City & Community

William Julius Wilson, Ph.D. is Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. He is a recipient of the 1998 National Medal of Science, the highest scientific honor in the United States, and served as Past President of the American Sociological Association. His publications include award winning and bestselling books, The Declining Significance of Race (1980), The Truly Disadvantaged (1987), When Work Disappears (1996), The Bridge over the Racial Divide (1999), There Goes the Neighborhood (2006), and More than Just Race (2009). He can be reached for questions at [email protected]..