William Julius Wilson

William Julius Wilson is Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. Past President of the American Sociological Association, 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 also a recipient of the 1998 National Medal of Science; the Talcott Parsons Prize in the Social Sciences by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003; the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize by the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 2013; and the W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award by the American Sociological Association in 2014. He is the author of numerous publications, including The Declining Significance of Race, winner of the 1978 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 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.

AFFILIATION: Harvard University