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William Julius Wilson

Sociologist & Harvard Professor

William Julius Wilson
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Authors, Black Heritage, Civil Rights, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Economy, Overcoming Adversity, Political, Social Activism, Social Justice, Social Sciences
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William Julius Wilson Biography

William Julius Wilson is Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. He is one of only 19 University Professors, the highest professional distinction for a Harvard faculty member. After receiving the PhD from Washington State University in 1966, 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.

Past President of the American Sociological Association, Wilson has received 42 honorary degrees, including honorary doctorates from Princeton, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth, and the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. 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. In June 1996 he was selected by Time magazine as one of America's 25 Most Influential People. 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.

Wilson is the author of numerous publications, including The Declining Significance of Race, winner of the American Sociological Association's Sydney Spivack Award; The Truly Disadvantaged, which was selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review as one of the 16 best books of 1987, and received The Washington Monthly Annual Book Award and the Society for the Study of Social Problems' C. Wright Mills Award; When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor, which was selected as one of the notable books of 1996 by the editors of The New York Times Book Review and received the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award; and The Bridge Over the Racial Divide: Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics. Most recently he co-authored There Goes the 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.

Other honors granted to Wilson include the Seidman Award in Political Economy (the first and only noneconomist to receive the award); the Golden Plate Achievement Award; the Distinguished Alumnus Award, Washington State University; the American Sociological Association's Dubois, Johnson, Frazier Award (for significant scholarship in the field of inter-group relations); the American Sociological Association's Award for Public Understanding of Sociology; Burton Gordon Feldman Award, Brandeis University ("for outstanding contributions in the field of public policy"); the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Award (granted by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Los Angeles); and the Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award, for The Truly Disadvantaged and When Work Disappears, from the American Political Science Association.

Professor Wilson is a member of numerous national boards and commissions, and was previously the Chair of the Board of The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 08/02/2024.

William Julius Wilson Speaking Topics

  • Are American Ghetto Trends Emerging in Europe?

  • From Racial Preference to Affirmative Opportunity

  • Rising Inequality at the Dawn of the New Millennium

  • Toward a Broader Vision of the Plight of the Inner-City Black Male

  • The Bridge Over the Racial Divide

  • Roots of Racial Tensions: Urban Ethnic Neighborhoods

William Julius Wilson Videos

  • 2017 SAGE-CASBS Award lecture: William Julius Wilson - YouTube
    2017 SAGE-CASBS Award lecture: William Julius Wilson - YouTube
    The 2017 SAGE-CASBS Award lecture William Julius Wilson, "Reflections on American Race Relations in the Age of Donald Trump" Center for ...
  • The 2017 Wilson Lecture William Julius Wilson: Reflections on Race ...
    The 2017 Wilson Lecture William Julius Wilson: Reflections on Race ...
    This lecture will revisit some of the major arguments advanced in William Julius Wilson's seminal books, The Truly Disadvantaged (1987) and ...
  • The Other America: Then and Now — William Julius Wilson - YouTube
    The Other America: Then and Now — William Julius Wilson - YouTube
    William Julius Wilson gives a keynote address titled "Toward a Holistic Study of Urban Poverty: Why Both Social Structure and Culture Matter.
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William Julius Wilson Books

  • The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy, Second Edition
    The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy, Second Edition
  • The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions, Third Edition
    The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions, Third Edition
  • More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City (Issues of Our Time)
    More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City (Issues of Our Time)
  • The Bridge over the Racial Divide: Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics (Wildavsky Forum Series)
    The Bridge over the Racial Divide: Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics (Wildavsky Forum Series)
  • When Work Disappears : The World of the New Urban Poor
    When Work Disappears : The World of the New Urban Poor
  • The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy
    The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy

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William Julius Wilson is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Are American Ghetto Trends Emerging in Europe?, From Racial Preference to Affirmative Opportunity, Rising Inequality at the Dawn of the New Millennium, Toward a Broader Vision of the Plight of the Inner-City Black Male, The Bridge Over the Racial Divide and Roots of Racial Tensions: Urban Ethnic Neighborhoods. The estimated speaking fee range to book William Julius Wilson for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. William Julius Wilson generally travels from Cambridge, MA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Clayborne Carson, Shelby Steele, Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, Bobby Seale and Nikki Giovanni. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling William Julius Wilson for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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