Previous Speakers
2007-2008
Dr. Carl C. Bell, President & CEO, Community Mental Health Council, Inc., Chicago, Mental Health Risk Factors in Nonwhite Populations.
Dr. Shaun L. Gabbidon, Professor of Criminal Justice, School of Public Affairs, Pennsylvania State
University, Harrisburg, Shopping Under Suspicion: Consumer Racial Profiling and Perceived Victimization.
Dr. Andrew J. Cherlin, Professor of Public Policy, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins
University, Post-Welfare Outcomes for African Americans and Hispanics.
Mr. Sala Udin, President & CEO, Coro Center for Civic Leadership, Pittsburgh, Challenges of Race, Poverty, and Sprawl.
Ms. Kerry O'Donnell, President, Falk Foundation, The Erosion of Civil Rights and Community Responses.
Dr. Thomas M. Shapiro , Professor of Law and Social Policy, Brandeis University, Assets for Change: Closing the Racial Wealth Gap.
Dr. Devah Pager, Associate Professor of Sociology, Princeton University, Race at Work: Discrimination against Black and Latino Job Seekers.
Dr. Ronald B. Mincy , Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice, Columbia University, The Experiences of Black Fathers with Low Incomes.
2006-2007
Mr. Mark Roosevelt, Superintendent, Pittsburgh Public Schools, The Intersection of Race and Educational Opportunity and Achievement.
Dr. Megan Sweeney, University of California at Los Angeles Department of Sociology, Race, Ethnicity, and Divorce in the United States: What Do We Know?
Dr. Douglas Massey, Princeton University Department of Sociology, Segregation, the Concentration of Poverty, and Racial Stratification in the United States.
Ms. Esther Bush, President and CEO, Urban League of Pittsburgh, The State of Black Pittsburgh.
Mrs. Doris Carson Williams, President, African American Chamber of Commerce of Western Pennsylvania, The Problem When Race Matters.
Dr. Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia, Associate Senior Researcher, Center for the Study of Politics, Sciences Po, Paris, Immigration and Racism in Europe: Old Prejudices, New Challenges.
Dr. Kathryn Neckerman, Associate Director, Columbia University Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, The Time Tax: Race and Spatial Equity in New York City.
Dr. Elijah Anderson, Day Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Poor, Young, Black, and Male: A Case for National Action?
2005-2006
Dr. Patricia Gurin, University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, After Grutter and Gratz: Challenges in Using Diversity Educationally.
Dr. Nancy Grote, University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work, Overcoming Barriers to Care: Engaging Depressed, Disadvantaged, Minority Women in Evidence-based Treatments.
Dr. Joe Trotter, Carnegie Mellon University Department of History, African American Urban History: The Value of Historical Perspectives on Race and Contemporary Social Problems.
Dr. Margaret Beale Spencer, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, Brown’s Legacy and Lessons for Healthy Children.
Dr. Harry J. Holzer, Georgetown University Public Policy Institute, Employment Trends for Young Black Men: Causes and Policy Implications.
Ms. Gwen Elliott, Founder and CEO, Gwen's Girls , Empowering Girls: Gender-Specific Approaches for Productive Futures.
Dr. Rich Schulz, University of Pittsburgh Center for Social and Urban Research , Enhancing the Quality of Life of Latino, Black, and White Dementia Caregivers: The REACH II Randomized Controlled Trial.
Dr. Orlando Patterson, Harvard University Department of Sociology, Father Absence Among African-Americans.
2004-2005
Dr. James Jackson, University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, National
Survey of American Life.
Dr. Al Blumstein, Carnegie Mellon University School of Public Policy and
Management, Race and Incarceration.
Professor David Harris, University of Toledo College of Law, Racial
Profiling: A Common Sense Tool for the Post-9/11 World?
Dr. Deirdre Royster, College of William and Mary Department of Sociology, Race
and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar
Jobs.
Dr. Lauren Resnick, University of Pittsburgh Learning Research
Development Center, Shrinking the Achievement Gap: Academic and Social
Intervention.
Dr. John Wallace, University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work, Faith
Matters: Race/Ethnicity, Religiosity and Drugs.
Dr. Dalton Conley, New York University Center for Advanced Social Science
Research, The Family Home as Level Playing Field-Not.
Dr. Glenn Loury, Boston University Department of Economics, Racial
Stigma: Toward a New Paradigm for Discrimination Theory.
2003-2004
Eric Springer, Esq., Horty, Springer and Mattern, PC, University of
Pittsburgh School of Law and School of Public Health, Retired, The Role of
Compromise and the Development of American Race Relations.
Dr. Joe Feagin, University of Florida Department of Sociology, The Coming
White Minority. Co-sponsored by the School of Social Work, The School of Law,
and The Faculty and College of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Charlotte Brown, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine,
Department of Psychiatry, Depression in African Americans: Attitudinal, Social,
and Health System Barriers and Pathways to Care.
Dr. Kathleen Blee, University of Pittsburgh Department of Sociology, and Professor
Lu-inWang, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Ordinary and
Extraordinary Racism.
Dr. Larry Glasco, University of Pittsburgh Department of History, The
Hill District's Multiracial History.
Dr. Willa Doswell, University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, Do
Teenaged Girls Think Race Matters?
Dr. Jerome Taylor, University of Pittsburgh Department of Africana
Studies, Racism: Roots, Fruits, and Remedies.
2002-2003
Dr. Larry E. Davis, University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work, Predicting
Positive Academic Intentions among African-American Males and Females.
Dr. Aurora Jackson, University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work, Single
Black Mothers and Their Young Children: Work, Welfare, and Parenting?
Dr. Janet Schofield, University of Pittsburgh Learning Research and
Development Center & Department of Psychology, School Desegregation and
Intergroup Relations: Looking Back and Looking Forward.
Mr. Ronnie Bryant, President and CEO Pittsburgh Regional Alliance, The
Social Implications of Urban Revitalization.
Dr. Michael Sherraden, Washington University School of Social Work, Asset-Building, Poverty, and Public Policy.
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