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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee and Panel Members and Staff
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee and Panel Members and Staff
Pages 570-584
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His research interests include race relations theory, sociological theory, applied statistics, and research methodology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Statistical Association, and a past president of the American Sociological Association.
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He received an honorary doctorate of laws from the John lay College of Criminal Justice in 1984; the national law enforcement award from the National Black Police Officers Association in 1982; and the Robert Lamb, Ir., humanitarian award from the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives in 1987. He is coauthor of The Police and Society: An Environment for Collaboration and Confrontation and author of numerous articles.
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He has taught at a number of institutions, including Fisk University, North Carolina Central University, and Howard University, and served as the chair of the Department of History at both Brooklyn College and the University of Chicago. He has served on the National Council on the Humanities, the Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, the President's Advisory Commission on Ambassadorial Appointments, and the twenty-first general conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
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Previously he served as chancellor's professor and dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley; as vice president and professor of political science and public policy at the University of Rochester; as a resident scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation; and as deputy chancellor of the New York City Public Schools. He was awarded an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Long Island University in 1988.
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His primary research interests are in the areas of poverty law and administration, social welfare programs, race, social movements, public interest law, legal services, and law reform activities. He has published a dozen books and numerous articles on these subjects.
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He received a graduate fellowship in 1974 from the National Fellowships Fund, a residency in law and social science fellowship from the Russell Sage Foundation, and a postdoctoral fellowship from the Ford Foundation and the National Research Council. He is a member of the American Society of Criminology, the American Sociological Association, and the National Criminal Justice Association and is a member of the board of trustees of the Law and Society Association.
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Her research interests focus on American social welfare and race policies, with a particular interest in the philosophical and political implications of the changing relationships among race, class, and political power. She has been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and has received awards or research support from the American Philosophical Society, the Spencer Foundation, and the American Political Science Association, and she has also served as a consultant or expert witness In several school desegregation cases.
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He has conducted research in several areas, including race and ethnic relations, adult development and aging, social and psychological concomitants of health status, and black political behavior. He is a member of several editorial boards induding the Ps~holo,g~cal Bulletin, the jrournal of Gerontology, Psychological Sciences, and Race and Ethnic Relations.
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He is a former president of the Sociological Research Association and the Pacific Sociological Association and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of nine books, including four on race and ethnic relations: Ethnic Patters in American Cities; Lange and Ethnic Relations in Canada; Piece of the Pie: Blacks and White Immigrants Since 1880 (winner of the Sorokin Award)
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His current research deals with Fannie Lou Hamer, a leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and member of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee; he is also conducting research on the campaigns of the Reverend Jesse Jackson. McLemore has served as president of the National Conference of Black Political 579
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He has been a distinguished visiting professor at the University of Delaware and New Mexico State University and a visiting scholar at Morehouse College and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is a fellow of the American Anthropological Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the International African Institute, and the Royal Anthro 580
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He is a past president of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. For his research in race relations, he has received the Sydney Spivack Award, the Kurt Lewin Award, and the Gordon Allport Prize.
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She has been a member of the curriculum advisory committee of the State Department's Diplomatic Security Antiterrorism Program; the advisory committee for state and local training of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; and the advisory board of the National Institute Against Prejudice and Violence. She is a past president of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.
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He received the John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1981 he received the Nobel Prize in economics.
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He has also taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a member of the oversight body of several organizations, including the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Russell Sage Foundation, Spellman College, and the Chicago Urban League.
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