence Intervals • Consciousness • Conservation of Natural Resources • Contraception • Contraceptive Agents • Cross-Sectional Studies • Demography • Directories as Topic • Educational Status • Environment • Ethnic Groups • Eugenics • European Continental Ancestry Group • Evaluation Studies as Topic • Family • Family Planning Services • Fear • Female • Geography • Georgia • Health Education • Health Manpower • Health Services Accessibility • Health Status • Health Status Disparities • Health Surveys • History, 20th Century • Homicide • Humans • Income • Interpersonal Relations • Interviews as Topic • legacy effects • Louisiana • Male • Middle Aged • Models, Theoretical • Neoplasm Staging • Newspapers • North Carolina • North-South disparities • Parent-Child Relations • Pennsylvania • Physicians • Pilot Projects • Population • Population Dynamics • Population Growth • Poverty • Poverty Areas • Pregnancy • Prejudice • Psychology, Social • race, ethnicity and schooling • racial inequality • Referral and Consultation • Research • Retrospective Studies • Salaries and Fringe Benefits • Sampling Studies • San Francisco • Self Care • Self Concept • Sex Education • Sex Factors • Sexual Behavior • Smoking • Social Conditions • Social Identification • Social Justice • Social Problems • social psychological effects of unemployment • Social Sciences • Social Welfare • Social Work • Socioeconomic Factors • Statistics as Topic • Sterilization, Involuntary • Sterilization, Reproductive • stratification economics • Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic • Students • Telephone • Time Factors • Unemployment • United States • Universities • Urban Population • Uterine Neoplasms

Curriculum Vitae
Current Ph.D. Students  

  • Divya Guru Rajan  
  • Dania Frank  
  • Ashley Brown  
Postdocs Mentored

  • Dena Montague (2013-2014)  
  • Jean Beaman (2013-2014)  
  • Daniella A. Cook (20082010)  
  • Nicole Lewis (20072008)  
  • Monika Gosin (20082010)  
  • Nina Smith (20122013)  
Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

  1. Darity, WA, Reconsidering the economics of identity: Position, power, and property, Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, vol. 46 no. 1 (March, 2024), pp. 4-12 [doi]  [abs]
  2. Lefebvre, S; Aja, A; López, N; Darity, W; Hamilton, D, Toward a Latinx Stratification Economics, Review of Black Political Economy, vol. 51 no. 1 (March, 2024), pp. 44-78 [doi]  [abs]
  3. Krzyzanowski, MC; Ives, CL; Jones, NL; Entwisle, B; Fernandez, A; Cullen, TA; Darity, WA; Fossett, M; Remington, PL; Taualii, M; Wilkins, CH; Pérez-Stable, EJ; Rajapakse, N; Breen, N; Zhang, X; Maiese, DR; Hendershot, TP; Mandal, M; Hwang, SY; Huggins, W; Gridley, L; Riley, A; Ramos, EM; Hamilton, CM, The PhenX Toolkit: Measurement Protocols for Assessment of Social Determinants of Health., American journal of preventive medicine, vol. 65 no. 3 (September, 2023), pp. 534-542 [doi]  [abs]
  4. Darity, WA; Mullen, AK; Hubbard, L, Where Does Black Reparations in America Stand?, in The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice (January, 2023), pp. 11-21, ISBN 9780520383814
  5. Darity, WA; Mullen, AK; Hubbard, L, Introduction (January, 2023), pp. 1-7, ISBN 9780520383814


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