The Aspen Institute

Lawrence D. Bobo is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences and Dean of Social Science at Harvard University. He is the former chair of Harvard’s Department of African and African American Studies.  He has also held appointment as the Martin Luther King Jr. Centennial Professor and Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. His research and writing focuses on the intersection of social psychology, social inequality, politics and race. He is co-author of the award winning books Prejudice in Politics: Group Position, Public Opinion, and the Wisconsin Treaty Rights Dispute and Racial Attitudes in American Trends and Interpretations. He is the Founding Editor of the Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race published by Cambridge University Press.  He is a member of the National Academy of Science and the American Philosophical Society and received the Charles Horton Cooley-George Herbert Mead Award from the American Sociological Association for a Career of Distinguished Contributions to Social Psychology.