Lawrence D. Bobo

W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences
Dean of the Division of Social Sciences
Harvard College Professor
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William James Hall33 Kirkland StreetCambridge, MA 02138
617-496-7778
bobo@wjh.harvard.edu
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Department of African and African American Studies Faculty Page
Assistant: Kelly Deneen

Research Interests: Race; ethnicity; politics; social inequality.

 

Lawrence D. Bobo is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University where he holds appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Department of African and African American Studies.

He has held tenured appointments at the University of Wisconsin, UCLA, and Stanford where he was Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. His most recent book, Prejudice in Politics: Group Position, Public Opinion, and the Wisconsin Treaty Rights Dispute (with M. Tuan), was a finalist for the 2007 C. Wright Mills Award. In 2012, he was awarded the Cooley-Mead lifetime achievement award for distinguished scholarship from the Social Psychology Section of the American Sociological Association.