Dalton Conley, PhD Elected New Member of the NDRI Board
We would like to welcome Dr. Dalton Conley to the NDRI board. Dalton Conley is currently a professor of Sociology and Public Policy at New York University and Director of NYU’s Center for Advanced Social Science Research, Adjunct Professor of Community Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He previously taught Sociology and African American Studies at Yale University, and Sociology at Princeton University. Dr. Conley is notably the first sociologist to win NSF's prestigious Waterman Award. Dr. Conley's education includes a PhD in Sociology from Colombia and postdoctoral training at Berkeley. He is the author of Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth, Social Policy in America, Honky, The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed and Why, and The Starting Gate: Birth Weight and Life Chances. His essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Salon, among other publications. He is currently completing research work in “Wealth and Health: Race, Assets and Child Development,” previously funded by the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development. Dalton Conley's experience, dedication to the work we do, and contributions to the field will be great assets to the NDRI board.
December, 2005