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

Office Location: 238 Sanford Inst Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone: +1 919 613 7336
Duke Box: 90245
Email Address: william.darity@duke.edu
Web Page: https://socialequity.duke.edu/

Areas of Expertise

Stratification economics and inequality

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

Education:
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978
B.A., Brown University, 1974

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

Teaching (Spring 2024):

  • Pubpol 435.01, Global inequality research Synopsis
    East duke 209, W 10:20 AM-12:50 PM
  • Pubpol 645.01, Global inequality research Synopsis
    East duke 209, W 10:20 AM-12:50 PM

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

  1. Albright, TD; Darity, WA; Dunn, D; Ghani, R; Hayes-Greene, D; Hernández, TK; Heron, S. "Beyond Implicit Bias." Daedalus 153.1 (December, 2024): 276-283. [doi]
  2. Darity, WA. "Reconsidering the economics of identity: Position, power, and property." Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 46.1 (March, 2024): 4-12. [doi]  [abs]
  3. Lefebvre, S; Aja, A; López, N; Darity, W; Hamilton, D. "Toward a Latinx Stratification Economics." Review of Black Political Economy 51.1 (March, 2024): 44-78. [doi]  [abs]
  4. 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 65.3 (September, 2023): 534-542. [doi]  [abs]
  5. Darity, WA; Mullen, AK; Hubbard, L. "Where Does Black Reparations in America Stand?." The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice. January, 2023: 11-21.

Curriculum Vitae

Highlight:
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)

Bio/Profile
William A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics. He has served as chair of the Department of African and African American Studies and is the founding director of the Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality at Duke. He served as co-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.

Current Ph.D. Students  

  • Divya Guru Rajan  
  • Dania Frank  
  • Ashley Brown  

William A. Darity