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Monday, April 21, 2008 at 7:30 PM
Donahue Auditorium, Dolan Science Center
John Carroll University
Free and Open to the Public

"Rising Inequality at the Dawn
of the New Millennium "

By William Julius Wilson
Lewis P. & Linda L. Geyser University Professor
Harvard University

William Julius Wilson is the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. He is one of only eighteen university professors to earn the highest professional distinction for a Harvard faculty member. After receiving a PhD from Washington State University in 1966, Dr. Wilson taught sociology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, before joining the University of Chicago faculty in 1972. In 1990 he was appointed the Lucy Flower University Professor and director of the University of Chicago's Center for the Study of Urban Inequality. He joined the faculty at Harvard in July of 1996.

A MacArthur Prize Fellow from 1987 to 1992, Wilson has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Education, the American Philosophical Society, the Institute of Medicine, and the British Academy. He is a recipient of the 1998 National Medal of Science, the highest scientific honor in the United States, and was awarded the Talcott Parsons Prize in the Social Sciences by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003. Most recently he is the co-author of There Goes thge Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America and Good Kids in Bad Neighborhoods: Successful Development in Social Context.

Sponsored by:
Poverty and Solidarity Program and
Program in Applied Ethics at JCU

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