 | Elijah Anderson |
Elijah Anderson, the newly named William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Sociology,
is considered one of the nation’s most influential scholars in the field
of urban inequality and is a groundbreaking ethnographer of urban life.
T H I S
Anderson comes to Yale as Lanman Professor
Anderson came to Yale from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), where he
was the Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences
and professor of sociology, with a secondary appointment in the Wharton School.
He is the author of the books “A Place on the Corner: A Study of Black
Street Corner Men” and “Code of the Street: Decency, Violence and
the Moral Life of the Inner City.” He also wrote the introduction to
the re-publication of “The Philadelphia Negro” by W.E.B. DuBois,
in addition to numerous articles, book chapters and reports on the black experience.
Anderson’s forthcoming edited volume “Against the Wall: Poor Young
Black and Male” (University of Pennsylvania Press) is based on a conference
he organized at Penn titled “Poor, Young, Black and Male: A Case for
National Action?” The conference examined the plight of young black males
living in urban poverty and considered ways to break the cycle that leads to
their alienation and a racial divide in the nation.
Anderson also studies the social psychology of organizations, field methods
of social research, social interaction and social organization.
A graduate of Indiana University, Anderson earned his master’s degree
from the University of Chicago and his doctorate from Northwestern University.
Prior to joining the Penn faculty in 1975, he taught at Swarthmore College
for two years. At Penn, he held several named professorships and chaired the
undergraduate Department of Sociology and was on a number of university committees.
Anderson’s honors include the American Sociological Association’s
Robert E. Park Award for his ethnographic study “Streetwise: Race, Class
and Change in an Urban Community”; the Lindback Award for Distinguished
Teaching at Penn; and the 2000 Komarovsky Award from the Eastern Sociological
Association for his book “Code of the Street.”
The sociologist has served as a consultant to a variety of government agencies,
including the White House and the U.S. Congress, and is director of the Philadelphia
Ethnography Project.
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Anderson comes to Yale as Lanman Professor
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